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CALLINI, Bartolommeo.
Arrolandosi sotto le insegne di Gesù Cristo col prender l’acqua del santo battesimo nell’insigne cattedrale...
Vicenza, Tipografia Paroni, 1802.
A seemingly unrecorded sonnet celebrating the conversion from Judaism to Catholicism of one Marco Mortera of Vicenza, written by his catechist, the Olivetan monk and lecturer in theology Bartolommeo Callini.
£350
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CYPRIAN.
D. Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginiensis, martyris Christi opera, quotquot perquirentibus reperire Dei munere concessum...
Paris, Guillaume Des Bois, 1564.
An attractive edition of the works of Cyprian (and indeed Pseudo-Cyprian) edited by the Parisian printer and scholar Guillaume Morel (d. 1564), with interesting marginalia.
£975
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[DODSLEY, Robert, et al.]
The Oeconomy of Human Life, in two parts, translated from an Indian manuscript, written by a Chinese...
Newport, J. Mallett, 1783.
Rare printing, undertaken in Newport on the Isle of Wight by James Mallett. Only nine publications are listed in ESTC as Mallett, Newport: mostly occasional endeavours, undertaken in 1767, 1770, 1782, 1783 (two publications, including ours), 1784, and 1789 (three publications), and almost all...
£450
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GUILLON, Pierre.
Danti voci suae vocem virtutis. Quaestio theologica … Has theses … ac praeside, S.M.N.D.D. Ludovico Bellayer,...
Poitiers, Jean-Felix Faulcon, [1770].
An apparently unrecorded broadside giving the text of theological theses defended by Pierre Guillon of Poitiers for entry into minor orders.
£275
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GIACOMO da Milano.
Stimulus divini amoris Sancti Bonaventurae.
Venice, Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio, April 1535.
Rare edition of the Stimulus divini amoris, a popular medieval devotional treatise long attributed to St Bonaventure but in fact composed by the thirteenth-century Franciscan Giacomo da Milano.
£550
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LEE, Laurie.
Cider with Rosie … with drawings by John Ward.
London, Hogarth Press, 1959.
First edition, second impression, the author’s copy with his pencil marks for public readings and loosely inserted correspondence including praise from Leonard Woolf.
£1000
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[MACDONNEL, David Evans.]
A Dictionary of Quotations, in most frequent use. Taken from the Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, and Italian...
London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797.
First edition, rare, of the first English dictionary of quotations, drawn principally from Latin authors, with some quotations from living languages (mainly French) and some phrases from the law.
£650
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[BIBLE.]
Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. iussu recognita atque edita.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus ‘ex officina Plantiniana’, 1599.
Plantin edition of the Clementine Vulgate, bound in four volumes and interleaved for scholarly annotations.
£1250