SASSOON, Siegfried. 

Nativity. 

London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927. 

First edition of this striking collaboration between Siegfried Sassoon and Paul Nash. 

£175

[HYMNAL.]

Neu-vermehrt- und vollständiges Gesang-Buch, worinnen sowohl die Psalmen Davids, nach D. Ambrosii Lobwassers, Uebersetzung...

[Likely Swabia, for] Philadelphia, Ernst Ludwig Baisch, 1774.

First and only edition thus of this German hymnal, issued in Philadelphia by Ernst Ludwig Baisch under his own imprint but printed in Germany, bound by an itinerant German Pennsylvanian binder with printed waste from Charles Cist’s Americanische Stadt und Land Calender for 1797, with inscriptions...

£3500

GRÜNEISEN, C.

Niclaus Manuel. Leben und Werke eines Malers und Dichters. Kriegers, Staatsmannes und Reformators im sechszehnten...

Tubingen, Cotta, 1837.

First edition of the first separate biography of the Bern painter and woodcutter Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (1525-1571).

£250

[OPTICAL PRINT.] 

‘No. 5.  Morgan’s improved protean scenery: Mount Vesuvius, as represented at the Surrey Zoological Gardens...

London, Published by W. Morgan, [c. 1837]. 

A remarkable metamorphic or ‘protean’ print depicting a dormant Vesuvius by day but, when held up to the light, showing a dramatic eruption in the night sky. 

£675

CHEESMAN, Thomas. 

No. I. Six Heads Drawn and Engraved, by T. Cheesman.

[London,] T. Cheesman, No. 40 Oxford Street; and to be had of J.F. Tomkins, New Bond Street, Published February 10, 1797.

First and only edition, extremely rare, of this complete series of six heads of young women wearing head scarves by ‘one of Bartolozzi’s most outstanding pupils’.

£850

SAULCY, Louis Félicien, Caignart de.

Note sur une inscription punique découverte au Cap Carthage en 1841. Lue à l’Académie...

[Paris], Imprimerie Royale, 1843.

Rare offprint from the Journal Asiatique on a stone found at Carthage inscribed with Phoenician text, and a contribution to the deciphering and study of the Phoenician-Punic language.

£250

[MUSÉE NAPOLÉON.]

Notice des tableaux exposés dans la Galerie Napoléon.

Paris, Bubray, 1810.

Pocket guide to the pictures exhibited in the Musée Napoléon. The collection was largely composed of paintings looted by Napoleon; the museum was dissolved after Waterloo and and attempts were made to return the pictures to their rightful owners.

£125

TALBOT RICE, David.

Notice on some religious buildings in the city and vilayet of Trebizond. Extrait de Byzantion, tome...

Brussels, Secrétariat de la Revue, 1930.

An offprint from Byzantion. The distinguished Byzantine scholar David Talbot Rice was a lifelong friend of Robert Byron, one of his travelling companions during the visit to Mount Athos recorded in Byron’s The Station, and co-author with him of The birth of Western painting.

£65

[MATHIEU, Adolphe.]

Notice sur Frédéric-Auguste-Ferdinand-Thomass Baron de Reiffenberg ...

Mons, Hoyois, 1850

Only edition, published in 100 copies by the Société des Bibliophiles Belges. Reifenberg (1795-1850) was the Keeper of the Belgian Royal Library from 1837 until his death in 1850. This obituary was written by his friend the poet Adolphe Mathieu. He gives a bibliography of works written or edited by...

£85

JACOBSON, Ken.

Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1839–1925.

[London], Quaritch, 2007.

Profusely illustrated, this is the most comprehensive survey to date of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photography of the Middle East and North Africa. Using Orientalist painting as a counterpoint, it primarily relates the extraordinarily rich visual documentation of the peoples and cultures...

£60

[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

VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich.

O Repine [On Repin] …

Moscow, “Ole-Lukoie”, 1913.

First edition thus: three pieces written earlier in the year and published in journals on the work of Ilya Repin (1844–1930), often regarded as Russia’s national artist. At the end is an extract from a lecture (1885) by Landtsert on the painting ‘Ivan the Terrible and his Son’. Voloshin (1877–1932)...

£450

TAYLOR, W. B. Sarsfield.

The origin, progress, and present condition of the Fine Arts in Great Britain and Ireland.

London: Whittaker & Co., 1841.

£75

[COCHRAN, Charles B.]

OSTROWSKA, Wanda and Viola G. GARVIN. London’s Glory.

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.

First edition, a poignant collection of paintings of war-torn London by the Polish artist-in-exile Wanda Ostrowska, accompanied by extracts from her own writings and narrative by Viola Garvin.

£75

CARDONNEL, Adam de.

Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Edwards … also by Edwards’s, in Halifax. 1788.

First edition, the very rare issue with the plates in sepia, printed directly onto thick wove paper.

£975

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

MACDIARMID, Hugh.

Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933 …

Edinburgh, K.D. Duval, [1963].

First edition.

£25

PERUCCI, Francesco.

Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo, raccolte dale storie sagre et profane.

Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.

First edition of Perucci’s account of the funeral practices of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, extensively illustrated with engravings copied in reverse from Porcacchi’s 1574 Funerali antichi di diversi popoli, et nationi, inscribed by a Scottish antiquary and documented book collector....

£975

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

ROUQUET, Jean-André. 

The present State of the Arts in England.  By M. Rouquet, member of the Royal Academy of Painting and...

London, for J. Nourse, 1755. 

First edition in English, published in the same year as the French original, from the library of the great Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith (1723–1790). 

£19500