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GERARDE, John; Thomas JOHNSON, editor.
The Herball or general Historie of Plantes … very much enlarged and amended …
London, Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1633.
Second edition of Gerard’s Herball, edited and expanded by Thomas Johnson, with an extensive new set of Plantin woodcuts and a hand-coloured engraved title by John Payne.
£3250
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BREREWOOD, Edward.
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages, and Religions through the cheife Parts of the World …
London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press] for John Bill, 1614.
First edition. Brerewood, professor of astronomy at Gresham College, was a scholar in many fields who published nothing in his own lifetime (he died in 1613). Enquiries, seen through the press by a nephew, explores the spread of ancient, eastern, and modern languages, discusses the...
£3000
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BORBONI, Domenico.
Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi architecti, et pictoris Bononiensis.
[Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano Veneto’, [c. 1670?].
Only known edition of this very rare collection of superb architectural plates by the Bolognese architect and painter Domenico Borboni, published by Giovanni Antonio Remondini, our copy used as a draughtsman’s pattern book.
£3750
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[ANON.]
Le moine galant, ou la vie de Don F… Bernardin, ecrite par lui-même. [S.l., s.n.,] 1756.
[s.n.,] 1756.
Scarce first edition of this satirical ‘autobiography’ of a pleasure-driven law student-turned-monk, replete with amorous adventures.
£450
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APPIA, Béatrice.
A fine collection of manuscript and typescript correspondence and humorous drawings, sent to her lover Jean Carteret,...
Paris, 1934–6.
An extraordinary series of love letters, by turns passionate, mocking, and lyrical, with copious illustration, sent by the Swiss-born French artist Béatrice Appia (1899–1998), best known for her illustrated children’s books, to the philosopher and astrologer Jean Carteret (1906–1980), here...
£5000
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BARBARO, Francesco.
De re uxoria libri duo, ut venustate sermonis praeclari, ita & praeceptis optimis & exemplis uberrimis ex...
Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1639.
An attractive later edition of this famous treatise on marriage by the eminent Venetian humanist and politician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454), arguing that the nobility, intellect, and virtue of brides-to-be are more significant than beauty or dowry.
£275
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CASANOVA, Giacomo.
Казанова. Мемуары [Kazanova. Memuary ‘Casanova. Memoirs’] … St Petersburg, V.I. Gubinsky, 1887.
[Memuary ‘Casanova. Memoirs’] … St Petersburg, V.I. Gubinsky, 1887.
Very rare first substantial Russian translation of Casanova’s famous Histoire de ma vie, preceded only by short extracts published in periodicals.
£2750
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[COURTESAN.]
Les confessions d’une courtisane devenue philosophe.
‘London’ and Brussels, Le Francq, 1784.
First edition (another appeared in the same year with a 'Londres et se trouve à Paris' imprint) of this anonymous novel describing the ascent (or perhaps descent) of a courtesan into the world of the philosophe.
£850
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[DICKSON, William, photographer.]
Ambrotype of two young men holding hands.
[Glasgow, 1860s.]
A very attractive ambrotype double portrait showing two seated young men holding hands, with subtle hand-tinting to their faces and hands.
£450
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[HABINGTON, William.]
Castara … the second Edition. Corrected and augmented.
London, Printed by B.A. & T.F. for Will: Cooke, 1635.
Second edition, adding to the contents of the first edition (1634) a commendatory poem that reveals Habington’s identity; a ‘second part’ with twenty-six new poems; and three prose characters: ‘A Mistris’ and ‘A Wife’ to introduce the two parts, and ‘A Friend’ to introduce the section...
£3500
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[KRÜDENER, Barbara Juliane de Vietinghoff, Freifrau von.]
Valérie, ou Lettres de Gustave de Linar à Ernest de G… Tome premier...
Paris, Henrichs, 1804.
Rare first edition of Valérie, the famous semi-autobiographical Romantic novel by the Riga-born mystic and novelist Madame de Krüdener (1766–1824), whose influence as Tsar Alexander I’s spiritual adviser contributed directly to the formation of the Holy Alliance of 1815.
£400
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[LA ROCHE, Sophie von.]
Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim. Von einer Freundin derselben aus Original-Papieren und andern...
Leipzig, bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1771.
First edition of Sophie von La Roche’s (1730–1807) bestselling epistolary novel, a bestseller featuring kidnapping, travels from Germany to Scotland, and a false wedding ceremony, a direct forerunner to Goethe’s Werther.
£750
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[LE NOBLE, Pierre, and Eustache LE NOBLE (attributed).]
Les Amours d’Anne d’Austriche, Epouse de Louis 13. Avec le Cardinal...
‘A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1696’ [France, early eighteenth century].
An early manuscript copy of a salacious – and treasonous – history arguing that Louis XIV was the illegitimate child of Anne of Austria and Cardinal Richelieu, bound with four engravings.
£850
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MANLEY, Delarivier.
The Power of Love: in seven Novels viz. I. The fair Hypocrite. II. The Physician’s Stratagem. III. The...
London, Printed for John Barber … and John Morphew … 1720.
First edition, apparently a presentation copy, of Delarivier Manley’s last work of prose, a collection of seven amorous novellas partly derived from William Painter’s Palace of Pleasure (1566), ‘adding divers new Incidents’, and supplemented by several original compositions.
£2500
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MEREDITH, George.
Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads.
London, Chapman & Hall, 1862.
First edition of a daring and innovative Victorian collection of poems adapting the sonnet sequence tradition (though in poems of sixteen lines) to the emotional realities of a failed contemporary marriage, tracing the course of estrangement as love gives way to discord, jealousy, unhappiness, and...
£450
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[MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de, and Gaspar GIL POLO.]
The Troublesome and Hard Adventures in Love. Lively setting forth, the Feavers, the...
Alsop ... 1652 [but 1651].
The rare second edition of a text of 1594 known in a single imperfect copy (STC 153.3).
£7500
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MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.
Les secrets de la génération ou l’art de procréer à volonté des filles ou des garçons, de faire...
chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].
Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86) popular guide to the secrets of sex, (billed as the thirtieth edition of vol. I and the twelfth of vol. II).
£150
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[NUPTIALIA.]
Bartolomeo MOLAJONI. Alla neogama donzella Marianna Molajoni negli Sforza, Bartolomeo Molajoni germano dirigge il...
Viterbo, brothers Poggiarelli, 1811.
Seemingly unrecorded sonnet addressed to the newlywed Marianna Molajoni by her brother Bartolomeo and dedicated to the sottoprefetto of Viterbo, Giulio Zelli Pazzaglia.
£275
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[BREVIARY.]
Sarum Breviary, in Latin.
England, first quarter of fifteenth century.
A fragment of twenty-one leaves from a portable Sarum Breviary, with nineteenth-century Staffordshire provenance.
£4250
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[POSTCARDS.]
‘PSH’. Twenty-nine manuscript postcards.
London, 1912–c. 1920?.
Hand-drawn postcards providing a rare, personal, and comic snapshot into English humour and the lives of London lovers in the first quarter of the twentieth century.
£375