DREYER, Georges, Lieutenant Colonel, R.A.M.C.

A Simple Procedure for Testing the Effects of ‘Oxygen Want’ on Flying Men.

[?London: Air Medical Research Committee], [1918].

First edition. Pathologist Georges Dreyer (1873-1934), born into a Danish Navy family, studied natural sciences in Denmark, Germany and England with a ‘passionate precision of technique and a loathing of slipshod thought [that] characterized all his work’; was appointed to the chair of pathology...

£0

PEACOCK, Thomas Love.

Rhododaphne: or the Thessalian Spell. A Poem.

London, T. Hookham, Jun., and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818.

First edition of Peacock’s last and most ambitious poem, inspired by his enthusiasm for Greek poetry in the company of Shelley. A mythological narrative set in ancient Thessaly, Rhododaphne tells the story of the shepherd boy Anthemion, in love with the mortal girl Calliroë, and of the...

£750

ZAPPI, Giambattista and Faustina.

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). First published after Zappi’s death in 1723, the collection consists of seventy-three...

£200

GUILLÉN, Jorge, and Reginald GIBBONS, translator.

Fuera del mundo. Translated by Reginald Gibbons.

Trenton, New Jersey, Eleutherian Printers, [1981].

First edition of the Spanish text and of the English translation by the poet Reginald Gibbons.

£550

[BENN, Anthony, father, and Charles Anthony BENN, son.]

NICHOLS W., MAYLAND, GROOM, J., photographers. Photographic...

Late 1850s–early 1900s.

A charming collection of photographs and newspaper cuttings spanning some fifty years, compiled by a father and son during their Cambridge days, including a letter of thanks from Trinity Hall to the son, Charles Anthony Benn, for his endowment to the college, which now funds the Benn Bursary.

£1200

CHALKHILL, John.

Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral History in smooth and easie Verse. Written long since by John Chalkhill, Esq;...

London, Printed for Benj. Tooke … 1683.

First edition of Chalkhill’s unfinished pastoral poem, with the corrected state of the title, designating the author as ‘an acquaintant and friend of Edmund [originally ‘Edward’] Spencer’.

£1850

CHAMBERLAYNE, William.

Pharonnida: a heroick Poem …

London, Printed for Robert Clavell … 1659.

First edition of the physician-poet William Chamberlayne’s best-known work, a 14,000-line poem in heroic couplets blending Ariosto, Tasso, and Greek romances.

£2500

DONI, Antonio Francesco.

Disegno … partito in piu ragionamenti, ne quali si tratta della scoltura e pittura; de colori, de getti,...

Venice, Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1549.

First edition of an important art-theoretical text by the polyglot scholar Anton Francesco Doni (1513–1574) on the Renaissance concept of disegno in contemporary sculpture and painting, a notable source text for scholars of Michelangelo and his lifelong rival, Baccio Bandinelli.

£1250

ERNST, Max.

Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments capitaux. Roman. Premier [– Dernier] cahier …

Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.

First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies on papier Navarre from a total edition of 816, of the most famous of Max Ernst’s Surrealist ‘collage novels’, composed entirely of recomposed images drawn from illustrations to nineteenth-century novels, encyclopaedias, scientific journals, and engravings...

£4500

GOLDONI, Carlo.

Scelta di alcune commedie. Per uso de’ dilettanti della lingua italiana. Prima edizione italiana.

Livorno, Assunto Barbani, 1816.

First edition printed in Italy of a collection of ten comedies by Goldoni, selected for their lack of complicated syntax and lack of Venetian dialect and idioms, published in Livorno for the benefit of the English community.

£175