[NAUDÉ, Philippe, attr. author].

Histoire abrégée de la naissance & du progrez du Kouakerisme avec celle de ses dogmes.

Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1692.

First edition of the earliest work on the Quakers to be published in French. In his survey of English Quakerism the author gives voice to widespread contemporary English criticisms of the movement, radicalizing the charge of Socinianism into one of ‘pure deism’ and ultimately atheism.

£750

NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández. 

Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China.  Descripcion...

Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian Anisson, 1676. 

Scarce first edition, one of the most important early studies of Chinese history, religion, philosophy, and culture, by the Spanish Dominican Domingo Navarrete (d. 1689). 

£3750

NELSON, John.

An Extract of John Nelson’s Journal, being an Account of God’s Dealing with his Soul from his Youth to the forty-second...

Bristol, E. Farley & Co., 1767.

Rare first edition, printed in Bristol, of the autobiography of the preacher and pioneer of Methodism in Yorkshire John Nelson (1707–1774).

£600

NEPOS, Cornelius; Andreas SCHOTT, editor.

Opera quae quidem extant … Nunc denuo doctorum hominum accessionibus locupletata.

Frankfurt, Claude de Marne & the heirs of Johann Aubry, [1608–] 1609.

First edition thus, edited by Andreas Schott (1552–1629), with his extensive commentary alongside that of previous editors including Denys Lambin, from the library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun.

£850

NEWTON, Isaac.

Opuscula Mathematica, philosophica et philologica. Collegit partimque Latine vertit ac recensuit Joh. Castillioneus...

Lausanne and Geneva, Bousquet & soc., 1744.

First edition of Newton’s collected works, a major tool in the dissemination of Newton’s science and a major publication in the history of science.  The edition, edited and introduced by the Pisa alumnus Giovanni Salvemini da Castiglione, contains twenty-six works (which, while having appeared...

£3500

NIXON, Howard M. 

Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs of Bookbindings from the twelfth to the twentieth Century … with an...

London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne Library, 1956. 

First edition, one of three hundred copies, of Howard Nixon’s richly illustrated catalogue of the bindings in the library of Albert Ehrman.

£875

[ORDE, John Powlett.]

A collection of 111 original compositions in Latin (and occasionally Greek) verse and prose.

Eton, 1818–1820.

A delightful insight into classical education at Eton, where until the mid-nineteenth century Greek and Latin were the only official classroom subjects, and Latin composition was considered a key accomplishment. Subjects covered here include ‘The Pigeon’ (5 May 1818), ‘Instruction’ (21...

£1750

ORIBASIUS. 

Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis … Ioannis Guinterij Andernaciis medici industria velut e profundissimis tenebris...

Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates, bound with a richly annotated copy of Galen’s works in the translation by Thomas Linacre. 

£1750

[ORPHIC POEMS.]

Ορφεως αργοναυτικα υμνοι και περι λιθων. Orphei Argonautica hymni et de lapidibus...

Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1689.

First Eschenbach edition, presenting the ‘Argonautica Orphica’, an anonymous fourth-century Greek epic probably based on the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, which had been rediscovered in the fifteenth century by Constantine Lascaris, alongside the Orphic Hymns and the Lithica,...

£325

OVID.

P. Ovidii Nasonis operum …

Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, 1629.

First Elzevir edition, newly edited by Daniel Heinsius based on the Plantin edition of 1578.

£500

OVIDIUS Naso, Publius, and Pedro Sánchez de VIANA, translator and commentator. 

Las transformaciones. 

Valladolid, Diego Fernández de Córdoba, 1589.

First edition, a copy of notable provenance, of perhaps the most successful early Spanish translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by Pedro Sánchez de Viana (c. 1545–1619), a physician by training, published along with his substantial commentary. 

£6000