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Fine Books from a Distinguished Private Library
16 November - 28 November 2023 • London
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1. Aeschylus | Tragedies in Greek. Glasgow, 1795, bound with Flaxman’s Compositions, 1795, finely bound by Staggemeier and Welcher
2. Alphand, Jean-Charles Adolphe | Les promenades de Paris. Paris, 1867-1873, showing Parisian gardens and their modernisation
3. Jean-Baptiste Audebert | Histoire naturelle des singes. Paris, 1797-[1800], in the original parts, fine illustrations of primates
4. John James Audubon | The birds of America. Facsimile of the 1827–1838 edition. New York, 1985
5. Aurelius Augustinus | De civitate Dei. Basel, 25 March 1479, contemporary binding
6. Bible, German | Nuremberg: Koberger, 1483, contemporary hand-colour and a publisher’s binding
7. Bible, English | Erasmus’ paraphrases of the New Testament, 1551–1549. London, 2 volumes
8. Bible, English | King James version. Cambridge, 1638, fine red morocco by the Geometrical Compartment Binder
9. Bible, English, King James Version | Cambridge, 1660, 2 volumes, numerous engraved illustrations
10. Bible, Polyglot | Walton’s polyglot Bible. London, 1655-1657, 8 volumes, the Wardington copy
11. Bible, English | King James version. Oxford, Baskett, 1717, the Wardington copy of the "Vinegar" Bible, with fore-edge paintings
12. Bible, Dutch | Taferelen der voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testamen. The Hague, 1728-1729, 2 volumes
13. Bible, German | Biblia, Nuremberg, 1768, fine contemporary binding, gilt and painted
14. Bible, German | [Weimar Elector’s Bible], 1768, finely bound by Johann Georg Dachau
15. Bible, German | Nuremberg, 1788, finely bound by the workshop of Georg Friedrich Lütkemann of Rostock
16. Joan Blaeu | Novum ac magnum theatrum urbium Belgicae regiae. Amsterdam, 1649
17. Giambattista Bodoni, printer | Epithalamia exoticis linguis reddita. Parma, 1775, a typographical tour de force
18. Edward Adveno Brooke | The gardens of England. London, 1857. “deluxe” edition, with plates finished by hand
19. Captain Thomas Brown | Illustrations of the American ornithology. Edinburgh, [1831]-1835, the dedicatee’s large-paper copy with superior colour
20. Pierre Joseph Buc’hoz | Herbier colorié de l’Amerique. Paris, 1783, 2 volumes, rare colour plates of American flora
21. David Burr | An atlas of the state of New York. New York 1829, a landmark in the cartography of American states
22. Thomas Cartwright | A confutation of the Rhemists translation, glosses and annotations on the New Testament. Leiden, 1618, a good example of a book from the Pilgrim Press
23. Louis François Cassas and Joseph De Lavallée | Voyage pittoresque et historique de l’Istrie et de la Dalmatie. Paris, 1802, topographical illustrations of the Neoclassical movement
24. Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen | Grundsätze der höhern Kriegskunst und Beyspiele ihrer zweckmässigen Anwendung für die Generale der Österreichischen Armee, Vienna, 1808
25. Henri Charpentier, publisher and editor | Paris dans sa splendeur: monuments, vues, scènes historiques, escriptions et histoire. Paris, 1861, fine hand-coloured lithographed plates of Paris
26. Christine de Pisan, and others | Poëmes et ballades du temps passé. Paris, 1902, with original illustration and bound by Meunier
27. William Curtis | Flora Londinensis. London, 1777-1828, an important survey of London flora
28. Domenicus Custos | Fuggerorum et fuggerarum, Augsburg, 1618, seventeenth-century wealth and fashion depicted
29. Dante Alighieri | La divina commedia. Milan, 1809, 3 volumes, finely bound for the Duke of Saxe-Teschen by Friedrich Kraus
30. Paul Decker | An architectural sammelband. Augsburg, 1711–1727, four works on baroque architecture
31. Henry Drummond | Histories of the noble British families. London, 1842-1846
32. Daniel Giraud Elliot | A monograph of the bucerotidae, or family of the hornbills. New York, [1876]-1882, fine plates by Keulemans
33. William Faden and others | Composite atlas. London, 1743-1788
34. Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet | Voyage autour du monde. Paris, 1824-1826, 4 atlas volumes
35. Jean Froissart | Cronycles of Englande, France, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretaine, Flanders. London, c.1535, William Morris’s copy
36. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust, Paris, 1880, a “cuir ciselé” binding by Charles Meunier
37. Salomon Gessner | Oeuvres. Paris, 1786-1793, finely bound by Bozerian.
38. John Gould | A monograph of the trochilidae, or… humming-birds [with supplement]. London, 1849–1887, 6 volumes
39. John Gould | The birds of Great Britain. London, 1862 1873, 5 volumes, one of the greatest works of British ornithology
40. Gregory I, Pope | Moralia, sive expositio in Job, Rome, 1475
41. William Hamilton | Campi phlegraei. Paris, [1799-1802], a deluxe copy with plates in two states
42. James Duffield Harding | Sketches at home and abroad. London, 1836, early tinted lithographed plates
43. Alexis Hubert Jaillot and Nicolas Sanson | Atlas nouveau. Amsterdam, 1692-1696, in fine contemporary colour
44. George Wilkins Kendall and Carl Nebel | The war between the United States and Mexico illustrated. New York, 1851, early pictorial war reportage
45. Rockwell Kent, illustrator | Original maquettes for Candide. New York, 1928, hand-coloured by the artist
46. Salomon Kleiner | Residences memorables. Augsburg, 1731-1740; 1734
47. Salomon Kleiner | Residences memorables de… le Duc de Savoye et de Piemont [bound with] representation des animaux de la menagerie. Augsburg, 1731-1740; 1734
48. Georg Wolfgang Knorr | Deliciae naturae selectae. Dordrecht, 1771, illustrated "cabinets of wonders"