[THUMB BIBLE.]

The Bible in Miniature, or a concise History...

London, J. Harris, 1778.

A very rare thumb bible, the last Harris...

£1500

SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin, et al.

A collection of offprints and papers from...

1902–1961.

A remarkable collection of offprints and...

£45000

[SAVOY-CARIGNAN, Maria Vittoria Francesca, Princess of.]

Recueil de prières et de pratiques très...

[Paris, Imprimerie Royale], 1735.

First and only edition of this rare prayerbook,...

£2500

ROUVEYRE, André.

Two typescript drafts of Apollinaire...

c. 1950.

The original corrected typescripts of André...

£6500

PRIOR, Matthew.

The Poetical Works … now first collected,...

London, W. Strahan, T. Payne, J. Rivington...

A handsome copy of this collected edition...

£500

[PALIN, Nils Gustaf.]

De l’étude des hiéroglyphes. Fragmens....

Paris, Fain for Delaunay, Colnet, Treuttel,...

First edition of this curious work on Egyptian...

£2500

ALEXANDER, [Charles] A[rmistead].

The Fall of Aztalan, and other Poems …

Washington, W. M. Morrison, 1839.

First edition, a presentation copy, of...

£1750

[ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]

[Edited by Janus Lascaris.]

[Florence, Lorenzo di Francesco de Alopa,...

Editio princeps, a beautiful printing...

£16500

[BECKFORD, William.]

Vathek, conte arabe.

Paris, Poinçot; Chatellerault, P. J. B...

Extremely rare, the only traced copy, of...

£3750

[BOXING.]

The Art of manual Defence; or, System of...

London, G. Kearsley, ‘1799’ [but 1789].

Third edition, scarce, of an early illustrated...

£2750

[BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord.] AUCHER, Paschal.

A Grammar Armenian and English …

Venice, at the Press of the Armenian Academy,...

First edition, scarce, of Byron’s Armenian...

£3250

‘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