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BESSE, Pierre de.
Conceptions theologiques sur tous les dimanches de l’année, preschées en divers lieux par Me Pierre de Besse...
Paris, Nicolas du Fossé, 1609.
Very rare editions of two works by the noted French priest and preacher Pierre de Besse (1567–1639), in a contemporary devotional binding.
£1500
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BOETHIUS, Severinus; Richard GRAHAM, Viscount Preston, translator.
Of the Consolation of Philosophy. In five Books....
London, J. D. for Awnsham and John Churchill, and Francis Hildyard, York, 1695.
First edition of this translation by the diplomat, politician and Jacobite conspirator Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston (1648–1695).
£950
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BONNARD, Camille Marie.
Le pélerin, ou souvenirs de Rome. Tome premier [all published].
Paris, Camille Bonnard, 1829.
Rare first and only edition of this handsomely illustrated work on Rome by the French painter and engraver Camille Bonnard (1794–1870), with his autograph presentation note pasted inside.
£1500
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[CHOIRBOOK.]
Large historiated initial ‘I’.
Italy (Umbria), c. 1300.
A very elegant initial in a style characteristic of Umbrian illumination of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It can be compared to the oeuvres of the First Master of the Gubbio Choir Books and the Master of the Deruta-Salerno Missals, the latter named after two Missals made...
£4500
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[CHRISTIE’S – FOUNTAINE.]
Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine Collection of Majolica, Henri II. Ware, Palissy Ware, Nevers...
London, [William Clowes & Sons for] Christie, Manson, & Woods, 16 June 1884.
An early photographically illustrated auction catalogue, partially priced, for the sale of the Fountaine collection of ceramics, enamels, and relief works.
£650
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[CHURCH OF ENGLAND.]
The New Weeks Preparation for a worthy Receiving of the Lord’s Supper, as recommended and appointed by the...
London, printed from the edition of the late Edwd. Wickstead, for T. Wilson and R. Spence, York, [c. 1780–1800?].
An attractive copy of two later editions of these collections of prayers, hymns, meditations, and self-examinations, with a focus on Holy Communion.
£250
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CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS); Gentian HERVET, translator.
Omnia opera.
Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.
A thoroughly annotated copy of this early edition of the complete works of Clement of Alexandria, in the Latin translation of the theologian and humanist Gentian Hervet (or Hervetus, 1499–1584).
£4750
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[COLOGNE.]
Hôtel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis de Cologne, tenu pour J. A. Kimmel.
[Cologne, c. 1880.]
An ambitious lithographic advertisement for the Hotel de Belle Vue in Deutz, facing Cologne over the Rhine, with a ‘Rhein-Panorama’ printed on the verso.
£250
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[COLOGNE and KOBLENZ.]
Three hotel advertising cards with lithographic city views.
[Cologne and Koblenz, c. 1870.]
An attractive group of advertising cards for three Rhine-front hotels in Cologne and Koblenz, each with a lithographic view of the river and city.
£100
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CUMMINGS, E. E.
i: six nonlectures.
Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1953.
First trade edition, inscribed to the BBC radio producer Douglas Geoffrey Bridson ‘Wishing Geoffrey Bridson good luck / E. E. Cummings’. There was also a signed limited edition of 350 copies.
£750
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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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FERNÁNDEZ, Jerónimo.
The Famous and delectable History of Don Bellianis of Greece, or, the Honour of Chivalry. Containing his...
London, Francis Kirkman, 1673, 1671, 1672.
First complete edition of Francis Kirkman’s version of the chivalric romance of Belianis of Greece, a continuation of Amadis de Gaul first published in Spanish in 1547.
£3750
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[FRASER, William Augustus, Sir.]
Poems by the Knight of Morar.
London, Whittingham and Wilkins, 1867.
First edition, privately printed, a presentation copy inscribed on the title-page ‘From the Author. Paris. 1867.’
£350
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[GREVENSTUK Brothers.]
Hand-coloured parchment key labels, with the original engraved copper plate.
Amsterdam, [c. 1875–1900].
A rare and curious survival: some seventy key labels, printed on fine vellum and hand-coloured by royal calligraphers for a fin-de-siècle Dutch gentleman, splendidly preserved with the engraved copper plate from which they were printed.
£1200
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HEWIT, Alexander.
Poems on various Subjects, (English and Scotch,) …
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Printed for the Author, by W. Lochhead, [1823].
First edition, scarce, possibly the dedication copy though subsequently defaced, of this collection of poems by ‘The Berwickshire Ploughman’.
£275
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HUBER, Victor Aimé; James Robertson CRAUFURD, translator.
Stories of Spanish life, from the German of Huber. Edited by...
London, Henry Colburn, 1837.
First edition in English; rare. In his Hand-book, Richard Ford described it as ‘one of the best sketches of this original people and country’. The German original, Skizzen aus Spanien, had appeared in 1828.
£525
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JUVENAL.
The Satires … translated: with explanatory and classical Notes, relating to the Laws and Customs of the Greeks and Romans …
London, for J. Nicholson, Cambridge; and sold by S. Crowder and J. and F. Rivington, 1777.
Third edition of this parallel-text translation edited by Thomas Sheridan, first published 1739. Contemporary annotations (one is dated 1779) provide succinct summaries of the subject of each satire. Satire II for example ‘scourges the Hypocrisy, Effeminacy, & Bestiality of his Countrymen,...
£1250
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KOTZEBUE, Otto von.
A voyage of discovery into the South Sea and Beering’s Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east...
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.
First edition in English, translated from the German edition of the same year, of Kotzebue’s classic voyage; ‘a prized edition’ (Hill).
£3000
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[LE MARCHE.]
Deed relating to the sale of property in Beltrovato (a district of Morrovalle in the Province of Macerata in the Marche...
[Rome, 1616.]
A curiously bound public instrument notarised by the Apostolic Camera in Rome detailing the sale of property belonging to two brothers from the influential de’ Mozzi family of Macerata.
£850
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MACDONALD, Alexander.
‘Instructions and regulations for the formations and movements of horse artillery by Captain A: Macdonald...
[England, 1827.]
Scarce manuscript of an unpublished work on the formations and movements of horse artillery by the distinguished soldier and Waterloo veteran Major-General Alexander Macdonald CB (1776–1840), illustrated with twenty-five coloured diagrams.
£1500