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BEBEL, Heinrich.
In hoc libro contine[n]tur haec Bebeliana opuscula nova. Epistola ad cancellarium de laudibus et philosophia veterum...
Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, 1508.
First edition of a compendium of works by the noted Swabian humanist Heinrich Bebel (1472–1518), including his Facetiae, Proverbia Germanica, and selected verse.
£3500
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TERTULLIAN.
Opera … per Beatum Rhenanum Seletstadiensem e tenebris eruta, atque a situ pro virili vindicata, adiectis singulorum...
Basel, [(colophon:) Hieronymus] Froben [and Nikolaus Episcopius], March 1539.
Third Froben edition of Tertullian’s extant writings, studiously edited and re-revised by Beatus Rhenanus, with extensive annotations showing considerable engagement with the text by early readers seeking to contextualise Tertullian.
£1750
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SIMEONI, Gabriele.
Le III parti del campo de primi studii di Gabriel Symeoni Fiorentino.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Comin da Trino], 1546.
First edition of this early work by Simeoni, a wide-ranging compilation of juvenile poetry and prose dedicated to Cosimo de’ Medici, Duke of Florence.
£950
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PLINY the Younger.
Panegyricus Trajano Augusto dictus.
Paris, [Charles Crapelet for] Antoine-Augustin Renouard, [An IV] 1796.
An attractive edition of Pliny’s only surviving oration, a panegyric to Trajan, published by the book collector, bibliographer, and businessman-turned-printer Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765–1853).
£275
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PESENTI, Giovanni Paolo.
Pellegrinaggio di Gierusalemme fatto, e descritto per Gio. Paolo Pesenti.
Bergamo, Comin Ventura, 1615.
First edition of Pesenti’s account of his journey from Venice to Alexandria, across Syria to Jerusalem, and through the Egyptian desert before sailing home via Sicily.
£4500
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[MARIAN DEVOTION.]
Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin and Child.
[Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]
A delightful silk panel, embroidered over a printed template, most likely produced by nuns, depicting the Virgin and Child within a central medallion with elaborate floral borders.
£600
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NONIUS MARCELLUS.
De proprietate sermonum. Iam demum innumeris locis restitutus, multis locupletatus, ope vetustissimorum codicum,...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565.
First critical edition of this grammar and dictionary of Latin from the later Roman Empire, a significant witness to earlier texts now lost, from the extensive library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle.
£450
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MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.
Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]. Commentaria fidelissimi...
[(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello for] the heirs and partners of Ottaviano Scoto, 19 June 1520.]
A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century commentaries on Aristotle’s books on generation and corruption, composed at the University of Paris by Giles of Rome, Marsilius of Inghen, and Albert of Saxony, demonstrating the international nature of medieval scholarship.
£1500
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JONES, John Gale.
An Oration on the late General Washington, including a Retrospect of his Life, Character, and Conduct, from the...
Clark, William Dawson, and W. Limbird, 1825.
Scarce revised second edition, printed by subscription with a new preface, of this speech in praise of Washington by the English radical orator John Gale Jones (1769–1838).
£375
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HEINE, Heinrich.
Französische Zustände.
Hamburg, Hoffmann & Campe, 1833.
First edition in book form of Heine’s first work of political journalism, discussing cultural and political developments in France in the wake of the July Revolution.
£275
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STANCOVICH, Pietro.
Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei del medesimo, nuovi scavi e scoperte, e di alcune epigrafi e figuline...
Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.
First edition, uncut in the original wrappers, of Pietro Stancovich’s description of the Roman amphitheatre in Pola (modern Pula) on the Istrian peninsula.
£275
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[GORIZIA.]
Directorium liturgicum sanctae metropolitanae ecclesiae Goritiensis jussu et auctoritate celsissimi et reverendissimi...
Gorizia, [Antonio] Paternolli, [1845].
Two very rare annual publications relating to the archdiocese of Gorizia, located in northeastern Italy at the foot of the Julian Alps bordering Slovenia, issued by Franz Xaver Luschin, Archbishop of Gorizia and Gradisca from 1835 to 1854, in its attractive original binding with viticultural motifs.
£175
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DIOMEDES; Aelius DONATUS; Johann CAESARIUS, editor.
Grammatici opus, ab Iohanne Caesario, ita emendatum, Scholiisque illustratum,...
Hagenau, Johann Setzer, 1526.
A sammelband of four early sixteenth-century Latin grammars, from the Macclesfield Library at Shirburn Castle. The first work comprises two fourth-century Latin grammars, of which one is a rare complete survival from antiquity; this is bound with three early sixteenth-century schoolbooks on grammar...
£1250
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DESPAUTÈRE, Jean, and Gabriel DU PRÉAU.
Universa grammatica, cum doctissimis commentariis, ex praestantissimis quibusque...
Lyons, Pierre Rigaud, 1608.
A seemingly unrecorded issue of this comprehensive Latin grammar aimed at children, in a simple contemporary binding.
£400
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DELL’UVA, Benedetto.
Le vergini prudenti.
Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.
First editions of three religious poems in ottava rima by the Capuan monk Benedetto dell’Uva, representative of Counter-Reformation poetry in southern Italy.
£650
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[BREVIARY, Use of Passau.]
Breviarium s[ecundu]m chorum alme Ecclesie Pataviensis.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein for Vienna, Lukas and Leonhard Alantsee, 25 May 1515.]
A rare Passau breviary with numerous woodcut illustrations in a contemporary Austrian binding, printed in Venice for the Austrian market.
£4500
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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.
Philocholo opera elegantissima de lo excellente Poeta & Oratore Joanne boccacio.
[(Colophon:) Milan, [Alessandro Minuziano], 25 March 1520.]
An uncommon edition of Boccaccio’s first prose narrative, a fantastical tale of love overcoming all obstacles.
£950
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[GUNPOWDER PLOT.] William CAMDEN, translator
Actio in Henricum Garnetum Societatis Iesuiticae in Anglia superiorem, et caeteros...
London, John Norton, 1607.
First and only edition in Latin of the official account of the Gunpowder Treason trials, ‘a masterpiece of official propaganda’ (Marotti, p. 133) influential both in England – where it was seemingly mined by Shakespeare – and abroad, our copy with early continental annotations attesting to...
£1000
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GOFFE, Thomas.
The Couragious Turke, or, Amurath the First. A Tragedie.
London, Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcett for Richard Meighen, 1632.
First edition of this violent Near Eastern tragedy influenced by Marlowe and Shakespeare, this copy with rare and unrecorded issue points.
£3000
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CULPEPER, Thomas.
The English Physician enlarged: with three hundred, sixty, and nine Medicines made of English Herbs that were...
London, Peter Cole, 1653.
Second (first octavo) edition, enlarged with ‘very many Additions to every Sheet’, of Culpeper’s magnum opus, The English Physician (1652), this copy from the library of Thomas Elwood (1639–1714), the Quaker friend of John Milton who provided him with the cottage at Chalfont St Giles...
£1850