[WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.

An Eulogy on the Life of General George Washington, who died at Mount Vernon, December 14th,...

Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.

First edition of this eulogy on Washington, ‘the saviour of your country’ and ‘father of his people’. This is the issue with urn woodcut on the final verso. Thomas Paine (1773–1811, not to be confused with the author of Common Sense) later changed his name to that of his father, Robert...

£250

WATSON, Sheila.

‘The Great War, Wyndham Lewis and the Underground Press’, a special issue of artscanada, November 1967, issue...

The recordings included are three sections from One-Way Song, made at Harvard in 1940 alongside his lecture, and ‘Marshall McLuhan recalls Lewis’.

£50

[WAX MODELS.] Gaetano PECCI.

Broadside advertising an itinerant show of wax models. [Incipit:] ‘L’Artista Gaetano Pecci,...

[Venice], Casali stampatore, [c. 1815].

A seemingly unrecorded broadside advertising the Venice dates of a touring show of life-sized wax models of the Nativity, notable politicians and philosophers, and anatomical figures by the Milanese wax sculptor Gaetano Pecci, as well as an (apparently living) two-headed boy.

£500

[WESTMINSTER ELECTION.]

A True and impartial Collection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, which have been written and published on...

London: Printed for W. Owen … 1749.

First edition of a compilation of open letters to the electorate of Westminster, written during the violent 1749 election campaign.

£750

WHITMAN, Walt, and Antonio FRASCONI, illustrator.

A Whitman Portrait.

[New York, Spiral Press, 1960.]

First edition, comprising extracts from Leaves of Grass, facsimile letters and a selection of woodcut ‘portraits’ by Frasconi. Numbered 149 of 525 copies signed by Frasconi, printed on Japanese Goyu paper.

£250

WILLIAM OF TYRE; Giuseppe OROLOGGI, translator.

Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme, della Terra di Promissione,...

Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s (1130–1186) important account of the first two Crusades and of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, with the addition of a seventeenth-century manuscript with a uniquely Italian rendition of the tale of the Wandering Jew.

£2750

WISE, Francis.

A Letter to Dr Mead concerning some Antiquities in Berkshire, particularly shewing that the White Horse, which gives...

Oxford, Printed for Thomas Wood … 1738

First editions. A Letter to Dr Mead was the first serious archaeological study of the Uffington White Horse. Francis Wise, Keeper of the Archives at Oxford University and later a friend of Samuel Johnson, contends that the horse, which he eulogises as a work of art, had Saxon origins, because...

£350

[WISHART, George.]

I. G. de rebus auspiciis serenssimi, & potentissimi Caroli Dei gratia Magnae Brittanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae...

[Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.

First edition, rare, a fine-paper copy in a handsome binding, of an account of the campaign of James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, against the Covenanters in 1644−46, a copy of which was strung around Montrose’s neck when he was hanged.

£1750

WITHER, George.

Speculum Speculativum: or, a Considering-Glasse; being an Inspection into the present and late sad Condition of...

London, Written June XIII. MDCLX. and there Imprinted the same year [1660].

The third of three editions in the same year, from an entirely new setting of type, with ‘Glasse’ rather than ‘Glass’ on the title-page, the errata formerly printed on L8 corrected, and the errors corrected in the caption title on p. 1

£525

WOOLLEY, C. Leonard and Thomas Edward LAWRENCE.

The Wilderness of Zin ... With a Chapter on the Greek Inscriptions by M.N. Tod....

London: The Alden Press for Jonathan Cape, 1936.

Second English edition. The Wilderness of Zin originally appeared as the Palestine Exploration Fund Annual for 1914-1915, and was the first work by Lawrence to appear in book form. However, it was included in the P.E.F. series on somewhat disingenuous grounds: ‘During January and February 1914,...

£150

WYCHERLEY, William.

The Posthumous Works … in Prose and Verse. Faithfully publish’d from his original Manuscripts, by Mr. Theobald....

London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, J. Osborn, W. Mears, W. and J. Innys, J. Peele, T. Woodward; and F. Clay. 1728.

First edition of an important collection, comprising 308 maxims, one short essay and a large number of previously unpublished poems (the third paginated sequence), based on manuscripts acquired from Captain Thomas Shrimpton, Wycherley’s sole executor.

£850

[WYNNE, John Huddlestone.]

The Child of Chance; or, the Adventures of Harry Hazard.

London, T. Hookham, ‘1796’ [recte 1786].

First edition of a very rare picaresque novel in the manner of Tom Jones. Though largely London-based, there are interludes in India (where Wynne had served two years) and the West Indies.

£3500

[YOUNG, Edward.]

The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality.

London, R. Dodsley and [T. Cooper; –] M. Cooper, [1742; –] 1743.

The first attempt at a collected edition of the Night-Thoughts, issued by Richard Dodsley and Mary Cooper, comprising the second (first quarto) edition of Night the First and first editions of Night the Second to Fourth with a general title and preface.

£250

ZANCHI, Basilio.

Dictionarium poeticum, et epitheta veterum poetarum … nunc secundo trans Alpes editum.

Mons, Luca Rivius, 1612.

Scarce Mons-printed edition of Zanchi’s onomasticon from A to Z, providing a comprehensive list of deities, notable figures, and heroes and heroines from classical myth and legend, drawn from the works of Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Propertius.

£375

ZOSIMUS.

The New History of Count Zosimus, sometime Advocate of the Treasury pf the Roman Empire. With the Notes of the Oxford...

London, Joseph Hindmarsh, 1684.

First edition of this anonymous translation of the Historia nova, translated from the Oxford text of 1679 (an edition that Gibbon owned). Zosimus’s history of the Roman Empire covers the period from Augustus to 410 AD (the sack of Rome by the Visigoths). For the fourth century and the collapse...

£950

ZOSIMUS. 

Ιστοριας νεας βιβλοι ἑξ …  Historiae novae libri sex, notis illustrati. 

Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1679. 

First Oxford edition of this history of the Roman Empire from Augustus to the year 410, by the fifth-century Greek historian Zosimus.  The work is an important source particularly for the period 395-410 and its pagan author attributes Rome’s decline to its embrace of Christianity and rejection of...

£500

ZUKOFSKY, Louis.

Some Time. Short Poems …

Stuttgart, Jonathan Williams, 1956.

First edition, one of 300 copies, inscribed ‘for D. G. Bridson, Sept. 21, 1957, Louis Zukofsky’.

£500