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STIEGLITZ, Alfred, editor.
James Craig ANNAN, after David Octavius HILL and Robert ADAMSON. Camera Work. A Photographic Quarterly....
New York, A. Stieglitz, 1912.
The 1909 issue of Alfred Stieglitz’s seminal quarterly journal of photography, Camera Work, intended to establish photography as a fine art and called ‘by far the most beautiful of all photographic magazines’ (Whelan).
£2200
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‘FLORENT DE SALES’, pseud.
Vrai systême du monde physique et moral.
[Switzerland,] 1797.
Only edition, rare, of this utopia, the identity of whose author, and even of whose printer, remains unknown.
£1500
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ADORNO, Theodor W., Else FRENKEL-BRUNSWIK, Daniel J. LEVINSON, and R. Nevitt SANFORD
The Authoritarian Personality.
New York, Harper Brothers, 1950.
First edition of this groundbreaking work of social psychology on the development of prejudice by Theodor Adorno and the psychologists Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford, written in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
£225
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ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.
Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins en l’isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines ou est traicte...
Paris, François Huby, 1614.
Second edition, enlarged and revised from the first edition published earlier the same year, a handsome copy, of the first written account of the Capuchin mission to Maranhão, an island on the coast of Brazil, of which, Sabin notes, this is the earliest mention. In 1612 the mission, composed...
£30000
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D’URFEY, Thomas.
Wit and Mirth: or Pills to purge Melancholy; being a Collection of the best merry Ballads and Songs, old and...
Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719 [– 1720].
The first complete edition, second issue of volumes I–V, and first issue of vol. VI, of the most famous songbook of its day, the first edition with titles altered to the familiar Wit and Mirth from Songs Compleat, 1719 (a change at the time of the publication in 1720 of volume VI,...
£2250
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ADDAMS, Jane.
Twenty years at Hull-House with autobiographical notes.
New York, Macmillan, 1910.
First edition, second printing (issued in the same month and year as the first) of Jane Addams’s bestselling autobiography and account of Hull House, Chicago’s first settlement house for immigrants and the poor (the second in the United States), our copy with two autograph letters from Addams...
£650
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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
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JONSON, Benjamin.
The Workes …
London, Will Stansby, 1616.
An excellent set of the canonical Ben Jonson, the first collection of English plays in the proud format of a folio and the direct fore-runner of Shakespeare’s folios, here found with both the first (1616) and the corrected second editions (1640) of Volume I, and the first edition of Volume II[-III]...
£21000
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ALCIONIO, Pietro.
Petri Alcyonii Medices legatus de exsilio.
[Venice, in the house of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, November 1522.]
First edition of Alcionio’s dialogue on exile, an intensely annotated copy from a family of French humanists and Reformers. Pietro Alcionio (or Petrus Alcyonius, fl. 1487–1527) was a Venetian humanist, scholar and Aristotelian translator who began his career as a proofreader for Aldus Manutius....
£5750
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[LA VIGNE, André de, and Octavien de SAINT-GELAIS.]
Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime a Paris. De lentreprise et...
[Paris, Pierre le Dru and Jean Petit, 1503.]
Extremely rare first edition of the Vergier d’Honneur, a text about the expedition of Charles VIII to Italy; a remarkable copy preceded by three leaves of illuminated manuscript containing unrecorded verse and a spectacular miniature of a knight on horseback.
£120000
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[PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor.
Ψαλτηριον.
Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October 1498].
The elegant first Aldine printing of the Greek Psalter, following two earlier and plainer editions of 1481 and 1486, which had employed much simpler Greek typefaces with fewer ligatures and contractions.
£45000
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KRYLOV, [Ivan Andreevich]; William Ralston SHEDDEN-RALSTON, translator.
Krilof and his Fables …
London, Strahan and Co., 1869.
First edition in English in book form of any of Krylov’s Fables, a presentation copy ‘To Sir John Shaw Lefevre H.C.B. from the Translator’.
£850
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HERODIAN.
His History of twenty Roman Caesars and Emperors (of his Time) … interpreted out of the Greeke Original.
London, Hugh Perry, 1629.
First edition of this translation, attributed to James Maxwell, from the Greek edition printed by Estienne in 1581.
£600
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[MILITARIA.]
Instruction provisoire arrêtée par le roi, concernant l’exercice et les manoeuvres de l’infanterie du 20 Mai 1788.
Montauban, Vincent Teulières, 1788.
A seemingly unrecorded edition of these pre-French Revolution instructions on infantry manoeuvres, printed at Montauban in the south of France, with several passages updated in manuscript by a practising soldier.
£750
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MONTE DI PIETÀ DI MILANO.
Piano, e regole per il buon governo della congregazione de’ creditori della Regia Ducal Camera di...
Milan, Giuseppe Richino Malatesta, [1753].
An uncommon description of the workings of an eighteenth-century Italian charitable organisation, bound in a contemporary paste paper wrapper.
£400
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‘PIETRO da VICOVARO’, i.e. Giuseppe CORTESE.
Apparecchio per accompagnare Maria Santissima nella sua gloriosa assunzione...
Rome, Komarek, 1735.
Very rare devotional work dedicated to the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, a novena written by Pietro da Vicovaro.
£550
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[PSALMS.]
Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti, a M. Antonio Flaminio & P. Francisco Spinula pietis elegantissimis, Latinis...
Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen for Joannes Steelsius], 1559.
A collection of verse paraphrases of the Psalms, by the poets and humanist scholars Marcantonio Flaminio (1498–1550) and Publio Francesco Spinola (c. 1520–1567), bound for Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553–1617).
£975
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‘SANIVAL, Marchesa di’, pseud. [i.e. SALVANI, Fausto].
La difesa delle donne o sia risposta apologetica al libro...
Siena, Luigi and Benedetto Bindi, 1786.
Very rare first edition, printed on blue paper, of this defence of women, written in response to an indecent satire entitled Lo scoglia dell’humanita, published under the Arcadian pseudonym Diunilgo Valdecio by Carlo Maria Chiaraviglio in 1774, which warned of the dangers to men posed by...
£1500
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[ALMANACK.] WING, John.
Ολυμπια δωματα or an Almanack for the Year of our Lord God 1689 …
Cambridge, John Hayes, ‘1689’ [1688].
An interesting Cambridge-printed almanack, owned and annotated in West Yorkshire by one John Brooke, who records, in various places, ‘Subsidy money for Dalton, Kirkheaton, Huddersfield, and Lepton’, debts owing for geese, ‘Men imployed at Bowling green’ (18 February to 26 April, 8 pages),...
£950
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CHALMERS, David.
Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France, Angleterre et Escosse, mise en ordre par forme d’Harmonie: contenant...
Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.
First edition of Chalmer’s historical work focusing on Scotland’s relations with France and England, written at a time of marriage negotiations between England and France, seeking to dispel the idea that England had any overlordship over Scotland.
£950