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KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.
Travels from Berlin, through Switzerland, to Paris, in the Year 1804 … Translated from...
London, Richard Phillips, 1804.
First edition in English, quickly translated from Kotzebue’s Erinnerungen aus Paris (September 1804). As the German title suggests, the Travels is in fact largely devoted to Paris, with lively observations on Napoleon, Madame Recamier, the Musée des monuments français and Musée...
£500
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[MAGRATH, Cornelius.]
‘Ein Irländer Riss …’
Nuremberg, 1756.
A delightful promotional image for the Continental tour of ‘The Irish Giant’ Cornelius Magrath (1736/7–1760), ‘To be seen in Nuremberg in the month of July 1756’.
£3000
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[PRAYERS.]
The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts. Composed of Meditations and Prayers for every Day in the Week: with Devotions...
London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.
Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection of prayers and meditations, complete in six parts, bound for the pocket.
£1200
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[OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]
Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum serenissimi Regis Georgii II. et gratulatio in augustissimi Regis...
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.
First edition, one of fifty copies on large paper, an exceptional survival in the most luxurious (and fragile) of presentation bindings: full purple velvet with gold-fringed purple silk ties, typically reserved for a handful or fewer of royal copies.
£10000
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[POPE, Alexander.]
The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books. The second Edition.
‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed for A. Dodd. 1728.’
Second edition, rare, and of considerable interest, largely a reimpression of the first edition but with gathering B, most of C, and D4v reset.
£4500
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PORTER, [Jane].
Thaddeus of Warsaw … By Miss Porter.
London, A. Strahan for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803.
First edition of Porter’s first major work, ‘a super-rarity among Gothic Romantic novels’ (Sadleir), and very scarce in commerce.
£12500
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PORTER, [Jane].
Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks, by Miss Porter …
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.
First edition, uncommon, of a collection of aphorisms and observations drawn from Sidney’s prose works, edited and with additional commentary by the novelist Jane Porter (1775–1850).
£600
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PORTER, [Jane].
Thaddeus of Warsaw. In four Volumes … by Miss Porter. The fifth Edition.
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.
Fifth edition of Jane Porter’s famous first book. The book, which led to a friendship between Porter and General Kościuszko, quickly became a best-seller (a new edition every year to 1806, eleven by 1826). The ‘Advertisement to the Second Edition’, commented at her pleasure at ‘totally...
£500
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[PRIMER.]
Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m] collectae & Regia authoritate approbatae …
London, William Seres, 1568.
Second edition of this rare ‘private’ prayer book, first printed in 1564, with a calendar, a Latin catechism for children, selected psalms, and a Latin–English list of English islands, counties, cathedral cities, bishoprics, rivers, and ports.
£4250
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PRIOR, Matthew.
The Poetical Works … now first collected, with explanatory Notes, and memoirs of the Author, in two Volumes …...
Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley [and five others], 1779.
A handsome copy of this collected edition of Prior, edited by Thomas Evans, inscribed on a front endpaper: ‘George Augusta Hill given him by Ladies Anne and Gertrude Fitz-Patrick, out of the Library of the late Earl of Upper Ossory Ampthill Park who died Feb 1st 1818’.
£500
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[PSALMS; Basil WOODD, editor.]
The Psalms of David, and other Portions of the Sacred Scriptures, selected from various Authors,...
London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons, and Matthews, 1800.
A pocket-sized Psalm- and prayerbook with a hidden heraldic fore-edge painting for Horatio Walpole, later first Earl of Orford.
£2000
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[CHARLES II.]
RIVET, Jean. ‘Le favory du Ciel ou Meditation sur le pseaume cent un par Jean Rivet laisné Sainctongeois’.
[Caussade en Quercy, 1664.]
A fascinating manuscript meditation on Psalm 101, a text traditionally used as an exposition on princely authority in Protestant theology, with a long dedication ‘A Tres Puissant et Serenissime Roy Charle deuxiesme Roy de la grande Bretagne’.
£1850
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ROHAN, Henri, Duke of; [Henry HUNT, translator].
A Treatise of the Interest of the Princes and States of Christendome....
London, Richard Hodgkinson, 1641.
First edition in England (and second in English) of this groundbreaking work on political interest and the balance of power by the leader of the Huguenots, this copy with hitherto unnoticed printing variants.
£1800
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S[HEAFE], T[homas].
Vindiciae senectutis, or, a Plea for Old-Age: which is senis cujusdam cygnea cantio. And the several Points...
London, George Mither and are to be sold by Joshua Kirton, and Thomas Warren, 1639.
First edition of a rare encomium on senectitude by the eighty-year-old canon of Windsor, Thomas Sheafe, who died later in 1639, dedicated to the supremely long-lived divine Laurence Chaderton (1536?–1640), first Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. This is the rarer second issue, with a cancel...
£1250
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VINCENT OF LÉRINS.
The Waie home to Christ and Truth leadinge from Antichrist and Errour, made and set furth in the Latine Tongue...
[London, Robert Caly, 22 October 1554].
First edition in English, very rare, of St Vincent’s Commonitorium pro catholicae fidei antiquitate, translated and with a long Prologue by John Proctor (1521–1558), and a dedication to Queen Mary, ‘a lady of heavenly simplicitie’ whom Proctor later praises as the restorer of the...
£9500
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[TOMKIS, Thomas.]
Lingua: or, the Combat of the Tongue, and the five Senses for Superiority. A pleasant Comoedie.
London, Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson, 1617.
Third edition, rare, of this allegorical Cambridge play, perhaps the earliest academic drama to achieve popular success.
£3000
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WIELAND, Christoph Martin; William SOTHEBY, translator.
Oberon, a Poem …
London, Cadell and Davies, Edwards, Faulder, and Hatchard, 1798.
First octavo edition of Sotheby’s celebrated translation of Wieland’s epic, Oberon, in part based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream; there was also a large paper quarto edition for presentation.
£500
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[WYNNE, John Huddlestone.]
The Child of Chance; or, the Adventures of Harry Hazard.
London, T. Hookham, ‘1796’ [recte 1786].
First edition of a very rare picaresque novel in the manner of Tom Jones. Though largely London-based, there are interludes in India (where Wynne had served two years) and the West Indies. Many of the tropes of Wynne’s earlier novel The Man of Honour are present – orphans, female duplicity,...
£3500
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INCHBALD, Mrs. [Elizabeth.]
Nature and Art.
London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796.
First edition of a powerful and tragic Jacobin novel, ‘remarkable for its dramatic rendering of the feminist point that men destroy women’s chastity and then mete out punishment for its loss’ (Spencer, The Rise of the Woman Novelist, 1986). It is a fearless interrogation of hypocrisy,...
£3250
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DE QUINCEY, Thomas.
Autograph draft of two passages from his autobiographical essay ‘Oxford’, first published in Tait’s Magazine...
Undated, c. 1835.
An interesting autograph fragment with numerous authorial revisions. The essay as a whole is an ‘account of the system of Oxford life and education during the five years of De Quincey’s connexion with the University, with glimpses of himself’ (Masson, II, p. 2). The passages here form the...
£1750