Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
15th April 2020
Many of the items in the Anglo-German Cultural Relations catalogue are rife with cross-cultural connections. One such item is the copy of John Frederick Lampe’s A plain and compendious Method of teaching Thorough Bass, after the most rational Manner … (London, J. Wilcox, 1737). This, the first (and only) edition was dedicated to Colonel John Blathwayt […]
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2nd August 2018
People sometimes ask how I go about looking for books. Why do I pull off one book in a bookshop rather than another? I’m not sure I have an immediate answer to this question, but one type of book I often end up looking at are those in oblong formats…
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17th March 2017
I may only have just returned from the New York Book Fair, but next week I’ll be off to Edinburgh. This year is going to be a busy one. One book I shall on my stand there is this: Published in 1745, this is the rare first edition of Burk Thumoth’s collection of Scottish and Irish […]
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