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[NUNS.]
[Incipit:] Illustrissimi Sigg. Sigg. Padroni Colendiss. Volendo Sua Altezza Reale rendere uniforme il sistema generale...
Florence, 20 March 1784.
Extremely rare broadside confirming the acquiescence of a Florentine convent with an edict issued by Peter Leopold of Habsburg Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany (later Holy Roman Emperor), abolishing the communal burial of nuns in vaulted underground chambers and requiring that they be buried in graves.
£450
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PICKERING, Amelia.
The Sorrows of Werter: a Poem …
London, T. Cadell … 1788.
First edition of this retelling of Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther, here giving a voice to Charlotte, preceded by a list of nearly one thousand subscribers, largely from Bristol and London.
£1200
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PITOU, Louis-Ange.
L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou le fond de ma conscience, sur les causes et les effets des vingt-un...
Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August 1815.
First and only surviving edition of this account of executed royals from England and France by the royalist publisher and propagandist Louis-Ange Pitou (1767–1846), published on the return of Louis XVIII to Paris after the Hundred Days.
£650
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[RAMEAUX, François-Alexis.]
Notice of the death of Rameaux issued by Bernard-Vincent Laribe.
[China, 1845.]
A circular notifying the Christian community of the death of François-Alexis Rameaux (1802–1845), Vicar Apostolic of Zhejiang and Jiangxi from 1838, issued by his friend and successor Bernard-Vincent Laribe (1802–1850), asking that prayers for his soul be practiced nightly for six months.
£2000
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ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, Wentworth Dillon ROSCOMMON, 4th Earl of, et al.
A Collection of Poems: viz....
London, printed for Daniel Brown and Benjamin Tooke, 1701.
Fourth edition of the important ‘Temple of Death’ miscellany of Restoration poetry, comprising some one hundred poems, retaining most of the poems from the third edition of 1693 and adding much new material, including the first appearances of works by Roscommon and Rochester.
£500
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SCHNEPF, Dietrich.
Oratio de vita et morte illustrissimae principis ac dominae, D. Dorotheae Ursulae, illustrissimi principis...
Tübingen, Alexander Hock, 1583.
Scarce work issued following the death of Dorothea Ursula von Baden-Durlach (1559–1583), comprising a Latin funeral oration by the Tübingen professor of theology Dietrich Schnepf (1525–1586) and verses in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew by several scholars.
£550
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SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.
Designs for furniture, funerary monuments, garden buildings.
Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s].
An interesting sammelband containing over fifty handsome engraved plates with late Baroque designs for furniture, monuments, and summerhouses, published at Augsburg by Jeremias Wolff (1663–1724) and his heirs, and by Joseph Friedrich Leopold (1668–1727).
£3750
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[SHEPHEARD, James.]
The Dying Speech of James Shepheard: who suffer’d Death at Tyburn, March the 17th, 1717/18. Deliver’d by...
[London, s.n., 1718.]
One of at least five printings of this ‘speech’ allegedly written by the eighteen-year-old Jacobite apprentice coach-painter James Shepheard – hanged at Tyburn for planning the assassination of George I – and illegally circulated at his execution and after his death.
£750
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington…
London: Edward Moxon … 1852.
First edition of Tennyson’s ode to the Duke of Wellington; one of his earliest Laureate poems, it was, of course, a patriotic piece, but also, as a Horatian ode in English, a notable technical achievement.
£100
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
Живой Трупъ. Драма въ 6 Дѣйствіяхъ и 12 Картинахъ. [Zhivoi trup....
Moscow, A. Ia. Petrov, [1911].
One of the earliest printings of Tolstoy’s Living Corpse, one of a number of editions in 1911, the year it was first staged, posthumously, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, offered with a traditional Roma folk song included in the performance of Act II of The Living Corpse, first edition...
£1750
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[TOWNLEY, William Dalison.]
Punch’s Pocket-Book for 1877, containing a Calendar, Cash Account, Diary and Memoranda for every...
London, [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. for] Punch Office, 1877.
A Punch almanack for 1877 with nearly sixty manuscript diary entries by the seventeen-year-old William Dalison Townley of Fulbourn, near Cambridge, written during the period of illness immediately preceding his untimely death and with poignant additions by his mother written shortly thereafter.
£450
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TREVLYN, Valda.
High Death.
Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.
One of 100 copies of this poem on death by drowning and the simultaneous beauty and danger of the sea by the Cornish poet, activist, and suffragist Valda Trevlyn Grieve (1906–1989), inspired by the seascapes of her native Cornwall, our copy inscribed ‘with affection and some embarrassment Valda’.
£75
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[WINSLOW, Jacob Benignus.]
Terrible supplice et cruel désespoir des personnes enterrées vivants & qui sont présumées mortes.
[Paris, Joseph Bullot, 1752].
Extremely rare first edition of this anonymous French translation – here facing the original Latin – of this treatise on those who have been erroneously buried alive, this translation with an added list of proofs of death in French not present in previous editions.
£850
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[WISHART, George.]
I. G. de rebus auspiciis serenssimi, & potentissimi Caroli Dei gratia Magnae Brittanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae...
[Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.
First edition, rare, a fine-paper copy in a handsome binding, of an account of the campaign of James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, against the Covenanters in 1644−46, a copy of which was strung around Montrose’s neck when he was hanged.
£1750
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ANACREON.
Ανακρεοντος τηιου μελη praefixo commentario quo poëtae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia...
Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’, 1791.
Thick paper copy, apparently one of 12 copies from an edition of 212. This attractive edition of Anacreon’s Odaria was edited by G.C. Amaduzzi and printed by Bodoni. ‘The editions of 1785 and 1791 are printed in capital letters, and more elegant and exquisitely finished productions...
£650
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[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.
£3500
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BENTLEY, Richard, et al.; [Charles BURNEY, editor].
Richardi Bentleii et doctorum virorum epistolae, partim mutuae. Accedit Richardi...
London, William Bulmer, 1807.
First edition of the correspondence of Richard Bentley, a large paper copy splendidly bound and presented by Charles Burney to the British Museum’s Keeper of Manuscripts, with attractive later provenance.
£1750
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BERNARD of Clairvaux.
Opera omnia, tam quae vere germana illius esse nemo inficias eat, quam quae spuria & supposititia (quanquam...
Paris, [Nicolas Bruslé for] Sébastien Nivelle, [1571–]1572.
A rare Parisian edition of the works of Bernard of Clairvaux, beautifully preserved in a contemporary Spanish plateresca binding with elaborate fore-edge lettering.
£3750
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BIANCHINI, Giuseppe.
Enarratio pseudo-Athanasiana in symbolum ante hac inedita, et Vigilii Tapsitani de Trinitate ad Theophilum...
Verona, Pierantonio Berno, 1732.
First edition, presented by the author, of this scarce work on the Apostles’ Creed by the Veronese Oratorian, Biblical and liturgical scholar, and librarian Giuseppe Bianchini (1704–1764), with a delightful frontispiece depicting the city of Verona.
£675
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BOOK OF HOURS.
Leaf with Luke 1:26–35.
Northern France, c. 1475.
A very attractive leaf from a late fifteenth-century French Book of Hours with a nice miniature of the winged ox of St Luke marking the opening of a reading from his gospel.
£550