FLOWER, Stanley Smyth.

Album of 14 watercolours of India and Malaya.

India and Malaya, October 1894 to August 1895.

A charming album of vivid watercolour views...

£750

HUGO, Victor.

Notre-Dame de Paris. Par Victor Hugo. Troisième...

Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1831.

First edition, third issue, of Victor Hugo’s...

£7500

NERVAL, Gérard de.

Lorely, souvenirs d’Allemagne. Paris,...

Giraud et J. Dagneau, 1852.

First edition, second issue, of a collection...

£800

ANACREON.

Ανακρεοντος τηιου μελη...

Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’,...

Thick paper copy, apparently one of 12...

£650

TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington…

London: Edward Moxon … 1852.

First edition of Tennyson’s ode to the...

£100

CHALKHILL, John.

Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral History...

London, Printed for Benj. Tooke … 1683.

First edition of Chalkhill’s unfinished...

£1850

ROTH, Henry.

Call it Sleep.

London, Michael Joseph, 1963.

First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...

£250

VARILLAS, [Antoine].

La pratique de l’education des princes,...

Amsterdam, H. Wetstein & H. Desbordes, 1686.

A highly unusual pyrographic binding, likely...

£750

ROHAN, Henri, Duke of; [Henry HUNT, translator].

A Treatise of the Interest of the Princes...

London, Richard Hodgkinson, 1641.

First edition in England (and second in...

£1800

[CHARLES II.]

RIVET, Jean. ‘Le favory du Ciel ou Meditation...

[Caussade en Quercy, 1664.]

A fascinating manuscript meditation on...

£1850

PORTER, [Jane].

Thaddeus of Warsaw. In four Volumes …...

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.

Fifth edition of Jane Porter’s famous...

£500

PORTER, [Jane].

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks,...

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

First edition, uncommon, of a collection...

£600

[PRAYERS.]

The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts....

London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.

Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection...

£1200

KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

Travels from Berlin, through Switzerland,...

London, Richard Phillips, 1804.

First edition in English, quickly translated...

£500

KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

The most remarkable Year in the Life of...

London, Richard Phillips, 1802.

First edition in English of Kotzebue’s...

£500

SOPHOCLES; Ezra POUND, translator.

Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

London, Neville Spearman, [1956]. 

First edition of Pound’s version of Sophocles’...

£1000

FERDOWSĪ.

Shāhnāmah.

Tehran, Amir Kabir, AH 1350 [AD 1971].

A lavishly produced edition of the Shāhnāmah...

£4000

[FRASER, William Augustus, Sir.]

Poems by the Knight of Morar.

London, Whittingham and Wilkins, 1867. 

First edition, privately printed, a presentation...

£350

MAUGHAM, William Somerset; Graham SUTHERLAND, illustrator.

Cakes and Ale, or the Skeleton in the Cupboard....

London, [Windmill Press for] William Heinemann,...

No. 132 of 1000 copies, signed by both...

£350

[GREVENSTUK Brothers.]

Hand-coloured parchment key labels, with...

Amsterdam, [c. 1875–1900].

A rare and curious survival: some seventy...

£1200