[BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique de l’homme. Par Monsieur l’Abbé de Villemaire.

Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.

First editions of two scarce works by the philosopher, moralist, and Parisian avocat Boudier de Villemert (1716–1801), best known as the author of L’Ami des Femmes, Le monde joué involving visits from extra-terrestrials both in ancient times and in the eighteenth century.

£2500

[LANDOR, Walter Savage.]

Savonarola e il priore di San Marco.

[Florence, Barbèra, 1860.]

First edition of a Landor rarity, a fabulous association copy given in the year of the author’s death to William Michael Rossetti by their mutual friend Algernon Charles Swinburne.

£1800

MARIO, Jessie White.

Sepolcri inglesi in Roma.

Rome, Tipografia Barbèra, 1879.

A presentation copy of this very rare essay (first printed in Nuova Antologia earlier in 1879) on the English Romantic poets buried in Rome, inscribed ‘To William Michael Rossetti with gratitude for the joy derived from the perusal of his beautiful editions of Shelley … JWMario Rome 25th June...

£1500

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.

Stella. Ein Schauspiel für Liebende in fünf Akten.

Berlin, August Mylius, 1776.

First edition, scarce, of Goethe’s early play about a man caught between his love for two women, which ends with reconciliation and a mariage à trois.

£1800

[HERVEY, Elizabeth.]

The Mourtray Family. A Novel …

London: Printed by Millar Ritchie … for R. Faulder … 1800.

First edition of the penultimate novel by Elizabeth Hervey (c. 1748–1820), elder half-sister of the writer William Beckford – her father, Francis Marsh, had died and her mother Maria (née Hamilton) remarried another Jamaica plantation owner, William Beckford senior, who also died in 1770....

£2500

HABERLY, Loyd.

Daneway: A Fairy Play for Emery Walker F. S. A. …

[(Limitation:) Long Crendon,] Seven Acres Press, 1929.

First and only edition, numbered fourteen of sixty copies, of a play written, printed, and bound by Loyd Haberly, dedicated to Emery Walker and set at his home, this copy inscribed to Sir Barry Jackson by Haberly’s friend and patron Charlotte Shaw on the occasion of the first Malvern Festival.

£2000

[DRYDEN, John.]

The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition. By the Authour of Absalom and Achitophel …

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1682.

First edition, second issue, adding two Latin lines at the end. The subject of Dryden’s satire was the medal struck to celebrate Shaftesbury’s acquittal from charges of high treason. According to Spence, Charles II gave Dryden ‘the hint for writing his poem’, and rewarded him for it. In reply,...

£750

BOARETTO, Ange.

Twenty-two large prints with paint and ink additions, five large photographs of Boaretto in his studio by Jean-Yves...

France, 1960s–1980s.

A fascinating archive relating to the work of the master shoemaker and naïve artist Ange Boaretto (b. 1920), known as ‘Ange’ and ‘Le Bottier’, providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse of his unusual artistic technique – which utilised his shoemaking equipment – and of his important 1979 exhibition...

£3750

KOH, John.

Dogs in Early Photography.

London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

Throughout history, dogs have been a subject in art; dogs were featured in cave drawings, coins, funerary sculptures or medieval marginalia. Before smartphones allowed dog owners to capture and share every moment of their dogs’ lives, fine art documented this relationship and promoted the dog from...

£50

FREEMAN, Arthur.

Bibliotheca Fictiva: A Collection of Books & Manuscripts Relating to Literary Forgery 400 BC – AD 2000.

London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

This fully revised and enlarged edition of Bibliotheca Fictiva – the descriptive inventory of a collection of books and manuscripts relating to literary forgery in the Western world over the last twenty-four centuries, now housed in the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University – adds more than...

£80

VALERIANI MOLINARI, Luigi.

Discorsi concernenti la pubblica economia il gius pubblico e l’antico gius romano.

Bologna, Masi, 1809.

First edition of Valeriani’s (1758–1828) rare work of political economy presented as a science which stands as an organic complement to a nation’s set of legislation.

£750

[CAROLS.]

Noels et cantiques nouveaux, où l’on voit l’histoire de ce qui a précedé, accompagné et suivi la naissance de...

Metz, Jean Antoine, 1732.

Very rare collection of carols and canticles celebrating Christ’s nativity, printed at Metz in northeast France.

£575

RANDOLPH, Thomas.

Poems with the Muses Looking-Glasse: and Amyntas …

Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Francis Bowman, 1638.

First edition of the major collection – pastoral, erotic, and festive verse, followed by two plays – of one of the more illustrious of the ‘sons of Ben’, published two years after his death some three months short of his thirtieth birthday.

£3750

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.

Poems on various Subjects, by S. T. Coleridge, late of Jesus College Cambridge [and Charles Lamb and...

London, G. G. and J. Robinsons [sic], and Bristol, J. Cottle, 1796.

First edition of Coleridge’s first collection of verse, published in April 1796. In the Preface, Coleridge explains that ‘the Effusions signed C. L. were written by Mr. Charles Lamb, of the India House’ and that ‘the first half of Effusion XV. was written by the Author of “Joan of Arc” [i.e....

£3000

BEISNER, Monika.

Dante Alighieri: La Commedia in 100 tavole.

Turin, Attini, 2021.

Limited edition, one of 500 numbered sets, of Monika Beisner’s one hundred illustrations of the Divine Comedy, each accompanying one canto, conveying with remarkable fidelity the vivacity of Dante’s verse.

£50

[HUGHES, Langston.]

American Mission Association Race Relations Department Christmas card, featuring the poem ‘For my People’...

[n.d. but 1950s?].

£100

[POUND.] 

Ezra Pound at Seventy.

[New York, New Directions, 1955.] 

A small celebratory booklet printing tributes by Auden, Cummings, Eliot, Hemingway (‘Will gladly pay tribute to Ezra but what I would like to do is get him the hell out of St. Elizabeth’s’), Archibald Macleish, Jose de Pina Martins, Marianne Moore, Norman Pearson, Spender, and Edith Sitwell.

£30

POUND, Ezra, and Ernest FENELLOSA.

Introduzione ai Nô, con un drama in un atto di Motokiyo: Kagekiyo.

Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], [1958].

Third edition, translations of Pound’s ‘Introduction’ and one play from Certain Noble Plays of Japan by his daughter Mary de Rachewiltz. This third edition added ‘Un intervallo di 40 anni’ by Pound, dated November 1958.

£30

[I CHING.]

WILHELM, Richard, and Cary F. BAYNES, translators; C. G. JUNG, foreword. The I Ching or Book of Changes.

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.

Third edition, reprinted, in a striking moulded morocco binding by David Sellars, his first commission and most formative work.

£1950

ANDREWS, Mark E.

The Science and Engineering of Materials: A Theatre of Machine Books, 1472–1800.

Toronto, AE Publications, 2023.

An extraordinary survey of four centuries of machine books, tracing the evolution of printing techniques and draughtsmanship alongside the development of the machines themselves. In this catalogue of eighty-six works from his collection of books on civil engineering, Mark Andrews situates a series of...

£75