GUSTÁ, Francisco.

Memorie della rivoluzione francese tanto politica che ecclesiastica e della gran parte, che vi hanno avuto...

Assisi, Ottavio Sgariglia, 1793.

Apparent first edition, very rare, of Gustá’s first and full articulation of his attack on the Jansenists as responsible for the horrors of the French Revolution.

£550

SORBOLI, Girolamo.

Celestina, favola pastorale.

Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1586.

First and only edition, rare, of this verse play by the physician and philosopher Girolamo Sorboli, a remarkably fresh, unsophisticated copy in a contemporary longstitch binding.

£750

ALCIATI, Andrea; Joannes THUILIUS, editor.

Emblemata cum commentariis Claudi Minois I.C. Francisci Sanctii Brocensis, &...

Padua, [(colophon:) Lorenzo Pasquato for] Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1621.

First ‘magisterial’ edition (Manning, p. 116), much expanded from the 1618 Padua edition and considered to be the most comprehensive version of Alciati’s Emblemata, with 212 emblematic woodcuts devised by Pignoria, including the formerly expurgated emblem LXXX depicting a defecating woman;...

£1250

ALCIATI, Andrea; Claude MIGNAULT, editor; Fédéric MOREL.

Omnia … emblemata, cum commentariis, quibus emblematum detecta...

Paris, Jean Richer for François Gueffier, 1618.

The final Paris printing of Mignault’s extensive and influential commentary of Alciati’s Emblems, yet the first edition to contain Fédéric Morel’s ‘Corollaria et monita’.

£850

ALCIATI, Andrea.

Les emblemes … mis en rime francoyse & puis nagueres reimprime avec curieuse correction.

Paris, Chrestien Wechel, 1539.

Third edition of Jean Lefevre’s French verse translation of Alciati’s Emblematum liber, bound with the second edition of Giovio’s Dialogo dell’imprese, the first to include Girolamo Ruscelli’s supplementary and substantial Discorso on emblems and mottos.

£1750

AESOP.

Les fables d’Ésope, mises en françois, avec le sens moral en quatre vers, et des figures à chaque fable. Nouvelle edition,...

Lyon, Amable Leroy, 1809.

An illustrated Lyon schoolboy edition of Aesop’s Fables, uncut in its original wrappers with the ticket of a French bookseller in Rome.

£250

AESOP; Jean-Baptiste Morvan de BELLEGARDE, translator.

Les fables d’Esope phrygien, avec celles de Philelphe. Traduction...

Utrecht, Jacob van Poolsum, 1734.

Aesop’s Fables in the translation read by French schoolchildren for two centuries, with fine copper-engraved illustrations, a neatly bound set with English aristocratic provenance.

£650

[ACCADEMIA DELL’ARCADIA.]

Favola di due gatti e della scimia coll’appello de’ medesimi gatti all’orso, divisa in due parti,...

Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1730.

First combined edition, rare, of two fables in parallel Latin and Italian verse by members of the Roman Accademia degli Arcadi, comprising Due gatti ed una scimia (first 1728) and the first appearance of its sequel, Appello de’ due gatti all’orso.

£475

VIGNOLA, [Giacomo Barozzi da].

Regles des cinq ordres d’architecture de Vignole.

Paris, Antoine Humblot the younger, [c. 1750?].

An exceptionally rare French pocket edition of Vignola’s classic treatise on the five orders of classical architecture, entirely engraved on fifty-two plates by Antoine Humblot (d. 1758) and published by the same. Humblot was one of the artists involved in Charpentier’s 1757 folio edition, ‘one...

£875

VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius; Giovanni Battista PIO, editor.

Argonautica. Joan. Baptistae Pii carmen ex quarto Argonauticon...

Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1548.

A pocket-sized edition of several poetic works on the tale of Jason and the Argonauts, in a contemporary vellum binding reusing fragments from a thirteenth-century medical manuscript.

£475

SPIZEL, Gottlieb.

Herrn Joh. Jacob Thurms der freyen Künsten Mag. und der göttlichen Weißheit Candid. selige Abreise auß...

Augsburg, Jacob Koppmayer, 1670.

First and only edition, very rare, of this account of the travels and death of the young theologian Johann Jakob Thurm, whose death in Leiden en route to England is reinterpreted for pious puns by the theologian and philologist Theophil Gottlieb Spizel.

£850

SMITH, Samuel.

Aditus ad logicam. In usum eorum qui primò Academiam salutant. … Editio sexta.

Oxford, Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1649.

A sammelband of two seventeenth-century student texts on logic, issued together and rather unusually combining Oxford and London imprints, this copy with contemporary Cambridge provenance.

£675

PINDER, Richard.

The Spirit of Error, found, and discovered, in the accounted Pastors and Teachers of the Island Bermuda, in the...

[(Colophon:) London, Robert Wilson, 1660.]

First and only edition of this tract by Richard Pinder, a Quaker who, with George Rose, was among the first to take the Society of Friends to Bermuda –and to appear before the Council of Governor William Sayle, charged with disturbing the peace.

£750

PECHLIN, Johann Nicolas.

Theophilus bibaculus, sive de potu theae dialogus.

Kiel & Frankfurt, for Johann Sebastian Riechel, 1684.

Scarce first edition of Pechlin’s dialogue on tea and its medicinal purposes, with annotations mentioning coffee, chocolate, and tobacco.

£1500

[PASSAU.]

Ursprung der Wallfahrt Maria Hilf bei Passau.

[Passau?] 1845.

First and only edition, very rare, of this history of the Marian pilgrimage church outside Passau, founded in 1610.

£175

[MICHELS, Eleonora.]

Seraphische Bruderschaft der HH. fünf Wunden, aufgerichtet von Sixto V. Röm. Pabst im Jahr 1587.

Frankfurt am Main, Johannes Bayrhoffer, [28 May 1780].

A seemingly unrecorded sign-up sheet and handbook for a Franciscan lay fraternity for both men and women, issued by the monastery at Marienthal near Geisenheim and completed in manuscript by Eleonora Michels from Jülich.

£575

[LATIN.]

Advertencias y preceptos utiles, con veinte y dos epístolas de Ciceron y dies y seis fábulas de Esopo, para la clase...

Monterrey, Francisco Molina, 1841.

Two unrecorded Latin primers provincially printed in Monterrey, with extracts from Cicero’s Epistolae and Aesop’s fables.

£750

LEMASSON, Albert.

Two pencil and watercolour sketches for frescos at the church of Saint-Médard at Saint-Mars-du-Désert.

[Saint-Mars-du-Désert, c. 1942.]

An attractive pair of sketches for Lemasson’s frescos in the chancel of the church of St Médard in his hometown of Saint-Mars-du-Désert.

£375

[ALMANACK.]

Almanach journalier, très-curieux & ‘augmente’ [sic] pour l’année mil sept cent soixante-deux, avec...

Le Mans, Ch. Monnoyer, [1762].

A seemingly unrecorded Le Mans-printed almanack for Maine, attributed to the catch-all almanack pseudonym ‘Matthieu Lansbergh’, with a full-page woodcut of Anne of Austria.

£475

LA QUINTINIE, [Jean-Baptiste] de; John EVELYN, translator.

The Compleat Gard’ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and right...

London, Matthew Gillyflower and James Partridge, 1693.

First edition in English, translated by John Evelyn, of this splendidly illustrated work on fruit trees and gardening by the directeur général of Louis XIV’s gardens, expanded to include the first appearance in print of Evelyn’s treatises on orange trees and melons.

£2000