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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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[BIBLE.]
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments … diligently compared and revised …
Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.
First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’ Bible, as revised by Benjamin Blayney of Hertford College, Oxford (1728–1801), later Regius Professor of Hebrew. The quarto and folio editions of 1769, of which this was the first to be finished, were printed from the same setting of type differently...
£5250