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KECHT, Johann Sigismund.
Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten und vorzüglich auf Weinbergen … dritte, vermehrte, und...
Berlin, [Trowitzsch and Son for] the author, 1823.
Third, expanded edition (first 1813) of J.S. Kecht’s influential treatise describing his innovative methods of pruning grapevines to maximise harvest, first developed in his garden in Berlin and later praised by Goethe.
£450
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[LILY, William.]
A short introduction of grammar compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those that intend to attain...
London, S. Buckley and T. Longman, 1738.
Two beautifully printed eighteenth-century Latin grammars ascribed to the great grammarian and schoolmaster William Lily (1468?–1522/1523).
£550
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[LORD LEYCESTER HOSPITAL, WARWICK.]
Account of the Charity of Leicester’s Hospital. Its Foundation & Endowment, Government, Former...
Warwick, mid-nineteenth century.
A manuscript copy of the sixteenth-century statues of the Lord Leycester Hospital, an almshouse founded by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, for impoverished or ageing former soldiers wounded in service.
£350
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MILLER, Philip.
The Gardeners Kalendar, directing what works are necessary to be performed every month in the kitchen, fruit, and...
The Fourteenth Edition. London, John Rivington, H. Woodfall, A. Millar, J. Whiston and B. White, G. Hawkins, J. Hinton, R. Baldwin, L. Hawes...
A very attractive copy of the most popular work of Philip Miller (1691−1771), the foremost British gardener of the eighteenth century, with five folding plates of botanical illustrations.
£165
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AZAÏS, Gabriel, and Charles LABOR.
Illustrated manuscript volume of poetry, comprising ‘Vingt-six janvier 1836’ by...
Béziers, not before 1836.
A charming presentation volume, with French poems by the Occitan scholars Azaïs (1805–1888) and Labor (1813–1900), and fine vignette sketches.
£1750
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BLANCHON, Jacques.
Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum Beneventanum abbatem Selestensem defensionum liber.
Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.
First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century Lyonnese Neoplatonism, an elegantly printed de Tournes edition.
£950
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[ALMANACK.]
The royal Kalendar; or complete and correct annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year...
London, John Debrett et al., [1792].
An attractive volume containing these two contrasting English almanacks from the time of the French Revolution, bound one within the other with splendid gilt brocade pocket-endpapers by the renowned Nuremberg papermaker Paul Reimund (d. 1815).
£1200
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[BARBERS.]
Statuts des maitres barbiers-perruquiers, baigneurs-étuvistes, royaux et héréditaires de la ville de Marseille, confirmés...
Marseille, Antoine Favet, 1777.
Very rare collection of statutes, regulations, and decrees governing the community of master barbers, wigmakers, and bathhouse workers, both men and women, of Marseille, with annotations referencing female guild members.
£1250
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[CHINA.]
A collection of 46 Chinese watercolour miniatures on pith.
[Canton?, c. 1870].
A series of delicate portraits – the colours beautifully preserved – of a wide range of figures from late-Qing China. The persons portrayed include tradesmen and -women, labourers, dignitaries, scholars, actors, soldiers, figures in ceremonial dress, monks, musicians, and gentlefolk attended by servants...
£1850
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[DEFOE, Daniel.]
A Letter to Dissenters.
London, Printed for John Morphew … 1713.
First edition, the state with the final page misnumbered. This tract is an admonition to Defoe’s fellow Dissenters, ‘saying that they enjoy great privileges at present, the Queen having undertaken to maintain the Toleration Act and even having for long resisted the Act against Occasional Conformity....
£600
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[EMPRESS DOWAGER and DALAI LAMA.]
Photographs of religious traditions in Peking.
Beijing, c. 1908.
A record of religious cultures and traditions with rare images of the Dalai Lama’s visit to Beijing and the preparation for the Empress Dowager Cixi’s funeral procession, in 1908.
£4500
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PHAEDRUS et al.
Phaedri fabulae. L. Annaei Senecae, ac Publii Syri sententiae.
Orléans, Couret de Villeneuve, 1773.
An attractive edition of Phaedrus’ fables with the sententiae of Publilius Syrus and Seneca the Younger, printed in small type, in an attractive contemporary binding.
£250
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[MICROSCOPY – RABIQUEAU, Charles.]
Manifeste littéraire, servant de supplément aux journaux sur le livre du Microscope Moderne,...
Geneva and Paris, the author and Demonville, 1781.
Only edition of this prospectus-cum-supplement to Le Microscope Moderne, an enthusiastic work promoting the use of microscopes by the popular scientist Charles Rabiqueau.
£250
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[TAIWAN.]
中華民國四十六年國慶閱兵大典集影 Album of the Grand Review of the National Day of the Republic of China...
[Taiwan, 1957.]
A fine commemorative album documenting the military alliance between the United States and the Kuomintang/Republic of China, apparently unrecorded and made for presentation to a high-ranking dignitary at a tense time for both Cross-Strait and US–Taiwan relations.
£1500
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DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.
Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um] artium et theologie doctoris in divi Thome de Aq[ui]no co[m]mentaria...
Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs of Ottaviano Scoto, 25 January 1514.
Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian commentaries. The first, by the Dominican philosopher Dominic of Flanders (c. 1425–1479), analyses two works by Thomas Aquinas: his commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics (on the nature of scientific axioms), and his De fallaciis...
£3000
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[SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]
Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of Waverley,” &c. … In three Volumes … Second Edition.
Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Archibald Constable & Co., and London, Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 1820.
Stated second edition but in fact a third issue of the first, published on 15 January; the first issue, published on 20 December the previous year, is similarly dated 1820.
£375
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MILNE, A. A.; E. H. SHEPARD, illustrator.
The House at Pooh Corner.
London, Methuen & Co., 1928.
First edition, first impression, of A. A. Milne’s classic final collection of tales about Winnie the Pooh and friends, and the first introduction of Tigger.
£650
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KAVAN, Anna & K.T. BLUTH.
The Horse’s Tale.
London, Gaberbocchus Press, [1949].
First edition of the novel written jointly by Kavan and her psychiatrist and friend Karl Theodor Bluth. Anna Kavan (1901-1968), born Helen Emily Woods, began her writing career in 1929, publishing a series of novels under her married name of Helen Ferguson. After the breakdown of her second marriage...
£850
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SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.
Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione accurati [cover: Recensuit et...
London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin, J. Booker, Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, G. & W. Whittaker, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Co., T. Cadell,...
First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’ edition of Silius Italicus’s epic poem on the Second Punic War, an attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s printed boards.
£100
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STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.
Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit et accuravit Joannes...
London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin, J. Booker, Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, G. & W. B. Whittaker, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Browne,...
An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s printed boards, of the ‘Regent’s Classics’ pocket edition of Statius.
£120