LIPSIUS, Justus.

De amphitheatro liber. In quo forma ipsa loci expressa, et ratio spectandi. Cum aeneis figuris.

Antwerp [i.e. Leiden], Christophe Plantin, 1585.

Two works by the great Flemish humanist and philologist Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), on amphitheatres and on Latin pronunciation.

£950

BACON, Francis. 

Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, operum moralium et civilium tomus … cura...

London, Edward Griffin [and John Haviland] for Richard Whitaker [and John Norton], 1638. 

First edition, first issue, a copy from the celebrated Albani library: tangible witness to the early and fecund reception of Bacon’s thought in the circles of Galilean science in Italy. 

£3500

PETIOT, Étienne.

Panegyricus Ludovico XIII. vindici rebellionis, domitori Elementorum, æterno triumphatori: Pro fracta Britannia,...

Ferrara, Giuseppe Gironi, 1639.

An extremely rare Ferrarese edition of the hugely popular panegyric to Louis XIII by the Jesuit Étienne Petiot (1602–1675), professor of rhetoric, encomiastic writer, and theologian from Limoges, written on the occasion of the defeat of the Huguenots at the end of the siege of La Rochelle and...

£975

LAUTERBACH, Barbara, and Georg Christoph LAUTERBACH.

A group of five school exercise books comprising geographical dictations.

Lenk, 1834-1849.

A charming group of school exercise books from the Swiss village of Lenk im Simmental, unusually bound in decorated printed wrappers.

£1250

PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.

Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit novoque adparatu critico instruxit...

Cambridge, University Press, 1928.

First edition of Richmond’s controversial Propertius, A. F. Scholfield’s copy, with three letters from the editor.

£400

[EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace de Notre Seigneur M. DCC. LIII. …

Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

A charming almanack for 1753 printed in Liège by Everard Kints – bookseller, printer, and wine merchant – here in a delightful embroidered binding with raised work in silver thread surrounding a skilfully executed floral arrangement.

£400

[NEW YORK.]

Notarial instrument attesting to the residence of two French immigrants in New York.

New York, 27 July 1797.

An interesting notarial document recording the immigration of two members of the French minor nobility to America during the French Revolution and Directory.

£850

[STEREOGRAPH.]

‘Going Out’ [and] ‘Coming In’.

London, Gebhardt, Rottmann & Co., [late 1850s or 1860s].

An amusing pair of stereos depicting the ‘before’ and ‘after’ a gentleman’s night out.

£70

[STEREOGRAPH.]

James ELLIOTT, photographer.

‘The first Love Letter’ [and] ‘Difference of Opinion’. London, 1860s.

Three hand-tinted albumen prints in stereo format featuring elaborate historical costumes, depicting the early stages of courtship and a lovers’ tiff.

£175

[ALMANACK.]

Étrennes mignonnes, curieuses et utiles, pour l’année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix.

Paris, Guillot, 1790.

A French almanack for 1790 in a delightful sous mica binding with painted vignettes showing a courting couple one side and what appears to be a lovers’ tryst on the other, preserved in its original red morocco case.

£2750

[ALMANACK.]

Les etrennes a 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

LALEMANT, [Pierre].

Les saints desirs de la mort, ou recüeil de quelques pensées des peres de l’Eglise, pour montrer comment...

Paris, Josse, 1710.

A very rare later edition, in a contemporary binding of onlaid morocco, of Lalement’s French paraphrases of the Church Fathers’ thoughts on death.

£850

[MONS.]

...

Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.

First and only edition, very rare, of this history of the Sunday school in Mons, established for the Christian education of the boys and girls of the city and supported by the Canonesses of St Waltrude among other benefactors.

£975

BLANCHET, Joseph.

L’art, ou les principes philosophiques du chant … II^e edition, corrigée et augmentée …

Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel Lambert, and Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne, 1756.

First edition of this philosophical and anatomical singing manual, with an engraved illustration of the lungs.

£750

‘SANTO DOMINGO’.

Tablettes Parisiennes, par M. Santo-Domingo. Deuxième edition.

Brussels, Aug. Wahlen for H. Tarlier, 1826.

Second edition, scarcer than the first edition of the previous year, of these risqué recollections of Parisian life, this copy printed on yellow paper, including a ‘Linnaean’ classification of Parisian women.

£475

FLORUS, L. Annaeus; Lucius AMPELIUS; Claude SAUMAISE, editor.

[Rerum romanarum libri IV and Epitome historiae...

Leiden, Elzevir, 1638.

The attractive Elzevir edition of Florus’ Roman history, containing the editio princeps of Ampelius’ history, in a handsome English Restoration binding with highly unusual edge decoration.

£650

[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

HAMILTON, ‘Eliza’ [Elizabeth].

Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah; written previous to, and during the Period of...

London, J. Crowder for G. & J. Robinson, 1801.

Second edition of Hamilton’s first separately published work, a pseudo-Oriental satire on British society, in a very well-preserved gilt paper binding imitating calf.

£575

[HAMBURG.] 

A sammelband of material relating to the Great Fire of Hamburg. 

[Germany, 1842.] 

A fine and unusual volume of materials relating to the Great Fire of Hamburg of May 1842, comprising a long article by Joseph Mendelssohn published over five issues of Der Komet, special issues of several periodicals devoted to the disaster, a rare poem by Margarethe Hedwig Hülle, and...

£850

GOLDONI, Carlo.

Scelta di alcune commedie. Per uso de’ dilettanti della lingua italiana. Prima edizione italiana.

Livorno, Assunto Barbani, 1816.

First edition printed in Italy of a collection of ten comedies by Goldoni, selected for their lack of complicated syntax and lack of Venetian dialect and idioms, published in Livorno for the benefit of the English community.

£175