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Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe. 1873. FIRST EDITION,
pages xii, 455, 8vo, original cloth: a little dusty, the binding
lightly discoloured but strong, yet a very good copy.
Mainly Russia and Sweden. Articles for The Saturday Review, Fraser’s
Magazine, The Portfolio and The Art Journal account for about one
third of the volume.
(2)
STAMPFLE (Felice) & BEAN (Jacob).
The Seventeenth
Century in Italy. Drawings from New York Collections II.
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art / The Pierpont Morgan Library,
1967.
With 140 plates, 86-pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, top edges gilt:
fine in original slip-case.
Copy number 106 of the limited edition of 500 copies.
(3)
CAUMONT (Arcisse de).
Histoire de l’architecture
religieuse au moyen age. Nouvelle edition. Atlas. [Ouvrage
destine a l’enseignement de l’archeologie dans les seminaires et
les ecoles ecclesiastiques].
Caen: A. Hardel … Paris, Derache …,
1841. Title-leaf and 24 plates, oblong 4to, original brown
printed wrappers: a very good copy.
The atlas only. A general survey of medieval architecture. Caumont
(1801-73), a reviver of interest in Romanesque sculpture in France; is
considered one of the founders of modern archaeology in that country.
(4)
MARS (G. C.),
ed.
Brickwork in Italy. A brief review from
ancient to modern times.
Chicago, American Face Brick Association,
1925. With a map and nearly 400 plates and illustrations,20
coloured, pages xix,298 and errata slip, roy 8vo, original
morocco-backed cloth: a nice to fine copy.
In four parts (Roman Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance and
Baroque, and, the Modern Period) by, alternately, I. C. Roccatelli and I.
E. Verdozzi. With a preface by Gustavo Giovannoni and an
introduction by the editor.
(5)
SPALDING (Wm.).
Italy and the Italian Islands, from the
earliest ages to the present time.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd
(Edinburgh Cabinet series 29-30-31),
1841
With 7 maps (2 folding) and a few other illustrations, pages 400,
16(adverts): 416: 415, 3 vols, small 8vo, original brown cloth,
with printed paper spine labels: with slight suggestion of wear at
the headbands but otherwise a nice set in original state.
Characterised in the D. N. B. as “an admirable compendium”.
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€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1321
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STRICKLAND (Samuel).
Twenty-Seven Years in
Canada West; or, the experiences of an early settler. Edited by
Agnes Strickland.
Richlard Bentley,
1853
FIRST EDITION, pp (2), (ix) - xix (complete thus), 311, (1):
viii, 344,2 vols, 8vo, original cloth, by Remnant & Edmonds,
with ticket: boards lightly spotted, else very good to nice.
The author, a brother of Agnes Strickland, came to Upper Canada in
1825, served the Canada Company 1828-31 and settled at Lakefield
near Peterborough. The work describes his experiences as land agent and
settler from 1825 till 1851.
(2)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1322
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STRINGER (Arthur).
The experienced huntsman.
Containing observations on the nature and qualities of the
different species of game. With instructions for hunting the
buck, the hare, the fox, the badger, the martern [sic], and the
otter. Being the result of many years actual experience; and
containing every thing necessary to be known for the attainment
of that noble art, and to form the complete huntsman.
Dublin:
Printed for L. Flin, Castle-Street,
1780
SECOND EDITION, 304-pages, 12mo, contemporary green
morocco, gilt ruled spine, with contrasting label, gilt: the
Schwerdt copy with Schwerdt bookplate, bookplate of Douglas
Peter Crossman, and a contemporary inscription on the blank
flyleaf facing the title-page “The gift of the Earl of Antrim / to
James Tretherston at Glenarm in / the year 1783. “: a very good
copy.
The first treatise on hunting in Ireland and the first serious work on the
wild animals of these islands. First published at Belfast in 1714, both
editions are extremely rare. Of this Dublin edition, ESTC locates copies
at D, BFp, L, C: C-S, NjP. Each section of the book is dedicated to a
different patron. The Stag-Hunting chapter is dedicated to Randal, Earl
of Antrim, one of whose successors presented this copy. Stringer was
employed as a huntsman by the Conway family, who had been granted
an estate east of Lough Neagh by James I in 1610. He was a practical
man who knew his mammals, their habits and behaviour. His book
draws upon a wealth of information accumulated as notes for more
than thirty years - his style is remarkably fresh and bouncy, coming
straight from the thicket as it were …” - Foster (J. W.), ed. Nature in
Ireland, Schwertd II. 230, this copy.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
1323
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SUAREZ (Francisco de), SJ.
Tractatus de Legibus, ac
Deo Legislatore …
Londini, sumptibus J. Dunmore, T. Dring, B.
Tooke & T. Sawbridge,
1679
FIRST ‘ENGLISH’ EDITION, the title-page in red and black
with device, pp (6), (5) - 725, (1, blank), (25), (1, blank), without
the initial leaf, presumably blank, folio, some occasional light
old marginal staining, but still a very good copy strongly bound
in recent boards.
Wing S 6103. A landmark in the history of political thought. The first
publication in England of one of the main works of this great Spanish
Jesuit theologian, philosopher and philosophical jurist, in which he
epounds the principles of natural and international law. It “became of
paramount importance for jurists and legislators on the Continent and
in America. “ - Cross. This London edition, though well represented in
Wing, is uncommon: we last handled a copy in 1972.
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
1324
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SUAREZ (Francisco de), SJ.
Tractatus de Legibus, ac
Deo Legislatore …
Moguntiae [Mainz], sumptibus Hermanni Mylii
Birckmanni. Excudebat Balthasar Lippius,
1619
Title in red and black with large device, pp (4), 725, (1, blank),
(25), (1, blank), folio, con-temporary calf, old neat rebacking in
matching style: small wormholes in spine (not evident within),
binding sound & strong, light browning in places, very good,
well-margined copy.
An uncommon early edition of a landmark in the history of political
thought: COPAC has the Bodleian copy only, remarking that this
edition was also used as part of the collected works published in 1621 -
of which COPAC notes only the Aberdeen copy. Suarez (1548-1617),
Spanish Jesuit theologian, philosopher and philosophical jurist. This,
his most important work, first published 1612, expounds the principes of
natural and international law. It “became of paramount importance for
jurists and legislators on the Continent and in America”. - Cross.
€350-€500 (£280-£400 approx.)
1325
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SWEET (Robert).
Cistineae. The natural order of Cistus,
or Rock-Rose; illustrated by coloured figures & descriptions of
all the distinct species, and the most prominent varieties, that
could at present be procured in the gardens of Great Britain;
with the best directions for their cultivation and propagation.
James Ridgway,
1825-1830
FIRST EDITION, with 112 fine and attractive hand-coloured
engraved plates by J. Hart, M. Hart, W. Hart and Mrs Brown,
engraved by S. Watts and Weddell, pages xx, and leaves 112, (2),
roy 8vo, original green cloth: with only very slight weakness in
the inside joints but otherwise a bright, fresh and most attractive
copy.
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