VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius; Giovanni Battista PIO, editor.

Argonautica. Joan. Baptistae Pii carmen...

Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1548.

A pocket-sized edition of several poetic...

£475

ACTON, William.

Prostitution, considered in its moral,...

London, [Savill and Edwards for] John...

First edition of this medico-social analysis...

£1250

AESOP, et al.; [George STEWART, editor].

Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...

Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart,...

First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...

£375

ANGELL, Norman, Sir.

The Money Game.

London, J.M. Dent, [c. 1930].

Early edition of this ‘new instrument...

£100

BOSWELL, James.

A Letter to the People of Scotland, on...

London, Charles Dilly, 1785.

First edition of Boswell’s second Letter...

£1500

CUMMINGS, E. E.

i: six nonlectures.

Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University...

First trade edition, inscribed to the BBC...

£750

DICKENS, Charles.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club...

London, Chapman & Hall, 1837.

First edition, first issue. The Pickwick...

£2000

DURRELL, Lawrence.

Collected Poems.

London, Faber and Faber, [1960].

First edition, inscribed ‘For Geoff from...

£400

[WINCHESTER COLLEGE.]

Printed and manuscript election roll.

[Winchester,] ‘1 November 1782’.

A remarkable eighteenth-century part-printed...

£1250

VERHEYEN, Pierre Emmanuel.

Requiem mass in C minor.

[Flanders, c. 1810.]

A very grand unpublished Requiem mass in...

£4750

[VAN DER STRAET, Jan, after.]

Imperatorum XII a Suetonio descriptorum...

[Netherlands or Rome, early seventeenth...

A set of large-format equestrian portraits...

£1500

[TOWNLEY, William Dalison.]

Punch’s Pocket-Book for 1877, containing...

London, [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. for]...

A Punch almanack for 1877 with nearly...

£450

SUETONIUS.

[De XII Caesarum vitis. De Illustribus...

Paris, Typographia Regia, 1644.

An attractive, illustrated pocket Suetonius....

£350

[SPANISH FISHING.]

Artes, aparejos e instrumentos de pesca...

[Madrid, Artes Gráficas ‘Mateu’?, 1920?]

First and only edition, very rare, a striking...

£2000

SMITH, Albert Richard.

The Story of Mont Blanc …

London, David Bogue, 1853.

First edition of Smith’s famous book...

£1275

[SKETCHBOOK.]

Album of pencil sketches.

...

A charming turn-of-the-century album of...

£300

‘SANIVAL, Marchesa di’, pseud. [i.e. SALVANI, Fausto].

La difesa delle donne o sia risposta apologetica...

Siena, Luigi and Benedetto Bindi, 1786.

Very rare first edition, printed on blue...

£1500

[RICHARDSON, Jonathan.]

The general Address (in two Parts) of the...

London, Printed by W. Nicol, late Bulmer...

Rare first edition of a revised version...

£1600

PORTA, Giambattista della.

De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...

Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...

The second Latin edition and the first...

£1950

PLUTARCH; John Moyr SMITH, illustrator.

An Argive Hero … with Illustrations designed...

London, Arthur H. Moxon, 1877.

Scarce first and only edition of John Moyr...

£950