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[PRAYERBOOK.]
‘Gebetbuch’.
[Germany, early nineteenth century.]
An attractive early nineteenth-century Catholic prayerbook in German, containing prayers for both daily use and for use during Mass.
£185
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ROSSI, Ottavio, and Bartolomeo FONTANA, compiler.
Lettere del Sig. Ottavio Rossi. Raccolte da Bartolomeo Fontana ...
Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621.
First edition of over 150 letters by the poet and scholar Ottavio Rossi (1570–1630), printed in his native city of Brescia and including a letter to the painter Palma Giovane, our copy with a contemporary manuscript note on the artist’s final moments written mere days after his death.
£1250
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[SPANISH FISHING.]
Artes, aparejos e instrumentos de pesca de España.
[Madrid, Artes Gráficas ‘Mateu’?, 1920?]
First and only edition, very rare, a striking illustrated guide to the traditional Spanish fishing industry, with thirty-five large and unusual illustrations of typical fishing villages and dress; net designs, and floats; boats; drag-nets; tangle-nets, purse seins; hooks; and various ‘objetos curiosos’....
£2000
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‘TELL’, pseud. [i.e. Jacob EPSTEIN].
A rude Book.
Hartford, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1926.
First edition, one of 500 copies printed in the United States, of these satirical sketches of Churchill, Shaw, Beerbohm &c. by the celebrated sculptor Jacob Epstein, our copy owned by the political cartoonist Robert Osborn and accompanied by a scathing review written during his undergraduate years...
£350
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WETZELL, Madame.
Les Matinées de la poupée, ou récréations d’une petite fille.
Paris, J. Langlumé, [1844?].
First and only edition, very rare, of a delightful illustrated account of a girl’s doll. Brillantine, a doll, is given to Célénie for company while her elder sister Alméa is in Africa; the book recounts in detail their relationship over the course of a week, from Brillantine’s arrival with...
£275
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VIGER, François.
De praecipuis graecae dictionis idiotismis … accessit praeterea huic editioni observationum non inutilium qualecunque...
London, G. Godbid for William Shrowsberey, 1678.
Second London edition of this treatise on Greek idiom by the French Jesuit François Viger (1590–1647).
£175
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REYES, Alfonso.
Corrected carbon typescript, signed, of an essay entitled ‘Chesterton y los titeres’ [Chesterton and the puppets].
[Buenos Aires?, c. 1952–3.]
Corrected carbon typescript of Alfonso Reyes’s essay entitled ‘Chesterton y los titeres’, concerning G.K. Chesterton’s play The Surprise, a religious allegory written in 1932 but first published posthumously in 1952.
£1000
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ROSCOMMON, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of.
An Essay on Translated Verse …
London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1684.
First edition of Roscommon’s influential Essay, in heroic couplets, which owes much to Boileau and to the author’s own education in France after the attainder of his kinsman the Earl of Strafford, with an introductory poem by Dryden.
£450
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SHAKESPEARE, William, and Bolemir IZBORSKÝ, pseud. [i.e. Antonín MAREK], translator.
Omylowé dle Shakespeara...
Prague, Jozefa Fetterlowá, ‘in the Archbishop’s Printing House at the Seminary’, 1823.
First edition in Czech, very rare, of A Comedy of Errors, freely translated by Antonín Marek (1785–1877), one of the earliest appearances of Shakespeare in the language, preceded only by a very rare translation of Macbeth by Karel Ignác Thám (Makbet, 1786), which was staged...
£1100
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SHAKESPEARE, William, and Mihály VÖRÖSMARTY, translator.
Lear Király …
Pest, Landerer & Heckenastn, 1856.
First edition of the first translation of King Lear into Hungarian by Mihály Vörösmarty, commissioned by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and carried out as part of a joint effort between three of Hungary’s most renowned poets.
£950
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STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter, and Samuel Hull WILCOCKE, translator.
Voyages to the East-Indies … Translated from...
London, for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798.
First edition in English of a first-hand account of two VOC voyages by Stavorinus (1739–1788): the first, 1768–71, to Batavia, Bantam and Bengal; the second, 1774–78, to Samarang, Macassar, Amboyna, Surat, and the Malabar Coast, corrected thanks to the translator’s connection to the author’s...
£850
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UGARTE, Manuel, and Georges FOUCART, translator.
‘Contes de la Pampa’: a manuscript translation of Ugarte’s...
Paris, [c. 1923–5].
A fine, largely unpublished manuscript, with translations of all fourteen stories from Miguel Ugarte’s Cuentos de la Pampa (1903, here translated from the 1920 edition).
£1750
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VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius, and Louis CARRIO, translator.
Argonauticon … libri VIII, a Ludovico Carrione Brugensi...
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, [15 July] 1565.
First edition, a very attractive copy, of Louis Carrio’s precocious – and perhaps overconfident – recension of the first-century Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus.
£1250
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[JULY REVOLUTION.]
Habitans de Paris, les députés de la France, en ce moment réunis à Paris, m’ont exprimé le desir que...
[Paris], imprimerie de A. Guyot, [31 July 1830].
A seemingly unrecorded copy of Louis Philippe’s famous proclamation of 31 July 1830 accepting the position of Lieutenant-Général du Royaume in the wake of the July Revolution. Just days later Charles X would abdicate, and Louis Philippe would be proclaimed King of the French. Less than eighteen years...
£100
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HALLAM, Arthur Henry.
Remains, in Verse and Prose …
[London,] Printed by W. Nicol, 1834.
First edition, a presentation copy from the editor, the historian Henry Hallam, to his late son’s friend and fellow Cambridge ‘Apostle’ James Spedding. The prefatory memoir by Hallam senior includes a long letter from Spedding (‘one of his most valued friends’) (pp. xx-xxvi), here...
£5000
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POPE, Alexander.
Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, and several of his Friends.
London: Printed by J. Wright for J. Knapton … L. Gilliver … J. Brindley … and R. Dodsley … 1737.
First folio edition, large paper issue, preceded by a subscribers’ edition in quarto, of the first ‘official’ version of Pope’s letters.
£1500
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[AYALA Y AGUILAR, José de.]
Examen del derecho de vida y muerte, egercido por los gobiernos. Escrito por un Cubano.
Barcelona, Ignacio Estivill, 1838.
First edition of a Cuban treatise of criminal law, a forceful impugnation of capital punishment which invokes arguments and schemes from, among others, Filangieri, Montesquieu, Beccaria, Rousseau, and Bentham.
£250
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[BECCARIA, Cesare.]
Dei Delitti e delle pene. Edizione sesta di nuovo corretta ed accresciuta.
Harlem, et se vend a Paris, chez Molini, 1766.
Sixth edition, expanded to forty-seven paragraphs, of Beccaria’s principal work, one of the founding texts of penology and an important statement of criminal law reform, here with the additions of the ‘Giudizio di celebre professore sopra il livro dei delitti e delle pene’ and ‘Risposta...
£750
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[CERI, Giovacchino Domenico.]
Prodromo all’estirpazione del pirronismo dalla ragion civile d’Italia.
[Florence?] 1769.
Only edition, uncommon, of this analysis of the political and legal organisation of Italy, and proposals for its improvement, by the Prato lawyer and historian Giovacchino Domenico Ceri (1734–1798).
£375
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[CUSTOMARY LAW.]
Rechten, ende costumen van Antwerpen [and] Ordonnantie ende verhael vanden stijl ende maniere van procederen voor...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1582.
First edition of this compendium of customary law for the city of Antwerp, printed by Christophe Plantin, with extensive marginal annotations by two early readers. Compiled by the advocates Carel Gabri and Philips van Mallery, the work was printed in only a few hundred copies destined for the city’s...
£1250