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[JUVENILE.]
The Weasel Family.
London, Edinburgh, and New York, T. Nelson and Sons, [1860s?]
First edition, rare, of a rather charming Victorian picture-book, from ‘The Funny Animal Series’, later collected in Comical Creatures: a Picture Book for the Nursery (1867).
£375
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LAING, John.
An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen; containing a full description of that country, of the zoology of the north,...
[Balfour for], London, J. Mawman and David Brown, Edinburgh, 1815.
First edition of Laing’s account of his voyage as a ship’s surgeon on a whaling vessel under Captain Scoresby to the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago, in 1806 and 1807.
£850
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LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.
Le Père Noël supplicié.
[Paris, Chantenay, 1952.]
Rare first separate appearance, a presentation copy, of Lèvi-Strauss’s article ‘Father Christmas tortured’, an ethnological analysis of French ecclesiastical authorities’ disapproval of the ‘paganisation’ of Father Christmas, describing the hanging and burning of an effigy at Dijon just...
£250
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LEIGHTON, J. Harold.
Collection of exhibition prints.
1920s–1940s.
An impressive portfolio of exhibition prints made using the innovative gum bichromate process by the renowned Pictorialist photographer J. Harold Leighton, an expert in the process, exhibited from England to continental Europe, United States, Canada, and India.
£7500
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MEGUSCHER, Francesco.
Memoria … in risposta al quesito additare la migliore e più facile maniera per rimittere i boschi nelle...
Milan, presso l’I.R. Istituto, 1847.
Uncommon first edition of this comprehensive report on the best means of reversing the deforestation of the mountains of Lombardy in a way that would be both environmentally sustainable and economically profitable.
£950
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PRIOR, Matthew.
Poems on several Occasions.
London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John Barber, 1718.
First edition, a subscriber’s copy on large paper, of one of the most imposing volumes of verse of the eighteenth century, in a strictly contemporary binding, with endleaves on the same paper stock as the text, our copy in a strictly contemporary binding and presented to the Scottish poet and songwriter...
£5000
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[RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas, Abbé;] Johann Adam HILLER, translator.
Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter französischer,...
Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.
First edition in German of this collection of amusing literary, philosophical and historical anecdotes on French men and women of letters from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth, translated by the composer and conductor Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804), one of Bach’s successors as Cantor in...
£250
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[ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]
Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum, ex scriptis societati regiae scientiarum...
Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.
First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea berolinensia, the scientific periodical of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences, comprising articles on literature, mathematics, and mechanics.
£575
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SASSOON, Siegfried; Paul NASH, illustrator.
Nativity.
London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927.
First edition of this striking collaboration between Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) and Paul Nash (1889–1946).
£175
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SYMONS, Arthur, editor.
The Savoy.
London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.
First edition of this outstanding, though short-lived, avant-garde periodical, with contributions by Yeats (poems, and the three-part essay on William Blake and his Illustrations to the Divine Comedy), Shaw, Conrad, Dowson, Havelock Ellis (on Nietzsche and Hardy), Lionel Johnson, Beerbohm,...
£3000
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[WAX MODELS.] Gaetano PECCI.
Broadside advertising an itinerant show of wax models. [Incipit:] ‘L’Artista Gaetano Pecci,...
[Venice], Casali stampatore, [c. 1815].
A seemingly unrecorded broadside advertising the Venice dates of a touring show of life-sized wax models of the Nativity, notable politicians and philosophers, and anatomical figures by the Milanese wax sculptor Gaetano Pecci, as well as an (apparently living) two-headed boy.
£500
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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 (1757–1833) celebrated translation of Wieland’s (1733–1813) German epic, Oberon, in part based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, instrumental in popularising Wieland’s works in England.
£500
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[WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.] Ludwig HÄNSEL.
Two autograph postcards to Hermann Hänsel.
Vienna, 31 December 1933 and July 1938.
Two autograph postcards from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s close friend, the educator Ludwig Hänsel (1886–1959) to his son, Hermann Hänsel, with a Christmas card from Wittgenstein’s sister, Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, testament to the intimate and long-lasting connection between the two families....
£650
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ZAPPI, Giambattista; Faustina MARATTI.
Rime di Giambattista Felice Zappi e di Faustina Maratti sua consorte.
Nice, Société typographique, 1781.
Uncommon Nice printing of the collected poetry of one of the most prominent literary couples of early eighteenth-century Rome, Faustina Maratti (1679–1745) and her husband Giambattista Zappi (1667–1719).
£200
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[ALMANACK.]
Revill’s illustrated Pocket Keepsake and Book of Christmas Amusements, for 1884. Contains:– Almanack for 1884,...
[London,] Simpkins for M. E. Revill, [1884].
An unrecorded Christmas gift book, charmingly illustrated, printed for the Marylebone wine-merchant M. E. Revill at the Turner’s Arms.
£225
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[BOOKPLATE.]
Design for an ex libris for Cortlandt Field Bishop, by Boissy[?].
c. 1910?
The aviator, traveller, and book collector Cortlandt F. Bishop (1870–1935) bought America’s top auction house, American Art Association, in 1923, later merging it with Anderson Galleries – after his death it became Parke-Bernet, bought by Sotheby’s in 1964. Bishop was an avid collector, buying...
£600
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Mariana Pineda. Romance popular en tres estampas.
Madrid, La Farsa, 1928.
First edition of Lorca’s first published play, Mariana Pineda, ‘about the Granadine heroine Mariana Pineda, who had been executed in 1831 at the age of twenty-seven by the repressive regime of Ferdinand VII, on the charge of having embroidered a flag for the town’s liberal conspirators.
£450
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[HIGHWAYMEN.]
Processo formato contro due famosissimi banditi Giacomo Legorino, e Battista Scorlino, con suoi seguaci, quali furono...
Milan, Pietro Francesco Malatesta, [1744].
Seemingly unrecorded printing of the trials of two sixteenth-century Italian highwaymen and their gang, whose campaign of terror in Milan lasted eight years.
£500
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JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus, Lucius Annaeus FLORUS, and Sextus RUFUS.
Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattuor & triginta...
Paris, Jean Petit [and Jean Marchant], [1509].
A collection of abbreviated Roman histories, edited by Marcantonio Sabellico, with two different woodcuts depicting a scholar in a study with books and writing implements.
£1850
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[MOREAN WAR.]
Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under the Conduct of Capt. General Morosini, General Coningsmark,...
London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.
First edition of an important account of the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War, which had begun in 1684, in the form of diplomatic letters from the Venetian (and Hanoverian) forces under the command of Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice.
£2500