NIEUHOF, Jean, and Jean LE CARPENTIER (translator). 

L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...

Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665. 

Lavishly illustrated first French edition...

£3500

VERLAINE, Paul, and Léon LEBÈGUE (illustrator).

Fêtes gallantes.

Paris, F. Ferroud for the Librairie des...

Limited edition on vélin teinté d’Arches,...

£750

MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano. 

Illustrium poetarum flores. 

Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563. 

A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...

£1950

SPENCER, Eleanor P. 

The Sobieski Hours: A Manuscript in the...

London, [Rampant Lion Press for] Academic...

Limited edition, dedicated and presented...

£475

CESAROTTI, Melchiorre, librettist.

Adria consolata festa teatrale nel solenne...

Venice, Vincenzo Rizzi, [1803].

First edition, very rare, of this libretto...

£275

NIXON, Howard M. 

Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

First edition, one of three hundred copies,...

£875

FREEMAN, Arthur.

Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries....

London, The Author, 2020.

This partly historical, partly philological...

£15

FREEMAN, Arthur.

Bibliotheca Fictiva: A Collection of Books...

London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

This fully revised and enlarged edition...

£80

WALLIS, William.

The Western Gentleman’s Farrier, containing...

Troy (OH), John T. Tullis, 1838.

Second edition of an American work on farriery,...

£250

SMITH, Albert Richard.

The Story of Mont Blanc …

London, David Bogue, 1853.

First edition of Smith’s famous book...

£1275

CARDONNEL, Adam de.

Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

London: Printed for the Author, and sold...

First edition, the very rare issue with...

£975

ANSELMI, Giorgio, the younger. 

Georgii Anselmi nepotis Epigrammaton libri...

Venice, Maffeo Pasini, September 1528. 

The definitive edition of the epigrams...

£875

KOLLÁR, Jan. 

Díla básnická … we dwau djljch [‘A...

Buda, no publisher, but ‘with the types...

First collected edition of Jan Kollár’s...

£1750

FLORUS, Lucius. 

Lucii Flori rerum ab urbe condita liber...

[Venice, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri,...

Florus’s epitome of Roman history, extracted...

£750

RENOWNED HISTORY (The)

of Primrose Prettyface, who by her Sweetness...

London, Printed & sold by J. Marshall...

One of three undated editions, probably...

£1000

WILSON, David (editor).

A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, &c....

[Edinburgh:] Sold by the Editor at his...

Second(?), expanded edition of this collection...

£500

MAJER, Andrea.

Discorso sulla origine, progressi, e stato...

Padua, ‘dalla Tipografia e Fonderia...

First edition of Majer’s treatise on...

£450

ARNIGIO, Bartolomeo. 

Rime dell’Arnigio per la ill[ustre] signora...

Brescia, Giovanni Battista Bozzola, 1566. 

First edition of Bartolomeo Arnigio’s...

£1750

FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator). 

The 104th Psalm.  Illustrated by Susan...

...

The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...

£650

BUONACCORSI, Biagio, and Niccolò VALORI. 

Diario de’ successi piu importanti seguiti...

Florence, Filippo & Jacopo Giunta, 1568. 

First edition of an insider account of...

£1000