DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.

Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um] artium et theologie doctoris in divi Thome de Aq[ui]no co[m]mentaria...

Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs of Ottaviano Scoto, 25 January 1514.

Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian commentaries. The first, by the Dominican philosopher Dominic of Flanders (c. 1425–1479), analyses two works by Thomas Aquinas: his commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics (on the nature of scientific axioms), and his De fallaciis...

£3000

[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

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

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

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

ZAPPI, Giambattista and Faustina.

Rime di Giambattista Felice Zappi e di Faustina Maratti sua consorte.

Nice, Société typographique, 1781.

Uncommon Nice printing of the collected poetry of one of the most prominent literary couples of early eighteenth-century Rome, Faustina Maratti (1679–1745) and her husband Giambattista Zappi (1667–1719). First published after Zappi’s death in 1723, the collection consists of seventy-three...

£200

GUILLÉN, Jorge, and Reginald GIBBONS, translator.

Fuera del mundo. Translated by Reginald Gibbons.

Trenton, New Jersey, Eleutherian Printers, [1981].

First edition of the Spanish text and of the English translation by the poet Reginald Gibbons.

£550

[BENN, Anthony, father, and Charles Anthony BENN, son.]

NICHOLS W., MAYLAND, GROOM, J., photographers. Photographic...

Late 1850s–early 1900s.

A charming collection of photographs and newspaper cuttings spanning some fifty years, compiled by a father and son during their Cambridge days, including a letter of thanks from Trinity Hall to the son, Charles Anthony Benn, for his endowment to the college, which now funds the Benn Bursary.

£1200

CHALKHILL, John.

Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral History in smooth and easie Verse. Written long since by John Chalkhill, Esq;...

London, Printed for Benj. Tooke … 1683.

First edition of Chalkhill’s unfinished pastoral poem, with the corrected state of the title, designating the author as ‘an acquaintant and friend of Edmund [originally ‘Edward’] Spencer’.

£1850

CHAMBERLAYNE, William.

Pharonnida: a heroick Poem …

London, Printed for Robert Clavell … 1659.

First edition of the physician-poet William Chamberlayne’s best-known work, a 14,000-line poem in heroic couplets blending Ariosto, Tasso, and Greek romances.

£2500

DONI, Antonio Francesco.

Disegno … partito in piu ragionamenti, ne quali si tratta della scoltura e pittura; de colori, de getti,...

Venice, Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1549.

First edition of an important art-theoretical text by the polyglot scholar Anton Francesco Doni (1513–1574) on the Renaissance concept of disegno in contemporary sculpture and painting, a notable source text for scholars of Michelangelo and his lifelong rival, Baccio Bandinelli.

£1250

ERNST, Max.

Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments capitaux. Roman. Premier [– Dernier] cahier …

Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.

First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies on papier Navarre from a total edition of 816, of the most famous of Max Ernst’s Surrealist ‘collage novels’, composed entirely of recomposed images drawn from illustrations to nineteenth-century novels, encyclopaedias, scientific journals, and engravings...

£4500

GOLDONI, Carlo.

Scelta di alcune commedie. Per uso de’ dilettanti della lingua italiana. Prima edizione italiana.

Livorno, Assunto Barbani, 1816.

First edition printed in Italy of a collection of ten comedies by Goldoni, selected for their lack of complicated syntax and lack of Venetian dialect and idioms, published in Livorno for the benefit of the English community.

£175