[COOK, James, and Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de la PÉROUSE.]

Tableau des decouvertes du Capne. Cook,...

S. Sauveur, l’an 7 de la République...

A splendid hand-coloured engraving depicting...

£1500

MARINIS, Dominico de. 

Dissertatio philosophico-medica de re monstrosa...

Rome, typis Iacobi Mascardi ... sumptibus...

First edition of this scarce dissertation...

£1850

[JAMIESON, John.] 

Congal and Fenella; A Tale in Two Parts. 

London, C. Dilly, 1791. 

First and only edition of Jamieson’s...

£250

ORIBASIUS. 

Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...

£1750

TERENCE Afer, Publius. 

Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis...

Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529. 

First folio edition of Terence’s comedies...

£1500

SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. 

The School for Scandal, a Comedy [– The...

Dublin, William Porter for William Jones,...

The first attempt to publish a collected...

£275

QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius, and Jacques-Louis d’ESTREBAY (editor).

Compendium libri secundi, tertii, et quinti...

Paris, Thomas Richard, 1558.

Very rare third edition of this compendium...

£350

AYRTON, Michael.

Tittivulus, or the Verbiage Collector …

London, Max Reinhardt, [1953].

First edition, signed, of Ayrton’s first...

£100

AUDEN, Wystan Hugh, and Christopher ISHERWOOD.

The Dog beneath the Skin or where is Francis?...

London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1954].

Sixth impression. When Bridson had reviewed...

£100

THACKERAY, William Makepeace. 

The Virginians, a tale of the last century. 

London, Bradbury & Evans, November 1857...

First edition in the original monthly parts...

£600

[OSBORNE, Francis.]

Historical memoires on the reigns of Queen...

London: Printed by T. Grismond, and are...

First edition of Osborne’s history of...

£475

[EDWARD VII – COMMON PRAYER.]

[Cover title: ‘Prayer Book of...

[Norwood (MA), Plimpton Press for] New...

Authorised American edition of the Essex...

£500

[GEORGE V.]

The Form and Order of the Service that...

London, Novello & Company, 1911.

A handsome copy of the Coronation service,...

£450

LEWIS, Wyndham.

The Roaring Queen. Edited and introduced...

London, Secker & Warburg, [1973].

Limited edition, no XXVII of XXX copies...

£500

WILLIAMS, William Carlos.

Paterson [Books 1, 2, 3 & 4].

Norfolk, New Classics, [1951]. [with:]

First collected edition of Books One...

£1250

[MONROE, Marilyn.] 

DIENES, André de.  Marilyn. 

Cologne, Taschen, 2002. 

First edition of this celebratory book...

£200

ZUKOFSKY, Louis.

Some Time. Short Poems …

Stuttgart, Jonathan Williams, 1956.

First edition, one of 300 copies, inscribed...

£500

REXROTH, Kenneth.

An Autobiographical Novel …

Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company,...

First edition, inscribed ‘In friendship...

£300

[PRAYERS.] 

‘Orationes diversae pro temporum opportunitate...

[Likely Lucca, late eighteenth century.] 

A delightful manuscript prayerbook for...

£475

TACITUS. 

C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exemplaribus...

Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1678. 

A remarkably fresh set of the third and...

£275