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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
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[DENS, Pierre, editor.]
Tractatus selecti de sponsalibus et matrimonio. Duae partes.
Louvain, Louis Joseph Urban, 1775.
Uncommon first edition of this interesting work on the legal aspects of betrothal and marriage, in a handsome contemporary binding.
£800
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BROWNE, Thomas.
Religio Medici, Urn Burial, Christian Morals, and other Essays.
[Printed by the Ballantyne Press, and sold by Hacon and Ricketts, The Vale Press, London, and John Lane, New York, 1902].
First edition thus, limited to 310 unnumbered copies plus 10 on vellum (the limitation not here stated).
£2000
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von; Thomas HOLCROFT, translator.
Herman and Dorothea. A Poem, from the German …
London, Biggs and Cottle (Bristol), for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1801.
First edition in English of Hermann und Dorothea (1798), translated into verse by the radical, novelist, and friend of Godwin, Thomas Holcroft. Goethe’s epic, set against the background of the French Revolutionary Wars, was immensely popular in its day; Goethe praised Holcroft’s rendition...
£350
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ARMINESI, Rocco degli.
Attila flagelum Dei, tradotto dalla vera cronica per Rocco degli Arminesi padovano. Ove si narra come detto...
Venice, Omobon Bettanino, [mid-eighteenth century].
Very rare eighteenth-century edition of a popular and best-selling poem on Attila the Hun.
£600