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ASTRUC, Jean.
Tractatus de motus fermentativi causa novam et mechanicam hypothesim conteniens, authore Joanne Astruc artium liberalium...
Montpellier, Honoratus Pech, 1702.
A dissertation on fermentation published by the physician Jean Astruc (1684–1766), aged eighteen; he later taught anatomy at Toulouse and the Collège Royal in Paris, and served as consultant to Louis XV and as chief physician of August II of Poland.
£500
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[SEX-WORK.]
Arrêtés des 3 et 4 Juin 1833, concernant les femmes et filles livrées à la prostitution publique.
Toulon, ‘de l’imprimerie d’Aug. Aurel’, 1833.
An apparently unrecorded set of decrees intended to regulate sex-work in the French port of Toulon on the Mediterranean coast, ‘for the maintenance of good morals and public health’.
£475
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[GOLD and SILVER.]
Bando generale per gli orefici, argentieri, ed altri che comprano, vendono, ed in qualsivoglia modo...
Rome, ‘nella stamperia della Rev. Camera Apostolica’, 1815.
Rare edict governing goldsmiths, silversmiths, and traders in gold and silver operating in Rome and the Papal States, issued by Cardinal Bartolomeo Pacca (1756–1844) in January 1815 as Camerlengo to Pope Pius VII.
£475
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[POETRY.]
‘Trattato della [poesia Toscana]’.
[Asti?, 1780-1782.]
A manuscript treatise on the method of composing poetry in Italian, with numerous examples from renowned authors and eight apparently unpublished poems about horse-racing, with references to Arabian, Sardinian, English, and African horses, as well as to a firework display.
£750
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LIVINGSTONE, David.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of sixteen Years’ Residence in the...
London, John Murray, 1857.
First edition. ‘Livingstone’s services to African geography during thirty years are almost unequalled; he covered about a third of the continent from the Cape to the Equator and from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. He made three great expeditions; in 1853-6 (described in this book),...
£500
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BALLARIN, Vincenzo.
Dimostrazione sintetica della quadratura del circolo di Don Vincenzo Ballarin, piovano di S. Pietro della...
Venice, Fracasso, 1828.
First and only edition of this confident but mistaken attempt at squaring the circle – drawing a square with the same area as a given circle using a compass and straightedge – later proven to be impossible.
£900
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[SOCIETY OF JESUS.]
Les découvertes d’un bibliophile réduites a leur juste valeur. Avec quelques cas de conscience curieux.
Strasbourg, L.F. Le Roux, [1843].
First edition of this scathing response to Busch’s anti-Jesuit Les découvertes d’un bibliophile, central to the highly polemical ‘affaire du Bibliophile’ which divided Strasbourg in 1843.
£375
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GABARO, Antonio.
Alla pregiatissima Signora Domenica Schiavon Menato nella fausta occasione del suo primo parto, in argomento...
Padua, ‘Nella Tipografia del Seminario’, 1820.
First and only edition, very rare, of a scathing and sexist condemnation of ‘inhuman’ women who do not breastfeed their own children, dedicated to Domenica Schiavon Menato, ‘an example to all women’, on the occasion of the birth of her first child.
£380
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ORIBASIUS.
Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis … Ioannis Guinterij Andernaciis medici industria velut e profundissimis tenebris...
Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533.
First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates, bound with a richly annotated copy of Galen’s works in the translation by Thomas Linacre.
£1750
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[BEWICK, Thomas?]
Twenty-six rubbings from engraved woodblocks of the heads of Kings and Queens and England, apparently never published...
[1790-1805?]
Twenty-six apparently unrecorded wood-engravings – heads of the monarchs of England from William the Conqueror to George III – these images taken by rubbing from the blocks rather than printing. The engravings bear strong similarity to the 26 which appear in An Abridgement of the History...
£750
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[YOUATT, William, and Isambard Kingdom BRUNEL.]
The Horse, with a Treatise on Draught and a copious Index.
London, W. Clowes for Baldwin and Cradock ‘under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge’, 1831.
First edition of the first of Youatt’s animal treatises. Established in practice with Delabere Blaine, William Youatt (1776-1847) was on similarly poor terms with the Veterinary College, leaving his mature studies there without a certificate. A leading reformer among veterinary surgeons of the 1820s,...
£350
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LAWSON, A.
The modern Farrier, or the Art of Preserving the Health and Curing the Diseases of Horses, Dogs, Oxen, Cows, Sheep,...
Newcastle upon Tyne, Mackenzie & Dent, 1822.
Early issue of an uncommon farriery manual, printed at Newcastle. First appearing in the early 1820s, this popular text was frequently reprinted throughout the decade, with a twenty-fifth edition recorded in 1842. All editions are now scarce, with only one copy dated 1822 recorded on Copac (at the Wellcome...
£120
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[JEREMY, Henry.]
The Laws relating to Horses, considered as the Subject of Property, Sale, Hire, Wager, Distress, Heriot, or of...
London, Luke Hansard & Sons for J. & W.T. Clarke, 1825.
First edition of a manual on laws relating to horse ownership, transaction, and use, with details of the incidents by which case-law was established.
£450
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LAWRENCE, Richard.
An Inquiry into the Structure & animal Oeconomy of the Horse, comprehending the Diseases to which his Limbs...
Birmingham, executors of T.A. Pearson for the author, and sold by Knott & Lloyd, and in London, G. & W. Nicol and L.B. Seeley, [1803].
Second edition of the treatise on farriery and equine anatomy by Lawrence, one of the first students of the Veterinary College. A resident pupil from January 1793 and employed as a surgical assistant to the College’s infirmary the following year, Lawrence complains of the still very much amateur nature...
£650
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NETTEN, Cornelis Anthonie Geisweit van der.
Handboek der Paardenkennis, ten dienste van [– voor] den Burger- en Krijgsstand [–...
Amsterdam and the Hague, [P.E. Briët for –] the brothers van Cleef, 1811 [– 1817].
First edition of the first part, second of the second, of a scarce Dutch treatise on horsemanship and farriery. Captured by the Prussians in the late 1780s, Cornelis Anthonie Geisweit van der Netten (1772-1847) served in the Austrian army against the Turks and in Belgium before returning to his native...
£750
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MYERS, Robin, Andrew BURNETT, and Renae SATTERLEY.
‘I do not eat the bread of idleness’: Dr Andrew Coltée Ducarel 1713–1785,...
The Garendon Press, 2023.
This volume brings together revised versions of four of Robin Myers’s papers on aspects of Ducarel’s life and work published between 1994 and 2002, and ‘The Life and Times of the Ducarel Brothers’, her recent introductory essay to Two Huguenot Brothers: Letters of Andrew and James Coltée...
£45
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PONCELET, Jean-Victoire.
Traité des propriétés projectives des figures, ouvrage utile à ceux qui s’occupent des applications...
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1865-1866.
Second edition, revised and enlarged, Émile Borel’s prize copy. A finely bound, well-preserved, and prestigious association set.
Borel (1871–1956), the French mathematician best known for his work in measure theory and probability theory, was awarded several honours in the early...£950
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QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius, and Jacques-Louis d’ESTREBAY (editor).
Compendium libri secundi, tertii, et quinti institutionum...
Paris, Thomas Richard, 1558.
Very rare third edition of this compendium of Quintilian’s oratory by Jacques-Louis d’Estrebay (or Estrebee, 1481–1550?), humanist, translator, professor of Rhetoric at Rheims and subsequently at the College of Sante-Barbe in Paris, and a proof-reader for the Estiennes. The title-page indicates...
£350
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RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe.
Zoroastre, tragedie, mise en musique par M. Rameau, représentée pour la premiere fois par l’Académie...
Paris, Boivin, Leclair, Castagneri and the author, [c. 1750].
First edition; rare. Despite a strong cast and a lavish production, Zoroastre met with only limited success (and, it seems, much bewilderment) when first performed at the Opéra in 1749. By May 1752 Rameau and the librettist Louis de Cahusac had begun an extensive reworking of the opera....
£5000
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[AGRIPPA, Heinrich Cornelius.]
De la grandeur et de l’excellence des femmes, au dessus des hommes. Ouvrage composé en Latin,...
Paris, François Baruty, 1713.
The third translation into French, but the first in the eighteenth century, of this work in praise of the female sex by the German occultist, lawyer, and soldier Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486–1535).
£650