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An excellent, intimate and unpublished...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

KRASHENINNIKOV, Stepan Petrovich; James GRIEVE, translator.

The history of Kamtschatka, and the Kurilski...

Raikes for T. Jefferys, 1764.

First edition of this English abridgement...

£1000

[LAW, John.]

Abbildung des auf der Strasse Quincampoix...

Excudit C. Weigel nach den Parisischen...

This engraving is a German version of ‘Rue...

£950

LEE, Laurie.

Cider with Rosie … with Drawings by John Ward.

London, Hogarth Press, 1959.

First edition, second impression, the author’s...

£1000

LEWIS, Wyndham, and D. G. BRIDSON.

‘Satiric Verse … The Text of a Lecture...

Transmitted 9 July and 23 August 1957.

Typescript for broadcast of a lecture delivered...

£1200

MANTELL, A. M., attributed.

Views in North Wales,

circa 1880.

A magnificent album of large-format views...

£3500

MÉRIMÉE, Prosper.

La Chambre bleue. Nouvelle dédiée à...

Brussels, Librairie de la Place de la...

Very rare first procurable edition of Mérimée’s...

£500

[GAUDIN, Martin-Michel-Charles.]

Instruction du ministre des finances, sur...

Nîmes, ‘de l’imprimerie de la veuve...

Unrecorded edition of a set of instructions...

£325

[CHANTAL, Jeanne Françoise de.]

Pratica divota per quattro venerdi’,...

Naples, Domenico Roselli, 1756.

An apparently unrecorded Naples edition...

£375

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...

Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...

An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...

£3500

[ART EDUCATION.]

Der kleine Maler.

[Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]

A delightful suite of plates intended to...

£450