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Catalogue XVII

Catalogue XVII

A group of carefully selected high-end items, many outside our usual speculative fiction core.

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Item #13566 A New Confutation of Sadducism. Alexander Telfair

A New Confutation of Sadducism.

London: Andrew Bell, 1696. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Very good condition. The author was the local minister of the parish, and apparently witness to whatever was actually witnessed, but also included are additional reports. Sadducism is the denial of the existence of spirit, in case you didn't know.....

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Item #13609 The History of the Bucaniers of America [and] A Journal of a Voyage Made into the...

The History of the Bucaniers of America [and] A Journal of a Voyage Made into the South Sea, By the Bucaniers or Freebooters of America. From the Year 1684, to 1689

London: Tho. Newborough, John Nicholson, and Benj. Tooke, 1704. Third Edition Hardback. Very Good condition. The book that helped create the popular image of the pirate, written by a surgeon who sailed among the buccaneers. Third edition of The History of the Bucaniers of America, and the Second edition of A.....

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Item #13454 Elmaphil: A Fragment of the Last Antedilivuan Days. Anonymous

Elmaphil: A Fragment of the Last Antedilivuan Days

London: Saunders and Otley, 1840. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. "Science fantasy novel of romance and adventures set in antediluvian days, the sentence construction of the text of which makes for difficult comprehension. Depicted is a world free of storms and earthquakes peopled by vegetarians. There are.....

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Item #13414 The Mars Gazette. Anonymous

The Mars Gazette

Yonkers, NY: The Arlington Chemical Co., n.d. [1896?]. First / First. Paperback. Very good condition. A marvellous little promotional piece that happens to also be a fairly well-written departure into interplanetary fiction. Our protagonist is sent to the red planet to help the locals with their digestive issues. The Martians.....

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Item #13562 Theological and Philosophical Treatise of the Nature and Goodnesse of Salt. Anonymous

Theological and Philosophical Treatise of the Nature and Goodnesse of Salt

London: Richard Boyle, 1912. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Very good condition. A fascinating little volume countering the case that salt is bad. "Use salt, for it is good: but use not too much," this is the central maxim built around the premise that, despite the fall of man.....

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Item #13618 The Rebellion of the Beasts: or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!! Anonymous,...

The Rebellion of the Beasts: or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!!

London: J. & H.L. Hunt, 1825. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Very good condition. An uncommon book, one copy located in commerce (2022). A political satire in the form of a fantastic tale, wherein our protagonist finds a magical recipe allowing him to give animals the power of speech.....

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Item #13429 The Trial of Man: An Allegorical Romance. Anonymous, C E. Lawrence

The Trial of Man: An Allegorical Romance

London: John Murray, 1902. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. "a mildly equipoisal tale whose protagonist travels to the Moon and subsequently to heaven where the Angel Zuron assigns him a new planet where he breeds sinlessly with a new Eve, but then fatally boasts of his virtue".....

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Item #13603 A Voyage to The World of Cartesius. Anonymous, Gabriel Daniel

A Voyage to The World of Cartesius

London1692: Thomas Bennet. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Very good condition. A satirical and philosophical fantasy in which our protagonist journeys through the imaginary Cartesian universe, encountering René Descartes (obviously) and other thinkers as they debate the cosmos, science and religion in a series of celestial worlds. A landmark.....

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Item #13448 Erchomenon; or, The Republic of Materialism. Anonymous, Henry Crocker Marriott Watson

Erchomenon; or, The Republic of Materialism

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1879. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Uncommon. "Erchomenon; or, the Republic of Materialism is one of the earliest examples of dystopian fiction and a sleeper-awakes narrative in the tradition that Wells would later develop more famously. A Victorian English gentleman.....

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Item #13619 Cometomantia. A Discourse of Comets. Anonymous, John Edwards

Cometomantia. A Discourse of Comets

London: Brab. Aylmer, 1684. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Very good condition. The sole edition. A fascinating Restoration study of astronomy, astrology and theology, sitting at an important junction in human understanding, examining not just the physical nature of comets but also the supernatural; I guess you could say.....

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Item #13615 Vinetum Britannicum: or, A Treatise of Cider and Such Other Wines and Drinks that are...

Vinetum Britannicum: or, A Treatise of Cider and Such Other Wines and Drinks that are extracted from all manner of Fruits Growing in this Kingdom.

London: Tho. Dring, 1676. J.W. Gent. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Near fine condition. An important early treatise on cider making advocating for it as a national industry, rather than relying on the importation of wine. The book helped shape England, particularly in the west, as having a culture.....

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Item #13453 The Secret of Mankind. Anonymous, Willis Brewer

The Secret of Mankind

New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1897. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. "Afterlife fantasy, mainly a series of dialogues about philosophical and spiritual matters; approximately 100 pages deal with a visit to Mercury and conversations with its advanced inhabitants with brief mention of their technological attainments." [Locke, Voyages in.....

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Item #13621 Rebet [Rope] - Danish Film Programme. Arthur Laurents / Patrick Hamilton

Rebet [Rope] - Danish Film Programme

Copenhagen: Warner Bros, nd [1950?]. First Edition / First Impression. Paperback. Near fine condition. A lovely copy with the string intact. Very uncommon. 8pp. Rope was Hitchcock's 38th (?) film, and based on a 1929 Patrick Hamilton story. It didn't review well, but is remembered now for its pioneering long.....

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Item #13565 Full Moon Eyes Portrait [Original Hand-Coloured Etching - Artist's Proof]....

Full Moon Eyes Portrait [Original Hand-Coloured Etching - Artist's Proof]

No Place: No Publisher, No Date. Charles van Sandwyck. Fine condition. Etching measures 70mm x 60mm, card measures 225mm x 245mm. Depicts the head and neck of an owl, hand-coloured in rich tones. Signed by the artist and denoted CAP. The etching was used for the cover of 'Full Moon.....

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Item #13620 Vampyr - Danish Film Programme. Christen Jul, Carl Th. Dreyer

Vampyr - Danish Film Programme

[Copenhagen]: [Gloria Film], nd [1933]. First Edition / First Impression. Paperback. Fine condition. Very scarce. A programme prepared for the Danish theatrical release in 1933 (so presumably printed around then). The film premiered at the Metropol on the 27th March 1933, nearly a year after the German world premiere. The.....

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Item #13160 The Air Voyagers or, A Trip to the Moon in a Bolloon. A Tale of Wonderful Adventure....

The Air Voyagers or, A Trip to the Moon in a Bolloon. A Tale of Wonderful Adventure

Tottenville, NY: C. Shea, 1880. First / First. Paperback. A near fine copy. 40pp, 8 x 11.5cm. Original wrappers. Very uncommon and seemingly his first book. A couple of teenagers save a professor from a snake, so he takes them to the moon in his balloon (a fair trade). Dwarves.....

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Item #13614 The New World of English Words. E P., Edward Phillips

The New World of English Words

London: Nath. Brooke, 1658. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Very good condition. An early and influential English dictionary, and the first English dictionary in folio. A lot of the content was copied by Phillips from Blount's Glossographia of 1656, which in turn led to Blount publishing A World of.....

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Item #13445 Captains of the Souls [Inscribed Association Copy]. Edgar Wallace

Captains of the Souls [Inscribed Association Copy]

Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1922. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author, most likely to his son Bryan Edgar Wallace. "My dear Edgar I send you my first novel with all its imperfections recognised & regretted by the other Edgar. Nov, 1922." Lacking the.....

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Item #13419 Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation. Edwin L. Arnold

Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation

London: Brown Langham & Co., 1905. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. An important entry in the sf canon. A soldier is swept from Earth to Mars, where strange civilisations and planetary adventure await. Bearing a striking resemblance to Burroughs' A Princess of Mars, which it precedes by.....

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Item #13457 Adventures in the Moon and Other Worlds. John Russell

Adventures in the Moon and Other Worlds

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1836. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. "Collection of dialogues and essays, together with a short novel 'A Journey to the Moon'. In this, the narrator uses a mechanical spacecraft of unspecified propulsive principle to visit the moon, which has.....

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Item #13564 The Wind in the Willows - With Artist's Proof. Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows - With Artist's Proof

London: The Folio Society, 2005. Charles van Sandwyck. First Edition Thus / First Impression. Hardback. A fine copy in the slipcase, without jacket as issued. This is the first printing of this edition, with the addition of having the artist's proof of laid down, signed and noted by the artist.....

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Item #13622 The Green Book. M I.7, Lord Dunsany A A. Milne, i

The Green Book

London: Privately Printed, 1919-1920. Limited Paperback. Fine condition. The scarce private record of the secret wartime propaganda unit in which Milne, Dunsany and a remarkable group of British writers worked together. Quite likely the scarcest of Milne's publications. Indeed, it was forgotten about until a copy surfaced a decade ago.....

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Item #13604 The Godfather. Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather

New York: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Paperback. A near fine copy. 158pp, rectos. 19 sheets loose, printed rectos on blue papers containing the revisions Numbered 39. Brad-bound with green separate covers, the upper cover containing the embossed Paramount logo. The revisions are bunched into three paper-clipped groups, each with different dates.....

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