Firsts 2021. London's Rare Book Fair
21 October 2021 - 24 October 2021
The Saatchi Gallery, London SW3
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[The gathering of Manna and a Dominican friar reading mass].Swabia, 1475-1500.
$7,257.00Circular miniature initial separated into two parts by a curved S-shape in gilt. The upper section represents three Jewish figures gathering manna falling from the heavens during the Exodus. To the right a horned Moses is seen. The lower section shows a Dominican friar celebrating mass before a monstrance and an altar. The manna scene serves as a …
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Origine, e fondatione di tutte le religioni, e militie di cavallieri, con …Vicenza, 1614.
$7,257.00First edition. Rare treatise on the history of the orders of knighthood, by the Reverend Andrea Guarini, discussing the origin and foundation of all religious and military orders established since the early Middle Ages. The work includes descriptions of the Constantinian Order ("the noblest and oldest", p. 5), the Knights Templar, the Knights of …
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A Description of the Chinese Junk "Keying".London, 1848.
$8,374.00Exhibition catalogue for the Chinese trade junk "Keying", at anchor for visitors against admission in the London Docklands in 1848. Personalised copy of the Swedish visitor Carl Peter Freidenfeldt, with autograph of and stamped by the Mandarin on board, He Sing.
The "Keying", an impressive 3-masted 800-ton sailing ship, was the first Chinese …
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13 original colour drawings in an album.No place Germany or Britain?, 1857.
$10,607.00A splendid album of ethnographic portraits, possibly intended as templates for the nine-year-old Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939), the sixth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and like her mother a highly accomplished artist at an early age. The meticulous and detailed drawings show representatives …