[POOR CLARES.]

A Pious Collection of severall profitable Directions fitted for the English Poor Clares in Graveling in order to...

Douai, M. Mairesse, [1684.]

First edition, rare, of A Pious Collection – a devotional guide for English nuns in exile in the Low Countries – bound with an apparently unrecorded edition of thirty-three prayers for ‘souls departed’’.

£5000

[TEA AND COFFEE.]

Tea & Coffee Directory of India and the World.

Baroda (Vadodara), Shri Laxmi Printing Press, for Bombay (Mumbai) and Calcutta (Kolkata), Indian Export Trade Journal, 1956.

An apparently unrecorded Gujarat-printed directory for 1956 of the global tea and coffee trades.

£750

[SERGEANT, John.]

Transnatural Philosophy, treating of the Essences and Operations of all Beings whatever. Particularly of the...

London, for the Author, and to be sold by S. Keble, D. Browne, A, Roper, and G. Strahan, 1706.

An unusual tract volume of publishing curiosities and rarities.

£1250

[LEE-WARNER, Henry James.]

Reasons for being a Conservative, and for opposing the present Liberal-Whig Ministers. By a Conservative....

Mitchell & Co., [1863–4].

First and only edition, very rare, a presentation copy to the officer and MP Frederick Walpole.

£500

[SALMON DU CHÂTELIER, Charles-Louis, attributed.]

Essai sur le principe de la souveraineté. Par un grand vicaire.

London, Cox, Son, and Baylis for A. Dulau et al., 1804.

First edition, rare, of this anonymous attack on the idea of popular sovereignty and the newly crowned Napoleon published at the outset of the First French Empire.

£250

RIDINGER, Johann Elias.

[A Book of Stags.] Six engravings of deer by Henry Roberts after Ridinger.

[London,] Robert Sayer, [1770s?].

A rare and attractive drawing-book, likely the ‘Book of Stags, after Ridinger, and engraved by Roberts’ listed among the one-shilling quarto ‘Drawing Books’ in Sayer and Bennet’s Enlarged Catalogue of 1775. They were first issued by Roberts as A New Book of Stags (one copy recorded...

£600

REYRAC, [François-Philippe de Laurens,] Abbé de.

Hymne au soleil, suivi de plusieurs morceaux du même genre … nouvelle...

‘Amsterdam’ [Paris], ‘aux dépens de la Compagnie’ [Cazin], 1781.

Sixth edition, published under a false Amsterdam imprint, of the Hymne au soleil by the French royal censor François-Philippe de Laurens de Reyrac.

£95

MONCHABLON, Étienne Jean.

Dizionario compendioso d’antichità per l’intelligenza dell’istoria antica, sì sacra che profana,...

Venice, Sebastiano Coleti, 1795.

Very rare edition of this Italian translation of Monchablon’s popular dictionary for the understanding of the ancient world, from the Egyptians to the Romans via the Israelites and the Greeks, including an extensive bibliography at the end of the preliminary essay.

£200

KÖSTER, Christian.

Zerstreute Gedanken-Blätter über Kunst. Eine Zugabe zu den Heftchen über Restauration alter Oelgemälde...

Heidelberg, Christian Friedrich Winter, 1833 [– 1834].

First editions, very rare, of Köster’s first two addenda to his early and influential work on the restoration of paintings.

£175

HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker.

The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex.

Lewes, John Baxter, and London, Nichols and Son, 1835.

First edition, a handsome set extensively annotated and extra-illustrated by the antiquary William Durrant Cooper, co-compiler of this history, likely in preparation for a revised edition.

£3750

[GAME.]

English–French card game for children.

[Britain, c. 1820.]

A delightful and apparently unrecorded early nineteenth-century card game for English-speaking children learning French.

£650

[GUASCO, Francesco Eugenio.]

Lettera del primicerio di Mondorbopoli a monsignor Scipione de Ricci episcopo di Pistoia e Prato.

‘In Mondorbopoli’ [Alessandria?], 1788.

Rare first edition of this anti-Jansenist attack on Scipione de’ Ricci, Bishop of Pistoia and Prato, by Francesco Eugenio Guasco (1725–1798), priest, historian, and custodian of the Capitoline Museum in Rome.

£275

GIACOMETTI, Francesco.

Nouveau jeu d’échecs ou Le jeu de la guerre …

Genoa, Jean Barthelemy Como, 1801 (‘An 4 de la République Ligurienne’).

Very rare first edition in French, thoroughly revised and expanded from the Italian original of 1793, of this treatise introducing a new, republican form of chess devised by the author, a staunch supporter of Napoleon (the dedicatee) in the new Ligurian Republic.

£1250

[FOCQUENBERGUES, Jean de, attributed.]

Le voyage de Bethel, avec des méditations et des prières pour se préparer à la...

Guernsey, Chevalier and Mauger, 1819.

A seemingly unrecorded Guernsey edition of this long-lived French Protestant devotional manual of preparation for Holy Communion.

£350

[FIELDING, Henry.]

A Proper Answer to a late scurrilous Libel, entitled, an Apology for the Conduct of a late celebrated second-rate...

London, M. Cooper, 1748.

Second edition, scarce, published only a week after the first on 2 January 1748, of Fielding’s last political pamphlet; this copy from the library of the Walpole family at Wolterton Hall, Norfolk.

£500

FIELDING, Henry.

An Enquiry into the Causes of the late Increase in Robbers, &c. with some Proposals for remedying this growing Evil …

London, A. Millar, 1751.

Second edition, published two months after the first in March 1751, with a number of sporadic but likely authorial changes, and the errata corrected.

£300

[DAVIS, Julia Sophia; John Stevens Cabot ABBOTT, editor.]

Memoir of Julia Sophia Davis, who died at Worcester, March 31, 1833.

Worcester (Massachusetts), Dorr, Howland, & Co., 1833.

First and only edition of this posthumous memoir of an exemplarily pious girl in Massachusetts, Julia Sophia Davis.

£175

[CORNAND DE LACROZE, Jean, et al.]

Tract volume of ten pamphlets in French and two in Dutch on the League of Augsburg (July...

The Netherlands, various publishers, 1686 [and one 1694].

A fine exchange of rare political propaganda published in the late months of 1686 after the signing of the League of Augsburg and the defeat of the Ottomans at Buda.

£1200

BURNET, Gilbert.

Bishop Burnet’s Travels through France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland: describing their Religion, Learning,...

London, T. Payne, 1750.

Later edition of Burnet’s account of the political and religious character of Europe on the eve of the Glorious Revolution; this is the first edition to include ‘A short Character of the Bishop and his Works’.

£150

BERNEY, Thomas.

An Address presented to the honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament...

[(Colophon:) Westminster, Vacher & Sons], [1869?].

One of several closely related printings of a very odd work, in which the ultra-Protestant Thomas Berney (1815–1895), rector of Bracon Ash, provides testimonials of a series of prophetic visions, largely relating to untimely deaths, given to him courtesy of ‘the visible personal manifestation’...

£300