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  1. [BIBLE.]

    The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New, newly translated out of the originall Tongues and with the former...

    [Cambridge,] Printed by Roger Daniel, Printer to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1648.

    A seemingly unrecorded Cambridge-printed Bible with metrical Psalms in an elaborate English binding of gilt green vellum with morocco onlays and highly unusual gilt and gauffered edges painted with flowers, birds, and animals.

    £3750

  2. SHAKESPEARE, William; Richard Grant WHITE, editor.

    The Works of William Shakespeare. The Plays edited from the Folio of...

    Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1893.

    An attractive Boston-printed edition of the complete works of Shakespeare, edited by the prominent American Shakespearean scholar Richard Grant White (1922–1885).

    £500

  3. [IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, Saint; Juan Alfonso de POLANCO.]

    Regulae Societatis Iesu.

    Rome, in collegio Rom. eiusde[m] Societat., 1607.

    Later editions of two fundamental Jesuit texts, the famous Rules of the Order, and the influential Ratio studiorum detailing the system of Jesuit education.

    £750

  4. ESTIENNE, Charles.

    De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio excerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adulesce[n]tuloru[m]...

    Paris, Robert Estienne, 1536.

    A wonderful sammelband of four children’s books compiled and published by the Estiennes, covering Roman dress and vases as well as plants and trees, bound with Antonio Telesio’s celebrated treatise on colours.

    £2250

  5. FAULKNER, William.

    Absalom, Absalom!

    New York, Random House, 1936.

    First edition, the special limited issue, no. 159 of 300 copies signed by Faulkner.

    £4500

  6. FAULKNER, William.

    Requiem for a Nun.

    New York, Random House, 1951.

    Limited edition, no. 248 of 750 copies signed by Faulkner. His first publication after winning the Nobel Prize, Requiem for a Nun employs a partly dramatic form to take up the story of Temple Drake from his earlier novel Sanctuary.

    £1000

  7. FAULKNER, William.

    A Fable.

    [New York,] Random House, [1954].

    Limited edition, no. 880 of 1000 copies signed by Faulkner. A late, overtly political novel set in the French trenches during the First World War, A Fable was the first novel to win both the Pulitzer and National Book Award. Faulkner thought it his greatest work. 

    £1500

  8. [BIBLE.]

    [The Holy Bible …]

    [London, Robert Barker and the Assigns of John Bill, 1638.]

    An attractive velvet binding with English engraved silver decorative furniture – the most luxurious of English bindings in this period, often the preserve of royal libraries. The engraved silver clasps and bosses, which served a dual function in helping to preserve the surface of the velvet,...

    £3500

  9. [BIBLE.]

    Erläuterte Bibel mit Fragen, das ist, die ganze Heilige Schrift, Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der teutschen Ubersetzung...

    Altdorf, Joh. Adam Hessel for Ernst Friderich Zobel, 1751.

    A German Bible with extensive apparatus, divided into five volumes and strikingly bound in a book-shaped pull-off case.

    £2750

  10. FRANKLIN, Benjamin.

    Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin, écrits par lui-même, et adressés à son fils; suivis d’un...

    Paris, chez Buisson, 1791.

    First edition, the first appearance of any portion of Franklin’s autobiography in print.

    £3000

  11. GADESBY, Richard.

    A new and easy Introduction to Geography, by Way of Question and Answer, divided into Lessons. Principally designed...

    London, for the Author, and sold by S. Bladon, 1783.

    Second edition, very rare, published following the success of the first edition (1776) and its use ‘in many principal boarding schools, particularly those for young ladies’. Gadesby, ‘private teacher of writing, accounts, geography, &c.’, laments the neglect of geography, a very necessary...

    £550

  12. [MARY I.] VISDOMINI, Francesco.

    Oratione funebre fatta in Napoli nell’hon. essequie della serenissima regina d’Ingliterra...

    [Naples, Raimondo Amato, 1559.]

    First edition, extremely rare, of this Italian sermon on the death of Mary I of England. Our copy appears to be an unrecorded issue, omitting from the title-page the imprint recorded by EDIT16 (‘se vendeno ala porta piccola de s. Laurentio appresso à Raymondo Amato’).

    £1800

  13. MOUSSON, Pierre.

    Tragoediae seu diversarum gentium et imperiorum magni principes. Dati in theatrum collegii regii Henrici magni ...

    La Flèche, George Griveau, 1621.

    First edition, provincially-printed, of four Neo-Latin tragedies by the French Jesuit professor and playwright Pierre Mousson (c. 1560–1637) inspired by four great figures from the classical world.

    £725

  14. BACON, Francis.

    Historia vitae et mortis.

    Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1663.

    Pocket-sized Amsterdam editions of three works by Francis Bacon (1561–1626), uncut and unopened and bound, exceptionally, in the original drab boards.

    £975

  15. [BIBLE.]

    Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis … [with:] Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum, vulgatae editionis, Sixti V pont. max. jussu...

    Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1741/1740.

    An attractively bound copy of the Old and New Testament in the Vulgate version, issued by the noted Parisian printer Jacques Vincent (1671–1760).

    £975

  16. BORBONI, Domenico.

    Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi architecti, et pictoris Bononiensis.

    [Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano Veneto’, [c. 1670?].

    Only known edition of this very rare collection of superb architectural plates by the Bolognese architect and painter Domenico Borboni, published by Giovanni Antonio Remondini, our copy used as a draughtsman’s pattern book.

    £3750

  17. GELLIUS, Aulus.

    Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes Atticae.

    Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

    Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous Attic Nights, issued the year before Gryphius’ death.

    £650

  18. HARRIS, James.

    Three Treatises the first concerning Art the second concerning music painting and poetry the third concerning happiness...

    London, John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765.

    Presentation copies, inscribed ‘From the Author’, of the revised second editions of these two works on art and language by the philosopher and latterly politician James Harris.

    £600

  19. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

    Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium ab Justino redactae. Externorum imperatorum...

    Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani soceri’, January 1522.

    First Aldine edition of Justinus’ abridgement of the lost Historiae Philippicae of Pompeius Trogus, and of Nepos’ De viris illustribus, with a decorated initial to the opening of the text, likely executed in the early nineteenth century when the work was bound in Rome.

    £1850

  20. KECHT, Johann Sigismund.

    Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten und vorzüglich auf Weinbergen … dritte, vermehrte, und...

    Berlin, [Trowitzsch and Son for] the author, 1823.

    Third, expanded edition (first 1813) of J.S. Kecht’s influential treatise describing his innovative methods of pruning grapevines to maximise harvest, first developed in his garden in Berlin and later praised by Goethe.

    £450