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PLINY the Younger, Gaius SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, and Julius OBSEQUENS.
C. Plinii Secundi Novocomensis Epistolarum...
[(Colophon:) Venice, in the house of Aldus and Andrea Torresano, June 1518.]
The second Aldine edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger, with marks of early German ownership and annotations.
£975
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POMPONIO LETO, Giulio.
In omnia quae quidem extant, P. Vergilii Maronis Opera, Commentarii, varia multarum rerum cognitione referti,...
Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1544].
Second edition of Leto’s influential commentary on all the works of Virgil, ‘the first to deal with all the works attributed to Virgil, and also the most extensive and complete, and therefore certainly the most important commentary written in the fifteenth century’ (Stok, p. 204).
£450
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RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator.
Some British Ballads.
London, Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919].
First trade edition, illustrated by Rackham, of these ballads sourced largely from Francis James Child’s English and Scottish Popular Ballads, our copy in a handsome Bayntun-Riviere binding.
£500
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SPILBERGEN, Joris van, and Jacob LE MAIRE.
Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum; quarum una Georgii a...
Leiden, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1619.
First Latin edition of one of the classic Dutch illustrated voyages, identical in format and illustration to the same publisher’s Dutch-language edition of the same year.
£20000
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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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CARY, John.
‘Cary’s New Pocket Plan of London, Westminster and Southwark; with all the adjacent Buildings in St. George’s...
London, ‘Printed for J. Cary, Engraver, Map & Printseller, No 181, Strand,’ 1 January 1800.
Cary’s folding pocket map of London, from Hyde Park and Chelsea in the West to Bethnal Green and Rotherhithe in the East, showing the development of London’s communications network.
£450
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[THAMES ESTUARY.]
Coloured chart of the Thames Estuary extending to Harwich and Ramsgate with map of the river from London to Gravesend.
London, Edward Stanford, 16 May 1927.
Attractive maps with plenty of accompanying information.
£75
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SANSON, Nicolas.
L’Asie en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes; et en divers traittés de geographie, et d’histoire. Là...
Paris, for the author, 1658.
Scarce second edition, featuring seventeen maps of Asia by the great French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, supplemented with his notes on Asiatic geography.
£2750
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LAET, Joannes de, editor.
De imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera commentarius e variis auctoribus congestus …
Leiden, ‘ex officina Elzeviriana’, 1631.
Pocket-sized Elzevir edition (one of two issued in the same year) of this work on India and the Mughal Empire compiled by the Dutch geographer Joannes de Laet (1581–1649), this copy, exceptionally, in its original drab boards.
£950
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[CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]
Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En forme des lettres familieres fait en M.DC.LXXXV...
Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.
Amsterdam edition, issued the same year as the first Paris edition, recounting a voyage to Siam by the prolific French writer, former cross-dresser, and Jesuit priest, the Abbé de Choisy.
£300
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[DELAMARCHE, Alexandre, cartographer; Bernard COUDERT, lithographer.]
‘Atlas’.
Paris, Legay, [c. 1889].
An attractive set of large educational jigsaw maps showing the world, Europe, and France, preserved in its original allegorical box.
£875
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CLÜVER, Philipp.
Introductio in universam geographiam tam veterem, quam novam …
Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck for Conrad Buno, 1686.
The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important geographical textbook of the early modern period, an introduction to global geography by the German antiquarian and geographical pioneer Philipp Clüver, enlarged and supplemented by the German geographer Johann Buno.
£2500
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[BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas].
Collection of maps from Prévost’s Histoire générale des voyages.
Paris, Didot, 1746-1789.
A collection of seventy-four maps taken from Antoine-François Prévost’s twenty-volume Histoire générale des voyages, the majority of them the work of the French cartographer, geographer and hydrographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin.
£2500
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REFUGE, Eustace de; Girolamo CANINI, translator.
Trattato della corte del Signor Refuge. Tradotto di Francese in questo...
Venice, Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1621.
Rare first edition in Italian of this treatise on courtly behaviour attributed to the French statesman Eustache de Refuge (1564–1617), a seventeenth-century bestseller combining Machiavelli with Castiglione, with folding letterpress flowcharts by the translator, Giuseppe Canini, who had also produced...
£1850
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CONDORCET,
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de. Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progres de l’espirit humain.
Paris, Agasse, L’an III [1795].
First edition of Condorcet’s main work, the summation of the Enlightenment belief in man’s perfectibility, the outline which provided humanity with a view of its own history as a narrative of progress and emancipation.
£1775
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[CERCEAU, Abbé.]
[Drop-head title:] La constitution vengée des inculpations des ennemis de la Révolution. Discours prononcé...
[Paris,] Lenoir & Leboucher, [1790].
One of two editions of this early Revolutionary pamphlet, very rare, defending the draft version of the Constitution of 1791 as consistent with Christianity.
£185
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POPE, William.
Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.
[Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr 24.th 1804’.
A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging to one William Pope, very well preserved in its original stationery binding and wrapper, with provincially printed arithmetic tables as endpapers.
£850
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EYRE, Henry.
A brief account of the Holt waters, containing one hundred and twelve eminent cures, perform’d by the use of the...
London, printed for J. Roberts, 1731.
First edition. The waters from Bath, Bristol and Holt, in Wiltshire, were the most popular English mineral waters of the eighteenth century, in no small part due to the activity of Henry Eyre, ‘Sworn Purveyor to Her Majesty [Queen Caroline, wife of George II] for all Mineral Waters’. Eyre ran a distribution...
£450
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TASSO, Torquato; Giovanni Francesco NEGRI, translator.
[Drop-head title:] Della tradottione della Gierusalemme liberata...
[Bologna, 1628.]
Rare first edition of Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata to be translated into dialect, here in facing Bolognese and Italian translation, its printing suspended midway through the thirteenth canto, likely by Cardinal Bernardino Spada, a friend of the translator and the dedicatee of the work.
£1500
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ATWOOD, Margaret.
The Handmaid’s Tale.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
First American edition of Atwood’s award-winning theocratic dystopia, preceded only by the Canadian edition.
£300