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BIEL, Gabriel.
Sacri canonis Missae lucidiss. expositio … cum assertionibus in margine sacri Conc. Trid. et annotationibus necessariis....
Brescia, Pietro and Tommaso Bozzola, 1576.
Brescia edition of an exposition of the Canon of the Mass by the important German scholastic philosopher and theologian Gabriel Biel (d. 1495), with a sixteenth-century printed label threatening with excommunication anyone who would remove this volume from the library.
£350
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ANDREWS, Mark E.
The Science and Engineering of Materials: A Theatre of Machine Books, 1472–1800.
Toronto, AE Publications, 2023.
An extraordinary survey of four centuries of machine books, tracing the evolution of printing techniques and draughtsmanship alongside the development of the machines themselves. In this catalogue of eighty-six works from his collection of books on civil engineering, Mark Andrews situates a series...
£85
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VELLEIUS PATERCULUS.
Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus duobus. Ex editione Petri Burmanni fideliter expressa.
Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752.
First and only Foulis Press edition, unusually found here in a contemporary Scandinavian binding, evidence of the high esteem in which these products of the Glasgow enlightenment were held across Europe.
£425
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[SOPHOCLES.]
Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta ex recensione G. Dindorfii.
Oxford, University Press, 1832.
First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of the precocious Karl Wilhelm Dindorf (1802–1883), first published in Leipzig in 1825. This copy was a graduation present from Charles Old Goodford (1812–1884), assistant master (later Head Master and then provost) at Eton, to Arthur Hobhouse (1818–1904),...
£200
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[WALLET.]
Wallet with manuscript and printed waste.
France, c. 1790.
An attractive late eighteenth-century wallet in the guise of a wallet-bound book, possibly re-using an earlier eighteenth-century binding, the interior compartments composed of manuscript and printed waste.
£950
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[EMBROIDERED BINDING.]
Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace de Notre Seigneur M. DCC. LIII. …
Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].
A charming almanack for 1753 printed in Liège by Everard Kints – bookseller, printer, and wine merchant – here in a delightful embroidered binding with raised work in silver thread surrounding a skilfully executed floral arrangement.
£400
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AIKEN, Conrad.
The Collected Novels … Introduction by R.P. Blackmur.
New York, Holt, Reinhart and Winston, [1964].
First edition, inscribed: ‘For Geoffrey and Joyce [Bridson] con amore but o at what a distance from Conrad 1964’.
£150
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[PLAYING CARDS.]
Complete Deck of 52 Playing Cards.
London, Bancks Brothers, successors to Hunt & Sons, c. 1849.
An extremely well-preserved complete deck of playing cards by Bancks Brothers.
£200
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MITCHEL, William.
A tract volume of fifteen works, including five very rare broadsides.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1711-1720.
A fabulous tract volume of works by the ‘odd half-crazy varlet of a tinsmith' and pamphleteer William Mitchel (1670-1740?), author of some fifty ‘books’ sold from his shop in Edinburgh (and briefly, in 1719, Glasgow). Of the fifteen works here, ten are are known in three copies or fewer in ESTC....
£8500
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[ROWE, Harry.] CROFT, John, editor[?], [and Dr. Alexander HUNTER?].
Memoirs of Harry Rowe: constructed from Materials found in...
York, Printed by Wilson & Spence. Sold by all the Booksellers in the City and County of York, [1806].
First edition of this ‘biography’ of the puppet-showman and trumpeter Harry Rowe. It is perhaps loosely woven around facts. The long second portion of the text is one of Rowe’s skits, ‘The Sham Doctor, a musical Farce’, in which a quack treats a series of eighteen comic patients. It...
£1500
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DEVOTO, Daniel J.
Las Elegias de Empalme.
[Buenos Aires], 1940.
First edition, limited to 170 copies, of this small group of poems from early in the career of the Argentinian poet and music historian Daniel J. Devoto (1916–2001).
£300
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[SKETCHBOOK.]
Album of pencil sketches.
Bristol and South-West of England, c. 1892–1904.
A charming turn-of-the-century album of pencil sketches of the South West of England, seemingly by an accomplished Bristol amateur artist.
£300
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MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix.
Symphonie No. 3, componirt und Ihrer Majestät der Königin Victoria von England zugeeignet …...
Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, [1843].
First edition of Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony. It was first conceived when Mendelssohn visited Scotland during 1829, but the composer only began work in earnest ten years later.
£1500
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CASTRO, Manuel de.
Lámpara (Vigilias de la cruz y la flauta) Poemas.
[Montevideo], Fernandez y Gonzales, 1938.
First edition, a presentation copy with an inscription and sketches by the Uruguayan journalist, novelist and poet Manuel de Castro (1896–1970).
£850
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CLAUDIANUS, Claudius; Thaddaeus UGOLETUS, editor.
Opera.
Venice, Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 6 June 1495.
A collection of late Roman poetry composed at the court of the Emperor Honorius, with notable provenance.
£3500
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BRACCIOLINI, Francesco.
Della croce racquistata, poema heroico libri XV.
Paris, René Ruelle, 1605.
First edition of Francesco Bracciolini’s epic poem modelled on Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1591), narrating the recovery of the True Cross by the seventh-century Byzantine Emperor Heraclius from the Persian Emperor Khosrow II, and its return to Jerusalem in 629–630 AD. It is possible...
£1500
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ANNE, Queen.
Warrant, signed, authorising John Grubham Howe as Paymaster General, to pay Major General James Mailand for the regiment...
27 January 1708/9.
An attractive document, bringing together the signatures of both Queen Anne and the future Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
£1750
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TERENCE.
Comediae sex. A M. Anto. Mureto locis prope innumeris suo nitore restitutae …
Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1590.
A rare provincial printing of a school edition the plays of Terence, printed in the small town of Carmagnola in Piedmont, which had become part of the Duchy of Savoy only two years earlier, after almost half a century under French domination. The text is taken from earlier printings of Marc Antoine...
£375
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SALLUST.
C. Sallustius Crispus cum veterum Historicorum fragmentis.
Leiden, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634.
The first small format Elzevir printing of Sallust with a contemporary ink sketch of a Peeping Tom at the rear of the volume. The volume contains the two major works of Sallust, the Jugurthine War and the Conspiracy of Catiline, along with the surviving fragments of his annalistic history of his...
£950
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[HIGHLANDS.]
Fifth Report of the Commissioners for Roads and Bridges in the Highlands of Scotland.
[London, Hansard, 1811.]
A rare Parliamentary report on the construction of roads and bridges in Scotland, with a fine map by Aaron Arrowsmith showing the roads already constructed or under contract (in red) and the roads under consideration (in green).
£300