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Alastor Rare Books 22. Doglia, Giuseppe; Vespoli, Evangelista; Majer, Giovanni Simone. Grand Pot-Pourri a Fantasia Scelto dai piu graziosi metrice Del Sig Maestro Rossini Combinato per Piano Forte Dal Sig Maestro Giuseppe Doglia [Bound with] Pot Pourè Rossiniano Combinato per Piano Forte Dal Sig Evangelista Vespoli [Bound with] Canzonette Con accompto di Pianforte Del Sig Gio Simone Majer. 4to, 300 x 225mm, contemporary polished calf (rubbed, upper joint cracked), banded spine with gilt ruled compartments, gilt upper cover presentation? stamp “H.R.H. The Duchess Of Gloucester” within gilt rule frame with corner ornaments, boards outer border alike with repeated leaf, circle & flower roll. gauffred edges. I. 16 ff., MS music score of this arrangement of a work by Rossini for piano by the Italian opera director, Giuseppe Doglia. Doglia, a native of Pavia, worked with opera companies across Italian including time spent as Maestro Concertatore at the Teatri Napoli and the Teatro degli Avvalorati [For further information on The Teatro degli Avvalorati see our item 12 in catalogue 19]. II. 18 ff., MS music score in a different hand of an arrangement for piano of extracts from Rossini’s opera “The Barber of Seville”, “La Gazza Ladra”, “Nella Donna Del Lago” and others. III. 18 + [1 blank] ff., MS music score with words in a different and highly individual style of these Canzonette for accompaniment by piano. The work contains various pieces “Canto”, “El Lauro”, “La Domanda”, “La Stracavata”, “Ad Amalia”, “El Consegio”. This attractive manuscript of arrangements of a selection of Rossini’s works for piano and Italian cazonette was evidently produced as a gift for Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, possibly from her sisterin-law, Caroline of Brunswick who lived in Italy over the period 1814-1820. £650.00 23. Draf-slottet, Eller Några Rosor Och Blad, Plockade Ur Lidandets Ymnighetshorn Och Utströdde På Oförskämdhetens Väg. Också En Rymdskrift Söder Ut, Pendant Till Babels Torn, Utan Intrång I Ordin. Babyloniske Byggmästarens I Rymden Fri : Och Rättigheter. Stockholm: Tryckt i Wennlundska Boktryckerie, 1825. 4to, [2 leaves], 12p, 3 plates, laid paper, printer’s devices at head of each section, with other small ornaments, untrimmed, title page lacking, but represented by a contemporary manuscript version. Bound in contemporary quarter cloth & marbled boards (end caps and corners worn). Only edition of this pamphlet containing three poems and a short dialogue, with plates having titles corresponding to three of them with manuscript notes and pasted-in printed items that describe the volume, its author, and his subsequent works “Lök på laxen” (1825) and “Raketen...” (1826). There is some dispute about authorship, with some Swedish sources attributing the work to poet Erik Sjöberg (1794-1828) who wrote as “Vitalis” or to others, whilst assigning responsibility for the illustrations to Löwstädt, a painter and caricaturist, who later became one of the first lithographers in Sweden. £280.00 PROTESTANTS GET THEIR OWN PAD. 24. Edit De L’Empereur, Du 26 Juin 1784. Concernant Les Enterremens. Namur: Chez Lafontaine, Imprimeur patenté de Sa Majesté L”Empereur & Roi, 1784. Catalogue Twenty One Folio, 32cm, 7, [1 blank] p., drop-head title, woodcut royal arms at head within rectangular border with foliage sprays, ms numbering to upper page corners. Disbound, stitching broken. This Royal edict regulates interments in the Low Countries of Europe. Municipal officials in towns and villages are charged with ending unofficial burials and establishing official cemeteries with appropriate wall, gravediggers lodge, mortuary chamber and chapel where licensed burials would take place. Of note is the penultimate article which calls for a separate cemetery to be established for Protestants. This edition not located in OCLC, COPAC or BNF. 150.00 25. [English Lotteries] I. ALL IN ONE DAy. 2 £30,000, 2 £10,000, 2 £5000. 31st May the First Time such a grand list of Capitals was ever distributed to the Public in ONE DAy...Tickets & Shares for the Scheme to be decided 31st May are selling by J. & J.Sivewright [And] NEXT TUESDAy, 10TH JULy. 48 Capitals All To Be Drawn Next Tuesday, 10th July, 17th & 21st July. NO CLASSES.... [London], [182-]. i. single sheet, 220 x 90mm, engraved hand-coloured illustration of a dancing man within a bush displaying titling. Handbill for Sivewright lottery, one of the larger London lotteries operating along with Bish from the early 19th century. II. Single sheet, 190 x 115mm, engraved illustration with titling within a shield as part of a larger illustration of a bearded man with sword & armour. Handbill probably for the T.Bish lottery. £150.00 12 13
Alastor Rare Books 26. Etrennes De Minerve, Aux Artistes Encyclopedie Economique Ou Alexis Moderne. Paris: Desnos, 1772. 12mo, 12cm, 4 parts in one, separate divisional title pages, some printers pagination errors, engraved title device, head & tail pieces, contemporary calf, banded spine (tail endcap chipped, lower joint starting), double gilt ruled compartments with floral central figure, dots and foliage, boards alike with triple gilt rule outer border, edges stained red. A curious little instructional manual or “BOOK OF SECRETS” designed for practicing artists giving direction in a vast number of processes from softening metal, taxidermy, cleaning coins, manufacture of ink of various colours, ETCHING & ENGRAVING, writing in different coloured ink on the same paper, artists colours & oil paints, coloured wood stains, colours for porcelain together with directions for rodent & insect control. A good copy (two leaves lacking outer marginal lower corner, stain to a couple of leaves). It appears to have been of interest to benjamin Franklin, forming n. 1014 of his published library. Wolf & Hayes (2006). £280.00 27. [Follini, Bartolommeo]. Guida Della Citta di Firenze Ornata di Pianta e Vedute. Firenze i.e. Florence: [s.n.], 1822. 8vo, [vi], 260 p., engraved title page, engraved frontispiece & eleven plates, folding city plan, green silk marker, original tree calf (corners worn through), rebacked, marbled edges, marbled end leaves (hinges strengthened). This beautifully illustrated and comprehensive guide to history and sights of Florence appears to have been originally produced in a French edition under a Magheri imprint in 1819 and then revised and expanded by Follini for the italian edition as offered here. In fine internal condition. Lichtenthal. Manuale bibliografico del viaggiatore in Italia p.149 £250.00 28. Fossati, A Melchiade. Il Sepolcro Di Priamo Liberto Presso La Via Via Labicana Nel Fondo Oggi Delgrande Da Alcuni Creduto Un Un Tratto Di Catacombe. [Rome?]: F.D.Buttaoni & A. Piatti., [1840?]. 8vo, 25cm, 8 p., caption title, page numbers within typographic brackets, contemporary yellow wrappers. Only edition of this description of archeological discovery of funereal catacombes in the city of Rome and discussion of their original origin. This debate was an important part of early research into Roman Cemetrics of Aproniano Bignamini (2004) p.250; Raoul-Rochette Le Catacombe di Roma (1841) p.143; COPAC BL only; ICCU (Bib Casanatense & Napoli) £140.00 29. Grynaeus, Johann Jacob. Definitio Sanguinis Aeterni Testamenti: a Iohanne Iacobo Grynaeo, e Scripturis Canonicis desumta, brevique exaplosei explanata, ut de ea, si Deus permiserit, disputatio instituatur 8 Iulii, respondente Henrico Horstio Hamonensii, Westphalo. Basilae [Basel]: Typis Opor, 1591. 4to, 21.5cm, [8] p, title within border of repeated printers ornament, historiated initial letter with Moses receiving the commandments from the Lord, decorative capital, printed in italica & roman types, un sewn as issued. This singular dissertation by Johann Grynaeus concerning the redemptive powers of the Blood of Christ, There is implicit criticism of humanism in the preface, possibly connected to his Nephew, Simon Grynaeus. OCLC (2 copies only Basel & Munich); Not in COPAC. £280.00 30. [Guiton, Marc]. Lettres A Un Protestant Francois Touchant La Declaration Du Roi... A Londres [i.e. The Hague]: Chez Thomas L’Etonne, 1725. 12mo, [2], 3-451, [1], [2 blank] p., engraved title device of diapered wicker basket with flowers, fruit and foliage, table headpiece of repeated typographic ornament, contemporary calf (upper cover corners worn, small chip to lower edge), banded spine (tail end cap worn), gilt spine decorations with central fleuron with radiating stars and border of repeated dots, boards alike with a single blind-stamped outer border rule, gilt gauffred edges, text edges sprinkled red. This rare edition of letters concerning appropriate conduct in the face of Royal persecution is FROM THE LIBRARY OF CITOYEN COTTIER with his ownership signature to title and blank margin of p.81 and bookplate. The imprint is false and place taken from De Merville. The work also contains a contemporary bookmark made from a fragment of French playing card (70x25mm). Cottier was a noted criminal law Judge under the Napoleonic revolutionary administration. A very good copy (small paper flaws to blank margins four leaves). Not in OCLC, COPAC (Sole copy Oxford). Catalogue des livres imprimez de la Bibliothèque du Roy 1648; Barbier 9424 (2 vol edn); De Merville. Histoire littéraire de l’Europe II. p.176. £400.00 31. Handel, George Fideric. Messiah; An Oratorio. As it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. London: Printed for the Administrator of J.Watts., 1766. 4to, 16 p., large decorative headpiece with three cornucopiae, flowers and foliage, divisional lines of repeated typographic flowers, endpiece of twin vases overflowing with flowers, further smaller headpieces with two cornucopiae, flowers & foliage. Contemporary wrappers (spine worn), side stitched as issued, upper cover ms ink title. A very scarce edition of this libretto for Handel’s Messiah. First performed in Dublin in 1742, the work was enduringly popular and the libretto ran to many editions. A good copy (first signature page corners dog-eared & first two leaves fore edge dusty). Not in ESTC. Ownership signature of Rowland Hart. £200.00 32. [Hereford Cathedral School] Dom. Epis. Herefordiensis, Custos . [Hereford]: [s.n], 1824. Catalogue Twenty One Single sheet in scroll format, 14 x 93cm, printed on recto only, wove paper with watermark “Whatman Paper Turkey Mill Kent 1824.”Roman, gothic & italic typefaces. Text within single-rule border, with various single and double divisional rules. Large [Bishop’s?] coat of arms at top with the frequently-used motto “Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense” (evil be to him who evil thinks) and the Winchester College motto “Manners Makyth Man.” In [original? contemporary?] wooden tube covered with pebbled black paper. Clean copy with several creases and small tears to edges, one repaired with cellophane tape to verso. The tube has manuscript “Templeton Nov’r 1822” in ink on inner wooden core. This scroll lists the teachers and pupils, both choristers and others, by year “secunda” through “sexta”--but no “tertia” class--as of October 22, 1824 for the Hereford Cathedral School. Also named are preceptors, organist, others associated with the school, and students who went on to Oxford or Winchester. The sixth class includes a “Templeton sen.” and the fifth class a “Templeton jun.,” suggesting possible ownership of an earlier version of this roster by one of those scholars. British Library holds a similar item dated 1818, but this 1824 version appears to be otherwise unknown. Hereford Cathedral School is one of the oldest schools in England, first documented in 1324. £280.00 33. Hirst, Alfred. Types For The Blind. A Letter Addressed to the “Leeds Mercury” By Alfred Hirst of Harrowgate. London.: Elliott and Sons, 1894. 8vo, 12 p., title with rule border with engraved floral ornaments at head & tail, engraved text illustration, recent card covers with paper title label to upper cover. Only edition of this monograph on the condition of printing for the blind at the end of the nineteenth century. A short history of the printing for the blind is given together with a synopsis of the the printing activities of organizations for the blind at the time. A text illustration of the Braille system is given on page five. A very good copy (light spotting to last two leaves). Anagnostopoulos (1916) p.33. Unknown to the online union catalogues. Special reference library of books relating to the blind By Michael Anagnostopoulos 1916 p.33 £250.00 14 15
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