WOODCROFT, Bennet, editor; [J. G. GREENWOOD, translator].

The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria. From...

London, Charles Whittingham, 1851.

First edition of this English translation...

£300

WILLAN, Leonard.

The exact Politician, or, compleat Statesman:...

London, Dorman Newman, 1670.

First edition, second issue, employing...

£850

TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet...

London, Macmillan & Co., 1894.

An exceptionally attractive turn-of-the-century...

£675

[STATIONS OF THE CROSS.]

Exercice du Via Crucis, avec les pratiques...

Caen, Nicolas-Gilles Dedouit, [c. 1825].

Very rare manual for devotees of the Stations...

£350

MICHAELIS, Johann David.

Grammatica syriaca.

[(Colophon:) Göttingen, Friedrich Andreas...

First edition of a notable Syriac grammar...

£350

LAWRENCE, D[avid] H[erbert].

Pansies.

London, P. R. Stephensen, 1929.

No. 91 of 500 signed copies of this privately...

£600

JUSTEL, Christofle.

Codex canonum ecclesiae Africanae. Christophorus...

Paris, Abraham Pacard, 1615.

Second edition (first 1614) of this dual...

£950

[JOUY, Étienne de; Pierre-François GODARD.]

[Jeux de cartes instructives. Histoire...

N.p., n.d. [France, c. 1800–1815].

A rare early nineteenth-century French...

£475

[HYMNAL.]

Den Swenska Psalm-Boken. Af Konungen gillad...

Stockholm, Ludwig Öberg, 1830.

A seemingly unrecorded Swedish hymnbook,...

£1750

HEYLYN, Peter.

Cosmographie in four Books: containing...

London, Philip Chetwind, 1666 [i.e. 1667].

Third edition of Peter Heylyn’s Cosmographie,...

£2000

GRIFFONI, Angelo.

Per le nozze faustissime dei nobili signori...

Crema, Antonio Ronna, 1815.

A large provincially printed broadside...

£500

[FIVE SENSES.]

No. 80. De almagtige opperheer schonk aan...

Amsterdam, heirs of the widow of Jacobus...

Very rare popular print depicting the five...

£550

CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.

De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni. Editio...

Toulouse, Pierre Robert, [1714–1760].

A rare Toulouse printing of a rhetorical...

£275

[BOUREAU-DESLANDES, André-François.]

Pigmalion, ou la statue animée.

‘A Londres, chez Samuel Harding’, 1741.

A very interesting sammelband of scarce...

£1250

ARISTOTLE.

De animo, libri III. Ioachimo Perionio...

Paris, Thomas Richard, 1561.

Rare edition of Aristotle’s On the...

£575

ALFONSO, Vincenzo.

Prima centuria dele lettre [sic] …

Naples, Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634.

Dedication copy of an extremely rare Neapolitan...

£2750

FAERNO, Gabriele.

Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae,...

Padua, Giuseppe Comino, [(colophon:) 27 October]...

A collection of popular verse fables by...

£300

[ENIGMAS.]

‘Recueils d’Enigmes’.

[France, mid-eighteenth century.]

Four manuscript volumes collecting over...

£750

PÉREZ DE HERRERA, Cristóbal.

Proverbios morales, y consejos christianos...

Adornadas con trece emblemas … Madrid,...

Second edition, the Stirling Maxwell copy,...

£1450

PIETRASANTA, Silvestro.

De symbolis heroicis libri IX …

Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

First edition of this Jesuit collection...

£850