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ALTING, Jacob; Heinrich Jakob van BASHUYSEN, editor.
Compendium fundamentorum punctationis linguae sanctae. Sive grammaticae...
Hanau, Johann Georg Winsheimer ‘in Typographia Orientali’ for Johann Fernau, 1712
First and only edition, seemingly the only surviving copy, of this Hanau-printed abridgement of Alting’s Hebrew grammar (first published in 1654) by the German Hebraist Heinrich van Bashuysen, printed at Bashuysen’s own press for the use of his pupils at the local gymnasium.
£1250
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[ART EDUCATION.]
Der kleine Maler.
[Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]
A delightful suite of plates intended to teach children painting by copying hand-coloured exemplars.
£450
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ASH, John.
Sentiments on Education, collected from the best Writers; properly methodized, and interspersed with occasional Observations.
London, Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777.
First edition of this collection of quotations from various writers on education, interspersed with the opinions of the author, the grammarian, lexicographer, and Baptist minister John Ash.
£850
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[GEOGRAPHY.]
Primi principi di geografia ad uso de’ fanciulli.
[(Colophon:) Bergamo, Pietro Lancellotti, 1753].
Extremely rare second edition (first 1745) of this Bergamo-printed geographic catechism for young children.
£375
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HAMILTON, Elizabeth.
Letters on the elementary Principles of Education.
Bath, R. Cruttwell for G. and J. Robinson, 1801 [–1802].
Second edition, published in the same year of the first, of this epistolary exploration of how children learn, by the Scottish novelist and educationist Elizabeth Hamilton (1756 or 1758–1816).
£400
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HODSON, Thomas.
The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System of liberal Education … Embellished with twenty Copper-plates and...
London, H. D. Symonds, and Vernor and Hood, 1802.
Second edition, revised, of a voluminous catch-all schoolbook (first published 1800), by Thomas Hodson, of the Middle Temple.
£300
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LUCAS, John.
'Select and Original Pieces written at Mr Sigston’s Academy.' Queen Square, Leeds.
Leeds, 1816 [–1817].
A handsomely illustrated manuscript on a variety of themes, produced as weekly exercises in penmanship by a pupil at Sigston’s Methodist boarding school in Leeds.
£1375
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MORE, Hannah.
Strictures on the modern System of female Education. With a View of the Principles and Conduct prevalent among Women...
London, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1799.
Third edition, published in the same year of the first, of this hugely popular educational manual by the evangelical Bluestocking writer and philanthropist Hannah More (1745–1833).
£950
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[NURSERY SCHOOLS.]
Intorno alla fondazione ed allo stato attuale degli asili di carità per l’infanzia in Milano. Relazione letta...
Milan, C.G. Bianchi and company, 1837.
First and only edition, rare, of this report on the establishment and progress of nursery schools for the poor in Milan – both boys and girls – with the aim of serving the poorest and most populated districts of the city.
£400
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[OXFORD, University of.]
Parecbolae sive excerpta e corpore statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis. Accedunt articuli religionis...
Oxford, e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1771.
Later edition of this essential student guide to the University of Oxford’s statutes, this copy with the signed matriculation oath of Charles Davie, 1784, by which he agreed to the Thirty-nine Articles, the Oath of Supremacy, and the statutes and privileges of the University.
£250
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[PARKER, Richard Green; Junkichi KATAYAMA 片山 淳吉, editor.]
物理階梯 [Butsuri kaitei; 'A Guide to Physics'].
Gifu Prefecture, Ministry of Education, Mizunoesaru/Jinshin [i.e. 1872].
First edition, very rare, of Japan’s first elementary science textbook, a major catalyst for the introduction of Western physics after the Meiji Restoration.
£1750
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BEBEL, Heinrich.
In hoc libro contine[n]tur haec Bebeliana opuscula nova. Epistola ad cancellarium de laudibus et philosophia veterum...
Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, 1508.
First edition of a compendium of works by the noted Swabian humanist Heinrich Bebel (1472–1518), including his Facetiae, Proverbia Germanica, and selected verse.
£3500
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TERTULLIAN.
Opera … per Beatum Rhenanum Seletstadiensem e tenebris eruta, atque a situ pro virili vindicata, adiectis singulorum...
Basel, [(colophon:) Hieronymus] Froben [and Nikolaus Episcopius], March 1539.
Third Froben edition of Tertullian’s extant writings, studiously edited and re-revised by Beatus Rhenanus, with extensive annotations showing considerable engagement with the text by early readers seeking to contextualise Tertullian.
£1750
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SIMEONI, Gabriele.
Le III parti del campo de primi studii di Gabriel Symeoni Fiorentino.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Comin da Trino], 1546.
First edition of this early work by Simeoni, a wide-ranging compilation of juvenile poetry and prose dedicated to Cosimo de’ Medici, Duke of Florence.
£950
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PLINY the Younger.
Panegyricus Trajano Augusto dictus.
Paris, [Charles Crapelet for] Antoine-Augustin Renouard, [An IV] 1796.
An attractive edition of Pliny’s only surviving oration, a panegyric to Trajan, published by the book collector, bibliographer, and businessman-turned-printer Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765–1853).
£275
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PESENTI, Giovanni Paolo.
Pellegrinaggio di Gierusalemme fatto, e descritto per Gio. Paolo Pesenti.
Bergamo, Comin Ventura, 1615.
First edition of Pesenti’s account of his journey from Venice to Alexandria, across Syria to Jerusalem, and through the Egyptian desert before sailing home via Sicily.
£4500
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[MARIAN DEVOTION.]
Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin and Child.
[Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]
A delightful silk panel, embroidered over a printed template, most likely produced by nuns, depicting the Virgin and Child within a central medallion with elaborate floral borders.
£600
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NONIUS MARCELLUS.
De proprietate sermonum. Iam demum innumeris locis restitutus, multis locupletatus, ope vetustissimorum codicum,...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565.
First critical edition of this grammar and dictionary of Latin from the later Roman Empire, a significant witness to earlier texts now lost, from the extensive library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle.
£450
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MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.
Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]. Commentaria fidelissimi...
[(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello for] the heirs and partners of Ottaviano Scoto, 19 June 1520.]
A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century commentaries on Aristotle’s books on generation and corruption, composed at the University of Paris by Giles of Rome, Marsilius of Inghen, and Albert of Saxony, demonstrating the international nature of medieval scholarship.
£1500
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JONES, John Gale.
An Oration on the late General Washington, including a Retrospect of his Life, Character, and Conduct, from the...
Clark, William Dawson, and W. Limbird, 1825.
Scarce revised second edition, printed by subscription with a new preface, of this speech in praise of Washington by the English radical orator John Gale Jones (1769–1838).
£375