SHAKESPEARE, William; Alexander POPE, editor.

The Works of Shakespear. In eight Volumes....

Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1766.

First and only Foulis edition, issued in...

£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...

£300

PERRET, Jean-Jacques.

La pogonotomie, ou l’art d’apprendre...

Brussels, Benoît Le  Francq, 1803.

Rare Brussels edition (first Paris 1769)...

£400

LORICH, Gerhard.

Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

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

First editions of a pair of Reformation-era...

£1450

EXPILLY, Claude.

Les poemes de Messire Claude Expilly, Conseiller...

Grenoble, Pierre Verdier, 1624.

A wide-margined copy of the expanded second...

£950

[DE GRAAFT, attributed.]

Avantures secrettes, et plaisantes. Recueillies...

Brussels, George de Backer, 1696.

Scarce first Brussels edition, published...

£375

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

La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux...

Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.

Rare second edition, revised and expanded...

£500

[DALLAS, Eneas Sweetland.]

Kettner’s Book of the Table: A Manual...

London, Dulau and Co., 1877.

First edition of Dallas’s encyclopaedic...

£180

CARLUCCI, Luca.

In difesa delli speziali di medicina dell’Almo...

Naples, 20 July 1756.

First edition, seemingly unrecorded, of...

£1250

[CAJOT, Jean-Joseph.]

Les plagiats de M. J.J.R. de Genève...

The Hague and Paris, Durand, 1766.

First edition of this scathing critique...

£275

[BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

L’ami des femmes.

Paris, ‘Quay des Augustins’, 1759.

Uncommon early edition, printed a year...

£300

BEROALDO, Filippo.

Opusculum eruditum quo continetur Declamatio...

[(Colophon:) Paris], Denis Roce, [1 August...

Second Paris editions (first 1500) of Beroaldo’s...

£3750

[ARABIAN NIGHTS.]

Arabian Tales; or, a Continuation of the...

London, Faulder, and Hookham and Carpenter,...

First edition of this translation of the...

£1000

XENOPHON; [Philipp MELANCHTHON, editor].

Ξενοφωντος απαντα. Xenophontis...

Schwäbisch Hall, [Peter Braubach], 1540.

The first complete edition of Xenophon’s...

£4000

GALUPPI, Baldassare.

Daniel in lacu leonum modi sacri recinendi...

Venice, s.n., 1773.

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

£650

FOURCROY DE GUILLERVILLE, Jean-Louis de.

Les Enfans élevés dans l’ordre de la...

Paris, brothers Estienne, and Lausanne,...

Second edition of Fourcroy de Guillerville’s...

£250

ERASMUS, Desiderius.

Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...

Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.

Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...

£125

COLIN, Hyacinthe.

Vie de la venerable servante de dieu Marie...

Paris, Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hérissant, 1744.

Uncommon first edition of this biography...

£500

CLAUDIANUS, Claudius; Tommaso MEDINA, translator.

Il ratto di Proserpina di Claudio Claudiano...

Brescia, Bettoni, 1804.

Very rare first edition of a translation...

£650

CIGAULD, Vincent.

Allegationes Vincentii … iudicis ordinarii...

(Colophon:) Paris, Jean Frellon, 23 December...

Extremely rare first edition of this legal...

£2500