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POUND, Ezra.
The Letters … 1907-1941. Edited by D. D. Paige
… London, Faber & Faber, [1951].
First English edition, an association copy.
£150
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POUND, Ezra.
The Classic Anthology defined by Confucius.
London, Faber & Faber, 1955.
First English edition, first printing, comprising sheets of the Harvard University Press edition (1954) with a cancel Faber title-page.
£175
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SOPHOCLES. POUND, Ezra, translator.
Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.
London, Neville Spearman, [1956].
First edition, inscribed by the editor Denis Goacher ‘For Geoffrey [Bridson]: Nov. ’56 / This milestone / Just missed witnessing / The total collapse of / D. G.’ – Bridson had co-produced the play for BBC radio in April 1954.
£1000
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POUND, Erza.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, con un manifesto vorticista.
Galleria Apollinaire Milano [Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], 1957].
First edition thus, no. 123 of 500 copies, a translation by Pound’s daughter Mary de Rachewiltz of extracts from ‘Gaudier: a Postscript’ and ‘Vortex’ on the occasion of an exhibition at the Galleria Apollinaire in December 1957.
£75
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
Ezra Pound, un saggio e tre disegni.
Milan, all’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], 1958.
First edition, an hors serie copy (from numbered edition of 1000), a translation by Pound’s daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz, of an essay that first appeared in Pound’s 65th birthday festschrift in 1950; this translation was published in part ‘to celebrate Ezra Pound’s return to Italy’.
£75
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POUND, Ezra, and Giovanni GIUDICI, translator.
H.S. Mauberley, tradotto di Giovanni Giudici con tre disegni inedita...
Milan, all’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], 1959.
First edition, no. 141 of 1000 copies, a parallel-text Italian translation of Pound’s modernist masterpiece Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920).
£100
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SABATIER, Raphaël Bienvenu.
Traité complet d’anatomie, ou description de toutes les parties du corps humain ... Troisième...
Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1791.
Third edition (first 1775) of this popular treatise on anatomy by Raphaël Bienvenu Sabatier (1732–1811).
£200
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[PHARMACOPOEIA.]
Pharmacopoea Genevensis ad usum nosocomiorum. Auctoribus Daniele de la Roche, Ludovico Odier, Carolo-Gulielmo...
Geneva, J.P. Bonnant, 1780.
A good copy of the first codified Geneva pharmacopoeia for use in the hospitals of the city, compiled by three Genevan physicians who had trained at Edinburgh, including Louis Odier (1748–1817), was to go on to be one of the leading proponents of vaccination in Continental Europe, as well as...
£350
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DUTROCHET, Henri.
Recherches sur l’endosmose et sur la cause physique de ce phénomène (Extrait des Annales de Chimie et de...
[Paris, imprimerie de Veuve Thuau, 1832.]
An interesting article on endosmosis by the important French physiologist Henri Dutrochet (1776–1847), renowned for his work on osmosis and cell theory. ‘Although the conditions of Dutrochet’s experiments were rather simple and did not allow of great accuracy, he made the first important...
£175
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[BROUN, Richard, Sir.]
Memorabilia curliana Mabenensia.
Dumfries, John Sinclair, 1830.
Uncommon first edition of this charming work on the sport of curling by the eccentric Scottish baronet Sir Richard Broun (1801–1858), with a focus on his native Lochmaben, being one of the earliest books on the sport.
£450
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[DODSLEY, Robert, et al.]
The Oeconomy of Human Life, in two parts, translated from an Indian manuscript, written by a...
Newport, J. Mallett, 1783.
Rare printing, undertaken in Newport on the Isle of Wight by James Mallett. Only nine publications are listed in ESTC as Mallett, Newport: mostly occasional endeavours, undertaken in 1767, 1770, 1782, 1783 (two publications, including ours), 1784 and 1789 (three publications), and almost all...
£450
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SMITH, Robert.
The Universal Directory for taking alive and destroying Rats, and all other Kinds of four-footed and winged Vermin,...
London, printed for the author, 1768.
First edition of a guide to catching and killing all manner of crawling and flying vermin, illustrated with plates, by the professional exterminator and rat-catcher Robert Smith.
£500
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NEWTON, Isaac.
Opuscula Mathematica, philosophica et philologica. Collegit partimque Latine vertit ac recensuit Joh. Castillioneus...
Lausanne and Geneva, Bousquet & soc., 1744.
First edition of Newton’s collected works, a major tool in the dissemination of Newton’s science and a major publication in the history of science. The edition, edited and introduced by the Pisa alumnus Giovanni Salvemini da Castiglione, contains twenty-six works (which, while having appeared...
£3500
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[INDULGENCE.]
Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan), incipit ‘A Honor …’, granted by Cardinal Luis de Milá,...
[Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.]
Extremely rare incunable indulgence in Catalan granted by Luis de Milá, Bishop of Lérida, in favour of the living (as opposed to the dead, see below) to gather funds for the repair of the old cathedral of Lérida, printed at Lérida, the second city of Catalonia, about one hundred miles...
£34000
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BURCHELL, William John.
Travels in the interior of Southern Africa.
London, The Batchworth Press, 1953.
Limited edition reprint (1250 copies) of William Burchell’s seminal 1822 account of his travels through South Africa. ‘The most valuable and accurate work on South Africa published up to the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and embracing a description of a large part of the Cape Colony and...
£125
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BLANFORD, William Thomas.
Observations on the geology and zoology of Abyssinia, made during the progress of the British expedition...
London, Macmillan and Co., 1870.
First edition of the geologist and naturalist William Thomas Blanford’s study of Abyssinian flora and fauna, undertaken during Britain’s military expedition through the country in 1868 and supplemented by hand-coloured lithographic plates. Blanford, then known primarily for his geological work in...
£300
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BLAKE, John William editor and translator.
Europeans in West Africa, 1450-1560: Documents to illustrate the nature and scope of...
London, printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1942.
First edition of a collection of documents pertaining to the early history of West African exploration, translated into English by John William Blake. The documents enclosed pertain to three avenues of exploration in West Africa: Portuguese discovery and occupation of West Africa in the last quarter...
£75
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BELL, Walter Dalrymple Maitland.
The wanderings of an elephant hunter.
London, The Offices of “Country Life” and George Newnes, and New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923.
First edition of Bell’s first work, describing his ‘early elephant hunting days in the Karamojo region’ of Africa, in modern-day Uganda. According to Bell, ‘Karamojan elephants are distinguished for their bodily size, the quality and size of their ivory and for the quantity of fat on them’....
£275
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MOORE, John Edward Sharrock.
The Tanganyika Problem: an account of the researches undertaken concerning the existence of marine...
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1903.
First edition, copiously and beautifully illustrated, of J.E.S. Moore’s survey of the marine fauna of Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, ‘the first definite account of the Zoology and the Geology of the Great Lake Region of Africa, and of the extraordinary chain of evidence which has led to the belief...
£150
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MCCORMICK, Arthur David.
An artist in the Himalayas.
New York, Macmillan & co, 1895.
First American edition by the British illustrator and painter Arthur David McCormick (1860-1943), recounting his experiences as a member of the 1892 Karakoram expedition under the leadership of the English politician, art historian, and mountaineer Martin Conway (1856-1937). Conway’s Karakoram expedition...
£200