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PRIOR, Matthew.
Poems on several Occasions.
London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John Barber, 1718.
First edition, a subscriber’s copy on large paper, of one of the most imposing volumes of verse of the eighteenth century, in a strictly contemporary binding, with endleaves on the same paper stock as the text, our copy in a strictly contemporary binding and presented to the Scottish poet and songwriter...
£5000
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[RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas, Abbé;] Johann Adam HILLER, translator.
Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter französischer,...
Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.
First edition in German of this collection of amusing literary, philosophical and historical anecdotes on French men and women of letters from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth, translated by the composer and conductor Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804), one of Bach’s successors as Cantor in...
£250
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[ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]
Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum, ex scriptis societati regiae scientiarum...
Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.
First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea berolinensia, the scientific periodical of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences, comprising articles on literature, mathematics, and mechanics.
£575
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SASSOON, Siegfried; Paul NASH, illustrator.
Nativity.
London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927.
First edition of this striking collaboration between Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) and Paul Nash (1889–1946).
£175
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SBRUGLIO, Riccardo.
Richardi Sbrulii equitis Foroiuliani Cesareiq[ue] poete ad magnificu[m] atq[ue] illustrem Maximilianu[m]...
[(Colophon:) Augsburg, Hans von Erfurt, 1519.]
First edition, very rare, of these neo-Latin poems by Sbruglio (c. 1480 – after 1525), whose work was esteemed by Erasmus and Pirckheimer, published in the year that Charles V became Holy Roman Emperor and addressed to his personal secretary.
£1800
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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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TASSO, Torquato.
Aminta; Favola boscareccia …
Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1753.
First Foulis Press edition of Tasso’s famous pastoral verse play of 1573, an attractive production with plates from a miniature French edition by the French artist Sebastien le Clerc, acquired by Robert Foulis on his European travels.
£125
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[WAX MODELS.] Gaetano PECCI.
Broadside advertising an itinerant show of wax models. [Incipit:] ‘L’Artista Gaetano Pecci,...
[Venice], Casali stampatore, [c. 1815].
A seemingly unrecorded broadside advertising the Venice dates of a touring show of life-sized wax models of the Nativity, notable politicians and philosophers, and anatomical figures by the Milanese wax sculptor Gaetano Pecci, as well as an (apparently living) two-headed boy.
£500
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WIELAND, Christoph Martin; William SOTHEBY, translator.
Oberon, a Poem ...
London, Cadell and Davies, Edwards, Faulder, and Hatchard, 1798.
First octavo edition of Sotheby’s (1757–1833) celebrated translation of Wieland’s (1733–1813) German epic, Oberon, in part based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, instrumental in popularising Wieland’s works in England.
£500
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[WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.] Ludwig HÄNSEL.
Two autograph postcards to Hermann Hänsel.
Vienna, 31 December 1933 and July 1938.
Two autograph postcards from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s close friend, the educator Ludwig Hänsel (1886–1959) to his son, Hermann Hänsel, with a Christmas card from Wittgenstein’s sister, Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, testament to the intimate and long-lasting connection between the two families....
£650
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ZAPPI, Giambattista; Faustina MARATTI.
Rime di Giambattista Felice Zappi e di Faustina Maratti sua consorte.
Nice, Société typographique, 1781.
Uncommon Nice printing of the collected poetry of one of the most prominent literary couples of early eighteenth-century Rome, Faustina Maratti (1679–1745) and her husband Giambattista Zappi (1667–1719).
£200
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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius.
De civitate Dei.
Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 2 October 1475.
A tall copy with some deckle edges of the only Jenson edition of the City of God, Augustine’s influential treatise written in the wake of the Sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410. Augustine sought to justify why a Christian state, with the support of God, could be defeated in this way;...
£24000
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[ALMANACK.]
Revill’s illustrated Pocket Keepsake and Book of Christmas Amusements, for 1884. Contains:– Almanack for 1884,...
[London,] Simpkins for M. E. Revill, [1884].
An unrecorded Christmas gift book, charmingly illustrated, printed for the Marylebone wine-merchant M. E. Revill at the Turner’s Arms.
£225
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[BOOKPLATE.]
Design for an ex libris for Cortlandt Field Bishop, by Boissy[?].
c. 1910?
The aviator, traveller, and book collector Cortlandt F. Bishop (1870–1935) bought America’s top auction house, American Art Association, in 1923, later merging it with Anderson Galleries – after his death it became Parke-Bernet, bought by Sotheby’s in 1964. Bishop was an avid collector, buying...
£600
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[CATECHISM.]
Catechismus, das ist Christliche Erklärung der Sechs haupt Stücke Christlicher Lehre, sampt der Hauss-Taffel, und...
[Strasbourg,] Johann Heinrich Heitz, 1751.
Seemingly unrecorded editions of two German catechistical works aimed at children in Strasbourg, in small format suited to the pocket, and in an attractive local contemporary binding.
£450
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CUJAS, Jacques.
Iacobi Cuiacii celeberrimi I. C. recitationes in II. et IV. libros Decretalium. Nunc primum in lucem editae.
Speyer, Bernhard Albin, 1594.
First edition of these commentaries on the Decretals of Gregory IX by the famous French jurist Jacques Cujas (1522–1590), printed in Speyer and bound in doeskin.
£750
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Mariana Pineda. Romance popular en tres estampas.
Madrid, La Farsa, 1928.
First edition of Lorca’s first published play, Mariana Pineda, ‘about the Granadine heroine Mariana Pineda, who had been executed in 1831 at the age of twenty-seven by the repressive regime of Ferdinand VII, on the charge of having embroidered a flag for the town’s liberal conspirators.
£450
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[HIGHWAYMEN.]
Processo formato contro due famosissimi banditi Giacomo Legorino, e Battista Scorlino, con suoi seguaci, quali furono...
Milan, Pietro Francesco Malatesta, [1744].
Seemingly unrecorded printing of the trials of two sixteenth-century Italian highwaymen and their gang, whose campaign of terror in Milan lasted eight years.
£500
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JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus, Lucius Annaeus FLORUS, and Sextus RUFUS.
Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattuor & triginta...
Paris, Jean Petit [and Jean Marchant], [1509].
A collection of abbreviated Roman histories, edited by Marcantonio Sabellico, with two different woodcuts depicting a scholar in a study with books and writing implements.
£1850
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[MOREAN WAR.]
Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under the Conduct of Capt. General Morosini, General Coningsmark,...
London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.
First edition of an important account of the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War, which had begun in 1684, in the form of diplomatic letters from the Venetian (and Hanoverian) forces under the command of Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice.
£2500