Search Results: Titles starting with I from Bernard Quaritch Ltd

First edition in Russian of To have and have not (1937), with an introduction by the Soviet critic Ivan Anisimov. Hemingway's first appearance in Russian was Death in the Afternoon in 1934, when he was praised in the Soviet Union as an active anti-Fascist, and he soon became a favourite foreign author of both the intellectuals and the masses.
The translator Evgenia Kalashnikova had translated Hemingway's Farewell to Arms in 1936. She went on to translate Thackeray, Bernard Shaw, Dickens, Scott Fitzgerald, C. S. Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck and many others into Russian.
OCLC records copies at Princeton, South Carolina, and Virginia.
12mo, pp. 237, [3]; light browning, creases to a few pages, but generally a very good copy in the publisher's binding of half cloth, printed paper label to front cover, illustrated endleaves.

Uncommon and significant edition of one of the most important fourteenth-century commentaries on the Psalms, hailed as excellent for its method and clarity and first put through the press in 1491. The significance of this edition lies in the context of its publication. Ludolphus was notable for developing, in his commentaries, the spiritual sense of biblical text. His emphasis on contemplation, and on the affective functions involved in meditating words and events was pivotal in the development of techniques of Christian meditation. Picturing the biblical scene and immersing oneself in it (already championed by Aelred of Rievaulx and St Bonaventure) became a method with Ludolphus, and contributed to the spread of the Devotio Moderna. One of Ludolphus's works, the Vita Christi, was translated into Spanish in 1502 and printed in Alcala, popularizing the method. Only a few years after the printing of our Lyon edition, St Ignatius of Loyola used these techniques in his Spiritual Exercises, published in… Read More

8vo, pp. [ii], 92; some marginal foxing and dustsoiling, but largely clean, with a couple of manuscript corrections to text; in contemporary drab wrappers, spine reinforced with paper but worn and frayed; binding loose, with some gatherings only held by one cord.Uncommon catalogue of the Anatomical Museum in Pavia, built as a complement to the anatomical theatre which was established by the anatomist Antonio Scarpa (1752-1832), who had been appointed professor of anatomy at the university in 1783 with the intention of transforming Pavia into one of the leading medical schools in Europe. The main part of the catalogue contains 356 exhibits, divided into five sections: osteology, splanchnology, neurology, sense organs, and angiology; an appendix contains 61 items prepared for examination with a microscope. Several entries feature references to works by John Hunter, Vicq d'Azir, and Scarpa himself. The catalogue is followed by the speech given by Scarpa at the dedication of the anatomical theatre on… Read More

Scarce first edition thus of this collection of letters by the Irish writer Hugh Boyd (1746-1794), compiled by Andrew Burchet Bone, and with a life of Boyd by Lawrence Dundas Campbell.Originally published in the Hircarrah in 1793 and 1794, the letters here discuss, inter alia, philosophy (especially Rousseau), the French, poetry and painting, conversation, dress, the theatre, ancient Greece and Rome, music, marriage, human nature, Sir William Jones, and, naturally enough, the British in India. Apologising for the delay in publication and typographical inaccuracies, the editor refers to 'the yet infant state of the press in India'. The list of subscribers includes the Madras Circulating Library.Boyd had a colourful career: a popular figure in London fashionable society, he numbered 'Edmund Burke, Catharine Macaulay, David Garrick, John Wilkes, and Joshua Reynolds among his wide circle of acquaintances' (ODNB). He married into money but having exhausted his wife's fortune was forced to join the East… Read More

8vo, pp. 24; with one illustration in the text; some light browning and spotting, but largely fresh; a very good copy, stitched in the original printed wrappers.First edition of an uncommon guide, printed in Milan at the height of the 1831-2 cholera pandemic, on preventive measures to be taken against contagion, and in particular on the maintenance of quarantine as a means of limiting the spread both of cholera and of other diseases.The guide aims to offer a 'simple and succinct description of the objects that can be introduced into one's own house without fear of carrying contagion', as well as advice on proper nutrition, the best means of airing and perfuming one's house, the correct approach to going out on the streets, and how to interact with others while maintaining appropriate distance. The anonymous author (who signs himself 'G.N.') tells us that his advice is based on his ten years' experience of living in Egypt, especially in Alexandria and Cairo, where epidemics were frequent.OCLC records… Read More