ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

Histoire de la mission des peres capucins en l’isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines ou est traicte...

Paris, François Huby, 1614.

Second edition, enlarged and revised from the first edition published earlier the same year, a handsome copy. The first written account of the Capuchin mission to Maranhão, an island on the coast of Brazil, of which, Sabin notes, this is the earliest mention. In 1612 the mission, composed of...

£30000

ACETI DE’ PORTI, Serafino. 

Novo paradiso di delitie spirituali, nel quale si contiene la vita del salvator nostro Giesu Christo. ...

Bologna, Giovanni Rossi, 1563. 

Rare first edition of this devotional work by Serafino Aceti de’ Porti (1496–1540), a Canon Regular of the Lateran, encompassing episodes from the life of Christ, passages on love for God and on charity, prayers to the Virgin Mary, and spiritual advice by St Bridget. 

£850

[ALTAR CARDS.]

Two altar cards with Latin text and images of Christ and St John.

‘A Paris, chez I. Baudemont’, second half of seventeenth century.

Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured prompt cards for priests, bearing readings and prayers, and devotional images of Jesus and St John, comprising separately printed images, text and borders arranged together in collage fashion.

£2750

ANGELI, Alessandro degli.

In astrologos coniectores libri quinque … Nunc primum prodit [sic] in lucem. Cum indicibus pernecessariis,...

Lyons, Horace Cardon, 1615.

First edition of this thorough attack on astrology by degli Angeli (1542–1620), head of the Jesuit college at Rome, this copy with a presentation inscription by the Lyons publisher and printer Horace Cardon (1566–1641).

£1600

ANGLÉS, José. 

Flores theologicarum quaestionum, in quartum librum sententiarum.  Collecti, iterumq. selecti …  Pars prima...

Rome, Giuseppe de Angelis, 1578. 

Scarce second edition (first Cagliari, 1575–6) of an exhaustive compendium of theological questions compiled by the Spanish Franciscan Anglés (d. 1586), bishop of Bosa in Sardinia. 

£750

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Very large historiated initial ‘H’, probably for the antiphon Hodie nata est beata virgo Maria for the Nativity...

Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

A very fine large initial painted in a style associated with the Master of the Gradual of Cortona, an artist named for a Franciscan gradual produced c. 1290 for the church of San Francesco in Cortona (now Vatican City, BAV, MS Ross. 612).

£6750

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music for the blessing of the Paschal Candle on Holy Saturday.

Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth century.

An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf written entirely in red and notated entirely in burnished gold, signalling the importance of the text for Holy Saturday.

£4250

ANTIPHONAL,

with neumes, containing antiphons, responses and versicles for Trinity Sunday, the Octave of Pentecost, Sundays after...

Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

£5000

ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’.

Considérations générales, sur l’étude et les connoissances que demande la composition...

Paris, Galeries du Louvres, 1777

Two first edition works in one volume by the great French geographer and royal cartographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville, consisting of d’Anville’s general guide to geography and his remarks on the construction of his famous maps of China.

£500

[AQUHORTIES.]

Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for the Students in the College of Aquhorties …

Edinburgh, J. Moir, [1799?].

Broadside rules for the newly established Aquhorties College, the only Roman Catholic college in Scotland, presumably designed to be posted up around the school.

£850

[ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF THE MOST HOLY CRUCIFIX.] 

Distinta descrizione della machina, luminari, ed ordinanza nella solenne processione...

Rome, per il Casaletti, 1775. 

Rare record of a procession made by members of the Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Crucifix from the church of San Marcello in Rome to Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican in the jubilee year of 1775. 

£250

AUGUSTINE, Pseudo-, et al. 

Opusculum multarum bonaru[m] rerum refertum, ut sunt.  Diui Augustini meditationes, et eiusde[m]...

Venice, Pietro Quarengi, 6 March 1512. 

Uncommon edition of various devotional works, comprising: the pseudo-Augustinian Meditations, Soliloquies, and a treatise on the word of God; meditations on the human condition, and a letter on leading the perfect life, attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux; a short sermon assigned to Peter Damian; Anselm’s...

£750

AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

First edition of this highly important and influential magnum opus of political theory, a defence of papal supremacy.

£22500

BACON, Francis.

Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica, civilia, et theologica, nunc primum edita. Cura & fide Guilielmi Rawley…...

London, R. Daniel, impensis Octaviani Pulleyn, 1658.

First edition, second issue (with the imprint R. Daniel, rather than R. Danielis) of this collection of the philosophical, political, and theological writings of Bacon, including numerous essays previously unpublished, and the first appearance of William Rawley’s biographical sketch of the philosopher....

£1250

[BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church,...

Third and final edition of Baskerville’s octavo prayer book. The prayers for the Royal Family on cancels B8, C6, and D3 include the name of Queen Charlotte, whom George III married in 1761. This copy also includes the ‘occasional prayers’ which were only printed for part of the edition and are...

£1200

BAUMGARTNER, Reinhard.

Conclusiones ex universa theologia morali in catholico lyceo Societatis Jesu ad S. Salvatorem Augustae publicae...

[Augsburg], Joseph Antonius Labhart, [1754].

Only edition of this attractively printed summary of moral theology, presented as a disputation in the Jesuit college in Augsburg under the supervision of the professor of the subject, Reinhard Baumgartner (1699-1764). Over fifty paragraphs, the reader is offered a concise guide to the operation of conscience,...

£175

BEAUMONT, Joseph.

Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s: displaying the Intercourse between Christ and the Soule …

London, Printed by John Dawson for George Boddington … 1648.

First edition. Beaumont was one of the royalist fellows ejected from Cambridge in 1644, and he devoted his enforced retirement to the composition of this poem, a ‘religious epic’ representing ‘a Soule led by divine Grace, and her Guardian Angel ... through the difficult Temptations and Assaults...

£1250

BEAUVILLIERS, Marie de.

Conférences spirituelles d’une supérieure à ses religieuses ... d’après un manuscrit revu et mis...

Paris, Moquet et Cie for Toulouse, 1838.

Scarce second edition (first 1837, also rare) of this spiritual guide by Marie de Beauvilliers (1574–1667), edited from a manuscript by the historian l'abbé Louis Gaudreau (1798–1872) and including a short biography of the author.

£400

BELLARMINE, Robert. 

R. P. Roberti Bellarmini Politiani, e Societate Iesu, de indulgentiis, et iubileo, libri duo.  Accedunt...

Cologne, Anton Hierat, 1599. 

One of several editions to appear in 1599 of works by the great Jesuit theologian and controversialist Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621), one of the most important figures of the Counter-Reformation. 

£450

BELLINTANI, Mattia. 

Quattro prediche dell’istesso R. P. F. Mattia Bellintani Capuccino, della risurrettione.  Della manifestatione...

Brescia, Vincenzo Sabbio, 1598. 

Very rare collection of sermons by the Capuchin friar Bellintani (1535–1611), illustrated with attractive woodcuts. 

£750