300 Jullien (Marc-Antoine). Esprit de la méthode d’éducation de Pestalozzi, suivie et pratiquée dans l’institut d’éducation d’Yverdun, en Suisse, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Milan: Imprimerie royale, 1812, thick paper with wide margins, uncut, half-title to volume 1 with presentation inscription from Jullien, old stamp to both titles, rebound in quarter calf gilt, 8vo
306 Lapide (Cornelius Cornelii a.). Commentarius in Quatuor Evangelia, two vols. in one, Antwerp: Haered. Martini NutI, 1639, half title with ownership labels of J.B. Ghyselen 1796, engraved general title, some dampstaining at front of volume and browning throughout, contemporary blind panelled calf over wooden boards, and with roll work decoration to boards , lacking spine, brass clasps present, folio
Important accounts of Pestalozzi’s school at Yverdon with summaries of the great educator’s ideas and achievements. (2) £150-200
(1)
307 Laurent (Paul Mathieu). Histoire de l’Empereur Napoléon... illustree par Horace Vernet, Paris: Dubochet, 1840, engraved frontispiece with hand-colouring, additional engraved title, numerous black and white illustrations to text, engraved plates with hand-colouring, occasional scattered spotting, armorial bookplate for John Gretton to front pastedown, contemporary half calf, rubbed and a little scuffed, 8vo, together with Langon (Baron), Evenings with Prince Cambaceres..., 2 volumes, Henry Colburn, 1837, black and white portrait frontispiece to each volume, occasional scattered spotting, original morrocco gilt, 8vo
301 Jung-Stilling (Johann Heinrich). Versuch einer Grundlehre sämmtlicher Kameralwissenschaften zum Gebrauche der Vorlesungen auf der Kurpfalzischen Kameralhohenschule zu Lautern, 1st edition, Lautern, 1779, scattered minor spotting, contemporary ink inscription to title, contemporary boards, a little wear to spine and paper library label rubbed, 8vo First and only edition of a work written when Jung-Stilling (1740-1817) was lecturer in cameralist sciences at Marburg. Rare. Not in Einaudi, Goldsmiths’ or Kress. (1) £500-800
(3)
302 Knight (Richard Payne). The Landscape, A Didactic Poem, in three books addressed to Uvedale Price, 2nd edition, printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1795, three engraved plates (including two folding), occasional scattered spotting, marbled edges, half calf, a little rubbed and slightly scuffed, 4to (1)
£150-200
£150-200
308 Le Brun (Claude). Les proces civil et criminel, contenant la methodique liaison du Droict, et de la practique judiciaire, civile et criminelle, 2nd edition, Lyon: Claude Chancey, 1664, title in red and black, with woodcut armorial device, some browning, some dampstaining, lacking free endpapers, contemporary sheep, worn with slight loss of leather to boards, 4to
£300-400
No UK institutional location found. (1)
303 Kollar (Jan). Díla básnická … we dwau djljch [A Collection of Poems … in two parts], 1st collected edition, Buda, 1845, some light offsetting, presentation inscription ‘Slawobratrowi UtĕšenowićOstrožinskému / Jan Kollár’ and an additional autograph sonnet bound in, contemporary green cloth, slight wear and small chip at head of spine, 8vo, cloth book box
£150-200
309 Le Mercier de la Riviere (Paul Pierre). L’Ordre Naturel et Essentiel des Sociétés Politiques, 1st edition, London and Paris, 1767, initial blank leaf present, occasional pencil underlining, a few leaves with offseting, slight browning to the last leaves, contemporary mottled calf gilt, slight wear, 4to
First collected edition of Jan Kollár’s works, inscribed to fellow poet and ‘brother Slav’ Ognjeslav Utješenowić-Ostrožinski, with an additional autograph sonnet written in his honour. (1) £400-600
Goldsmiths’ 10269; Higgs 3979; Kress 6475. (1)
£400-600
304 Krusenstern (Aleksandr Ivanovich). Précis du système, des progrès et de l’état de l’instruction publique en Russie. Rédigé d’après des documens officiels par Alexandre de Krusenstern, Chambellan de S. M. l’Empereur de Russie, 1st edition, Warsaw, 1837, errata leaf at rear, some browning to endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary orange morocco-style paper-covered boards, slightly rubbed, 8vo
310 Leconte de Lisle (Charles-Marie). Poèmes antiques [with] Poëmes et poésies, 2 volumes, 1st editions, Paris 1852 & 1855, author’s first and second books, author’s signed presentation inscription to half-title of each volume to the political and scientific journalist Victor Meunier (1817-1903), some light spotting, top edges gilt, uniformly bound in contemporary brown half morocco gilt slight wear to extremities, 8vo
A detailed account of the state of education in Russia. (1)
The rare Poèmes antiques includes the famous preface which was suppressed in subsequent editions. (2) £200-300
£200-300
305 [Lambard, William. Eirenarcha: Or of The Office of the Iustices of Peace, in two Bookes... ], 1st edition, [1581], lacks titlepage within woodcut border, A4 (second leaf of table contents) and penultimate leaf [to L7] from Table at rear, black letter, printer’s woodcut device to final leaf verso, occasional old ink marginalia in more than one hand, some old damp staining sometimes affecting marginalia, later reversed calf, 8vo
311 Leibniz (Gottfried Wilhelm). Theodicee, das ist, Versuch von der Güte Gottes, Freyheit des Menschen, und vom Ursprunge des Bösen;.bey dieser vierten Ausgabe durchgehends verbessert, auch mit verschiedenen Zusätzen und Anmerkungen vermehrt v. J. Chr. Gottsched, Hanover and Leipzig, 1744, engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved folding plate of the calculating machine, contemporary annotations on free endpaper, occasional spotting and soiling, contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, spine lettered in ink, vertical crease to spine, 8vo
Beale T387. Uncommon first edition of this much praised account of the organisation of local government under the justices of the peace at the time. (1) £150-200
First Gottsched edition of the Théodicée (1710). See PMM 177 (first edition). (1) £150-200
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