[BURY, Charlotte, Lady.]

The Exclusives. In three Volumes ...

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley...

First edition of this celebrated society...

£950

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

A very fine large initial painted in a...

£6750

SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.

Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’...

£100

MILNE, A. A.; E. H. SHEPARD, illustrator.

The House at Pooh Corner.

London, Methuen & Co., 1928.

First edition, first impression, of A. A. Milne’s...

£650

[SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...

Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...

Stated second edition but in fact a third...

£375

BLANCHON, Jacques.

Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...

£950

JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...

Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

First Aldine edition of Justinus’ abridgement...

£1850

FAULKNER, William.

A Fable.

[New York,] Random House, [1954].

Limited edition, no. 880 of 1000 copies...

£1500

SHAKESPEARE, William; Richard Grant WHITE, editor.

The Works of William Shakespeare. The Plays...

Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1893.

An attractive Boston-printed edition of...

£500

[CUMBERLAND, Richard.]

Arundel. By the author of the Observer.

London, Printed for C. Dilly … 1789.

First edition. Richard Cumberland (1732–1811)...

£1500

HORACE; James TATE, editor. 

Horatius restitutus: or the books...

Cambridge, J. Smith for J. & J.J. Deighton,...

First edition of this attempt to arrange...

£150

[ALTAR CARDS.]

Two altar cards with Latin text and images...

‘A Paris, chez I. Baudemont’, second...

Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...

£2750

GELLIUS, Aulus; [Johann Friedrich GRONOVIUS, editor].

Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1651.

Jansson’s piracy of Gronovius’s celebrated...

£450

DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.

The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...

Shortrede and Co., 1867.

First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...

£4750

DIO CASSIUS.

Dione historico delle guerre et fatti de...

Venice, Niccolò Zoppino, March 1533.

First edition of Dio Cassius’s Roman...

£2500

[POEMS ON DRINKING.]

Raccolta di brindisi per tutte le occasioni;...

Milan, Emilio Croci, 1875.

First edition of this compact font of inspiration...

£200

LOCKE, John. 

[An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding]. ...

Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waesbergi, Boom,...

A substantial and extremely influential...

£2850

GISSING, George.

The Unclassed, A Novel … in three Volumes.

London, Chapman and Hall, 1884.

First edition of Gissing’s second novel...

£950

[SURTEES, Robert Smith,] and John LEECH (illustrator).

Handley Cross series.

London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899-1900.

Limited ‘Master of Foxhounds’ edition,...

£1200

KOH, John.

Dogs in Early Photography.

London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

Throughout history, dogs have been a subject...

£50