[PALIN, Nils Gustaf.]

De l’étude des hiéroglyphes. Fragmens. Tome premier [–cinquième].

Paris, Fain for Delaunay, Colnet, Treuttel, and Wurtz, 1812.

First edition of this curious work on Egyptian hieroglyphics by the Swedish diplomat and Sinologist Nils Gustaf Palin (1765–1842).

£2500

[FILLASTRE], Guillaume.

Le premier [– second] volume de la Thoison dor … Auquel soubs les vertus de magnanimite et iustice...

Paris, Jean Petit [for Poncet Le Preux], [(colophon:) Troyes, Nicolas Le Rouge, 21 April 1530].

Rare third edition (first, 1516) of the most successful contemporary treatise on the Order of the Golden Fleece, composed by a prominent member of the order for the son of its founder, Charles the Bold of Burgundy.

£9500

VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.

La Henriade, en dix chants; avec l’histoire abrégée des évènemens sur lesquels est fondée...

Edinburgh, J. Watson, 1798.

Rare Edinburgh edition of Voltaire’s epic poem on toleration and fanaticism.

£150

ZINZERLING, Justus.

Jodoci Sinceri Itinerarium Galliae, ita accommodatum, ut ejus ductu mediocri tempore tota Gallia obiri, Anglia...

Amsterdam, Janson, 1649.

William Beckford’s copy of a later edition of Zinzerling’s Itinerarium Galliae (1616), describing several years of travelling in France, England and the Low Countries, with an attractive series of city views which appear here for the first time. The number of plates seems to vary between copies,...

£1250

VIRGIL.

Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum autorum annotationibus illustrata, editio nova emendatior: in qua filum narrationis...

London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt pro Societate Stationariorum’, 1672.

Rare student edition of the works of Virgil, printed in London by Evan Tyler and Ralph Holt for the Stationers’ Company, owned and annotated by the Irish Jesuit John Grene and gifted by him to his pupil and fellow Jesuit Edward Scarisbrick.

£650

[REVILLIOD, Gustave.]

Le Cousin l’Abbé.

Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1884.

First editions of two rare works by the Genevan writer and art collector Gustave Revilliod, printed on pink paper and inscribed by the author to his fellow writer and traveller Lina Beck-Bernard.

£450

MUSESTI, Piero; Giovammaria FEBRARI, translator.

Gesta di Napoleone I. imperator de’ Francesi e re d’Italia scritte...

Brescia, Tipografia dipartimentale, 1805.

Uncommon first and only edition of this dual language panegyric to Napoleon, composed in the wake of his coronation as King of Italy in Milan cathedral in May 1805, a large paper copy in decorative paper, presented by the authors.

£550

JOURNET, Henri.

‘Cahier correct à Journet Henri. Classe de quatrième. Collège d’Ambert.’

Ambert, 1851–1854.

A charmingly decorated exercise-book belonging to Henri Journet, a secondary-school (collège) pupil from Ambert in the Puy-de-Dôme, France, in the mid-nineteenth century, with vibrantly coloured hand-drawn maps of Roman Gaul and the Frankish Empire.

£275

[HENLAND, Cecil.]

Your hidden Skeleton. A novel Autograph Book which reveals the secret Skeletons of your Friends through their...

Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Company, c. 1910.

Very rare first edition under this title of a popular novelty autograph book, effectively a parlour game making use of klecksography, the art of obtaining symmetrical images from inkblots.

£350

HOME, John.

Douglas: a Tragedy.

Edinburgh, George Reid & Co., 1798.

First illustrated edition, a handsome subscriber’s copy, of this lavish production which attracted more than three hundred subscriptions, mainly Scottish, some forty years after this celebrated play was first staged.

£250

GUARNA, Andrea.

Bellum grammaticale.

Venice, (colophon:) Francesco Rampazetto for Melchiorre Sessa, 1555.

Very rare edition (first published in 1511) of this extremely popular schoolbook on Latin grammar explained as a metaphorical war between the Nouns and the Verbs.

£750

GAROFANI, Antonio Maria.

L’Hippocreivaga musa invocatoria.

Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1580 [(colophon:) 1581].

First editions of three poetical works printed in Ferrara, Florence, and Pistoia, the first two rare examples of poesia fidenziana, a genre of Italian satirical poetry particular to the mid-sixteenth century, and the third work a seemingly unrecorded piece of poesia bernesca and one of...

£1750

SHAKESPEARE, William; Alexander POPE, editor.

The Works of Shakespear. In eight Volumes. Collated and corrected by the former...

Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1766.

First and only Foulis edition, issued in both duodecimo and octavo formats, of the collected plays of Shakespeare, a curious and charming set in characteristically German trade bindings of the period.

£450

SANFERMO CARIONI PEZZI, Rocco, Giovanni Battista GARAVETTA, and Francesco D’EMILEI.

Lettera scritta nel castello di S. Felice...

Verona, 1797.

One of several editions published immediately upon Verona’s capitulation to Napoleon in 1797, addressed to the Venetian Senate, in a contemporary patterned paper wrapper.

£300

PERRET, Jean-Jacques.

La pogonotomie, ou l’art d’apprendre à se raser soi-même, avec la manière de connoître toutes sortes...

Brussels, Benoît Le  Francq, 1803.

Rare Brussels edition (first Paris 1769) of this work on shaving by the distinguished French cutler and surgical instrument maker Jean-Jacques Perret, illustrated with two plates showing razors and a bearded man.

£400

LORICH, Gerhard.

Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et religionis sanae, atque adeo rerum homini Catholico, primitivae Ecclesiae...

[Frankfurt am Main], [(colophon:) Christian Egenolff, 1536].

First editions of a pair of Reformation-era Catholic manuals, one by a sympathetic and conciliatory author, the other by a renowned polemicist.

£1450

EXPILLY, Claude.

Les poemes de Messire Claude Expilly, Conseiller du Roy an son Conseil d’Etat & Prezidant au Parlemant de Grenoble.

Grenoble, Pierre Verdier, 1624.

A wide-margined copy of the expanded second edition of Expilly’s poetry, composed in a phonetic writing system of his own devising.

£950

[DE GRAAFT, attributed.]

Avantures secrettes, et plaisantes. Recueillies par Monsieur de G***.

Brussels, George de Backer, 1696.

Scarce first Brussels edition, published in the same year as the Paris edition, of this collection of twenty-four amorous and amusing tales set during the reign of Louis XIV, purporting to be true stories with the names changed to protect the characters’ identities.

£375

[DAMPMARTIN, Pierre de; Charles SOREL, editor.]

La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux tiré des memoires d’un des principaux...

Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.

Rare second edition, revised and expanded with several new discourses, of this important political treatise dating from the French Wars of Religion.

£500

[DALLAS, Eneas Sweetland.]

Kettner’s Book of the Table: A Manual of Cookery practical, theoretical, historical.

London, Dulau and Co., 1877.

First edition of Dallas’s encyclopaedic and amusing manual of cookery, ranging from Absinthe to Zest, incorporating many recipes supplied by his friend Auguste Kettner, former chef to Napoleon III and thereafter a London restaurateur who counted Oscar Wilde among his clientele, and dedicated to the...

£180