EPIPHANIUS, Pseudo-; Gonzalo PONCE DE LEÓN, editor and translator.

Εις τον φυσιολογον. Του...

Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1588.

Second edition, with finely engraved illustrations...

£675

FAERNO, Gabriele.

Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae,...

Padua, Giuseppe Comino, [(colophon:) 27 October]...

A collection of popular verse fables by...

£300

GERMBERG, Hermann.

Proverbiorum centuriae XIV. quibus adjecta...

Basel, Sebastian Henricpetri, [(colophon:)...

First edition of this compendium of proverbs,...

£850

WEBER, Johann Adam.

Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...

[Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]

Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s wide-ranging...

£4750

[WALL, Thomas].

A Second Christian Warning-Piece; wherein...

[London, c. 1681?]

First edition, very rare, of a vehement...

£1750

UGARTE, Manuel; Georges FOUCART, translator.

‘Contes de la Pampa’.

Paris, [c. 1923–5].

A fine, largely unpublished manuscript,...

£950

STEIN, Aurel.

Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan. Personal Narrative...

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1904.

‘Cheaper edition’ (published a year...

£500

THÜNEN, Johann Heinrich von.

Der isolirte Staat in Beziehung auf Landwirthschaft...

Rostock, G.B. Leopold, 1842–50.

Scarce second edition of the first part,...

£1750

[SPINELLI.]

Illuminated arms of the Spinelli family...

Italy (Florence), c. 1460s.

Florentine border decoration of very high...

£2750

RICH, Jeremiah.

The Whole Book of Psalms in Meter. According...

London, ‘Printed and are sold by Samuel...

First edition, the issue with Samuel Botley...

£3500

RENOWNED HISTORY (The)

of Primrose Prettyface, who by her Sweetness...

London, Printed & sold by J. Marshall...

One of three undated editions, probably...

£950

PYNCHON, Thomas.

Gravity’s Rainbow.

New York, The Viking Press, [1973].

First edition of Pynchon’s magnum...

£900

[HERVEY, Elizabeth.]

The Mourtray Family. A Novel …

London: Printed by Millar Ritchie …...

First edition of the penultimate novel...

£2500

MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich.

Voyages from Asia to America, for completing...

London, T. Jefferys, 1764.

Second edition (first 1761) of this key...

£4500

[MONROE, Marilyn.] DIENES, André de.

Marilyn.

Cologne, Taschen, 2002.

First edition of this celebratory book...

£200

MITCHEL, William.

A tract volume of fifteen works, including...

Edinburgh and Glasgow 1711–1720.

A fabulous tract volume of works by the...

£7500

MILHAUD, Darius.

Le boeuf sur le toit, ou The nothing doing...

Paris, Editions de la Sirène, 1920.

First edition of Milhaud’s Le boeuf...

£750

HORACE.

Opera cum novo commentario ad modum Joannis...

Paris, Didot, 1855.

The deluxe issue of Didot’s Horace, a...

£750

HUMBOLDT, Alexander von.

Autograph letter signed ‘Humboldt’,...

[Paris,] ‘Ce samedi’, [no month or...

An excellent, intimate and unpublished...

£2500

[JOHNSON, Samuel.]

The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale …

London, R. and J. Dodsley and W. Johnston,...

First edition of Johnson’s only novel,...

£4500