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[CHYDENIUS, Anders].
Källan til Rikets Wan-Magt.
Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1765.
First edition of ‘an all-out attack on the Swedish Navigation Act, known as the Produkt-plakatet. It prohibited foreign vessels from carrying other products to Sweden than those of their own country, and, as the original act of 1724 was extended in scope in 1726, they were also prohibited from engaging...
£175
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HEWIT, Alexander.
Poems on various Subjects, (English and Scotch,) …
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Printed for the Author, by W. Lochhead [1823].
First edition, scarce, possibly the dedication copy though subsequently defaced, of this collection of poems by ‘The Berwickshire Ploughman’.
£275
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CARLI, Paolo Francesco da Montecarlo.
La Svinatura di Barbigi Mezzabarba (Paol Francesco Carli da Montecarlo) resa a miglior lezione...
Campobasso, Stab. Tip. Del Progresso, 1878.
Rare edition of a satire by poet and abbot Paolo Francesco Carli (1652–1725) ridiculing the work of his nemesis, the Tuscan priest and schoolmaster Giovan Paolo Lucardesi, who made a tremendous theological blunder in a sonnet in which he describes Christ as ‘crucified and triune’, thus undermining...
£150
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[CHAPBOOK.]
Narrow Escape from the Punishment of Death, or, The Case of John Taylor and John Burton, who were left for Execution...
Collins … and Evans and Sons … [c. 1820–1826].
An uncommon early chapbook from the press of Augustus Applegath (1788–1871), interpreting the real-life stay of execution for two sheep-stealers as an act of divine providence.
£225
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[DEZALLIER D’ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph.]
Conchyliologie nouvelle et portative, ou collection de coquilles propres à orner les...
Paris, ‘chez Regnard, Imprimeur de l’Académie Françoise’, 1767.
First edition, uncommon, of this pocket guide to the then relatively new craze for collecting shells.
£400
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[NUPTIALIA.]
Per le Faustissime Nozze del Nobile Signor Bartolomeo Grillenzoni di Carpi colla Nobile Signora Contessa Luigia Giacobazzi...
Guastalla, ‘Nella Regio-Ducale Stamperia di Salvatore Costa e Comp.’, 1791.
Seemingly unrecorded, provincially printed sonnets written to mark the marriage of Bartolomeo Grillenzoni and Luigia Gioacobazzi, dedicated to the father of the groom.
£250
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PEROTTI, Niccolò.
In hoc volumine habentur haec. Cornucopiae, sive linguae latinae co[m]mentarii diligentissime recogniti, atq[ue]...
Toscolano, Alessandro Paganini, April 1522.
Handsome edition of the masterful Cornucopiae of the Italian humanist and grammarian Niccolò Perotti (1429–1480), printed in Alessandro Paganini’s distinctive small italic type.
£950
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Romancero gitano.
[Barcelona], Editorial Nuestro Pueblo, 1937.
Published seven months after Lorca’s death, this ‘Edición de homenaje popular’ has an introduction by Rafael Alberti.
£200
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GUERRERO, Lila.
Mis devociones.
Buenos Aires, Ediciones Aconcagua, 1965.
First and only edition of this collection of thirty-two poems, inscribed on the half-title ‘para Elsa y Luís Aragón mi olvidado corazon a la intemperie, recordandolos con cariño fervoroso / Lila’.
£400
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GÜIRALDES, Ricardo.
Raucho. Momentos de una junventud contemporánea.
Buenos Aires, Imprenta de Jose Tragant … 1917.
First edition, scarce, Güiraldes’s first novel, a tale of gaucho life inspired by his experiences as a boy on the family ranch; inscribed ‘Para Mlle Matilda Pomès / Ricardo Güiraldes’.
£2000
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BULGAKOV, Mikhail Afanasievich.
Sbornik rasskazov [Collection of Stories.]
New York, Chekhov Publishing House, 1952.
First edition in book form of a collection of four short stories: Rokovye iaitsa (‘The fatal eggs’), D’iavoliada (‘Diaboliad’), Dom no. 13 (‘House No. 13’), and Pokhozhdeniia Chichikova (‘The Adventures of Chichikov’).
£200
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MESHCHERSKII, Elim Petrovich.
Les boréales par B. de G. et le prince Elim Mestscherski …
Paris, Bellizard, Dufour et Cie, 1839.
First edition of a rare French anthology of Russian poets, including early translations of six poems by Pushkin.
£800
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BIEBL, Konstantin.
Zloděj z Bagdadu [The thief of Baghdad].
Prague, Hyperion, 1925.
First edition, a collection of fourteen poems.
£200
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NEZVAL, Vítězslav.
Veliký Orloj [The Great Clock].
Prague, Fr. Borový, 1949.
First edition, a lengthy collection of poems inscribed by Nezval to his sisters and dated 11/4/1949.
£450
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TOLSTOY, Aleksei Nikolaevich.
Lirika.
St Petersburg, [S.M. Muller,] 1907.
First edition, very rare: ‘the first published work of the official novelist of the Soviet Union’ (Kilgour).
£1000
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AURIGNAC, Sara Thérèse d’.
Cahier de dessins.
[Villiers-en-Bière], c. 1896.
An album of fin-de-siècle sketches by fifteen-year-old Sara Thérèse d’Aurignac, comprising humorous vignettes, imaginative anthropomorphism, dancing devils, and scenes of leisure.
£875
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BRADLEY Gertrude M., illustrator.
An archive of drawings for Just Forty Winks.
[c. 1897].
Fifty-eight delightful preliminary pencil sketches by the illustrator Gertrude M. Bradley for Just Forty Winks, Hendry’s tale for children, offered with a copy of the first and only edition, rare in the dustjacket.
£850
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CAPRA, Alessandro.
Geometria famigliare, et instruttione pratica d’Alessandro Capra architetto cremonese. Per gl’edificii nuovi,...
Cremona, Gio[vanni] Pietro Zanni, 1671.
An exceedingly rare extract from the first edition of the treatise of practical geometry by the architect and inventor Alessandro Capra (c. 1605–c. 1685), seemingly prepared and sold as a manual for surveyors and early estate agents.
£575
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CESAROTTI, Melchiorre, librettist.
Adria consolata festa teatrale nel solenne giorno natalizio della sacra R.I. Maesta’...
Venice, Vincenzo Rizzi, [1803].
First edition, very rare, of this libretto of Adria consolata, performed at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice on 12 February 1803 in honour of the birthday of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (1768–1835).
£275
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[FÉNELON, François de Salignac de La Mothe.]
The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses. In twenty-four books. With the...
London, M. Matthews; A. Bettesworth; T. Bickerton; W. and J. Innys; and J. Wilford, 1721.
First illustrated edition of the first English translation of Francois de Salignac de La Mothe-Fenelon’s speculum principis, with twenty-four engraved plates and a map of Telemachus’ journey through the Mediterranean.
£550