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  1. MATURIN, Charles.

    Melmoth the Wanderer: a Tale … Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Company

    London, Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1820.

    First edition, with excellent provenance, of what is often considered alongside Frankenstein as the supreme masterpiece of the Gothic genre.

    £7500

  2. ALTING, Jacob; Heinrich Jakob van BASHUYSEN, editor.

    Compendium fundamentorum punctationis linguae sanctae. Sive grammaticae...

    Hanau, Johann Georg Winsheimer ‘in Typographia Orientali’ for Johann Fernau, 1712

    First and only edition, seemingly the only surviving copy, of this Hanau-printed abridgement of Alting’s Hebrew grammar (first published in 1654) by the German Hebraist Heinrich van Bashuysen, printed at Bashuysen’s own press for the use of his pupils at the local gymnasium.

    £1250

  3. [AMERICAN EDUCATION.]

    An Oration to Children by Way of Information.

    [New England, c. 1800.]

    An American manuscript of seemingly unrecorded devotional verses intended for children, bound reusing a child’s contemporary writing samples, a rare material witness to the early American classroom.

    £1200

  4. ANGELL, Norman, Sir.

    The Money Game.

    London, J.M. Dent, [c. 1930].

    Early edition of this ‘new instrument in economic education’, an unusual educational game combining strategy and economics to provide a little-known but rewarding alternative to Monopoly.

    £100

  5. [ART EDUCATION.]

    Der kleine Maler.

    [Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]

    A delightful suite of plates intended to teach children painting by copying hand-coloured exemplars.

    £450

  6. ASH, John.

    Sentiments on Education, collected from the best Writers; properly methodized, and interspersed with occasional Observations.

    London, Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777.

    First edition of this collection of quotations from various writers on education, interspersed with the opinions of the author, the grammarian, lexicographer, and Baptist minister John Ash.

    £850

  7. [ATLAS.]

    [Cover title:] School Atlas; or, Key to Goldsmith’s geographical Copy-Books …

    London, Richard Phillips, [1810–11].

    Likely first edition, very rare, of this school atlas including world maps in globe and on Mercator’s projection (in which Australia features as New Holland), showing Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the West Indies, ‘Hindoostan’, Ancient Greece,...

    £475

  8. BERNIER DE MALIGNY, Aristippe-Félix.

    Art du comédien. Principes généraux. Recueillis et mis en ordre par Aristippe, 1819.

    Paris, Louis Raymond, [1819].

    Very rare broadside encapsulating the ‘art of the actor’, by the thespian and theoretician Aristippe-Félix Bernier de Maligny, who would later develop his ideas further in his 1826 book Théorie de l’art du comédien.

    £875

  9. CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.

    ‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate Dictatus ab...

    [Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.

    A manuscript treatise concerning the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity as expounded in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae, compiled by a student at the University of Douai from lectures by André-Joseph Chevalier.

    £375

  10. [DELAMARCHE, Alexandre, cartographer; Bernard COUDERT, lithographer.]

    ‘Atlas’.

    Paris, Legay, [c. 1889].

    An attractive set of large educational jigsaw maps showing the world, Europe, and France, preserved in its original allegorical box.

    £875

  11. FATHERS LEGACY (The):

    or Counsels to his children. In three Parts. Containing the Whole Duty of Man, I. To God. II. To himself....

    London, Printed for Henry Brome … 1678.

    First and only edition, very scarce, of a fine courtesy book written by an anonymous former soldier, framed as a father's guidance to his children, this copy owned by the wife of the English Ambassador to France.

    £1850

  12. [GEOGRAPHY.]

    Primi principi di geografia ad uso de’ fanciulli.

    [(Colophon:) Bergamo, Pietro Lancellotti, 1753].

    Extremely rare second edition (first 1745) of this Bergamo-printed geographic catechism for young children.

    £375

  13. GIGLI, Mariano.

    Esperimento del nobile giovinetto Francesco Piazzi d’anni dieci non compiuti sulle sette lingue italiana, francese,...

    Milan, Società tipografica de’ classici italiani, 1818.

    First and only edition, rare, of a series of 450 translation exercises in French, Spanish, English, German, Latin, Greek, and Italian, posed to the ten-year-old linguistic prodigy Francesco Piazzi by his tutor as the culmination of his highly experimental method of linguistic instruction.

    £1250

  14. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English exposition of the Roman Antiquities, wherein many Roman & English...

    Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps, 1638.

    Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks on antiquities, often found bound together – a compendium of Roman antiquities and a study of the customs and religious rites of the ancient Jews, originally published in 1614 and 1625 respectively – by the headmaster and scholar Thomas Goodwin (1587–1642)....

    £1600

  15. HAMILTON, Elizabeth.

    Letters on the elementary Principles of Education.

    Bath, R. Cruttwell for G. and J. Robinson, 1801 [–1802].

    Second edition, published in the same year of the first, of this epistolary exploration of how children learn, by the Scottish novelist and educationist Elizabeth Hamilton (1756 or 1758–1816).

    £400