VISHNU SHARMA, attributed, et al; Jean Antoine DUBOIS, translator.

Le Pantcha-tantra, ou les cinq ruses, fables...

Paris, J.-S. Merlin, 1826.

First edition of this French translation...

£1850

[PSALMS.] J. T. BARRETT, editor.

A Course of Psalms, adapted to the Services...

London, J. Cochran, 1827.

Fifth edition of the Course of Psalms...

£175

HERODIAN; [Angelo POLIZIANO, translator; Thomas SPARK, editor].

Ηρωδιανου ιστοριων βιβλια...

Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, for G. West...

A finely bound copy of Herodian’s moralising...

£250

[HÉRISSANT, Louis Théodore.]

Le fablier françois, ou élite des meilleures...

Paris, Lottin le jeune, 1771.

First edition, rare, of what has a claim...

£650

GOETHE, [Johann Wolfgang von].

Goethe’s Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe...

Stuttgart & Tübingen, J. G. Cotta, 1828.

First edition, first impression, of the...

£3500

GOEREE, Jan, engraver.

Godtvrugtige Almanach, of Lof-gedachtenis...

Amsterdam, 1730.

First edition of a calendar containing...

£1250

EVELYN, John.

Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees,...

London, John Martyn, 1679.

Third, enlarged edition of Evelyn’s Sylva,...

£1500

[DARTON, William.]

Little Jack of all Trades, with suitable...

London, printed and sold by Darton and...

Extremely rare early editions of this popular...

£750

CARACCIOLI, Louis-Antoine, Marquis.

The Travels of Reason in Europe. Translated...

London, J. Johnson, and W. Charnley...

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

£1200

BAUDELAIRE, Charles.

Oeuvres complètes … Les Fleurs du mal.

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, [1917?].

An attractive early twentieth-century edition...

£250

[ALVISET, Jean Antoine.]

L’Ange gardien. Pour les devotes confreries...

Lyon, Jacques du Creux, 1647.

Very rare devotional manual for female...

£350

[BOOK OF HOURS.]

Parts of the Hours of the Cross, Litanies,...

Northern France (?Loire Valley), late...

Four leaves from a small and elegant Book...

£1250

[ALTAR CARDS.]

Two altar cards with Latin text and images...

Paris, Vanheck, [early eighteenth century].

Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...

£1750

AESOP.

Les fables et la vie d’Ésope, composée...

Caen, Pierre-Théodore Chalopin, [between...

An uncommon provincial edition of Aesop’s...

£250

[ALEXANDER VII, Pope.]

Vero e pieno ragguaglio delle ceremonie...

Rome and Florence, nella stamperia di...

Very rare first(?) edition of this detailed...

£450

BARLOW, [Francis].

Barlow’s Birds and Beasts, in sixty-seven...

London, Carington Bowles, [John Bowles,...

An extremely rare edition of this drawing-book...

£8500

BEARCROFT, Philip.

An historical Account of Thomas Sutton...

London, E. Owen for F. Gyles, W. Hinchliffe,...

First edition. Thomas Sutton (1532–1611)...

£250

CHALMERS, David.

Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...

Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.

First edition of Chalmer’s historical...

£650

[CHAPBOOK.]

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

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

Unrecorded. ‘This interesting article...

£950

[CHARLES I.]

Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ. The Pourtraicture...

[London, Royston], 1648.

First edition, third issue, with the corrected...

£650