[NUNS.]

Il paradiso in terra aperto alle sagre...

Rome, Ottavio Puccinelli, 1747.

Second edition (first 1718) of an anonymous...

£1750

GEREMIA, Pietro.

Opus. Sermones in adventum Domini. Sermones...

[(Colophons:) Brescia, Giacomo Britannico,...

First edition of Geremia’s sermons, in...

£2800

[CONGREGAZIONE DELL’ORATORIO DI ROMA.]

Sammelband of fourteen libretti.

Rome, 1765–1768.

A sammelband of rare devotional libretti...

£1750

WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY.

Three documents concerning the financing...

London, 1799–1810.

Three key documents concerning the financing...

£1350

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux Chevalier...

[(Colophon:) Poitiers, Jacques Bouchet...

An otherwise unrecorded late sixteenth-century...

£8750

[BILLARDON DE SAUVIGNY, Edme-Louis.]

Voyage de Madame et de Madame Victoire.

Lunéville, Messuy, [1761].

Four rare works describing visits by the...

£975

[THOM, Robert].

王嬌鸞百年長恨 Wang Keaou Lẅan...

Canton, Canton Press Office, 1839.

First and only edition, scarce, loosely...

£1750

[STANFORD, John Frederick].

John Bull and his wonderful Lamp. A new...

London, John Petherham, 1849.

First edition, a rare hand-coloured presentation...

£600

FENN, John, Sir.

Original Letters written during the Reigns...

London, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787.

Second edition, published in the same year...

£1200

[COSTUME.]

Dresses of different Nations or the Companion...

[N.p., 1810s?]

Very rare costume book, possibly a Scottish...

£1500

CHIANG Yee.

The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh.

[Edinburgh, Constable, for] London, Methuen,...

First edition, signed, of this unusual...

£180

[CARLYLE.]

Illustrated memorial Volume of the Carlyle’s...

London, The Carlyle’s House Memorial...

First edition of an uncommon commemorative...

£325

BARRIE, James Matthew.

A set of seven first editions, and one...

London, 1888–1896.

An attractive set of J. M. Barrie’s...

£650

LUNESCHLOS, Joannes de.

Thesaurus mathematum reseratus per algebram...

Padua, Giulio Crivellari, 1646.

An uncommon mathematical text, written...

£8500

BOYLE, Robert.

A Disquisition about the final Causes of...

London, H. C. for John Taylor, 1688.

First edition, second issue, with Boyle’s...

£750

BOYLE, Robert.

Certain physiological Essays and other...

London, Henry Herringman, 1669.

Second edition in English, enlarged. ‘The...

£1500

MILLER, Henry.

Tropic of Cancer.

London, John Calder, 1963.

First UK editions of Miller’s autobiographical...

£1500

LUCIAN of Samosata.

Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, e Graeco...

Lyons, Jean Frellon, 1549.

First Lyons edition of the works of Lucian...

£3750

[KEIR, James.]

An Account of the Life and Writings of...

London, printed for John Stockdale, 1791.

First edition of this biography of Thomas...

£1500

[DISNEY, John.]

Memoirs of Thomas Brand-Hollis Esq. ...

London, T. Gillet, 1808.

First edition of a privately printed memoir...

£750