MURRAY, Thomas Boyles.

Pitcairn: the Island, the People, and the Pastor. To which is added a short notice of the original settlement...

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1860].

Twelfth edition (first edition published in 1853). ‘Rev. Murray, who was the secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, here recounts the voyages of the Bounty, the mutiny, Captain Bligh’s voyage in an open boat, the voyage of the Pandora, and includes material on Peter Heywood,...

£100

MUSGRAVE, George C.

To Kumassi with Scott. A Description of a Journey from Liverpool to Kumassi with the Ashanti Expedition, 1895-6 …

London, Wightman & Co., 1896.

First edition of the author’s account of the 1895-6 Ashanti Expedition including a description of the perilous 140-mile march through the jungle to Kumassi. ‘The 1895-6 Expedition to Ashanti took place at a time when the British Empire was in a ferment; wars and rumours of wars abounded on all sides....

£100

ALMEIDA, Theodoro de.

Lisboa destruida poema, author o P. Theodoro de Almeida, da Congregaçaõ do Oratorio de Lisboa.

Lisbon, Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, 1803.

First edition of this poem in six cantos, with extensive notes, on the disastrous 1755 Lisbon earthquake, by the Oratorian priest and philosopher Almeida (1722-1804). One of the deadliest in history, the earthquake almost totally destroyed the Portuguese capital and accentuated political tensions within...

£175

[RICHARDSON, Jonathan].

The general Address (in two Parts) of the Outinian Lecturer to his Auditors …. London: Printed by W....

London: Printed by W. Nicol, late Bulmer & Co. … 1822

First edition, very rare. The Address is a revised version of the valedictory lecture given on 31 December 1818 to mark the centenary of the death of William Penn. It gives an explanation of the origins of the Society and then is entirely directed to the career and particularly the principles of William...

£1600

[JUVENILE.] 

Preliminary lessons on the history of England, originally compiled for private use, and now adapted to the junior...

Taunton, J. Poole, 1821. 

Later edition of this uncommon Taunton-printed sketch of English history for use in primary schools, which first appeared in 1809.  After brief notes on Julius Caesar, the Saxons, and notable pre-Conquest kings, the book offers a short overview of the character of each monarch (and monarch substitute)...

£135

[ANGLO-SOVIET DIPLOMACY.] 

Papers regarding the Anglo-Soviet Negotiations 1939.  Presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign...

London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1939. 

A proof copy, complete with typed errata attached, of this collection of ninety-five papers relating to the negotiations between the Soviet and British governments between March and December 1939. 

£750

[CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.] 

Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes qui sont engagées par leur état à servir les...

Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695. 

Rare first edition of this religious manual of instruction aimed at those caring for the sick in hospitals, exhorting carers to look after the bodily and spiritual needs of their charges ‘with charity, gentleness, compassion, patience, diligence, zeal, respect and humility’. 

£275

CORTÈS, Gioacchino. 

Dissertazione anti-Bolgeniana sopra la carità difesa dal suo autore l’abate Gioacchino Cortes contro...

Rome, Salomoni, 1793. 

First edition of this response to and attempted refutation of Bolgeni’s Della carità o amor di Dio by the Spanish Jesuit Joachim Cortès.  Della carità was the best-known work of the Jesuit theologian and controversialist Gianvincenzo Bolgeni, in which he had argued, against...

£450

POPE, Alexander. 

An Essay on Man, in four Epistles to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke … 

London: Printed for Robert Jennings … by James Moyes … 1819. 

A very fine edition, one of two hundred copies according to Lowndes.  The four plates in the text were engraved for a forthcoming parallel-text English–Portuguese edition published by Charles Whittington – the prints here being proofs before lettering.  Their inclusion along with ‘the...

£450

[FIRST AID – RAILWAYS.] 

Ministère des chemins de fer, postes et télégraphes. Administration des chemins de fer de l’état. Manuel...

Gand, F.& R. Buyck Frères, 1912. 

First separate edition, as far as we are aware with no institutional holdings, of this guide to first aid in a railway context, published by the state railway administration of Belgium. 

£195

PASTA, Giuseppe. 

Della facoltà dell’oppio nelle malattie veneree, nuove ricerche cliniche …

Bergamo, dalla stamperia Antoine, 1788. 

Very rare first edition of this treatise on the use of opium in the treatment of venereal disease by the Bergamo physician Giuseppe Pasta (1742–1823). 

£350

DE NASCA, Giuseppe.

Intorno all’uso del laudano concentrato del cav. Quadri per curare parecchie malattie degli occhi. Memoria...

Naples, Giovanni Battista Seguim, 1828.

Very rare tract on the use of concentrated laudanum in the treatment of various eye complaints by the Sicilian physician Giuseppe de Nasca (1803–1893).

£550

FABERT, Abraham.

Voyage du roy a Metz, l’occasion d’iceluy: ensemble les signes de resiouyssance faits par ses habitans pour...

[Metz, Fabert,] 1610.

A splendid hand-coloured and gilt copy of the first edition of this handsome festival book commemorating Henri IV’s entry into Metz in March 1603, published seven years after the event and in the same year that Henri was assassinated by François Ravaillac.

£60000

LEWIS, Wyndham.

The Wild Body.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1927.

First trade edition, first issue binding; there was also a special edition of 85 signed copies. A collection, in a much reworked form, of some early sketches written in Brittany, some of which had been published in 1909.

£250

LEWIS, Wyndham. 

Doom of Youth …

London, Chatto & Windus, 1932. 

First English edition, one of Lewis’s scarcest works (only 549 copies avoided destruction).  Doom of Youth began life as a series of seven articles on youth politics in Time and Tide in June–July 1931, rounded off with a pair by G.K. Chesterton; it was expanded and first published...

£2000

LEWIS, Wyndham.

The Old Gang and the New Gang.

London, Desmond Harmsworth, 1933.

First edition, binding variant (1), a work on ‘youth cults’ and the rise of European dictatorships. Bridson’s review was not especially complimentary, noting ‘that peculiar “kiddish” idiom which Mr. Lewis uses to advantage in his satiric novels and to little purpose elsewhere … We can excuse...

£250

LEWIS, Wyndham.

Left Wings Over Europe: or, how to make a War about Nothing.

London, Jonathan Cape, [1936].

First edition, first printing, a reiteration of the delusions about Hitler that Lewis had first presented in Hitler (1931), alongside a rejection of the Internationalism he had argued so firmly for in The Art of Being Ruled and would later espouse once more. Lewis afterwards dismissed the...

£500

LEWIS, Wyndham.

The Revenge for Love.

London, Cassell & Co. Ltd., [1937].

First edition, very scarce in the dust-jacket, of ‘one of Lewis’s finest novels … a brilliant novel of character’ (Bridson, The Filibuster), set in pre-Civil War Spain and centred on an incident of Communist gun-running on the border. ‘Here for once, Communism is accepted as a...

£1250

LEWIS, Wyndham.

Blasting & Bombardiering …

London, Eyre & Spottiswode, 1937.

First edition, first issue binding, of one of Lewis’s best and best-known works. It was the first of two largely autobiographical books, this covering 1914-1926 as stated on the jacket, and is now remembered in particular for its coining of the much-discussed phrase ‘The Men of 1914’, referring...

£500

LEWIS, Wyndham.

‘W. B. Yeats’ [from New Verse new series, I:2, May 1939].

Offprint of an article from New Verse, loosely an obituary of Yeats who had died in January that year. Lewis was typically ambivalent, referring to the ‘stuffed language’ of Yeats’s early poems. But ‘Yeats has given me a sort of kick: a kind of soft, dreamy kick. I am obliged to him.’

£100