JESUS, Carlos Augusto Montalto de.

Historic Macao …

Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, 1902.

First edition of an important history of Macao by the Macanese scholar Montalto de Jesus (1863–1927), a fellow of the Geographical Society of Lisbon and a member of the China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

£950

[GUARINI, Giovanni Battista.]

Il Pastor Fido.

‘In Parigi, appresso Tomaso Iolly, 1706’.

Scarce Parisian edition of Guarini’s immensely popular ‘pastoral tragi-comedy’, charmingly illustrated by Antonio Luciani.

£175

DALLMEYER, Thomas.

Telephotography: An elementary Treatise on the Construction and Application of the telephotographic Lens …...

London, William Heinemann, 1899.

First edition of the authoritative treatise on telephotography by the inventor of the first practical telephotographic lens.

£200

GURNEY, Edmund, Frederic W.H. MYERS, and Frank PODMORE.

Phantasms of the Living …

London, Society for Psychical Research, and Trübner & Co, 1886.

First edition, second issue as usual, with the note regarding corrections and additions on the verso of the title-page of vol. I and said Corrections included.

£800

ROSSI, Ottavio, and Bartolomeo FONTANA, compiler.

Lettere del Sig. Ottavio Rossi. Raccolte da Bartolomeo Fontana ...

Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621.

First edition of over 150 letters by the poet and scholar Ottavio Rossi (1570–1630), printed in his native city of Brescia and including a letter to the painter Palma Giovane, our copy with a contemporary manuscript note on the artist’s final moments written mere days after his death.

£1250

CALMET, Antoine Augustin.

Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Testament. Les deux livres d’Esdras,...

Paris, Pierre Emery, 1712.

First edition of the commentary on the Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, and Esther by the French Benedictine Antoine Augustin Calmet (1672–1757), from the library of the last male descendant of the distinguished Colbert family.

£450

‘TELL’, pseud. [i.e. Jacob EPSTEIN].

A rude Book.

Hartford, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1926.

First edition, one of 500 copies printed in the United States, of these satirical sketches of Churchill, Shaw, Beerbohm &c. by the celebrated sculptor Jacob Epstein, our copy owned by the political cartoonist Robert Osborn and accompanied by a scathing review written during his undergraduate years...

£350

[SPANISH FISHING.]

Artes, aparejos e instrumentos de pesca de España.

[Madrid, Artes Gráficas ‘Mateu’?, 1920?]

First and only edition, very rare, a striking illustrated guide to the traditional Spanish fishing industry, with thirty-five large and unusual illustrations of typical fishing villages and dress; net designs, and floats; boats; drag-nets; tangle-nets, purse seins; hooks; and various ‘objetos curiosos’....

£2000

[ARISTOTLE.]

‘Quaestiones philosophicae ad mentem Aristotelis R.P. Iulii Caes. Corradi C.R.S. excepit Abb. Fabritius de Comitibus...

[Rome, 1670–1].

A late seventeenth-century manuscript containing lectures on Aristotle’s Physics given at the prestigious Collegio Clementino in Rome by Giulio Cesare Corradi of Cremona, Somascan priest and lecturer in philosophy, as recorded by Fabrizio Guidi di Bagno.

£850

OMAR KHAYYAM, and Friedrich BODENSTEDT, translator.

Die Lieder und Sprüche des Omar Chajjâm …

[Leipzig, Fischer & Wittig for] Breslau, Schletter, 1881.

Apparent first edition of Bodenstedt’s translation of the poetry of the Persian polymath Omar Khayyam (1048–1131).

£175

DUFF, Alan Colquhoun.

‘J.D. Duff of Trinity 1860–1940 by Major-General A.C. Duff, C.B., O.B.E., M.C.’

July 1970.

Unpublished biography of the Scottish classical scholar and Cambridge Apostle James Duff Duff (1860–1940) written by his eldest son.

£225

[PRAYERBOOK.]

‘Gebetbuch’.

[Germany, early nineteenth century.]

An attractive early nineteenth-century Catholic prayerbook in German, containing prayers for both daily use and for use during Mass.

£185

HEANEY, Seamus, et al.

The Whoseday Book.

Dublin, The Irish Hospice Foundation, 1999.

First edition of an anthology of contemporary Irish poetry and art in calendar form, this copy signed by Seamus Heaney (twice), Michael Hartnett, Aidan Higgins, Paul Muldoon, Ulick O’Connor, William Trevor, Maeve Binchy, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Nóirín Ní Riain, Billy Roche, Dermot Bolger, Medbh...

£500

OVIDIUS Naso, Publius, and Pedro Sánchez de VIANA, translator and commentator. 

Las transformaciones. 

Valladolid, Diego Fernández de Córdoba, 1589.

First edition, a copy of notable provenance, of perhaps the most successful early Spanish translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by Pedro Sánchez de Viana (c. 1545–1619), a physician by training, published along with his substantial commentary. 

£6000