DALI, Salvador.

Alsace. French Railways.

France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

A striking monochrome image of the Temple Saint-Étienne, also known as the Cathedral of Mulhouse, against a murky sky. A vast butterfly blends into the foreground.

£250

DASSIER, Jean and Jacques-Antoine.

‘An Explanation of Dassier’s Medals being a Representation of a Series of Events...

London, c. 1795-1800.

An exceptionally fine illustrated manuscript, with drawings after the series of sixty medals of Roman history from Romulus to the Age of Augustus produced by Jean Dassier and his son in 1740-1743. The drawings are executed with considerable finesse, adding detailed elements not clearly visible...

£7500

DAVY, Sir Humphry.

Autograph letter, signed, to Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay, discussing the unrolling of papyri...

‘23 Grosvenor Street London’, 26 May 1821.

An unpublished letter in which Davy discusses his examination of papyri entrusted to him in Paris by Sir Charles Stuart, then British Ambassador to France.

£750

DICKENS, Charles.

The Nonesuch Dickens. The Complete Works of Charles Dickens.

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937-38.

Limited edition of 877, of which 66 sets were destroyed when a bomb hit the bindery in September 1940, so at most 811 complete sets survive (Dreyfus, Nonesuch Press, 108). The steel plate included with this set is number 605, “Solemn reference is made to Mr. Bunsby” from Dombey and...

£6750

DIEDO, Antonio.

Sui Soffitti memoria.

Venice, Alvisopoli, 1838.

New edition, dedicated to Count Antonio Trissino, as copies of the original edition were unprocurable.

£45

DIODORUS Siculus. 

Bibliothecae historicae libri XV.  Hoc est, quotquot Graece extant de quadraginta quorum quinque nunc primum...

Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559. 

Important edition, the first to be overseen by Sébastien Castellion, of Diodorus’s influential ‘Historical library’.  Although Diodorus’s text, published in Greek for the first time by Estienne in the same year, offers a history of the world from its inception until Caesar, it came down...

£2500

DODGSON, Campbell (editor).

Woodcuts of the XV Century in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum.

London, British Museum, 1934 [– 1935].

First edition, scarce, of Dodgson’s authoritative and thoroughly illustrated catalogue of fifteenth-century woodcuts in the British Museum. Published after two decades as Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, the monumental Woodcuts of the XV Century is considerably scarcer...

£750

DOLLMAN, Francis C.

Examples of antient pulpits existing in England, selected and drawn from sketches and measurements taken on...

First edition of this scholarly study of gothic pulpits by a student of the elder Pugin.

£85

DORDOGNE.

A collection of photographs of caves in the Dordogne.

[France, c. 1900].

A collection of photographs of the Paleolithic grottes and abris of the Les Eyzies district of the Dordogne, first excavated by Lartet and Christy in the 1860s. The photographs show the hillsides where the caves are situated, with individual houses or whole villages built into the mountains, the occasional...

£150

EBERSOLT, Jean.

Monuments d’architecture byzantine.

Paris, Les Editions d’Art et d’Histoire, 1934.

First edition of this classic account of Byzantine architecture, published posthumously in the series Histoire de l’art byzantin under the direction of Charles Diehl.

£250

ERNST, Max.

Une Semaine de Bonté ou les sept éléments capitaux. Roman. Premier [–Dernier] Cahier …

Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.

First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies on papier Navarre from a total edition of 816.

£4500

FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator).

The 104th Psalm. Illustrated by Susan Maria Ffarington. Worden.

Lithographed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son, London W.C. [c. 1867].

The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient family of Worden Hall, Leyland, Lancashire, with a substantial family archive. Susan Maria (1808–1894) edited The Farington Papers for the Chetham Society in 1856, and made other contributions to local history, but this unusual panorama seems to...

£975

[FASCISM.]

Ordinamento Corporativo dello Stato Fascista.

Padua, Edizione di propaganda corporative, 1935.

Italian Fascism primarily followed the economic model of corporatism to organise capital and labour interest groups into trade unions and employer associations such as agriculture, industry, commercial trade, professionals and artists, as well as banks and credit associations. These trade associations...

£2500

FENTON, Roger.

Lichfield Cathedral, south transept portal and steps.

1858.

A fine print of one of Fenton's most striking architectural photographs, the details of the stonework given human scale, and a touch of mystery, with the figure posed half-in and half-out of the doorway. It was one of a number of images of Lichfield which 'from a restricted distance, move around the...

£12500

FIORILLO, Johann Dominicus.

Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste, von ihrer Wiederauflebung bis auf die neusten Zeiten ...

Göttingen, bei Johann Georg Rosenbusch, 1798 [and Johann Friederich Rower], 1801-1805.

First edition. Fiorillo began as a painter, studying in Rome and Bologna, but turned to art history and became a professor at the University of Gottingen and colleague of Lichtenberg, in 1781. His erudite survey of the art of painting throughout Europe was among the first to make use of medieval documentary...

£600

FOUNTAINE, Andrew.

Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collection of Majolica, Henri II Ware, Palissy Ware, Nevers Ware, Limoges...

[London], 1884

First day only of the Majolica sale of the Fountaine collection. Andrew Fountain (1676-1753) was ‘the predecessor of Horace Walpole as an arbiter of taste and virtu’ (ODNB). His engravings and drawings were sold in July 1884, pictures in 1894 and porcelain in 1904.

£25

[FRANCESCHINI, Pietro (editor).]

Relazione delle feste fatte in Firenze sopra al ghiaccio nel fiume Arno il 31 dicembre 1604.

Florence, Libreria Popolare, Tipografia Righi, 1885.

A limited edition nineteenth-century reprint of the rare description of the festival held on the frozen river Arno in Florence in 1604, published in only fifty copies (of which ours is numbered 10).

£275

FREEMAN, Arthur.

Bibliotheca Fictiva: a Collection of Books and Manuscripts Relating to Literary Forgery 400 BC – AD 2000.

London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2014.

An inventory of books and manuscripts relating to literary forgery. Spanning some twenty-four centuries, the book seeks also to define and describe the controversial genre it represents. Individual entries offer specific commentary on the forgers and their work, their exposers and their dupes. A broad...

£60

FREEMAN, Arthur.

Julia Alpinula, Pseudo-Heroine of Helvetia: How a Forged Renaissance Epitaph Fostered a National Myth.

London, The Author, 2015.

Julia Alpinula is a legendary Swiss heroine, whose pathetic fate in AD 69 inspired popular historians, dramatists, artists, and poets – including an infatuated Byron – over a period of more than two hundred years. Her very existence, however, was based entirely on a funerary inscription first published...

£15

FREEMAN, Arthur.

Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries. A Study in Editorial Conflict, Eccentricity, Forgery, and Restitution....

London, The Author, 2020.

This partly historical, partly philological essay offers a general account of the early preservation, post-medieval recovery, and Renaissance evolution of the text of Catullus, with specific reference to one speculative reading in Carmen 17 (‘De Colonia’), and certain humanist twists and forgeries...

£15