MANCINI, Celso. 

Il padrino Christiano … per formare i...

Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1592. 

Rare first edition of a meditational work...

£950

[GREY, Jane, Lady.]

‘The last days of Lady Jane Grey’.

[c. 1870?].

A manuscript extract, unfinished or incomplete,...

£175

DRYDEN, John.

Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem: dedicated...

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1692.

First edition of Dryden’s eulogy for...

£275

AUDEN, Wystan Hugh.

Louis MacNeice, a memorial Address, delivered...

Privately printed for Faber & Faber, [1963].

First edition, one of 250 copies, of Auden’s...

£150

[VACCINATION.]

Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone...

Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.

A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting...

£650

[SASSOON, Siegfried.] SURTEES, [Robert Smith]; Lionel GOUGH, editor.

Hunting Scenes from Surtees.

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953.

Sassoon’s proof copy of Hunting Scenes...

£850

BUXTON, Thomas Fowell.

An Inquiry, whether Crime and Misery are...

London, [J. M’Creery] for John & Arthur...

Third edition, published the same year...

£195

PERSIUS; [Thomas BREWSTER, translator].

The Satires of Persius translated into...

London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

Second edition, with the addition of Bayle’s...

£375

[CAVALLERI, Paolo Agostino.]

Lettera dall’Adriatico del signor Antonio...

Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1792 (colophon 1793).

First edition, uncommon, of this counter-revolutionary...

£375

SHAKESPEARE, William, and Bolemir IZBORSKÝ, pseud. [i.e. Antonín MAREK], translator.

Omylowé dle Shakespeara wzdělaná weselohra...

Prague, Jozefa Fetterlowá, ‘in the...

First edition in Czech, very rare, of A...

£1100

REYES, Alfonso.

Corrected carbon typescript, signed, of...

[Buenos Aires?, c. 1952–3.]

Corrected carbon typescript of Alfonso...

£1000

ROSSI, Ottavio, and Bartolomeo FONTANA, compiler.

Lettere del Sig. Ottavio Rossi. Raccolte...

Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621.

First edition of over 150 letters by the...

£1250

[HEMSTERHUIS, François.] 

Alexis ou de l’age d’or. 

Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1787. 

First edition of Hemsterhuis’s philosophical...

£375

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

ALFIERI, Vittorio, and Charles LLOYD, translator.

The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri; translated...

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

First edition of this translation of Alfieri’s...

£450

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

SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de.

Cours de linguistique générale.

Lausanne & Paris, Payot, 1916.

First edition of this seminal textbook...

£575

TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

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

First edition, annotated throughout by...

£6750

[MONTANUS, Arnoldus.]

Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie...

Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680.

First edition in French of an important...

£3500

GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.

Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...

Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

First edition, the complete four-volume...

£6500