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

JUSTIN.

Justini ex Trogo Pompeio Historia, fidelissima recognitione nunc postremo, collatis ad autorem & Graecis & Latinis historicis,...

Cologne, Johann Gymnich [III], 1580.

Very rare Cologne edition of Justin’s abridgement of the lost Historiae Philippicae of Pompey Trogue, in contemporary German painted vellum and owned over several centuries by two Franciscan friaries in Alsace and the Rhön.

£650

HOOPER, William.

‘Liverpool Independence Cricket Club. Reports of Matches. Season 1880.’

[Liverpool, 3 April to 2 October 1880.]

A pocketbook record of matches for the season of 1880, compiled by William Hooper, Captain of the seemingly otherwise unrecorded Liverpool Independence Cricket Club.

£250

GODEAU, Antoine, Bishop of Grasse.

Paraphrase sur l’epistre [– les epistres] de Saint Paul aux Romains [– aux Corinthiens;...

Paris, widow Jean Camusat [Denise de Courbes], 1641 [– 1640].

Six Biblical paraphrases by Bishop Godeau, each rare in its own right, together forming a complete paraphrase of the Epistles, printed by the recently widowed Denise de Courbes with attractive engraved titles and handsomely bound in red morocco.

£2850

SAADI Shirazi; Gabriel GEITLIN, translator and commentator.

Specimen academicum Pendnâmeh sive Librum consiliorum Scheich...

Helsinki, Frenckell, [1835].

Very rare Helsinki-printed edition of the Sufi poet Saadi Shirazi’s Pandnāma or Book of Counsel, with Latin translation and commentary, forming a dissertation delivered at the Imperial Alexander University in Finland in 1835.

£750

GAY, John.

The Beggar’s Opera. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields … to which is added, the Musick engrav’d...

London, John Watts, 1728.

First edition, first issue, of the greatest of the ballad operas, perennially popular since its first performance on 29 January 1728.

£975

[CULANT-CIRÉ, René Alexandre, Marquis de.]

Recueil de fables, contes, epigrammes & pensées diverses de Monsieur le M. de...

‘The Hague’ [Paris?], 1767.

First collected edition, very rare, of various writings on diverse subjects by Culant-Ciré, including the first appearance of several of his works, including Symbole raisonné du philosophe, a satirical attempt at proving the necessity of the existence of God, and the comedy L’impudent.

£650

[CLASSICS.]

A group of eleven editions in twenty-one volumes from Brindley’s series of Latin classics.

London, J. Brindley, 1744–1754.

An attractive set of twenty-one volumes from Brindley’s series of Latin classics, handsomely bound and with resplendent gilt brocade endpapers signed by the well-known Augsburg papermaker Johann Michael Munck (fl. 1730–1760).

£2500

BARONIO, Cesare.

Martyrologium Romanum, Gregorii XIII auctoritate recognitum … nunc ante mortem auctoris, ab ipso … revisum,...

Mainz, Johann Theobald Schönwetter, 1631.

Uncommon edition of Cesare Baronio’s important revision of the Roman Martyrology, in an attractive binding and with interesting provenance.

£875