GOODWIN, Thomas.

Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

London, R.W. for Peter Parker, 1661.

A wholly unsophisticated Restoration sammelband...

£850

KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

The Guardian Angel. From the German …...

London, J. Wright for Vernor and Hood,...

First edition in English (and the first...

£800

LAW, John.

A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church...

London, ‘printed by Ann Rivington, printer...

A short sermon by John Law, Archdeacon...

£350

[HOLY SCAPULAR.]

Instruction pour ceux et celles qui portent...

Le Mans, ‘chez Madame V.e Dureau’,...

A seemingly unrecorded broadside addressed...

£350

MINUCIUS FELIX; CYPRIAN, Saint, of Carthage; RIGAULT, Nicolas, editor.

M. Minucii Felicis Octavius, et Caecilii...

Paris, ‘apud viduam Mathurini du Puis’,...

First Rigault edition of two works of early...

£575

[POMEY, François.]

Syllabus seu lexicum Graeco-Latino-Gallicum:...

Lyon, ‘apud viduam Molin, viduam Tomas,...

Rare later edition (first 1664) of this...

£500

SAINT-VICTOR.

Le pretendu ennemi de Dieu et de la loy...

Lille, ‘chez la vefue Christofle Du...

Very rare first edition of this interesting...

£450

[ROUEN.]

L’Office de Saint Godard, archevesque...

Rouen, ‘chez la veuve de Jacq. Jos. Le...

Rare office for the feast of St Gildard...

£575

SMITH, Henry.

The Sinful Mans Search: or Seeking of God...

London, [T. Scarlet for] Cuthbert Burby,...

Second edition, rare, of The Sinful...

£8500

THEOPHRASTUS; CASAUBON, Isaac, editor.

Θεοφραστου ητικοι χαρακτηρες....

Lyon, ‘apud viduam Ant. de Harsy’...

Isaac Casaubon’s celebrated edition of...

£600

[MASSES FOR THE DEAD.]

Missae pro defunctis seu privatim, sive...

Paris, François Coustelier, (colophon:)...

A seemingly unrecorded Requiem Missal printed...

£950

GEORGES D’AMIENS.

Trina Pauli theologia positiva, moralis,...

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

First of an eventual three volumes of commentaries...

£1250

CAMDEN, William.

Britain, or a chorographicall Description...

London, Francis Kingston, Robert Young,...

Second edition in English (first 1610)...

£4500

SHAKESPEARE, William; Richard Grant WHITE, editor.

The Works of William Shakespeare. The Plays...

Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1893.

An attractive Boston-printed edition of...

£475

[PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]

Psalterium.

[Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]

First edition of the Psalter with the commentary...

£24000

[PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor.

Ψαλτηριον.

Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October...

The elegant first Aldine printing of the...

£45000

[SERMONS.]

[Sermones sensati.]

[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

First and only incunable edition of a rare...

£8500

[THOMAS à Kempis.]

Ioanni Gerson vulgare devota operetta della...

Florence, Antonio Miscomini, 22 July 1493.

Uncommon editions of two classic Latin...

£5750

THOMAS of Cantimpré.

Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

[Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder,...

Second edition of this manual of moral...

£6000

[RINUCCINI, Ottavio, librettist.]

[Drophead title: Maschere di bergiere].

[(Colophon:) Florence, Giorgio Marescotti,...

Extremely rare first edition of Rinuccini’s...

£8000