[POWNALL, Thomas.] POWNALL, Charles A. W.

Thomas Pownall M.P., F.R.S., Governor of Massachusetts Bay, Author of The Letters of...

London, Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, 1908.

First edition. Thomas Pownall, English colonial administrator and Governor of Massachusetts, was one of the earliest critics of Adam Smith, publishing a critical Letter (1776) discussing the Wealth of Nations. Although he expressed admiration for Smith’s work in the Letter, he opposed his view of the...

£100

[PRADT, Dominique Georges Frédéric de Riom de Prolhiac du Four de].

Antidote au Congrès de Rastadt, ou Plan d’un nouvel équilibre...

London [i.e. Hamburg], 1798.

First edition of the Abbé de Pradt’s first and most famous work. The entries for the present work in Barbier, Quérard and NUC (which gives a different pagination) all include ‘par l’auteur des “Considérations sur la France”’ in their transcription of the title-page. Our copy is completely...

£250

RADLOVA, Anna Dmitrievna.

Korabli. Vtoraia kniga stikhov [Ships. A Second Book of Poems].

St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1920.

First edition of the second collection of poems published by Anna Radlova (1891–1949), a poet well-known for her translations of Shakespeare.

£150

RADLOVA, Anna Dmitrievna.

Krylatyi gost’. Tret’ia kniga stikhov [The Winged Guest. A Third Book of Poems].

[St Petersburg,] “Petropolis”, 1922.

First edition: Radlova’s third collection of poems, written in 1920–22.

£120

RE-REPRESENTATION (THE)

: or, a modest Search after the great Plunderers of the Nation: being a brief Enquiry into two weighty...

London, Printed in the Year, 1711.

First edition, the issue with ‘known. I.’ (rather than ‘known, viz. I.’) on the title-page, and with ‘against’ and ‘publick’ spelled correctly on pages 11 and 25. As the half-title and title-page form a bifolium cancelling A1 (the text begins on A2, page 3), the two variants were probably...

£350

BERRYAT, Jean, et al., editors.

Receuil de Mémoires, ou Collection de Pièces Académiques, concernant la Médicine, l’Anatomie...

Dijon, Auxerre, Paris and Liège, F. Desventes, F. Fournier, et al., 1754-86.

The scarce first collected edition of these scientific papers from all over Europe (lacking only the last five volumes of the Partie Française), including among its contributors such famous names as Huygens, Leeuwenhoek, Hevelius, De La Hire, Mariotte, Réaumur, La Condamine, Haller, Maupertuis, Boyle,...

£6000

REMIZOV, Aleksei Mikhailovich.

Elektron.

St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.

First edition, one of only a small number of poetic works by Remizov, ‘the most original, many-sided, and accomplished modernist prose writer…, a writer who at best would score a succès d’estime with a select public and never gained international recognition’ (Terras, History...

£250

RICKMAN, Thomas.

An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation with notices...

London, [1819].

Second, much enlarged edition, of Rickman’s celebrated investigation into Gothic architecture which was originally published in 1817. ‘This, the first systematic treatise on Gothic architecture in England, soon became well known, and Rickman’s nomenclature was followed by all subsequent writers...

£275

ROBERTSON, Dennis Holme.

Wages. The Stamp Memorial Lecture 1954.

London, The Athlone Press, 1954.

First edition, corrected issue.

£15

ROGERS, Samuel.

Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers. To which is added Porsoniana.

London: Edward Moxon ... 1856.

First edition of this mine of contemporary literary gossip. Rogers is among that select group of poets to have declined the laureateship, and his poetry once had an ardent fan in Byron, who saw him as a much needed antidote to the Lake poets. His most durable achievement, however, has proved to be his...

£150

ROLAS DU ROSEY, Carl.

Die Kupferstiche, Handzeichnungen und Kunstbibliothek ... deren erste Hälfte Montag, den 13. Juni 1864 [-...

Leipzig, Rudolf Weigel, 1864.

Sale catalogue of the print and drawing collection assembled by the Prussian general Baron Rolas du Rosey (d. 1862). In all 7160 lots were sold. The prices achieved were moderate.

£250

[SALON DE 1850.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, 1850.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1850, the exhibition of contemporary French artists in Paris. The submissions of architectural drawings get the most detailed treatment although the first medal in the architecture section was not awarded.

£75

[SALON DE 1857.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, 1857.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1857.

£75

[SALON DE 1863.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, 1863.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1863.

£65

[SALON DE 1876.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, Imprimerie National, 1876.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1876.

£75

TAYLOR, W. B. Sarsfield.

The origin, progress, and present condition of the Fine Arts in Great Britain and Ireland.

London: Whittaker & Co., 1841.

£75

SCHÖFFLER, Benedict.

Die Phototelegraphie und das Elektrische Fernsehen.

Wien und Leipzig, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1898.

A treatise by a German artillery officer on the electrical transmission of images, occasioned by newspaper reports of Jan Szczepanik’s invention. ‘On February 24, 1897, Jan Szczepanik and Ludwig Kleinberg of Austria applied for a patent for a method and apparatus for reproducing pictures and the...

£750

SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhaylovich.

Fisiologia nervnoy sistemy [in Cyrillic].

St. Petersburg, 1866.

first edition, rare, of Sechenov’s influential lectures at the St. Petersburg Medico-Surgical Academy. Sechenov states in his preface that as soon as he began to lecture (St. Petersburg in 1860 was his first professorship) he discovered the deficiencies of the existing textbooks, which tended to be...

£2750

SELKIRK, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of.

Observations on the present state of the Highlands of Scotland, with a view of the causes...

London, Longman et al., 1805.

First edition. ‘In 1792 … Selkirk [1771–1820] undertook an extensive tour through the Scottish Highlands and became convinced that emigration thence was unavoidable. He also recognised the need of some controlling hand to direct it. He first conceived the idea of a settlement at the Red River (what...

£425

[SHERSHENEVICH, Vadim Gabrielevich, translator and editor.] VILDRAC, Charles, and Georges DUHAMEL.

Teoriia svobodnogo...

Moscow, “Imazhinisty”, 1920.

First edition of Shershenevich’s translation of Vildrac and Duhamel’s Notes sur la technique poétique (1910), ‘which served as the basis for Shershenevich’s theory of the “vers libre of images,” in his imagist book, 2 × 2 = 5 (1920)’ (Terras).

£150