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[EUDISTS.]
‘Vive Jesus et Marie. Regles des freres domestiques de la congregation ecclesiastique de Jesus et Marie. Ces regles...
[Northwestern France, c. 1730].
A most interesting manuscript detailing the regulations governing the brothers of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary, an ecclesiastical society dedicated to the education of priests in seminaries and to missions, founded at Caen in Normandy in 1643 by Jean Eudes (1601–1680).
£850
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FRANCIS DE SALES.
Introduction à la vie devote du bien-heureux François de Sales, evesque et prince de Geneve; instituteur de...
Paris, Jean Hénault, 1648.
A seemingly unrecorded edition of the famous Introduction to the Devout Life by Francis de Sales (1567–1622), bishop of Geneva, cofounder of the Visitandines, and one of the leaders of the Counter Reformation, with an engraved portrait of him.
£500
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[FRANCISCANS.]
Orationes dicendae in expositione SS. Sacramenti altaris pro conventu S. Mariae Angelorum Eugeniae.
[Northern Italy, 1787 and later].
An intriguing devotional manuscript compiled for a northern Italian Franciscan convent dedicated to Santa Maria degli Angeli, with a full-page image of a monstrance, and with evidence of the tumultuous impact of the Napoleonic era.
£1250
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HOFFMEISTER, Johann.
Loci communes rerum theologicarum, quae hodie in controversia agitantur, ad regulam, et consensum verae, catholicaeque...
(colophon:) Ingolstadt, Alexander Weissenhorn, 1547.
First edition. In the dedication to the present work, Hoffmeister (1509–1547), one of Luther’s resolute adversaries, and Vicar General of the Augustinians in Germany, explains that there are people who wish, bono fortasse zelo, to find the truth for themselves and who hope that it may be possible...
£500
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IRENAEUS.
Opus eruditissimum divi Irenaei episcopi Lugdunensis, in quinque libros digestum, in quibus mire retegit et confutat...
Paris, Oudin Petit, 1563.
Jean François Foppens’s copy of Erasmus’s pioneering edition of Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, first published at Basel by Johann Froben in 1526.
£1200
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[MASS.]
Brevis elucidatio totius Missae, interrogationibus, et responsionibus distincta, iussu … D. Francisci Vander-Burch archiepiscopi...
Mons, François Waudré, 1639.
First edition, second issue(?), of a catechism on the Mass published at Mons in Belgium by order of François van der Burch (1567–1644), archbishop of Cambrai.
£375
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[PRAYERS.]
Christ-Catholischer Gottseeligkeit andächtige Verrichtungen, bestehende in Morgen- Abend- Mess- Beicht- und Communion-Gebethern...
Prague, Johann Norbert Fitzky, 1733.
A very rare Jesuit prayerbook published in Prague by the Polish-born printer Johann Norbert Fitzky (d. 1745), in a distinctive Bohemian binding.
£950
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[RITUAL.]
Rituale della venerabile Archiconfraternita delle Sagre Stimmate del padre S. Francesco di Roma.
Rome, nella stamperia del Bernabò, 1711.
Uncommon revised second edition (first 1669) of the Ritual of the Archconfraternity of the Sacred Stigmata of St Francis in Rome (established in 1594), in an attractive binding bearing the arms of the noble Caetani family.
£800
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[ROUEN.]
L’Office de la semaine sainte à l’usage du diocese de Rouen. Avec des prieres pour la Confession et la Communion,...
Rouen, François Oursel, 1742.
A seemingly unrecorded edition of a prayerbook for Holy Week, illustrated with woodcuts and with a tipped-in manuscript prayer for Napoleon, in an attractive binding.
£475
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[WALLPAPER BINDING.]
‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves a joseph Paul Roegier et marie margu te [sic] Bourdeau son espouse,...
Hainaut, 1750–1773.
A manuscript account book compiled by Joseph Paul Roegier and his son, recording receipts over a quarter-century, in an attractive and unusual binding reusing a large fragment of gilt leather wallpaper.
£3500
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ALLIONI, Carlo.
Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii [– Florae Pedemontanae icones accedit...
Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.
First edition of the earliest Italian regional flora by the ‘Linnaeus of Piedmont’, here in the extremely rare hand-coloured state and extensively annotated by Giovanni Battista Balbis, the author’s pupil and successor at the Botanical Garden of the University of Turin.
£30000
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BRAUN, Adolphe.
Untitled flower study (orchids).
c. 1870?
A stunning monumental flower study by Adolphe Braun (1811–1877). Born in Besançon, Braun’s first career was a designer of textiles, and his first exercises in flower photography in the late 1840s and early 1850s were intended as compositional aids. His album of Fleurs photographiées...
£1200
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BRAUN, Adolphe.
Untitled flower study (camellia).
c. 1870?
An exquisite monumental flower study by Adolphe Braun (1811–1877). Born in Besançon, Braun’s first career was a designer of textiles, and his first exercises in flower photography in the late 1840s and early 1850s were intended as compositional aids. His album of Fleurs photographiées...
£1200
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BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).
Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans...
London, Henry Colburn, 1829.
First edition, in one volume, recounting Johann Ludwig Burckhardt’s journey to Mecca on behalf of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa in 1814.
£3750
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BURTON, Richard Francis, and James MACQUEEN.
The Nile Basin. Part I. Showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy’s western lake reservoir....
By James M’Queen … London, Tinsley Brothers, 1864.
First edition, complete with the three maps. This work, ‘which absolutely exudes venom, was the heart of Burton’s frontal attack on [John Hanning] Speke’s geographical theories. Burton dedicated it, with a marked degree of sarcasm, to “those kind friends, especially to those members of...
£2500
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CAESAR, Gaius Julius.
C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime cum libris editis & MSS optimis collata, recognita & correcta....
London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.
First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s Caesar edited by Samuel Clarke (1675–1729), ‘the most sumptuous classical work which this country has produced’ (Dibdin).
£9500
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[ENGELBRECHT, Martin.]
[Vier Jahreszeiten. Serie 89.]
[Augsburg, Martin Engelbrecht, c. 1750.]
An attractive hand-coloured engraved peepshow showing the four seasons, with summer in the foreground retreating into winter behind, lined with printed waste from an illustrated Dutch religious broadside.
£1750
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HANWAY, Jonas.
An historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea, with a journal of travels from London through Russia...
London, Dodsley, Nourse, Millar, Vaillant, & Patterson, Waugh, and Willock, 1753.
First edition of Hanway’s narrative of his trade mission to Russia, Persia, and the Caspian Sea, with a contemporary bookplate bearing the names of the prominent Devon merchant and ship-owner Arthur Holdsworth and his wife.
£1400
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[HERALDRY.]
Manuscripts relating to Low Countries nobility.
[Low Countries, mid-seventeenth century?]
A fine set of manuscripts relating to Low Countries heraldry and history compiled by a learned local antiquary.
£1750
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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
£9500