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CONCEALED FORE-EDGE PAINTING
FOR HORATIO WALPOLE
The Psalms of David, and other Portions of the Sacred Scriptures, selected from various Authors, adapted to the Service of the Church of England … the third Edition.
London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons, and Matthews, 1800.
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THE 1728 DUNCIAD IN A TRACT VOLUME The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books. The second Edition.
‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed for A. Dodd. 1728.’
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ROCOCO RED MOROCCO The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments … diligently compared and revised …
Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.
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THE CHATELLERAULT VATHEK – PERHAPS THE RAREST PIECE OF BECKFORDIANA Vathek, conte arabe.
Paris, Poinçot; Chatellerault, P. J. B Guimbert, 1787.
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MASTERPIECES OF HIGH RENAISSANCE LOMBARD ILLUMINATION Three very large historiated initials cut from a set of choirbooks.
Italy (Lodi), early sixteenth century.
![Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime a Paris. De lentreprise et voyage de Napples. Auquel est compris commant le roy Charles huitiesme de ce nom a banyere desployee passa et rapassa de iournee en iournee depuis Lyon iusques a napples et de napples iusques a Lyon. E[n]semble plusieurs aultres choses faictes et composees par reverend pere en dieu monsigneur octovie[n] de sainct Gelais evesque da[n]golesme et par Maistre Andry de la vigne secretaire de monsieur le duc de Savoye avec aultres.](https://prd.assets.books.quaritch.com/images/G2700_03.JPG)
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THE FIRST WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE CAPUCHIN MISSION TO MARANHAO, BRAZIL Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins en l’isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines ou est traicte des singularitez admirables & des meurs merveilleuses des Indiens habitans de ce pais avec les missives et advis qui ont este envoyez de nouveau …
Paris, François Huby, 1614.
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SAFAVID QUR’AN HEAVILY ANNOTATED BY A QAJAR SCHOLAR Qur’an.
Persia (probably Shiraz), sixteenth century, c. AD 1600 and c. AD 1850.
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‘THE GREATEST OF THE MEDIEVAL ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARIES’ Catholicon.
[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch), not after 1475.]
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MARRIAGE, THE MOON, A MANUAL FOR CONFESSORS, AND MORE Sammelband of ten works.
Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber, c. 1481–1491.
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BEAUTIFUL BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS 156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
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IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius Dyscolus: De constructione; Herodianus: De numeris.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25 December 1495.]
![Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii [– Florae Pedemontanae icones accedit explanatio nomenclaturae botanicae] … Tomus primus [– tertius].](https://prd.assets.books.quaritch.com/images/G2399_08.JPG)
