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KOTZEBUE, Otto von.
A voyage of discovery into the South Sea and Beering’s Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east...
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.
First edition in English, translated from the German edition of the same year, of Kotzebue’s classic voyage; ‘a prized edition’ (Hill).
£3000
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[LE MARCHE.]
Deed relating to the sale of property in Beltrovato (a district of Morrovalle in the Province of Macerata in the Marche...
[Rome, 1616.]
A curiously bound public instrument notarised by the Apostolic Camera in Rome detailing the sale of property belonging to two brothers from the influential de’ Mozzi family of Macerata.
£850
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MACDONALD, Alexander.
‘Instructions and regulations for the formations and movements of horse artillery by Captain A: Macdonald...
[England, 1827.]
Scarce manuscript of an unpublished work on the formations and movements of horse artillery by the distinguished soldier and Waterloo veteran Major-General Alexander Macdonald CB (1776–1840), illustrated with twenty-five coloured diagrams.
£1500
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MAUGHAM, William Somerset; Graham SUTHERLAND, illustrator.
Cakes and Ale, or the Skeleton in the Cupboard. With an original...
London, [Windmill Press for] William Heinemann, [1954].
No. 132 of 1000 copies, signed by both author and artist. Cakes and Ale (1930) was Maugham’s favourite work; this limited edition was published in honour of his eightieth birthday.
£350
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NABBES, Thomas.
Microcosmus. A Morall Maske, presented with generall liking, at the private House in Salisbury Court, and heere...
London, Printed by Richard Oulton for Charles Greene … 1637.
First edition of an allegorical morality play (the Elements, the Senses, Love, Fear, Hope, Melancholy, et al.) which ‘may be the first English masque presented in a theatre with moveable scenery’ (Pforzheimer Catalogue).
£5000
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NISSEN, Peter.
‘Carl Hagenbeck’s Zoologischer Circus’
c. 1891.
A rare portfolio of live animal scenes from Carl Hagenbeck’s famous ‘zoological circus’; a wonderful hybrid of the real and the surreal in zoological and photographic history.
£12000
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POPE, William.
Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.
[Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr 24.th 1804’.
A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging to one William Pope, very well preserved in its original stationery binding and wrapper, with provincially printed arithmetic tables as endpapers.
£850
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PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.
Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit novoque adparatu critico instruxit...
Cambridge, University Press, 1928.
First edition of Richmond’s controversial Propertius, A. F. Scholfield’s copy, with three letters from the editor.
£400
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RAWLET, John.
Poetick Miscellanies …
London, printed for Samuel Tidmarsh, 1687.
First edition. Writing from the isolation of Newcastle, then a rural parish in fell country, Rawlet developed a mode of religious and descriptive poetry distinctly out of step with his own age, as is acknowledged by the editor in a verse preface: ‘Reader, expect not here, the filth of th’...
£1100
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STANYHURST, William.
Veteris hominis per expensa quatuor novissima metamorphosis, et novi genesis.
Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1661.
First edition, rare, of this work on death, the Last Judgement, Hell, and Heaven, by the Irish Jesuit William Stanyhurst (1601–1663), illustrated with five striking full-page emblematic engravings.
£875
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TRIMMER, [Sarah], Mrs.
An Explanation of the Office for the public Baptism of Infants; and of the Order for the Confirmation of...
Robinson … and J. Johnson, 1791.
First edition, dedicated with the Queen’s permission to the royal princess, Princess Mary.
£650
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[YOUNG, Edward.]
The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality.
London, R. Dodsley and [T. Cooper; –] M. Cooper, [1742; –] 1743.
The first attempt at a collected edition of the Night-Thoughts, issued by Richard Dodsley and Mary Cooper, comprising the second (first quarto) edition of Night the First and first editions of Night the Second to Fourth with a general title and preface.
£250
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BELLARMINO, Roberto.
De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus. Adiunctis indicibus undecim, & brevi chronologia ab orbe condito...
Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1658.
An uncut copy of Bellarmino’s bibliography of ecclesiastical writers, with extensive eighteenth-century annotations and additions.
£1250
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BIBLE.
Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi testamenti et sacrorum canonum: necnon & additionibus in marginibus varietatis...
[(Colophon:) Lyons, Jean Marion, for Anton II Koberger in Nuremberg, 19 August 1520.]
A handsomely printed Bible in a contemporary Silesian or Bohemian binding, richly annotated by a Protestant scholar and with numerous woodcuts in contemporary colouring.
£5500
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BUDÉ, Guillaume.
G. Budaei … Epistolarum latinarum lib. V. Annotationibusq[ue] adiectis in singulas fere epistolas. Graecarum...
[Paris,] Jodocus Badius, February 1531.
Handsome Badius edition of the Latin and Greek letters of the great French humanist Guillaume Budé (1467–1540), edited with commentary by his pupil Jacques Toussain, here with profuse annotations by a contemporary French student to almost every page.
£5500
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[CHARLEMAGNE and LOUIS the Pious; ANSEGISIUS and Benedictus LEVITA, editors.]
Karoli Magni et Ludovici Pii...
Paris, Guillaume Pelé, 1640.
Paris edition of a collection of Carolingian statutes and laws, with many substantial annotations and insertions by Étienne Baluze, the pioneering historian and professor of Canon Law at the Collège de France who became librarian to Colbert.
£3500
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
[Opera] Que in secondo volumine continentur super Mattheum homiliae … super Joannem homiliae … de laudibus...
[Venice, Bernardino Stagnino and Gregorio de’ Gregori, February 1503.]
The second volume of the first collected edition of John Chrysostom’s sermons on the New Testament and the monastic life, a wide-margined copy with extensive annotations.
£2500
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EUCLID; Jean MAGNIEN and Stephanus GRACILIS, editors.
Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et Latine, quibus, cum...
Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.
First edition of Euclid’s Elements as edited by Jean Magnien and Stephanus Gracilis, with woodcut diagrams throughout, this copy extensively annotated by a contemporary student.
£5500
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
Opera …
[(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Stagnino and Gregorio de’ Gregori, 9 February 1503.]
The first collected edition of John Chrysostom’s sermons, a wide-margined copy with sixteenth-century Bohemian provenance in a contemporary pigskin binding with bosses, neatly annotated and with two extensive additional manuscript indexes dated 1506.
£3750
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
Orationum pars I. Cum correctionibus P. Manutii, et annotationib[us] D. Lambini.
Venice, ‘ex bibliotheca Aldina’, 1570.
An unusual example of a white calf German binding on an Aldine Cicero, annotated in Greek and Latin.
£1850