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[CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLY SACRAMENT.]
Réglemens et prieres de la confrairie érigée en l’honneur du très-saint sacrement,...
Besançon, Jacques-François Couché, [1780].
Apparently unrecorded pocket-sized manual for the male and female members of a confraternity devoted to the Holy Sacrament established in 1780 in the church of St Paul and St Donatus at Besançon.
£850
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DENISSE, Nicolas.
Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus preclarissimum opus super quattuor novissimis cui Speculu[m] mortalium...
Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].
Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium of the Franciscan theologian Nicolas Denisse (d. 1509), printed at Rouen by Martin Morin (d. 1522).
£1650
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[EUDISTS.]
‘Vive Jesus et Marie. Regles des freres domestiques de la congregation ecclesiastique de Jesus et Marie. Ces regles...
[Northwestern France, c. 1730].
A most interesting manuscript detailing the regulations governing the brothers of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary, an ecclesiastical society dedicated to the education of priests in seminaries and to missions, founded at Caen in Normandy in 1643 by Jean Eudes (1601–1680).
£850
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FRANCIS DE SALES.
Introduction à la vie devote du bien-heureux François de Sales, evesque et prince de Geneve; instituteur de...
Paris, Jean Hénault, 1648.
A seemingly unrecorded edition of the famous Introduction to the Devout Life by Francis de Sales (1567–1622), bishop of Geneva, cofounder of the Visitandines, and one of the leaders of the Counter Reformation, with an engraved portrait of him.
£500
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[FRANCISCANS.]
Orationes dicendae in expositione SS. Sacramenti altaris pro conventu S. Mariae Angelorum Eugeniae.
[Northern Italy, 1787 and later].
An intriguing devotional manuscript compiled for a northern Italian Franciscan convent dedicated to Santa Maria degli Angeli, with a full-page image of a monstrance, and with evidence of the tumultuous impact of the Napoleonic era.
£1250
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HOFFMEISTER, Johann.
Loci communes rerum theologicarum, quae hodie in controversia agitantur, ad regulam, et consensum verae, catholicaeque...
(colophon:) Ingolstadt, Alexander Weissenhorn, 1547.
First edition. In the dedication to the present work, Hoffmeister (1509–1547), one of Luther’s resolute adversaries, and Vicar General of the Augustinians in Germany, explains that there are people who wish, bono fortasse zelo, to find the truth for themselves and who hope that it may be possible...
£500
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IRENAEUS.
Opus eruditissimum divi Irenaei episcopi Lugdunensis, in quinque libros digestum, in quibus mire retegit et confutat...
Paris, Oudin Petit, 1563.
Jean François Foppens’s copy of Erasmus’s pioneering edition of Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, first published at Basel by Johann Froben in 1526.
£1200
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[JESUS CHRIST.]
Recherches curieuses et morales sur la naissance de Jesus-Christ.
Paris, Jacques le Febvre, 1684.
Rare first editions of two devotional works, with engraved frontispieces by Landry, and in an attractive contemporary binding.
£475
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[LITURGY.]
L’Office de la Semaine Sainte, selon le Messel et Breviaire Romain; avec la concordance du Messel; et Breviaire de...
Paris, par la Compagnie des libraires associez au livre de la Semaine Sainte, 1700.
Uncommon edition of the offices for Holy Week in parallel French and Latin, in an attractive binding bearing the arms and monogram of Philippe I, duc d’Orléans (1640–1701).
£1250
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[MASS.]
Brevis elucidatio totius Missae, interrogationibus, et responsionibus distincta, iussu … D. Francisci Vander-Burch archiepiscopi...
Mons, François Waudré, 1639.
First edition, second issue(?), of a catechism on the Mass published at Mons in Belgium by order of François van der Burch (1567–1644), archbishop of Cambrai.
£375
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[PRAYERS.]
Christ-Catholischer Gottseeligkeit andächtige Verrichtungen, bestehende in Morgen- Abend- Mess- Beicht- und Communion-Gebethern...
Prague, Johann Norbert Fitzky, 1733.
A very rare Jesuit prayerbook published in Prague by the Polish-born printer Johann Norbert Fitzky (d. 1745), in a distinctive Bohemian binding.
£950
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[RITUAL.]
Rituale della venerabile Archiconfraternita delle Sagre Stimmate del padre S. Francesco di Roma.
Rome, nella stamperia del Bernabò, 1711.
Uncommon revised second edition (first 1669) of the Ritual of the Archconfraternity of the Sacred Stigmata of St Francis in Rome (established in 1594), in an attractive binding bearing the arms of the noble Caetani family.
£800
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[ROUEN.]
L’Office de la semaine sainte à l’usage du diocese de Rouen. Avec des prieres pour la Confession et la Communion,...
Rouen, François Oursel, 1742.
A seemingly unrecorded edition of a prayerbook for Holy Week, illustrated with woodcuts and with a tipped-in manuscript prayer for Napoleon, in an attractive binding.
£475
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[WALLPAPER BINDING.]
‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves a joseph Paul Roegier et marie margu te [sic] Bourdeau son espouse,...
Hainaut, 1750–1773.
A manuscript account book compiled by Joseph Paul Roegier and his son, recording receipts over a quarter-century, in an attractive and unusual binding reusing a large fragment of gilt leather wallpaper.
£3500
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EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.
Historia ecclesiastica.
Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, 15 May 1476.
The Syston Park copy of the earliest history of the Christian Church, written in the early fourth century; this is probably the third edition. It was translated into Latin in the early fifth century by Rufinus of Aquileia, who extended the text down to the time of Theodosius at the end of the...
£4500
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ALLIONI, Carlo.
Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii [– Florae Pedemontanae icones accedit...
Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.
First edition of the earliest Italian regional flora by the ‘Linnaeus of Piedmont’, here in the extremely rare hand-coloured state and extensively annotated by Giovanni Battista Balbis, the author’s pupil and successor at the Botanical Garden of the University of Turin.
£30000
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BRAUN, Adolphe.
Untitled flower study (orchids).
c. 1870?
A stunning monumental flower study by Adolphe Braun (1811–1877). Born in Besançon, Braun’s first career was a designer of textiles, and his first exercises in flower photography in the late 1840s and early 1850s were intended as compositional aids. His album of Fleurs photographiées...
£1200
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BRAUN, Adolphe.
Untitled flower study (camellia).
c. 1870?
An exquisite monumental flower study by Adolphe Braun (1811–1877). Born in Besançon, Braun’s first career was a designer of textiles, and his first exercises in flower photography in the late 1840s and early 1850s were intended as compositional aids. His album of Fleurs photographiées...
£1200
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BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).
Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans...
London, Henry Colburn, 1829.
First edition, in one volume, recounting Johann Ludwig Burckhardt’s journey to Mecca on behalf of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa in 1814.
£3750
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BURTON, Richard Francis, and James MACQUEEN.
The Nile Basin. Part I. Showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy’s western lake reservoir....
By James M’Queen … London, Tinsley Brothers, 1864.
First edition, complete with the three maps. This work, ‘which absolutely exudes venom, was the heart of Burton’s frontal attack on [John Hanning] Speke’s geographical theories. Burton dedicated it, with a marked degree of sarcasm, to “those kind friends, especially to those members of...
£2500