PEPE, Stefano.

[Half-title: ‘Il Cappuccino d’Este...

[Italy, second half of the seventeenth...

A seemingly unpublished life of Alfonso...

£1250

PLINY the Younger.

In hoc volumine continentur. C. Plinii...

[(Colophon:) Venice, Giovanni and Bernardino...

A presentation copy from the Portuguese...

£1750

[RIVERS, David].

Literary Memoirs of living Authors of Great...

London, R. Faulder, T. Egerton, and...

First edition of a literary ‘Who’s...

£1200

[WEST, Jane.]

The Refusal …

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810.

First edition. Though better known for...

£1200

[CAROLS.]

Noels et cantiques nouveaux, où l’on...

Metz, Jean Antoine, 1732.

Very rare collection of carols and canticles...

£575

PAULUS DE SANCTA MARIA.

Scrutinium scripturarum.

[Strasbourg, Johann Mentelin, c. 1474.]

Third edition of this treatise of Christian...

£10000

[CHAPBOOK.]

My Father. In Imitation of Cowper’s Mary....

London, John Arliss, late Arliss and Huntsman,...

Sole edition of this very rare (unique?)...

£600

[THOMAS à Kempis.]

Ioanni Gerson vulgare devota operetta della...

Florence, Antonio Miscomini, 22 July 1493.

Uncommon editions of two classic Latin...

£5750

NATALI, Pietro de’; Antonio VERLO, editor.

Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum.

Vicenza, Henricus de Sancto Ursio, Zenus,...

First edition of a comprehensive encyclopaedia...

£6250

WILLIAMSON, Thomas; Samuel HOWITT, illustrator.

Oriental Field Sports; being a complete,...

London, J. McCreery for H. R. Young, 1819.

Second quarto edition, one of the most...

£3250

BEBEL, Heinrich.

In hoc libro contine[n]tur haec Bebeliana...

Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, 1508.

First edition of a compendium of works...

£3500

[BREVIARY, Use of Passau.]

Breviarium s[ecundu]m chorum alme Ecclesie...

[(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein...

A rare Passau breviary with numerous woodcut...

£4500

CASTELLESI, Adriano.

Hadriani cardinalis de vera philosophia...

Cologne, Melchior von Neuss, 1540.

A fine sammelband of theological works,...

£1750

CUJAS, Jacques.

Iacobi Cuiacii celeberrimi I. C. recitationes...

Speyer, Bernhard Albin, 1594.

First edition of these commentaries on...

£750

DIOMEDES; Aelius DONATUS; Johann CAESARIUS, editor.

Grammatici opus, ab Iohanne Caesario, ita...

Hagenau, Johann Setzer, 1526.

A sammelband of four early sixteenth-century...

£1250

FERRER, Vincent, Saint.

Sermones … de tempore pars hiemalis [– de...

Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus...

A substantial volume of sermons by the...

£4500

[WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY.]

Javanese bride and bridegroom with members...

Indonesia, late 1860s.

A portrait of a ‘wedding couple’ in...

£750

HOFFMEISTER, Johann.

Loci communes rerum theologicarum, quae...

[(Colophon:) Ingolstadt, Alexander Weissenhorn,...

First edition. In the dedication to the...

£500

LANDSBERG, Johannes Justus.

Iohannis Iusti Lanspergii Bavari Carthusiani...

Cologne, Melchior von Neuss, 1548.

Later edition (first 1539) of paraphrases,...

£950

MAILLARD, Olivier.

Sermones de sanctis reverendi patris fratris...

Cologne, Cornelius von Zierickzee, 30...

Very rare edition of a collection of sermons...

£1500