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QUR’AN,
signed Ghaybi bin ‘Umar, Edirne.
Ottoman Turkey, dated the end of Muharram AH 822 (February AD 1419).
An important early Ottoman Qur’an manuscript, copied in the period (from 1363 to 1453) when the capital of the Ottoman Empire was based at Edirne (Adrianople) in Eastern Thrace. Very few Qur’ans are attributed to this centre but the quality of this manuscript, still evident despite some damage...
£65000
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RAIMONDI, Eugenio.
Delle caccie … libri Quattro, aggiuntovi’n questa nuova ’mpressione il quinto libro della villa.
[Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]
Second edition, expanded and extended, with a new series of striking hunting plates. The series of plates (attributable to Nicolas Perrey, who signs the title), showing composite scenes of hunters pursuing animals from birds and fish to lions and elephants, is wholly new, replacing the woodcut...
£2500
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RITTERSHAUSEN, Nicolaus; William RADCLYFFE, annotator.
Genealogiae imperatorum, regum, ducum, comitum, praecipuorumque aliorum...
Tübingen, Johann Heinrich Reis for Johann Georg Cotta, 1664.
Third, expanded edition (first published 1658) of this rare and extensive work on the genealogies of the ruling and noble houses of Christendom, this copy owned and painstakingly augmented c. 1800 by the herald and alleged imposter William Radclyffe, whose controversial pedigree – which...
£3250
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‘WOODLAND SKETCHES.
With poetical Selections …
Frome. 1836’.
A delightful illustrated manuscript commonplace of uncommonly coherent design, assembling relevant quotations from Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Cowper, Spenser, Coleridge, and others, alongside illustrations of ten British trees – Beech, Willow, White Poplar, Cedar, Elm, Pine, Oak, Birch, Yew,...
£1250
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THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor.
Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].
Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September 1490.
First collected edition of seventy-one shorter works by Thomas Aquinas.
£3750
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THOMAS CANTIPRATENSIS.
Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.
[Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, c. 1478–1480.]
Second edition of this manual of moral theology structured around the behaviour of bees, composed in the 1260s. It was a popular work, surviving in over a hundred manuscripts.
£6000
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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius.
De civitate Dei.
Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 2 October 1475.
A tall copy with some deckle edges of the only Jenson edition of the City of God, Augustine’s influential treatise written in the wake of the Sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410. Augustine sought to justify why a Christian state, with the support of God, could be defeated in this way;...
£24000
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[BRITISH MOSSES.]
Two volumes of window-mounted moss samples, with manuscript captions.
[England, 1860s.]
A charming nineteenth-century herbarium comprising 560 moss specimens.
£850
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PITTER, Přemysl.
Domovu i exilu [Home and Exile].
London, Čechoslovák-FCI, [1956].
First editions, association copies, of a series of radio transcripts by the humanitarian Protestant lay preacher and educator Přemysl Pitter (1895–1976), often described as the ‘forgotten Czech Schindler’, owned by the Czech-Jewish poet, novelist, and Holocaust survivor H.G. Adler.
£850
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BUXTORF, Johannes.
Epitome grammaticae Hebraeae, breviter & methodice ad publicum Scholarum usum proposita. Adjecta succincta de...
London, Roger Daniel, 1653.
Second edition (first Cambridge, 1646) of Buxtorf’s Hebrew grammar to be printed in England, here preserving a fragment of a sixteenth-century English-French grammar as endpapers and with a student’s manuscript Hebrew transliterations.
£650
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
De Officiis … libri tres, ex editione Oliveti Parisiis vulgata.
London, T. Payne, 1791.
First Payne edition, edited by Henry Homer (1753–1791). A friend of the writer and schoolmaster Samuel Parr since his days at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Homer produced editions of Livy, Tacitus, Sallust, Pliny the Younger, and others.
£450
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GOODWIN, Thomas.
Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English exposition of the Roman Antiquities, wherein many Roman & English...
Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps, 1638.
Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks on antiquities, often found bound together – a compendium of Roman antiquities and a study of the customs and religious rites of the ancient Jews, originally published in 1614 and 1625 respectively – by the headmaster and scholar Thomas Goodwin (1587–1642)....
£1600
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[PALOSCHI, Carmela, ed.]
STAMPA ALTERNATIVA. Manuale di autocura.
London, Lewis Mc Cann, 1974.
First edition of a handbook on women’s self health and sexuality distributed in Italy by the countercultural publisher ‘Stampa Alternativa’, and modelled on the famous Circle One: self health handbook, published in the USA in 1973 by the Colorado Springs Women’s Health clinic.
£180
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[PSALMS; Basil WOODD, editor.]
The Psalms of David, and other Portions of the Sacred Scriptures, selected from various Authors,...
London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons, and Matthews, 1800.
A pocket-sized Psalm- and prayerbook with a hidden heraldic fore-edge painting for Horatio Walpole, later first Earl of Orford.
£2000
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LEVEY, Michael.
The later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen … second edition.
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Revised second edition of Levey’s catalogue of the later Italian paintings in the Royal Collection, from Carracci to Zuccarelli and including the largest group of Canalettos in the world, a specially bound duplicate of Elizabeth II’s presentation copy.
£475
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OVID; [Philipp GUNDEL, editor].
Fastorum libri sex diligentissime recogniti. Addito calendario Romano venerandae vetustatis,...
[(Colophon:) Vienna, Hieronymus Vietor and Johann Singriener for Leonhard Alantsee, 3 October 1513.]
First and only editions, very rare, of two post-incunable Ovid recensions by Philipp Gundel, curiously bound in a strikingly archaic likely eighteenth-century binding.
£3500
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DEUBER, A. X.
Poetische Versuche.
Bamberg, [cover: ‘im Komptoir der Zeitung’,] 1804.
First and only edition, very rare, preserving the original binding of printed and gilt pink silk.
£650
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MASSARI, Francesco.
In nonum Plinii de naturali historia librum castigationes & annotationes.
Basel, [Hieronymus] Froben [and Nikolaus Bischof], [March] 1537.
First edition of Massari’s commentary on the ninth book of Pliny’s Natural History, on fish and marine life, bound for – and quite possibly by – Flavio Floriani using printed waste from his own library.
£1250
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NEVILL, Ralph; Geoffrey HOLME, editor.
Old English Sporting Prints and their History.
London, Herbert Reiach for the Studio Ltd, 1923.
Limited edition, numbered 576 of 1500 copies. A fine collection of prints by the great sporting artists of England, from Henry Alken and Thomas Rowlandson to Francesco Bartolozzi, accompanied by an essay by Ralph Nevill (1865 – 1930).
£165
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ZACHARIÄ, Just Friedrich Wilhelm.
Les quatre parties du jour, poëme traduit de l’allemand de M. Zacharie.
Paris, J. B. G. Musier fils, 1769.
First edition in French of this proto-Romantic poem on the times of day, splendidly bound with the arms of its dedicatee, the mentally ill Christian VII of Denmark and Norway.
£1500