HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker.

The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex.

Lewes, John Baxter, and London, Nichols and Son, 1835.

First edition, a handsome set extensively annotated and extra-illustrated by the antiquary William Durrant Cooper, co-compiler of this history, likely in preparation for a revised edition.

£3750

[GAME.]

English–French card game for children.

[Britain, c. 1820.]

A delightful and apparently unrecorded early nineteenth-century card game for English-speaking children learning French.

£650

[GUASCO, Francesco Eugenio.]

Lettera del primicerio di Mondorbopoli a monsignor Scipione de Ricci episcopo di Pistoia e Prato.

‘In Mondorbopoli’ [Alessandria?], 1788.

Rare first edition of this anti-Jansenist attack on Scipione de’ Ricci, Bishop of Pistoia and Prato, by Francesco Eugenio Guasco (1725–1798), priest, historian, and custodian of the Capitoline Museum in Rome.

£275

GIACOMETTI, Francesco.

Nouveau jeu d’échecs ou Le jeu de la guerre …

Genoa, Jean Barthelemy Como, 1801 (‘An 4 de la République Ligurienne’).

Very rare first edition in French, thoroughly revised and expanded from the Italian original of 1793, of this treatise introducing a new, republican form of chess devised by the author, a staunch supporter of Napoleon (the dedicatee) in the new Ligurian Republic.

£1250

[FOCQUENBERGUES, Jean de, attributed.]

Le voyage de Bethel, avec des méditations et des prières pour se préparer à la...

Guernsey, Chevalier and Mauger, 1819.

A seemingly unrecorded Guernsey edition of this long-lived French Protestant devotional manual of preparation for Holy Communion.

£350

[FIELDING, Henry.]

A Proper Answer to a late scurrilous Libel, entitled, an Apology for the Conduct of a late celebrated second-rate...

London, M. Cooper, 1748.

Second edition, scarce, published only a week after the first on 2 January 1748, of Fielding’s last political pamphlet; this copy from the library of the Walpole family at Wolterton Hall, Norfolk.

£500

FIELDING, Henry.

An Enquiry into the Causes of the late Increase in Robbers, &c. with some Proposals for remedying this growing Evil …

London, A. Millar, 1751.

Second edition, published two months after the first in March 1751, with a number of sporadic but likely authorial changes, and the errata corrected.

£300

[DAVIS, Julia Sophia; John Stevens Cabot ABBOTT, editor.]

Memoir of Julia Sophia Davis, who died at Worcester, March 31, 1833.

Worcester (Massachusetts), Dorr, Howland, & Co., 1833.

First and only edition of this posthumous memoir of an exemplarily pious girl in Massachusetts, Julia Sophia Davis.

£175

[CORNAND DE LACROZE, Jean, et al.]

Tract volume of ten pamphlets in French and two in Dutch on the League of Augsburg (July...

The Netherlands, various publishers, 1686 [and one 1694].

A fine exchange of rare political propaganda published in the late months of 1686 after the signing of the League of Augsburg and the defeat of the Ottomans at Buda.

£1200

BURNET, Gilbert.

Bishop Burnet’s Travels through France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland: describing their Religion, Learning,...

London, T. Payne, 1750.

Later edition of Burnet’s account of the political and religious character of Europe on the eve of the Glorious Revolution; this is the first edition to include ‘A short Character of the Bishop and his Works’.

£150

BERNEY, Thomas.

An Address presented to the honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament...

[(Colophon:) Westminster, Vacher & Sons], [1869?].

One of several closely related printings of a very odd work, in which the ultra-Protestant Thomas Berney (1815–1895), rector of Bracon Ash, provides testimonials of a series of prophetic visions, largely relating to untimely deaths, given to him courtesy of ‘the visible personal manifestation’...

£300

[ALMANACK.]

XIX Jahrhundert. Der Wanderer am Bodensee. Jahr 1833.

Constance (Konstanz), the widow of Josef Meinrad Bannhard, [1833].

A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1833, issued in Constance by the widow of Josef Meinrad Bannhard.

£375

MALTHUS, T. R.

Principles of political Economy considered with a View to their practical Application.

London, John Murray, 1820.

First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment of issues in political economy, an attractive copy from the library of the economist and industrialist Robert Hyde Greg, a critic of Malthus’s.

£5000

[BREVIARY, Use of Passau.]

Breviarium s[ecundu]m chorum alme Ecclesie Pataviensis.

[(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein for Vienna, Lukas and Leonhard Alantsee, 25 May 1515.]

A rare Passau breviary with numerous woodcut illustrations in a contemporary Austrian binding, printed in Venice for the Austrian market.

£4500

SCHOPPER, Hartmann, translator.

Speculum vitae aulicae. De admirabili fallacia et astutia vulpeculae Reinikes libri quatuor,...

Frankfurt, [(colophon:) Nikolaus Basse], 1595.

Fifth and final edition of the first Latin translation of the adventures of the trickster fox Reynard (or Reineke), translated from the German and illustrated with fifty-seven woodcuts by Jost Amman and Virgil Solis.

£850

[GAVARD, Franz.]

‘Ritratto di Francesco Gavard Tedesco, figlio del quondam Claudio Gavard, di anni 45. Morto in Ro.ma nel Ospedale...

Rome, ‘si stampeno [sic] incontro il Palazzo di Fiorenza’, [1787].

Seemingly unrecorded popular engraving depicting Franz Gavard of Wurzburg lying in state, a pious man who moved to Rome and whose body was displayed for three days after his death.

£350

CLÜVER, Philipp.

Introductio in universam geographiam tam veterem, quam novam …

Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck for Conrad Buno, 1686.

The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important geographical textbook of the early modern period, an introduction to global geography by the German antiquarian and geographical pioneer Philipp Clüver, enlarged and supplemented by the German geographer Johann Buno.

£1750

[BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT and APOCRYPHA, Greek; Johann LONITZER, editor.]

Της θειας γραφης παλαιας...

Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1526.

The first edition of the Old Testament in Greek to be printed in Germany, and the first aimed at a Protestant readership, with the Apocrypha separated along the lines of Luther’s German translation.

£8500

WILLAN, Leonard.

The exact Politician, or, compleat Statesman: briefly and methodically resolved into such Principles, whereby...

London, Dorman Newman, 1670.

First edition, second issue, employing the sheets of the first edition (The perfect States-man, 1668, printed for the author) with a new cancel title-page, containing one of the earliest assertions that private interests serve the public good.

£850

TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1894.

An exceptionally attractive turn-of-the-century binding, with floral and foliate tooling in gilt and blind, later in the library of Alan Titchmarsh.

£675