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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
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CALLINI, Bartolommeo.
Arrolandosi sotto le insegne di Gesù Cristo col prender l’acqua del santo battesimo nell’insigne cattedrale...
Vicenza, Tipografia Paroni, 1802.
A seemingly unrecorded sonnet celebrating the conversion from Judaism to Catholicism of one Marco Mortera of Vicenza, written by his catechist, the Olivetan monk and lecturer in theology Bartolommeo Callini.
£350
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CYPRIAN.
D. Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginiensis, martyris Christi opera, quotquot perquirentibus reperire Dei munere concessum...
Paris, Guillaume Des Bois, 1564.
An attractive edition of the works of Cyprian (and indeed Pseudo-Cyprian) edited by the Parisian printer and scholar Guillaume Morel (d. 1564), with interesting marginalia.
£975
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[DODSLEY, Robert, et al.]
The Oeconomy of Human Life, in two parts, translated from an Indian manuscript, written by a Chinese...
Newport, J. Mallett, 1783.
Rare printing, undertaken in Newport on the Isle of Wight by James Mallett. Only nine publications are listed in ESTC as Mallett, Newport: mostly occasional endeavours, undertaken in 1767, 1770, 1782, 1783 (two publications, including ours), 1784, and 1789 (three publications), and almost all...
£450
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GUILLON, Pierre.
Danti voci suae vocem virtutis. Quaestio theologica … Has theses … ac praeside, S.M.N.D.D. Ludovico Bellayer,...
Poitiers, Jean-Felix Faulcon, [1770].
An apparently unrecorded broadside giving the text of theological theses defended by Pierre Guillon of Poitiers for entry into minor orders.
£275
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GIACOMO da Milano.
Stimulus divini amoris Sancti Bonaventurae.
Venice, Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio, April 1535.
Rare edition of the Stimulus divini amoris, a popular medieval devotional treatise long attributed to St Bonaventure but in fact composed by the thirteenth-century Franciscan Giacomo da Milano.
£550
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LEE, Laurie.
Cider with Rosie … with drawings by John Ward.
London, Hogarth Press, 1959.
First edition, second impression, the author’s copy with his pencil marks for public readings and loosely inserted correspondence including praise from Leonard Woolf.
£1000
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[MACDONNEL, David Evans.]
A Dictionary of Quotations, in most frequent use. Taken from the Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, and Italian...
London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797.
First edition, rare, of the first English dictionary of quotations, drawn principally from Latin authors, with some quotations from living languages (mainly French) and some phrases from the law.
£650
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[BIBLE.]
Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. iussu recognita atque edita.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus ‘ex officina Plantiniana’, 1599.
Plantin edition of the Clementine Vulgate, bound in four volumes and interleaved for scholarly annotations.
£1250
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[DENS, Pierre, editor.]
Tractatus selecti de sponsalibus et matrimonio. Duae partes.
Louvain, Louis Joseph Urban, 1775.
Uncommon first edition of this interesting work on the legal aspects of betrothal and marriage, in a handsome contemporary binding.
£800
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BROWNE, Thomas.
Religio Medici, Urn Burial, Christian Morals, and other Essays.
[Printed by the Ballantyne Press, and sold by Hacon and Ricketts, The Vale Press, London, and John Lane, New York, 1902].
First edition thus, limited to 310 unnumbered copies plus 10 on vellum (the limitation not here stated).
£2000
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von; Thomas HOLCROFT, translator.
Herman and Dorothea. A Poem, from the German …
London, Biggs and Cottle (Bristol), for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1801.
First edition in English of Hermann und Dorothea (1798), translated into verse by the radical, novelist, and friend of Godwin, Thomas Holcroft. Goethe’s epic, set against the background of the French Revolutionary Wars, was immensely popular in its day; Goethe praised Holcroft’s rendition...
£350
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ARMINESI, Rocco degli.
Attila flagelum Dei, tradotto dalla vera cronica per Rocco degli Arminesi padovano. Ove si narra come detto...
Venice, Omobon Bettanino, [mid-eighteenth century].
Very rare eighteenth-century edition of a popular and best-selling poem on Attila the Hun.
£600
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ZINANO [or ZINANI], Gabriele.
L’Almerigo. Tragedia.
Reggio, Ercoliano Bartoli, [1590].
First edition of this Renaissance tragedy in five acts, accompanied by the author’s essay on the theory on the tragic genre.
£400
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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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OSTROWSKA, Wanda; Viola G. GARVIN.
London’s Glory.
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.
First edition, a poignant collection of paintings of war-torn London by the Polish artist-in-exile Wanda Ostrowska, accompanied by extracts from her own writings and narrative by Viola Garvin, our copy with an inscription from Charles B. Cochran, impresario and theatrical producer known for popularising...
£75
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JABÈS, Edmond.
Trois filles de mon quartier.
[Paris], G.L.M., [1948].
First edition of thse poems by the Egyptian–Jewish poet Edmond Jabès, no. 75 of 340 numbered copies (of which this is one of 300 on Alfama), presented by the author to the writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909–1991) and his wife, the Surrealist artist Bona de Mandiargues (1926–2000), prominent...
£350