[RICHARD, Charles-Louis.]

Lettres d’un archevêque, à l’auteur de la brochure intitulée: Du droit du souverain sur les biens-fonds...

A Cologne, 1770.

First edition, uncommon, of this response to an anticlerical essay by the Chevalier de Cerfvol by the Dominican theologian and anti-philosophe Charles-Louis Richard (1711–1794). De Cherfvol had argued against the wealth of the clergy, and in particular of the religious orders, and proposed a means...

£200

GIBBON, Edward.

The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire.

London, printed for W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1776–88.

First editions of all six volumes of Gibbon’s ‘masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style’ (PMM). The first volume here is of the second variant (of two), with the errata corrected as far as p. 183 and X4 and a4 so signed.

£14000

KIPLING, Rudyard.

A Kipling Note Book, No. 2.

New York, M.F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, 1899.

Contains notes on Kipling’s early works, and suppressed editions, and extracts from prefaces to a number of his works. The supplements comprise copies of the cover illustrations for Kipling’s earliest works, as published by the Indian Railway Library.

£25

KIPLING, Rudyard.

The Horse Marines.

Garden City New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, Inc., 1910.

This story is based on a fictitious parliamentary report that army recruits were being trained to ride horses using rocking horses. It is the sixth instalment of the Pyecroft series.

£85

KIPLING, Rudyard.

Pan in Vermont.

Printed in Harrisburg, PA, [copyright 1902].

£10

FROST, Robert.

A collection of five Christmas Poems 1953, 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963, all in the issues printed for distribution...

1953-1963, see below.

One more Brevity. New York, Spiral Press, 1953. Pp [12]; illustrations by Philip Grushkin; small stain to one page, else very good, stapled in the original wrappers, booklabel of D. G. Bridson, inscribed ‘To Geoffrey Bridson from Robert Frost after the pleasantest sort of encounter Dec 13...

£2000

JOHNSTON, J. Dudley.

Snowbound.

1923-’24.

An attractive Swiss winter scene by J. Dudley Johnston. Johnston (1868–1955) was President of the Royal Photographic Society from 1923-’5 and again from 1929-’31. He was a leading Pictorialist photographer, a member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood, and responsible for establishing the historic...

£2200

[JUVENILE.]

A Token of Remembrance from a Mother to her absent Children, comprising simple Tales, Dialogues, and easy Poetry, adapted...

London, William Darton, 58, Holborn Hill, 1822.

First edition of this collection of moral tales and poetry for children, compiled by a mother for her young daughter, from the lending library of the newly established Coast Guard.

£350

[BANK OF SCOTLAND.]

Act of Parliament for erecting a bank in Scotland. Edinburgh, July 17 1695.

Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1695.

Very rare edition of the Act of Parliament establishing Scotland’s first and oldest bank, founded just one year after the Bank of England.

£650

[MOORE, Thomas.]

The Fudge Family in Paris. Edited by Thomas Brown, the Younger …

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown … 1818.

First edition, the comic result of a trip to France with Samuel Rogers, ‘a set of verse epistles attributed to writers ranging from a servile creature of the tories to a passionate champion of Ireland, with some light relief from Miss Biddy Fudge, a young lady of fashion’ (ODNB). It was very...

£125

CAIROL, M. de.

Réflexions historiques et politiques, sur les revolutions qu’a essuyé l’agriculture sous différens gouvernemens,...

Amsterdam and Toulouse, Joseph Robert, 1786.

Very rare essay on the state of agriculture in France, and in particular in the Languedoc, examining the ways in which the policies of various governments (from the Romans and Visigoths onwards) have affected agricultural production, the current situation, and the ways in which matters could be...

£450

HUMBLOT, F.

Journal de voyage ...

France, June-September 1866.

A handsome manuscript on mining engineering, apparently unpublished, recording visits undertaken by the engineer F. Humblot to coal mines and iron works in eastern and southern France in 1866, containing well over one hundred beautifully executed technical drawings.

£3500

MOORE, George.

Manuscript commonplace book of poems, songs, prayers, and letters.

1805-1855.

An appealing commonplace book of verses and songs, with occasional prayers and letters, mostly written by George Moore (1794–1854), a London soda water manufacturer and amateur poet who was murdered by the notorious French revolutionary Emmanuel Barthélemy (1823–1855).

£550

MEGUSCHER, Francesco.

Memoria … in risposta al quesito additare la migliore e più facile maniera per rimittere i boschi nelle...

Milan, presso l’I.R. Istituto, 1847.

First edition of this comprehensive report on the best means to reverse the deforestation of the mountains of Lombardy, in a way that could be both environmentally sustainable and economically profitable.

£950

WHITMAN, Walt, and Antonio FRASCONI (illustrator).

A Whitman Portrait.

[New York, Spiral Press, 1960.]

First edition, comprising extracts from Leaves of Grass, facsimile letters and a selection of woodcut ‘portraits’ by Frasconi. Numbered 149 of 525 copies signed by Frasconi, printed on Japanese Goyu paper.

£250

AUGIER DU FOT, Anne Amable.

Catechismo d’ostetricia per istruzione delle mammane di campagna composto per odine e a spese del...

Venice, Stamperia Graziosi, 1787.

Uncommon first Italian edition of this handbook of obstetrics, initially published in France at the behest of Turgot in 1775 and distributed gratis to French midwives.

£550

LEROY, Camille.

Instruction relative au choléra-morbus, et a l’emploi des moyens désinfectans ... imprimée par ordre de la mairie.

Grenoble, Baratier frères et fils, 1832.

Only edition of this very rare pamphlet published at the request of the city authorities in Grenoble to advise the public on the best ways to protect themselves against cholera at the height of the pandemic of 1831-2.

£165

[CHOLERA.]

Istruzioni e regolamenti di privata sanitaria quarantina da osservarsi in caso di contagio per tenere lontano dalle...

Milan, Angelo Bonfanti, 1831.

First edition of an uncommon guide, printed in Milan at the height of the 1831-2 cholera pandemic, on preventive measures to be taken against contagion, and in particular on the maintenance of quarantine as a means of limiting the spread both of cholera and of other diseases.

£250

SALADO GARCES Y RIBERA, Francisco.

Varias materias de diversas facultades, y sciencias politica contra peste, govierno en lo espiritual,...

Utrera, Juan Malpartida, 1655.

Very rare first edition of this highly interesting work on plague, viewed from medical, religious, and political standpoints, by a lawyer from Utrera in southern Spain, written in the wake of the devastating epidemic that struck the city and province of Seville in 1649 as part of the Great Plague...

£2500

COSTANZO, Gaetano.

Qualche considerazione sui mezzi curativi adoperati nel ripartimento delle donne al manicomio di Palermo …

Palermo, Giovanni Lorsnaider, 1876.

Very rare first and only edition of this fascinating treatise on the care of women at the asylum for the insane in Palermo, by its chief medical officer Dr Gaetano Costanzo.

£350