MITFORD, Algernon Bertram, translator.

英譯. 佐倉宗五郎之傳. The Ghost...

Tokyo, Seishi-bunsha, 1892.

Extremely rare Tokyo-printed edition of...

£450

MITFORD, Algernon Bertram, translator.

The Tale of forty seven Ronins …

Tokyo, Bible & Tract Repository [and (colophon:)...

A seemingly unrecorded Tokyo edition of...

£850

‘WALINCOURT, Vicomte de’ [i.e. FONTAINE DE RESBECQ, Eugène de].

Voyage à Botany-Bay … suivi d’autres...

Limoges, Martial Ardant brothers [Louis...

First edition, very rare, of this light-hearted...

£475

[VAN DER STRAET, Jan, after.]

[Imperatorum XII a Suetonio descriptorum...

[Netherlands or Rome, early seventeenth...

A set of large-format equestrian portraits...

£1500

[SPADAZZI, Carlo, editor.]

Per le nozze Varano-Dolfin. Rime.

Venice, Stamperia Palese, 1807.

First and only edition of a collection...

£350

[SIGONIO, Carlo.] Marcus Tullius CICERO, attributed; [Claude MIGNAULT, editor].

M. Tullii Ciceronis consolatio. Liber,...

Nunc primum repertus, et in lucem editus...

Extremely rare early edition of Sigonio’s...

£1500

[PROCESSIONAL.]

[Processionarium monasticum secundum consuetudinem...

[Coimbra, António de Mariz, 1571.]

An extremely rare Processional of Benedictine...

£1250

PLINY the Younger; Filippo BEROALDO, editor.

Epistolae Plinii ad Traianum cum panegyrico....

[(Colophon:) Bologna, Benedetto Faelli,...

A pair of Bologna printings of short works...

£3500

MILTON, John.

Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity.

[Holborn,] W. Herbert Broome and James...

First Old Bourne edition, numbered 42 of...

£675

[LA REYNIE DE LA BRUYÈRE, Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Louis.]

The Livre rouge, or Red Book: being a List...

Dublin, Patrick Byrne, 1790.

Rare Dublin edition of this English translation...

£450

KRUPKIN, Ilka.

Gudruna Trogstad, capitana.

Buenos Aires, Manuel Gleizer, 1930.

Scarce first edition, signed by the author,...

£350

HORACE.

Opera, interpretatione et notis illustravit...

Venice, Typographia Balleoniana, 1797.

An uncut copy in a patterned paper binding...

£600

CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare.

Il libro del cortegiano … nuovamente...

Venice, Gabriele Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1544.

Second Giolito edition of the classic Renaissance...

£800

AURELIUS VICTOR, Sextus.

Historiae romanae breviarium. A Jano &...

Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1579.

A pair of abbreviated histories based on...

£1450

[ARISTOTLE.]

‘P[hiloso]phia na[tur]alis seu Phisica;...

[Douai, c. 1702].

An interesting hybrid volume, combining...

£1450

FORSTER, E. M.

Small archive of correspondence sent to...

Britain, 1943–1970.

An important collection of unpublished...

£3000

HERMES TRISMEGISTUS; Marsilio FICINO, translator.

Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei …

[(Colophon:) Venice, Damianus de Mediolano,...

An attractive Venetian edition of the first...

£7500

PFEFFER DE WYDENBERG, Johannes.

[Directorium sacerdotale.]

[Basel, Johann Besicken, after 20 December...

First and only incunable edition, very...

£6500

[BOIS-SEIGNEUR-ISAAC.]

Histoire memorable et digne de foy, du...

Mons, Charles Michel, 1593.

First and only edition, very rare, of an...

£1250

BELLARMINO, Roberto.

Dichiarazione della dottrina cristiana...

Brescia, Bendiscioli, 1815.

Very rare vernacular Brescia edition of...

£350