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  1. QUARLES, Francis.

    The Shepheards Oracles: delivered in certain Eclogues …

    London, Printed by M. F. for John Marriot and Richard Marriot … 1646.

    Third edition of this pastoral allegory, first published in 1644, which uses the genre as a thin veil for the discussion of autobiographical, political, and religious matters. The poem includes portraits of Quarles’s friend Phineas Fletcher and of Archbishop Laud, who is described as an Arminian ‘Master...

    £300

  2. [REEVE, Gabriel].

    Directions left by a Gentleman to his Sonns: for the Improvement of barren and heathy Land, in England and Wales.

    London, Printed by E. T. and R. H. for R. Royston … 1670

    Sole edition of one of the first books in English devoted to soil conservation. The dedication is signed Gabriel Reeve and dated from Hackney, 14 April 1670.

    £650

  3. CLEVELAND, John.

    Clievelandi Vindiciae: or, Clieveland’s Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, &c. purged from the many false and...

    London, Printed for Nath. Brooke ... 1677

    First edition, the issue with Nathaniel Brooke’s imprint. This ‘vindicatory’ text was prepared by Cleveland’s former students John Lake and Samuel Drake from authentic manuscripts to restore true readings to poems that had degenerated through six editions of The Character of a London-Diurnall...

    £250

  4. KERKHERDERE, Jan Gerard.

    De situ Paradisi Terrestris ... Praecedit ... conatus novus de Cepha reprehenso ex Galatarum secundo capite.

    Leuven, Martin van Overbeke, 1729.

    First edition of this work attempting to identify the geographic location of the Garden of Eden, the earthly Paradise, accompanying his conjecture with a map engraved by P.E. Boultats of Antwerp.

    £550

  5. [LOQUET, Marie-Françoise].

    Voyage de Sophie et d’Eulalie, au Palais du vrai bonheur; ouvrage pour servir de guide dans les voies...

    Paris, Charles-Pierre Berton, 1781.

    First edition of this rare utopian voyage to the Palace of True Happiness, written by a woman for a readership of women, our copy with the eighteenth-century ownership inscription of a female reader.

    £1500

  6. [BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

    L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique de l’homme. Par Monsieur l’Abbé de Villemaire.

    Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.

    First editions of two scarce works by the philosopher, moralist, and Parisian avocat Boudier de Villemert (1716–1801), best known as the author of L’Ami des Femmes, Le monde joué involving visits from extra-terrestrials both in ancient times and in the eighteenth century.

    £2500

  7. BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez de.

    Aristippus, or, Monsr. de Balsac’s Masterpiece, being a Discourse concerning the Court … Englished...

    London, Tho. Newcomb for Nat. Eakins and Tho. Johnson,1659.

    First edition in English of Balzac’s Aristippe (first published posthumously in 1658), a treatise on wisdom in political administration and on the nature of life at court, dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden, who was an admirer.

    £750

  8. BENZI, Ugo; Giovanni Lodovico BERTALDI, commentator.

    Regole della sanità et della natura de cibi … arricchita d’un trattato...

    Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.

    Scarce first vernacular edition of the works of the medieval Sienese physician Ugo Benzi (c. 1360–1439); an extraordinary testament to their enduring popularity into the seventeenth century, expanded with commentary and a new appendix on the abuse of alcohol and tobacco by the Turinese doctor Giovanni...

    £2500

  9. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall), considerably expanded, providing a comprehensive visual record of ancient structures and sculptures in Rome as known in the sixteenth century.

    £5500

  10. [SAVOY-CARIGNAN, Maria Vittoria Francesca, Princess of.]

    Recueil de prières et de pratiques très utils pour se conduire à Dieu...

    [Paris, Imprimerie Royale], 1735.

    First and only edition of this rare prayerbook, compiled by the notorious gambling house hostess and spy Maria Vittoria Francesca of Savoy-Carignan (1690–1766), elegantly printed in a very limited number at the royal press set up at the Louvre.

    £2750

  11. [LE GUERCHOIS, Madeleine d’Aguesseau, Madame.]

    Avis d’une mere a son fils.

    Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1743.

    A popular work of maternal advice, in a simple vellum binding richly decorated by the master calligrapher Francois Nicolas Bédigis (1738–1814).

    £2750

  12. DALLAS, R[obert] C[harles.]

    Sir Francis Darrell; or The Vortex: a Novel ... in four Volumes ...

    London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

    First edition of this epistolary novel by a friend of Byron, the first letter of which was supposedly written by him and given to Dallas (1754–1824) ‘for the purpose of inducing me to continue it’.

    £1600

  13. PACE, Giulio.

    Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus docetur methodus, per quam magna terminorum generalium, attributorum,...

    Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

     Rare third edition (first 1618) of this concise summary of Ramon Lull’s (c. 1232–1316) highly influential Ars Magna by the famous Protestant Italian Aristotelian scholar and jurist Giulio Pace (1550–1635), whose edition of the Organon was for a long time the standard edition of Aristotle’s...

    £750

  14. [COURTILZ DE SANDRAS, Gatien de.]

    Les dames dans leur naturel, ou la galanterie sans façon. Sous le regne du Grand Alcandre.

    ‘A Cologne’ [but The Netherlands], ‘chez Pierre Marteau’, 1686.

    First edition, uncommon, of this tale of the debauchery of the ladies at Louis XIV’s court, purportedly ‘found in a cabinet, long after it had been written’ by the author.

    £685

  15. DAUDET, Alphonse.

    Lettres de mon moulin. Impressions et souvenirs.

    Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1869].

    First edition, rare, the issue arbitrarily designated ‘deuxième édition’ but published alongside the first, of Letters from my Windmill, Daudet’s celebrated sketches of Provençal life.

    £2500

  16. BLANCHET, Joseph.

    L’art, ou les principes philosophiques du chant … IIe edition, corrigée et augmentée …

    Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel Lambert, and Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne, 1756.

    First edition, though designated as the ‘second’, of this philosophical and anatomical singing manual authored by a priest, with an engraved illustration of the lungs.

    £750

  17. [SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.]

    The School for Scandal. A Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre, Smoke-Alley, Dublin.

    [Dublin], Printed for the Booksellers, 1793.

    First separate illustrated edition of Sheridan’s highly popular The School for Scandal, which has ‘amused audiences from [its] early, immensely successful performances up to the present day, for Sheridan is one of the great comic writers in English’ (ODNB).

    £750

  18. DREYER, Georges, Lieutenant Colonel, R.A.M.C.

    A Simple Procedure for Testing the Effects of ‘Oxygen Want’ on Flying Men.

    [?London: Air Medical Research Committee], [1918].

    First edition. Pathologist Georges Dreyer (1873–1934), born into a Danish Navy family, studied natural sciences in Denmark, Germany and England with a ‘passionate precision of technique and a loathing of slipshod thought [that] characterized all his work’; was appointed to the chair of pathology...

    £150

  19. BROOKLYN ETHICAL ASSOCIATION.

    [Cover title: Evolution]. Man and the State. Studies in applied sociology. Popular lectures...

    [N.p., n.d., n.d.].

    First edition of this broadly political collection of essays on economics, race relations, the Democratic and Republican parties, and suffrage, inter alia, likely from the library of a Californian senator.

    £150

  20. BURGESS, Ernest W, editor.

    The Urban Community.

    Chicago, University Press, 1927.

    Second edition, first published 1926.

    £40