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  1. SHIPLEY, Hannah.

    Manuscript on trade, commerce, and accounting.

    [England, c. 1800.]

    An attractive manuscript, written by...

    £500

  2. [HEMSTERHUIS, François.] 

    Alexis ou de l’age d’or. 

    Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1787. 

    First edition of Hemsterhuis’s philosophical...

    £375

  3. [BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]

    An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....

    London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.

    Scarce second edition – in fact a...

    £1500

  4. BEBEL, August, and Daniel DE LEON, translator.

    Woman under socialism. Translated from...

    New York, Labor News Press, 1904.

    First edition in English, first printing,...

    £125

  5. ALFIERI, Vittorio, and Charles LLOYD, translator.

    The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri; translated...

    London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees,...

    First edition of this translation of...

    £450

  6. [LADY JANE GREY.]

    ‘The last days of Lady Jane Grey’.

    [c. 1870s?].

    Manuscript, unfinished or incomplete....

    £175

  7. MOORE, Thomas.

    Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance … eleventh...

    London, [A. & R. Spottiswoode for] Longman,...

    An early edition of Thomas Moore’s...

    £450

  8. LEE, Edwin.

    The Principal Baths of Germany [– The...

    London, Whittaker & Cp., Paris, Galignani...

    First edition, scarce, of Edwin Lee’s...

    £350

  9. DICKENS, Charles; Hablot Knight BROWNE and George CATTERMOLE, illustrators.

    Master Humphrey’s Clock.

    London, Chapman and Hall, 1840–41.

    First edition in book form, of Charles...

    £175

  10. BUTLER, Samuel.

    Hudibras, in three Parts, written in the...

    London, Thomas Maiden for Vernor & Hood...

    An illustrated pocket edition of Butler’s...

    £450

  11. SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius, and HERODIAN OF ANTIOCH.

    Vita di duodeci imperatori… nuovamente...

    Venice, Venturino di Rossinelli [for Curzio...

    Annotated copy of a scarce edition of...

    £1250

  12. BEERBOHM, Max.

    Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story.

    London, William Heinemann, 1911.

    First edition of Beerbohm’s only novel,...

    £195

  13. [PSALMS.]

    Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per...

    Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for]...

    Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms...

    £1250

  14. YARRELL, William.

    A History of British Fishes … illustrated...

    London, Samuel Bentley for John van Voorst,...

    First collected editions, with an autograph...

    £750

  15. SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de.

    Cours de linguistique générale.

    Lausanne & Paris, Payot, 1916.

    First edition of this seminal textbook...

    £575

  16. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS.

    Historiae Romanae duo volumina, ad M. Vinicium...

    [(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, November...

    Editio princeps of a summary...

    £2750

  17. VALERIUS MAXIMUS.

    Dictorum et factorum memorabilium libri novem.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, October...

    First Aldine edition, variant ‘B’...

    £2750

  18. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...

    First edition, annotated throughout...

    £6750

  19. OVIDIUS Naso, Publius.

    Amatoria. Quorum indicem sequens continet...

    Lyons, Sebastian Gryphius, 1554.

    Attractive annotated copy of a successful...

    £1850

  20. JUVENAL, Decimus Junius.

    Argumenta Satyrarum Iuvenalis per Antonimu...

    [(Colophon:) Milan, Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler...

    Rare edition of Juvenal’s Satires...

    £5000