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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
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THOMPSON, Charles.
Rules for bad Horsemen, addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. … the second Edition,...
London, J.Robson, 1763.
Second edition of a short treatise on riding, first published the previous year. Evidently successful, the text underwent six editions by the end of the century with two pirated Dublin versions, and was reprinted again in 1830.
£450
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TAPLIN, William.
The Sporting Dictionary, and rural Repository of general Information upon every Subject appertaining to the Sports...
London, Thomas Maiden for Vernor & Hood, Longman & Rees, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, and J. Harris, 1803.
First edition of Taplin’s Sporting Dictionary, with entries relating to farriery as well as riding, breaking and training, and hunting and racing. An early publication in this genre: such sporting works would develop with great success over the following century.
£185
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REEVES, John.
The Art of Farriery, both in Theory and Practice, containing the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure of all Diseases incident...
Salisbury, B. Collins for J. Newbery and Stanley Crowder, London, 1763.
Second edition, printed at Salisbury, of a treatise of a local farrier in Hampshire. ‘The author of the following sheets, having been many years in the practice of Farriery, and acquired reputation by his success in curing the various Diseases of Horses, several gentlemen in the neighbourhood solicited...
£120
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RADCLIFFE, Frederick Peter ‘Delmé’.
The noble Science: A few general Ideas on Fox-Hunting, for the Use of the rising Generation...
London, Whitehead & Co. for Rudolph Ackermann, 1839.
First edition of Radcliffe’s work on fox-hunting with horses and hounds. Gently written by the Master of the Hertfordshire Hounds, the text is accompanied by charming illustrations after drawings by the author’s brother.
£175
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RUDDOCK, Edward H., and George LADE (editor).
The Pocket Manual of homoeopathic veterinary Medicine, containing the Symptoms, Causes,...
London, the Homoeopathic Publishing Company, and New York, Boericke & Tafel, 1878.
Third edition, ‘fifteenth thousand’, of a very rare manual on veterinary homoeopathy. Of the annotations, the most notable strikes through the advice that ‘if cattle or sheep have a persistent cough, they should be at once prepared for the butcher’ (p. 33).
£250
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WINTER, Georg Simon, and Valentin TRICHTER (editor).
Wohlerfahrner Pferde-Arzt, welcher gründlich lehrt wie man die Complexion...
Philadelphia, Edmund N. Schelly, 1840.
First American edition of Winter’s important work on farriery, extensively illustrated. The most influential German work on veterinary medicine, the text was published in Latin and German as Hippiater expertus […] Wohlerfahrner Ross-Artzt in 1678 by George Simon Winter von Adlersflügel (1629 –...
£750
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HOIN, François-Jacques.
Virgini Deiparae. Dissertatio medico-forensis, de vitalitate infantum. Quam … praeside … Gabriele...
Besançon, Jean-Mathieu Couché, [1769].
Very rare dissertation on foetuses and newborn infants presented for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine at the university of Besançon by François-Jacques Hoin (1748–1806) of Dijon.
£150
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ASTRUC, Jean.
Tractatus de motus fermentativi causa novam et mechanicam hypothesim conteniens, authore Joanne Astruc artium liberalium...
Montpellier, Honoratus Pech, 1702.
A dissertation on fermentation published by the physician Jean Astruc (1684–1766), aged eighteen; he later taught anatomy at Toulouse and the Collège Royal in Paris, and served as consultant to Louis XV and as chief physician of August II of Poland.
£500
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FENNING, Daniel.
The Ready Reckoner; or Trader’s most useful Assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of Commodities either...
London: Printed for S. Crowder … and B. C. Collins … in Salisbury. 1785.
First edition thus, edited by the mathematician and almanac-maker Joseph Moon of Salisbury.
£250
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[SEX-WORK.]
Arrêtés des 3 et 4 Juin 1833, concernant les femmes et filles livrées à la prostitution publique.
Toulon, ‘de l’imprimerie d’Aug. Aurel’, 1833.
An apparently unrecorded set of decrees intended to regulate sex-work in the French port of Toulon on the Mediterranean coast, ‘for the maintenance of good morals and public health’.
£475
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[GOLD and SILVER.]
Bando generale per gli orefici, argentieri, ed altri che comprano, vendono, ed in qualsivoglia modo...
Rome, ‘nella stamperia della Rev. Camera Apostolica’, 1815.
Rare edict governing goldsmiths, silversmiths, and traders in gold and silver operating in Rome and the Papal States, issued by Cardinal Bartolomeo Pacca (1756–1844) in January 1815 as Camerlengo to Pope Pius VII.
£475
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[POETRY.]
‘Trattato della [poesia Toscana]’.
[Asti?, 1780-1782.]
A manuscript treatise on the method of composing poetry in Italian, with numerous examples from renowned authors and eight apparently unpublished poems about horse-racing, with references to Arabian, Sardinian, English, and African horses, as well as to a firework display.
£750
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‘MAWE, Thomas’ [but John ABERCROMBIE].
Every Man his own Gardener. Being a new, and much more complete Gardener’s...
London: Printed for W. Griffith … 1767.
Second edition, published in the same year as the first, of an immensely popular work, which went through at least twenty-five editions. ‘Abercrombie was the son of a market gardener near Edinburgh who went on to be a gardener at Kew and Leicester House, as well as for a number of noblemen...
£225
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LIVINGSTONE, David.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of sixteen Years’ Residence in the...
London, John Murray, 1857.
First edition. ‘Livingstone’s services to African geography during thirty years are almost unequalled; he covered about a third of the continent from the Cape to the Equator and from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. He made three great expeditions; in 1853-6 (described in this book),...
£500
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BALLARIN, Vincenzo.
Dimostrazione sintetica della quadratura del circolo di Don Vincenzo Ballarin, piovano di S. Pietro della...
Venice, Fracasso, 1828.
First and only edition of this confident but mistaken attempt at squaring the circle – drawing a square with the same area as a given circle using a compass and straightedge – later proven to be impossible.
£900
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[SOCIETY OF JESUS.]
Les découvertes d’un bibliophile réduites a leur juste valeur. Avec quelques cas de conscience curieux.
Strasbourg, L.F. Le Roux, [1843].
First edition of this scathing response to Busch’s anti-Jesuit Les découvertes d’un bibliophile, central to the highly polemical ‘affaire du Bibliophile’ which divided Strasbourg in 1843.
£375
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GABARO, Antonio.
Alla pregiatissima Signora Domenica Schiavon Menato nella fausta occasione del suo primo parto, in argomento...
Padua, ‘Nella Tipografia del Seminario’, 1820.
First and only edition, very rare, of a scathing and sexist condemnation of ‘inhuman’ women who do not breastfeed their own children, dedicated to Domenica Schiavon Menato, ‘an example to all women’, on the occasion of the birth of her first child.
£380
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[HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]
Deed granting land to the hospice.
Metz, 5 May 1464.
An attractive document recording the grant of agricultural land in 1464 to the Hospice of Saint-Nicolas, the oldest hospital in Metz, in northeast France, issued during the reign of Louis XI and in the final year of the papacy of Pius II.
£450