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BYRON, George Gordon, Lord Byron.
Hebräische Gesänge. Aus dem Englischen … von Franz Theremin. Mit beigedrucktem englischen Text.
Berlin, Verlag von Duncker und Humblot. 1820.
First edition in German (and first dual-language edition) of Byron’s Hebrew Melodies (1815), translated by the theologian Franz Theremin. Omitted are ‘It is the hour’ and the ‘Lines on the Death of Sir Peter Parker’.
£450
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DONNE, John.
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and severall Steps in my Sicknes ...
London, Printed for Thomas Jones … 1627.
Third (and last lifetime) edition of Donne’s most familiar prose work, composed during his convalescence in 1623–4 from the ‘spotted Feaver’ which nearly killed him. It consists of twenty-three ‘Stationes, sive Periodi in Morbo’, each comprising a meditation, expostulation, and prayer.
£13500
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RENOWNED HISTORY (The)
of Primrose Prettyface, who by her Sweetness of Temper, & Love of Learning, was raised from being the Daughter...
London, Printed & sold by J. Marshall & Co. … (Price 6d in Gilt Paper – 9d bound in Red.) [1788?]
One of three undated editions, probably the last (adding Marshall’s Cheapside premises at 17 Queen St to the imprint), but the only one with an engraved title-page and frontispiece.
£1000
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NEW RIDDLE BOOK (A)
or a Whetstone for dull Wits … Printed at Derby, for the benefit of the travelling Stationers.
[J. Drewry? 1790?]
An attractive illustrated riddle chapbook. The solutions include ‘a pipping pounded into Cyder’, a man fleeing his scolding wife, a hog fattened with acorns, a young virgin, a mermaid, and a paper kite, though how one would ever guess ‘a Taylor at Dinner with a Dish of Cucumbers, served up with...
£750
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PINDAR.
Ολγμπια Νεμεα Πγθια Ισθμια … Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia. Una cum Latina omnium versione carmine...
Oxford, E Teatro Sheldoniano, 1698 … London, apud. Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford.
First edition thus, the variant with the title-page dated 1698 rather than 1697. The Greek text was edited by Richard West and Robert Welsted, and the chronology of the Olympiads provided by the Bishop of Lichfield.
£5250
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NAUNTON, Sir Robert.
Memoirs … with some of his posthumous Writings, from Manuscripts in his own Hand, never before printed.
London: Printed and sold by G. Smeeton … and J. Caulfield … 1814.
First edition, a large paper copy, imposed as a folio rather than a quarto (and fully 11 cm taller than usual).
£450
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PARNASSIUM (The)
: or Beauties of English Poetry. Selected from the Works of Blair, Philips, Young, Pope, Gray, Parnell … The...
London: Printed for W. Lane … [after 1776.]
A very scarce reissue by the enterprising William Lane, later of the Minerva Press, of A Collection of Modern Poems (London, J. James, 1762) – with a cancel title-page and a new frontispiece. The contents comprise the Love of Fame and The Last Day by Young, Gray’s Elegy, The...
£325
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[CALLIGRAPHIC SCORES.]
Two anonymous manuscript scores.
London, 1820s.
Two charming productions, sent as anonymous gifts, presumably to the wife or daughter(s) of Col. Thomas Nuttall (or Nuthall) (d. 1829) of the Madras Cavalry.
£850
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SMITH, Hubert, and Thomas Charles BROMWICH, photographer.
A short Memoir of the late eminent Shropshire Genealogist...
Madeley (Shropshire), J. Randall, 1879.
First separate edition, photographically illustrated, of this short memoir of the Shropshire antiquary William Hardwicke.
£150
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WIEST, Stephan.
De iustitia dei punitiva contra quaedam adserta cl. Eberhardi et Steinbartii aliorumque disserit P. Stephanus Wiest...
Ingolstadt, Johann Wilhelm Krüll, [1787].
Rare dissertation under the supervision of the Cistercian theologian and philosopher Stephan Wiest (1748–1797), at the time rector of the University of Ingolstadt, on the subject of whether divine justice is to be seen as punitive or restorative.
£175
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MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò.
Opere inedite di Niccolò Machiavelli.
‘Londra’ [Lucca, Jacopo Giusti], 1760.
First edition of previously unpublished writings by the great Florentine statesman and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), edited by Giovanni Maria Lampredi (1732–1793).
£500
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TULL, H., Rev.
A Sermon preached in St. Mary’s Church Oldham on Sunday Evening December 22 1850 … being the first of six sermons...
Oldham, D. Evans, 1851.
First edition, very rare, of an anti-Catholic sermon by Henry Tull (1791–1859), graduate of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and vicar of St John’s Chadderton, preached and printed in Oldham.
£150
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[FRASER, William Augustus, Sir.]
Poems by the Knight of Morar.
London, Whittingham and Wilkins, 1867.
First edition, privately printed, a presentation copy inscribed on the title-page ‘From the Author . Paris. 1867.’
£350
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MARTIN, Theodore, Sir.
Horace and his Friends. Two Lectures delivered at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution …
Printed for private Circulation. 1881.
First editions of two privately-printed pamphlets by the poet, translator and biographer Theodore Martin (1816–1909) – presentation copies, to the Scottish journalist John Skelton, a frequent contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine (as was Martin).
£400
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PATON, Joseph Noel, Sir.
Address read at the Delivery of the Prizes to the Students of the School of the Honourable the...
[London, Clay & Sons, 1875].
Presentation copies of two very rare academic addresses, that by Sir Noel Paton (one of 20 copies printed according to a note on the title-page) inscribed ‘John Skelton Esq., with N.P.’s kindest regards’, the Tulloch with a slip inscribed ‘From the Author’ tipped in.
£350
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SPOTISWOOD, John.
An Introduction to the Knowledge of the Stile of Writs, Simple and Compound, made Use of in Scotland ... The...
Edinburgh: William Brown and John Mosman, and sold by William Brown, 1727.
Third edition, annotated by Neil Ballingall (1750–1843), factor to the Balfour family at Balbirnie, Fife.
£500
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[WALKER, Patrick.]
Some remarkable Passages of the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden, late Minister of the Gospel at Glenluce...
Glasgow: J. and M. Robertson, 1794.
Very rare chapbook life of the Covenanter Alexander Peden (1626–1686), first published 1724 and much reprinted; the ‘second part’ first appeared in an edition of 1778.
£225
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[WISHART, George.]
I. G. de rebus auspiciis serenssimi, & potentissimi Caroli Dei gratia Magnae Brittanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae...
[Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.
First edition, rare, a fine paper copy in a handsome binding, of an account of the campaign of James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, against the Covenanters in 1644−46.
£1750
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ANNAN, Thomas.
Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow.
Glasgow, T. Annan Photographer; J. Maclehose, Publisher and Bookseller to the University, 1871
A very good copy illustrated with albumen rather than carbon prints.
£3450
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SMOLLETT, Tobias.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker … The second Edition …
London, Printed for W. Johnston … and B. Collins … 1771.
Second edition of Smollett’s acknowledged masterpiece, printed in the same year as the first. The story describes, in epistolary form, the journey of the Matthew Bramble, a hypochondriac Scot, and his family round Britain in search of a cure for his various ailments. The titular Humphry Clinker...
£275