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SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich.
Amerikanskiie rechi [American speeches].
Paris, YMCA, 1975.
First edition, comprising three speeches delivered by Solzhenitsyn to the American people in 1975.
£150
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TASSO, Torquato.
Aminta; Favola boscareccia …
In Glasgua, Della Stampa di Roberto ed Andrea Foulis, 1753.
First Foulis Press edition of Tasso’s famous pastoral verse play of 1573, an attractive production with plates from a miniature French edition by the French artist Sebastien le Clerc, acquired by Robert Foulis on his European travels.
£125
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[CASTILLO Y SORIANO, José del.]
Amor á la creacion. Poesia dedicada á la Sociedad Madrileña Protectora de los Animales y de...
Madrid, Sociedad de Tipógrafos, 1879.
Very rare survival: a poem in twenty-four stanzas each of five lines devoted to the celebration of animals and plants, dedicated to the Madrid Society for the protection of nature, and publicly read by the actress Carolina Civili on the occasion of the May 1879 exhibition of plants and birds....
£375
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CAGNAZZI, Luca de Samuele.
Analisi dell’ economia privata e pubblica degli antichi relativamente a quella de’ moderni …
Naples, Società filomatica, 1830.
First edition. Cagnazzi (1764–1852) was originally a teacher of mathematics by profession, receiving a professorship at Naples in 1806. ‘His life was full of trouble; having been concerned in political intrigues, he had to flee from Naples and, after wandering, nearly always on foot, through Italy...
£125
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L’HÔPITAL, Guillaume François Antoine, marquis de.
Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l’intelligence des lignes...
Paris, François Montalant, 1715.
Second edition (first 1696) of l’Hôpital’s famous Analyse, the first textbook on differential calculus, inspired by the work of Leibniz and the Bernoulli brothers, this copy profusely annotated by an anonymous but proficient eighteenth-century mathematician.
£3500
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PHILIDOR, François-André Danican (William Stopford KENNY, translator).
Analysis of the game of chess … illustrated...
& J. Allman, 1819.
First edition of William Kenny’s translation of L’analyse du jeu des Échecs. For many years Kenny (1787/8–1867) ‘kept a classical school at 5 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square, London, later moving to Richmond, Surrey. In 1856 Kenny stated that he had been a teacher for forty...
£200
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MILL, James.
Analysis of the phenomena of the human mind.
London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1829.
First edition of Mill’s work of empiricist philosophy, largely an exercise in logical thought rather than a careful study of psychology. Mill describes the body’s interconnected system of sensual receptors through which the mind forms complex ideas, which in turn inform the passions and the will....
£800
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ROLLIN, Charles.
The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians & Grecians.
Durham, G. Walker, [c. 1824].
Durham edition of Rollin’s history, accompanied by a series of large folding maps by d’Anville. The magnum opus of Charles Rollin (1661-1741), the Ancient History was among the most thorough publications on the ancient world. Appearing in English translation in 1730, very soon after the first publication...
£250
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MORGAN, Lewis Henry.
Ancient society or researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization.
New York, Holt, 1877.
First edition. Morgan’s influential work was considered by Marx and Engels to be putatively supportive of materialist history. Marx’s notes on this book were reputedly the source for Engels’s Origins of the family, of private property and the state, published in German in 1844. Morgan posits a...
£400
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[HILLER, Johann Adam, editor].
Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter französischer, deutscher, italienischer, holländischer...
Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.
Scarce first edition of Hiller’s two-volume collection of literary, philosophical and historical anecdotes. The editor’s note at the end mentions the contemporary publication of a French work of similar inspiration, and states the editor’s intention to translate it and publish it as a sequel to...
£175
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LOCKE, John.
[An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding]. Extrait d’un Livre Anglois qui n’est pas encore publié, intitulé...
Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waesbergi, Boom, & Van Someren, 1688.
A substantial and extremely influential extract, published two years before the appearance of the book, of Locke’s Essay concerning human understanding: a publication of major consequence in the history of philosophy. This issue of the Bibliothèque universelle et historique also...
£2850
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JACOMB, Charles Ernest.
And a New Earth. A Romance.
London, George Routledge & Sons, 1926.
First edition of this post-apocalyptic fantasy novel relating the history of a utopian island that survived a ‘second flood’ in 1958, which destroyed the world’s civilization and reduced the human population to just ten thousand.
£75
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PRIESTLEY, J. B.
Angel Pavement …
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1930.
First edition, the deluxe issue, no. 308 of 1025 copies signed by the author.
£150
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BINGLEY, William.
Animal Biography, or authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners, and Economy of the animal Creation, arranged...
London, R. Taylor & Co. for Richard Phillips, 1805.
Third edition of Bingley’s most popular zoological work. First published in 1802, the Animal Biography provides accounts of the form and behaviour of a wide variety of mammals, birds, fish, and insects.
£175
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WATSON, John B.
Animal education, an experimental study on the physical development of the white rat, correlated with the growth...
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1903.
First edition, scarce, of this foundational work of behaviourist psychology or what Watson coined as ‘behaviorism’, this being his PhD thesis completed under J. R. Angell and H. H. Donaldson at Chicago. It details the physical development of the white rat’s central nervous system, and its neurological...
£250
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CUVIER, Georges, and Edward BLYTH (editor).
The animal Kingdom, arranged after its Organization, forming a natural...
London, William S. Orr & Co., 1851.
Third Blyth edition of Cuvier’s Règne animal. A seminal work of natural history and comparative anatomy, the Règne animal was first published in December 1816 and translated into English in parts issued from 1824 to 1835. The work was edited and enlarged in 1840 by the zoologist...
£175
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POUND, Ezra, and D.G. BRIDSON.
‘An Interview with Ezra Pound’ in New Directions 17. Norfolk, Conn.,
New Directions, [1961].
First edition, printing the majority of the interviews recorded in 1956 and broadcast in 1959. Other contributors to this issue included Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Williams.
£100
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TACITUS, Publius Cornelius.
The Annales … The Description of Germanie. [–The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba. Foure Bookes...
[London, Arnold Hatfield for Bonham and John Norton,] 1612.
Third collected edition of the Annals translated by Richard Grenewey, first published in 1598, and of The End of Nero, Histories and Agricola, translated by Henry Savile, first published in 1591; this is a paginary reprint, with the same unusual title-page, of the edition of 1604/5.
£1500
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[BUNBURY, Henry William.] ‘GAMBADO, Geoffrey’.
Annals of Horsemanship, containing Accounts of accidental Experiments and experimental...
London, W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808.
Third edition of Bunbury’s satirical work with humorous etchings. First published in 1791 and often presented as a continuation of Bunbury’s Academy for grown Horsemen (published in 1784 also under the name Gambado), the Annals of Horsemanship is a parody of Arthur Young’s...
£475
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[HUNTING].
Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britannie, Franciae & Hiberniae, Decimo Tertio. At the Parliament begun and holden...
Edinburgh, printed by Alexander Kincaid, His Majesty’s Printer, 1773.
Unrecorded edition of an act ‘for the more effectual preservation of the Game in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland’, which brought Scottish game law in line with English. The act sets out the strict hunting seasons for each type of game (muir fowl or tarmargen are banned between 10 December...
£150