VELLEIUS PATERCULUS.

Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus duobus. Ex editione Petri Burmanni fideliter expressa.

Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752.

First and only Foulis Press edition, unusually found here in a contemporary Scandinavian binding, evidence of the high esteem in which these products of the Glasgow enlightenment were held across Europe.

£425

STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.

Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit et accuravit Joannes...

London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin, J. Booker, Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, G. & W. B. Whittaker, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Browne,...

An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s printed boards, of the ‘Regent’s Classics’ pocket edition of Statius.

£120

SCOTT, Sir Walter.

The Lady of the Lake … with all his Introductions and Notes, various Readings, and the Editor’s Notes.

Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1851.

An attractive Scottish 'Mauchline ware' tartan binding. Mauchline ware bindings – the name comes from Smith’s boxware factory at Mauchline in Ayrshire – were made from thin wooden boards (often sycamore) decorated with tartan or pictorial designs, heavily varnished, and attached to the text block...

£750

[PRAYERS.] 

Récueil de plusieurs prieres.   

Vienna, ‘chez Georg Müllner libraire et relieur des livres’, [c. 1810].

Very rare and charming early nineteenth-century prayer book in an attractive binding by the Viennese ‘libraire et relieur’ Georg Müllner. 

£450

[COMMON PRAYER.]

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

London & Glasgow, Collins’ Clear-Type Press, [c. 1910].

A George V Common Prayer and hymnal, uniformly bound and unusually housed in a ‘handbag’ slipcase for the convenience of the fashion-conscious churchgoer.

£275

[COMMON PRAYER.] 

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

London, Millar Ritchie for J. Good and E. Harding, 1794. 

A splendid copy of the Good and Harding Book of Common Prayer, in a striking masonic binding by John Lovejoy. 

£1850

[GOSPELS.] Charles HURÉ, translator.

Le nouveau testament de notre-seigneur Jesus-Christ, nouvellement traduit en françois...

Paris, L. Roulland, 1712.

An attractive early Jansenist binding, with a sober shagreen exterior concealing gilt decoration within, on a copy of the Gospels extracted from Charles Huré’s French New Testament.

£950

ANDREWS, Mark.

The Science and Engineering of Water. An illustrated Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts on Hydraulics north of the...

Toronto, AE Publications, 2024.

An extensively illustrated catalogue of books, maps, and drawings on the science and engineering of water from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth, utilised by practitioners in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, the New World, and East Asia.

£85

[PLAYING CARDS.]

Complete Deck of 52 Playing Cards.

London, Bancks Brothers, successors to Hunt & Sons, c. 1849.

An extremely well-preserved complete deck of playing cards by Bancks Brothers.

£200

[SOPHOCLES.]

Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta ex recensione G. Dindorfii.

Oxford, University Press, 1832.

First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of the precocious Karl Wilhelm Dindorf (1802–1883), first published in Leipzig in 1825. This copy was a graduation present from Charles Old Goodford (1812–1884), assistant master (later Head Master and then provost) at Eton, to Arthur Hobhouse (1818–1904),...

£200

PLINY the Younger. 

Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae supersunt; omnia. Ad fidem optimarum editionum diligenter expressa …

Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

A handsome Foulis Press pocket Pliny. The first two volumes comprise the ten books of Pliny’s Epistulae (particularly important for their description of the eruption of Vesuvius), the third his Panegyric to Trajan: ‘clearly it was intended that sections Z to the end should comprise a third...

£850

TERENCE.

Les comedies … avec la traduction et les remarques de Madame Dacier ….

Rotterdam, Gaspar Fritsch, 1717.

A fine edition of Anne Dacier’s French Terence (first published 1688), the translation here revised by her, and the notes expanded, with delightful illustrations by Picart.

£850

[PINNOCK, William].

A catechism of the history of France, containing a clear outline of all the important changes which that country...

London, Printed by Bensley and Sons for Pinnock and Maunder, [c. 1819].

Second edition of this much-reprinted guide to French history for British youth from the Roman conquest of Gaul to the fall of Napoleon, one of Pinnock’s many catechisms on historical and scientific subjects.

£125

BURNE-JONES, Edward.

The Little Holland House Album … with an Introduction & Notes by John Christian.

The Roxburghe Club, 2024

The Little Holland House Album was compiled by Edward Burne-Jones in about 1858-9 for Sophia, Mrs Dalrymple, the youngest of the seven celebrated Pattle sisters who played such an important role in mid-Victorian cultural life. Their centre was Little Holland House in Kensington where another of the...

£75

[BURY, Charlotte, Lady.]

The Exclusives. In three Volumes ...

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley ... 1830.

First edition of this celebrated society novel written after the enormous success of Marianne Spencer Stanhope’s Almack’s (1826), a roman à clef centred on the fashionable assembly rooms in St James’s.

£950

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Very large historiated initial ‘H’ (probably for the antiphon Hodie nata est beata virgo Maria for the...

Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

A very fine large initial painted in a style associated with the Master of the Gradual of Cortona, an artist named for a Franciscan gradual produced c. 1290 for the church of San Francesco in Cortona (now Vatican City, BAV, MS Ross. 612).

£6750

SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.

Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione accurati [cover: Recensuit et...

London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin, J. Booker, Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, G. & W. Whittaker, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Co., T. Cadell,...

First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’ edition of Silius Italicus’s epic poem on the Second Punic War, an attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s printed boards.

£100

MILNE, A. A.; E. H. SHEPARD, illustrator.

The House at Pooh Corner.

London, Methuen & Co., 1928.

First edition, first impression, of A. A. Milne’s classic final collection of tales about Winnie the Pooh and friends, and the first introduction of Tigger.

£650

[SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of Waverley,” &c. … In three Volumes … Second Edition.

Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Archibald Constable & Co., and London, Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 1820.

Stated second edition but in fact a third issue of the first, published on 15 January; the first issue, published on 20 December the previous year, is similarly dated 1820.

£375

BLANCHON, Jacques.

Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum Beneventanum abbatem Selestensem defensionum liber.

Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century Lyonnese Neoplatonism, an elegantly printed de Tournes edition.

£950