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[NAPOLEONIC ITALY.]
Alla società delle gentilissime signore di Moncalieri dilettanti del giuoco del tavolazzo. Sonetto bernesco-morale...
Turin, Giacomo Fea, 1799.
An unrecorded sonnet addressed to the to the female players of tavolazzo – a Piedmontese sport along the lines of target shooting – at the Society of the Gentlewomen of Moncalieri; the rules of the sport would be formally laid out in 1780.
£375
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RAM RAZ.
Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús … with forty-eight Plates.
London, John William Parker for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1834.
First edition, scarce on the market, of this pioneering and handsomely illustrated essay on Indian architecture by the linguist and lawyer Ram Raz (c. 1790–c. 1833).
£975
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ROTHERY, Charles William.
Notes on a yacht voyage to Hardanger Fjord, and the adjacent estuaries. By a yachting dabbler. With numerous...
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman; Keswick, James Ivison, [1855].
First edition, second issue (with the mounted lithographs coloured) of this handsomely illustrated account of Rothery’s yachting cruise to the fjords of Norway, ‘charming and sublime scenery, which the sketches are intended, though slightly, to pourtray’ (Preface).
£250
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THOMPSON, George.
Travels and adventures in Southern Africa ... Comprising a view of the present state of the Cape Colony. With...
London, Henry Colburn, 1827.
Second edition of Thompson’s account of his travels in South Africa following the first single-volume quarto edition of the same year.
£600
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[WOMEN-PEARLS.]
De Vrouwen-Peirle, ofte dryvoudige historie van Helena de Verduldige, Griseldis de Zagtmoedige, en Florentina de...
Ghent, J. Begyn, [1780–1810].
An attractive copy of the ‘Women-pearls’, a Flemish chapbook portraying three remarkable women – Helena the Patient, Griselda the Meek, and Florentina the Faithful – and their marvellous stories derived from medieval romances, featuring seduction, amputation, and narrowly-avoided incest.
£550
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[DE LA GUTHÈRE.]
Du bon usage des eaux de Baignieres.
Agen, Antoine Bru … 1680.
Second edition, revised, a guide to the waters at Bagnères-de-Bigorre in South-West France by a local physician, dedicated to the young Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc de Maine (1670–1736), son of Louis XIV and his mistress Madame de Montespan.
£600
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MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich.
Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the north west coast of America. To...
London, T. Jefferys, 1764.
Second edition (first 1761) of this key work devoted to discoveries in northeastern Asia and northwestern America, including the Bering Strait, published by Thomas Jefferys, geographer to George III, ‘remembered in particular for some of the most important eighteenth-century maps of the Americas’...
£6500
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HUMBLOT, F.
Journal de voyage ...
France, June-September 1866.
A handsome manuscript on mining engineering, apparently unpublished, recording visits undertaken by the engineer F. Humblot to coal mines and iron works in eastern and southern France in 1866, containing well over one hundred beautifully executed technical drawings.
£3500
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
Mrs Dukes’ Million.
Toronto, The Coach House Press, 1977.
First edition, Lewis’s first novel, written in 1908-10 but never before published.
£75
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
A Soldier of Humour and selected Writings. Edited with an introduction by Raymond Rosenthal.
New York & Toronto, A Signet Classic, 1966.
First edition, inscribed by the editor: ‘Geoffrey I thought you would be interested in this new anthology’.
£75
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MEYERS, Jeffrey, editor.
Wyndham Lewis, A Revaluation. New essays.
London, The Athlone Press, [1980].
First edition, printing on pp. 238-251 Bridson’s essay ‘The Human Age in Retrospect’, his last published work.
£50
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
‘A note on Michael Ayrton’ in Spectrum Volume 1, Number 2. Spring-Summer, 1957.
Santa Barbara, University of California, 1957.
Printing the forthcoming foreword to Golden Sections, along with Ayrton’s ‘The Act of Drawing’, and a ‘Homage to Wyndham Lewis’ by Eliot, Bridson and Ayrton.
£50
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GAWSWORTH, John.
Apes, Japes and Hitlerism, a Study and Bibliography of Wyndham Lewis …
London, Unicorn Press, [1932].
First edition.
£50
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MACNEICE, Louis.
Christopher Columbus, a radio play …
[London,] Faber & Faber, [1944].
First edition of MacNiece’s early radio play, first broadcast on 12 October 1942 to mark the 450th anniversary of the ‘discovery’ of America, with the role of Columbus played by Laurence Olivier.
£300
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
Burns Today and Tomorrow …
Edinburgh, Castle Wynd Printers, [1959].
First edition, inscribed ‘To Geoffrey Bridson, With best wishes from Hugh MacDiarmid’.
£150
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
Stony Limits and Scots Unbound and other Poems ...
Edinburgh, Castle Wynd Printers, [1956].
First edition thus, including some poems that were excluded from the original edition of Stony Limits (1932) over libel fears, and the title-poem only of Scots Unbound (1934), correcting the printers’ errors from the first edition. Bridson had reviewed the first edition of Stony Limits...
£100
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
A Lap of Honour.
[London,] MacGibbon & Kee, [1967].
First edition, published to coincide with MacDiarmid’s seventy-fifth birthday.
£40
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
Three Hymns to Lenin …
Edinburgh, Castle Wynd Printers, [1957].
First collected edition, inscribed ‘With love and best wishes to my friend Geoffrey Bridson from Hugh MacDiarmid 17/3/63’. The poems published here had originally appeared separately between 1930 and 1955.
£200
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[MACDIARMID, Hugh.]
WESTON, John C. MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle.
Preston, Akros Publications, 1970.
First edition, inscribed ‘To Joyce and Geoffrey Bridson with warmest regards from Valda and Hugh MacDiarmid’.
£100
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[MACDIARMID, Hugh.] WESTON, John C.
Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle.
Preston, Akros Publications, 1970.
First edition, inscribed ‘To Joyce and Geoffrey Bridson with love from Hugh MacDiarmid 15/12/70’.
£100