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[GOSPELS.] Charles HURÉ, translator.
Le nouveau testament de notre-seigneur Jesus-Christ, nouvellement traduit en françois...
Paris, L. Roulland, 1712.
An attractive early Jansenist binding, with a sober shagreen exterior concealing gilt decoration within, on a copy of the Gospels extracted from Charles Huré’s French New Testament.
£950
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[BIBLE.]
The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New, newly translated out of the originall Tongues and with the former...
[Cambridge,] Printed by Roger Daniel, Printer to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1648.
A seemingly unrecorded Cambridge-printed Bible with metrical Psalms in an elaborate English binding of gilt green vellum with morocco onlays and highly unusual gilt and gauffered edges painted with flowers, birds, and animals.
£3750
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[PSALMS; Basil WOODD, editor.]
The Psalms of David, and other Portions of the Sacred Scriptures, selected from various Authors,...
London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons, and Matthews, 1800.
A pocket-sized Psalm- and prayerbook with a hidden heraldic fore-edge painting for Horatio Walpole, later first Earl of Orford.
£2000
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SHAKESPEARE, William; Richard Grant WHITE, editor.
The Works of William Shakespeare. The Plays edited from the Folio of...
Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1893.
An attractive Boston-printed edition of the complete works of Shakespeare, edited by the prominent American Shakespearean scholar Richard Grant White (1922–1885).
£500
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[IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, Saint; Juan Alfonso de POLANCO.]
Regulae Societatis Iesu.
Rome, in collegio Rom. eiusde[m] Societat., 1607.
Later editions of two fundamental Jesuit texts, the famous Rules of the Order, and the influential Ratio studiorum detailing the system of Jesuit education.
£750
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ESTIENNE, Charles.
De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio excerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adulesce[n]tuloru[m]...
Paris, Robert Estienne, 1536.
A wonderful sammelband of four children’s books compiled and published by the Estiennes, covering Roman dress and vases as well as plants and trees, bound with Antonio Telesio’s celebrated treatise on colours.
£2250
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FAULKNER, William.
Absalom, Absalom!
New York, Random House, 1936.
First edition, the special limited issue, no. 159 of 300 copies signed by Faulkner.
£4500
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FAULKNER, William.
Requiem for a Nun.
New York, Random House, 1951.
Limited edition, no. 248 of 750 copies signed by Faulkner. His first publication after winning the Nobel Prize, Requiem for a Nun employs a partly dramatic form to take up the story of Temple Drake from his earlier novel Sanctuary.
£1000
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FAULKNER, William.
A Fable.
[New York,] Random House, [1954].
Limited edition, no. 880 of 1000 copies signed by Faulkner. A late, overtly political novel set in the French trenches during the First World War, A Fable was the first novel to win both the Pulitzer and National Book Award. Faulkner thought it his greatest work.
£1500
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[BIBLE.]
[The Holy Bible …]
[London, Robert Barker and the Assigns of John Bill, 1638.]
An attractive velvet binding with English engraved silver decorative furniture – the most luxurious of English bindings in this period, often the preserve of royal libraries. The engraved silver clasps and bosses, which served a dual function in helping to preserve the surface of the velvet,...
£3500
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[BIBLE.]
Erläuterte Bibel mit Fragen, das ist, die ganze Heilige Schrift, Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der teutschen Ubersetzung...
Altdorf, Joh. Adam Hessel for Ernst Friderich Zobel, 1751.
A German Bible with extensive apparatus, divided into five volumes and strikingly bound in a book-shaped pull-off case.
£2750
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FRANKLIN, Benjamin.
Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin, écrits par lui-même, et adressés à son fils; suivis d’un...
Paris, chez Buisson, 1791.
First edition, the first appearance of any portion of Franklin’s autobiography in print.
£3000
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GADESBY, Richard.
A new and easy Introduction to Geography, by Way of Question and Answer, divided into Lessons. Principally designed...
London, for the Author, and sold by S. Bladon, 1783.
Second edition, very rare, published following the success of the first edition (1776) and its use ‘in many principal boarding schools, particularly those for young ladies’. Gadesby, ‘private teacher of writing, accounts, geography, &c.’, laments the neglect of geography, a very necessary...
£550
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[MARY I.] VISDOMINI, Francesco.
Oratione funebre fatta in Napoli nell’hon. essequie della serenissima regina d’Ingliterra...
[Naples, Raimondo Amato, 1559.]
First edition, extremely rare, of this Italian sermon on the death of Mary I of England. Our copy appears to be an unrecorded issue, omitting from the title-page the imprint recorded by EDIT16 (‘se vendeno ala porta piccola de s. Laurentio appresso à Raymondo Amato’).
£1800
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MOUSSON, Pierre.
Tragoediae seu diversarum gentium et imperiorum magni principes. Dati in theatrum collegii regii Henrici magni ...
La Flèche, George Griveau, 1621.
First edition, provincially-printed, of four Neo-Latin tragedies by the French Jesuit professor and playwright Pierre Mousson (c. 1560–1637) inspired by four great figures from the classical world.
£725
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BACON, Francis.
Historia vitae et mortis.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1663.
Pocket-sized Amsterdam editions of three works by Francis Bacon (1561–1626), uncut and unopened and bound, exceptionally, in the original drab boards.
£975
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[BIBLE.]
Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis … [with:] Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum, vulgatae editionis, Sixti V pont. max. jussu...
Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1741/1740.
An attractively bound copy of the Old and New Testament in the Vulgate version, issued by the noted Parisian printer Jacques Vincent (1671–1760).
£975
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BORBONI, Domenico.
Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi architecti, et pictoris Bononiensis.
[Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano Veneto’, [c. 1670?].
Only known edition of this very rare collection of superb architectural plates by the Bolognese architect and painter Domenico Borboni, published by Giovanni Antonio Remondini, our copy used as a draughtsman’s pattern book.
£3750
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BORGHESI, Giovanni, and Giovanni Mario de’ CRESCIMBENI, translator.
Lettera scritta da Pondisceri a’ 10 di febbraio...
Rome, [Gaetano degli] Zenobi, ‘Stampatore, e Intagliatore di sua Santità’, 1705.
First edition of this account of a physician’s journey from Rome to India via the Canary Islands and the Cape of Good Hope as part of Pope Clement XI’s delegation to China, printed by the papal printer Gaetano degli Zenobi.
£1500
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GELLIUS, Aulus.
Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes Atticae.
Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.
Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous Attic Nights, issued the year before Gryphius’ death.
£650