BULLA, Paolo.

Notizie intorno all’osservatorio privato...

Rome, Tipografia della R. Accademia dei...

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

£1250

[WALSH, William].

Letters and Poems, amorous and gallant.

London, Jacob Tonson, 1692.

First edition of Walsh’s principal work...

£2500

PHIPPS, Constantine John.

A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken...

London, W. Bowyer and J. Nicols for...

First edition of Phipps’s account of...

£2500

MAUGIN, Jean.

Histoire du noble Tristan, prince de Leonnois,...

Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1586.

A scarce edition of the New Tristan,...

£4750

LUCK, Robert.

A Miscellany of new Poems, on several Occasions...

London, Edward Cave for the Author, and...

First edition, first issue, without the...

£1500

LOMBARDI, Giovanni Francesco.

Oratio habita in synodo Tridentina die...

Brescia, Lodovico Sabbio, [1561?].

First edition of this sermon delivered...

£3750

[HEDGE, Mary Anne.]

Samboe; or, the African Boy …

London, Harvey and Darton, 1823.

First edition of an abolitionist novella...

£750

[EROTICA.]

Pencil drawing of a woman in eighteenth-century...

[France, early nineteenth century?]

A fine erotically-charged figure study...

£3750

DUER, William Alexander.

The Life of William Alexander, Earl of...

New York, Wiley & Putnam for the New Jersey...

First edition, doubly inscribed ‘To Henry...

£575

CINQUARBRES, Jean et al.

Linguae Hebraicae institutiones absolutissimae,...

Paris, Guillaume Le Bé, 1609.

A thoroughly annotated copy of Jean Cinquarbres’s...

£1850

[CHAPBOOK.]

The Patriarch: an Account of a Family in...

London and Bristol, Wright, Allis, & Bagnall,...

Unrecorded. ‘This interesting article...

£950

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux Chevalier...

[(Colophon:) Poitiers, Jacques Bouchet...

An otherwise unrecorded late sixteenth-century...

£8750

[BOXING.]

The Art of manual Defence; or, System of...

London, G. Kearsley, ‘1799’ [but 1789].

Third edition, scarce, of an early illustrated...

£2750

ALEXANDER, [Charles] A[rmistead].

The Fall of Aztalan, and other Poems …

Washington, W. M. Morrison, 1839.

First edition, a presentation copy, of...

£1750

[PALIN, Nils Gustaf.]

De l’étude des hiéroglyphes. Fragmens....

Paris, Fain for Delaunay, Colnet, Treuttel,...

First edition of this curious work on Egyptian...

£2500

[FILLASTRE], Guillaume.

Le premier [– second] volume de la Thoison...

Paris, Jean Petit [for Poncet Le Preux],...

Rare third edition (first, 1516) of the...

£9500

VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.

La Henriade, en dix chants; avec l’histoire...

Edinburgh, J. Watson, 1798.

Rare Edinburgh edition of Voltaire’s...

£150

ZINZERLING, Justus.

Jodoci Sinceri Itinerarium Galliae, ita...

Amsterdam, Janson, 1649.

William Beckford’s copy of a later edition...

£1250

VIRGIL.

Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...

London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt...

Rare student edition of the works of Virgil,...

£650

[REVILLIOD, Gustave.]

Le Cousin l’Abbé.

Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1884.

First editions of two rare works by the...

£450