[RARITIES AND PROVERBS.]

Lyste van Rariteiten, die verkocht zullen...

‘Gedrukt in Arabien, midden op de Zand-Zee,...

A bizarre series of fictitious auction...

£5500

[GIRALDI, Giovanni Battista.]

Giuditio sopra la tragedia di Canace et...

(Colophon:) Lucca, Vincenzo Busdraghi,...

First edition of this criticism, in the...

£650

[COTIN, Charles, Abbé.]

‘Enigmes du temps.’

[France, c. 1750.]

A manuscript compendium of 237 French enigmas,...

£1250

SAAVEDRA FAJARDO, Diego de.

Idea de un Principe politico christiano,...

Valencia, heirs of Crisóstomo Garriz,...

Fourth Valencian edition of ‘the most...

£750

SCHOPPER, Hartmann, translator.

Speculum vitae aulicae. De admirabili fallacia...

Frankfurt, [(colophon:) Nikolaus Basse], 1595.

Fifth and final edition of the first Latin...

£850

[TARONI, Giovanni Battista, pseud.] ‘Giovanna Statira BOTTINI’.

Cento nodi da sciogliersi proposti al genio...

Bologna, Gaspare de’ Franceschi, 1765.

Extremely rare edition of one hundred widely...

£450

VAN VEEN, Otto.

Amoris divini emblemata …

Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

Second edition (first 1615) of sixty spiritual...

£950

VERRIEN, [Nicolas].

Recueil d’emblêmes, devises, medailles,...

Paris, Claude Jombert [part II: Jean Jombert],...

A rich collection of engraved emblems,...

£750

ZAUNSLIFER, Petrus.

Tafereel van overdeftige Zinnebeelden,...

Amsterdam, Gerard Onder de Linden, 1722.

First edition of this illustrated collection...

£950

GAY, John.

Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author.

Vienna, Rudolph Sammer, 1799.

Uncommon Vienna-printed edition of this...

£375

AESOP.

Les fables et la vie d’Ésope, composée...

Caen, Pierre-Théodore Chalopin, [between...

An uncommon provincial edition of Aesop’s...

£250

[ALTAR CARDS.]

Two altar cards with Latin text and images...

Paris, Vanheck, [early eighteenth century].

Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...

£1750

[BOOK OF HOURS.]

Parts of the Hours of the Cross, Litanies,...

Northern France (?Loire Valley), late...

Four leaves from a small and elegant Book...

£1250

[ALVISET, Jean Antoine.]

L’Ange gardien. Pour les devotes confreries...

Lyon, Jacques du Creux, 1647.

Very rare devotional manual for female...

£350

BAUDELAIRE, Charles.

Oeuvres complètes … Les Fleurs du mal.

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, [1917?].

An attractive early twentieth-century edition...

£250

CARACCIOLI, Louis-Antoine, Marquis.

The Travels of Reason in Europe. Translated...

London, J. Johnson, and W. Charnley...

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

£1200

[DARTON, William.]

Little Jack of all Trades, with suitable...

London, printed and sold by Darton and...

Extremely rare early editions of this popular...

£750

EVELYN, John.

Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees,...

London, John Martyn, 1679.

Third, enlarged edition of Evelyn’s Sylva,...

£1500

GOETHE, [Johann Wolfgang von].

Goethe’s Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe...

Stuttgart & Tübingen, J. G. Cotta, 1828.

First edition, first impression, of the...

£3500

[HÉRISSANT, Louis Théodore.]

Le fablier françois, ou élite des meilleures...

Paris, Lottin le jeune, 1771.

First edition, rare, of what has a claim...

£650