[COTIN, Charles, Abbé.]

‘Enigmes du temps.’

[France, c. 1750.]

A manuscript compendium of 237 French enigmas,...

£1250

SAAVEDRA FAJARDO, Diego de.

Idea de un Principe politico christiano,...

Valencia, heirs of Crisóstomo Garriz,...

Fourth Valencian edition of ‘the most...

£750

[TARONI, Giovanni Battista, pseud.] ‘Giovanna Statira BOTTINI’.

Cento nodi da sciogliersi proposti al genio...

Bologna, Gaspare de’ Franceschi, 1765.

Extremely rare edition of one hundred widely...

£450

VAN VEEN, Otto.

Amoris divini emblemata …

Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

Second edition (first 1615) of sixty spiritual...

£950

VERRIEN, [Nicolas].

Recueil d’emblêmes, devises, medailles,...

Paris, Claude Jombert [part II: Jean Jombert],...

A rich collection of engraved emblems,...

£750

ZAUNSLIFER, Petrus.

Tafereel van overdeftige Zinnebeelden,...

Amsterdam, Gerard Onder de Linden, 1722.

First edition of this illustrated collection...

£950

GAY, John.

Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author.

Vienna, Rudolph Sammer, 1799.

Uncommon Vienna-printed edition of this...

£375

[ALVISET, Jean Antoine.]

L’Ange gardien. Pour les devotes confreries...

Lyon, Jacques du Creux, 1647.

Very rare devotional manual for female...

£350

BAUDELAIRE, Charles.

Oeuvres complètes … Les Fleurs du mal.

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, [1917?].

An attractive early twentieth-century edition...

£250

CARACCIOLI, Louis-Antoine, Marquis.

The Travels of Reason in Europe. Translated...

London, J. Johnson, and W. Charnley...

First English edition, very rare, of this...

£1200

[DARTON, William.]

Little Jack of all Trades, with suitable...

London, printed and sold by Darton and...

Extremely rare early editions of this popular...

£750

EVELYN, John.

Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees,...

London, John Martyn, 1679.

Third, enlarged edition of Evelyn’s Sylva,...

£1500

[HÉRISSANT, Louis Théodore.]

Le fablier françois, ou élite des meilleures...

Paris, Lottin le jeune, 1771.

First edition, rare, of what has a claim...

£650

HERODIAN; [Angelo POLIZIANO, translator; Thomas SPARK, editor].

Ηρωδιανου ιστοριων βιβλια...

Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, for G. West...

A finely bound copy of Herodian’s moralising...

£250

[PSALMS.] J. T. BARRETT, editor.

A Course of Psalms, adapted to the Services...

London, J. Cochran, 1827.

Fifth edition of the Course of Psalms...

£175

VISHNU SHARMA, attributed, et al; Jean Antoine DUBOIS, translator.

Le Pantcha-tantra, ou les cinq ruses, fables...

Paris, J.-S. Merlin, 1826.

First edition of this French translation...

£1850

[WILD & C^o.]

Large sample book of printed textiles.

[Turin, c. 1920?]

A large collection of samples of printed...

£1250

BOUTMY, C.

‘Exercitium quotidianum dedicatum perillustri...

[Belgium, 1760.]

An attractively bound unpublished devotional...

£450

[DOVES PRESS.] 

Pervigilium Veneris. 

Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

£950

GUSTÁ, Francisco.

Memorie della rivoluzione francese tanto...

Assisi, Ottavio Sgariglia, 1793.

Apparent first edition, very rare, of Gustá’s...

£550