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THORKELIN, Grimr Johnson, Fragments of English and Irish History in two parts translated from the Original Icelandic with map. Nichols, London 1788, modern binding. 4to. plus O'HALLORAN, A General History of Ireland, 2 vols. London 1778. 4to. rebound plus 7 further Antiquarian titles - Anglo-Saxon studies etc (10)
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GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm, 19th Century German Academic, A Collection of twenty two titles by or related to the Grimm Brothers mainly mythology, reference etc., and including Drei Altschottische Lieder by Wilhelm Grimm, Heidelberg 1813, small format (22)
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Winckelmann, Kleine Schriften Uber Die Kunst Des Alterhums, Dresden 1767. title page with colophon. 4to. full calf re-back together with a collection of 18th-20th Century German literature
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A COLLECTION OF SMALL FORMAT 19TH CENTURY GERMAN LITERATURE including Goethe, Schiller and The Works of Johann Gottfried von Herder, 1827, decorative bindings (c.64)
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A COLLECTION OF 18TH-20TH CENTURY GERMAN LITERATURE including Schiller, Friedrich Schlegels, Heinrich Heine etc., some leather bound (c.100)
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HAIN, Ludovici, Repertorum Bibliographicum..., Stuttgart/Paris 1826. 4 vols. 8vo. 1/2 calf, marbled boards plus an assorted collection of 20 18th-20th Century titles, some leather bound (24)
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THORKELIN, Gr'mur Jónsson, Icelandic Scholar (1752-1829),
The first printed edition of Beowulf, the old English Epic Poem translated from Anglo Saxon into Latin 'De Danorum Rebus Gestis Secul. III & IV. Po'ma Davicum Dialecto Anglosaxonica' ex Bibliotheca Cottoniana Musaei Britannici, Havniae (Copenhagen) Rangel 1815. title page with colophon. dedication to Johanni de Bülow. 299pp with preface and addenda. 4to. (235 x 200mm). modern rebind in black cloth with gilt tooled leather spine
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KEMBLE, John (1807-1857) English Scholar, Editor, The Anglo-Saxon Poems of Beowulf, The Travellers Song and the Battle of Finnesburgh. 2 vols. 2nd Ed (?) London 1835/37. William Pickering. 8vo. (175 x 112mm). green cloth white title, numerous pencil annotations, replaced end papers. Eric Gerald Stanley b/p (2)
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HEYNE, Moritz (1837-1906) German Etymologist, Beovulf, mit ausfuhrlichem Glossar herausgegeben. 2nd Ed. Paderborn 1868. 8vo. black cloth with gilt title plus 4 further eds by Heyne plus MÜLLENHOFF, Karl, Beovulf, Untersuchungen, Berlin 1889. 8vo. Eric Gerald Stanley b/p (6)
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A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 70 19TH/20TH CENTURY BOOKS relating to the study of Beowulf, the epic early English poem (70)
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DE BROSSES, Charles Attrib. 'Traite de la Formation méchanique des langues et des principes physiques de L'Etymologie' 2 small (170 x 100mm) format volumes. Paris 1755. marbled end papers, full contemporary binding with gilt tooled ornament and red title (2)
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LESAGE, Alain-René, 'The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane'. A new translation London. Crowder, Ware and Payne 1771. 4 vols. small. (150 x 90mm) format full contemporary calf plus RADCLIFFE, Ann (1764-1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance. 3rd Ed. Robinson 1795. 4 vols. small (180 x 110mm). full contemporary calf, banded spine (8)
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NITSCH: F.A. Pupil of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German Philosopher, 'A General and Introductory View of Professor Kant's Principles concerning Man, The World and the Deity' with dedication to David Barkley and George Hay of K…nigsberg. London 1796. pencil notes on end papers. owner's sig. splits, bumps etc. full calf. re-backed. 8vo.
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HOWEL, James, 'Cottoni Posthuma. Divers Choice Pieces of that renowned Antiquary. Sir Robert Cotton' with dedication to Sir Robert Pye, London 1679. rebound in full calf with red title (180 x 115mm) plus a collection of seventeen small format Antiquarian titles, some with Eric Gerald Stanley b/p (18)
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RAMSAY, Allan, Scottish Poet (1686-1758) 'The Ever Green Being A Collection of Scots Poems Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600', 2 small (145 x 100mm). format volumes. full contemporary calf, splits and bumps, printed by Thomas Ruddiman, Edinburgh 1724. Lord Forbes b/p plus 3 further. 2 vol. associated titles (8)
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GODWIN, William, Life of Geoffrey Chaucer. 2 vols. 4to. with engraved portrait after Condé. Richard Phillips, London 1803. full 'burr' calf re-backed. Eric Gerald Stanley and other b/ps (2)
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THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. A Facsimile of Cambridge University Library MS GG.4.27. 3 vols. colour plates in one thick Fo. Brewer, Cambridge 1979. brown cloth, red leather spine plus The Canterbury Tales, Cornmarket Reprints in assoc. Magdalene College, Cambridge 1972. 1 thick. 4to. vol. Eric Gerald Stanley b/ps (2)
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FURNIVALL, Frederick J, Ed. A six-text print of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in parallel columns, published for the Chaucer Society by N Trübner, London. 3 vols. oblong (265 x 330mm). brown cloth plus 6 associated titles. Eric Gerald Stanley b/ps (9)
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SKEAT, Rev. Walter W, The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman. O.U.P. 2 vols. black cloth. 8vo. plus a collection of titles relating to Anglo-Saxon and Middle English Studies. (c75)
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GRAFF, E.G. Krist, Das Alteste von Otfrid, Konigsberg 1831. full 'burr' calf. notes on end papers plus 5 18th/19th Century German/Latin text titles (6)
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BROTHERS GRIMM: 'Hildebrandslied' Song of Hildebrand in High German verse, Kassel 1812. 4to. (260 x 200mm) plus 5 further 19th Century titles by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (6)
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TURNER, Sharon, English Historian (1768-1847)
The History of The Anglo Saxons. 2nd Ed. Longman et al, London 1807 with map (torn). 2 vols. 4to. much battered plus BONAPARTE, Lucien, Charlemagne an Epic Poem. 2 vols. 4to. Longman et al. London 1815. full calf, plus a reprint of Aesop's Fables (1609) 4to. boards loose plus Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Cottoniannae. Thomas Smith. Oxford 1696. with engraved portrait by R White, worm and damp damage. full contemporary calf. small Fo. plus one associated title (7)
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PINKERTON, Robert, 'Russia or Miscellaneous Observations on Past and Present State of That Country and Its Inhabitants', Seeley, London 1833. 8 coloured engravings as per binder's instructions. 8vo. (260 x 170mm). cloth boards. foxed stains and bumps. Eric Gerald Stanley b/p (1)
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BUNYAN, John, Selected Works with lectures by Rev. Robert Maguire, London Printing and Publishing Company. 1/2 red morocco and marbled boards. 4to. plus an eclectic collection of mixed subject titles and bindings. (c45)
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DE LA MORE PRESS (London), The Percy Folio of Old English Ballards and Romances, Ltd 21/320. on untrimmed handmade paper. 4 vols. 1905. 4to. grey cloth boards plus Bannatyne Club, Horn & Rimenhild, Paris 1845. 4to. brown cloth plus 4 further bound copies of early poetry. Eric Gerald Stanley b/ps (8)
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EVANS, Marian, 'George Eliot' Works. 8 vols. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London. decorative gilt tooled blue cloth. 8vo. bumped and stained, owner's stamps. plus WORDSWORTH, William, Poetical Works. 6 vols. Oxford 1947. blue cloth. 8vo. (14)
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KEYNES, John Maynard, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Macmillan, London 1919. 8vo. blue cloth. splits, bumps and staining plus WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, with intro by Bertrand Russell. Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co., New York 1922. green cloth, splits etc., 8vo. (2)
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WELLS, H.G., The War in the Air, 1st Ed. 16 plates, original tooled cloth, bump, splits and binding loose. 8vo. plus JOYCE, James, Ulysses. 'cheap edition' with d/w. 1952. Bodley Head plus WOOLF, Virginia, To The Lighthouse, Hogarth Press Uniform ed. with d/w (3)
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TAGORE, Rabindranath (1861-1941) Indian polymath and poet
'The Gardener' translated by the author from the original Bengali. 1st Edition. Macmillan & Co. London 1913. dedicated to W.B. Yeats with portrait and 2 pages of advertisements. small 8v (196 x 136mm) splits and bumps, spine faded, with 'author's compliments' inset with glued-in author's signature 'most sincerely yours R.T.'. owner's stamp for Evelyn Stuart Moore. 20th Century English Writer. Eric Gerald Stanley b/p. together with als. from Tagore to Mrs Stuart Moore in black ink on two sides dated 4 Nov. 1913 (The year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature). In his letter he discusses the merits of literacy criticism and the poetry of Kabir (1440-1518), the last sentence reads:-
'You must have noticed in Kabir's poems an absolute freedom from all denominational taints which is not always the case with those of others but still have the strength of vitality to raise their heads far above the entanglements of the dense undergrowth of the traditional forms into the clear atmosphere of spiritual realization'
Note: Evelyn Stuart Moore (née Underhill 1875-1941) (2)
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A MULTIPLE COLLECTION OF 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPH IMAGES of ecclesiastical and other architectural subjects contained within six large oblong albums and a further small album (7)
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WAGNER, Richard (1813-1883) Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor. Sir Georg Solti (1959-1965) with introduction. 22 33/13 rpm records, Decca, in outer slip case
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MACKENZIE, Frederick, The Architectural Antiquities of the Collegiate Chapel of St Stephen, Westminster, John Weale, London 1844 with numerous plates. large Fo. (770 x 640mm). green cloth, binding loose. Royal b/p. plus MOSSE, Rev. S.T. Illustrations of Ashbourne Church, Derbyshire 1842, numerous plates by Day & Haghe. lge Fo. loose in folio with stains (2)
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DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Vision of Purgatory and Paradise. Gustave Doré illus. Cassell Petter and Galpin London. red cloth. Fo. (390 x 310mm). stained bumped
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A Small Collection of Joseph Bosworth's (1788-1876) papers and his copy of Junius's Evangelia:
JUNIS, Franciscus, Quatuor D.N. Jesu Christi Evangeliorum Versiones perantiquae duae Gothica fcil. Et Anglo- Saxonica: Dordrechti 1665. 4to. Engrd. Tp. Disbound without bds. annotations in ink. Lacking pp.329-332, Final leaf p 566. Incomplete. Collated by Bosworth with notes relating to the work. In custom made box
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HICKES, George, A Discourse about the Jews, As the Peculiar People of God in a Sermon preached before the Honourable The Alderman and Citizen of London on the sixth of February 1680. 32pp. London, 1681. EGS bkplt. Tog.with The Spirit of Enthusiasm Exorcised in A Sermon preached before the University of Oxford on Act-Sunday July 11 1660 by George Hicks. London, 1680. Modern rebound. Plus The Case of Infant-Baptism in Five Questions, London 1683. Modern Binding. Eric Gerald Stanley b/p. Plus other 17th Century sermons, Tracts, etc. (13)
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BARKER, R. (printer) A Sermon Preached Before The Kings Majestie at Hampton Court concerning The Rights and Power of calling Assemblies on Sunday the 28 of September, Anno 1606. By The Bishop of Chichester, London 1606. Tog. With IRENODIA Cantabrigiensis: Ob paciferum Serenissimi Regis Caroli e Scotia reditum mense November 1641. A Compilation of Poems collected in hour of Charles 1. Plus CHARLES I (1600-1649) His Majesties Message sent to the Parliament April 8 1642. Concerning His Resolution to go into Ireland for Suppressing the Rebells there . Small 6 page pamphlet. Gothic print. Dec. border to tp. Big. (3)
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S OSWALDO, Vita Di S. Oswaldo Re di Northumberland e Martire coll a Storia Del Suo Culto. In Udine per Antonio del Pedro, 1769 . 8vo. Frontis. paper bds. Tog.with [HOME, John] Alfred A Tragedy as Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent Garden. London, 1778. Slim 8vo. Paper bds. plus Alfred The Great in which is realised his Conquest over the Danes. London, nd. Gothic novella. Paper bds. Plus similar interest. (8)
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FORBES V LONG. The Trial in The High Court of Admiralty in Scotland at the instance of Duncan Forbes of Cullodené against James Long corporal & Thomas MacAdam soldier in the Regiment commanded by Col. Hamilton, Edinburgh, 1736. With a second trial of Duncan Forbes. 8vo. Paper covers. Tog.with other pamphlets, Acts etc. (5)
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SCOTT, Walter, The Field of Waterloo. A Poem, Edinburgh, 1815, paper covers. 1st ed. Lacking advt. pp.worn. Tog.with MASON, Mr. Isis An Elegy written in 1748. Dodsley, 1749. Paper covers. Plus The Triumph of Isis A Poem, Owen, London, 16pp. paper covers. Plus EVANS, Euan (trans.} Some Specimens of The Poetry of The Antient Welsh Bards, Dodsley, London, 1764. Paper covers plus other miscellany. (12)
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WISE, Francis, B.D. Fell. Of Trin. Coll. Oxon. A Letter to Dr. Mead Concerning some Antiquities in Berkshire. Oxford, 1738, 2 folding plts. 58pp. marbled. Paper covers.
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SKEAT, Rev. Walter W, The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1894. 7 vols. gold tooled black cloth. 4to. (230 x 155mm) Eric Gerald Stanley B/p (7)
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CHAUCER, Geoffrey, Canterbury Tales in 4 vols. with glossary and notes by T Tyrwhitt printed in London 1775/1778 for T Payne & Sons at the Mews-Gate. rebound in full tooled calf. 8vo. (198 x 130mm) Eric Gerald Stanley B/p
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GORDON, Alexander, 'Itinerarium Septentrionale' or a journey thro most of the Counties of Scotland and those in the North of England, 2 parts in one volume with sixty five copper plates with appendix advertisement and index printed for the author, London 1726, modern rebind, 1/2 calf with banded spine and green title. small Fo. (360 x 230mm)
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HARDING, John, The Chronicles of John Harding together with a continuation by Richard Grafton. Biographical and Literary preface and An Index by Henry Ellis. London, 1812. Fo. Full tr. Cf. glt. Spines. Tog.with WALPOLE, Horace, Memoires of The Last Ten Years of The Reign of George The Second. In 2 volumes. Murray, 1822. Fo. Ex. Lib. Bkplt ¼ cl. Plus BERNERS, John, ed. Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany & Flanders and The Adjoining Countries. London, 1812. In 2 vols. Rebound ¼ bds. plus Wartons History of English Poetry. 4 vols (9)
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COOPER, Thomas, Thesaurus Linguae Romanae & Britannica...London 1573, inscribed Ex Libris Jonathani Rashleigh ex côllegio Baliolo 1660, thick Fo. (325 x 225mm), losses, contemporary leather, end and title pages crushed and stains etc, Eric Gerald Stanley b/p
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RAWLINSON, Christopher (1677-1733), Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica ex Hickesiano Linguarum Septentrionalium Thesauro Excerpta, printed at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 1711, 48pp with errata, red and black title page with engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre, lacking second title page, later marbled boards with tooled title, 8vo. (200 x 130mm), William Bliss b/p and Eric Gerald Stanley b/p
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A COLLECTION OF 6 18TH/19TH CENTURY TITLES, EARLY NORWEGIAN, ICELAND, SCOTTISH POETRY ETC. VIS:
(a) JOHNSTONE, Rev James/STURLSON, Snorro, Anecdotes of Olav The Black, King of Man, and The Hebridian Princes of the Somerled Family 1780, blue paper covers, (230 x 150mm), torn and stained
(b) COTTLE, A.S. Icelandic Poetry of The Edda of Saemund, Bristol 1797, rebound in full brown calf with red/black titles, (215 x 135mm)
(c) JOHNSTONE, Rev. James Lodbrokar-Quida or The Death-Song of Lodbrog 1782, blue paper covers, (190 x 120mm), torn and stained
(d) JOHNSTONE, Rev. James, The Norwegian Account of Haco's Expedition Against Scotland AD MCCLXIII printed in 1782 blue card boards with new spine, (225 x 160mm)
(e) BERESFORD, Rev. James, 'The Song of the Sun', A poem of the 11th Century from the more Ardent Icelandic Collection called the Edda, London 1805, full hatched calf with gilt edge, (215 x 135mm)
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A LATE 18TH CENTURY FAMILY BIBLE with engravings by Collyer, London 1795. Fo. Old Testament only, full calf, red title plus a collection of 37 Antiquarian bindings, all sold as found (38)
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PIETER DE JODE II AFTER RUBENS
The Visitation, engraving, 63 x 50cm; and a 19th Century lithograph of Queen Victoria, 52 x 35cm, both unframed (2)
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ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM, Coloquia Familiaria, Daniel Tschisseli, Berne 1709 with folding engraved portrait frontispiece, old vellum, (150 x 82mm), handwritten title, splits, stains etc, sold as found
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AN EARLY ITALIAN MANUSCRIPT 192pp, black ink, in a good long hand. The title page approximately translates as: Letters of Alvigi de Porto Vincentu to Savognano al Ghilini concerning the Italian War 1509-1513 copied from an earlier manuscript in the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana (Milan). 4to. (320 x 220mm), untrimmed paper in plain strung covers with 1960 purchase catalogue and receipt
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