PEPE, Stefano.

[Half-title: ‘Il Cappuccino d’Este del Padre Pepe’] ‘Historia Della Vita, e della Morte, et Attioni...

[Italy, second half of the seventeenth century.]

A seemingly unpublished life of Alfonso III d’Este, Duke of Modena, who renounced his title to become a Capuchin friar.

£1250

HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

A Farewell to Arms.

New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.

First edition, first printing, without the disclaimer on p. [x] and with the Scribner’s seal on the copyright page. A Farewell to Arms, ‘the premier American war novel’ (Reynolds), was derived from Hemingway’s own experience on the Italian campaign in WWI, and was his first best-seller.

£1250

BARLOW, [Francis].

Barlow’s Birds and Beasts, in sixty-seven excellent and useful Prints, being a Collection of the chief Works...

London, Carington Bowles, [John Bowles, and Robert Sayer], [1775].

An extremely rare edition of this drawing-book collecting several suites of plates by or after Francis Barlow, with a particularly fine suite of etchings by Wenceslaus Hollar.

£8500

[MISSAL.]

Nouveau paroissien romain, contenant l’offices des dimanches et des principales fêtes. Édition refondue, augmentée...

Lyons, H. Curnier, 1869.

A pocket Paroissien in a charming binding with richly decorated edges.

£275

DONI, Anton Francesco.

Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali, de gli academici pellegrini … mondo piccolo, grande, misto, risibile,...

Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

A handsome copy of the second edition of Doni’s collected utopian dialogues, with the addition of a full-page woodcut portrait, first owned by a German nobleman studying in Padua.

£850

POUND, Ezra.

Cantos 110–116 …

printed & published by the Fuck You / press at a secret location in the lower east side, New York City, USA, 1967.

Unauthorised edition (unsurprisingly), no. 261 of 300 copies. The contents are extracts and include a number of apparently unidentified lines; this piracy forced the publication of Drafts and Fragment of Cantos CX–CXVII (1969).

£150

VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla. Adiecto indice propriorum nominum, rerumque memoria dignarum...

Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1607.

Rare edition of Valerius Maximus, provincially printed at Carmagnola in Piedmont, then part of the Duchy of Savoy.

£450

CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

Rheticorum ad Herennium libri IIII. Et M. T. Ciceronis de inventione libri duo.

Venice, heirs of Giovanni Griffio, 1576.

An attractive copy of the two earliest Latin rhetorical treatises, in a wrapper of a medieval manuscript leaf incorporating printed waste, with early Orvieto provenance.

£600

ADORNO, Theodor W., Else FRENKEL-BRUNSWIK, Daniel J. LEVINSON, and R. Nevitt SANFORD

The Authoritarian Personality.

New York, Harper Brothers, 1950.

First edition of this groundbreaking work of social psychology on the development of prejudice by Theodor Adorno and the psychologists Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford, written in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

£225

[VICTORIA: DIAMOND JUBILEE.]

Photograph album: ‘Hampton Court “Jubilee” July 1, 1897’.

Hereford, F. Preece, 1897.

An attractive album memorialising a garden party in honour of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria held at Hampton Court Castle in Herefordshire under the sponsorship of John Hungerford Arkwright (1833–1905), later Lord Lieutenant of that county. The photographer, Francis Preece (1853–1928), was...

£500

[JACOBUS de Gruytrode, attributed.]

Lavacrum conscientie [omnium sacerdotum].

[(Colophon:) Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, 1504.]

Rare edition of this popular late medieval treatise, ‘The Bath of Conscience’, widely ascribed to the Carthusian monk and prior of Liège, Jacobus de Gruytrode (c. 1400–1475).

£750

TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

Travels of a consular Officer in eastern Tibet. Together with a History of the Relations between China,...

Cambridge, University Press, 1922.

First edition, by the diplomat and orientalist Sir Eric Teichman (1884–1944), ‘one of British diplomacy’s dashing characters, [a] flamboyantly enigmatic explorer-cum-special agent’ (Winchester, The Man who loved China, 2008, p. 73).

£250

VISCARDI, Giovanni Andrea.

Precetti morali e civili, con molti, & varii essempi … opera utilissima a qualunque sorte persone.

Venice, Sebastiano Combi, 1600.

Second, expanded edition of Viscardi’s moral precepts and examples, in a binding for Jacques-Auguste de Thou and Marie Barbançon.

£1250

TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

Travels of a consular Officer in North-West China . . . With original Maps of Shensi and Kansu and...

Cambridge, University Press, 1921.

First edition. ‘The following chapters give some account of a series of journeys through the North-Western Provinces of China, undertaken in connection with the Anglo-Chinese Opium Treaty and other matters requiring investigation on the spot in conjunction with Chinese officials … Shensi and Kansu...

£250

[SYRIAC.]

ܟܘܪܣܬܐ ܕܥܢܝܕܵܐ ܒܢܵܝ ܥܠܡܐ … [Kurasta d-ʻanide bnay ʻalma … ; ‘The Burial Service for...

Urmia, Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian Mission, 1900.

Extremely rare edition of the Syriac liturgy for the burial of the dead, printed by Anglo-Catholic missionaries at Urmia in present-day Iran.

£1850

[PEACOCK, Thomas Love.]

Gryll Grange. By the Author of ‘Headlong Hall’ …

London, [Savill & Edwards for] Parker, Son, & Bourn, 1861.

First edition in book form, following serialisation in Fraser’s, of Peacock’s final novel, perhaps his most witty and urbane.

£200

LAKITS, György Zsigmond.

Juris publici ecclesiastici pars generalis, de ecclesia christiana.

Venice, Giuseppe Orlandelli, 1790.

Second Venice editions of two pro-Habsburg works on ecclesiastical law by a notable Hungarian jurist, in matching decorative block-printed wrappers.

£375

[FABLES.]

Petit fabuliste.

Paris, [(colophon:) Firmin-Didot], [c. 1840].

A charming miniature collection of illustrated fables published in nineteenth-century Paris.

£200

EUTROPIUS; Sextus AURELIUS VICTOR; Sextus Rufus [FESTUS]. 

Historiae romanae breviarium, ad codices manuscriptos & optimas editiones...

Paris, brothers Barbou, 1793.

First edition by Capperonnier of this collection of three Roman histories of the fourth century, printed in small format and handsomely bound in contemporary straight-grained morocco.

£275

ELIOT, T. S.

Four Quartets.

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943].

First edition, first impression, with the edition note in the colophon, one of only 788 copies not destroyed before publication.

£850