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[SAINT-LAMBERT, Monsieur de.]

‘Les principes du clavecin contenant une explication exacte de tous ce qui concerne la tablature et le clavier avec toutes les remarques necessaires pour l’intelligence des plusieur diffculté [sic] de la musique, le tout divises par chapitre. 1743.’ Namur, 1743–4. Manuscript in French on paper, oblong 4to (190 x 243 mm), ff. [89] (of 94), paginated in a contemporary hand to 185, final 11 leaves blank except for pagination; a total of five leaves (almost certainly blank except for pagination) removed before and after present final blank leaf, dampstain at head of first few leaves, small rectangular area of title (probably on ownership inscription) excised and replaced with blank paper (with loss of a few words on verso); contemporary calf, spine gilt, upper cover lettered direct ‘Les principes du clavecin’ in gilt within gilt border, marbled paper pastedowns, edges sprinkled red; rubbed and worn, extreme head and foot of spine chipped, a few wormholes.

04.08.2026 - 19:53

8500,- EUR

Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

VORAGINE, Jacobus de

Lombardica historia que a plerisque aurea legenda sanctorum appellatur. Strasbourg, [Georg Husner,] 1502. Folio (290 x 210 mm), ff. 258 (all blanks present); gothic letter in double columns, spaces for initials with guide letters; some light browning, occasional staining, short wormtrack in outer blank margin of c. 23 leaves, single wormholes mainly towards beginning and end affecting the odd single letter, neat repairs to tears in D6 and D7 affecting two letters on each verso, small burn on p2 obscuring a two-letter word on the recto, but generally in good condition; scattered marginalia in various different hands throughout; contemporary (probably Nuremberg) blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, top compartment of upper cover stamped ‘Lambardica’ in gilt in large gothic letters, fragment from an incunable used as the rear pastedown (see below), front pastedown and free endpaper apparently renewed at an early date; some rubbing and wear, loss to head of spine, tears and loosening to tailcap, old worming to boards, lacking clasps.

04.08.2026 - 19:52

10000,- EUR

Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

[BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT and APOCRYPHA, Greek; Johann LONITZER, editor.]

Της θειας γραφης παλαιας δηλαδη και νεας απαντα. Divinae scripturae, veteris noveque omnia. Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1526. Three vols, 8vo, ff. I: [iv], 275, [1], II: 344, III: [1], 455; titles printed within woodcut borders by Hans Weiditz, vol. I title printed in red and black and f. 1 with woodcut headpiece and initial printed in red, ruled in red, woodcut initials and headpieces throughout, woodcut printer’s devices to titles of vols II and III, to final versos, and to vol. III f. 263v; occasional light marginal staining, minor wormhole to lower margin of quires I cγ-eε, small rust-hole to I AΑ1 (affecting a few characters without loss of sense), neat old repairs to vol. I title verso (with small loss to lower inner corner of border), nonetheless a very good set; bound in late eighteenth-century French marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments with gilt red paper lettering-pieces, edges stained red, green ribbon place-markers; skilful repairs to joints and extremities, very slightly rubbed; ink stamp to first and third title-pages of the Jesuits of Lyons.

04.08.2026 - 19:50

10750,- EUR

Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

ARCHIMEDES, BOETHIUS, and CAMPANO da Novara; Luca GAURICO, editor

Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura per Campanum Archimedem Syracusanum atque Boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinventa. Venice, [Giacomo Penzio for] Giovanni Battista Sessa, 28 August 1503. 4to, ff. 32; small woodcut Sessa device on title-page and different device below colophon, title with woodcut illustration of Archimedes standing on a map and looking up at the heavens, woodcut initials and diagrams; title-page slightly dust-soiled with small repair at foot, title tipped in and (conjoint) leaf a4 strengthened along gutter, a few headlines shaved, occasional light spotting, final verso with slight offsetting; a good copy in nineteenth-century boards, green morocco spine label, year of publication lettered to upper cover in manuscript, remains of index tabs; binding a little soiled; bookplate of ‘Progel’ (probably Joseph Bonaventura Progel, of Munich, d. 1851).

04.08.2026 - 19:48

22500,- EUR

Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

EUCLID

Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ των θεωνος συνουσιων. Εις του αυτου του πρωτον, εξηγηματων Προκλου βιβλ. δ. Adiecta praefatiuncula in qua de disciplinis Mathematicis nonnihil. Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533. Folio, pp. [xii], 268, 115, [1]; text in Greek, woodcut printer’s device to title-page and final verso, woodcut initials, α1r within woodcut border, woodcut diagrams, woodcut headpieces, skilful repair to title-page where an old inscription removed, old ink stains to lower margins of κ4–6 and ξ4–5, very slight dampstain to outer margin of final leaves, nonetheless a very good copy; bound in eighteenth-century Italian vellum, gilt red morocco lettering-piece to spine, edges speckled red; manuscript diagrams in brown ink to the margins of a few leaves and a few notes and corrections in Greek (e.g. on π2–3 and σ5), eighteenth-century Italian shelfmark to front pastedown ‘Pluteus octavus capsula prima’ below erased inscription, later note in German, modern collector’s bookplate.

04.08.2026 - 19:47

22500,- EUR

Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

HERP, Hendrik

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei. [(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10 September 1474.] Two vols, folio, ff. [407] (of 408); [a12 b–k10 l8 m4 n–q10 r4 s–x10 y7 z10 A–C10 D6 E–N10 O6 P5 Q–T10 V–X8] (with final blank [X8] but without preliminary blank [a1]); printed in gothic letter in two columns, incipit printed in red, woodcut printer’s device in red below colophon, printshop rubrication comprising larger initials supplied in red and heightened with silver, a few with penwork decoration, red initial-strokes, paraphs, and underlining, final blank leaf (partially laid down) with large red ink rosette on verso, manuscript quiring and catchwords largely trimmed; light dampstain to outer margin of [a6–7], very occasional marginal marks or smudges, neat marginal repairs to [m4] and [P1], but a magnificent copy; eighteenth-century French red morocco by Luc-Antoine Boyet (attributed in the Syston Park catalogue, see below), spines richly gilt in compartments with gilt green morocco lettering-pieces, edges gilt, marbled endpapers, blue ribbon place-markers, traces of index tabs, offsetting from former quire guards of manuscript waste (of which some in Hebrew); spines sunned, extremities a little rubbed; contemporary or early annotations in red and brown inks to c. 6 pp. and a few scattered reading marks, seventeenth-century ink ownership inscription ‘Fratrum Augustinensium Spirae’ to upper margin of [a2], eighteenth-century note in French on verso of flyleaf, engraved armorial bookplate and monogram booklabel of Sir John Hayford Thorold to front pastedown, with his pencil notes (see below), later manuscript shelf label to front boards.

04.08.2026 - 19:46

30000,- EUR

Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

[PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]

Psalterium. [Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.] Folio, ff. [278] (of 280); [*8 a8 b–z8/6 A–H8/6 I1–4 I6–8 K–O8/6 P1–9] (bound without blanks I5 and P10); gothic letter, in two columns, printed in red and black throughout, first initial space with later manuscript initial B; a few leaves browned, occasional light damp-staining and worming, marginal paper-flaws to [t6], [y6] and [I1], [*2] repaired at edges and chipped with loss of text in upper corner (affecting c. 10 words), conjoint leaf also browned and repaired, but a very good copy; bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, from the bindery of the Benedictine monastery of Sankt Stephan in Würzburg (EBDB w000064), front board lettered ‘Psalteriū’ in black, two brass catchplates and remains of clasps, coloured plaited endbands, watermark to endleaves of a pot surmounted by a cross [cf. Briquet 12497, Troyes 1488]; binding slightly soiled with a few small wormholes; inscription erased from head of [*1]r (from Sankt Stephan, Würzburg?), nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Frederic Perkins to front pastedown, with his red ink shelfmark SR/L and (his?) bibliographical note to flyleaf, subsequent bookplate of John Vertue to front pastedown (see below), small paper shelf label to front board.

04.08.2026 - 19:44

30000,- EUR

Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

[PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor

Ψαλτηριον. Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October 1498]. 4to, ff. [150]; α–θ8 ι6 κ–ν8 ο–υ8; Greek text printed in red and black, woodcut initials and headpieces, α3r and κ1r within woodcut borders (very slightly shaved), text on ι1r in its first setting with manuscript correction erased (see below); title-page and final verso dusty, first two leaves with very small wormhole, α2 with small paper-flaw to inner margin and short split to backfold, α3 with neatly erased inscription at head resulting in a small hole, light staining to ι1r, small flaw to final leaf with neat repair to blank verso, nonetheless a good copy; early nineteenth-century russia tooled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, edges gilt; front joint neatly repaired, tailband lacking, spine and corners a little rubbed; inscription ‘6 […] in catalogo Edwards 1794’ to front free endpaper verso, armorial bookplate of John Vertue (1826–1900, first bishop of Portsmouth from 1882), to front pastedown.

04.08.2026 - 19:43

57500,- EUR

Bernard Quaritch Ltd.