Search results for: 'poems'
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(SMITH, Adam.) HAMILTON, William. Poems on several Occasions.Glasgow : 1748
First edition of Hamilton's poems, with a preface by Adam Smith, his first appearance in print. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 125751
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BAMFORD, Samuel. Hours in the Bowers.Manchester : 1834 [i.e. 1835]
First edition of this collection of the poetry, some here printed for the first time, by the English radical Samuel Bamford (1788-1872). The title refers to his time in prison ("bowers" being slang for jail), and Bamford notes that he wrote two of the poems while incarcerated - "Eclogue" and "Hymn to Hope". Bamford makes clear in the preface his feeling,... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 136399
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GROTE, George. Posthumous Papers: comprising Selections from familiar Correspondence during half a century;London : 1874
First edition, edited by his wife, of George Grote's correspondence with such eminent figures as James Mill, Francis Place, Alexis de Tocqueville and William Nassau Senior, among others, together with a selection of essays and poems. Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 127729
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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Autograph letter signed to Elizabeth Hoar.Concord, : 1856
RWE returns a book of newly published poems written by a neighbour (" which I have kept longer than was right, from liking & because one is always expecting a better day & mood to read these pastoral verses. I find them always pleasing, with a solid honesty quite free from prettiness or showiness And whilst they particularly please me that he praises... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 70151
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(BLAKE, William.) ELLIS, Edwin John, & W. B. Yeats. The Works of William Blake.London : 1893
First edition, one of 150 large paper copies in the deluxe binding; there were also 500 copies in cloth. Yeats had "marked down William Blake as a master early on, and with Edwin Ellis produced a large-scale commentary on Blake's prophetic writings in 1893. While often erratic and idiosyncratic, it helped establish the importance of Blake's esoteric... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 136158
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McCULLOCH, [John Ramsay, & Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhães (trans.)] Principios de economia politica.London : [1830?]
Scarce first edition in Portuguese of the author's first major work, first published in English in 1825. OCLC and Jisc locate just three copies, at the Biblioteca de Catalunya, British Library, and Baker Library at Harvard.
The translator, Fonseca Magalhães (1787-1858), served in the Peninsular War with the unit of Coimbra students but, implicated... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 129611
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LYTTELTON, George, Lord. The Works.London : 1776
Third and best octavo edition (with the index), first published in 1774 and gathering various political pieces, Lyttelton's "Letters from a Persian in England to his friend in Ispahan", his very popular Dialogues of the Dead, co-written with the bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, a smattering of poems, and a collection of letters to his father Sir Thomas... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 116436
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LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Fables choisies, mises en vers.Paris : 1755-9
First edition, large-paper issue, and one of a small number printed on thick holland paper, of "one of the most ambitious and successful of all illustrated books" (Ray). Jean-Baptiste Oudry's sketches for La Fontaine's Fables were executed for his own enjoyment between 1729 and 1735. They were purchased by the publisher Montenault, who asked the finest... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 135957
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(DOUGLASS; Frederick; EMERSON, Ralph Waldo; STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence.) The Atlantic Monthly, devoted to literature, science, art, and politics. January 1867.Boston : 1867
The January 1867 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, which includes the first appearance in print of three notable works, all published anonymously: Frederick Douglass's An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage, a plea for equal suffrage between the races in the aftermath of the Civil War; Edmund Clarence Stedman's Pan in Wall Street, a whimsical poem... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 135578
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(WEREWOLVES.) The Romance of William of Palerne:1867
First edition thus, no 1 in the extra series of publication by the Early English Text Society (formed 1864). The French verse romance was composed c. 1200, commissioned by Countess Yolande (who is generally identified to be Yolande, daughter of Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut). The English poem in alliterative verse, commissioned by Humphrey de Bohun,... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 68780
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FÉNELON, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe. The Fundamental Maxims of Civil Government.Edinburgh : 1722
First edition of the Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, and poet's collection of aphorisms, published posthumously. It is likely to be a translation of "Maximes morales et politiques" from Les Aventures de Télémaque, Fénelon's hugely popular didactic novel first published anonymously in 1699 and reissued under his name in 1717. Télémaque,... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 102358
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(OXONIA.) Britannia Rediviva.Oxford : 1660
First edition of this collection of verses by Oxford men celebrating the restoration of Charles II to the throne, written in Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, French and English. Oxford, Charles I's capital during the Civil War, had remained a bastion of royalism, and by all accounts the University welcomed the Stuarts' return.
The collection sees the... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 126794
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[MANDEVILLE, Bernard.] The Fable of the Bees:London : 1724 & 1729
Third edition of this "celebrated work, which through Adam Smith, had an immense influence on political economy" (Foxwell), together with the first edition, second state of part II of the Fable. In this state gathering O is "figured" (see Kaye for a full explanation). Part II, which matches the length of the first part, comprises six dialogues in which... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 130767
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[MANDEVILLE, Bernard.] The Fable of the Bees:London : 1714
Rare first edition, first issue, of this "celebrated work, which through Adam Smith, had an immense influence on political economy" (Foxwell). The work originated in 1705 as a poem titled The Grumbling Hive (essentially unobtainable in the market); this is the first edition to contain the 20 "Remarks" which annotate and explain various lines in the... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 138116
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ANDERSON, James. Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of National Industry; chiefly intended to promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland.Edinburgh : 1777
First edition, in a fine Scott of Edinburgh binding, presentation copy, inscribed from the author on a preliminary blank to William Murray, first earl of Mansfield, whose celebrated library was largely destroyed by fire during the Gordon Riots.
The Scottish agriculturalist and political economist James Anderson (1739-1808) wrote several influential... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 127839
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. Philosophie de l'univers.Paris : [1792]
First edition of Dupont's "treatise attempting to state a philosophy of life" (Saricks) dedicated to his long-time friend Lavoisier, in an attractive contemporary binding. "From the dates given at the beginning of the book, the Philosophie de l'univers was apparently written between December 20, 1792, and June 10, 1793. With the Philosophie, Du Pont... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122980
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. Philosophie de l'univers. Troisième édition. Augmentée de plusieurs notes et d'une table des matières.Paris : 1799 (Fructidor, An VII)
Third and final edition of Dupont's "treatise attempting to state a philosophy of life" (Saricks), first published in 1792 and addressed to his long-time friend Lavoisier. "From the dates given at the beginning of the book, the Philosophie de l'univers was apparently written between December 20, 1792, and June 10, 1793. With the Philosophie, Dupont... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 113128
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. Philosophie de l'univers.Paris : [1792]
First edition of Dupont's "treatise attempting to state a philosophy of life" (Saricks) dedicated to his long-time friend Lavoisier, in an attractive contemporary binding. "From the dates given at the beginning of the book, the Philosophie de l'univers was apparently written between December 20, 1792, and June 10, 1793. With the Philosophie, Du Pont... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122972
