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ITALY – MONTEPULCIANO.
Notarial register of Mei, notary public of Montepulciano.
Italy (Montepulciano), September – November 1345.
Fragments from a notarial register of Montepulciano compiled shortly before the Black Death.
£2000
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SARUM BREVIARY,
in Latin.
England, 1st quarter of 15th century.
A fragment of 21 leaves from a portable Sarum Breviary, with nineteenth-century Staffordshire provenance.
£4250
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ANTIPHONAL,
with neumes, containing music for the blessing of the Paschal Candle on Holy Saturday.
Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-15th century.
An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf written entirely in red and notated entirely in burnished gold, signalling the importance of the text for Holy Saturday.
£4250
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HOMILIARY,
in Latin, with parts of Augustine’s Sermones de Scripturis (Migne, Patrologia Latina 38, cols. 963–4)
Germany, 11th century.
The first leaf here contains parts of sermon 178 from Augustine’s Sermones de Scripturis. Chapter six of the sermon is based on Ecclesiasticus 31,8 and part of 31,10: ‘Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish, and hath not gone after gold’, and ‘Who might offend, and hath not...
£1750
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ANTIPHONAL,
with neumes, containing antiphons, responses and versicles for Trinity Sunday, the Octave of Pentecost, Sundays after...
Germany, 1st half of 12th century.
Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal.
£5000
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CHOIRBOOK.
Large historiated initial ‘I’.
Italy (Umbria), c. 1300.
A very elegant initial in a style characteristic of Umbrian illumination of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It can be compared to the oeuvres of the First Master of the Gubbio Choir Books and the Master of the Deruta-Salerno Missals, the latter named after two Missals made for the...
£4500
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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 were...
£2250
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[MIRACLE STORIES.]
Miracle stories of the Virgin, in Latin
Germany, first half of 14th century.
Two fragments containing rare fourteenth-century miracle stories.
£2250
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[BIBLE.]
FORTESCU, Alexander, editor. The Holy Family Bible, containing the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, and...
Winchester: Printed for the Proprietor by John Wilkes, and sold by him, and William Harris … London. 1774.
First edition, very rare, of a provincially-printed Bible, with original notes and additional matter by Alexander Fortescu, Rector of Stretton. Fortescu took as his source text the Cambridge folio Bible printed by Field in 1659, adding a short summary text at the head of each book, and explanatory...
£1500
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ARM’S OF TILLY (The).
The Virtues and Effects, of the Remedy, named Medicamentum gratia probatum, id ist: the Remedy approved...
[Colophon:] Printe [sic] by John Enschedé, Printer of the City of Haarlem in Holland, [c. 1764–73].
Unrecorded printing of an advertising broadside for Haarlem Oil, a panacea containing ingredients such as sulphur and terebinth oil which is still sold today as a dietary supplement. The oil was first marketed in 1696 by Claes Tilly, a Haarlem schoolmaster, who was succeeded by his step grandchild...
£1500
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SARUM MISSAL,
in Latin, with readings and music for the feast of the Nativity
England, late 14th century.
A richly illuminated leaf from a Sarum Missal, the decoration probably of provincial rather than London production.
£3250
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BEATTIE, James.
Original Poems and Translations.
London: Printed [by F. Douglas, Aberdeen?]; and sold by A. Millar, 1760.
First edition of Beattie’s first collection. It is always described as his first book, but it is in fact preceded by an unique Elegy on Mrs Walker (1759), discovered by us in 1991 and now in the National Library of Scotland (but still not listed by ESTC).
£450
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BIBLE,
in Latin, Jeremiah 30, 6–32,19 and 44,21–48,24
Germany or perhaps Switzerland, mid-12th century.
From a folio German romanesque Bible.
£3750
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HAKLUYT, Richard.
The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or over Land, to the most...
Imprinted at London by George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to Christopher Barker … 1589.
First edition, a fine copy, with the world map, in a strictly contemporary London binding, of the first collection of English voyages.
£350000
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[BRIDGE, Stephen.]
Illuminated memorial manuscript on vellum presented ‘To the Rev. Stephen Bridge on his relinquishing the incumbency...
[Designed and executed by Witherby & Co., London, 1868.]
A beautiful memorial volume presented to Rev. Stephen Bridge (c. 1811–1895) along with a silver salver and a purse of £1000 in gratitude for his service as minister of St Matthew’s Denmark Hill since 1844, on the occasion of his transfer to the living of Droxford, Hampshire.
£850
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WORCESTER, Edward Somerset, Marquess of.
A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to...
London: Printed in the Year 1663. Reprinted, and sold by T. Payne … 1746.
Second edition of a charming catalogue of inventions claimed to have been ‘tried and perfected’ by the royalist 2nd Marquess of Worcester (1601–1667), first published in 1663.
£750
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HADDON, Walter.
Poematum Gualteri Haddoni, legum doctoris, sparsim collectorum libri duo.
Londini, Per Richardum Yardlei, et Petrum Short, propter aßignatos Gulihelmi Seresii. 1592.
Very rare second edition (first 1576) of the collected Latin verse of the lawyer, poet, and fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, Walter Haddon (1514/15–1571), this copy bound in a contemporary manuscript relating to schoolboy misconduct.
£3750
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TAYLOR, Jeremy [and Brian DUPPA].
A Choice Manual, containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or praied for; the...
London, Printed for R. Royston … 1669.
Extremely rare later edition of Jeremy Taylor’s The Golden Grove (first 1655). The Golden Grove, named after the seat of the Earl of Carbery, Taylor’s patron, ‘was equal in popularity with Taylor’s other works during this century. It is also interesting because it eventually...
£600
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SMITH, Albert.
Marguerite de Bourgogne. A Tradition of ancient Paris …
London: Richard Bentley … 1845.
First separate edition, printed for private circulation and very rare, comprising a portion (though complete in itself) of Smith’s three-decker The Adventures [or Fortunes] of the Scattergood Family (1845), with a new half-title and title-page.
£500
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[BROOKES, Joshua, Paul, or John?.]
Bous Potamous, or the River Cow of Egypt, from the Banks of the Nile, (A Species of the Hippopotamus)...
[London, dated in manuscript May 1799.]
Unique broadside advertising the exhibition, and subsequent sale, of a live hippopotamus – possibly the earliest record of a live hippo in England – they were notoriously difficult to transport and keep alive and the arrival of a baby at London Zoo in 1849 was touted as the first in Europe...
£1850