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, Printed by J. Moir, Paterson’s Court, [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

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music for the blessing of the Paschal Candle on Holy Saturday.

Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth century.

An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf written entirely in red and notated entirely in burnished gold, signalling the importance of the text for Holy Saturday.

£4250

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

THOMAS CANTIPRATENSIS.

Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

[Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, c. 1478–1480.]

Second edition of this manual of moral theology structured around the behaviour of bees, composed in the 1260s. It was a popular work, surviving in over a hundred manuscripts.

£6000

[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

[COMMON PRAYER.]

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

London & Glasgow, Collins’ Clear-Type Press, [c. 1910].

A George V Common Prayer and hymnal, uniformly bound and unusually housed in a ‘handbag’ slipcase for the convenience of the fashion-conscious churchgoer.

£275

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

[MAPS.]

‘Carte du Vicariat Apost. de Péking & Tche-ly Nord’.

[China], 1896.

Two handsome maps providing a snapshot of the region around modern Beijing and the Bohai Sea encompassed within the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Chi-Li and the Vicariate Apostolic of Southwestern Chi-Li in 1896, showing towns, missionary residences, roads, railways, rivers and lakes, and part...

£1800

BALBUS, Johannes.

Catholicon.

[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch), not after 1475.]

Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon, a monumental piece of printing from one of the earliest presses in Strasbourg, containing the thirteenth-century Latin dictionary and grammar of Johannes Balbus, the ‘greatest of the medieval encyclopaedic dictionaries’ (Chamberlin, p. 136); his...

£65000

[MASS.]

Cerimonie piu’ notabili della messa privata; Cavate dalle rubriche del Missale, ed altri autori da un Sacerdote D.C.D.M....

Turin, Gianfranco Mairesse, 1739.

An apparently unrecorded edition of this uncommon treatise on the celebration of the mass and its associated rituals.

£300

WILSON, David (editor).

A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, &c. in three Parts … 

[Edinburgh:] Sold by the Editor at his House … and by J. Hamilton, Music Seller … [c.1800?].

Second(?), expanded edition of this collection of (mostly) hymn tunes scored for treble, tenor, and bass. Though for most hymns the tunes only are printed, there are words for Cowper’s ‘Hark, my Soul!’ and one other, and at the end are the words and tunes for seven secular catches (in three...

£500

CALMET, Antoine Augustin.

Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Testament. Les deux livres d’Esdras,...

Paris, Pierre Emery, 1712.

First edition of the commentary on the Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, and Esther by the French Benedictine Antoine Augustin Calmet (1672–1757), from the library of the last male descendant of the distinguished Colbert family.

£450

[MASCHERANA, Girolamo.]

Concordia tra la società e la religione ossia Difesa del culto cattolico contro chi lo calunnia in contrasto...

Milan, Cesare Orena nella stamperia Malatesta, 1798.

Rare second edition, printed in the same year as the equally rare first, of this curious defence of religion in the light of the constitution of the Cisalpine Republic, in which the author seeks to demonstrate the compatibility of Catholicism with the Enlightenment ideals of the French Revolution and...

£375

DARRÉ, G.G.

‘Conferences diaconales données par Mr l’abbé Darré, Vicaire Général au GrandSéminaire d’Auch. Année...

Auch, 1864.

An attractively written manuscript of Abbé Darré’s practical manual for the use of young priests entering pastoral ministry, the text remaining unprinted, according to OCLC, until 1872.

£200