VARILLAS, [Antoine].

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

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

A highly unusual pyrographic binding, likely...

£750

MATURIN, Charles.

Melmoth the Wanderer: a Tale … Edinburgh,...

London, Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1820.

First edition, with excellent provenance,...

£7500

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

BRIDGES, Robert.

Eros and Psyche, a Poem in XII Measures...

[Gregynog], The Gregynog Press, 1935.

One of 300 copies, one of the most beautiful...

£1500

[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

[BYRON, George Gordon, Lord.]

Edward FINDEN, illustrator. [Landscape...

[London, John Murray, 1833–4.]

Finden’s attractive engraved illustrations...

£850

[FIRST AID – RAILWAYS.] 

Ministère des chemins de fer, postes et...

Ghent, F.& R. Buyck, 1912. 

First separate edition, seemingly unrecorded,...

£195

SAY, Jean-Baptiste.

Olbie, ou Essai sur les moyens de réformer...

Paris, Deterville and Treuttel & Wurtz,...

Rare first edition of Say’s utopia, our...

£2500

[‘HYSON, Timothy’, pseud. Thomas LOWNDES].

A Letter to Mr. Richard Twining, Tea Dealer,...

London, [C. Roworth] for the author, 1827.

Second edition of the Letter to Mr Richard...

£250

MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

Urbis Romae topographia.

Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

First illustrated edition (third overall),...

£5500