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Publisher’s blue-green cloth lettered in blue with printer’s device blocked in blue to upper board, in the original yellow dust-jacket printed in black; pp. 256, [4 (publisher’s catalogue)]; some spotting to rear cover of jacket, two old archival tape repairs to interior of jacket, spine ends lightly bumped with corresponding light fraying to jacket, spine of cloth and jacket slightly discoloured; a very good copy; old ownership inscription to front free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, scarce in the dust-jacket,  of Russell’s history of the conflicts between science and traditional religion from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was no. 178 in the \u003ci\u003eHome University Library of Modern Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e, the remarkable series of popular non-fiction books written by prominent intellectuals. The series was edited by H.A.L. 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This series of prayers by Nerses IV (also called Nerses of Kla, Nerses Shnorhali, or Nerses the Graceful), known as ‘I confess with faith’ (\u003ci\u003eHavadov Khosdovanim\u003c\/i\u003e), contains one prayer for each hour of the day, with an emphasis on repentance, pleas for protection, and adoration of the Holy Trinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first edition featured eight languages and was expanded in 1811, and again in the present edition, including twenty-four languages by 1837 and thirty-three languages by 1862.\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the title-page lists only Turkish (here rendered using the Armeno-Turkish alphabet), Greek, Latin, Italian, and French, this edition also contains Armenian; the Transylvanian Armenian dialect known as Artial or Ardeal, now functionally extinct; English; German; Hungarian; Serbian; Dutch; Spanish; and Illyrian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOCLC finds five copies in the US (BPL, Harvard, NYPL, Princeton Theological Seminary, Wesleyan) and two in the UK (BL, Edinburgh), to which Library Hub adds copies at the Bodleian, Lambeth Palace, and Eton.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavt’yan 227. See Brunet IV, col. 859 (calling for editions from 1818 onward); Nersessian 510 (1837 edition only).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125782\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64039897792889,"sku":"2125782","price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125782b.jpg?v=1784817072"},{"product_id":"sacrobosco-johannes-de-elie-vinet-sphaera-ioannis-de-sacro-bosco-emendata","title":"SACROBOSCO, Johannes de; Elie VINET. Sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco, emendata.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eWith Annotations on the Zodiac\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSACROBOSCO, Johannes de; Elie VINET.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco, emendata. \u003ci\u003eParis: Guillaume Cavellat.\u003c\/i\u003e 1562.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Nineteenth-century vellum-backed boards with marbled sides; ff. 102; a–m8 n6; bound without folding woodcut plate at end, as often (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e), quire n misbound; numerous woodcut diagrams in the text, woodcut headpieces and initials, woodcut Cavellat device to title and final leaf; volvelles wanting (f. 31r with resultant small hole to centre), somewhat foxed throughout (heavier to first quire and last few ff.), uniform toning, dampstaining to quires e and m at head, short closed tear to inner margin of f. 96; contemporary marginal and annotations to 67 pp. in Latin in a French hand (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRare edition of Vinet’s commentary on Sacrobosco’s (d. 1256) De sphaera, used as an introductory astronomical text at universities throughout Europe, printed by the Catholic publisher Cavellat and including Melanchthon’s preface, our copy extensively annotated by an early reader.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the first universities to adopt Vinet’s \u003ci\u003eSphaera\u003c\/i\u003e was the Lutheran University of Wittenberg, where a dedication from Melanchthon to Simon Grynaeus was added (ff. 3–8, here dated 1540 but authored in 1531), ‘extolling the value and utility of astronomical knowledge. This preface was widely reprinted in editions of the \u003ci\u003eSphere\u003c\/i\u003e, even in Catholic countries, and Cavellat included it in his editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough Melanchthon’s works were all placed on the \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e of prohibited books in 1559, Catholic publishers like Cavellat continued to include this preface, although they frequently removed Melanchthon’s name. Cavellat’s editions of the \u003ci\u003eSphaera emendata\u003c\/i\u003e were richly illustrated, with about fifty different woodcuts, including volvelles’ (Crowther \u003ci\u003eet al.\u003c\/i\u003e, p. 10). The same preface to the 1559 Cavellat edition had appeared with the names of Melanchthon and Grynaeus, and the preface was almost always excised from previous Cavellat editions; this is seemingly the first edition in which their names are suppressed to avoid censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere, Sacrobosco’s treatise is followed by Pedro Nunes’s \u003ci\u003eAnnotatio in extrema verba capitis de climatibus\u003c\/i\u003e, translated by Vinet (the two had at some point been in contact) and first appended to the \u003ci\u003eSphaera\u003c\/i\u003e in 1555\/56 (ff. 51v–57r); an excerpt of the third book of the \u003ci\u003eEpitome of Ptolemy’s Almagest\u003c\/i\u003e by Regiomontanus (ff. 57v–58r); an extract from Al-Farghani (Alfraganus) on heliacal rising and setting; the anonymous \u003ci\u003eDe ortu poetico\u003c\/i\u003e (ff. 60r–74v), ‘which provided all the information needed to inventory and to interpret the astronomical passages in classical texts’ (Pantin, p. 282); Piero Valeriano’s \u003ci\u003eCompendium in sphaeram\u003c\/i\u003e (ff. 75r–97v); as well as a brief extract by Proclus on eclipses and a poem dedicated to Valeriano by Donato Villalta (1510–1560).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur copy bears numerous contemporary annotations, largely to the \u003ci\u003eSphaera emendata\u003c\/i\u003e. The annotator frequently adds labels to the numerous woodcut diagrams (e.g. adding the signs of the zodiac and the length of each planet’s orbit to the Ptolemaic Primum mobile) and makes reference to a wide range of sources, including the fifteenth-century astronomer Georg von Peuerbach, Alfonso X of Castile, Regiomontanus, Theodosius, and Euclid. Many of the annotations are concentrated within the second book of the \u003ci\u003eSphaera\u003c\/i\u003e, particularly with regard to the signs of the zodiac, making note of temperaments and elements associated with each sign as well as adding a diagram visualising Sacrobosco’s concept of the \u003ci\u003esignum\u003c\/i\u003e, where each sign is represented by a thirty-degree, wedge-shaped section with its centre at the Earth’s core. Our annotator also adds a drawing of a cordiform map, divided longitudinally, to f. 43r. One additional annotation, to Valeriani’s \u003ci\u003eCompendium in sphaeram\u003c\/i\u003e, flags up ‘stupid opinions’ regarding ancient practices of shouting and banging cymbals when faced with a lunar eclipse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy is bound without the final leaf, containing parts of moveable diagrams to be cut out and mounted to corresponding figures in the text; the volvelles were at one point cut out and attached, but have since perished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe find three copies of this edition in the US (Chicago, NYPL, Wisconsin-Madison) and two in the UK (Leeds, NLS).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUSTC 203084; P6c in Pantin, ‘Borrowers and Innovators’, in Valeriani ed., De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period (2020); Pettegree \u0026amp; Walsby, French Books 75682. This edition not in Adams, Alden (cf. vol. I 556\/40), or Houzeau \u0026amp; Lancaster (cf. no. 1657). 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Glingler, Rome, upper board lettered in red, six vellum ties with vellum tassels, patterned paper pastedowns; pp. [4], with 17 collotype prints after drawings by Othmar Brioschi mounted on blue card; boards lightly soiled, ties stiffened; internally very clean; a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, very rare, of this portfolio reproducing Othmar Brioschi’s seventeen drawings of Tivoli, originally commissioned by Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the last private owner of the Villa d’Este.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn into an Austrian family of theatre painters of Italian origin, Othmar Brioschi (1854–1912) settled permanently in Rome after winning the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1882. Working within the city’s German-speaking artistic community, he became known for his atmospheric landscapes characterised by subtle effects of light, mood, and perspective. His 1898 commission from Archduke Franz Ferdinand for a cycle of seventeen views of the sixteenth-century Villa d’Este at Tivoli established him as the leading Austrian landscape painter active in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1905 he was appointed professor at the Accademia di San Luca. Commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este (1509–1572), the Villa d’Este passed into Habsburg ownership in 1796. After a prolonged period of neglect, it was restored to its former glory by Cardinal Gustav von Hohenlohe (1823–1896), who transformed it into a hub for German artists, musicians, and writers in Italy. Among its most celebrated visitors was Franz Liszt (1811–1886), who drew inspiration there for his works \u003ci\u003eAux cyprès de la Villa d’Este\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLes jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este\u003c\/i\u003e. Franz Ferdinand was the last private owner of the villa before it passed to the Italian State after the First World War. The portfolio is introduced by an essay on the history of the Villa d’Este by the German classical archaeologist and epigrapher Christian Hülsen (1858–1935).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutside continental Europe, OCLC finds two copies in the US (Berkeley and Emory). Not on Library Hub\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125740\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64039902609785,"sku":"2125740","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125740a.jpg?v=1784817104"},{"product_id":"hebrew-bible-םיטפושו-עשוהי-joshua-and-judges","title":"[HEBREW BIBLE.] םיטפושו עשוהי [Joshua and Judges.]","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003ePocket Prophets\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[HEBREW BIBLE.]\u003c\/strong\u003e םיטפושו עשוהי [Joshua and Judges.] \u003ci\u003eGeneva: Kefa Elon\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003ei.e. Pierre de la Rouvière\u003c\/i\u003e). 5377 (\u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c\/i\u003e 1616 or 1617).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[\u003ci\u003ewith:\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[—.]\u003c\/strong\u003e [Samuel.] שמואל.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeneva: Kefa Elon (i.e. Pierre de la Rouvière). 5377 (i.e. 1616 or 1617). \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo parts in one volume, 16mo. Eighteenth-century sheep, spine richly gilt in compartments, board-edges roll-tooled in gilt, red gilt brocade endpapers; Joshua and Judges: ff. [3 (blank)], [130], [3 (blank)], with part-title to Judges; Samuel: ff. [3 (blank)], [151], [6 (blank)]; titles within architectural woodcut borders and start of text within woodcut cartouches; hinges starting, boards lightly rubbed with a few minor abrasions, worming to upper joint with small loss; internally clean and bright; a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo portions, comprising Joshua and Judges as well as Samuel, of the handsome eighteen-part, pocket-sized Hebrew Bible printed in Geneva by Pierre de la Rouvière, sold as individual fascicles which could be bound together (as here) or in sets of four volumes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Christian printer Pierre de la Rouvière (1574–1622, \u003ci\u003efl\u003c\/i\u003e. 159–1622) is here listed on the title-page as ‘Kefa Elon’, a literal translation of his name ('Rock Oak’); he is elsewhere known as Cephas\/Cafa Elon or Petrus Quercetanus and was the printer of the first bilingual Josephus (1611) as well as a Hebrew–Greek Bible (1609). The two discrete parts bound together here form part of what Steinschneider calls the \u003ci\u003eBiblia Eliana\u003c\/i\u003e – known also as the Petrus Bibles – issued shortly after the 4to Hebrew edition, also published in 8vo with interlinear Latin translation. All are based largely on earlier Venetian Hebrew Bibles, especially those printed by Giustiniani in the sixteenth century, to which they are typographically related.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present work evidently makes use of Picard’s square Sephardic Hebrew typeface (Lubell’s Hb27), first used by Robert Estienne in 1543 and ‘most probably the first complete Hebrew type specimen ever recorded’ (Lubell, p. 258). De la Rouvière had used the same type for his 1614 \u003ci\u003eThesaurus linguae sanctae\u003c\/i\u003e, distinguished by the ‘lamed with its distinctive flagged ascender, the shin with the squared termination on the middle stroke and the gimmel with the bent middle stroke and calligraphic termination to the baseline […] The attributions for this Picard typeface show a very wide distribution: Geneva, Gießen, Frankfurt and Hanau in Germany’ and were likely spread by André Wechel, who re-established his business in Frankfurt in the aftermath of the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and likely ‘managed to have some of his type brought to Frankfurt by Denis du Val, his associate in Paris’, or by Robert Estienne, who brought much of his type to Geneva after 1549 (\u003ci\u003eibid\u003c\/i\u003e., pp. 259–60). Geneva (גנווא) is often mistaken in the imprint as Genova.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title-page to each fascicle gives the date of 5377, \u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c\/i\u003e 1617, but the colophon of the last portion, \u003ci\u003eChronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, gives the date of 13 Av 5318, \u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c\/i\u003e 28 July 1618 and the name of ‘the German Johann Caspar from Oeder’ (\u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.), whose name also appears at the end of the \u003ci\u003eBook of Esther\u003c\/i\u003e. We have been un-able to identify the handsome gilt brocade endpapers, depicting acanthus leaves and flowerpots and signed ‘B.L.sC’, although the interlacing geometric borders bear a resemblance to motifs employed by Georg Christoph Stoy (\u003ci\u003ecf\u003c\/i\u003e. Kopylov 38).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBM STC, p. 99; Darlow \u0026amp; Moule 5121 (dividing the work into fourteen parts rather than eighteen); Roest I, p. 168; Steinschneider 420b. 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Publisher’s vellum-backed boards with drab paper sides, upper board and spine lettered directly in gilt, uncut; pp. 79, [1]; 4 wood-engraved plates, numerous wood-engraved vine initials and tailpiece by Austin Osman Spare; corners lightly bumped, slight discolouration and wear to foot of spine; but a fine copy; blind-embossed ‘presentation copy’ stamp to title, contemporary gift inscription to p. 7 ‘To the Recorder of Hythe’, dated ‘The Kennel, Berks’, 29 January 1910’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition in book form, and the first to be illustrated by occultist Austin Osman Spare, of this legal poem by polemical Justice of the Peace and M.P. for Deptford Charles Darling, notorious for his theatrical behaviour in court, this copy seemingly presented by the author to a fellow judge.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the Oxford Circuit (pp. 7–29) was inspired by the abrupt death of Common Pleas Justice Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd in the midst of ‘delivering his charge to the Grand Jury at Stafford on the Oxford Circuit, of which he had been Leader’ (p. 79). It had appeared ‘in a form more imperfect, I hope’ in the \u003ci\u003eCornhill Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and a few of the other poems had been published in other forms in the \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eWestminster Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e. There follow sonnets to Auguste Rodin, the actor and early supporter of Dreyfus’s innocence Benoît-Constant Coquelin, and James McNeill Whistler, as well as occasional poems and legal ‘marginal memoranda’ in verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDarling would later preside over the scandalous 1918 trial at the Old Bailey involving a so-called ‘Black Book’ containing the names of 47,000 Britons whom MP Noel Pemberton-Billing accused of being seduced by German agents into ‘debauchery’ and ‘sexual perversion’, amongst them the actress Maud Allan, R.B. Haldane, and Darling himself. Pemberton-Billing called as a witness Lord Alfred Douglas, who infamously described Oscar Wilde during the trial as ‘the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last three hundred and fifty years’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Spare’s ‘symbol-laden’ illustrations to the sonnets, an early-career commission, an Icarus figure ‘falls past a windmill while a man sleeps, a cock crows, and a seedy-looking man in a hat skulks about, while the prop-heavy title-page features various objects – an owl, a skull, an old tome, some scrolls – drawn from items bought in junk markets’ (Baker, \u003ci\u003eAustin Osman Spare\u003c\/i\u003e (2023)). The Chiswick Press was a favourite of Aleister Crowley, and at the time of publication Spare was involved with Crowley’s Thelemite magical order, the A∴A∴, although by 1912 his opinion had diverged decidedly from Crowley’s with regard to ceremonial magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: presentation inscription to the Recorder of Hythe, dated 29 January 1910.  Frederick Temple Barrington-Ward (1880–1938), Recorder of Hythe from 1904 to 1911, was educated at Westminster and Hertford College, Oxford and was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn. 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Original card wrappers with integral pale grey dust-jacket lettered in blue to upper cover and spine, priced 15s net to front flap; housed in a dark green cloth folding chemise with gilt burgundy morocco lettering-piece to upper cover and emerald green ties; pp. [vi], 107, [1 (limitation statement)], 4 collotype plates including frontispiece;  light rubbing to spine and folds, short split to wrapper at foot of upper joint, top- and tail-edges a touch dusty; else a bright, near-fine copy, in like wrapper; presentation inscription to ‘Miss Temkin’ to half-title, dated December 1944 (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e), 3 manuscript corrections in Connolly’s hand in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fine copy, presented by the author to his ‘dream executive’ at Horizon with corrections in his hand, of the first, limited, edition of Connolly’s melancholy and deeply personal masterpiece – one of the great literary self-portraits of the twentieth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough Cyril Connolly (1903–1974) was arguably the most gifted English literary critic and man of letters of his generation, his reputation rests on two books: \u003ci\u003eEnemies of Promise\u003c\/i\u003e (1938), his celebrated meditation on the conditions necessary for literary greatness (with its memorable image of ‘the pram in the hall’), and \u003ci\u003eThe Unquiet Grave\u003c\/i\u003e (1944). The latter, a book of \u003ci\u003epensées\u003c\/i\u003e, some coined by Connolly himself, others drawn from favourite, chiefly French, authors, was compiled the year he turned forty, while cut off by the war from the continental civilisation he loved and suffering the unhappiness of separation from his wife Jean. Although the first US edition (1945) identifies Connolly as author on the jacket, nothing in this edition (or the 1945 first UK trade edition) identifies the author as anyone other than ‘Palinurus’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnolly takes his pseudonym from Aeneas’s famous helmsman, who, having steered the Trojan fleet past Scylla and Charybdis, unaccountably falls asleep at the tiller, is washed overboard, then put to death by natives, his body left unburied upon the shore.\u003cbr\u003eWhen Aeneas descends into the underworld, Palinurus’s ghost begs him to see that his bones are properly laid to rest so that he may finally find peace. 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Palinurus, in spite of his great ability and his conspicuous public position, deserted his post in the moment of victory and opted for the unknown shore.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough few readers can have been in much doubt who stood behind the pseudonym, Connolly felt the need for a veil of anonymity, however ineffectual, to separate himself from what might otherwise have seemed too confessional – and the work is certainly an unflinching exercise in self-laceration. ‘A fat, slothful, querulous, greedy, impotent carcass […]’ is how he describes himself, a theme picked up again by the book’s most frequently quoted line: ‘Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out’ (later winningly parodied by Kingsley Amis as ‘Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in’). Memorable aperçus abound: ‘There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say’; ‘The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.’ What might otherwise have become a gloomy exercise in self-pity, however, is lightened and leavened by Connolly’s wit and his exquisite prose (‘Secretly I am convinced that there is no happiness outside my prose’, he once remarked).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued in December 1944 by \u003ci\u003eHorizon\u003c\/i\u003e – the literary journal founded and edited by Connolly – and printed by the Curwen Press on handmade paper in an edition of one thousand copies, \u003ci\u003eThe Unquiet Grave\u003c\/i\u003e was rapturously received by Connolly’s friends and contemporaries. Osbert Sitwell, according to his sister Edith, could talk of nothing else: ‘he carries [it] about with him from bedroom to writing-room, from writing-room to dining-room’, while Nancy Mitford wrote to Connolly that she was ‘extremely touched \u0026amp; gratified at being sent the \u003ci\u003eGrave\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; have been gobbling about it the whole evening \u0026amp; can’t wait to begin again ... It is really very much like talking to you, always a major pleasure.’ From America, his estranged wife Jean, whose absence haunts the book, wrote to say how much she had loved it, ‘but it makes me too sad to talk about. I think you are one of the few people whom self-pity or unhappiness develops rather than shuts in.’ Ernest Hemingway was an unlikely admirer, writing to Connolly that ‘I am no good at saying this sort of thing but I wanted [...] to tell you how much the Palinurus book meant to me. [It is] a book which no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis uncommonly sharp copy is warmly inscribed by Connolly on the half-title ‘To Miss Temkin, the author’s | dream executive, this rough draft | from | her ever | grateful | Palinurus | ΠΑΛΙΝΟΥΡΟΣ | London 4 Dec. 1944’.\u003c\/strong\u003e Miss Temkin, briefly mentioned in Jeremy Lewis’ Life of Connolly, was ‘production manager’ at \u003ci\u003eHorizon\u003c\/i\u003e (we have been unable to find her first name). 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Publisher’s cream wrappers printed in black and red; pp. [xii], 15–699, [5]; wrappers slightly toned with a few spots and marks, slight creasing to corners, spine creased with tiny nick; internally clean; overall very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, the ordinary paper issue with the colophon dated 25 August 1978, of Georges Perec’s most celebrated novel.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDedicated to the memory of Raymond Queneau, \u003ci\u003eLa Vie mode d’emploi\u003c\/i\u003e is described on the title-page as ‘romans’ rather than ‘roman’, a subtle indication of the multiplicity of narratives that unfold throughout the text. 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Myers, 1932’, loosely inserted autograph letter (120 x 170 mm) signed ‘Eveleen Myers’ to ‘My dear Carol’ on headed notepaper (12 Cleveland Row, St James’s), dated 7 October 1932, in the original envelope addressed to The Lord Swinfen (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition of Myers’s work on the unconscious mind, presented to Charles Swinfen Eady, 2nd Baron Swinfen by the author’s wife, Eveleen Tennant Myers, a prolific self-taught society photographer and model for Millais and Watts.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901) was one of the pre-eminent figures in the late Victorian boom in psychic studies. A founder of the Society of Psychical Research, he made his reputation with the 1888 book \u003ci\u003ePhantasms of the Living\u003c\/i\u003e, written with Edmund Gurney, which documented over seven hundred sightings of apparitions and attempted to forge a statistical proof of telepathy. He followed it up with a collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eScience and a Future Life\u003c\/i\u003e (1893), in which he made it clear that his was not a religious quest but a scientific enquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese books exerted a considerable influence on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that ardent spiritualist who participated in seances with Myers as well as Henry Sidgwick and Alfred Russel Wallace. 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Fellow parapsychological researchers including William James were highly impressed, and the book received a second lease of life when it was republished in 1961 with an introduction by Aldous Huxley, who described it as ‘an amazingly rich, profound and stimulating book.’ Mainstream psychology, however, has not accepted his findings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: Presented by Eveleen Myers to the barrister Charles ‘Carol’ Swinfen Eady, 2nd Baron Swinfen, here aged twenty-eight. In 1937 he married Mary Farmar, who was to become better known in later life as the novelist Mary Wesley. Loosely inserted is an affectionate autograph letter referring to another copy of the book that Eveleen intended to send Swinfen from Leckhampton House in Cambridge, erected by Frederic Myers on land leased from Corpus Christi College: ‘I am so sorry I cannot find the volumes of “Human Personality” I wanted to give you. All my books at Leckhampton that I did not give to the family I packed in Boxes at Leckhampton – I hoped to have found them for you – when I was there – but I failed – so please accept this edition, with my love, and forgive me for the delays’. She discusses her summer holidays, sends love to Lord Swinfen’s mother and sister, and complains of depleted strength due to the previous year’s influenza and ‘Dentists!!’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe association is particularly interesting for the picture it paints of the Myers’ connections in high society, even after Frederic’s death. Eveleen took up photography in 1888 to record her family (including her sister, the artist Dorothy Tennant) and owned several original prints by Julia Margaret Cameron, whose work inspired her photographic compositions, although she stopped after Frederic’s death in 1901; the National Portrait Gallery holds over two hundred of her photographs. 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Although he acknowledges in his prefatory letter to Giolito that to ‘create new rules’ would verge on madness, he acknowledges that Bembo’s desire to ‘dress [grammar] in the rich cloth of eloquence’ meant that he ‘considered only the learned’ (\u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.). Dolce, a prominent art theorist, friend of Titian, and the first to  refer to Dante’s epic as the \u003ci\u003eDivina Commedia\u003c\/i\u003e, first addresses the question of whether the vernacular should be called Italian or Tuscan (expressing a strong preference for the latter) before discussing the definition and principles of vernacular grammar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition reflects the culmination of mounting tensions between Dolce and Ruscelli. In 1552, Dolce and Ruscelli – then working as a literary editor for Valgrisi – had almost simultaneously produced new editions of Boccaccio’s \u003ci\u003eDecameron\u003c\/i\u003e. Dolce’s, published by Giolito slightly earlier, contains an address to the reader sharply critiquing editors, proofreaders, and printers of other editions of the Decameron, including Ruscelli’s edition (of which he had seen galley proofs), although he does not mention Ruscelli by name. In turn, Ruscelli attempted to correct the numerous errors in the first edition of Dolce’s \u003ci\u003eOsservationi\u003c\/i\u003e ‘covertly, without mentioning [Dolce], in his notes on language appended to the Valgrisi \u003ci\u003eDecameron\u003c\/i\u003e. Dolce refused to credit Ruscelli and instead ‘broke off the friendship, sparking a literary war in which both parties fought by means of the pen, both offensively and defensively’ (Bongi, \u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.). Dolce had originally appended to this edition of his grammatical work a defamatory letter against Ruscelli for this reason, but it was so scathing that Giolito was forced – by order of the Council of Ten – to censor the letter by excising the three offending leaves from the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough the book was published between May and June 1552, the order from the Council of Ten would not be issued until February 1553, so only the copies sold in the intervening nine months retained the letter; such copies are considered ‘true bibliographic rarities’ (\u003ci\u003eibid\u003c\/i\u003e.). Ruscelli, incensed, re-sponded in kind in his \u003ci\u003eTre discorsi a Messer Lodovico\u003c\/i\u003e (1553), arguing that Dolce’s \u003ci\u003eOsservationi\u003c\/i\u003e consisted of little more than a translation of Donatus and an amalgamation of the work of Bembo, Fortunio, Liburnio, and Alunno comprising ‘not more than two hundred lines of original work’ (quoted in Bongi, \u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutside continental Europe, we find eleven copies in the US (Claremont, Duke, Harvard, Indiana, Newberry, NYPL, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, San Francisco State, UCLA, Wisconsin-Madison), and only one in the UK (Manchester).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEDIT16 CNCE 17344; USTC 827075; Bongi, pp. 353–56; Index Aureliensis XII, p. 270; Shaaber, p. 175. This edition not in Adams (see D-746–48), BM STC Italian (see p. 221), Brunet (see vol. II, col. 789), nor Graesse.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125231\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64039912210809,"sku":"2125231","price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125231.jpg?v=1784817229"},{"product_id":"vettori-piero-trattato-delle-lodi-et-della-coltivatione-de-gl-ulivi","title":"VETTORI, Piero Trattato … delle lodi et della coltivatione de gl’ulivi.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eOde to Olives\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVETTORI, Piero\u003c\/strong\u003e Trattato … delle lodi et della coltivatione de gl’ulivi. \u003ci\u003eFlorence:\u003c\/i\u003e [\u003ci\u003eFilippo\u003c\/i\u003e] \u003ci\u003eGiunti\u003c\/i\u003e [\u003ci\u003ee fratelli\u003c\/i\u003e]. 1569.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo in 4s. Nineteenth-century vellum over boards, green gilt morocco lettering-piece to spine; pp. [viii], 89, [1 (blank)]; woodcut Giunta device to title, 7- and 8-line woodcut initials; minute wormhole to spine and to lower joint at foot; small repair to lower corner of final (blank) leaf, head of title slightly dusty, old marginal repair to f. G2 not affecting text; a very good copy; nineteenth-century bookplate of Vincenzo Follini to front pastedown (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e), nineteenth-century ownership inscription ‘D. Alexandri Belli Abbatij Cassinensis’ to title; sporadic early underlining.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition of the first specific work on olives and their cultivation, dedicated to the author’s patron, Cosimo I de’ Medici, this copy from the librarian of the Magliabechiana Library.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlorentine humanist, philologist, and Giunta editor Piero Vettori (1499–1585) was a friend of Benedetto Varchi and Giovanni della Casa, editing the latter’s works after his death. At the age of eighteen, he married Maddalena Costanza de’ Medici (d. 1566), and despite his early involvement with Luigi Alamanni and Iacopo Cattani da Diacceto – members of the Orti Oricellari circle implicated in the 1522 conspiracy to kill Cardinal Giuliano de’ Medici – he remained close to the Medici family, later giving funeral orations for Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici (1562); the dedicatee of this work, Cosimo I de’ Medici (1574); and the Grand Duke’s wife, Eleonora di Toledo (1562). In 1530, he left Florence for his country home at San Casciano in Val di Pesa (famously the site of Machiavelli’s exile), likely where he gathered firsthand encounters with olive cultivation. He remained there until he was recalled to Florence by Cosimo I de’ Medici in 1538\/39 to take up a position as lecturer in Greek and Latin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe continued teaching in Florence until 1584 ‘despite the offers he received over the years […] and the concrete possibility of entering the Roman Curia in 1555 following the election of Marcello Cervini (Pope Marcellus II), a lover of classical languages and a personal friend of Vettori’s whose pontificate lasted only a few weeks’ (\u003ci\u003eDBI, trans.\u003c\/i\u003e). He edited numerous classical works for the Giunta press, notably the 1536 edition of Cicero’s \u003ci\u003eEpistolae familiares\u003c\/i\u003e, and he was involved in the 1527 ‘\u003ci\u003eventisettana\u003c\/i\u003e’ edition of the \u003ci\u003eDecameron\u003c\/i\u003e; Renouard calls him ‘the most knowledgeable of all [Giunta] editors’ (\u003ci\u003etrans.\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNumerous works by or edited by Vettori were dedicated to Cosimo I de’ Medici: here, he remarks that the Grand Duke is particularly apt as a dedicatee for having been the driving force behind much of his literary output. Cosimo ‘not only engaged with agronomy on a theoretical level, but he also took up the manual aspects with the sincerity of Cincinnatus’, planting a rose garden near Palazzo Pitti, planting peach pits in his garden at Poggio a Caiano, and creating a garden of dwarf fruit trees (Barker, p. 533). In his dedication, Vettori writes that Cosimo ‘does not in any way scorn the cultivation of the land, nor see it as a squalid thing unworthy of [his] station to handle the plants with [his] hands on occasion and to take great care that they are well placed and that each is arranged with respect to the others’ (pp. [v]–[vi], \u003ci\u003etrans.\u003c\/i\u003e Barker, pp. 533–34). Here, Vettori draws extensively on practices of olive cultivation in antiquity to elucidate the many benefits of olives and olive oil, making reference to the works of Sophocles, Virgil, and Polybius, amongst others. He is personally indebted to the mind-sharpening capacities of olive oil, writing that he had consumed vast amounts during his studies of literature ‘and received great benefit from it’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVettori describes, \u003ci\u003einter alia\u003c\/i\u003e, soldiers and athletes oiling their bodies, the use of olive oil in spinning wool, and its benefit as a health drink (providing an anecdote on Demosthenes having consumed more olive oil than wine in his lifetime), as well as the high commercial value of olive trees, different modes of pruning olive trees (including a method of utilising cuttings ‘which I have not read in the works of any author, but which has been thought of and discovered by me’, p. 48, \u003ci\u003etrans.\u003c\/i\u003e), the olive branch as a symbol of peace, how to consume olives (including olives marinated with lemon or cedar leaves), and Tuscan olive varieties, with local variants of their names.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater editions were frequently published with the \u003ci\u003eColtivazione toscana delle viti\u003c\/i\u003e of Davanzati and Soderini.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.  Bookplate of Vincenzo Follini (1759–1836), librarian of the Biblioteca Magliabechiana in Florence. The collection stemmed from thirty thousand volumes bequeathed to the city of Florence by seventeenth-century bibliophile Antonio Magliabechi, librarian to Cosimo III de’ Medici. The Magliabechiana, subsequently housed at the Uffizi and opened to the public in 1747, merged with the Biblioteca Palatina in 1861 to form what is now the National Central Library of Florence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2.  Nineteenth-century ownership inscription of Abbot Alessandro Belli, a member of the Cassinese congregation of the Benedictine Order; he was prior of S. Maria della Badia in Florence and later abbot of the Monastery of S. Domenico in Siena.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBM STC Italian, p. 723; EDIT16 CNCE 28884; USTC 863120; Brunet V, col. 1180; Gamba 1024n; Graesse VII, p. 302; Pritzel 10727. Not in Adams or Bitting (cf. p. 431). See Moretti, p. 312; Renouard, p. xii ; Barker, ‘Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Renaissance Sciences’, in A Companion to Cosimo I de’ Medici (2022).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125230\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64039912309113,"sku":"2125230","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125230b.jpg?v=1784817252"},{"product_id":"carrington-leonora-the-hearing-trumpet","title":"CARRINGTON, Leonora. 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Part of the original wave of surrealism in the 1930s (and sometime lover of Max Ernst), she spent much of her life in Mexico; her paintings are highly and increasingly esteemed both critically and commercially, but it is her small body of writings, and \u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e in particular, that have quietly established themselves as minor masterpieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is unclear when she wrote the novel. Some think it was written in Mexico City in the early 1960s, while others believe it was completed the previous decade; the jacket of this edition was designed by the author’s son. The \u003ci\u003eprécis\u003c\/i\u003e on the dust-jacket gives an idea of its strange and mercurial world. Narrated by the ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby, ‘inmate of an old ladies’ home haunted by occult doctrines and poisonings and administered by the pedantic Dr Gambit, [she] discovers the secret of the Leering Abbess and the Holy Grail, and one of the old ladies is accidentally killed. When the women rise up in a feminist cabal to save themselves from their ‘protectors’ they unwittingly set off an upheaval of cosmic proportions.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e was, for many years, lost. Its first appearance, in 1974, was in French translation, the original English version following three years later. Once a closely guarded secret (a cult book), the novel, described by Ali Smith as ‘[o]ne of the most original, joyful, satisfying and quietly visionary novels of the twentieth century’, is now a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125160\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64039913750905,"sku":"2125160","price":825.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125160.jpg?v=1784817261"},{"product_id":"morel-jean-drop-head-title-de-nuptiis-d-eustachii-de-refuge-in-supremo-senatu-consiliarii-regii-d-helenae-de-bellievre","title":"[MOREL, Jean.] [ Drop-head title: ] De Nuptiis D. Eustachii de Refuge in supremo Senatu Consiliarii Regii \u0026 D. 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Nineteenth-century morocco, flat spine richly gilt, board-edges and turn-ins roll-tooled in gilt; pp. 6, [2 (blank)] woodcut headpiece to p. 1 signed ‘Denis du Pre’ and with central roundel incorporating his device with the motto ‘Odiosa veritas’; a few scuffs to boards, spine and corners rubbed; uniform light toning; else very well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, seemingly institutionally unrecorded, of this neo-Latin epithalamium by Jean Morel, head of the University of Paris’s Collège de Reims, composed on the occasion of the 1595 wedding of Hélène de Bellièvre and the statesman Eustache de Refuge, author of a best-selling Machiavellian guide for courtiers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHélène de Bellièvre (b. 1572\/73) was one of nine daughters of Pomponne de Bellièvre, Chancellor of France; he had undertaken more than a dozen diplomatic missions for Henry III of France and in 1586 had been sent to London to persuade Elizabeth I not to execute Mary, Queen of Scots. She had married Claude Prévost, Master of Requests, in 1586, and remarried Eustache de Refuge, Prévost’s first cousin on his father’s side, five years after her first husband’s death in 1590.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDe Refuge (1564–1617) was ambassador to the Low Countries and the Swiss Cantons and served in the Parlement of Paris.\u003cbr\u003eHe is perhaps best known for his bestselling treatise for courtiers, \u003ci\u003eTraicté de la cour, ou instruction des courtisans\u003c\/i\u003e, first printed anonymously in 1616 and translated into Italian as \u003ci\u003eTrattato della corte\u003c\/i\u003e (1621), into English as \u003ci\u003eA Treatise of the Court or Instructions for Courtiers\u003c\/i\u003e (1622) and as \u003ci\u003eArcana Aulica: or Walsingham’s Manual\u003c\/i\u003e (1652, second part only), into Latin as \u003ci\u003eAulicus inculpatus\u003c\/i\u003e (1644), and into German as \u003ci\u003eMr. du Refuge Kluger Hofmann\u003c\/i\u003e (1654). Here, Morel (1539–1633) draws heavily on classical mythology before making reference to the prowess of the bride’s father and wishing the happy couple a quarrel-free lifetime of joy (as well as many children and grandchildren). The poet was known for his 1580 pedagogical textbook \u003ci\u003eScholae rhemensis rhetorica\u003c\/i\u003e, a foundational text for the teaching of classical oratory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorel’s epithalamium to Bellièvre and Refuge later appeared as Ode XVII in his 1608 Lyra\u003cbr\u003e(pp. 157–162), followed by another poem celebrating the 1596 wedding of Refuge’s sister Anne to Timoléon de Grangier, seigneur de Liverdis. The woodcut headpiece is signed by Denis (or Denys) du Pré, with his ‘Odiosa veritas’ device; he was successor to the printer of scientific and mathematical texts Mathieu David, and it seems that this work was printed at the very end of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo copies traced on CCfr, OCLC, KvK, or Library Hub.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCatalogus librorum doctoris D. Joach. Gómez de la Cortina, March. De Morante, qui in aedibus suis exstant: V–Z. Supplementum A–B (1859), pp. 95–96; Catalogue des livres anciens et modernes composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Ed. Sénemaud (1888) 965 (possibly this copy). See BaTyR 27368; Renouard, pp. 115–16. 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Q3–4 not affecting legibility, small paperflaw to lower corner of f. 2E6 not touching text, lightly toned throughout; otherwise a good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition of this compendious biographical dictionary of almost one hundred extraordinary women, intended for a female readership and contrasting ‘notorious Swindlers’ with ‘Ladies of Honour’, women of ‘Weakness and Credulity’ with ‘those of superior talents, or learning’, and those of ‘loose morals’ with those of the ‘strictest Chastity’.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work opens with the biography of Alice of Dunk’s Ferry (d. 1802), one of the earliest oral historians of Black America, a one hundred and sixteen-year-old Philadelphia-born enslaved woman who recalled the days of William Penn (and could, at the age of ninety-five, be seen in full gallop on her daily trip to church). In the entry for Alice is a reference to a portrait depicting her ‘perfectly white’ hair (’[See the annexed engraving]’, p. 3) which is not listed in the directions to the binder and is only be found in the 1804, Worcester, Massachusetts edition printed by Isaiah Thomas (1749–1831), the New England pioneer politician, writer, publisher and printer to whom authorship of this text is sometimes ascribed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso featured are Joan of Arc, Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft (the longest and most laudatory biographical entry in the volume), Angelica Kaufmann, Charlotte Corday, and Catherine de’ Medici, as well as Phoebe Bown of Birmingham, a self-taught musician, broker of livestock, and weightlifter who lived largely on milk; the seventeenth-century Silesian astronomer Maria Cunitz; the Roma woman Anne Day, who, ‘having grown almost double’ in size, was carried around the country by three women and a donkey; the eighteenth-century poacher of fish Anne Simms; and the ‘remarkable impostor’ Mary Toft, who pretended to have given birth to rabbits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA great deal of information is provided on the spy, diplomat, and soldier the Chevalier d’Eon (\u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c\/i\u003e Charlotte d’Éon de Beaumont, 1728–1810), who passed as male in society from the age of six (by other accounts assigned male at birth) and had fought in the Seven Years’ War but lived as a woman for the second part of their life. 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He also adds a responsibility which ‘all those travelling with a family will readily appreciate’ and which ‘rests entirely with ourselves - the recognition of the presence of ladies in the coffee-room, as in the \u003ci\u003esalle-à-manger\u003c\/i\u003e’, spaces from which women were largely excluded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmith had spent a great deal of time on the Continent as a mountaineer, and his dramatic and theatrical recounting of his ascent of Mont Blanc at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly was instrumental in turning mountain climbing into a Victorian craze. The publication of the present pamphlet sparked controversy with Charles Dickens, then editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eHousehold Words\u003c\/i\u003e, who resented Smith’s characterisation of English hotels and deployed his apprentice journalist, George Augustus Sala, to write a ‘contradictory article for \u003ci\u003eHousehold Words\u003c\/i\u003e on the subject. 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He was certainly well-connected, judging by the acknowledgement of the Earl of Dumfries as an ornithological colleague (p. 9).  The book itself received a good write-up in \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e: ‘The house of Witherby, under the direction of a distinguished ornithologist, is justly renowned for its bird-books, both technical and popular … Mr. McWilliam’s book fills a gap among the local faunistic studies of its kind. It gives a straightforward and useful account of the occurrence of different species in the Firth of Clyde and the counties bordering it: the area, of course, includes the great sea-bird nursery of Ailsa Craig’ (138, 424 [1936]).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMcWilliam draws extensively on personal observation as well as historical ornithological accounts (dating as far back as the sixteenth century) and fossil records. 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He started writing the novel in 1948 in Greenwich Village, but when he moved to Paris and back to New York, he brought the novel with him, completing it in Istanbul in 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e opens with one of the great characters of post-war American fiction, Rufus Scott, a Harlem jazz drummer adrift in New York. 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This copy has been signed and dated by the author, most likely in his hometown of Pietermaritzburg.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe UK edition was narrowly preceded by the US edition (New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons). \u003ci\u003eCry, the Beloved Country\u003c\/i\u003e follows Reverend Stephen Kumalo who leaves rural Natal for Johannesburg in search of his sister and his son, Absalom. There, he discovers that Absalom has murdered the white farmer and advocate for racial equality Arthur Jarvis in a robbery gone wrong. Through this tragedy and those that follow, Paton examines the racial injustice and poverty that apartheid would intensify.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaton worked as a director at a youth detention centre for Black South Africans in Diepkloof from 1935. The institution had previously been governed with armed guards and severe discipline, but he encouraged a culture of kindness and forgiveness, dramatically reducing the number of escapees. 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Contemporary brown morocco, spine and boards gilt with alternating hatched lozenges and small floral tools, floral cornerpieces, borders gilt \u003ci\u003eaux petits fers\u003c\/i\u003e, edges gilt; pp. [xvi], 341, [1], [2 (blank)]; title-page engraved with elaborate architectural border, woodcut initials, typographic tailpieces; corners and extremities worn, ties and endcaps perished, small wormhole to lower corner of upper board; uniform light toning, sporadic light foxing (heavier to quire D), quires G, I, and L browned, small wormhole to inner margin of quires A–P; a very good copy; early shelfmark to title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScarce first edition of the sole collection of neo-Latin verse by the Jesuit professor of rhetoric Tarquinio Galluzzi (1573–1649), a key figure in solidifying the seventeenth-century rhetorical tradition at the Collegio Romano, our copy in a handsome contemporary binding.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Montebuono near the Sabine city of Rieti, Galluzzi entered the Roman novitiate of S. 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As professor of oratory at the Collegio Romano, he was tasked with reciting the \u003ci\u003eOratio Christi Domini morte\u003c\/i\u003e in the Papal chapel during the Good Friday liturgy before the Pope and the College of Cardinals, an institutional privilege of the Jesuit college first granted by Pope Gregory XIII.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present collection of verse combines devotional themes with glimpses into Galluzzi’s life in Rome: there are poems on the Nativity, the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Assumption, the severed breasts of St Agatha, and the Miracle of the Snow (the commemoration of a miraculous snowfall on the Esquiline Hill in 352 A.D. following the intervention of the Virgin Mary), for example. Many of the poems are dedicated to his students of rhetoric, amongst them panegyrics to Virgil and Horace and poems on the autumn recess, as well as an ode to the study of rhetoric itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOf particular interest are Galluzzi’s many poems providing insights into contemporary politics, relationships with the Roman Curia, as well as happenings at the Collegio Romano.\u003c\/strong\u003e He commemorates in verse the 1598 peace between France and Spain under the Peace of Vervins, ending Spanish intervention in the French Wars of Religion; Pope Clement’s 1601 approval of the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, used at the Marian shrine at the Basilica della Santa Casa in Loreto; the admission of Cardinal Scipione Borghese to the Collegio Romano (thanks to the efforts of Borghese's uncle, Pope Paul V), and on a statue of Urania from the cardinal’s collection; Cardinal Cesare Baronio’s extensive restoration of the basilica of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo after having been assigned Cardinal-Priest of the church in 1599; and an elegy to the physician Marsilio Cagnati (1543–1612) on the death of his son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the most poignant of Galluzzi’s Roman poems is his harrowing firsthand recounting of the 1598 Christmas Eve flooding of the Tiber, during which the river surged some twenty metres and claimed over three thousand lives; here, he emphasises the futility of human labour in the face of nature and describes the destruction of homes, people barricaded within their houses, the numerous funerals of children, and families torn apart by devastation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGalluzzi’s poems were widely appreciated by his contemporaries, including Galileo, who owned a copy of this edition. A second, expanded edition was published in 1616. The lovely gilt morocco binding is similar to that of the 1617 Paris-printed \u003ci\u003eBreviarum romanum\u003c\/i\u003e from the collection of Michel Wittock (Christie’s, 8–9 November 2004, lot 59).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOCLC finds six copies in the US (Brown, College of the Holy Cross, Huntington, JHU, Loyola University of Chicago, Yale). Library Hub finds no copies in the UK.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSTC 4022054; Sommervogel III, col. 1142, no. 2. Not in BM STC Italian (see p. 375) Brunet, nor Graesse.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2123410\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64039925875065,"sku":"2123410","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2123410.jpg?v=1784817421"},{"product_id":"barnard-mary-roland-haupt-and-maurice-ambler-photographers-the-sheepskin-book","title":"BARNARD, Mary; Roland HAUPT and Maurice AMBLER ( photographers ). The Sheepskin Book.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eSheepskin Chic\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBARNARD, Mary; Roland HAUPT \u003ci\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Maurice AMBLER (\u003ci\u003ephotographers\u003ci\u003e).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The Sheepskin Book. \u003ci\u003eLondon\u003c\/i\u003e: [\u003ci\u003eWm. Hodge \u0026amp; Chilver for\u003c\/i\u003e] \u003ci\u003eBrocklebank Productions\u003c\/i\u003e. [\u003ci\u003ec. 1949–51\u003c\/i\u003e.]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the unclipped illustrated dust-jacket by Pearl Falconer (priced 7s. 6d. net to front flap); boards slightly sunned at head, spine ends lightly bumped, two small nicks to front cover with old adhesive repairs to interior, short closed tear to rear cover; slight spotting to half-title and to interior of jacket and to a few pp.; else a near-fine copy; pencilled annotations to front flap; offered with several contemporary patterns and advertisements by the Sheepskin Shop (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst and only edition, very rare, of this charming book of sheepskin patterns produced for the Sheepskin Shop on Oxford Street, with fashion photography by Roland Haupt, darkroom technician and photographic assistant to Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton during the Second World War.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaupt operated from London’s Vogue darkroom, processing and printing highly important negatives sent by Miller and Beaton from the front, including photographs from Dachau. Described as the ‘first of its kind’, Barnard’s work is ‘entirely devoted to Sheepskin’ and extensively illustrated with over seventy photographs, patterns, and designs to guide readers in the making of ‘thirty-one beautiful articles for yourself, your family, and your home’, including gauntlets, mittens, and gloves; umbrella handles; chair coverings; moccasins, mules, and ankle-warmers; ‘the Sheepskin Oompa’, a small stuffed toy to be dangled over a child’s cot or hung from the rearview mirror of a car; a sheepskin ‘pocket for your feet’ intended for long train or coach journeys; and ‘Sheps’, an original design for suede-backed sheepskin peep-toe slippers devised by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, little is known about Mary Barnard, who was also responsible for designing and editing the \u003ci\u003eSheepskin Book\u003c\/i\u003e. It was produced at the instigation of Harry Woolf, joint managing director of the dyers and dressers of skins George Rice Ltd; the skins from which the various articles were made were provided by the Sheepskin Shop on Oxford Street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOffered with several contemporary patterns from the Sheepskin Shop\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo copies traced in the US. 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