[AGRICULTURE.] BEIJING MUNICIPAL BUREAU FOR AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.

农业机械安全生产挂图 [Nongye jixie anquan shengchan...

[Beijing], China Agriculture Press for Xinhua Bookshop, [late 1970s].

Very rare complete set of posters promoting the modernisation of agriculture at the outset of China’s economic reform.

£1750

ALAI, Beatrice.

Le miniature Italiane del Kupferstichkabinett di Berlino.

Florence, Edizioni Polistampa, 2019.

From the presentation leaf: ‘Bernard Quaritch Ltd is delighted to be a sponsor of this magnificent publication. We feel sure that our German founder, both as publisher of scholarly works and dealer in medieval manuscripts, would have been proud to support Beatrice Alai’s catalogue of the Italian...

£75

[ALMANACK.]

Calendarium Tyrnaviense ad annum Jesu Chris[ti] M. DCC. XXXI[.] …

[Tyrnau (Trnava), 1731.]

A remarkable almanack binding of part-printed, part-manuscript vellum, prepared for presentation at the Habsburg court in Vienna to the Genoese diplomat Clemente Doria.

£1850

[ALMANACK.]

L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?] des meilleurs poëtes.

Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

A very rare enamelled metal binding with an enchanting design of birds and squirrels, from the collection of the bookbinder, collector, and bibliographer Léon Gruel.

£2750

[ALMANACK.]

Les étrennes à la rose, ou le rosier d’amour.

Paris, Janet, [1804?].

A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush of love’, collecting amatory poems using the motif of the rose, here bound in red silk strikingly embroidered in silver and dated with the French Revolutionary year ‘An XII’ (1804).

£2500

[ALMANACK.]

Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, avec plusieurs augmentations & corrections, pour l’année mil sept...

Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand] and Pierre-François Durand, 1775.

A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775, our copy in a handsome binding embroidered in gold and silver threads and with emblematic mottoes and charming illustrations depicting putti fanning smoke from a burning candle and holding a flaming heart.

£1500

[ALMANACK.]

London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.

[London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers, [1785].

A very attractive miniature London Almanack in its elaborate original binding of gilt white calf and matching étui, with an engraving of the soon-to-be-finished Somerset House.

£950

[ALMANACK.]

étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, pour l’année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix.

Paris, [Jean-François-Hubert] Guillot, 1790.

Very rare almanack for 1790, in a handsome contemporary binding of silk and sequins featuring lyres surmounted by hearts and torches, issued on the eve of the French Revolution with much material on the storming of the Bastille and revolts throughout France.

£1950

[ALMANACK.]

Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances pardonables. Almanach orné des jolies gravures.

Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr Jubert’, 1800.

A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1800, issued by the prolific publisher of almanacks Pierre-étienne Janet (1746–1830), with suggestive engravings accompanied by explanatory poems, songs, and music, our copy in a handsome binding of contemporary painted white sheep with designs of hearts, garlands,...

£1450

ANDERSEN, Hendrik Christian.

Création d’un centre mondial de communication.

Paris, 1913.

First French editions of both parts of this ambitious urban planning project envisioning a utopian world capital, in which art and architecture would function as vehicles of world peace.

£2250

ANDREWS, Mark E.

The Science and Engineering of Materials: Theatre of Machine Books, 1472–1800.

Toronto, A.E Publications, 2023.

One of twenty-five finely bound numbered deluxe copies, with four original leaves bound in, of this extraordinary survey of four centuries of machine books, tracing the evolution of printing techniques and draughtsmanship alongside the development of the machines themselves.

£950

ANDREWS, Mark E.

The Science and Engineering of Water: An illustrated catalogue of books and manuscripts on Italian hydraulics,...

Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

A finely bound deluxe copy, one of twenty copies, of Mark Andrews’s lavishly illustrated catalogue tracing the development of science and engineering through the early modern period.

£675

ANDREWS, Mark E.

The Science and Engineering of Water: An illustrated catalogue of books and manuscripts on Italian hydraulics,...

Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

A lavishly illustrated catalogue, tracing the development of science and engineering through the early modern period. Some 367 printed books, manuscripts, and maps are presented in chronological order, highlighting the relationship between the evolution of ideas and the authors who documented...

£85

Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era.

Preface by Martin J. Gross. Essays by Benjamin Morison and Barbara Scalvini.

Lewes, D. Giles Ltd for the Martin J. Gross Family Foundation, 2021.

Aristotle’s influence towers over western philosophy and science. His astonishing range and depth – philosophy and logic, the physical and natural sciences, ethics and politics – make him indisputably the most important intellectual figure in the western tradition before the modern age.

£30

[ART EDUCATION.]

Der kleine Maler.

[Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]

A delightful suite of plates intended to teach children painting by copying hand-coloured exemplars.

£450

AURIGNAC, Sara Thérèse d’.

Cahier de dessins.

[Villiers-en-Bière], c. 1896.

An album of fin-de-siècle sketches by fifteen-year-old Sara Thérèse d’Aurignac, comprising humorous vignettes, imaginative anthropomorphism, dancing devils, and scenes of leisure.

£875

BARKER, Nicolas.

Bibliotheca Lindesiana. The Lives and Collections of Alexander William, 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of...

The Roxburghe Club, 1977.

The Bibliotheca Lindesiana was perhaps the finest private library assembled in the nineteenth century. Nicolas Barker considers the library’s purpose and traces the circumstances of its formation in detail, in the process adding considerably to the biographies of the 25th and 26th Earls of Crawford,...

£50

BARKER, Nicolas, and David QUENTIN.

The Library of Thomas Tresham and Thomas Brudenell. With an introduction by John Martin Robinson.

The Roxburghe Club, 2006.

Sir Thomas Tresham (1543–1605) remains best-known for his buildings, especially the market house at Rothwell, the Triangular Lodge at Rushton and Lyveden New Bield. His library, one of the largest in England of its time, has hitherto attracted comparatively little interest. Now, as a result of a careful...

£95

BARKER, Nicolas, ed.

The Pirie Library. A Short-Title Catalogue of the Collection of Robert S Pirie.

London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2019.

The library of Robert S Pirie, ‘one of the finest private libraries of English literature, not just of our time but of all time’ (James Stourton), was sold at Sotheby’s New York on 2-4 December 2015. This account is based on Sotheby’s catalogue of the sale, and augmented by Mr Pirie’s acquisition...

£25

[BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church,...

Third and final edition of Baskerville’s octavo prayer book. The prayers for the Royal Family on cancels B8, C6, and D3 include the name of Queen Charlotte, whom George III married in 1761. This copy also includes the ‘occasional prayers’ which were only printed for part of the edition and are...

£1200