[LOVE TOKEN.]

Portrait of a woman wearing photographic...

[1850s].

An ambrotype portrait of a young woman...

£375

RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio. 

Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...

Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562. 

The third edition (first 1557) of a remarkable...

£2800

[NUPTIALIA.]

Bartolomeo MOLAJONI.  Alla neogama donzella...

Viterbo, brothers Poggiarelli, 1811. 

Seemingly unrecorded sonnet addressed to...

£275

MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.

Les secrets de la génération ou l’art...

chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].

Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86)...

£150

[LE NOBLE, Pierre, and Eustache LE NOBLE (attributed).] 

Les Amours d’Anne d’Austriche, Epouse...

‘A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1696’...

An early manuscript copy of a salacious...

£850

[LA ROCHE, Sophie von.] 

Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim. ...

Leipzig, bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1771. 

First edition of Sophie von La Roche’s...

£750

[KRÜDENER, Barbara Juliane de Vietinghoff, Freifrau von.]

Valérie, ou Lettres de Gustave de Linar...

Paris, Henrichs, 1804.

Rare first edition of Valérie,...

£400

[COURTESAN.]

Les confessions d’une courtisane devenue...

‘London’ and Brussels, Le Francq, 1784.

First edition (another appeared in the...

£850

BARBARO, Francesco. 

De re uxoria libri duo, ut venustate sermonis...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1639. 

An attractive later edition of this famous...

£275

[ANON.] 

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

[s.n.,] 1756. 

Scarce first edition of this satirical...

£450

DOLCE, Lodovico.

Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e...

Venice, Giovanni Battista, & Marchio Sessa,...

First edition of this exposition of Aristotle’s...

£2500

[DOVES PRESS.] 

Pervigilium Veneris. 

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

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

£950

[THOMAS À KEMPIS.]

Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...

Florence, Piero Pacini da Pescia, 16 April...

Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...

£4000

LUCRETIUS. 

Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...

Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...

First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...

£450

ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.

[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....

Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.

First part of the first and only edition...

£450

CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

£9500

[PREDIERI, Luca Antonio, composer; Apostolo ZENO, librettist.]

La tirannide vendicata, drama per musica,...

Pesaro, Gavelli, 1726.

First edition, very rare, of the libretto...

£1250

FLORUS, L. Annaeus; Lucius AMPELIUS; Claude SAUMAISE, editor.

[Rerum romanarum libri IV and Epitome...

Leiden, Elzevir, 1638.

The attractive Elzevir edition of Florus’...

£650

[EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

£400

[ALMANACK.]

L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...

Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

A very rare enamelled metal binding with...

£2750