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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan In Kensington GardensLondon : 1906
First Rackham edition. Barrie asked Rackham to illustrate not the play Peter Pan (which remained unpublished until 1928) but make a new book from those chapters from The Little White Bird (1902) that had first introduced the character. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 121585
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[BROWNING], Elizabeth Barrett. Poems.London : 1844
First edition, first issue, presentation copy, inscribed by the author of the collection that made Elizabeth Barrett's fame: "To Miss Heard, with the author's regards, August 1844". A superb association: Miss Heard was a friend and, in Browning's mind, a rival for the attentions of the blind classicist Hugh Stuart Boyd (1781-1848), to whom she was devoted... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 118727
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(DESMARETZ, Nicolas.) BARREME, Francois. Tarifs generaux pour scavoir la quantité des Bleds qu'il y a dans les differens Greniers du Royaume.Paris : 1709
First edition of Barreme's tables charting the price of grain, with a superb provenance, finely bound for Louis XIV's Controller-General of Finances, Nicolas Desmaretz, marquis de Maillebois (1648-1721), with his arms stamped in gilt to the covers. Desmaretz initially served as an assistant to his uncle, French finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert.... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 133499
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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets From The Portuguese.London : 1914
First Riccardi Press edition, number 151 of 350 numbered copies specially bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, from an edition of 1,000 copies on handmade Riccardi Paper; there were also 12 copies on vellum. This is a very scarce and attractive deluxe issue of an already finely produced book, printing some of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's most famous love... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 131514
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DRU, Léon & Saint-Just, & Louis-Georges Mulot. [Patch label on front cover:] Matériels & Outils de Sondages pour les mines & les colonies (Materials and Survey Tools for Mines and Colonies).Paris : [c.1890]
A handsomely presented and apparently unique album of 21 striking original albumen prints showing test rigs and drilling machinery, largely for use in artesian exploration, assembled for one of the leading French engineering concerns of the period, Mulot & Dru, described by a contemporary as "acknowledged in France to be masters of the art of boring"... Learn More£12,750.00Stock Code: 123046
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AINSLIE, Kathleen. Votes for Catharine Susan and Me.London : [1910]
First edition, first impression, of purportedly "the only book about suffragettes written for children during the 'Votes for Women' campaign" (British Library). The beautiful chromolithograph illustrations depict the adventures of two wooden peg dolls as they join the cause, create mayhem, and are jailed. After going on hunger strike, the story closes... Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 138974
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(NAPOLEON.) Journal de l'Empire.Paris : 1806-13
First editions of a very full run of the renowned Journals des Débats in its Napoleonic guise, odd volumes of which do appear on the market but extensive runs such as this are rarely encountered. During the First Empire the Journal was opposed to Napoleon and outspoken in its criticism of the philosophes, which led, in 1805, to the Emperor ordering... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 135272
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LELEWEL, Joachim. Géographie du Moyen Age.Brussels : 1850-2-7
First edition of this work on medieval geography through classical Greek, Latin and Arab sources, by the Polish historian and geographer Lelewel (1786-1861). Considered a "pioneer writer on cartography" (Tooley), he insisted on engraving all of his plates in order to maintain their accuracy. He was educated at the Imperial University of Vilna and, becoming... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 117612
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(WELLINGTON, Arthur, Duke of) GURWOOD, John (ed.) The Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington,London : 1837-8
The New Edition, complete with the index and the volume of General Orders. Indispensable for the study of Wellington's campaigns, and perhaps the only source for the occasional glimpse of the man. This is a particularly handsome set, bound by Francis Bedford, "considered the leading English bookbinder of his time, surpassed only by the best French binders"... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 127262
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ORME, Edward (publ.) Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes,London : 1819
First edition, early state, plates watermarked 1812, 1815 or 1816, text 1806 or 1812; the plates have printed issue dates between 1815 and 1818, and were first assembled in book form in 1819. Abbey and Tooley are at variance on the status of differing issues, but Abbey concludes, "it would appear reasonable to assume that the early state of the book... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 120634
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(BARKER, Ronnie.) HARTNOLL, Phyllis ed. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre.London : 1972
Presentation copy to one of the greats of British television comedy and light entertainment, Ronnie Barker (1929-2005), inscribed on a preliminary blank leaf: "To Ronnie, To say Congratulations on 25 'Glorious Years' (contrary to the vicious slur about your age on p. 80) luv Danni (?) 11.11.73". This was clearly signed at a star-studded party celebrating... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 110259
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(NOTT, Sir William.) STOCQUELER, J. H., ed. Memoirs and Correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott.London : 1854
First edition of this uncommon memoir, which remains the standard life, and an important source for the First Afghan War. Nott was commissioned as ensign in the East India Company's army in 1800, and posted to the 20th Bengal Native Infantry, serving with them in the expedition to the west coast of Sumatra in 1805. From 1811 until 1825 he served as... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 139223
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ASTLEY, Philip. A Description and Historical Account, of the Places Now the Theatre of War in the Low Countries,1794
Uncommon and attractive fortification study, this fourth edition issued in the same year as the self-published first edition. "That part of Flanders having frequently been disputed by the various European powers, the author conceives that an undertaking like this will not be unacceptable to the public, particularly at a time when that country exhibits... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 66735
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BOURRIENNE, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de. Mémoires...Paris : 1829
First edition. Bourrienne (1769-1834), diplomat and one-time secretary to Napoleon, "claimed to have been a friend of the future emperor at the military school of Brienne. In the early 1790s he served the Revolutionary government as a diplomat in Germany. He was called to Italy by Napoleon in the negotiations with Austria (MayOctober 1797) and helped... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 122617
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[WHITE, Gilbert.] The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne,London : 1789
First edition of one the great English books of the eighteenth century, "the first book which raised natural history into the region of literature" (Ency. Brit.) White's Selborne is arranged into three sequences of letters, those addressed to Pennant and to Barrington forming the natural history portion of the volume, the remainder forming an account... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 115179
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CANTILLON, Richard. Essai sur la nature du commerce en général.London Fletcher Gyles [but Paris : 1755
First edition. This copy is one of a very small number to contain at the end a copy of Barrois's catalogue of publications for sale, which lists Cantillon's work with his initial.
Richard Cantillon (c.1680-1734) was an Irish-born banker and economist, forced to emigrate to continental Europe by the Williamite confiscations. He honed his financial... Learn More£57,500.00Stock Code: 137110
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FORSYTH, William. History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena;London : 1853
First edition. Forsyth sought to prove "by mere force of facts... that neither the British government nor Lowe were in fault as regards the treatment of Napoleon at St Helena" (p. x). Lowe was Napoleon's gaoler during his exile on St Helena, and soon became exasperated with the intransigence of his captive, apparently unaware that the pair were engaged... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 140969
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JUNIUS. Junius.London : 1801
A handsomely bound early edition of the letters of the notorious and enigmatic political polemicist "Junius", which were first published in authorised book-form by Henry Sampson Woodfall in March 1772, and first printed in the Public Advertiser between 21 January 1769 and 21 January 1772. This edition prints Junius's "Dedication to the English Nation",... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 125952
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(NOTT, Sir William.) STOCQUELER, Joachim Hayward, ed. Memoirs and Correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott.London : 1854
First edition of this uncommon memoir, an important source for the first Afghan War. Nott was commissioned as ensign in the East India Company's army in 1800, and posted to the 20th Bengal Native Infantry, serving with them in the expedition to the west coast of Sumatra in 1805. From 1811 until 1825 he served as "superintendent of native pensions and... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 105377
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STRICKLAND, Agnes [& Elizabeth]. Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest.Philadelphia : 1902-3
The Victoria edition, number 439 of 1,000 subscriber's copies printed on Japon, this set printed for Blanche Elizabeth MacLeish Billings. Lives of the Queens of England, originally published between 1840 and 1848, is the Strickland sisters' best-known work, and an important landmark in the development of the biographical genre. It is presented... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 139088
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(TURGOT.) [RULIÉ, Pierre.] Théorie de l'Intéret de l'Argent,Paris : 1780
First edition. The work is assigned by Barbier to Pierre Rulié, a parish priest of Saint Pierre de Cahors, with the text then revised by J. L. Gouttes and by Turgot. The treatise serves to justify the commercial loaning of money at interest, and instigated various refutations by the clergy, incensed by its defence of usury. Turgot's 1770 paper on lending... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 129392
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BURLAMAQUI, Jean Jacques. Principes du droit naturel.Geneva : 1747
First edition of the Swiss legal and political theorist's principal work, an important influence on the American Founding Fathers. A natural law professor at the University of Geneva, Burlamaqui (1694-1748) conceived of his treatise as a general introduction to his subject intended for students, but its success and influence far exceeded his expectations.... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 113546
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SMITH, Adam. (GROUCHY, Sophie de, trans.) Théorie des Sentimens Moraux.Paris : 1830
Second edition of Sophie de Grouchy's translation of Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. Smith's Theory had originally been published in London in 1759 and was first translated into French in 1764. Sophie de Grouchy was a prominent salon hostess during the early French Revolution and under Napoleon, and was the wife of the philosopher the Marquis de... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 129378
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Works.Philadelphia, New York & Boston : 1885
A beautiful set of Goethe's works featuring illustrations and lively full-page engravings by various artists. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138623
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SAXE, Maurice, Comte de. Mes Rêveries.1757
First edition thus. "De Saxe's work is a comprehensive treatise on war. He puts forward his ideal military model, his "legion", and taking issue with the views and practices of his age, he advances many original ideas. However, rather than discussing his military doctrines, the aim of this book is to elucidate the intellectual premises that dominated... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 37954
