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  1. ADLER, Alfred.

    Über den nervösen Charakter. Grunzüge einer vergleichenden Individual-psychologie und Psychotherapie.

    Wiesbaden, J.F. Bergmann, 1912.

    First edition of this important work on neurosis by the influential Austrian psychologist and psychotherapist Alfred Adler (1870-1937) definitively marking his break with Freud and the origins of what he termed ‘individual psychology’, characterised by the notion that the principal driver...

    £150

  2. RANK, Otto.

    Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden. Versuch einer psychologischen Mythendeutung.

    Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.

    First edition of this psychoanalytical investigation of mythological heroism, and the role of birth legends in the stories of heroes, by the German psychoanalyst Otto Rank (1884-1939), published as part of the series Schriften zur angewandten Seelenkunde under the editorship of Freud. Rank...

    £100

  3. AESOP.

    [DODSLEY, Robert.] Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists. In three Books …

    Birmingham, Printed by John Baskerville, for R. and J. Dodsley … 1764.

    An extremely attractive emblematic binding by Hanway’s second binder, inscribed by Hanway ‘For Master James Ord from his most affectionate Servant & friend / J Hanway / 10 June 1765’, and with a two-page ‘Explanation of the Binding’ in prose and verse:

    £3250

  4. BOURNE, Immanuel.

    A Gold Chain of Directions, with twenty Gold-Linkes of Love, to preserve Love firm between Husband and Wife,...

    London, Printed by J. Streater, for George Sawbridge … 1669.

    First edition, very rare, of a charming work of marriage guidance, inscribed by the author ‘To my welbeloved sonn Mr Obadiah Bourne … daily prayinge to Gode for a blessing uppon him and upon the people under his charge … with mine and Deare mothers Blessinge I give this little book for a...

    £1750

  5. [FORZONI, Stefano.] 

    Metodo facile trovato coll’esperienza di piu’ anni utilissimo per difendere i grani dalla Volpe, o sia...

    Florence, nella stamperia Bonducciana, 1772. 

    First and only edition of this rare treatise on the mitigation of volpe, a blight affecting up to half of Tuscan grain harvests of 1772, by a member of the agriculturally minded Accademia dei Georgofili in Florence. 

    £275

  6. HORACE. 

    ‘Horace en vers françois’. 

    [France, c. 1760.] 

    A seemingly unpublished handsome eighteenth-century manuscript comprising selections from Horace’s Odes, Epodes, Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica in the original Latin with accompanying French translation by an unidentified author. 

    £650

  7. JOHN DE BURGH.

    Pupilla oculi.

    England, c. 1400.

    John de Burgh’s Pupilla oculi was a handbook of canon law and pastoral theology for parish priests. It was mainly derived from the Oculus sacerdotis by William of Paull (or Pagula), written in 1320–28, and was probably composed c. 1380–85, when for part of that time John de Burgh...

    £1750

  8. [SWEDENBORG, Emanuel.] 

    De nova Hierosolyma et ejus Doctrina Coelesti: ex Auditis e Coelo.  Quibus praemittitur aliquid de Novo...

    London, [John Lewis,] 1758. 

    First edition of Swedenborg’s ‘New Jerusalem’, in which he describes a new church based on faith, charity, and the unification of existing protestant churches. 

    £975

  9. HOMER; Alexander POPE, translator

    The Odyssey of Homer.  Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq.  To which is added, The...

    London, Baynes & Son (and others) [upper cover: ‘Printed for The Proprietors of the English Classics, by J. F. Dove, St. John’s Square’],...

    Pocket-sized edition of Pope’s translations of the Odyssey and the Batrachomyomachia, with a fine frontispiece and additional title engraved by Charles Rolls; a very well-preserved copy in the original printed boards. 

    £125

  10. [HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR.]

    Royal order in French authorising payment to various officials engaged in raising a levy (‘aide’) at...

    Paris, 30 March 1415.

    A royal order to pay officials involved in raising a levy at Avranches, issued a few months before the battle of Agincourt.

    £1750

  11. MISSAL,

    in Latin, with readings for the first Sunday in Advent.

    Southern Netherlands or northern France (Arras?), c. 1425.

    A remnant of what must have been an exceptionally grand missal, with illumination of considerable finesse. We have been unable to trace any other leaves from the same manuscript.

    £3250

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. BARCLAY, David.

    Autograph letter, signed, to the Quaker banker and abolitionist Charles Lloyd, of Birmingham, on raising money...

    Walthamstow, 24 June 1807.

    A fine letter between two prominent Quaker bankers, philanthropists and abolitionists. The Parliamentary session of 1806–7 had been a crucial one for the campaigns of Wilberforce and Clarkson and saw the passing of the bill abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire on 25 March 1807, the last...

    £2750

  18. 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

  19. [MIRACLE STORIES.]

    Miracle stories of the Virgin, in Latin

    Germany, first half of 14th century.

    Two fragments containing rare fourteenth-century miracle stories.

    £2250