FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator). 

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

London,  Vincent Brooks Day & Son, [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 have...

£650

[AQUHORTIES.]

Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for the Students in the College of Aquhorties …

Edinburgh, J. Moir, [1799?].

Broadside rules for the newly established Aquhorties College, the only Roman Catholic college in Scotland, presumably designed to be posted up around the school.

£850

WITTKOWER, Jochanan.

Agudath Perachim. ‘Blüthenstrauß’. Anthologie deutscher und hebräischer Gedichte für Geist und Herz …

Altona, the Bonn Brothers for the author, 1880.

First and only edition of this anthology of moral poems and satirical and edifying epigrams translated from German into Hebrew, as well as transcriptions and translations of epitaphs from the Jewish community of Altona, now a district of Hamburg.

£350

POCKLINGTON, John.

Altare Christianum: or, the dead Vicar’s Plea. Wherein the Vicar of Gr. being dead, yet speaketh, and pleadeth...

London, Printed by Richard Badger. 1637.

First edition, from the library of Robert Southey, with an ownership inscription an eleven-line note in his distinctive diminutive hand.

£3750

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

FRANZ, Wolfgang.

Animalium historia sacra, in qua plerorumque animalium praecipuae proprietates in gratiam studiosorum theologiae...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1643.

First Jansson edition (fifth overall). First published in Wittenberg in 1612, the Animalium historia sacra is the most successful work of the Lutheran theologian Wolfgang Franz (1564 – 1628), providing a careful study of the creatures appearing in the Bible, both real and mythical.

£75

RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio. 

Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte sono quelle ragioni allegate, le quali affermano, lo amore...

Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562. 

Annotated copy, once owned by a music book collector, of the third edition (first 1557) of a remarkable Renaissance philosophical dialogue on the nature of love which marked the culmination of the very divisive ‘questione d’amore’ hotly debated in sixteenth-century literature. 

£2800

VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius. 

Argonauticon … libri VIII, a Ludovico Carrione Brugensi locis prope innumerabilibus emendati, ejusdem...

Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, [15 July] 1565. 

First edition, a very attractive copy, of Louis Carrio’s precocious – and perhaps overconfident – recension of the first-century Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus. 

£1250

ANGELI, Alessandro degli.

In astrologos coniectores libri quinque … Nunc primum prodit [sic] in lucem. Cum indicibus pernecessariis,...

Lyons, Horace Cardon, 1615.

First edition of this thorough attack on astrology by degli Angeli (1542–1620), head of the Jesuit college at Rome, this copy with a presentation inscription by the Lyons publisher and printer Horace Cardon (1566–1641).

£1600

RHOADS, James Evans.

Autograph letter signed (‘James E. Rhoads’) to Henry Horniman.

Philadelphia, 22 July 1869.

A letter from the first president of Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia. Rhoads (1828–1895) helped establish the college as a nondenominational, internationally respected school, and the first higher education institution to offer graduate degrees to women.

£100

CASAL, Gaspar do.

Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis & sanctis patribus.

Coimbra, João da Barreira and João Alvares, 1550.

First edition of Gaspar do Casal’s major work of theology, which informed his participation in the Council of Trent, from the library of another participant in the Council.

£2500

TUCKER, Josiah.

Betydande frågor om handelen, wid tilfålle af de motsäjelser, som skedde emot den sista billen, om utlänningars...

[v. Oelreich], 1763.

First Swedish edition, scarce, of this history on the treatment of foreign residents in Britain, Reflections on the Expediency of a Law for the Naturalization of Foreign Protestants (1751–1752). This book comprises only the main body of Part II (1752), ‘Important Queries occasioned by The Rejection...

£200

DIODORUS Siculus.

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

Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

Important edition, the first to be overseen by Sébastien Castellion, of Diodorus’s influential ‘Historical library’.

£2500

FREEMAN, Arthur.

Bibliotheca Fictiva [supplements].

London, 2015-2021.

Three supplements to Arthur Freeman's Bibliotheca Fictiva, 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...

£45

[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

[COMMON PRAYER.] 

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

London, Millar Ritchie for J. Good and E. Harding, 1794. 

A splendid copy of the Good and Harding Book of Common Prayer, in a striking masonic binding by John Lovejoy. 

£1850

STEPNIAK, Sergey. 

דאָס אינטערערדישע רוסלאַנד … איבערזעצט פון א. פרומקין
[Dos...

New York, Maks N. Maisel, 1921. 

Scarce first American edition in Yiddish of Stepniak’s first and most influential book.  Written in Italian during exile in Switzerland following his assassination of Nikolai Mezentsov, chief of Alexander II’s secret police, Underground Russia was published in 1882 and translated into...

£150

FRY, Theodore.

A brief Memoir of Francis Fry, F.S.A. of Bristol. By his Son … Not published.

[London, Printed by Barclay and Fry,] 1887.

First edition. Francis Fry (1803–1886) of Bristol, the preeminent student and collector of English Bibles in his time, was also an active partner in the Quaker family firm of chocolate and porcelain manufacturers and type founders. Among his publications were a facsimile of the first complete...

£850

ZAMPELIOS, Spiridion.

Βυζαντιναι Μελεται [Byzantine Studies]...

Athens, Christos Nikolaidos, 1857.

First edition. Spyros Zampelios was a champion of the continuity theory in the history of the Greek nation in the crucial decades of the mid nineteenth century, and the first Greek historian to adopt a tripartite examination of historical periods, divided into ancient, medieval and modern Hellenism....

£350

PINDAR. 

Carmina, ex editione Chr. Gottl. Heyne. 

Oxford, N. Bliss for M. Bliss and R. Bliss [– and London, for F. & C. Rivington, J. Payne & J. Mackinlay, W.H. Lunn, Longman, Hurst,...

An attractive Oxford-printed pocket edition of Pindar’s Odes, as edited by Christian Gottlob Heyne. 

£175