MESNY, William.

Mesny’s Chinese Miscellany. A Text Book...

Shanghai, printed at the “China Gazette...

The first volume, collecting the first...

£1500

FLORIO, Blasco.

Lettera sopra alcuni ostacoli che la logica,...

Messina, Giuseppe Fiumara, 1825.

Very rare first edition of this work on...

£475

[ANON.] 

Le moine galant, ou la vie de Don F…...

[S.l., s.n.,] 1756. 

Scarce first edition of this satirical...

£450

DOD, John, attributed.

A Sermon on Malt. [S.l., s.n., c. 1840].

[c. 1840].

A seemingly unrecorded printing of the...

£875

DENISSE, Nicolas.

Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus...

Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].

Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...

£1650

PIUS II, Pope (Enea Silvio PICCOLOMINI); Nicolaus DE WYLE, editor.

[Epistolae familiares; De duobus amantibus...

[Reutlingen, Michael Greyff, not after 1478.]

First combined edition of Pius II’s...

£12500

[SERMONS.]

[Sermones sensati.]

[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

First and only incunable edition of a rare...

£8500

SMITH, Henry.

The Sinful Mans Search: or Seeking of God...

London, [T. Scarlet for] Cuthbert Burby,...

Second edition, rare, of The Sinful...

£8500

PFEFFER DE WYDENBERG, Johannes.

[Directorium sacerdotale.]

[Basel, Johann Besicken, after 20 December...

First and only incunable edition, very...

£6500

PAULUS de Sancta Maria.

Scrutinium scripturarum.

[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 7 January...

Fifth edition (first Strasbourg, not after...

£12500

PATRIZI, Francesco.

Egloga de Christi nativitate …

[Padua, Printer of Lucianus (H 10276),...

Extremely rare first edition of Patrizi’s...

£4500

[LANSPERGER, Johannes Justus;] Serafino ACETI DE’ PORTI, translator.

Pharetra divini amoris, tradotto in volgare...

Venice, Paolo Gherardo [(colophon:) Comin...

Third Italian edition, considerably enlarged,...

£1500

LA VIGNE, André de.

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

[(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

£9500

HERMES TRISMEGISTUS; Marsilio FICINO, translator.

Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei …

[(Colophon:) Venice, Damianus de Mediolano,...

An attractive Venetian edition of the first...

£7500

GAGUIN, Robert.

La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

£8500

[DEVOTION.]

Cy commence une petite instruction et maniere...

[Paris, Guillaume Merlin, c. 1553.]

A gathering of very rare three devotional...

£7500

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...

A rare edition of Champier’s account...

£9500

[CATECHISM.]

Fundamentum eterne felicitatis omnibus...

[(Colophon:) Cologne, [Retro minores (Martin...

Very rare first edition of this small-format...

£5000

[BUTRIO, Antonius de, attributed; HUGH of Saint-Cher; Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo; DENIS the Carthusian.]

[Speculum de confessione; Ars moriendi;...

[(Colophon:) Louvain, Johannes de Westfalia,]...

Rare third(?) edition, printed in Louvain,...

£5750

ACQUAVIVA, Claudio.

Meditationes in Psalmum XLIV, & CXVIII.

Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1616.

First edition of these Jesuit meditations...

£1550