Literature
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
Ref: #2408211
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...
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #2408215
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
Ref: #2909745
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...
Price (AUD):
$2,950.00
Ref: #2909771
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
Ref: #2909743
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...
Price (AUD):
$8,750.00
Ref: #3108951
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
Ref: #3006485
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...
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3805647
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
Ref: #2205439
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
Ref: #3606562
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...
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
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...
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$5,850.00
Ref: #3706035
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...
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$4,850.00
Ref: #2408239
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...
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$1,550.00
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.
Price (AUD):
$425.00
Ref: #4504665
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
Ref: #1802059
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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...
Price (AUD):
$7,850.00
Ref: #4504861
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...
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #3203298
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...
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #2408251
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...
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #2408250
The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn.
London: Ward, Locke & Co. n.d, circa 1865. Octavo; contemporary half blue morocco. A nice copy of this one-volume edition of Kingsley's classic novel, first published in three volumes in 1859. Two Devonshire county families come to Australia to seek their fortunes; bushrangers, natural disasters and cattle branding give drama...
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #2709131
Angola, Histoire Indienne. Ouvrage sans vrai-semblance.
"Agra" (Paris): avec Privilege du Grand Mogol, 1746.
Not known to Strabo or Ptolemy
Two volumes in one, octavo; in contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt, crimson label. First edition: a popular and often reprinted satire on Parisian manners, set in the Indies, in a "fertile land now known to...
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #3006525
The History of Scotland…
London and Edinburgh: Mawman, 1804. Four volumes, octavo; fine in contemporary speckled calf, spines with simple double gilt rules, blue morocco lettering pieces and circular red morocco volume number labels; folding facsimile frontispiece showing Queen Mary's handwriting and a view of the College of Edinburgh. Handsome set of the second...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3002015
Le Hachych.
Paris: Paulin, 1843. Octavo, ms. inscription on title; in the original printed yellow wrappers. Presentation copy of the very rare first edition of this utopian hymn to hashish. In the early 1840s the French psychiatrist Moreau had begun studying the possible therapeutic applications of hashish, in the process installing himself...
Price (AUD):
$6,500.00
Ref: #3006509