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SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.
De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum Persecutionibus.
[(Colophon:) Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 1509.]
A beautiful copy of the second edition of Simonetta’s principal work, containing an early and intriguing reference to the New World, our copy from the library of Christian VI (1699–1746), King of Denmark and Norway, under whom the kingdom expanded its possessions in the Americas.
£4500
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EUCLID.
Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ των θεωνος συνουσιων. Εις του αυτου του πρωτον,...
Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.
Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest mathematical textbook still in common use today’ (PMM), a work which ‘has exercised an influence upon the human mind greater than that of any other work except the Bible’ (DSB).
£18000
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SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin, et al.
A collection of offprints and papers from the library of Nándor Balázs.
1902–1961.
A remarkable collection of offprints and papers from the library of Hungarian-American physicist Nándor Balázs, laboratory assistant in the early 1950s to the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, comprising an exceptionally strong core of Schrödinger’s works – many of...
£50000
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[LINCOLN, Abraham, and Stephen DOUGLAS.]
Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in...
Columbus, Follet, Foster, and Company, 1860.
First edition, later issue, with a rule above the printer’s names on the copyright page and advertisements stating fifteen thousand copies sold, of the Lincoln–Douglas Senate campaign debates of 1858, ‘historically the most important series of American political debates’ (Howes), our...
£950
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RICH, Jeremiah.
The Whole Book of Psalms in Meter. According to the Art of Short-Writing …
London, ‘Printed and are sold by Samuel Botley Teacher of the said Art … and nowhere els.’, [1660?].
First edition, the issue with Samuel Botley in the imprint – an extremely attractive miniature Psalter in shorthand by a ‘skilled and celebrated’ practitioner whose work was known to Pepys (though Pepys himself employed a rival system).
£4250
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[PUBLICIUS, Jacobus.]
Ars memorativa.
[Cologne, Johann Guldenschaff, c. 1481.]
First illustrated edition of this treatise on the art of memory, with moving parts; the first general treatise on memory to be printed.
£18000
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[PSALTER. BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]
Psalterium.
[Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]
First edition of the Psalter with the commentary ascribed to the eleventh-century Bishop of Würzburg, printed at Würzburg by Georg Reyser and in a contemporary Würzburg monastic binding.
£24000
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POPPER, Karl.
A substantial archive of books and associated working papers from one of the most important philosophers of modernity;...
London et al., 1960s–1970s.
An extremely important archive witnessing the development of Karl Popper’s thought and showcasing his writing process, from the library of his former research assistant, Dr Ivan Slade.
£175000
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence.
Notes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army.
London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.
First edition, printed for private circulation only, of Florence Nightingale’s pioneering report on the sanitary condition of the British Army, resulting in a radical reform of the administration, sanitation, and nursing practices at large, this copy with remarkable nursing association.
£18000
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LIVY; [Pedro DE LA VEGA, translator].
Todas las decadas de Tito Livio paduano, que hasta al presente se hallaron y fueron...
[(Colophon:) Cologne [i.e. Antwerp?], Arnold Birckmann], 1553.
A handsome copy of Livy’s History in Spanish, containing the surviving books as well as Florus’s Epitome, in a contemporary Augsburg binding produced by a bindery in the service of the Fugger family.
£3500
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MÄNDL, Kaspar.
Christliche Sitten-Lehr und heylsame Anmuthungen gezogen auß Betrachtung deß bitteren Leyden und Sterbens unsers...
Augsburg, Matthias Wolff, 1737.
A superb example of Rococo decorative binding, exploiting all available materials – silks, metals, beads, papers, gilding, and leather – to extraordinary (if perhaps excessive) effect.
£6750
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MILL, James.
Elements of Political Economy … Second edition, revised and corrected.
London, [C. Baldwin] for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824.
Second edition of ‘Mill’s masterpiece’ (Palgrave), extensively revised with alterations ‘too numerous to be specified’, our copy with a presentation inscription to Mill’s former colleague at the East India Company, Thomas Love Peacock, signed ‘his sincere Friend The Author’.
£1250
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NEWTON, Isaac.
Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions, and Colours of Light. Also two treatises of...
London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, printers to the Royal Society, 1704.
First edition of Newton’s Opticks, ‘which did for light what his Principia had done for gravitation, namely, placed it on a scientific basis’, and ‘expounds Newton’s corpuscular or emission theory of light, and first contains his important optical discoveries in a collected...
£70000
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[NEW YORK.]
Notarial instrument attesting to the residence of two French immigrants in New York.
New York, 27 July 1797.
An interesting notarial document recording the immigration of two members of the French minor nobility to America during the French Revolution and Directory.
£850
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HENRICUS DE HERP.
Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.
[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10 September 1474.]
First edition of this collection of sermons based on the Ten Commandments, devised for both confessors and preachers, printed by Peter Schoeffer, Gutenberg’s assistant and, after Gutenberg himself, ‘the most influential individual in the early history of the printed word’ (White, p. xi).
£24000
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[HYMNAL.]
Neu-vermehrt- und vollständiges Gesang-Buch, worinnen sowohl die Psalmen Davids, nach D. Ambrosii Lobwassers, Uebersetzung...
[Likely Swabia, for] Philadelphia, Ernst Ludwig Baisch, 1774.
First and only edition thus of this German hymnal, issued in Philadelphia by Ernst Ludwig Baisch under his own imprint but printed in Germany, bound by an itinerant German Pennsylvanian binder with printed waste from Charles Cist’s Americanische Stadt und Land Calender for 1797, with inscriptions...
£3500
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[ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]
Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum in septem libros, solerti nuper repurgatum cura M.D.XXI. Ανθολογια...
[(Colophon:) Venice, in the house of Aldus and Andrea Torresano, January 1521.]
Second Aldine edition of the earliest known anthology in Greek.
£2000
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[BIBLE.]
Τα Βιβλια, τουτεστιν, η Θεια Γραφη της Παλαιας τε και Καινης Διαθηκης...
Moscow, the Holy Synod Press for the Russian Bible Society, 1821.
First edition printed in Russia of the Septuagint and Greek New Testament, published likely with political motives in the year of the Greek Revolution.
£1500
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GARCIA, Gregorio.
Origen de los Indios de el nuevo mundo, e Indias Occidentales, averiguado con discurso de opiniones por el padre...
Madrid, Francisco Martinez Abad, 1729.
Second enlarged edition (first 1607) of an extraordinary work on the origin of the Americans by the Spanish Dominican missionary Gregorio Garcia (c. 1556–1627), ‘a work of vast erudition’ (Sabin).
£1200
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FLORUS, L. Annaeus; Lucius AMPELIUS; Claude SAUMAISE, editor.
[Rerum romanarum libri IV and Epitome historiae...
Leiden, Elzevir, 1638.
The attractive Elzevir edition of Florus’ Roman history, containing the editio princeps of Ampelius’ history, in a handsome English Restoration binding with highly unusual edge decoration.
£650