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EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.
Historia ecclesiastica.
Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, 15 May 1476.
The Syston Park copy of the earliest history of the Christian Church, written in the early fourth century; this is probably the third edition. It was translated into Latin in the early fifth century by Rufinus of Aquileia, who extended the text down to the time of Theodosius at the end of the...
£4500
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ALLIONI, Carlo.
Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii [– Florae Pedemontanae icones accedit...
Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.
First edition of the earliest Italian regional flora by the ‘Linnaeus of Piedmont’, here in the extremely rare hand-coloured state and extensively annotated by Giovanni Battista Balbis, the author’s pupil and successor at the Botanical Garden of the University of Turin.
£30000
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AUBERY, Jean-Henri.
D. Virgo Guarazonia. Scriptore reverendo patre, P. Ioanne Henrico Auberio Borbonio, religioso presbytero...
Auch, Arnaud de Sainct Bonnet, 1650.
A seemingly unrecorded (first?) edition of a remarkable neo-Latin poem on Our Lady of Garaison composed by the Jesuit priest Jean-Henri Aubery (1601–1652).
£1250
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BRAUN, Adolphe.
Untitled flower study (orchids).
c. 1870?
A stunning monumental flower study by Adolphe Braun (1811–1877). Born in Besançon, Braun’s first career was a designer of textiles, and his first exercises in flower photography in the late 1840s and early 1850s were intended as compositional aids. His album of Fleurs photographiées...
£1200
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BRAUN, Adolphe.
Untitled flower study (camellia).
c. 1870?
An exquisite monumental flower study by Adolphe Braun (1811–1877). Born in Besançon, Braun’s first career was a designer of textiles, and his first exercises in flower photography in the late 1840s and early 1850s were intended as compositional aids. His album of Fleurs photographiées...
£1200
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BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).
Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans...
London, Henry Colburn, 1829.
First edition, in one volume, recounting Johann Ludwig Burckhardt’s journey to Mecca on behalf of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa in 1814.
£3750
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[BIBLE.]
The Holy Bible. The Old Testament (& New Testament), embellished with Engravings, from Pictures and Designs by the Most...
London, Printed for Thomas Macklin, by Thomas Bensley, 1800.
A wonderful set, in an extremely attractive contemporary binding by Staggemeier and Welcher, of this monumental feat of British printing, the grandest and most ambitious of all English Bibles.
£9500
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BURTON, Richard Francis, and James MACQUEEN.
The Nile Basin. Part I. Showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy’s western lake reservoir....
By James M’Queen … London, Tinsley Brothers, 1864.
First edition, complete with the three maps. This work, ‘which absolutely exudes venom, was the heart of Burton’s frontal attack on [John Hanning] Speke’s geographical theories. Burton dedicated it, with a marked degree of sarcasm, to “those kind friends, especially to those members of...
£2500
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[CARTOUCHE.]
The Life and Actions of Lewis Dominique Cartouche: who was broke alive upon the Wheel at Paris, Nov. 28. 1721. N.S....
London, Printed for J. Roberts … 1722.
First edition in English, published in the same year as the French original.
£1750
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CAESAR, Gaius Julius.
C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime cum libris editis & MSS optimis collata, recognita & correcta....
London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.
First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s Caesar edited by Samuel Clarke (1675–1729), ‘the most sumptuous classical work which this country has produced’ (Dibdin).
£9500
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COLONNA, Fabio.
Φυτοβασανος, sive Plantarum aliquot historia …
Naples, Orazio Salviani, 1592.
First edition, a landmark in botanical illustration, ‘the first strictly botanical book with intaglio prints’ (Blunt).
£4000
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[ENGELBRECHT, Martin.]
[Vier Jahreszeiten. Serie 89.]
[Augsburg, Martin Engelbrecht, c. 1750.]
An attractive hand-coloured engraved peepshow showing the four seasons, with summer in the foreground retreating into winter behind, lined with printed waste from an illustrated Dutch religious broadside.
£1750
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FATHERS LEGACY (The):
or Counsels to his children. In three Parts. Containing the Whole Duty of Man, I. To God. II. To himself....
London, Printed for Henry Brome … 1678.
First and only edition, very scarce, of a fine courtesy book written by an anonymous former soldier, this copy owned by the wife of the English Ambassador to France.
£1850
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FERNÁNDEZ, Jerónimo.
The famous and delectable History of Don Bellianis of Greece, or, the Honour of Chivalry. Containing his...
London, Francis Kirkman, 1673, 1671, 1672.
First complete edition of Francis Kirkman’s version of the chivalric romance of Belianis of Greece, a continuation of Amadis de Gaul first published in Spanish in 1547. A partial English translation had appeared in 1598, and Kirkman had earlier published editions of parts I (1650) and...
£3750
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FLORI, Lodovico.
Trattato del modo di tenere il libro doppio domestico col suo esemplare … Per uso delle case, e collegii della...
Rome, Lazzari Varese, 1677.
Rare sole reissue of the even rarer first edition (Palermo, 1636) of ‘the highest expression of early bookkeeping. One has to reach the nineteenth century to find another author of Flori’s calibre’ (Peragallo).
£2250
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FORBES, James David.
Travels through the Alps … New edition revised and annotated by W.A.B. Coolidge … With portrait, new...
London, Adam and Charles Black, 1900.
A handsome edition of four of Forbes’s chief writings relating to his Alpine travels, from the library of Guido Rey (1861–1935), the distinguished Italian Alpinist, writer and photographer.
£450
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GAZA, Theodorus.
Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius Dyscolus: De constructione; Herodianus: De numeris.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25 December 1495.]
A beautiful example of early Greek printing, containing the editio princeps of the grammar of Theodorus Gaza, and one of the first texts to be printed entirely in Greek.
£45000
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HANWAY, Jonas.
An historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea, with a journal of travels from London through Russia...
London, Dodsley, Nourse, Millar, Vaillant, & Patterson, Waugh, and Willock, 1753.
First edition of Hanway’s narrative of his trade mission to Russia, Persia, and the Caspian Sea, with a contemporary bookplate bearing the names of the prominent Devon merchant and ship-owner Arthur Holdsworth and his wife.
£1400
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[HERALDRY.]
Manuscripts relating to Low Countries nobility.
[Low Countries, mid-seventeenth century?]
A fine set of manuscripts relating to Low Countries heraldry and history compiled by a learned local antiquary.
£1750
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HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.
[Missal for feast days.]
Madrid, 1827.
An extraordinary and enormous liturgical manuscript with painted and stencilled decorations, in a remarkable binding on wheels for ease of movement
£9500