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LOYSIUS, Georgius.
Georgii Loysii C. V. Pervigilium Mercurii, in quo agitur de praestantissimis peregrinantis virtutibus ... iterum...
Speyer, ‘impensis viduae Bernard Albini’, 1600.
Uncommon edition of this pocket book for travellers by the German jurist Georgius Loysius (1575–1602) ‘in which the most excellent virtues of a traveller are treated, and by what means each one can, without great difficulty, travel through foreign provinces, visit exotic regions, and converse well...
£450
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PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.
Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus in Priapum, cum selectis variorum commentariis. Accedunt Pervigilium...
Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck van Ackersdijck, 1654.
A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd lyrics with fourth-century Virgilian verses.
£350
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SCALVO, Bartolomeo.
Rosariae preces ad gloriosam Dei genitricem Mariam Virginem meditationibus auctae ad vitae Christi eiusdemq[ue]...
Milan, Pacificus Pontius, 1569.
First edition of this Marian book of prayers for the use of Rosary societies, lavishly illustrated reusing late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century woodcuts.
£3500
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XENOPHON.
[Opera.]
[Basel, Michael Isingrin, 1545.]
A volume of Xenophon in Latin from the renowned library of Marcus Fugger (1529–1597).
£1850
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ZECEÑA, Basilio.
Oracion pronunciada en la santa iglesia catedral en el XXX aniversario de la Independencia … Se imprime de...
[Guatemala], imprenta de La Paz, 1851.
A pair of contemporary works commemorating the creation of modern Guatemala and El Salvador, one of which is unrecorded.
£450
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LUCIAN of Samosata; Étienne MOQUOT, editor.
Luciani Samosatensis dialogi selecti. Cum nova versione et notis. Ab uno e...
Lyons, Claude Obert, 1636.
Uncommon parallel Greek and Latin edition of selected dialogues by the second-century satirist Lucian, edited by the French Jesuit Étienne Moquot (1570–1625?) for use in Jesuit schools.
£375
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FREEMAN, Arthur.
Historical Forgery in Romanophobe Britain: Robert Ware’s Irish Fictions revisited.
London, 2021.
A new and particular account of the anti-Catholic and anti-separatist forgeries of Robert Ware, the seventeenth-century Irish antiquary, who has been called ‘the most audacious fabricator of historical documents who ever lived’. Ware’s formidable output of lively if malicious fictions has...
£20
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ADDAMS, Jane.
Twenty Years at Hull House with autobiographical Notes.
New York, Macmillan, 1910.
First edition, second printing (issued in the same month and year as the first) of Jane Addams’s bestselling autobiography and account of Hull House, Chicago’s first settlement house for immigrants and the poor (the second in the United States), our copy with two autograph letters from...
£650
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[ANGLO-SOVIET DIPLOMACY.]
Papers regarding the Anglo-Soviet Negotiations 1939. Presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign...
London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1939.
A proof copy, complete with typed errata attached, of this collection of ninety-five papers relating to the negotiations between the Soviet and British governments between March and December 1939.
£750
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BACON, Francis.
Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, operum moralium et civilium tomus … cura...
London, Edward Griffin [and John Haviland] for Richard Whitaker [and John Norton], 1638.
First edition, first issue, a copy from the celebrated Albani library: tangible witness to the early and fecund reception of Bacon’s thought in the circles of Galilean science in Italy.
£3500
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BACON, Francis.
Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica, civilia, et theologica, nunc primum edita. Cura & fide Guilielmi Rawley...
London, R. Daniel, impensis Octaviani Pulleyn, 1658.
First edition, second issue of this collection of the philosophical, political, and theological writings of Bacon, including numerous essays previously unpublished, and the first appearance in Latin of a biographical sketch of the philosopher by William Rawley (c. 1588–1667), Bacon’s literary...
£1250
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[BANK OF SCOTLAND.]
Act of Parliament for erecting a Bank in Scotland. Edinburgh, July 17 1695.
Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1695.
Very rare edition of the Act of Parliament establishing Scotland’s first and oldest bank, founded just one year after the Bank of England.
£650
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MARKHAM, Sheila.
A second Book of Booksellers: Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade, with an Introduction by Nicolas Barker.
London, 2014.
First edition, limited to five hundred copies, of the second collection of Markham’s interviews with antiquarian booksellers.
£35
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MARKHAM, Sheila.
A second Book of Booksellers: Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade, with an Introduction by Nicolas Barker.
London, 2007.
First paperback edition of the first collection of Markham’s interviews with antiquarian booksellers.
£20
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BOTTO, Giuseppe Domenico.
Observations microscopiques sur les mouvements des globules végétaux suspendus dans un menstrue.
[Turin], Imprimerie Royale, [1840].
An extremely rare offprint from the Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino on Brownian Movement and a contribution to the ‘heated controversy with the best known botanists of the world [started by the] discovery that made [Amici] famous ... that of the fertilization of phanerogams, particularly...
£675
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[BENDISCIOLI, Faustino.]
Quadro ossia saggio epilogato del Sistema di liberta’ proclamato dai Francesi.
Milan, Stamperia [dei Patrioti d’Italia] di Strada Nuova, [1799].
An impassioned tract attacking the claims of a new life of liberty promoted in Europe after the French Revolution, very rarely to be found in any of the three editions published in the same year.
£200
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ARCHIMEDES.
Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα, απαντα … Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, multis iam seculis desiderata...
Basel, Johannes Herwagen, [(colophon): March] 1544.
Editio princeps of the works of Archimedes, ‘the greatest mathematician and engineer of antiquity’ (PMM). Prior to this edition only a small tract in Latin translation, published in 1503, and a partial translation by Tartaglia, published in 1543, had appeared.
£45000
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WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.
An Historical and moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution; and the Effect it has produced...
London, J. Johnson, 1794.
First edition of Wollstonecraft’s eloquent analysis of the causes of the French Revolution, written as an antidote to Burke’s Reflections, our copy with manuscript notes by William Michael Rossetti. The work was never completed before Wollstonecraft’s death in 1797, though the first...
£7250
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[CARTHUSIANS. GUIGO DE CASTRO, compiler.]
Repertorium statutoru[m] ordinis cartusiensis per ordinem alphabeti.
Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1510.
First printed edition of the Statutes of the Carthusian Order, printed at the expense of the editor, Gregor Reisch (c. 1467–1525), author of the Margarita philosophica, for distribution to members of the Order only.
£7500
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[CHOIRBOOK.]
Large historiated initial ‘I’.
Italy (Umbria), c. 1300.
A very elegant initial in a style characteristic of Umbrian illumination of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It can be compared to the oeuvres of the First Master of the Gubbio Choir Books and the Master of the Deruta-Salerno Missals, the latter named after two Missals made...
£4500