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AINSWORTH, William Harrison.
The Combat of the Thirty. From a Breton Lay of the fourteenth Century. With an Introduction, comprising...
London: Chapman and Hall … 1859
First edition of the first English translations of these two texts, inscribed to ‘James Crossley from his old friend William Harrison Ainsworth’. The two men had been friends since 1817 when Crossley, a solicitor, was articled to Ainsworth’s father and later became a partner in the firm. He was...
£550
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[HERISSANT, Louis Théodore].
Le fablier françois, ou élite des meilleurs fables depuis La Fontaine.
Paris, Lottin le jeune, 1771.
First edition, rare, of what has a claim to be the first comprehensive collection of French fables from the period after La Fontaine, assembled by the diplomat, lawyer, and historian Louis-Théodore Herissant (1743–1811). Collecting together fables from writers both famous (Voltaire, J.B. Rousseau,...
£650
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MASTAI FERRETTI, Conte Paolino.
Notizie storiche delle accademie d’Europa, con una relazione piu’ diffusa dell’accademia...
Rome, I Lazzarini, 1792.
Only edition, and a lovely copy, of this finely printed history of the academies of Europe, produced in honour of Pope Pius VI’s reestablishment of, and support for the Accademia nobile ecclesiastica (now the Pontifical Ecclesiastic Academy), which had been founded in 1701, was suppressed in 1764,...
£850
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[ALEXANDER VII, Pope.]
Vero e pieno ragguaglio delle ceremonie fatte per l’incoronazione di n. sig. Alessandro papa settimo il...
Rome and Florence, nella stamperia si S. A. S. alla condotta, 1655.
Very rare first(?) edition of this detailed and entertaining account of the coronation of Pope Alexander VII in April 1655, capturing the splendour, colour and emotion of the occasion. The blow-by-blow narrative has a very modern feel, resembling present-day reporting of such events. After describing...
£650
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BARONE, Giuseppe.
IA-Z Pam, le baton du muet, (traduit du chinois)... extrait du muséon.
Louvain, Ch. Peeters, 1882.
First separate edition, rare (apparently one other copy known), almost certainly printed for presentation, of this transliteration of a Chinese play with parallel French translation, which first appeared in the French journal Muséon. Barone’s article seeks to introduce a French audience to the great...
£250
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[COLLEGIO DEI NOBILI DI MODENA.]
Il buon’ uso della vittoria, ossia Publio Cornelio Scipione nella nuova Cartagine: azione accademica...
Modena, eredi di Bartolomeo Soliani, [1776].
First edition. A scarce play with music and ballet, prepared and performed by the Collegio dei Nobili di Modena for celebrations of the birthday of Francesco III d’Este, Duke of Modena. The work comprises a play in three acts on Scipio Africanus by Alessandro Guinigi, three short ballets drawn...
£450
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ZINANO [or ZINANI], Gabriele.
L’Almerigo. Tragedia.
Reggio, Ercoliano Bartoli, [1590].
First edition of this Renaissance tragedy in five acts accompanied by the author’s essay on the theory on the tragic genre. Zinano, or Zinani, did not produce drama only: three of his best-known works are in fact political essays detailing the prerogatives of various components of a Republic. The Almerigo...
£400
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RIEMANN, Georg Friedrich Bernhard.
Ein Beitrag zu den Untersuchungen über die Bewegung eines flüssigen gleichartigen Ellipsoids.
Göttingen, Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1861.
the very rare offprint issue from the abhandlungen der königlichen gesellschaft der wissenschaften zu göttigen of riemann’s classic paper on rotating liquid ellipsoids, containing solutions of the equations of fluid dynamics that were later applied to the physics of rotating stars by chandrasekhar...
£750
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STATUTA COLLEGII DD.
Almae Urbis Medicorum ex antiquis Romanorum Pontificum bullis congesta, & hactenùs per Sedem Apostolicam...
Rome, Printer of the Apostolic Chamber, 1676 [– c.1745].
The very rare enlarged and updated issue of the statutes of the medical faculty of Rome, a very rare and interesting document on its internal organization.
£550
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PINELLI, Bartolomeo.
I Promessi Sposi.
Rome, Litografia delle Belle Arti, 1829-1831.
First edition of one of the earliest attempts to illustrate Manzoni’s masterpiece, by one of the most celebrated engravers of the time. Manzoni, however, apparently objected to Pinelli’s illustrations on the grounds that the figures and costumes were too ‘Roman’ and publication was halted after...
£850
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[MISSIONARIES IN CHINA].
Temple Hill Cut-outs. [Legends of Ancient China].
Chefoo, China,Women's Bible School Presbyterian Mission, c. 1930.
The work of un-idle hands, produced by local Chinese women enlisted at the Ai Dao Bible School in Chefoo, modern-day Yantai, to raise money for their ongoing maintenance and education at the hands of the American Presbyterian Mission. The present work describes seven of the most popular legends of Ancient...
£350
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[MATHIEU, Adolphe.]
Notice sur Frédéric-Auguste-Ferdinand-Thomass Baron de Reiffenberg ...
Mons, Hoyois, 1850
Only edition, published in 100 copies by the Société des Bibliophiles Belges. Reifenberg (1795-1850) was the Keeper of the Belgian Royal Library from 1837 until his death in 1850. This obituary was written by his friend the poet Adolphe Mathieu. He gives a bibliography of works written or edited by...
£85
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MÜLLER, Johann Baptist.
Erfahrungssätze über die contagiöse oder ägyptische Augenentzündung. Gesammelt am Krankenbette.
Mainz, Florian Kupferberg, 1821.
A fine presentation copy of Müller’s ophthalmological study of a disease then known as the ‘Egyptian eye infection’. A physician and surgeon with the Prussian military, Müller describes his findings in cases of eye infections amongst soldiers sometimes so severe as to result in blindness. He...
£350
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ZAMPELIOS, Spiridion.
Βυζαντιναι Μελεται [Byzantine Studies]...
Athens, Christos Nikolaidos, 1857.
First edition. Spyros Zampelios was a champion of the continuity theory in the history of the Greek nation in the crucial decades of the mid nineteenth century, and the first Greek historian to adopt a tripartite examination of historical periods, divided into ancient, medieval and modern Hellenism....
£350
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CHOUFFE, Jean-Baptiste-P.
Des accidens et des maladies qui surviennent à la cessation de la menstruation.
Paris: Croullebois et Gabon, Floréal an X [April-May 1802].
First and only edition. This work discusses the cessation of menstruation and its causes, beginning with female bodies and the changes they undergo from puberty to old age. Chouffe, formerly a military doctor, then focuses on ten case studies of individual patients in whom the menses had ceased,...
£450
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[CHINA.]
Précis des nouvelles reçues des missions de Chine et des royaumes voisins, en 1819.
[Paris, Adrien Le Clere, 1819?].
An extremely rare summary of the state of French Christian missions in Su-Tchuen (China), Tong-King (Vietnam), Cochinchine (Vietnam), Siam (Thailand), and Pondichery (India) in 1819.
£180
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[NAUDÉ, Philippe, attr. author].
Histoire abrégée de la naissance & du progrez du Kouakerisme avec celle de ses dogmes.
Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1692.
First edition of the earliest work on the Quakers to be published in French. In his survey of English Quakerism the author gives voice to widespread contemporary English criticisms of the movement, radicalizing the charge of Socinianism into one of ‘pure deism’ and ultimately atheism.
£750
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CONDORCET,
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de. Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progres de l’espirit humain.
Paris, Agasse, L’an III [1795].
First edition of Condorcet’s main work, the summation of the Enlightenment belief in man’s perfectibility, the outline which provided humanity with a view of its own history as a narrative of progress and emancipation. Condorcet ‘forecasts the destruction of inequality between nations and classes,...
£1775
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FERGUSON, Adam.
An essay on the history of civil society.
Edinburgh, A. Millar and T. Caddell, 1768.
Third edition, corrected: the edition owned by Thomas Jefferson.
£700
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HELVÉTIUS, Claude Adrien.
De l’homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation.
Londres, Société Typographique [recte The Hague], 1773.
A rare edition, published in the same year as the first, which appeared in mid-June 1773, eighteen months after the author’s death. ‘In this edition, there is no comma after “intellectuelles”, line 6 of title reads “et de son”and the titlepage ornament is a flower with leaves around the petals’...
£975