Literature
The Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel.
London: Robert Holden, 1926. Octavo, four facsimile plates, uncut; original quarter vellum, cloth sides. From a limited edition of 750, the first volume in the Library of Impostors: the tale of a fateful trip. It includes four plates reproduced from the first edition. First published in 1751, this work has...
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$285.00
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The Earthly Paradise. A Poem.
London: F.S. Ellis, 1870-, 1871. Four volumes, octavo; contemporary manuscript inscriptions and attractive bookplates in each; contemporary half dark green morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut. Fifth edition of parts one and two, and second edition of parts three and four. A fine set of Morris's third book, which was...
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$1,185.00
Ref: #2408337
Gobi or Shamo: A Story of Three Songs.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1890. Octavo; original dark blue cloth. Third edition (first 1889), with presentation inscription "Eden Lewis from Rosalind Carlisle, July 1893" (Lady Carlisle was Gilbert Murray's mother-in-law), and the signature of the book's later owner Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. Gobi or Shamo...
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$300.00
Ref: #2605333
The Story of Nefrekepta, from a Demotic Papyrus.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911. Quarto, uncut, with colour-printed frontispiece and woodcut tail-piece by Florence Kingsford Cockerell; gilt stamped brown boards. First edition: an Egyptian fragment translated by Gilbert Murray. The classicist explains in his preface that "the origin of this tale is in Demotic Egyptian, in prose, on a fragmentary...
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$245.00
Ref: #2605336
Mausoleum potentissimorum ac gloriosissimorum regni…
Nuremberg: Endter, 1664.
Hungarian nobility and royalty
Folio, title-page in black and red, additional engraved title, 59 full-page portrait engravings in the text; in contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. First edition of this handsome work on the Hungarian monarchy with a wonderful series of fifty-nine full-length heraldic portraits of...
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$4,200.00
Ref: #3905157
A New and General Biographical Dictionary…
London: T. Osborne et al. 1766.
From Moses to contemporary men of fashion
Eleven volumes, octavo; a most handsome set in contemporary speckled calf. This grave and ambitious work sets out to list the most famous and infamous individuals encountered in the histories and legends of all nations. Volume one...
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$3,500.00
Ref: #2610442
Relation du Voyage Mysterieux de l'Isle de la Vertu, a Oronte.
Mons: chez Gaspard Migeot, 1740.
Mexican Bishop and the Land of Virtue
Duodecimo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt. Attractive copy of a rare work, with a Belgian imprint, relating the "mysterious voyage" to a "Land of Virtue". First published in Rouen in 1684, this rare spiritual romance is an educational novel...
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$1,425.00
Ref: #3005374
Illuminated Miniature of St. Matthew.
Paris: circa 1500.
Exquisite late medieval manuscript leaf
Fine illuminated leaf, 165 x 109 mm., double-sided, with a fine miniature of St Matthew, 42 x 40 mm., with three-quarter ornamental border divided into geometrical compartments, with blue and gold acanthus and coloured flowers and leaves; one 2-line illuminated initial C....
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$4,500.00
Ref: #2909739
Télephe en XII livres.
Londres; et se trouve à Paris: Pissot, 1784. Octavo, woodcut vignette on title, early inscribed attribution 'Par Mr de Péméyea'; contemporary French quarter calf. First edition of this antiquarian utopia set in Minoan Crete, chronicling the reconciliation of all strata of society. The success of this novel by the Professeur.....
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$2,650.00
Ref: #3006461
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry…
London: J. Dodsley, 1767. Three volumes, octavo, engraved frontispiece and titles, two other textual engravings; an attractive set with contemporary ownership inscriptions, contemporary calf, spines banded and gilt, red morocco labels. Second edition, expanded, of this celebrated collection. Samuel Johnson is known to have encouraged Percy in his work, and...
Price (AUD):
$725.00
Ref: #2408363
Le Roi Voyageur, ou Examen des Abus de l'Administration de la Lydie.
Londres: T.P. Capel, 1784. Octavo, completely uncut, original wrappers. First edition: the fictional discovery and translation of an ancient travel account used to mask a political satire. The London imprint is probably a disguise since the binding shows the use of French printed waste as strengthening. Published only five years...
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$1,685.00
Ref: #3006464
A General Dictionary of Painters…
London: 1829. 2 volumes, octavo, with 25 engravings including two frontispieces, handsomely bound in full contemporary green straight-grain morocco, spines ornately gilt with raised bands, boards embossed and decorated in gilt, dentelles, all edges gilt. A particularly attractive copy of the 1829 New Edition of Pilkington's standard reference work, revised...
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$575.00
Ref: #1500920
An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot…
London: J. Wright, 1734. Folio; a large copy, disbound; quarter morocco box. First edition, and a fine copy of one of Pope's most celebrated invectives, addressed to his physician and life-long friend, Arbuthnot. It famously contains Pope's savaging of Queen Caroline's confidant and society gossip Lord Hervey, who is named...
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$1,400.00
Ref: #2408374
The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. in Nine Volumes, Complete.
London: Law, et al. 1797.
"a short yet not imperfect system of ethics"
Nine volumes, octavo, engraved frontispiece; early half blue straight-grained morocco and marbled boards, a handsome set. A handsome eighteenth century edition of the complete works of the poet and satirist Alexander Pope, containing the pivotal analysis An...
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$2,250.00
Ref: #3306798
La Conquete des Airs, Reve Philosophique.
Paris: Marchant, Editeur, 1834. Octavo, 22 pp.; in the original printed blue paper wrappers preserved in a modern quarter cloth binding. Rare first edition (NUC notes a single copy) of this very early aeronautical fantasy, an impassioned plea for the aérostation as the basis for a world of harmony and...
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$2,400.00
Ref: #3006514
Selected poems with an introduction and notes by Austin Dobson.
London: Kegan Paul, 1889. Octavo, engraved frontispiece; in a stunning Zaehnsdorf binding. First edition thus: collected edition of some of the lighter verse by the diplomat and author Matthew Prior.
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #2408377
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966. Small octavo; very good copy on India paper, bound in red polished calf, spine with raised bands, gilt dentelles, spine slightly sunned. A very good copy of this famous anthology, in Baynton binding.
Price (AUD):
$475.00
Ref: #3804585
Oeuvres de maitre François Rabelais avec remarques historiques et critiques de Mr. le Duchat. Nouvelle edition.
Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1741.
The enlightenment Rabelais
Three quarto volumes, with two frontispieces, two engraved decorative titles, and 16 plates (of which three are folding), contemporary binding of polished calf, flat spines gilt with complex ornaments in panels. Beautifully printed with an impressive array of engraved plates, this is...
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$5,400.00
Ref: #4211247
Portrait of the writer, D.H. Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930)…
1929.
Portrait of D.H. Lawrence
An original pen and ink portrait, 270 x 200mm; signed lower left Henry Rayner and inscribed "D H Lawrence 1929"; mounted and framed. This evocative portrait of the great writer brilliantly captures his likeness in his 44th year, at a time when he had returned...
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$9,500.00
Ref: #4504957
The Works.
London: Cadell and Davies, 1809. Three volumes, octavo, aquatint frontispiece portrait; fine in contemporary sprinkled calf, spines simply ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering pieces and circular green volume labels. Fourth edition, corrected, in a restrained contemporary binding: the works of Sir Joseph Reynolds, the most influential of eighteenth-century English...
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$2,850.00
Ref: #3002016
The History of Sir Charles Grandison in a Series of Letters…
London: Printed for S. Richardson, 1754. Seven volumes, small octavo, single leaf publisher's advertisement in volume IV, marginal tear with slight loss to one page of volume III and two pages in volume VI, some pages becoming loose (see volume IV), early owner's inscription to each title-page ("Jurin"), occasional eighteenth-century...
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$2,950.00
Ref: #3710375
The History of Sir Charles Grandison…
London: T. Longman et al. 1796. Seven volumes, small octavo; each volume with an engraved frontispiece showing a scene from the narrative; contemporary half roan, marbled paper sides, flat spines lettered in gilt. A very attractive set, from the library of the Marquess Conyngham at Slane Castle, Ireland, with his...
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$2,100.00
Ref: #3409285
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Italy a Poem [and] Poems…
London: T. Cadell, 1830 / 1834. Two works, octavo, with numerous engravings; contemporary polished pale calf, spines ornately panelled in gilt, bright crimson endpapers with inner gilt dentelles, gilt edges, crimson silk markers; binding by Tout. A beautiful set in very fine condition, in a superb binding by Tout with...
Price (AUD):
$685.00
Ref: #4504704
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Rouen: circa 1480. Illuminated leaf, 182 x 116 mm., with an exquisite panel border on both sides of blue and gold acanthus leaves with unusual orange and red flowers on the verso and red and white flowers on the recto, with ten 1-line initials and two 2-line initials in red...
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #2909712