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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China. Descripcion breve...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian Anisson, 1676.
Scarce first edition, one of the most important early studies of Chinese history, religion, philosophy, and culture, by the Spanish Dominican Domingo Navarrete (d. 1689).
£4750
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[CARTOUCHE.]
The Life and Actions of Lewis Dominique Cartouche: who was broke alive upon the Wheel at Paris, Nov. 28. 1721. N.S....
London, printed for J. Roberts … 1722.
First edition in English, published in the same year as the French original, of this life of the French highwayman Louis Dominique Bourguignon, alias ‘Cartouche’, broken on the wheel in 1721.
£1750
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CHALKHILL, John.
Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral History in smooth and easie Verse. Written long since by John Chalkhill, Esq;...
London, Printed for Benj. Tooke … 1683.
First edition of Chalkhill’s unfinished pastoral poem, with the corrected state of the title, designating the author as ‘an acquaintant and friend of Edmund [originally ‘Edward’] Spencer’.
£1850
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[CHAPBOOK.]
Narrow Escape from the Punishment of Death, or, The Case of John Taylor and John Burton, who were left for Execution...
London: Printed by Augustus Applegath and Edward Cowper … Sold by F. Collins … and Evans and Sons … [c. 1820–1826].
An uncommon early chapbook from the press of Augustus Applegath (1788–1871), interpreting the real-life stay of execution for two sheep-stealers as an act of divine providence.
£225
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COUPÉ, Jacques-Michel.
De la moralité des sépultures et de leur police ...
Paris, Calixte Vollant, an IX [1800–1801].
A scarce and most interesting pamphlet on dealing with the dead, written in the aftermath of the French Revolution by the cleric and politician Jacques-Michel Coupé (1737–1809), a member of the Club des Jacobins who had voted for the death of Louis XVI as a deputy of the National Convention.
£475
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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