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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas PLAN Géométrique de Plusieurs Bayes situées au Detroit de Magellan, entre les Caps Rond et Forward.<br><br>1764
Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine.Over a 50 year career, he produced a large number of maps and charts. The accuracy of Bellin's charts ensured that they were in use for many years. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 56995
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas Carte de la Caroline et Georgie1757
A clear, crisp cartouche displaying the areas of Carolina and Georgia, with bordering states of Virginia and Louisiana towards the left and upper sides of the map. Title cartouche at the lower right. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 63640
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas CARTE DE LA TARTARIE OCCIDENTALE Pour servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages.1749
Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine.Over a 50 year career, he produced a large number of maps and charts. The accuracy of Bellin's charts ensured that they were in use for many years. Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 57503
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. 2me CARTE PARTICULIERE des Costes de NORMANDIE.1753
A most handsome sea chart of Normandy and the Channel Islands, showing the French coast from Granville to Pointe de la Percée. Title at lower right, rhumb lines, compass point, soundings at sea. Three scales of longitude marked - Tenerife, l'Isle de Fer and Paris. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 54430
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas CARTE DE L'EMPIRE DU MÉXIQUE Pour l'Histoire Générale des Voyages 17541754
Excellent map of early Mexico shows the City of Mexico on the lakes in the centre. Locates both the Gulf and Pacific coasts with harbors, capes & bays. Inland depicts lakes & mountains and major towns and settlements; Guadalaxara, Compostelle, Chiamedan, Guaxaco, Zacatula and Vera Cruz. Ornamental title cartouche with flower & scroll motifs to the lower... Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 58170
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[DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel.] TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques. Œuvres posthumes,Lausanne : 1787
First edition, published by Honoré Gabriel Mirabeau, son of Victor de Riquetti. The work was originally drawn up by Du Pont de Nemours in 1776 under the title Mémoire sur les municipalités after a draft left by Turgot. The Lettre which begins on page 99 was written by Du Pont de Nemours and the Observations (p. 113ff.) by Brissot de Warville. The... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 114588
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte Reduite de la Mer Mediterranee.c1760
A pleasing map of the complete Mediterranean Sea from Gibraltar to Cyprus, and northward to the Black Sea. Bellin names only major coastal towns and capes. Learn More£195.00Stock Code: 66846
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CASANOVA DI SEINGALT, Jacques. The Memoirs.[c.1920]
Limited edition, one of 500 sets, printed on Louvain laid paper. The text consists of Arthur Machen's translation, first published in 1894, to which has been added the chapters discovered by Arthur Symons, alongside a supplement and a bibliography. Casanova's memoirs were not published in their full form until 1960. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 122490
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CASANOVA DI SEINGALT, Jacques. The Memoirs.London and New York : 1928
A very handsome set of the memoirs of the great libertine, one of a stated edition of 330 unnumbered sets (other sets are known with an edition limitation of 660). The text uses the translation of the Welsh mystic and author Arthur Machen, first published in 1894, with an introductory essay by the pioneering sexologist Havelock Ellis, taken from his... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 138632
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte de l'Entree du Golfe de la Mer Rouge.c1750
Shows the area from the Bab el Mandeb to the island of Socotra, with inset maps of Moka and the Straits of Bab el Mandel, with soundings around Socotra and parts of the Arabian coast. The island of Socotra has been expertly pasted in to show its correct position Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 52815
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas CARTE DE LA MER DU SUD ou MER PACIFIQUE1760
Map of the coast of Baja California and part of the Mexican coast, including Acapulco, recording the route of the voyage of Admiral Anson.'whose four-year voyage around the world is one of the great tales of naval heroism. In September 1740 Anson set off across the Atlantic with six poorly manned, ill-equipped vessels to capture Spanish treasure ships... Learn More£195.00Stock Code: 53038
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Plan du Fort Hollandois de Sama nommé St. Sebastien.Paris : 1746
Map of the Dutch fortress of Sama or St. Sebastian, East of Sekondi in Ghana. Learn More£55.00Stock Code: 77715
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. La Guyane FrançoiseParis : 1750
Interesting map of the French and Dutch Guyanas. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information is coastal, and there is no real attempt to engrave anything of... Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 77827
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte du Détroit de le Maire.Paris : 1753
Map of the Strait of Mayor between the islands of Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados, the southernmost point of South America. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 77847
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte de la Partie Septentrionale du Bresil.<br><br>Paris : [c.1768?]
Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information is coastal, and there is no real attempt to engrave anything of note inland of the coastal areas. Over a 50-year... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 77887
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carta del Golfo di S. Lorenzo.Paris : 1758
An interesting map of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence from the Italian translation, with a very decorative cartouche. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 78232
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte du Golphe de St. Laurent.Paris : 1757
An interesting map of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, with a very decorative cartouche. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information is coastal, and there is no... Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 78233
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas Carte Réduite des côtes orientales de l'Amerique Septentrionale1788
Magnificent map showing the north east coast of North America. Covering the Gulf of St Lawrence in the north to New Jersey in the south. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine.Over a 50 year career, he produced a large number... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 55610
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. CARTE DE L'ISLE DE SAINTE LUCIE.1764
This map depicts the Caribbean island of St. Lucia or St. Lucie. It shows the island in some detail with references to its many towns, forts, and ports. Decorative title cartouche. This map was published in 1764 for Bellin's Le Petit Atlas Maritime.
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas VILLES DE LA PROVINCE DE CHENSI. SI-NGAN-FU Capitale. TCHOUANG LAN ou Chwang lan<br><br>1764
Interesting set of two local town plans in the province of Shanxi, China.
Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine.Over a 50 year career, he produced a large number of maps and charts. The accuracy of Bellin's charts... Learn More£120.00Stock Code: 57020
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte de l'Empire du Japon.1752
An attractive map with with the colouring emphasizing the different districts of Japan. The map is very similar to the map of the same name shown in Walter's Japan (cat81, p197) for Charlevoix's Histoire du Japon, but the ornamental cartouche is different, the map itself, and the area covered by the map is slightly smaller. Lutz Walter, p197. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 57128
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas [Chesapeake Bay] Karte von der Bay Chesapeack1703 - 1722
An attractive map of Chesapeake Bay and the surrounding parts of Virginia and Maryland, with Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the North. Title Cartouche at lower right. Learn More£360.00Stock Code: 63631
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas Karte von Carolina und Georgien1757
Crisp cartouche, displaying the areas of Carolina and Georgia, with the bordering states of Lousiana and Virginia to the left and upper corners. Title cartouche to the bottom right. Learn More£280.00Stock Code: 63641
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FUTRELLE, Jacques. The Thinking Machine.London : 1907
First UK edition, first impression of this collection of stories marking the second appearance of Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen after The Chase of the Golden Plate (1906), and the first in which in which the detective "was allowed full scope to perform his feats of mental wizardry" (Quayle). The Thinking Machine was first published in the US earlier the... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 104944
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TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques. The Life and Writings of Turgot, Comptroller-General of France 1774-6.New York : 1971
A reprint of the first American edition, published in 1895, of W. Walker Stephen's study of French economist, philosopher, and administrator Turgot. The first UK edition was published in the same year. It was reprinted as part of publisher Burt Franklin's Research & Source Works Series.
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BRISSOT, Jacques Pierre. J. P. Brissot, Deputy of Eure and Loire, to his Constituents, on the Situation of the National Convention;London : 1794 & 1789
First edition in English of Brissot's tract, first edition of Mémoires Secrets. Brissot, a key figure in the Girondist faction in the French Revolution, originally published this work in France in 1793, a few months before he was guillotined. Taking the form of an open letter his constituents, it warns of the "anarchism" of the Jacobin faction, and... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 125491
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CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, Jacques - WEGENER, Gerda (illus.) Une aventure d'amour a Venise.Paris : 1927
First edition thus, first printing, number 226 of 414 copies printed on velin d'arches paper, of a total print run of 500. The text is extracted from Casanova's memoirs describing his relationship with "M. M.", a nun from the convent at Murano. This edition is beautifully illustrated by Gerda Wegener, likely using her wife, Lili Elbe as a model.
Gerda... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 145168
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MIRÓ, Joan - DUPIN, Jacques, & Ariane Lelong-Mainaud. Joan Miró Catalogue Raisonné. Paintings.Paris : 1999-2004
First editions, first printings. A comprehensive raisonné covering all of Miró's oil paintings, acrylics and works in various media on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper and other hard supports. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 146932
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WOMEN'S EDUCATION - The Association for Promoting the Education of Women in Oxford. A run of twenty-three issues of its Report.Oxford : 1894-1919
A set of important reports published by the pioneering Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women (AEW), containing a mass of historical information relating to the state of women's education in Oxford at the height of the suffragette agitation. The earliest is dated 1894-95, the latest 1918-19; each spans from October of one year to the... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 124133
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TYSSOT DE PATOT, Simon. Voyages et avantures de Jaques Masse.Bourdeaux [i.e. The Hague] : 1710 [i.e. around 1714]
First edition of this early utopian novel, "the best-known of all the radical philosophical novels of the Early Enlightenment" and which "surpassed practically every other work of philosophical fiction of the age for notoriety" (Israel, pp. liii and lvi). The novel details a Frenchman shipwrecked off South Africa - the co-ordinates are given as 60E/44S,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 123204
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BIBLE; Latin, Vulgate. Bible, with prologues and the Interpretations of Hebrew Names, illuminated manuscript in Latin.[England, doubtless Oxford : mid 13th century]
PROVENANCE
(1) PROBABLY WRITTEN AND ILLUMINATED IN OXFORD, between c.1240 and c.1260, as suggested by the illumination, text, and layout.
(2) In use in England in the later 13th century when marginal notes, variant readings, etc. were added by more than one reader, one of whom noted below Nahum chapter 2 that the text differs greatly from... Learn More£97,500.00Stock Code: 144627
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MORRIS, William (contrib.), and others. The Quest.Birmingham : 1894-96
First editions, first impressions, each issue is one of 300 copies only with the first five issues numbered 172, and the sixth one numbered 171. The contributors include William Morris, Claude Napier-Clavering, E. A. Sonnenschein, and Arthur Dixon, among others. Complete sets, as here, of this profusely and superbly illustrated arts and crafts periodical... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 147861
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FREEMAN, Edward A. The History of The Norman Conquest of England, its Causes and its Results.Oxford : 1877-9
Third edition, revised. A particularly handsome set. A magisterial history which was to have a profound influence on the development of English historiography. "The longest of Freeman's works, the best remembered and the most influential was begun on 7 December 1865, when he was forty-two, at the height of his physical and mental powers. He wrote to... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 114578
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LE MERCIER DE LA RIVIERE, Pierre Paul. L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des Sociétés Politiques.London : 1767
First edition by "the ablest expositor of this i.e. physiocratic system" (McCulloch), written following Le Mercier's retirement from Parliament in 1759. Praised by Adam Smith and Diderot amongst others, L'Ordre naturel was, according to Palgrave, considered more highly than L'Esprit des loix by some of Le Mercier's contemporaries. The author argues... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 119925
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HOLBACH, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'; Abraham Gaultier. Pieces Philosophiques.[Amsterdam? : 1771
First collected edition of these three materialist texts. The first, Parite de la Vie & de la Mort by Abraham Gaultier, was first published in 1714, this being the second edition. Gaultier, like Bernard Mandeville and La Mettrie, was a physician turned philosopher; in the present treatise he offers an entirely materialist vision of the body and soul,... Learn More£1,350.00Stock Code: 128984
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BONNET, Victor. Questions économiques et financières à propos des crises.Paris : 1859
First edition of the financial publicist and editor's work on the role of currency reform in economic crises. Bonnet (1814-1889) "became a counsellor of state and a member of the Institute. He wrote in the Revue des Deux Mondes from 1860 to 1884, in favour of the monopoly of a bank of circulation, a single standard (gold), indirect taxation, and a reduction... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 114786
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LEVITZKY BINDING - LECONTE DE LISLE, Charles Marie René. Poèmes Antiques; Poèms Barbares; Poèmes Tragiques; Derniers Poèmes.Paris : [c.1900]
An attractively bound set of Leconte de Lisle's poetry, published as part of Lemerre's Petite Bibliotheque Libraire series. It consists of four works: Poèmes Antiques (first published in 1852); Poèms Barbares (1862 as Poésies barbares); Poèmes Tragiques (1884); and Derniers Poemes (1895). Georges Levitsky was a 20th-century Odessa-born binder in... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 123292
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BECKETT, Samuel, & Georges Duthuit. Proust; [and] Three Dialogues.London : 1965
Signed limited edition, number 28 of 100 copies signed by Beckett and specially bound. Proust, Beckett's epistemological and aesthetic manifesto, was first published in 1930. Three Dialogues, a series of letters between Beckett and Duthuit concerning contemporary art, was first published in the literary journal transition in 1949. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 123408
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HURD, Richard. Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel.London : 1764
First edition; a second and a Dublin edition followed the same year. The work consists of a series of imaginary conversations, in which the literary-minded bishop of Worcester emulates the style and views of Shaftesbury on foreign and Locke on domestic education, following the method of his popular Moral and Political Dialogues (1759). Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 124042
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BIGOT, Georges. Au Japon: Bain de Famille. Moeurs domestiques.[No place] : c. 1900
An expressive and archetypal cartoon by the celebrated French artist Georges Bigot, heightened in blue crayon, signed lower left and numbered 466 lower right. The domestic bathhouse scene, which offers a touchingly documented snapshot of family life in Meiji Japan, is annotated top right for publication with "Ind au dos" indications to reverse, and... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 123122
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PARIS-DUVERNEY, Joseph, & François-Michel-Chrétien Deschamps. Examen du livre intitulé réflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce.The Hague : 1740
First edition. Pâris-Duverney and Deschamps refute Dutot's Réflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce (1738) - a favourable consideration of John Law's paper currency system. Pâris-Duverney (the third of the four brothers Pâris, whose financial plans had been accepted under the Regency in 1716) had fallen into disgrace with the rise of... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 93440
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MONCADA, Sancho de. Restauracion politica de España, primera parte, de eos publicos Al rey Don Filipe Tercero nuestro señor.Madrid : 1619
Very rare first edition; each discourse with a special title-page and continuous pagination and signatures, except for the seventh (in two parts) and eighth which have separate pagination and signatures. Moncada's importance as a political economist was assured by this work, which was probably presented to Philip III in 1618. In it, Moncada, who was... Learn More£35,000.00Stock Code: 111853
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GALIANI, Ferdinando. Dialogues sur le Commerce des Bleds.London [i.e. Paris?], : 1770
First edition of the work that established Galiani's reputation as an economist, a bold attack on the physiocrats and a virulent critique of the royal edict of 1764 liberalising the trade in grain. Galiani was secretary of the Neapolitan embassy in Paris, and was well connected with the leading enlightenment figures of the day. He left the manuscript... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 127440
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BROONZY, William "Big Bill." "Mississippi Blues, Vol. II" signed EP.London : 1955
Signed by the great bluesman on the jacket cover, "Big Bill Broonzy", possibly dating to his tour of England in 1957. The EP was issued in Pye Nixa's "Jazz Today Series" and comprises four originals, one with orchestral accompaniment. Joe Meek, later a pioneering record producer, was co-engineer. Discs inscribed by Broonzy are certainly uncommon.
"Big... Learn More£3,850.00Stock Code: 136657
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GRIFFIN, Johnny. Blues for Harvey.Copenhagen : 1973
Signed flamboyantly by the Little Giant in blue ball-point pen at the top left corner of the back cover, "The Best, Johnny Griffin". This is the first pressing of the original Danish release and, according to The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, "provides some characteristically vivid tenor playing". The cover portrait captures the Zapata-moustachioed... Learn More£385.00Stock Code: 144500
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THATCHER, Margaret. Typed letter signed to former Labour MP Arthur Lewis, politely declining a request for a meeting.28 February 1984
Margaret Thatcher writes to former Labour MP Arthur Lewis: "Dear Arthur, Thank you for your letter of 24th February. I am sorry to say that my diary is overful with engagements ranging from unavoidable diplomatic meetings with heads of Government, to a great many Parliamentary colleagues who claim my time for constituency and other cases. I really have... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 145687
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SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Réflexions sur la Question Juive.Paris : 1946
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the half-title "Hommage de JP Sartre".
Sartre's reflections on the Jewish question, written in the aftermath of the holocaust, offers an analysis of what makes a person Jewish and the nature of the anti-Semite. In Sartre's view, a person is Jewish if they are viewed as such in the eyes... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 145981
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LUNA, Miguel de. The History of the Conquest of Spain by the Moors.London : 1687
First edition in English of the first part (all published) of Miguel de Luna's Verdadera historia del rey Don Rodrigo (1592-1600), itself purportedly translated from an Arabic source, but in fact an original composition.
Luna's account of the Arab conquest of Spain to the year 761 was considered genuine by Southey, dismissed by George Ticknor... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 120934
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PLUMARD DE DANGEUL, Louis-Joseph. Remarques les avantages et les desavantages de la France et de la Gr. Bretagne, par rapport au commerce, et aux autres Sources de la Puissance des Etats.Leyden : 1754
Second edition, published the same year as the first, of this popular work comparing the British and French political economies, this copy from the library of André Morellet, a collection which was largely acquired as reading material during the preparation of his Encyclopédie.
Although it claimed to be a translation, Plumard de Dangeul published... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 120792
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HUME, David. Discours politiques.Amsterdam : 1754-7
First edition of this important series of economic publications, published in view of the increasing interest in works of political economy appearing in France, England, and Holland. In 1754 Schreuder and Mortier published the first volume, Hume's Political Discourses. Owing to the growing interest and the relative scarcity of earlier publications,... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 132008
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WEDDERBURN, Alexander. Essay upon the Question What Proportion of the Produce of Arable Land ought to be paid as Rent to the Landlord?Edinburgh : 1776
First edition of Wedderburn's treatise, submitted in response to a question posited by the Edinburgh Society in 1753. Uncommon, with ESTC listing copies in 14 institutions.
Provenance: The Lawes Agricultural Library, with their shelfmarks to front pastedown and title page, though without direct attribution. The library was assembled in the early... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 129258
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ARROW, Kenneth J. Social Choice and Individual Values.New York : 1951
First edition, first printing, of Arrow's brilliant doctoral thesis, published as number 12 in the series of Cowles Commission Monographs.
"Employing the notational system of symbolic logic, at the time unfamiliar to economists, Arrow proposed to solve a question in politics which no economist and few political scientists had ever posed: suppose... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 142548
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OLIVER, Paul. Screening the Blues:London : 1968
First edition, first impression. An important early contribution to the serious study of the origins of the Blues and certainly difficult to find in anything approaching such sharp condition, as here. Paul Oliver "first encountered the music as a teenager, hearing black American servicemen singing a work song. In the 50s he studied the field recordings... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 142989
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GLENN, John. Typed letter signed, declining a journalist's request.15 December 1969
Typed letter signed from astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, in response to a request of Ray Gardner (1919-1997), journalist at the Toronto Star, for his outlook on the coming decade. Glenn politely declines the request: "Dear Mr. Gardner: This letter is to confirm the previous telephone conversations concerning your very kind... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 141387
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CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER, Marie Gabriel F. A., Comte de. VUE DE LA MONTAGNE DE ST. ETIENNE. FRAGMENS ANTIQUES.Paris : 1782
A pair of engravings - the top showing a group of travellers with their horses resting by the imposing mountain at St. Etienne. The bottom engraving shows details of two classical statues, a colonnade and part of a tomb.
In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean. Volume I of Voyage... Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 54805
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OUTRAM, [James]. The Conquest of Scinde.Edinburgh and London : 1846
First edition, presentation copy of Outram's account of the controversial annexation of Sind, inscribed "With the author's Complements" on the half-title of volume 1, probably in a secretarial hand. Having been specifically requested by Napier as commissioner for the treaty terms, Outram came to identify so closely with the position of the amirs and... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 120230
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BENTLEY, Nicolas. "Probably Jacques Soustelle in disguise."[1960s]
Commuters on the underground, reading the newspaper headline "Clarissa Believed Seen in Paris", remark that it is probably just Jacques Soustelle in disguise. Soustelle was an anthropologist and had been Governor General of Algeria, then Minister of State, but had disagreed with De Gaulle's turn for Algerian Independence. He was dismissed from parliament... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 100804
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POCK, Alexander. Six highly-finished pencil drawings in the guest-book for Werzer's Gasthof "zum Weißes Rössl".Pörtschach am Wörthersee : 1947
The guest-book for Werzer's famous Gasthof "zum Weißes Rössl" at Pörtschach am Wörthersee, now the home of the Brahms Haus Museum, containing six highly-finished pencil drawings by Alexander Pock: 1) Mounted officer, with New Year's wishes for 1947, dated on 26 December 1946; 2) Bust-portrait of a feldmarschal, 23 March 1947; 3) Two sailors, "on... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 94476
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MEAD, Edward Sherwood, & Julius Grodinsky. The Ebb and Flow of Investment Values.New York & London : 1939
First edition, first printing, with the scarce dust jacket. This is fellow academics Mead and Grodinsky's "net view of investment policy for the post-1929 surplus (versus scarcity) economy. Dividing industries whose profits are increasing from those whose profits are decreasing, the authors offer techniques for both buying and selling securities, as... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 121653
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WOOLF, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday.Richmond : 1921
First edition, first impression, one of 1,000 copies of this collection of short stories, and an early Hogarth Press production. Leonard Woolf stated that the work "was printed by F. T. McDermott of the Prompt Press, Richmond, who used to give him advice on printing problems when he and Mrs. Woolf first started the Hogarth Press" (Kirkpatrick). Woolf... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 137334
