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The Treasure House Fair
London is at its most vibrant in summer, and we are delighted to be exhibiting at the newest and much-hailed entrant to the London summer fair calendar, The Treasure House Fair. We look forward to meeting friends, both old and new, at what we anticipate will be a thoughtfully curated show that celebrates collectable treasures in their many shapes and forms.
LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus. De rerum natura libri sex.Paris : 1563
First Lambin edition, large paper copy, 3 cm larger in both dimensions than copies on regular paper and uniquely, according to Brunet, with contemporary colouring, in a splendid Parisian gold-tooled morocco binding of the period.
Brunet writes of "cette première édition estimée du Lucrèce de Lambin" and describes at length this unique...Learn More
DUDLEY, Robert. Arcano del mare.Florence : 1661
This sea atlas, "arguably the most sumptuous ever produced" (Burden), first published in 1646 when its author, Robert Dudley, was 73, was not only the first sea atlas of the world but also the first to use Mercator's projection, the earliest to show magnetic deviation, the first to show currents and prevailing winds, the first to expound the...Learn More
VICO, Giambattista. Principj di una scienza nuova intorno alla natura delle nazioni.Naples : 1725
Exceptionally rare first edition of Vico's New Science, an unusually fine copy, fresh and untrimmed in interim boards, and with manuscript corrections to the text made by Vico or on his instruction. A seminal historiographical work, the New Science was "the vehicle by which the concept of historical development at last entered the thought of...Learn More
MIRABEAU, Victor Riquetti, marquis de, & François Quesnay. Philosophie rurale, ou Économie générale et politique de l'agriculture,Amsterdam : 1763
Rare first edition, presenting "perhaps the most complete and magisterial account of the views of the Physiocratic school" (Higgs).
"Quesnay collaborated very substantially in preparing this last major work, contributing the final chapter with further explanations and manipulations of his Tableau Économique analysis" (The New Palgrave)....Learn More
HOLBEIN, Hans. Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans HolbeinLondon : 1792-1800
First edition of this superlative folio, about which the leading authorities are in full agreement: "in every way a splendid book" (Abbey) and "this magnificent work is surely the finest early example of English colour printing" (Ray). This is a most handsome copy in contemporary red morocco.
"During his second stay in England (1532-43),...Learn More
WASHINGTON, George - HAWES, William (ed.). Transactions of the Royal Humane Society from 1774 to 1784:London : 1795
From the library of President George Washington, with his bold signature on the half-title. The volume was presented to Washington, accompanied by a letter dated 15 July 1795, by the English physician Dr John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815), and remained in his library until his death.
Lettsom's letter, no longer present, mentions his American...Learn More
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José de. Los Desastres de la Guerra. Coleccion de ochenta láminas inventadas y grabadas al agua fuerte.Madrid : 1863
First edition, one of 500 copies of Goya's impassioned "Disasters of War", cataloguing the brutality and fatal consequences of war in a stark, confrontational, and unflinching manner, a series of plates regarded by many as the greatest war art ever created.
Although not published until 1863, the series dates from the second decade of the...Learn More
JOYCE, James. Ulysses.Paris : 1922
First edition, number 825 of 750 copies on handmade paper numbered 251 to 1,000. Sylvia Beach's notebook records that this copy was one of two dozen sold to "Miss Weaver (on sale)". Harriet Shaw Weaver was Joyce's indispensable patron, without whose munificent backing Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake might never...Learn More
FLEMING, Ian. Manuscript notebook, including material used in You Only Live Twice.1962
One of the very last pieces of significant Fleming manuscript material outside the Lilly Library's Fleming collection.
Fleming made these notes during his visit to Japan in 1961. He returned to Japan with the express purpose of making a trip that he could funnel into a Bond story. He wrote to his friend Richard Hughes in advance with a...Learn More
MAO, Zedong. Mao zhuxi yulu ("Quotations From Chairman Mao").Beijing : 1964
First edition, first printing, in the scarce and most collectible state with the uncorrected text error, erratum slip, and superfluous brushstroke on the calligraphic endorsement leaf. While first editions were issued in several states, "it is believed that copies with the text error... represent the earliest printed version" (Schiller, p. 37)....Learn More
BAILEY, David. Box of Pin-Ups.London : [1965]
First edition of this seminal collection of portraits by Bailey, and one of the great iconic representations of the Swinging Sixties in London. The subjects typify the new social elite, ranging from The Beatles and The Rolling Stones through minor royalty and fashion-conscious aristocrats to film stars, couturiers, and gangsters.
Each...Learn More
