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ÉPRÉMESNIL, Jaques Duval d'. Correspondance sur une question politique d'agriculture.Amsterdam & Paris : 1763
First edition of this printed correspondence between Épremesnil and Dupuy d'Emportes of the Academy of Florence, concerning agricultural issues. Épremesnil (1745-1794) later had an important role in pushing for the summoning of the Estates General, before defending the monarchy in the French Revolution, and subsequently being guillotined. The book... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 127720
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MAC CARTHY, Jacques. Choix de voyages dans les quatre parties du monde,Paris : 1821-22
First edition of this rich account of voyages worldwide up to the date of publication, with an expansive and detailed glossary, presented here in an attractive contemporary binding.
Originally from Ireland Jacques Mac Carthy (1785-1835) went into service in the French army in 1800, became a battalion commander, and in 1830 became head of the... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 146684
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HERBERT, Claude Jacques. Essai sur la police générale des grains.London : 1753
First edition of Herbert's work on the grain trade. McCulloch calls the work "in all respects, an excellent treatise; and may, indeed, be safely placed at the head of the works on commerce that had appeared in France, or anywhere else on the Continent, previously to the era of Quesnay and the Economists. It is clearly and ably written; and contains... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 127715
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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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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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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 all... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 145646
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HUME, David. Discours politiques.Amsterdam : 1754-56
First edition of the first three instalments of an 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... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 146627
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BURGESS, Gelett (ed.) [The Lark: issues 1-24.] "Who'll be the Clerk?" "I!" said The Lark:San Francisco : 1896-97
First editions of the complete run of this American arts and crafts periodical which was a great contribution to the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, by the American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist, Frank Gelett Burgess (1866-1951).
Burgess is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 147999
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OLDEKOP, C. A. W. von. Geographie des Russischen Reichs. Nach den neuesten Quellen bearbeitet.St. Petersburg : 1842
First edition, Saint Petersburg issue (also issued with a Leipzig imprint), of Oldekop's survey of Russia, with information on its geography - its extent, borders, mountains, seas, rivers, canals, plants, minerals and animal life, - with statistical information on its inhabitants, agriculture, industry, trade and manufactures, weights, measures and... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 133446
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LUCAS, Charles (intro.) Recueil des débats des Assemblées Législatives de la France sur la question de la peine de mort.Paris : 1831
First edition of this collection of reports on the subject of the death penalty given to the French National Assembly, including those delivered by Berenger and Lapelletier, among others, with an introduction and notes by the influential early French abolitionist and Inspector General of prisons Charles Lucas. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 91118
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BAUDEAU, Nicolas. Principes économiques de Louis XII et du Cardinal d'Amboise,[Paris]; Geneva : 1785
First editions of these two commentaries on Necker. The first upholds the two great finance ministers of France's past, Cardinal d'Amboise and the Duke of Sully, as superior to Necker in their financial administration, and as offering models for France's current financial predicaments. The second seeks to serve as a corrective to the arguments outlined... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 127446
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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese.Venice : 1906
An attractive miniature copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's love sonnets, written in the first years of her falling in love with Robert Browning, first published in 1850. The Venetian publisher S. Rosen produced literary souvenirs for the latter-day Grand Tourist. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 146979
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IRISH CATECHISM. The Catechism, or Christian Doctrine by way of Question and Answer,Paris : 1742
First edition of Donlevy's Irish-language Catholic Catechism, with the Irish and its English translation printed on parallel pages.
The Irish Roman Catholic priest Andrew Donlevy (1680-1746) was resident in Paris, where the book was published, and where this copy was likely bound. "Donlevy lamented the decline of the Irish language and worked... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 146966
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HANCARVILLE, David. Antiquités etrusques grecs et romaines.Paris : 1785
Volumes one and two (of five) of the second edition, the first with plates by Francois-Anne David (1724-1824), first printed in Naples in 1766-67 in a folio edition of 500 copies. The work had a profound influence on Josiah Wedgwood, and was one of the earliest influences in the neo-classical revival that swept England and the continent in the 18th... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 147381
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BRADBURY, Malcolm. My Strange Quest for Mensonge.London : 1987
First edition, first impression. Learn More£25.00Stock Code: 147288
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TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de, & Gustave de Beaumont. Système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis,Brussels : 1837
Third edition of this landmark report on prison reform, first published in 1833. Prompted by the dismal and ineffective state of France's penitentiary system in the 1820s, the French government commissioned Tocqueville and Beaumont - two friends, both young magistrates at the time - to complete a tour of America (which was then seen as leading the way... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 91100
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McCULLOCH, John Ramsay. The Principles of Political Economy:Edinburgh : 1825
First edition of the author's first major work, expanded from his contribution to the 1824 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "the first substantive text on political economy to appear in the encyclopaedia" (ODNB). David Ricardo, with whom McCulloch corresponded since he started taking an interest in political economy as a young man, described... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 115421
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.London : April 1838 - October 1839
First edition in original parts. Plates in parts 1-2 with publisher's imprint; parts 4 and 5 are first issues; part 14 with notice of postponement of the plates "in consequence of the sudden indisposition of the artist"; plate 29 in part 15 in first state.
Dickens's third novel continued the picaresque mode of Pickwick. The exposure of conditions... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 142805
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BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen. The Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus.Hammersmith : 1892
First Kelmscott edition, one of only 300 copies, presentation copy, pseudonymously inscribed by Blunt to his sometime lover Mary Singleton on the front free endpaper, "Violet Fane from Proteus April 29 1892". Singleton was notably the subject of Sonnet LV "St. Valentine's Day" on page 162 of this work. A beautiful copy with a fittingly romantic association.
Mary... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 144728
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LANG, Andrew. Aucassin & Nicolete.London : 1887
First edition thus, one of 550 copies only (of which 500 for sale) on Japanese vellum, of Lang's acclaimed translation of the French medieval romantic chantefable, "Andrew Lang was born in order that he might translate it perfectly and he has fulfilled his destiny" (Ezra Pound, Spirit of Romance, 1910), in a superb arts and crafts modelled binding.
From... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 144866
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Notes on Nursing: what it is, and what it is not.London : 1860
Second edition, a superb presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title to her fellow instructor at the Nightingale School: "Offered to John Croft Esq. with Florence Nightingale's sincerest joy at finding herself his fellow-worker in the Nurse-training business London 1873". Designated by Nightingale the Library Standard edition, this... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 144140
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LAWRENCE, T. E. Secret Despatches from Arabia.[Waltham St Lawrence] : 1939
Limited edition, number 442 of 1,000 numbered copies, printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type on handmade paper. Loosely iserted in this copy is the publisher's advertising prospectus noting that "to avoid disappointment, intending subscribers are requested to place their orders, with remittance, early".
"The majority of Lawrence's contributions... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 146262
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WALPOLE, Robert (subject). Some Persons Vindicated against the Author of the Defection,London : 1718
One of two editions, this of 40 pages, another of 28 pages. "Published 28 January 1718, a furious, but empty and generalising, reply to Tindal's The Defection Consider'd of December 1717, in which Tindal blamed Walpole and Townshend for 'defecting' for cynical motives, thereby creating a serious division in the Whig party. The present tract argues that... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 146780
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FAHRENHEIT, Daniel Gabriel. [Four papers on thermometry.]London : 1726
First edition of four important papers on thermometry by Fahrenheit, in Latin, contributed to volume 33 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The entirety of Fahrenheit's published writings comprises five papers; apart from a brief description of one of his early thermometers published by Christian Wolff in Acta Eruditorum (1714),... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 142741
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WAUGH, Evelyn (contrib.) Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, of the transatlantic equivalent of the American "Writers Take Sides on the Spanish War" pamphlet, although the present UK version is much scarcer.
This pamphlet prints 148 responses of a wide variety of authors to the questions: "Are you for, or against, the legal Government and the People of Republican Spain?... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 147662
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KIEFFER BINDING - FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary.Paris : 1905
First Ferroud edition, published in his "librairie des amateurs" and specially illustrated by Richemont, in a striking Kieffer binding, number 325 of 600 copies signed by the publisher on the limitation page. This copy is bound with a six-page promotional excerpt in straight-grain wrappers with a full-page etching and two in-text illustrations.
René... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 145735
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WOOD, William. The Bow-mans Glory; or Archery Revived.London : 1682
First edition; a second edition was published in 1691. Wood was Marshal of the Society of Finsbury Archers and he invokes the spirit of Agincourt to argue for continued English toxophily. Wood's funeral in 1691 was marked with three flights of whistling arrows.
The work is dedicated to Charles II and opens with a poem "In Praise of Archery",... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 147061
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DANTE ALIGHIERI. La divina commedia.London : 1808-09
First Zotti edition, a handsomely bound set of Dante's Divine Comedy in the original Italian.
Romualdo Zotti (d. 1819) was an Italian expatriate in London, a teacher of Italian to young noble women and a printer. Zotti produced highly popular guides to French and Italian grammar, as well as editions of Italian poets. Zotti's interest in the education... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 147655
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MILL, John Stuart. A System of Logic:London : 1843
First edition of the author's philosophical work, outlining the five principles of inductive reasoning, now known as Mill's methods. Often considered as Mill's best work, A System of Logic was twelve years in the making.
"Mill began his book with the assertion that he was not concerned with the contested territory of epistemology, but only with... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 146532
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HOME, Henry, Lord Kames. Elements of Criticism.Edinburgh : 1762
First edition of Kames's large and systematic philosophical and aesthetic treatise, rare on the market. This work is the most important result of the Scottish aesthetic movement, and "the most comprehensive work on aesthetics of the 18th century since Du Bos' Réflexions critiques of 1719" (translated from Dobai, Die Kunstliteratur des Klassizismus... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 147353
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HOOVER, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the 31st President on the front free endpaper "To James H Douglas Jr With the kind Regards of Herbert Hoover".
James Henderson Douglas Jr. (1899-1988) was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury by Hoover towards the end of his administration, and continued in the role under Franklin Roosevelt... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 148284
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HUNTER, F. M. An Account of the British Settlement of Aden in Arabia.London : 1877
First and only edition of this important monograph, the rare "presentation issue" with the superb photographic plates; commercial records show two copies only, one with Maggs (1954, catalogue no. 824) and another through Sotheby's (1999). Inscribed on the half-title by the recipient "E. V. Stace a kind present from the Author", his signature repeated... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 144018
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VASILIEV, N.E., M.N.Volkov & V.I. Dobrovolskiy. Kazakstan v tsifrah. Statisticheskiy dvukhnedelnik kazstatupravleniya No. 6-7Alma-Ata : 1928
Extremely rare issue of the official journal of the Kazakh Statistical Department offering the first detailed description of Alma-Ata as the capital: "because of the recent move of the capital and the lack of any standardized information on Alma-Ata from the statistical, economic and historical points of view, we have decided to dedicate this enlarged... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 145808
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VILLIERS, Alan. Sons of Sinbad.New York : 1940
Villiers's working copy of the first US edition, first printing, extensively marked up towards the revised edition of 1969 (a copy of which is included here), and inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: "Edited copy - property of Alan Villiers". Of his 40-odd books, this is probably the most desirable, which does very much what is suggested by... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 146241
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STENDHAL. De l'Amour.Paris : 1924
First Kieffer edition, in a striking Kieffer binding, number 50 of 50 copies on japon, from an edition limited to 1050 copies only, of this art deco edition of Stendhal's great study of love, which was originally published in 1822.
In De l'Amour, known in English as On Love, Stendhal shared his concept of "crystallization" as "the process whereby... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 145085
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BRAUTIGAN, Richard. Please Plant This Book.San Francisco / Santa Barbara : 1968
First edition, sole impression, a scarce complete set of these eight poems by Richard Brautigan printed on the back of coloured seed packets.
Copies were issued for free with the injunction that they be planted: "The time is right to mix sentences, sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and the rain with verbs, and for worms to pass... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145604
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MacLEISH, Archibald - PLATO. The Republic.London & New York : 1911
First edition thus, fifth impression. This is the student copy of the American poet Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982), with his ink ownership to front free endpaper "Archibald MacLeish, 9 Vanderbilt," referencing the 1894-built Yale dormitory, Vanderbilt Hall, and a long question mark pencilled in the margin of p. 66. This is a wonderful association copy.
From... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 146275
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KELMSCOTT PRESS: CAXTON, William (trans). The History of Reynard the Foxe.Hammersmith : 1892 [1893]
Limited edition, one of 300 copies on paper, from a total edition of 310 copies. In his note requested by Quaritch as a puff, Morris commented: "this translation of Caxton's is one of the very best of his works as to style; and being translated from a kindred tongue is delightful as mere language. In its rude joviality, and simple and direct delineation... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 145992
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Vested Interests and the State of Industrial Arts.New York : 1919
First edition, first printing. Veblen's book continues his critique of modern capitalism, started two decades earlier in his Theory of the Leisure Class. Derived from articles published in The Dial over 1918-19, Veblen argues that big business has subverted government to its own interests, with the common man presented with an illusion of democracy... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 146930
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HUME, David. Herrn Hume Vier Philosophen. Quod vitae sectabor iter?Glogau : 1760
Scarce first German language edition of essays 6-9 from the second volume of Hume's Essays, moral and political of 1742. The essays are; "The Epicurean", "The Stoic", "The Platonist" and "The Sceptic". The translation was made from the French Oeuvres philosophiques (1758). Hume's essays are followed by "Apuleius's" Discourse on happiness, translated... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 146123
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MORE, Hannah - SHAW, William. The Life of Hannah More.London : 1802
First edition, inscribed on the initial blank verso "from the author", of the most vitriolic attack made against More during the Blagdon controversy, the most contentious episode in her career; an uncut copy in excellent condition.
More's philanthropic efforts, especially her rural charity schools, were met with "considerable hostility from local... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 147495
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MURAKAMI, Takashi. (Ed). Little Boy. The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture.New York, New Haven & London : 2005
First edition, first printing. Signed by Murakami on the half title with a drawing of a flower and Dob. Published to coincide with an exhibition presented at the Japan Society Gallery, New York, and venues throughout New York City, 8 April - July 24, 2005. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 147278
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ORWELL, George. The English People.London : 1947
First edition, first impression, of Orwell's essay on the English people and their character, commissioned by Collins in 1943 to promote British values and to describe aspects of British life during the Second World War, although not published till after its conclusion. Though Orwell criticizes much about the English - their anachronistic class divisions,... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 147227
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SHELLEY, Mary. Autograph letter signed.October 1843
An unpublished autograph letter from Mary Shelley to the publishers Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. Dated October 1843, White Cottage, Putney, where she had moved the previous month, she requests some specific volumes from Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, a project to which she had contributed a few years prior. This letter was recently extracted from... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 146431
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THIERCELIN, Louis. Journal d'un baleinier voyages en Océanie.Paris : 1866
First edition of this expansive whaling account important for its insight into French colonial interests in New Zealand and vivid representations of English and Spanish colonial systems on the Pacific isles, specifically recording the treatment of the Maori by English settlers. A particularly attractive copy in what is perhaps a publisher's deluxe binding,... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 147046
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ALLINGHAM, John Till. Fortune's Frolic:London : July 1799
First edition of Allingham's (c.1775-1812) first play, which featured celebrated actors like Charles Mathews (1776-1835). The most famous comedian of his day, Mathews's powerful influence on Charles Dickens's stylistic methods of comic characterization has long been recognized. Mathews's monopolylogues, farces in which the actor played every character,... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 146148
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DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House.London : 1853
First edition, bound from the original parts as issued between March 1852 and September 1853; handsomely bound.
"The satire of Bleak House focuses on the obfuscations and delays of the court of chancery which result in widespread human misery and suffering, but the novel's complicated plot and centripetal organization bring into the picture a... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 147834
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DAVIS, Nathan. Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character,London : 1863
First and sole edition, uncommon; an important record of the Punic stelae unearthed by one of the most remarkable figures in 19th century archaeology, the little known Nathan Davis (1819-1882), "clergyman, adventurer and snake-handler extraordinaire" (Freed), who conducted pioneering excavations at Carthage in the late 1850s, preceding the work of his... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 138060
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TRUCIAL STATES. Archive relating to the Royal Navy service of Midshipman Francis Wyatt Rawson Larken.1928-51
A fascinating and unpublished primary source - and as such rare in private hands - being the manuscript journal books kept by a Royal Navy midshipman during a tour of the Gulf in 1930-31; including a compelling account of a visit to Dubai and an on-board reception for the Trucial Sheikhs, part of a broader British policy of "courting" local rulers;... Learn More£125,000.00Stock Code: 142568
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CRETE. Collection of 9 Foreign Office Diplomatic and Consular Trade Reports.London : 1886 - 1912
Extremely scarce: a substantial run of Diplomatic and Consular Trade Reports relating to Crete, issued by the Foreign Office at a turbulent period when the island was emerging from Ottoman control; those for the period 1901-04 published in an edition of 1,400 copies each, the last four years in tiny print runs of between 75 and 90 copies only.
This... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 146336
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DAVID, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking.London : 1951
First edition, first impression, an unusually nice copy of the author's landmark second book, written while post-war rationing was still in force, with an attractive souvenir of one of her circuits gastronomiques: it includes, loosely inserted, David's own Michelin map of Lyon, annotated "1965 ED" on the front cover.
Elizabeth David (1913-1992)... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 146903
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GURNEY, Edmund, Frederick W. H. Myers, and Frank Podmore (eds.) Phantasms of the Living.Trübner : 1886
First edition, from the library of the Swedish headquarters of the theosophical society the Universal Brotherhood, with neat marginal marks to the introduction of the first volume. The present work is one of the most significant documents of the emergent Victorian field of psychical research.
Gurney and Myers were founding members of the Society... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 147258
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT - L'ASSIETTE AU BEURRE. La peine de mort.Paris : 1907
First edition of the visually compelling and famously anarchic illustrated French satirical journal's issue on the death penalty. Published weekly from March 1901 to October 1912, L'Assiette au Beurre eventually totalled 594 issues, each composed of full-page black and white and colour illustrations by a variety of artists, tackling current events and... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 119341
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PETERS, John P. (ed.) Labor and Capital.New York : 1902
First edition of this collection of essays concerning the relation between employers and employees and how to avoid conflict between the two parties. Published as part of the "Questions of the Day" series. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 141203
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YEATS, W. B. (pref.); HYDE, Douglas (trans.) The Love Songs of Connacht.Dundrum : 1904
First edition, first impression, one of 300 copies only, this copy has a rare single-sheet prospectus advertising the press, dated January 1905, loosely inserted. This is the third of 11 books published by Yeats and his sister Elizabeth under this imprint, renamed the Cuala Press in 1908, after the Gaelic name of the south Dublin area before the Norman... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 144499
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BROWNING, Robert. Men and Women.London : 1855
First edition, an exceptional fine set in the original cloth, of Browning's most enduring collection. Men and Women was Robert's "Sonnets from the Portuguese", being the first published after his marriage to fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett. It features many love poems, including "Love Among the Ruins", "Any Wife to Any Husband", "Love in a Life", "Life... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 145103
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CROSBY, Harry (his copy); Alphonse Daudet. Sapho.Paris : [c.1903]
Harry Crosby's copy of Daudet's cautionary romantic novel warning against a life of overt debauchery, with Crosby's pencil and ink underlinings to 116 pages of the text, including many passages that play upon the symbolism of the sun and the power of lust and desire in a man's life.
In addition to being bound for Crosby this copy has several... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 144911
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MARTIN, John (illus.); MILTON, John. The Paradise Lost of Milton.London : 1827
First edition in book form, a handsome copy of the more desirable large plate issue. John Martin's Paradise Lost maintains a strong claim to be the finest illustrated edition of the poem ever produced.
Already famous as an artist for his bold and melodramatic paintings, Martin was commissioned by Septimus Prowett to turn his talents to Milton.... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 145395
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WARHOL, Andy (illus.); Ed Sanders (ed.) FUCK YOU / a magazine of the arts, our third anniversary Mad Motherfucker issue!A secret location on the Lower East Side, New York City : 1965
First edition of this rare issue of Ed Sanders's erotic counterculture magazine, with the coveted and fragile thermofaxed front cover. The cover features a still from Warhol's banned pansexual art-porno Couch (1964), showing Gerard Malanga, Rufus Collins, and Kate Helicser making love on the Factory couch. It also includes the significant pirated first... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 144818
