Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
5th March 2014
This is a very scarce edition of Aesop, published in Aberdeen in 1781: Fables of Æsop and others: translated into English. With Morals and instructive Applications; and a Print before each Fable. To which is prefixed, the Life of Æsop, more enlarged than in any former Edition of this Size. It’s attractive, with, as the […]
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28th February 2013
On the night of 19 March 1817, Antoine Fualdès, a former French procureur impérial, was brutally murdered in the town of Rodez, in the south-west corner of the Massif Central, and his body found floating in the Aveyron. The ‘Affaire Fualdès’ as it became known and the subsequent six-month trial of the eight accused (Baptiste Colard […]
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