‘CHAFF, Gumbo’ [pseud. Elias HOWE].

The Ethiopian Glee Book; a Collection of...

Boston, Elias Howe, 1848 [– 1849].

First editions of all three parts – a...

£2000

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux Chevalier...

[(Colophon:) Poitiers, Jacques Bouchet...

An otherwise unrecorded late sixteenth-century...

£8750

[CHAPBOOK.]

The Patriarch: an Account of a Family in...

London and Bristol, Wright, Allis, & Bagnall,...

Unrecorded. ‘This interesting article...

£950

CINQUARBRES, Jean et al.

Linguae Hebraicae institutiones absolutissimae,...

Paris, Guillaume Le Bé, 1609.

A thoroughly annotated copy of Jean Cinquarbres’s...

£1850

CARACCIOLO, Roberto.

Sermones de laudibus sanctoru[m] fratris...

[Reutlingen, Michael Greyff, not after 1492.]

Rare edition of this collection of seventy...

£7000

[BARCLAY FAMILY.]

Album of letters, maps, accounts, and reports...

Mostly Philadelphia and London, 1794–1854.

A large and coherent archive relating to...

£32500

DARWIN, Charles.

The Variation of Animals and Plants under...

London, John Murray, 1868.

First edition, first issue, an important...

£70000

DUER, William Alexander.

The Life of William Alexander, Earl of...

New York, Wiley & Putnam for the New Jersey...

First edition, doubly inscribed ‘To Henry...

£575

CROMPTON, Henrietta Matilda.

Sketchbook of a tour through southern Germany...

July, 1836.

An extremely attractive plein-air...

£8750

[EROTICA.]

Pencil drawing of a woman in eighteenth-century...

[France, early nineteenth century?]

A fine erotically-charged figure study...

£3750

GEORGES D’AMIENS.

Trina Pauli theologia positiva, moralis,...

Paris, ‘apud viduam et Dionysium Thierry’,...

First edition of these commentaries on...

£1250

[HEDGE, Mary Anne.]

Samboe; or, the African Boy …

London, Harvey and Darton, 1823.

First edition of an abolitionist novella...

£750

HIERONYMUS de Villa Vitis.

Panis quotidianus de tempore [– de sanctis...

[(Colophon:) Hagenau, Heinrich Gran for...

First edition, bound and handsomely rubricated...

£5000

HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.

[Missal for feast days.]

Madrid, 1827.

An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...

£7500

INCHBALD, Mrs. [Elizabeth].

Nature and Art.

London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796.

First edition of a powerful and tragic...

£3250

[JEROME, Saint.]

Obitus beati iheromini.

[Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer,...

Rare incunable edition (first printed in...

£22500

[LAURENTIUS, Frater; Jan van BREDERODE, translator.]

[Summe le roy of des conincs summe.]

[(Colophon:) Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert],...

Rare early edition in Dutch (first Delft...

£40000

[LOBO, Jerónimo; Lorenzo MAGALOTTI, translator.]

Relazioni varie cavate da una traduzione...

Florence, Piero Matini, 1693.

First edition in Italian of one of the...

£1750

LOMBARDI, Giovanni Francesco.

Oratio habita in synodo Tridentina die...

Brescia, Lodovico Sabbio, [1561?].

First edition of this sermon delivered...

£3750

LUCK, Robert.

A Miscellany of new Poems, on several Occasions...

London, Edward Cave for the Author, and...

First edition, first issue, without the...

£1500