Literature
the Holy Bible…
London: George and William Nicol, 1802. Nine volumes, small quarto, contemporary polished calf, spines banded in gilt with double black labels. An attractive edition of the Bible. A note to the binder printed at the start explains that the Notes may be bound at the end of each volume, or...
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$425.00
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Introduction to the Study of Bibliography.
London: T.Cadell and W.Davies, 1814.
Valuable work on Bibliography
Two volumes, octavo, half calf, marbled edges and endpapers; illustrated with engravings. First edition, a valuable work that covers history and techniques of printing, paper, bookbinding, the nature of rarity, classification systems, bibliographies, catalogues and reference books, etc. Horne relied largely.....
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Epistolae Ho-Elianae familiar letters.. upon emergent occasions.
London: R. Ware, 1754. Octavo; original boards. Eleventh edition. Copy of David Dundas with bookplate.Historiographer royal to Charles II, and author of many historical works, it is nonetheless this work upon which his 'enduring title to literary fame rests' (CHEL). Written during his imprisonment in the 'Fleet' in the 1640s...
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$350.00
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Epistolae Ho-Elianae familiar letters… upon emergent occasions.
London: J. Darby, 1726. Octavo, engraved frontispiece; contemporary calf, Ninth edition. Howell, historiographer royal to the court of Charles II, wrote this collection of often fictional letters in 1645. Witty, lucid and readable they are the work on which Howell's 'enduring title to literary fame rests' (CHEL); they include one...
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$240.00
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The story of Rimini a poem.
London: J. Murray, 1816. Octavo; in original boards. First edition.Although best remembered as friend and supporter to Keats and Shelley, Hunt was also a well-regarded and popular poet, and in this re-working of the tragedy of Paulo and Francesca from Dante's Inferno, he displays both his love of Italian literature...
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$750.00
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Leaf from a Psalter.
England: circa 1450. Illuminated leaf, 201 x 132 mm., 2-line initial in burnished gold on blue and pink ground, numerous 1-line initials in blue and burnished gold alternately, each with calligraphic penwork, 21 lines in gothic text. An unusual English Psalter leaf with free marginal decoration. The 2-line initial introduces...
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$1,450.00
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Illuminated leaf from a Missal.
France: circa 1420. Illuminated leaf on vellum, 265 x 175 mm., double-column text written in an attractive bâtard script in dark brown ink, lightly ruled, rubrics in red, handsome 4-line initial in burnished gold leaf on a blue and red background with delicate white filigrans, initial two lines alternatively red...
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$2,950.00
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Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Rouen: circa 1480-1500. Illuminated leaf, 166 x 112 mm., panel border on each side of the leaf composed of blue and gold acanthus, coloured flowers on hair-line stems; 4-line initial in dark red and heightened in grey and white on a liquid gold panel enclosing a coloured flower, three 1-line...
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$1,750.00
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King David in Prayer.
Southern France: circa 1475.
Superb illuminated miniature of King David
Arched miniature depicting King David kneeling in prayer, 91 x 65mm., set in elaborate illuminated border on three sides; 4-line illuminated initial D (of "Domine" - O Lord), eight lines of gothic text on the other side;Mounted. A superb late...
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$14,750.00
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Ref: #3108951
Kanor, conte traduit du Sauvage, par Madame **.
Amsterdam: n.p., 1750. Duodecimo, a very good copy in contemporary French mottled calf; owner's gilt stamp 'Mr. GILLY' on front cover. First edition: a delightful fantasy set in Brazil (but not recorded by Borba de Moraes the bibliographer of Brazil).Despite her fame as the writer of several volumes of fairy.....
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$2,400.00
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Ref: #3005402
Giphantie.
Babylone (Paris): n.p., 1760. Octavo, with four engraved plates by Cochin after Desfriches illustrating the second work "Mon Odyssée ou le Journal de Mon Retour de Saintonge"; contemporary mottled calf,spine gilt with red label. First edition: a marvellous utopian community in Africa, prefiguring the uses of photography, television and the.....
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$7,250.00
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The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1855.
Uniform binding by Bayntun of bath
Three volumes, octavo, with 18 illustrations, in matching half red morocco with marbled boards, raised spines decorated in gilt. A very good mixed set of the first three series of this beautifully produced edition, in uniform Bayntun binding. Ingoldsby's Legends...
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$750.00
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The Works of Washington Irving.
London: Henry Bohn, 1850-1854.
Includes biographies of Columbus and the prophet Mohammed
Ten volumes, octavo, finely bound by in green half calf with elaborate gilt spines. Sterling example of early twentieth century English bookbinding from the workshop of Sangorski & Sutcliff. Although best known for his short stories, particularly the...
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$1,400.00
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The Trial of Mrs. Leigh Perrot…
Boston: The Stinehour Press for the Club of Odd Volumes, 1980. Octavo; fine in original papered boards, with paper spine label. Sidney Ives' lively work on the mysterious affair of the trial of Jane Austen's aunt, Mrs Leigh Perrot, for shoplifting in 1800. The work includes part of a letter...
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$125.00
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Voyage Philosophique au Japon, ou Conférences Anglo-Franco-Bataves.
"Pressure" (Paris?): Dans les Jardins de M. l'Ebahi, 1788.
A visit to Japan
Octavo, half-title, woodcut vignette of a ship setting sail at start of text; neat modern quarter calf. First edition: a very scarce anonymous imaginary voyage and a satirical commentary on French politics and society which has decadent...
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$1,600.00
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Ref: #3005361
The Harleian Miscellany…
London: T. Osborne, 1744-1746.
Ambitious early project by Samuel Johnson
Eight volumes, quarto, contemporary speckled calf with red and black spine labels, gilt decorated. A very handsome set of literary works in full eighteenth century calf edited by Samuel Johnson.Comprising manuscripts and pamphlets from the library of Robert Harley, first.....
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$5,850.00
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An account of the life of Mr. Richard Savage…
London: J. Roberts, 1744. Octavo in fours, without half title and final advertisement; in nineteenth-century half calf with marbled paper sides. First edition, last page in state with single-line erratum. Like Rothschild's copy the pages 185 and 186 are misnumbered 179 and 180.Savage, 'an impostor, a libeller and something of...
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$4,850.00
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Political tracts. Containing, The False Alarm…
London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1776. Octavo; early repair to front hinge and spine, in contemporary sheep. First collected edition of these political pamphlets, published anonymously.Probably the most famous of the four is the last, 'Taxation no Tyranny; An Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress'...
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$1,550.00
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Ref: #2408240
Memoirs of Guy Joli…
London: T. Davies, 1775. Three volumes, duodecimo, contemporary calf, spines panelled in gilt between rasied bands, double red and green leather labels. Joli's memoirs cover the period from 1641 to 1665, a time of political and ecclesiastical turmoil in 17th century France.
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$425.00
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Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher.
London: Stockdale, 1811.
Bards of the Mermaid tavern
Four volumes, small quarto, with an engraved frontispiece of each playwright by Audinet;, full diced Russia, gilt spines with raised bands. Beautifully bound set of the works of master playwright Ben Johnson, for many years the equal to Shakespeare on the English...
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$1,100.00
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Periocha viginti librorum Antiquitatis Iudaicae…
Mediolani (Milan): A. Minutianus, 1513-1514.
The great history of the Jews: a beautiful copy in a lovely English binding
Two parts in one volume, folio; printed in roman letter, large and smaller initials historiated in red and blue, eighteenth-century English brown morocco, spine ornately panelled in gilt between raised bands...
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$7,850.00
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Free Thoughts on Seduction, Adultery, and Divorce…
London: Printed for J. Bell, 1771. Octavo; half-title restored at an early date, with slightloss of text, uncut in green quarter oasis, green cloth sides. First edition. Kenrick was a journalist and playwright known for his inflammatory writings and his attacks on Goldsmith, Boswell and Johnson. Here he points his...
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$885.00
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Two years ago.
Cambridge: Macmillan, 1857. Three volumes, octavo; 4 pp. publisher's advertisements at end of volume I, publisher's catalogue dated January 1857 at end of volume II and volume III; original blind-stamped blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, First edition. Continuing Kingsley's urgent belief in the necessity for religion and politics to...
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$375.00
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Ravenshoe.
Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862. Three volumes, octavo; uncut in the original morocco-grain blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Rare: first edition of Kingsley's second novel, written on his return to England. 'The romantic story of an old English family, affected by mixed marriages and consequent social and ecclesiastical problems… Some Australian...
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$1,600.00
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