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Click here to subscribeCOMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1687, The Conquest of Patras and Lepanto in Morea, and the Fortresses of the Dardanelles, Copper Medal, by Lazarus Gottlieb Lauffer, the contested fortresses, galleys and small boats all around, ground troops in the foreground, VOTA URBIS ET ORBIS, rev legend in twelve lines, MOREA PLATANI FOLIO …, 42mm (Volt 1059; MH 86). Very fine and rare.
Coin-related BOOKS, Ancient, Hahn, W, Moneta Imperii Byzantini, 3 vols, Vienna 1973-1981, Band 1, Von Anastasius I bis Justinianus I (491-565), folio, pp 132, 42 plates, 13 folding tables, Band 2, Von Justinius II bis Phocas (565-610), folio, pp 146, 40 plates, 13 folding tables, Band 3, Von Heraclius bis Leo III /Alleinregierung (610-720), folio, pp 315, 58 plates, 16 folding tables, original cloth, gilt, jackets a little worn, contents clean, all volumes inscribed by author, an important standard reference, with Hahn, W (with the collaboration of M A Metlich), Money of the Incipient Byzantine Empire (Anastastius I-Justinian I, 491-565), Vienna 2000, quarto, pp iv, 172, 36 plates, 5 large folding tables, cloth; Ratto, R, Monnaies Byzantines (1930), reprinted Amsterdam 1959, quarto, pp 151, lxviii, 5 pages of prices realised, cloth backed boards. (5)
Books on Greek Coins: Baldwin, The Electrum Coinage of Lampsakos, New York (ANS) 1914, quarto, pp 34, 2 plates, original card covers, edges a little damaged, contents as new; Baldwin Brett, A, A Catalogue of Greek Coins (1955), reprinted, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1974, large quarto, pp 339, 115 plates, casebound, jacket, wear to extremities otherwise good; Starr, C, Athenian Coinage 489-449 BC, Oxford 1970, octavo, pp 96, 26 plates, casebound, jacket; Voegtli, H, Bilder der Heldenepen in der Kaiserzeitlichen Griechischen Münzprägung, Aesch Bl 1977, folio, pp xvi, 168, 25 plates in pocket at end, card covers; and twenty-five others. (29)
Coin-related BOOKS, Islamic, Neutzel, H [Königliche Museen zu Berlin] Katalog der Orientalischen Münzen, 2 vols, Berlin 1898-1902, folio, pp xviii, 423, vii extremely fine plates; xiii, 302, vi extremely fine plates. First volume has been rebound in contemporary cloth and boards, second still with original card covers, although very worn and spine no longer intact, a very important and extremely rare work.
Coin-related BOOKS, Islamic, De Zambaur, E, Die Münzprägungen des Islams, zeitlich und örtlich geordnet, 1942, reprinted with corrections Wiesbaden 1968, folio, frontispiece, pp 286, numerous folding tables at end, original cloth, slightly worn, but internally as new, scarce; De Zambaur, E, Manuel de Genealogie et de Chronologie pour l’Histoire de l’Islam, 1927, reprinted 1955, folio, pp xii, 388, 20 folding tables and 5 maps, original cloth, gilt, extremities slightly worn, scarce. (2)
A folio size hard backed scrap album containing numerous magazine cuttings from the 1930's to 1960's, interleaved with over 375 signatures on team sheets and individual pieces, club and representative cricket, including 164 1st class cricketers and 28 Test players, complete with full inventory of all the signatures. ***signatures include Sir Julien Cahn's XI, Sir Walter Lawrence's XI, Combined Services, M.C.C., British Empire XI, Dominions XI, Club cricket conference and South Australian touring team.
After Stuart Boyce mid 20th Century- ''A Chariot Race''; lithograph printed in colours, published by Macmillan and Co Ltd, 43x53c: together with a large collection of similar lithographs printed in colours after various hands for the ''Today and Tomorrow'', Schools Series, contained in a folio, loose and a 19th century portrait of a young woman, pencil on paper, bearing inscription, (a lot) (part unframed) (may be subject to Droit De Suite)
* Handel & Stanley's Voluntaries, a hard bound musical folio titled, "Six Fugues, or Voluntaries for the organ or Harpsichord composed by Mr Handle" London, printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 paternoster - row. Handel's Concertos, a hard bound musical folio titled, "Six Concertos for the Harpsichord or Organ composed by Mr Handel", another hard bound musical folio, untitled, also a velum bound musical scrap book, containing various hand written music, black ink on laid paper. (4)
A Queen Anne walnut bureau cabinet, with feather-banding, the cavetto moulded cornice above a pair of shaped, bevelled mirror panelled doors to folio shelves and four drawers above a pair of candle slides, the moulded edge fall with applied rest to pigeon-holes and drawers, two of the pigeon-holes as drawers, above a frieze drawer and girdle moulding to three further long graduated drawers fitted later handles, on bracket feet. Restoration.
Estienne, or Stephanus (Robert). Lexicographorum Principis Thesaurus Linguae Latinae ..., 4 vols., Basle, 1740-43, title printed in red and black to vol. 1, a little minor spotting and soiling and few early leaves to each vol. creased, ex libris Ronald Knox, Prinknash Abbey, contemp. blind-stamped vellum with yapp edges, rubbed and soiled, split at head of upper joint to vol. 3, folio. (1)
Fuller (Thomas). The Historie of The Holy Warre, 3rd ed., Cambridge, 1647, lacks folding map and plates, some dampstaining throughout, contemp. sheep, crudely repaired, worn, folio, together with Cave (William), Apostolici, or, The History of The Lives, Acts, Deaths, and Martyrdoms ..., 3rd ed., 1687, eng. frontis., some soiling and marginal dampstaining, a few single wormholes, contemp. calf, worn at extrems., folio, plus Owen (John), An Enquiry into the Original, Nature, Power, Order and Communion, of Evangelical Churches ..., [1681], bound with The True Nature of A Gospel Church and Its Government ..., 1689, some dampstaining at front and heavy spotting to second work, contemp. calf, worn and upper cover det., 4to, plus seven others. (10)
Graduale Romanum. Graduale usui cedens superiori, Ilbenstadio [Ilbenstadt, Germany, 1725-26], a magnificent manuscript Roman Gradual for choir in a fine hand, title and 371 leaves in red and black with six staves to a full page, title with decorative border, decorative head-piece and large initial to first page, text in Latin throughout, each stave drawn with a five-pen instrument and with additional red and yellow lines, folios 235-238 (at end of Proprium de Tempore and before start of Proprium Sanctorum) numbered but blank, last thirty-one leaves unnumbered, chronogram to title and colophon indicating dates, twelve thumb markers with manuscript, a little soiling and minor foremarginal staining throughout, third leaf from end with crude marginal repair to closed tear not affecting manuscript, colophon reading Anno quo Jacobus Andreae Brandt Successor consecratus est hocce opus offerebat F*G*H with tail-piece decorations, ex libris Prinknash Abbey, orig. blind-stamped vellum with floral designs over wood boards with stamped brass clasps and five (of eight) corner bosses, rubbed and soiled, torn without loss at head of spine, folio (49 x 34 cm). (1)
Granet (Jean Joseph). Histoire de lH™tel Royal des Invalides, o lon Verra les Secours que nos Rois ont Procures dans tous les tems aux Officiers & Soldats hors detat de Servir..., Paris, 1736, half-title, eng. frontis., title printed in red & black, frontis, 16 vignettes, & 103 plates (complete, inc. double-page plts.), some slight damp staining, contemp. calf, worn, lower joint weak and upper board detached, folio. Cohen-de Ricci 450. (1)
Gronovius (Jacobus). Thesaurus Graecarum Antiquitatum, in quo continentur effigies virorum ac foeminarum illustrium, quibus in Gr¾cis aut Latinis monumentis aliqua memorae pars datur..., vols. 2-13 (of 13), Venice, 1722-37, half-titles and vign. titles, numeous plts. incl. ports. and maps, woodcut initials, ownership signature of G[eorge] Errington [1804-1886, Roman Catholic archbishop] to front pastedowns, contemp. qtr. calf, some wear to extremities, folio. (12)
Hanthaler (Chrysostom). Quinquagena Symbolorum Heroica, in praecipua capita et dogmata S. Regulae Sanctissimi Monachorum Patris et Legislatoris Benedicti ... Exegesibus Brevibus Metrico-Prosaicis Asceticis illustrata, Augustae et Lincii, impensis Francisci Antonii Ilger, 1741, fifty circular emblematic plts., light staining, trivial worming in some margins, leaves at the beginning and end restored in the gutter, title-page soiled, small holes repaired with slight loss, later boards, spine rubbed, small folio. (1)
Herodotus (of Halicarnassus). [Herodotou Halikarnesseos Historion Logoi 9 Epigraphomenoi Mousai]. Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum libri IX Musarum Nominibus Inscripti. Gr. & Lat. cum Interpretatione Laurentii Vallae. Ex MS. Membrana Medicea Post Aldi Manutii..., Industria Jacobi Gronovii..., Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, Leiden, 1715, half-title present, addn. eng. title by F. Bleyswyk after H. van der My, printed title in red & black, contemp. vellum with large gilt coat of arms to centre of each cover, incorporating an open book with the words Lug batavorum, lacks ties, some light soiling, large folio. A clean wide-margined copy, with some neat pencil marginal annotations in a 19th-century hand. (1)
Herodotus. Historiarum libri IX, IX Musarum nominibus inscripti. Eiusdem Narratio de vita Homeri ... excerpta Ctesiae libris de rebus Persicis & Indicis ..., Frankfurt, Claud. Marnium, & hered. Jo. Aubrii, 1608, trimmed and relaid, with later red ruling, woodcut initials, etc., double-column text in Latin and Greek, printer's woodcut device to recto of final leaf, 18th c. mottled full calf, worn with upper cover det., folio, together with Thucydides. De Bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo, Frankfurt, Andreae Wecheli, 1594, title with printer's woodcut device and later red ruling, double-column text in Latin and Greek, printer's woodcut device to verso of final leaf, old calf, worn with upper cover det. and rear joint cracked, folio. Adams T668 for the second work. The first work with ownership inscription to front pastedown of G. Villiers, ex Aede Christi Oxon, 1742, and signature of H. Penrud: Wyndham Oxon 1759, to head of title. (2)
Jerome (St.). Omnes quae extant D. Hieronymi Stridonensis lucubrationes, [edited by Desiderius Erasmus], vols. 1-3 (of 9) only, 3 vols. in one, Basileae, [in officina Frobeniana], 1536-37, Froben's woodcut device on each title-page, and at the end of vols. 1 and 3, historiated woodcut initials, without AA-CC6 in vol. 1, containing Jerome's life, small hole at the centre of the first title-page, which is restored at the head, the leaves immediately following similarly restored, some other leaves damaged in the top margin, some staining, some passages censored, either scored through or marked with a single line and then pasted over with printed or ms. waste, sometimes still in place, otherwise with residual adhesion marks and damage, contemp. blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, the leather extensively restored on each cover, rebacked, earlier backstrip retained, formerly with catches and clasps, folio. A part of Adams J117. Adams entry underlines the fact that the work is often found incomplete. (1)
Jerome (Saint). Divina Bibliotheca antehac inedita complectens translationes latinas Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, cum ex Hebraeis, tum e Graecis fontibus Verivatas ..., ed. Johannis Martianay & Antonii Pouget, 5 vols., Paris, Apud Joannem Anisson, 1693-1706, half-titles, first vol. with addn eng. title showing St. Jerome in his study, titles printed in red and black with eng. vign., text in clean condition with wide margins, contemp. uniform mottled full calf, gilt dec. spines, rubbed and joints partly cracked (one or two folds repaired at head and foot spine), minor wear to extrems., large folio. Ex libris Keble College, Oxford, with gilt coat of arms, and inscription in Greek to upper cover of each volume, and 19th c. bookplate to front pastedown. (5)
John, Chrysostom, Saint. Opera Graece, Octo Voluminibus, 8 vols., Etonae, in Collegio Regali, [Printed by M. Bradwood], excudebat Ionnes Norton, 1613, printed in Greek letter, vol. 1 with an addn. eng. title page, dated 1613, woodcut initials, vol. 3 lacks N3 and N4, some browning and staining, errata leaf present at the end of vol. 1 (bottom corner torn away), contemp. panelled calf, gilt coat of arms on each cover, rubbed, old reback, spines now worn, folio. Edited by Sir Henry Savile. A valuable and much-esteemed editionÓ: Lowndes, who notes that the cost of transcribing and collating manuscripts for the edition amounted to £8000. The issue with new prelims. to each volume. All of the printed title-pages are dated 1612, and the colophons are dated between 1610 and 1613. STC 14629a. Ex libris Ronald Knox library, Prinknash Abbey. (8)
John (Saint, of Damascus). Sancti Patris Nostri Joannis Damasceni, monachi, et presbyteri Hierosolymitani, Opera omnia qae exstant.., ed. Michel Lequien, 2 vols., Paris, 1712, Greek and Latin parallel text, title vigns., head-pieces and some woodcut initials, some pepper wormholes largely confined to rear of vol. 1 and mostly affecting foremargins only, lacks half-title and port. to vol. 1, two small red ink lib. stamps of Bibilotheca Monasterii Altovadensis to each title, ex libris Prinknash Abbey, contemp. elaborately blind-stamped vellum over oak boards with clasps (two of four in working order), together with Cotelerius (Johannes Baptista), SS. Patrum qui temporibus apostolicis floruerunt; Barnabae, Clementis, Herm¾, Ignatii, Polycarpi; opera edita et inedita..., ed. Jean Le Clerc, 2 vols., new ed., Amsterdam, 1724, half-title to vol. 1, titles printed in red and black, Greek and Latin parallel text, ex libris Rev. H. Campbell, contemp. blind-stamped vellum, soiled and sl. cracked on joints, all folio. (4)
Lipsius (Justus). I. Lipsi Diva Virgo Hallensis, Beneficia eius & miracula fide atque ordine descripta , Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, 1616, bound with Iusti Lipsi[i] Diua Sichemiensis siue Aspricollis..., Antwerp, 1620, and Iusti LipsI Louanium : id est, opidi [sic] et academiae eius descriptio, Libri tres, new ed., Antwerp, 1610, eng. frontis. to first work, foremargin trimmed and repaired, eng. vign. to each title and printer's device of Plantin to final blank of second and third works, (lacks this final blank at end of first work), two folding eng. views by Iodocus vander Baren to third work (one bound in to first work, closed tears and some browning), some soiling and old dampstaining to foremargins, ex libris Prinknash Abbey, contemp. calf with old reback, worn, upper cover and first two leaves det., folio. (1)
Liturgies. Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti concilii tridentini restitutum..., Liege: Clement Plomteux, 1781, printed in red and black throughout, woodcut initials, remains of thum markers, ex libris Reginald L. Hine and John Basil Lowder Tolhurst, a.e.g., later elaborately gilt-dec. black morocco, rubbed, folio. (1)
Liturgies. Gregorio XIII. Pont. Max. Pontificale Romanum ad omnes pontificias caeremonias..., Venice: Giunta, 1582, eng. title vign., printer's device in red to title and final page, printed in red and black throughout, woodcut vigns. and initials, printed music, some soiling and a little worming to foremargins of first few leaves not affecting text, title relaid, lacks final blank, ex libris Prinknash Abbey, later calf, some wear, folio. (1)
Liturgies. Pontificale Romanum... Benedicto XIV, recognitum & castigatum, Venice: Ex Typographia Balleoniana, 1769, printed in red and black throughout, eng. vign. to title by Andrea Rossi and numerous engs. to text, printed music, ex libris Prinknash Abbey, a.e.g., contemp. gilt-dec. calf, rubbed and some wear to extremities, folio. (1)
[Locke, John]. An Essay concerning Humane Understanding, In Four Books, Printed [by Elizabeth Holt] for Tho[mas] Basset, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1690, title within double-rule border, (ownership name of John Wade, 1805 at head, some old pencil and soiling, two tiny tears to foremargin near foot and a few short closed tears at lower margin), light old dampstaining to first and last leaves and to lower gutter margins throughout, a few worm pinpricks to lower margin throughout not affecting text, contemp. mottled calf, worn and covers near det., folio (318 x 190mm). PMM 164. Wing L-2739. Second issue with cancel title containing the inverted SS of Essay, the type ornament composed of twenty-three pieces and without Elizabeth Holt's name in imprint. (1)
Lucas (Franciscus). Concordantiae Bibliorum Sacrorum Vulgatae editionis..., Antwerp: Ex officina Plantinana, 1617, half-title, eng. printer's device to red and black title, (old ownership inscription at foot), text in four columns, colophon leaf with large woodcut printer's device to verso, some old damp-staining to foremargins of early leaves, light browning, ex libris Ronald Knox, Prinknash Abbey, contemp. blind-stamped panelled calf, some wear to joints and extremities, lacks clasps, folio. (1)
Mansi (Giovan Domenico). Sacrorum Conciliorum nova, et amplissima collectio ..., 30 vols., Florence & Venice, 1759-92, eng. frontis. to vol. 1, title of vol. 1 printed in red and black, eng. vigns. to titles, vol. 19 with eng. port., woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, lacks vol. 31, contemp. half calf, rubbed and two covers det., folio. Vols. 31B to 53 were published in Paris 1901-27. (30)
Marius de Calasio. Concordantiae sacrorum bibliorum hebraicorum..., ed. William Romaine, 4 vols., 1747-49, half-titles and eng. ving. titles, three-pages subscribers list to vol. 4, paged from right to left, ex libris St Peter's College, Cambridge, and Ronald Knox, Prinknash Abbey, contemp. reversed calf, worn, folio. (4)
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