[BARNABITES.]

Vesperae quae cantantur solemniter a clericis regularibus S. Pauli, in ecclesia SS. Blasii et Caroli de urbe. D. Augustinus...

[Rome, 1693 and later.]

A finely executed manuscript comprising texts to be sung at Vespers by the Clerics Regular of Saint Paul – better known as the Barnabites – in the church of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari in Rome, bearing signs of adapted use over time.

£2750

BARTHOLOMEW OF PISA.

Sermo[n]es lucidissimi et insignes dubiorum et casuum, co[n]scientialium co[n]te[m]ptivi et elucidativi sup[er]...

Lyon, Romain Morin, 3 February 1519.

Rare edition of forty-five sermons for Lent and Easter by the Franciscan friar Bartholomew of Pisa (d. c. 1401), printed in Lyon by Romain Morin.

£2250

[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

BEAUMONT, Joseph.

Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s: displaying the Intercourse betwixt Christ and the Soule …

London, Printed by John Dawson for George Boddington, 1648.

First edition of this lengthy religious epic representing the journey of the personified Soul from England to the Holy Land and back, written by Beaumont, one of the Royalist fellows ejected from Cambridge in 1644.

£1250

BEAUVILLIERS, Marie de.

Conférences spirituelles d’une supérieure à ses religieuses ... d’après un manuscrit revu et mis...

Paris, Moquet et Cie for Toulouse, 1838.

Scarce second edition (first 1837, also rare) of this spiritual guide by Marie de Beauvilliers (1574–1667), edited from a manuscript by the historian l'abbé Louis Gaudreau (1798–1872) and including a short biography of the author.

£400

BELLARMINO, Roberto.

De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus. Adiunctis indicibus undecim, & brevi chronologia ab orbe condito...

Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1658.

An uncut copy of Bellarmino’s bibliography of ecclesiastical writers, with extensive eighteenth-century annotations and additions.

£1250

BELLINTANI, Mattia. 

Quattro prediche dell’istesso R. P. F. Mattia Bellintani Capuccino, della risurrettione.  Della manifestatione...

Brescia, Vincenzo Sabbio, 1598. 

Very rare collection of sermons by the Capuchin friar Bellintani (1535–1611), illustrated with attractive woodcuts. 

£750

BERNARD of Clairvaux.

Opera omnia, tam quae vere germana illius esse nemo inficias eat, quam quae spuria & supposititia (quanquam...

Paris, [Nicolas Bruslé for] Sébastien Nivelle, [1571-] 1572.

A rare Parisian edition of the works of Bernard of Clairvaux, beautifully preserved in a contemporary Spanish plateresca binding with elaborate fore-edge lettering.

£3750

BESSE, Pierre de.

Conceptions theologiques sur tous les dimanches de l’année, preschées en divers lieux par Me Pierre de Besse...

Paris, Nicolas du Fossé, 1609.

Very rare editions of two works by the noted French priest and preacher Pierre de Besse (1567–1639), in a contemporary devotional binding.

£1500

BIANCHINI, Giuseppe. 

Enarratio pseudo-Athanasiana in symbolum ante hac inedita, et Vigilii Tapsitani de Trinitate ad Theophilum...

Verona, Pierantonio Berno, 1732. 

First edition, presented by the author, of this scarce work on the Apostles’ Creed by the Veronese Oratorian, Biblical and liturgical scholar, and librarian Giuseppe Bianchini (1704–1764), with a delightful frontispiece depicting the city of Verona. 

£675

[BIBLE.]

Erläuterte Bibel mit Fragen, das ist, die ganze Heilige Schrift, Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der teutschen Ubersetzung...

Altdorf, Joh. Adam Hessel for Ernst Friderich Zobel, 1751.

A German Bible with extensive apparatus, divided into five volumes and strikingly bound in a book-shaped pull-off case.

£2750

[BIBLE.]

Τα Βιβλια, τουτεστιν, η Θεια Γραφη της Παλαιας τε και Καινης Διαθηκης...

Moscow, the Holy Synod Press for the Russian Bible Society, 1821.

First edition printed in Russia of the Septuagint and Greek New Testament, published likely with political motives in the year of the Greek Revolution.

£1500

[BIBLE.]

The Holy Bible. The Old Testament (& New Testament), embellished with Engravings, from Pictures and Designs by the Most...

London, Printed for Thomas Macklin, by Thomas Bensley, 1800.

A wonderful set, in an extremely attractive contemporary binding by Staggemeier and Welcher, of this monumental feat of British printing, the grandest and most ambitious of all English Bibles.

£9500

[BIBLE.]

[The Holy Bible …]

[London, Robert Barker and the Assigns of John Bill, 1638.]

An attractive velvet binding with English engraved silver decorative furniture – the most luxurious of English bindings in this period, often the preserve of royal libraries. The engraved silver clasps and bosses, which served a dual function in helping to preserve the surface of the velvet,...

£3500

BIBLE.

Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi testamenti et sacrorum canonum: necnon & additionibus in marginibus varietatis...

[(Colophon:) Lyons, Jean Marion, for Anton II Koberger in Nuremberg, 19 August 1520.]

A handsomely printed Bible in a contemporary Silesian or Bohemian binding, richly annotated by a Protestant scholar and with numerous woodcuts in contemporary colouring.

£5500

[BIBLE, New Testament.]

Pauli Apostoli epistolae … Epistolae Catholicae … Apocalypsis Beati Ioannis.

Brescia, Damiano and Giacomo Filippo Turlino, May 1537.

Scarce Brescia edition of the Epistles of St Paul, St James, St Peter, St John, and St Jude, and of the Book of Revelation, in the Vulgate version, with a remarkable metalcut depicting St Peter and St Paul holding a Holy Shroud bearing the face of Christ, owned by an Italian Protestant-sympathiser.

£2500

BIEL, Gabriel.

Sacri canonis Missae lucidiss. expositio … cum assertionibus in margine sacri Conc. Trid. et annotationibus necessariis....

Brescia, Pietro and Tommaso Bozzola, 1576.

Brescia edition of an exposition of the Canon of the Mass by the important German scholastic philosopher and theologian Gabriel Biel (d. 1495), with a sixteenth-century printed label threatening with excommunication anyone who would remove this volume from the library.

£350

BLANCHON, Jacques.

Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum Beneventanum abbatem Selestensem defensionum liber.

Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century Lyonnese Neoplatonism, an elegantly printed de Tournes edition.

£950

[BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.]

La Liturgie. C’est a dire, le formulaire des Prieres publiques, de l’Administrations des Sacreman;...

A Londres, pour Jean Dunmore & Octavien Pulleyn le Jeune … 1667.

First edition of this translation, printed for the use of ‘toutes les Eglisses Paroissiales & dans les Chapelles de Isles de Jersey, Guernsey, & autres Isles adjacentes’, as well as for the French congregation at the Savoy in London.

£750

BOOK OF HOURS,

in Latin, from the Hours of the Virgin and including the beginning of Psalm 97. 

Flanders or northern France, early 14th century. 

An exquisite leaf from an exceptionally early Book of Hours.  The defective parent manuscript, which also contained a Vie de sainte Marguerite in French rhyming verse, was lot 76 in Sotheby’s sale ‘Western Manuscripts and Miniatures’ of 17 December 1991, subsequent to which the leaves...

£1800