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A Byron rarity Suppressed by
the court of chancery
[Byron, George Gordon, Lord]. One of the few
surviving copies of the suppressed, unfinished
volume of Byron’s early correspondence with
his mother and with R. C. Dallas. [London,
Charles Knight and Henry Colburn, 1824.]
4to; in excellent condition, the pages entirely
untrimmed, recent full light-brown morocco by
Sangorski & Sutcliffe. CHF 19 500.–
First (suppressed) edition. Dallas proposed to
publish these letters after Byron’s death, but was
forestalled by the poet’s executors. He died in 1824,
shortly after the injunction was issued. His son A.
R. C. Dallas took the manuscript to Paris where
it was issued by Galignani. A long ‹Preliminary
Statement› to the Paris edition provides details of
the hearing in Chancery and the suppression of the
book in England. It was nearly finished and had
been advertised, but as a result of the injunction
it was never completed. It ends abruptly mid-sentence
on page 168 and there are no prelims.
Castel de Saint-Pierre, Charles Irénée, abbé.
Projet pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe.
[With:] Projet de traité pour rendre la paix perpétuelle
entre les souverains Chretiens… Utrecht,
Antoine Schouten, 1713, 1717. Together 3
volumes, 12mo; clean copies in contemporary
calf, spines gilt decorated in compartments with
morocco lettering pieces, bookplate of Armand
de Troisbrioux to pastedowns; overall, a very
nice set. CHF 19 000.–
First edition of ‹the first expression of an idea – the
idea of perpetual peace – that exerted considerable
influence on the way in which many Enlightenment
thinkers saw international politics, especially Rousseau
and Kant› (Brown, International relations in
political thought, p. 380).
Bernard Quaritch Ltd
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Calvinism and dancing
Daneau, Lambert. Traite des Danses, Auquel
est amplement resolue la question, a savoir s’il
est permis aux Chrestiens de Danser. Nouvellement
mis en lumiere. [Geneva], François Estienne,
1579. 8vo; contemporary limp vellum
with ties preserved. CHF 5100.–
First edition of this very rare polemic on the morality
of dance.
Gellert, Hugo – Karl Marx. Karl Marx ‹Capital›
in pictures. [New York, printed by S. A.
Jacobs, and lithographed by E. Desjobert, Paris,
for Hugo Gellert, 1933]. Folio, with 60 lithographic
plates, each signed in pencil by Gellert;
inscribed by the author for the socialist philosopher
Corliss Lamont, the inscription in red ink
on the title-page reading ‹To Corliss with revolutionary
greetings – Hugo›. CHF 30 000.–
Rare first, only and limited edition of Hugo Gellert’s
series of 60 lithographs interpreting Marx’s
Das Kapital. Each illustration is faced by an extract
from Marx’s work.
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