HEXHAM, Henry. 

A Tongue-Combat, lately happening betweene two English Souldiers in the Tilt-boat of Gravesend, the one going...

Printed at London [i.e. Holland].  1623. 

First edition, written in reply to a rare pamphlet with a near-identical title by Richard Verstegan [or Rowlands], an intelligence agent in the Netherlands for the English Jesuits.  Verstegan’s original Toung-Combat comprised a dialogue between the pro-Catholic Red Scarf and the Protestant...

£1650

HIEROCLES of Alexandria.

Ύπομνηνα εις τα των Πυθαγορειων επη τα χρυσα … commentarius in...

London, J. R. [John Redmayne] for J. Williams, and Henry Dickinson, Cambridge, 1673.

London edition of the only complete work of Hierocles, his commentaries on the Golden Verses, a valuable epitome of Pythagorean ethical teachings, printed here in the original and in a Latin translation. According to tradition they were put into their present form by Lysis, one of the most...

£500

HIRSCH, William.

Genius and Degeneration. A Psychological Study.

New York, Appleton, 1896.

First edition in English, translated from the second edition of the German original, Genie und Entartung (1895).

£150

HOLLANDER, Jacob Harry.

Economic Liberalism.

New York and Cincinnati, The Abingdon Press, [1925].

First edition, dedicated ‘to the memory of Herbert B. Adams, who first taught me the meaning of liberalism’.

£50

HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, attributed.

[Portraits of celebrated Courtezans.]

Nineteenth century?

A famous series of portraits depicting Restoration-era London courtesans, long attributed to Hollar, but that attribution rejected by Pennington and New Hollstein.

£1200

HOPKINS, William. 

Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, September...

London, Taylor & Francis, 1853. 

First edition, an 1853 Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science by its President William Hopkins (1793–1866), inscribed by the author and given to his erstwhile student Francis Galton (1822–1911).  A mathematician and geologist, Hopkins became President of the British...

£350

[HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

Deed granting land to the hospice.

Metz, 5 May 1464.

A significant 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

HUISH, Robert.

Fatherless Rosa; or, the Dangers of the Female Life. Expressly written as a Companion to Fatherless Fanny …

London, Published by T. Kaygill … for William Emans …, 1820.

First edition. Like the best-selling Fatherless Fanny (1811, possibly by Clara Reeve), Fatherless Rosa, set in the middle of the eighteenth century, pleads ‘the cause of virtue and morality’, but with characters exhibiting ‘a greater degree of vice’ than Fanny, the little...

£750

HUME, David, [and Octavie BELOT, translator].

Histoire de la maison de Tudor sur le trône d’Angleterre … traduit...

Amsterdam [i.e. Paris], 1763.

A very fine set of the first French edition of Hume’s history of Tudor England, translated by the Parisian widow Octavie Belot (1719–1805, née Guichard), who supported herself with income from her translations, and through her work developed a friendship with Hume.

£600

‘HURLBUT’ [i.e. HURLBERT], William Henry.

Pictures of Cuba.

London: M’Corquodale and Co. for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1855.

First British edition, revised and retitled, issued in the ‘Traveller’s Library’ series. Pictures of Cuba was first published under the title Gan-Eden: or, Pictures of Cuba (Boston: 1854), and Hurlbert (1827-1895) states in his preface that, ‘In the short time that has elapsed...

£150

HURRY, Thomas.

Tables of interest, from one pound to five hundred millions, for one day; by which the interest for any sum of money...

[Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and sold by Messrs. Robinson, London; and Downes and March, Yarmouth, 1786.

One of two editions published in 1786, the other one undated, ESTC does not give any precedence. Tables for calculating interest at a quarter, half, three-quarters, three, four, and five percent; intended as a quick reference for bankers and merchants. Hurry precedes his tables with four pages of example...

£150

HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis & animadversionibus …

Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

First edition thus, with annotations by the politician Radboud Herman Scheele (1622–1662).

£1000

[‘HYSON, Timothy’, pseud. Thomas LOWNDES].

A Letter to Mr. Richard Twining, Tea Dealer, and One of the Candidates for...

London, [C. Roworth] for the author, 1827.

Second edition of the Letter to Mr Richard Twining, a public denunciation of the candidacy of the tea merchant Richard Twining (1749-1824) for a directorship of the East India Company in 1810. Twining, who had already been instrumental in the development of tea prices and taxation for many...

£250

[INDUSTRIOUS POOR, Charitable Corporation for the Relief of.]

The present state of the unhappy sufferers of the Charitable Corporation...

London, [n.p.], 1733.

First and only edition of an anonymous plea to Parliament for the rescue of the Charitable Corporation for the Relief of the Industrious Poor, a pawnbroker which granted credit at low interest to the ‘deserving poor’ who left a pledge. Founded in 1707, in the 1720s the Corporation came under scrutiny...

£250

[INTERSEX.]

Three pamphlets.

Paris, 1892–1920.

A collection of rare French pamphlets on the subject of differences in sex development from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Two of the three pamphlets are doctoral theses, covering the social impact of differences in sex development, and persistent müllerian duct syndrome (‘tubular...

£450

[ISELIN, Isaak].

Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.

Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.

Uncommon first edition, part one only (very rarely to be found complete with both parts), of the most mature expression of Iselin’s anti-Rousseau republicanism, a social ‘dream’ of great articulation and – arguably – applicability, residing confidently on the borderline between utopia and...

£150

[ISELIN, Isaak; Peder Topp WANDALL, translator].

Philosophiske og Patriotiske Drømme af en Menneskeven. Oversatte af Peder Topp...

Frid. Stein, 1774.

Very rare first Danish edition of Iselin’s earliest work, the very successful Filosofische und patriotische Träume, translated by the librarian, writer, and dramatist Peder Topp Wandall (1737–1794).

£250

[ISLE OF WIGHT.]

By-laws for the regulation and government of the poor, in the House of Industry, in the Isle of Wight.

Newport, J. Mallett, 1789.

First edition thus of a rare survival documenting the transition from the Poor Relief Act of 1662 to the New Poor Law. The Isle of Wight was granted a licence to manage a House of Industry in 1771. This book of its by-laws consequently reflects the growing belief that the poor should be regulated by...

£950

ITALY – PIEVE DI SAN MINIATO DI RUBBIANA.

Petition to Pope Clement VII, in Latin, on paper, 30 lines in a small Italian notarial...

The petition explains that the parish of San Miniato in the Valle Rubbiana, in the diocese of Fiesole and in the lay patronage of the Buondelmonti family of Florence, is vacant following the death of the organist Mariotto di Michele Giovanni. The patrons, or the majority of them, or their duly appointed...

£250

JEFFERIES, Richard.

Hodge and his Masters …

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. … 1880.

First edition, an influential volume of sketches of rural life, collected from Jefferies’ articles in the Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Standard. Jefferies (1848-1887) had published his first novel The Scarlet Shawl in 1874, after some years as a rural newspaperman; with Hodge and his Masters...

£450