QUR’AN.

Safavid Qur’an.

Persia (probably Shiraz), sixteenth century,...

A remarkable sixteenth-century Safavid...

£27500

QUR’AN.

Maghribi Qur’an leaf with illumination...

?Andalusia, c. 1250–1350 AD.

A fine example of a maghribi frontispiece...

£15000

RAPIN, Paul de, Sieur de Thoyras.

Histoire d’Angleterre … Nouvelle édition.

Basel, Jean Louis Brandmuller, 1740.

First Basel edition of Rapin’s influential...

£2000

[RUSSIA – 1905 REVOLUTION.]

Зритель [Zritel’; ‘The...

St Petersburg, “Sever”/A. M. Lesman,...

Very rare penultimate number, confiscated...

£750

SCALVO, Bartolomeo.

Rosariae preces ad gloriosam Dei genitricem...

Milan, Pacificus Pontius, 1569.

First edition of this Marian book of prayers...

£3500

SCOTT, Walter, Sir.

Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field.

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable; London,...

Tenth edition of Scott’s historical verse...

£1200

SHORE, John, Sir, Baron Teignmouth.

Letters patent as a baronet, and subsequently...

London, 27 October 1792, and Dublin, 38...

Two attractive Georgian letters patent,...

£2500

SIBILLA, Bartolomeo.

Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum … Tres...

[(Colophon:) Lyon, Jacques Myt, 9 August 1521.]

Second Lyon edition of Sibilla’s popular...

£1500

SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.

De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum...

[(Colophon:) Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 1509.]

A beautiful copy of the second edition...

£4500

SWIFT, Jonathan, attributed author.

The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders; being...

London, ‘Printed from the original Copy...

A fine tract volume, including a scatological...

£2500

HERMES TRISMEGISTUS; Marsilio FICINO, translator.

Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei …

[(Colophon:) Venice, Damianus de Mediolano,...

An attractive Venetian edition of the first...

£7500

AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristoforo.

Epistola ad Johannem Baptistam Bodonium...

[(Colophon:) Parma, Bodoni, 1791.]

First edition of Amaduzzi’s philological...

£275

ARIOSTO, Ludovico.

Orlando furioso.

Birmingham, John Baskerville for Pietro...

A handsomely bound set of the attractive...

£1850

[ALMANACKS.]

A bound collection of seven almanacks for 1818.

London, the Company of Stationers, 1817.

A collection of seven almanacks for 1818...

£175

[BROWN, Thomas.]

The Bower of Spring, with other Poems …

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co.,...

First edition of this lively verse collection,...

£375

CAREL DE SAINTE-GARDE, Jacques.

Les Sarrazins chassez de France. Poëme...

Paris, Claude Barbin, 1667.

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

£850

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-[René] de.

Atala; ou Les amours de deux sauvages dans...

London, Colburn, 1809.

First London edition in the original French,...

£350

DONNOLI, Francesco Alfonso.

De iis, qui semel in die cibum capiunt....

Venice, Benedetto Miloco, 1674.

First edition, an uncut copy of Donnoli’s...

£1450

[CHINA – EMPRESS DOWAGER and DALAI LAMA.]

Photographs of religious traditions in Peking.

Beijing, c. 1908.

A record of religious cultures and traditions...

£4500

DUNMORE, Charles Adolphus Murray, Earl of.

The Pamirs; being a Narrative of a Year’s...

London, John Murray, ‘1893’ [1894]. 

Second edition (first 1893) recounting...

£275