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MELVILLE, George Wallace.
In the Lena Delta. A narrative of the search for Lieut.-Commander DeLong and his companions followed...
Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892.
Later edition (first 1884) by the American explorer and engineer Melville (1841-1912), survivor of George Washington De Long’s tragic North Polar expedition.
£100
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PAIJKULL, Carl Wilhelm.
A summer in Iceland ... Translated by Rev. M.R. Barnard ...
London, Chapman and Hall, 1868.
First edition in English of this account of Iceland by the Swedish geologist Paijkull (1836-1869), translated by the Scandinavian scholar and clergyman Mordaunt Barnard (1828-1906). ‘Iceland is a country abounding with legends and myths, which tradition and the hand of nature have each done their part...
£100
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PONTOPPIDAN, Erich.
The natural history of Norway containing a particular and accurate account of the temperature of the air, the...
London, for A. Linde, 1755.
First English edition, a nice copy, albeit without two of the original plates to the first part, of this remarkable account of Norway’s natural history by the Danish theologian and antiquary Pontoppidan (1698-1764), whose accounts of sea monsters influenced both Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Jules...
£1250
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SHEPHERD, Charles William.
The north-west peninsula of Iceland: being the journal of a tour in Iceland in the spring and summer...
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867.
First edition, with two attractive chromolithographs showing ‘I’sa-Fjördr Town’ and ‘Goda-Foss’. ‘My principal object in making a second journey to Iceland, which country I first visited in company with Mr Holland in 1861, was to explore the North-West Peninsula and the Vatna Jökull. I...
£150
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SMITH, (Robert) Angus.
To Iceland in a yacht ... Not published.
Edinburgh, privately printed by Edmonston & Douglas, May 1873.
First edition of this privately printed account by the chemist and environmental scientist Angus Smith (1817-1884) recording his trip to Iceland aboard the ‘Nyanza’ in 1872 in the company of the chemist James ‘Paraffin’ Young (1811-1883) and Agnes Livingstone, daughter of the explorer, among...
£275
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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.
Lives of missionaries. Greenland. Hans Egede. Matthew Stach, and his associates.
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1860s].
A nicely illustrated account of the travels to Greenland undertaken by the Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary Hans Egede (1686-1758) and by the Moravian missionary Matthäus Stach (1711-1787).
£75
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TREVOR-BATTYE, Aubyn.
Ice-bound on Kolguev. A chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe to which is added a record of the nartural...
Westminster, Archibald Constable, 1895.
Third edition. The explorer and naturalist Trevor-Battye (1855-1922) reached Kolguyev Island in northern Russia in June 1894 aboard the steam yacht Saxon. ‘Along with his assistant Thomas Hyland ... and his spaniel, Trevor-Battye was left with supplies and an agreement to be collected by the vessel...
£75
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TREVOR-BATTYE, Aubyn.
A northern highway of the Tsar ... With map and illustrated by the author.
Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co., 1898.
First edition, presentation copy from the publisher, of this account of Trevor-Battye’s ‘journey through the tundras and forests of high Northern Russia’ (p. vii). ‘Travelling by one of the high northern trails is easy enough in summer ... is delightful in winter ... but in Rasputnya it is not...
£50
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PODREIDER, Francesco.
Da Cristiania al Capo Nord (seguito alle note di viaggio dell’Agosto 1887 sulla Danimarca, Svezia e Norvegia)...
Milan, P.B. Bellini, 1888.
Rare first edition of this account of Podreider’s travels in Norway in the summer of 1888, encompassing Trondheim, Bodø, Tromsø, Hammerfest, and the North Cape, with further notes on the Nordic Exhibition of Industry, Agriculture and Art and on the International Art Exhibition held respectively in...
£100
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[UNGER, Salomo Gottlob.]
Geschichte des Oesterreich-Russischen und Türkischen Krieges, in den Jahren von 1787. bis 1792. Nebst...
Leipzig, Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1792.
First and only edition, extremely rare, of this account of the Austro-Turkish War of 1788-1791, and of the concurrent Russo-Turkish war of 1787-92. It includes the full texts of the Treaty of Sistova of 4 August 1791 and of a separate convention attached to it, in both French and German. While...
£1250
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[SAINTE-HILAIRE, Émile Marco de.]
Réclamation addressée à S. Ece. Mgr. Delavau, préfet de police, par Modeste Agnès, patentée...
Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1821.
Rare first edition of this work on Parisian prostitution, attributed to the writer and journalist Émile Marco de Sainte-Hilaire (1796–1887). The Réclamation is presented as a letter from the prostitute Modeste Agnès to the newly-appointed Paris chief of police, Guy Delavau (1787–1874),...
£850
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BACON, Francis.
Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, operum moralium et civilium tomus … cura...
London, Edward Griffin [and John Haviland] for Richard Whitaker [and John Norton], 1638.
First edition, first issue, a copy from the celebrated Albani library: tangible witness to the early and fecund reception of Bacon’s thought in the circles of Galilean science in Italy.
£3500
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SCARPA, Antonio.
Index rerum Musei Anatomici Ticinensis accedit Antonii Scarpa in solemni Theatri Anatomici Ticinensis dedication....
Pavia, Bolzani, 1804.
Uncommon catalogue of the Anatomical Museum in Pavia, built as a complement to the anatomical theatre which was established by the anatomist Antonio Scarpa (1752-1832), who had been appointed professor of anatomy at the university in 1783 with the intention of transforming Pavia into one of the leading...
£350
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[CHARITY.]
Costituzioni della Congregazione della Carità di Parma sotti gli auspizi di San Filippo Neri rinnovate nell’anno...
Parma, Stamperia Reale, [1778].
Uncommon set of constitutions for the Congregazione della Carità of Parma, printed after its refoundation in 1777. After a brief introduction, the constitutions set out the procedures for the election of the confreres and their reception, the times and order for meetings, discipline within the...
£300
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GAYOT DE PITAVAL (Conseil).
Question d’estat: fille reclamée par deux meres.
Paris, Nicolas le Gras, 1716.
First edition of this account by the famous advocate François Gayot de Pitaval (1673–1743) of a 1709 case, where a midwife had substituted a new-born girl who was then claimed both by the real mother and the woman to whom the baby had been given. Pitaval’s account details the principles by...
£350
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ISOCRATES.
Orationes et epistolae gravitatis et suavitatis plenae de Greco in Latinum pridem conversae, nunc recognitae, per Hieronymu[m]...
Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1553.
A handsome Latin edition of twenty-one works by the Athenian orator Isocrates whose work was highly influential on later education, oratory and writing. Isocrates (436–338 BC) studied under Socrates and the sophists, before establishing a famous school of rhetoric which attracted pupils from...
£750
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ANDREWS, Mark E.
The Science and Engineering of Water: An illustrated catalogue of books and manuscripts on Italian hydraulics,...
Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.
A lavishly illustrated catalogue, tracing the development of science and engineering through the early modern period. Some 367 printed books, manuscripts, and maps are presented in chronological order, highlighting the relationship between the evolution of ideas and the authors who documented...
£85
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COMTE, Auguste, and Albert CROMPTON (editor).
Confessions and Testament of August Comte: and his correspondence with...
Liverpool, Young, 1910.
First edition in English of Comte’s Confessions, which first appeared with his ‘testament’ in French in 1884. These take the form of ‘Twelve Saint Clotildes’, a series of annual confessions which he recited to his muse’s grave. Clotilde de Vaux was a divorced woman whom Comte met...
£80
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HUGHES, Ted.
T.S. Eliot: A Tribute by the Poet Laureate.
[London,] ‘Privately Printed by [the Salient Seedling for] Faber and Faber’, [August 1987].
A privately printed tribute to T.S. Eliot, limited to 250 copies signed by Ted Hughes. The text comprises an address given by Hughes on 26 September 1986, at the unveiling of Eliot’s blue plaque at Kensington Court Gardens.
£175
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[MASCHERANA, Girolamo.]
Concordia tra la società e la religione ossia Difesa del culto cattolico contro chi lo calunnia in contrasto...
Milan, Cesare Orena nella stamperia Malatesta, 1798.
Rare second edition, printed in the same year as the equally rare first, of this curious defence of religion in the light of the constitution of the Cisalpine Republic, in which the author seeks to demonstrate the compatibility of Catholicism with the Enlightenment ideals of the French Revolution and...
£375