GODEAU, Antoine, Bishop of Grasse.

Paraphrase sur l’epistre [– les epistres] de Saint Paul aux Romains [– aux Corinthiens;...

Paris, widow Jean Camusat [Denise de Courbes], 1641 [– 1640].

Six Biblical paraphrases by Bishop Godeau, each rare in its own right, together forming a complete paraphrase of the Epistles, printed by the recently widowed Denise de Courbes with attractive engraved titles and handsomely bound in red morocco.

£2850

[GAVARD, Franz.]

‘Ritratto di Francesco Gavard Tedesco, figlio del quondam Claudio Gavard, di anni 45. Morto in Ro.ma nel Ospedale...

Rome, ‘si stampeno [sic] incontro il Palazzo di Fiorenza’, [1787].

Seemingly unrecorded popular engraving depicting Franz Gavard of Wurzburg lying in state, a pious man who moved to Rome and whose body was displayed for three days after his death.

£350

[CLASSICS.]

A group of eleven editions in twenty-one volumes from Brindley’s series of Latin classics.

London, J. Brindley, 1744–1754.

An attractive set of twenty-one volumes from Brindley’s series of Latin classics, handsomely bound and with resplendent gilt brocade endpapers signed by the well-known Augsburg papermaker Johann Michael Munck (fl. 1730–1760).

£2500

[BREVIARY, Use of Passau.]

Breviarium s[ecundu]m chorum alme Ecclesie Pataviensis.

[(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein for Vienna, Lukas and Leonhard Alantsee, 25 May 1515.]

A rare Passau breviary with numerous woodcut illustrations in a contemporary Austrian binding, printed in Venice for the Austrian market.

£4500

CLÜVER, Philipp.

Introductio in universam geographiam tam veterem, quam novam …

Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck for Conrad Buno, 1686.

The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important geographical textbook of the early modern period, an introduction to global geography by the German antiquarian and geographical pioneer Philipp Clüver, enlarged and supplemented by the German geographer Johann Buno.

£1750

[BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT and APOCRYPHA, Greek; Johann LONITZER, editor.]

Της θειας γραφης παλαιας...

Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1526.

The first edition of the Old Testament in Greek to be printed in Germany, and the first aimed at a Protestant readership, with the Apocrypha separated along the lines of Luther’s German translation.

£8500

WOODCROFT, Bennet, editor; [J. G. GREENWOOD, translator].

The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria. From the original Greek.

London, Charles Whittingham, 1851.

First edition of this English translation of the Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria, this copy signed by the editor, the engineer, inventor, and pioneering patent administrator Bennet Woodcroft.

£300

WILLAN, Leonard.

The exact Politician, or, compleat Statesman: briefly and methodically resolved into such Principles, whereby...

London, Dorman Newman, 1670.

First edition, second issue, employing the sheets of the first edition (The perfect States-man, 1668, printed for the author) with a new cancel title-page, containing one of the earliest assertions that private interests serve the public good.

£850

TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1894.

An exceptionally attractive turn-of-the-century binding, with floral and foliate tooling in gilt and blind, later in the library of Alan Titchmarsh.

£675

[STATIONS OF THE CROSS.]

Exercice du Via Crucis, avec les pratiques de cette dévotion.

Caen, Nicolas-Gilles Dedouit, [c. 1825].

Very rare manual for devotees of the Stations of the Cross, printed at Caen in Normandy, illustrated with woodcuts in naive style for each of the Stations.

£350

MICHAELIS, Johann David.

Grammatica syriaca.

[(Colophon:) Göttingen, Friedrich Andreas Rosenbusch for] Halle, the Orphanage, 1784.

First edition of a notable Syriac grammar by one of the most learned oriental scholars of the German Enlightenment, Johann David Michaelis.

£350

LAWRENCE, D[avid] H[erbert].

Pansies.

London, P. R. Stephensen, 1929.

No. 91 of 500 signed copies of this privately printed edition, issued as a protest against the censorship of the first edition published by Secker.

£600

JUSTEL, Christofle.

Codex canonum ecclesiae Africanae. Christophorus Iustellus ex MSS codicibus edidit, Graecam versionem adiunxit,...

Paris, Abraham Pacard, 1615.

Second edition (first 1614) of this dual language collection of canons of the early African Church edited by the ecclesiastical historian Christofle Justel (1580–1649), this copy presented by him to the legal scholar Laurent Bouchel (1559–1629).

£950

[JOUY, Étienne de; Pierre-François GODARD.]

[Jeux de cartes instructives. Histoire d’Angleterre.]

N.p., n.d. [France, c. 1800–1815].

A rare early nineteenth-century French set of ‘instructive playing cards’ for teaching children about the kings and queens of England.

£475

[HYMNAL.]

Den Swenska Psalm-Boken. Af Konungen gillad och stadfästad år 1819. Med utsatta Melodier.

Stockholm, Ludwig Öberg, 1830.

A seemingly unrecorded Swedish hymnbook, in a delightful gilt and painted panel-stamped betrothal binding and with a long chain of female provenance in central Sweden.

£1750

HEYLYN, Peter.

Cosmographie in four Books: containing the Chorographie and Historie of the whole World, and all the principal Kingdoms,...

London, Philip Chetwind, 1666 [i.e. 1667].

Third edition of Peter Heylyn’s Cosmographie, one of the most ambitious English geographical surveys of the seventeenth century.  The final appendix discusses ‘Terra Australia Incognita, or the Southern Continent’ and various voyages across Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands,...

£2000

GRIFFONI, Angelo.

Per le nozze faustissime dei nobili signori conte Vincenzo Marazzi e Contessa Vittoria Serbelloni sonetto.

Crema, Antonio Ronna, 1815.

A large provincially printed broadside on silk, seemingly unrecorded, celebrating the marriage of Vittoria Serbelloni to Vincenzo Marazzi.

£500

[FIVE SENSES.]

No. 80. De almagtige opperheer schonk aan zyn beeld vyf zinnen, gelukkig die hier niets dan in Gods vrees beginnen.

Amsterdam, heirs of the widow of Jacobus van Egmont, [c. 1800].

Very rare popular print depicting the five senses, issued by the heirs of the Amsterdam printer Marretje Valintgoet.

£550

CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.

De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni. Editio prioribus correctior.

Toulouse, Pierre Robert, [1714–1760].

A rare Toulouse printing of a rhetorical and moralising history of Alexander the Great.

£275

[BOUREAU-DESLANDES, André-François.]

Pigmalion, ou la statue animée.

‘A Londres, chez Samuel Harding’, 1741.

A very interesting sammelband of scarce works encompassing materialism clothed as myth, astronomy, and Parisian polite society.

£1250