HORACE.

Quinti Horatii Flacci poemata, novis scholiis...

[Geneva, Henri Estienne, 1574.]

First Henri Estienne edition of the works...

£2500

MARKHAM, Sheila.

A third Book of Booksellers: Conversations...

London, 2025.

First edition, limited to five hundred...

£35

LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caelius Firmianus, et alii.

Opera perquam accurate castigata: Graeco...

[(Colophons:) Venice, Giovanni Tacuino...

A closely read copy of Lactantius’s encyclopaedia...

£2750

LIVY.

Libri omnes, quotquot ad nostrum aetatem...

Frankfurt, [Georg Rab for] Johann and...

An elegantly illustrated and scholarly...

£1750

LUCAN.

Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...

Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.

An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on...

£2500

LUIGINI, Francesco.

In librum Q. Horatii Flacci de arte poetica...

Venice, [(colophon:) sons of] Aldus, 1554.

First and only edition of Luigini’s commentary...

£850

MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.

Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...

Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.

Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...

£9500

[PARACELSUS.

Aureoli Theophrasti Paracelsi eremitae...

[Basel, Pietro Perna, 1575.]

The second half of a two-volume edition...

£1750

PETRONIUS.

Satyricon, eiusdemque fragmenta, illustrata...

Leiden, Justus Livius, 1645.

Third edition of the Satyricon as...

£950

PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].

Platonis opera.

[(Colophon:) Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 22...

Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...

£5000

SABELLICO, Marco Antonio (or Marcantonio) Coccio; Petrus PONTANUS (or Du Pont, De Brugge).

Sanctissime elegie de intemerata virgine...

Paris, Jean de Gourmont, [c. 1513].

One of only two recorded editions, both...

£1400

THUCYDIDES; Lorenzo VALLA, translator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

Περι του Πελοποννησιακου...

[Geneva, Henri II Estienne for] Frankfurt,...

A richly annotated and extra-illustrated...

£2250

VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

Valerii Maximi dictorum, & factorum memorabilium...

[(Colophon:) Sélestat, Lazarus Schürer,...

Very rare edition of Valerius Maximus printed...

£2250

VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

Sermones quadragesimales [– de tempore...

[(Colophons:) Venice, Simon de Luere for...

An annotated copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s...

£3250

[CHINA.]

Business report written to a Mr Luo by...

[China], 咸豐壬子年 [1852].

An interesting mid-nineteenth-century report...

£750

[ROWE, Harry.] CROFT, John, editor?, [and Dr. Alexander HUNTER?].

Memoirs of Harry Rowe: constructed from...

York, Printed by Wilson & Spence. Sold...

First edition of this ‘biography’ of...

£1500

BURNET, Gilbert.

A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

One of three editions, all of the same...

£500

GERHARD, Johann.

Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...

Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...

First English-printed Latin edition of...

£950

MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.

Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...

[(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].

First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin translation...

£850

PONSONBY, Emily, Lady.

De Greville’s en de Lorimers. Twee Familie-Tafereelen,...

Amsterdam, P. N. Van Kampen, 1851.

First edition in Dutch of ‘Susan Grenville;...

£250