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.

£7500

MEFFRET, Johann.

Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine de tempore. Pars hyemalis.

[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

A volume of sermons with early English annotations, in a binding featuring tools attributed to an early Cambridge workshop known as the Unicorn Binder.

£6500

[BIBLE.]

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments … diligently compared and revised …

Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.

First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’ Bible, as revised by Benjamin Blayney of Hertford College, Oxford (1728–1801), later Regius Professor of Hebrew. The quarto and folio editions of 1769, of which this was the first to be finished, were printed from the same setting of type differently...

£5250

PRIOR, Matthew.

Poems on several Occasions.

London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John Barber, 1718.

First edition, a subscriber’s copy on large paper, of one of the most imposing volumes of verse of the eighteenth century, with endleaves on the same paper stock as the text, our copy in a strictly contemporary binding and presented to the Scottish poet and songwriter Lady Grisell (or Grizel) Baillie...

£5000

[PRIMER.]

Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m] collectae & Regia authoritate approbatae …

London, William Seres, 1568.

Second edition of this rare ‘private’ prayer book, first printed in 1564, with a calendar, a Latin catechism for children, selected psalms, and a Latin–English list of English islands, counties, cathedral cities, bishoprics, rivers, and ports.

£4250

SAUBERT, Johann.

Miracula Augustanae Confessionis, [engraved title: das ist] Wunderwerck der Augspurgischen Confession, oder eigentlicher...

[Nuremberg,] Wolffgang Endter, 1631.

First editions of three works of Lutheran polemic, the first two on the Augsburg Confession and written by the theologian, historian, and proto-bibliographer Johann Saubert, in a magnificent contemporary German Baroque binding apparently signed by the binder. 

£2850

[ALMANACK.]

Les étrennes à la rose, ou le rosier d’amour.

Paris, Janet, [1804?].

A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush of love’, collecting amatory poems using the motif of the rose, here bound in red silk strikingly embroidered in silver and dated with the French Revolutionary year ‘An XII’ (1804).

£2500

[ALMANACK.]

Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, avec plusieurs augmentations & corrections, pour l’année mil sept...

Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand] and Pierre-François Durand, 1775.

A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775, our copy in a handsome binding embroidered in gold and silver threads and with emblematic mottoes and charming illustrations depicting putti fanning smoke from a burning candle and holding a flaming heart.

£1500

[ALMANACK.]

Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances pardonables. Almanach orné des jolies gravures.

Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du S^r Jubert’, 1800.

A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1800, issued by the prolific publisher of almanacks Pierre-Étienne Janet (1746–1830), with suggestive engravings accompanied by explanatory poems, songs, and music, our copy in a handsome binding of contemporary painted white sheep with designs of hearts, garlands,...

£1450

[SHANGHAI.]

Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of fifty Vandyke Gravure Prints of “the Model Settlement”. Introduction by...

Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly and Walsh, 1930.

Third edition, revised and enlarged (first 1927 with only thirty-eight plates), of this photobook showing the landmarks of Shanghai, our copy in a deluxe binding (likely for presentation) and with contemporary Shanghai provenance.

£1250

[BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church,...

Third and final edition of Baskerville’s octavo prayer book. The prayers for the Royal Family on cancels B8, C6, and D3 include the name of Queen Charlotte, whom George III married in 1761. This copy also includes the ‘occasional prayers’ which were only printed for part of the edition and are...

£1200

[PSALMS.]

Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti, a M. Antonio Flaminio & P. Francisco Spinula pietis elegantissimis, Latinis...

Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen for Joannes Steelsius], 1559.

A collection of verse paraphrases of the Psalms, by the poets and humanist scholars Marcantonio Flaminio (1498–1550) and Publio Francesco Spinola (c. 1520–1567), bound for Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553–1617).

£975

[PSALMS.]

Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François, revus et approuvez par le Synode Walon des Provinces-Unies. Nouvelle Edition.

Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise Françoise de Londres’, 1729’.

New edition of the metrical Psalms of the Pléiade poet Clément Marot and the theologian Théodore de Bèze, extensively revised, with a new version of 149 Psalms, printed for the use of Huguenot émigrés.

£950

[WALLET.]

Wallet with manuscript and printed waste.

France, c. 1790.

An attractive late eighteenth-century wallet in the guise of a wallet-bound book, possibly re-using an earlier eighteenth-century binding, the interior compartments composed of manuscript and printed waste.

£950

[ALMANACK.]

London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.

[London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers, [1785].

A very attractive miniature London Almanack in its elaborate original binding of gilt white calf and matching étui, with an engraving of the soon-to-be-finished Somerset House.

£950

NIXON, Howard M. 

Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs of Bookbindings from the twelfth to the twentieth Century … with an...

London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne Library, 1956. 

First edition, one of three hundred copies, of Howard Nixon’s richly illustrated catalogue of the bindings in the library of Albert Ehrman.

£875

CUJAS, Jacques.

Iacobi Cuiacii celeberrimi I. C. recitationes in II. et IV. libros Decretalium. Nunc primum in lucem editae.

Speyer, Bernhard Albin, 1594.

First edition of these commentaries on the Decretals of Gregory IX by the famous French jurist Jacques Cujas (1522–1590), printed in Speyer and bound in doeskin.

£750

PITOU, Louis-Ange.

L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou le fond de ma conscience, sur les causes et les effets des vingt-un...

Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August 1815.

First and only surviving edition of this account of executed royals from England and France by the royalist publisher and propagandist Louis-Ange Pitou (1767–1846), published on the return of Louis XVIII to Paris after the Hundred Days.

£650

[EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace de Notre Seigneur M. DCC. LIII. …

Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

A charming almanack for 1753 printed in Liège by Everard Kints – bookseller, printer, and wine merchant – here in a delightful embroidered binding with raised work in silver thread surrounding a skilfully executed floral arrangement.

£400

[CRIMEAN WAR.]

Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient. Récompenses annuelles.

Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

First and only edition, rare, of this unusual cartonnage giftbook history of the Crimean War.

£375