BLANCHET, Joseph.

L’art, ou les principes philosophiques...

Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel...

First edition, though designated as the...

£750

D’URFEY, Thomas.

Wit and Mirth: or Pills to purge Melancholy;...

Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719 [– 1720].

The first complete edition, second issue...

£2250

[SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.]

The School for Scandal. A Comedy. As it...

[Dublin], Printed for the Booksellers, 1793.

First separate illustrated edition of Sheridan’s...

£750

BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez de.

Aristippus, or, Monsr. de Balsac’s Masterpiece,...

London, Tho. Newcomb for Nat. Eakins and...

First edition in English of Balzac’s...

£750

[WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.

An Eulogy on the Life of General George...

Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.

First edition of this eulogy on Washington,...

£250

[IMAGINARY VOYAGE.]

Admirable Travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins...

London, ‘for the Benefit of Robert Barker,...

Rare, a lively chapbook novella of adventures...

£1500

POMPONIO LETO, Giulio.

In omnia quae quidem extant, P. Vergilii...

Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1544].

Second edition of Leto’s influential...

£450

CLÜVER, Philipp.

Introductio in universam geographiam tam...

Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...

The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...

£2500

ARISTOTLE; THEOPHRASTUS; Theodorus GAZA and Pietro ALCIONIO, translators.

Historiae. Cum de natura Animalium, tum...

Lyons, [Nicolas Bacquenois for] Guillaume...

A union of Aristotle on animals and Theophrastus...

£800

GOELICKE, Andreas Ottomar.

Disputatio physica experimentalis exhibens...

Halle, Johann Montag, [1704].

Scarce academic disputation on experimental...

£275

[BREWER, George.]

The Siamese Tales, being a Collection of...

London, Vernor & Hood and Champante &...

First edition of an anonymously published...

£950

BOUTMY, C.

‘Exercitium quotidianum dedicatum perillustri...

[Belgium, 1760.]

An attractively bound unpublished devotional...

£450

DANETT, Thomas.

A Continuation of the Historie of France,...

London, Printed by Thomas East for Thomas...

First edition, an original history composed...

£1800

[ABC.]

Petite géographie amusante abécédaire...

C. Lehuby, ‘Librairie de l’enfance...

A charming and very rare ABC intended to...

£3750

LEE, Edwin.

The Principal Baths of Germany [– The...

London, Whittaker & Cp., Paris, Galignani...

First edition, scarce, of Edwin Lee’s...

£350

CAMPBELL, Thomas.

Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale....

London, T. Bensley, for the Author ... 1809.

First edition of Campbell’s most re-printed...

£650

OZEROV, Vladislav Aleksandrovich.

Sochineniia … Chast’ pervaia [–vtoraia]...

St Petersburg, Imperial Theatre, 1817 [-1816].

One of two rival collected editions published...

£1800

VENERONI, Giovanni. 

The Complete Italian Master; containing...

London, J. Nourse, 1763. 

First edition thus, revising an earlier...

£750

[PALACE THEATRE, SCUNTHORPE.]

‘Benefit to A. E. Dobney, Thursday,...

[Scunthorpe, 1914.]

A rare broadside programme for a benefit...

£185

SOPHOCLES. 

Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...

Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.

An early seventeenth-century sammelband...

£950