MESNY, William.

Mesny’s Chinese Miscellany. A Text Book...

Shanghai, printed at the “China Gazette...

The first volume, collecting the first...

£1500

FLORIO, Blasco.

Lettera sopra alcuni ostacoli che la logica,...

Messina, Giuseppe Fiumara, 1825.

Very rare first edition of this work on...

£475

[ANON.] 

Le moine galant, ou la vie de Don F…...

[S.l., s.n.,] 1756. 

Scarce first edition of this satirical...

£450

DOD, John, attributed.

A Sermon on Malt. [S.l., s.n., c. 1840].

[c. 1840].

A seemingly unrecorded printing of the...

£875

DENISSE, Nicolas.

Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus...

Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].

Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...

£1650

[SERMONS.]

[Sermones sensati.]

[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

First and only incunable edition of a rare...

£8500

PFEFFER DE WYDENBERG, Johannes.

[Directorium sacerdotale.]

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

First and only incunable edition, very...

£6500

[LANSPERGER, Johannes Justus;] Serafino ACETI DE’ PORTI, translator.

Pharetra divini amoris, tradotto in volgare...

Venice, Paolo Gherardo [(colophon:) Comin...

Third Italian edition, considerably enlarged,...

£1500

LA VIGNE, André de.

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

[(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

£9500

GAGUIN, Robert.

La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

£8500

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...

A rare edition of Champier’s account...

£9500

ACQUAVIVA, Claudio.

Meditationes in Psalmum XLIV, & CXVIII.

Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1616.

First edition of these Jesuit meditations...

£1550

BELLARMINE, Robert.

De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus....

Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1613.

First edition of a remarkable biobibliography...

£350

PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.

Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus...

Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck...

A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd...

£350

KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich.

Александрійскія Пѣсни...

St Petersburg, “Prometei”, [1921].

First separate edition of Kuzmin’s Alexandrian...

£400

FLEMING, Ian.

The Spy who loved me.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition, first impression, of the...

£1250

SCOTT, Walter, Sir.

Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field.

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable; London,...

Tenth edition of Scott’s historical verse...

£1200

POLLUX, Julius.

Ονομαστικον εν βιβλιοις...

Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1706.

A crisp copy of Pollux’s second-century...

£300

OVID; Georg SABINUS, editor.

Metamorphoses seu fabulae poeticae earumque...

Frankfurt, Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1608.

A pocket edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses...

£325

NOMEXY, Nicolas de.

Parnassus poeticus … nunc primum in Germania...

Rome, Guglielmo Facciotti, for Vincenzo...

A bestselling compilation of Latin verse,...

£650