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GRAILE, John.
Three Sermons preached at the Cathedral in Norwich. And a fourth at a parochial Church in Norfolk. Humbly recommending,...
London, Printed for W. Kettilby … 1685.
First and only edition, rare. The third of these four sermons was delivered on the anniversary of Charles I’s execution, 30 January 1684, drawing on the Proverb: ‘For the transgression of a land, many are the princes there’, in which the plurality of leaders is shown to be the ‘constant mischief’...
£850
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SARGENT, John.
The Mine: a dramatic Poem.
London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand. 1785
First edition of Sargent’s poem on quicksilver mines, replete with subterranean gnomes. The poem was inspired by a fantastical story of misbehaving Austrian aristocrats who are forced to labour in the mines as punishment, told in letters quoted in the introduction. In the footnotes Sargent explores...
£650
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BOSWELL, James.
A Letter to the People of Scotland, on the alarming Attempt to infringe the Articles of Union, and introduce a...
London: Printed for Charles Dilly … 1785.
First edition of Boswell’s second Letter to the People of Scotland, written to oppose a bill in Parliament for reducing the number of the Lords of Session from fifteen to ten. Boswell, who believed that this attack on the highest court in Scotland for civil causes was a direct infringement of the Articles...
£1500
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PERRIN, M.
[Jean Baptiste]. Fables amusantes, avec une Table générale & particulière des Mots & de leur Signification en Anglois,...
A Londres chez B. Law & Fils …T. Cadell … P. Elmsly … 1793
Seventh edition of a popular educational work first published in 1771. Jean Baptiste Perrin (fl. 1767-98) worked as a private French tutor in Dublin. He was a prolific author of works for learning French (the advertisements at the end list 18 of them, several commended by the Monthly Review). The 140...
£75
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DALLAS, R[obert] C[harles].
Sir Francis Darrell; or The Vortex: a Novel ... in four Volumes ...
London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ..., 1820.
First edition of an epistolary novel, the first letter of which was supposedly ‘written and given to me, some years ago, by a friend, for the purpose of inducing me to continue it’. The letter in question propounds ‘Sir Francis Darrell’s’ views on women. ‘For my part, I regard them...
£1600
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GODWIN, William.
Fleetwood: or, the new Man of Feeling … In three Volumes …
London: Printed for Richard Phillips … 1805.
First edition of Godwin’s third novel, like Caleb Williams a psychological and philosophical tale intended in some measure as a criticism of Rousseau. Casimir Fleetwood announces at the outset: ‘The proper topic of the narrative I am writing is the record of my errors. To write it, is the act of...
£650
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SPRAT, Thomas.
Observations on Monsieur de Sorbier’s Voyage into England. Written to Dr. Wren ...
London, Printed for John Martyn, and James Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society. 1665.
First edition. When Samuel de Sorbière published his polemical Relation d’un Voyage en Angleterre (1664), touching on defects in the English nation and character, Thomas Sprat, afterwards Bishop of Rochester, composed an angry reply in the form of a letter to Christopher Wren (both were stalwarts...
£850
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.
Queen Mab.
London: Printed and published by W. Clark ... 1821
Second (first published edition) of Shelley’s most provocative poem. The radical bookseller and pirate William Clark came across a copy of the privately-printed first edition in 1821 and brought out this unauthorized text, ‘studious in adhering to the original copy’, printing the notes in French,...
£950
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BROUGHTON, Thomas.
A letter to James Hugh Smith Barry Esq. High Sheriff, of the County Palatine of Chester, containing some observations...
[Chester?, 1795].
A rare letter from Sir Thomas Broughton, addressed from Doddington Hall in Cheshire and dated 30 November 1795, in which he complains about the printing of resolutions carried at a recent meeting at Northwich regarding the ‘present high price of corn’.
£125
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[WALSH, John Henry.] ‘STONEHENGE’.
Manual of British rural Sports, comprising Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Fishing, Hawking,...
London, M’Corquodale & Co. for G. Routledge & Co., 1857.
Third edition of Walsh’s popular text on field sports. First published the previous year, the Manual of British rural Sports ‘covers the whole cycle of field sports, and, among other things, deals in a scientific manner with the breeding of horses’ (ODNB).
£120
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TEGETMEIER, William Bernhardt, and C.L. SUTHERLAND.
Horses, Asses, Zebras, Mules, and Mule Breeding.
London, Horace Cox, 1895.
First edition of Tegetmeier’s treatise on the military and civilian uses of horses and related species. ‘Upwards of four thousand works on horses and their utilization have been published, and of this number about one half have been printed in Great Britain. It may therefore appear an act of presumption...
£120
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[GEORGE VI.] DUDLEY & Co., Ltd.
‘Valances, Posters & Decorations for Coronation Displays’.
London, [1937].
A large colour-printed catalogue of coronation decorations available from Dudley & Co. of Holloway, London, including flags, tags, badges, pencils, papers, portraits, ribbons, medals, hats, balloons, and other celebratory displays.
£150
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[EDWARD VII.] WISBEY, James, & Co.
Coronation List … New List with revised Prices of Coronation Favors, Decorations, Flags, Emblems,...
London, [1902].
A large illustrated catalogue of coronation paraphernalia available from James Wisbey & Co. of Houndsditch, London, ‘wholesale and exporte warehousemen’ with ‘by far the Largest Stock and most Complete Collection of these Goods in the United Kingdom’.
£150
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HARDY, Campbell.
Sporting adventures in the New World; or, days and nights of moose-hunting in the pine forests of Acadia …
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.
First edition of this most interesting account of Nova Scotia, Canada, by the Royal Artillery officer Campbell Hardy (1831-1919).
£575
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[WHEELWRIGHT, Horace William.] ‘The OLD BUSHMAN’, and G. BOWERS (illustrator).
Sporting Sketches, home and abroad … with...
London, Savill, Edwards, & Co. for Frederick Warne & Co., and New York, Scribner, Welford, & Co., [c. 1866].
First edition of a series of sporting anecdotes, gathered from the author’s experiences in Britain, Scandinavia, and Australia. Gathered mostly from his articles for The Field, the Sporting Sketches were in preparation for the press at the time of the author’s death in November 1865, and appear here...
£85
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[SURTEES, Robert Smith,] and John LEECH (illustrator).
Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour.
London, Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
First edition of Surtees’s most successful novel, and his first collaboration with John Leech. Though never acknowledging his career as a sporting author, Surtees was a significant contributor to the Sporting Magazine, in 1830 replacing Nimrod as hunting correspondent and the following year establishing...
£350
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[STEPHEN, George, and Robert CRUIKSHANK (illustrator).]
The Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of a Horse, by Caveat Emptor, Gent.
London, S. Bagster junior for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman and Samuel Bagster, 1835.
First edition of a humorous exposition of warranty law for horses, illustrated by Cruikshank. A lawyer prominent in the abolition of slavery, Sir George Stephen (1794-1879) practised as a solicitor and subsequently barrister in London, Liverpool, and Melbourne. Though purportedly written as an amusement...
£60
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[PATENT OFFICE.]
Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications relating to Farriery, including the medical and surgical...
London, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for the Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions [– Commissioners of Patents’...
Very scarce publication of patents relating to farriery. Gathering patents granted in the century and a half before the establishment of the Patent Office, the entries describe a vast array of inventions, some practical and others fanciful, relating to all elements of farriery and veterinary science,...
£950
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[HARNESSES.]
A little Book for every Man who keeps a Horse, or Ease to Horses, and Safety to Drivers, in single and double Harness.
London, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., and Bath, R.E. Peach, 1862.
First edition (‘third thousand’) of a very rare anonymous publication, ‘written to introduce and explain my invention for improvements in apparatus for attaching horses to carriages, for which I have obtained Her Majesty’s Patent’.
£250
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BLAINE, Delabere Pritchett.
A domestic Treatise on the Diseases of Horses and Dogs, so conducted as to enable Persons to practice...
London, Knight & Compton for Thomas Boosey, 1803.
First edition of a scarce manual on equine and canine veterinary medicine. Describing himself somewhat spuriously as ‘Surgeon and Professor of Animal Medicine’, Blaine proposes his text as a means of disseminating the information taught at the newly founded Royal Veterinary College to those who could...
£350