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[DEATH CERTIFICATES.]
Certificates recording the deaths of three women.
Rome, 1762–1819.
An interesting set of death certificates for three female residents of Rome, issued respectively by the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo, and the hospital of San Salvatore (now San Giovanni in Laterano).
£750
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[FRANKLAND, William.]
A large collection of manuscript correspondence relating to the death of William Frankland.
[Manchester, Slaidburn, and Blackburn, June 1886–May 1888].
An interesting archive relating to the death of William Frankland, a Lancashire railway worker killed in a shunting accident, consisting largely of manuscript correspondence from his father’s landlords – two solicitors evidently working pro bono – fighting to obtain an insurance payout from...
£650
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[FUNERAL NOTICE.]
[Incipit:] On recommande à vos charitables Prieres & saints Sacrifices, l’Ame de Mademoiselle Marie-Joseph...
[Liège,] L. Devillers, [1796].
A strikingly printed broadside funeral notice for Marie-Joseph Chapelle, ‘a young girl of the parish of St Feuillen, who, after having suffered a long and painful illness, with a perfect resignation to the will of her Creator, furnished with the Sacraments of our Mother the Holy Church, died...
£1850
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[FUNERAL SERMONS.]
Annotated sammelband of eleven eulogies, a discourse, and an address, with additional manuscript material bound in.
[Paris, 1682–1692.]
A sammelband of funeral sermons for distinguished women and men of the late seventeenth century, published in Paris between 1682 and 1692, thoroughly annotated by a cleric for use in his preaching and interspersed with early seventeenth-century manuscript material mostly relating to the bishopric...
£1200
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[GAVARD, Franz.]
‘Ritratto di Francesco Gavard Tedesco, figlio del quondam Claudio Gavard, di anni 45. Morto in Ro.ma nel Ospedale...
Rome, ‘si stampeno [sic] incontro il Palazzo di Fiorenza’, [1787].
Seemingly unrecorded popular engraving depicting Franz Gavard of Wurzburg lying in state, a pious man who moved to Rome and whose body was displayed for three days after his death.
£350
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GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].
Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers und Dichters, Kriegers, Staatsmannes und Reformators im sechszehnten...
Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1837.
First and only edition of the first separate biography of the Bern painter, writer, and politician Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (c. 1484–1530), with a striking frontispiece from the Berner Danse macabre.
£120
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HEINSIUS, Daniel.
Poematum editio nova; accedunt praeter alia libri, De contemptu mortis antehac una non editi.
Leiden, [Isaac] Elzevir and Jean Maire, 1621.
First Elzevir edition of the poems of Daniel Heinsius (1580–1655), expanded to include his didactic epic De contemptu mortis, on facing death with courage, our copy in a handsome red morocco binding attributed to Roger Payne from the celebrated library at Syston Park.
£800
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HOGG, James.
The Pilgrims of the Sun; a Poem …
London, John Murray, and Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1815.
First edition, first issue, of a long poem by the Scottish shepherd and poet James Hogg, dedicated to Byron and detailing the journey of a local young woman, Mary Lee, to a heavenly world and back to earth, escorted by the spirit Cela.
£200
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HOLBEIN, Hans; Wenceslaus HOLLAR, engraver; [Francis DOUCE, editor].
The Dance of Death, from the original Designs...
[McMillan] for J. Coxhead, 1816.
An attractive early nineteenth-century edition of Holbein’s Dance of Death, printed from Hollar’s etchings with descriptions in English and French and prefatory essays by the antiquary Francis Douce.
£375
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[HÖSS,] Maria Crescentia, Saint.
‘Wahre Abbildung der From[m]en Schwester Maria Crescentia des Heilige[n] Ordens S. Francisci,...
Jahr ihres Alters.’ Mindelheim, Lingauer, 1744.
Extremely rare devotional engraving of Maria Crescentia Höss, a mystic and sister of the Third Order Regular of St Francis at the Franciscan convent in Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, issued shortly after her death at the nearby town of Mindelheim.
£750
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[MARIA THERESA.]
Sammelband of twenty-three works, including two broadsides, published on the death of Maria Theresa of Austria.
[Naples, 1781.]
An extraordinary sammelband gathering eulogies and epigraphs to Maria Theresa of Austria, including several ephemeral pieces and broadsides and displaying the breadth of southern Italian typography in the late eighteenth century.
£1950
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[MILAN – DEATH DUTIES.]
[Incipit:] Ad un reale dispaccio in data del 4. corrente ottobre ...
Milan, Pirola brothers, [31 October 1787].
Scarce edict issued by Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este and Governor of the Duchy of Milan, on behalf of his brother, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, describing amendments to Joseph II’s Enlightened religious reforms, including the transfer of funeral expenses to the Church and a table of...
£500
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[NOVARA.]
[Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara ai signori parrochi della città e diocesi.
[Novara], 10 May 1805.
An apparently unrecorded broadside from the Piedmontese city of Novara on public health risks posed by leaving the faces of the dead uncovered, issued less than two months after the creation of Napoleon’s Kingdom of Italy.
£175
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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