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BALBI, Girolamo.
Oratio habita ab eloquentissimo viro Hieronymo Balbo Praesule Gurcen[sis] Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi Archiducis...
[Rome, Francesco Minucio Calvo, 1523.]
First(?) edition of Balbi’s celebrated oration in praise of newly elected pope Adrian VI, one of several editions to appear in the same year, with priority not established.
£550
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ORLEANS, Pierre Joseph d’ and Francis EGERTON, 1st Earl of ELLESMERE (editor and translator).
History of the two Tartar conquerors...
London, The Hakluyt Society, 1854.
First edition thus, a Hakluyt society translation of Pierre Joseph d’Orleans’ history of the Manchu conquest and the reign of the Kangxi emperor, appended with reports by the seventeenth-century Jesuit missionary travellers Ferdinand Verbiest and Tomás Pereira.
£175
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PEISSEL, Michel.
Tibetan pilgrimage. Architecture of the sacred land. Text and watercolors by Michel Peissel.
New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.
‘Tibetan Pilgrimage … is the result of forty-five years of study by author and illustrator Michel Peissel … With nearly a hundred exceptional watercolour illustrations, this book reveals the elegance, variety, and originality of Tibetan architecture in all its splendor’ (dust jacket).
£75
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ALEXANDER, William.
The costume of China, illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings …
London, William Miller, 1805.
An incomplete first edition of William Alexander’s important and widely popular illustrated work on China, containing 44 of the original 48 aquatint plates. A one-time student of William Pars and later Julius Caesar Ibbetson, Alexander travelled to China as artist-in-residence for the diplomatic trade...
£750
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STAPLETON, Thomas.
Promptuarium Catholicum ad instructionem concionatorum contra haereticos nostri temporis, super omnia evangelia...
Antwerp, Pierre Beller, 1592.
Rare third edition, expanded, of Stapleton’s handbook or ‘storehouse’ of scriptural devotions for Sundays and feast days, first published in 1589. An independent companion volume for the weekdays in Lent was first published in 1594.
£700
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MELECRINIS, Maria Teresa.
Le voci del cuore a Maria Teresa Melecrinis dei baroni di Ioppolo e Coccorino che a di 6 luglio 1846...
Naples, stamperia dell' Iride, 1846.
Very rare collection of odes and sonnets composed to mark the entry of Maria Teresa Melecrinis into the Benedictine monastery of San Paolo at Sorrento.
£175
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[MILAN, province of.]
Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii ingressum habitumque regularem suscipiendi ritus item servandus...
Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.
Scarce edition of this set of rites for the admission of women to convents in the province of Milan, covering their investiture, tonsure, and vows, with instructions printed in red, texts to be spoken and sung in black, and with printed music for hymns and blessings. The first edition appears...
£200
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BEAUVILLIERS, Marie de.
Conférences spirituelles d’une supérieure à ses religieuses ... d’après un manuscrit revu et mis...
Paris, Moquet et Cie for Toulouse, 1838.
Scarce second edition (first 1837, also rare) of this spiritual guide by Marie de Beauvilliers (1574–1667), edited from a manuscript by the historian l'abbé Louis Gaudreau (1798–1872) and including a short biography of the author.
£400
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[DOMINICAN NUNS.]
Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S. Domenico riviste e ristampate d’ordine del rmo p. vicario generale...
Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.
Very rare first edition thus of the regulations governing Dominican nuns, published by order of Alexandre Vincent Jandel (1810–1872), who served as Master of the Order of Preachers from 1850 until his death.
£250
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MAURIZI, Maria Luisa.
Morali e divote riflessioni a tutti utilissime e specialmente alle persone claustrali scritte dalla serva...
Rome, Tipografia della Pia Unione alle Terme, 1833.
Uncommon first edition of this collection of meditations on the religious life, by the Roman nun Maria Luisa Maurizi (born Giacinta Gertrude Maurizi, 1770–1831), and published posthumously at the behest of her spiritual director, Agostino Romagnoli.
£150
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ROMANA, Provost.
Nell’aprirsi della nuova chiesa dalla veneranda, antichissima Confraternita de’ Disciplinanti in Dogliani...
Mondovì, Pietro Francesco and Luiggi Rossi, [1756].
Unrecorded provincially printed broadside celebrating the opening of a new church of the Confraternity of the Disciplinants of Dogliani.
£275
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace.
The Virginians, a tale of the last century.
London, Bradbury & Evans, November 1857 [– October 1859].
First edition in the original monthly parts of Thackeray’s American sequel to Henry Esmond.
£600
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[JUVENILIA.]
Racconti per gli adolescenti. Con tavole miniate.
Trieste, ‘Sezione Letterario-Artistica del Lloyd Austriaco’, 1857.
First and only edition, extremely rare, of these cautionary tales for adolescents, featuring inter alia debates among children on the ethics of taxidermy, a brawl in Latin lessons, arrests for embezzlement, and the unjust incarceration of a schoolboy.
£350
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PIEROTTI, A.
Il cervello e la difesa delle donne sestine giocose ... precedute da indirizzo, e dedica in vario metro.
Florence, N. Fabbrini, 1842.
First and only edition, very rare, of this misogynistic poem by the Florentine poet Pierotti, in which he pretends to explore the female brain with reference to Galen, accusing women of, for example, greed, theft, cunning, vanity, and irascibility. The second part is a somewhat patronising defense...
£375
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BALDWIN, William Charles.
African hunting and adventure from Natal to the Zambesi including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &c....
London, Richard Bentley, 1863.
Second edition recounting the African hunting expeditions of the famous hunter William Charles Baldwin (d. 1903), filled with ‘wild adventure, cool daring, and narrow escapes from death’ (Daily News, Dec. 1862).
£150
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[MEDICINE.]
La composition de la theriaque du Mithridat, des confections d’hyacinthe et d’alkermes, et de l’opiate de Salomon....
Toulouse, Dominique Desclassan, 1689.
First edition of this rare and most interesting work on ancient antidotes and tonics by three apothecaries of the city of Toulouse in the south of France.
£750
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AUDEN, Wystan Hugh, and Christopher ISHERWOOD.
The Dog beneath the Skin or where is Francis? A Play in three Acts.
London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1954].
Sixth impression. When Bridson had reviewed the play on its first publication in 1935 (along with two other works), he thought it ‘very good fun … as slick, symbolical and smart-Alecky as The Orators’, though the versification of the choruses was ‘on the slack side’. In 1965 Bridson...
£100
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AYRTON, Michael.
Tittivulus, or the Verbiage Collector …
London, Max Reinhardt, [1953].
First edition, signed, of Ayrton’s first literary work, a ‘charming, satirically irreverent and amusing’ book about a minor demon charged with the collecting of idle and pompous words. It was first conceived for the radio and broadcast on 22 December 1952 – the producer was Francis ‘Jack’...
£100
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AUDEN, Wystan Hugh.
Louis MacNeice, a memorial Address, delivered at All Souls, Langham Place on 17 October, 1963.
Privately printed for Faber & Faber, [1963].
First edition, one of 250 copies, of Auden’s memorial address for Louis MacNeice, with the printed order of service and newspaper cuttings of poems on MacNeice, including ‘The Cave of Making’ by Auden (The Listener, 1 October 1964).
£150
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[VITTORIO EMANUELE II.]
Alla gloriosa memoria di Vittorio Emanuele primo re d’Italia, gli Italiani residenti in New York convenuti...
New York, Tipografia della scuola italiana, 1878.
First edition of this work recording a memorial meeting held by the Italian community of New York following the death of Vittorio Emanuele II, first king of Italy, inscribed by Vincenzo Botta (1818–1894), the Italian educator and philosopher who chaired the meeting.
£500