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BOETHIUS.
Boetius. De Consolatione philosophie, duplici cum commentario, 1506
£4,750
An attractive Paris blind-panelled binding on a rare edition of Boethius, with two copies listed in the BnF, but none at all in Britain, North America, or indeed worldwide, and no...
Quarto (196 × 134 mm), in two parts. Contemporary Paris blind-panelled calf, front panel with four saints, back panel with panels of floral designs, fabulous... Read more
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CAMUS, Albert.
Les Justes. [The Just Assasins.] 1950
£2,750
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "a Lierre Chavet, amicalement, Albert Camus".
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in red and black. Wrappers a little rubbed and spotted, spine rolled and tanned, contents browned as often. Read more
[CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.]
Vida, y Hechos del ingenioso caballero Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1777
£2,500
A pleasant reprint of the 1771 Ibarra edition.
4 volumes, octavo (174 × 117 mm). Contemporary sheep dyed in imitation of tree calf, red morocco labels, circular green morocco numbering-pieces, smooth spines... Read more
DURKHEIM, Emile.
De la Division du Travail Social. 1893
£2,500
First edition of the author's first major work and one of the founding texts in the field of sociology. The Division of Labour in Society was Durkheim's dissertation, which built on...
Octavo. Original blue-green wrappers printed in black. Housed in a green cloth folding case. Wrappers rubbed and marked with some dampstain, upper wrapper split from... Read more
DURKHEIM, Emile.
Les Regles de la Methode Sociologique. 1895
£2,000
First edition of the founding manifesto of sociology, which laid the ground-rules establishing it as a true science more akin to chemistry and biology than psychology or ethnography.
Octavo. Original blue-green wrappers printed in black. Housed in a grey cloth folding case. Wrappers rubbed and toned with some nicks and short closed tears, cracks... Read more
COMENIUS, Jan Amos.
Lexicon Atriale Latino-Latinum, 1647
£1,500
First edition of the Latin–Latin lexicon by Comenius, part of his complex educational project, issued concurrently with his Opera didactica omnia, also published in Amsterdam....
Small octavo (158 × 92 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, spine titled in manuscript at head, publication date (now faded) later added at foot. Vellum just splitting... Read more
PASTERNAK, Boris.
Doctor Zhivago. 1957
£850
First official Russian language edition of one of the most controversial literary works of the Soviet period, which earned Pasternak the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958.
Large octavo. Original pale green boards, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the dust jacket. Edges of boards a little faded, contents toned. An excellent... Read more
DESBRIÈRE, Édouard.
La Campagne Maritime de 1805. Trafalgar. 1907
£685
First edition. For his highly influential Campaign of Trafalgar, Julian Corbett relied heavily on Desbrière's "monumental work, … published under the direction of the...
Octavo (243 × 155 mm) Near contemporary red quarter morocco on marbled boards. 20 maps, charts and battle plans, 15 of them folding, diagrams and tables to the... Read more
FIGUIER, Louis.
Les Nouvelle Conquêtes de la Science. [c.1890]
£85
A handsomely bound copy.
Quarto. Contemporary red calf, two brown morocco labels, elaborate tooling to spine in compartments, raised bands, twin rule to boards with cornerpieces and crest to... Read more
