MERULA, Giorgio.

Enarrationes Satyrarum Juvenalis.

Treviso, Bartholomaeus Confalonerius,...

The first book printed by Bartolomeo...

£6500

LIVY; [Pedro DE LA VEGA, translator].

Todas las decadas de Tito Livio paduano,...

[(Colophon:) Cologne [i.e. Antwerp?],...

A handsome copy of Livy’s History...

£3500

STRABO.

Strabonis geographicorum lib. XVII ......

Basel, Johann Walder, 1539.

Second edition of Strabo’s masterful...

£2500

THEOCRITUS et al.

Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....

[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.

An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...

£9000

PORTA, Giambattista della.

De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...

Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...

The second Latin edition and the first...

£2500

PLINY the Elder.

Historiae mundi libri XXXVII, cum castigationibus...

Frankfurt, Claude de Marne and heirs of...

First Frankfurt edition of Pliny’s...

£1400

HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.

Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...

Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

First collected edition of the neo-Latin...

£600

[PSALMS.]

Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

New edition of the metrical Psalms of...

£950

[ALMANACK.]

Calendarium Tyrnaviense ad annum Jesu Chris[ti]...

[Tyrnau (Trnava), 1731.]

A remarkable almanack binding of part-printed,...

£1850

MÄNDL, Kaspar.

Christliche Sitten-Lehr und heylsame Anmuthungen...

Augsburg, Matthias Wolff, 1737.

A superb example of Rococo decorative...

£6750

[WALLPAPER BINDING.]

‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves...

Hainaut, 1750–1773.

A manuscript account book compiled by...

£3500

[EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

A charming almanack for 1753 printed...

£400

[WALLET.]

Wallet with manuscript and printed waste.

France, c. 1790.

An attractive late eighteenth-century...

£950

[BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...

£1200

ZACHARIÄ, Just Friedrich Wilhelm.

Les quatre parties du jour, poëme traduit...

Paris, J. B. G. Musier fils, 1769.

First edition in French of this proto-Romantic...

£1500

[HYMNAL.]

Neu-vermehrt- und vollständiges Gesang-Buch,...

[Likely Swabia, for] Philadelphia, Ernst...

First and only edition thus of this...

£3500

[MINIATURE BOOKS.]

‘Hebdomadaire, ou bibliotheque secrete’.

France, c. 1800.

A charming miniature diary in seven...

£2750

HAMILTON, ‘Eliza’ [Elizabeth].

Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo...

London, J. Crowder for G. & J. Robinson, 1801.

Second edition of Hamilton’s first...

£575

[ALMANACK.]

Les etrennes a la rose, ou le rosier d’amour.

Paris, Janet, [1804?].

A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...

£2500

[ALMANACK.]

London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1820.

[London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...

An extraordinary binding of silver filigree...

£2750