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Saturday 7 June 2026, 8:30-12:30
Athénée Royal Crommelynck te Sint-Pieters-Woluwe Orbanlaan 73,
1150 Sint-Piters-Woluwe
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RECENT ACQUISITIONS
COOKE, E.W. (Edward William). Grotesque Animals. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1872. 4to, green pebbled cloth over pictorial boards with gilt design and lettering, 24 plates (48 unpaginated leaves); very good copy, previously professionally rebacked with new marbled endpapers, slight wear to boards, 2 light spots, otherwise internally clean
First edition of Edward William Cooke’s famous illustrated work.
BACH, Johann Sebastian. Grosse Passionsmusik nach dem Evangelium Johannis, Partitur. Berlin, Trautwein, 1831. Half green morocco with marbled boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine, 113 pp.; excellent copy with a few instances of light spotting
Rare first edition copy of the full score of the St. John Passion which reintroduced Bach’s dramatic masterpiece to 19th-century audiences, following Mendelssohn’s 1829 revival of the St. Matthew Passion.
TASMA (Jesse Couvreur). Uncle Piper of Piper’s Hill. An Australian novel. London, Trübner & Co., 1889. In-8, green cloth, gilt titles to spine, lettering and design in black to cover, yellow endpapers, 348 pp.; very good copy, rubbing to spine extremities and corners, white spots to spine, owner’s inscription on decorative first title page
First edition in book form after its initial serialization in The Australasian in 1888. With a signed dedication by the author. Jessie Catherine Couvreur (1848–1897), known by her pseudonym Tasma, was an Australian journalist and novelist.Â
ANSON, Marguerite. Une société de flagellantes. Réminiscences et révélations d’une soubrette de grande maison. Paris, C. Carrington, 1902. Grand in-8, broché, couverture rempliée illustrée, 298 pp.; bel exemplaire
Deuxième édition française du pseudo-mémoire de Marguerite Anson (pseud. de James Glass Bertram), traduit par Jean de Villiot, et première édition avec les illustrations de Martin van Maele et Adolphe Lambrecht. Un des 750 exemplaires.
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