VIRGIL.

Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...

London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt...

Rare student edition of the works of Virgil,...

£650

ZINZERLING, Justus.

Jodoci Sinceri Itinerarium Galliae, ita...

Amsterdam, Janson, 1649.

William Beckford’s copy of a later edition...

£1250

EUNAPIUS; Hadrianus JUNIUS, translator; Hieronymus COMMELIN, editor.

Βιοι φιλοσοφων και σοφιστων...

‘Cologny’ [Geneva], Samuel Crespin, 1616.

An uncommon edition of the twenty-four...

£450

[CATHERINE the Great of Russia.] BETSKOY, [Ivan]; [Nicolas-Gabriel LE] CLERC, translator; [Denis DIDEROT, contributor].

Les plans et les statuts, des différents...

Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775.

First edition in French, translated from...

£3000

JOHNSON, Samuel.

A Dictionary of the English Language: in...

London, W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton,...

First edition of ‘the most amazing, enduring...

£15000

ANNE, Queen.

Warrant, signed, authorising John Grubham...

27 January 1708/9.

An attractive document, bringing together...

£1750

[ARABIAN NIGHTS.]

Arabian Tales; or, a Continuation of the...

London, Faulder, and Hookham and Carpenter,...

First edition of this translation of the...

£1000

BEROALDO, Filippo.

Opusculum eruditum quo continetur Declamatio...

[(Colophon:) Paris], Denis Roce, [1 August...

Second Paris editions (first 1500) of Beroaldo’s...

£3750

[BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

L’ami des femmes.

Paris, ‘Quay des Augustins’, 1759.

Uncommon early edition, printed a year...

£300

[CAJOT, Jean-Joseph.]

Les plagiats de M. J.J.R. de Genève...

The Hague and Paris, Durand, 1766.

First edition of this scathing critique...

£275

CARLUCCI, Luca.

In difesa delli speziali di medicina dell’Almo...

Naples, 20 July 1756.

First edition, seemingly unrecorded, of...

£1250

[DALLAS, Eneas Sweetland.]

Kettner’s Book of the Table: A Manual...

London, Dulau and Co., 1877.

First edition of Dallas’s encyclopaedic...

£180

[DAMPMARTIN, Pierre de; Charles SOREL, editor.]

La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux...

Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.

Rare second edition, revised and expanded...

£500

[DE GRAAFT, attributed.]

Avantures secrettes, et plaisantes. Recueillies...

Brussels, George de Backer, 1696.

Scarce first Brussels edition, published...

£375

EXPILLY, Claude.

Les poemes de Messire Claude Expilly, Conseiller...

Grenoble, Pierre Verdier, 1624.

A wide-margined copy of the expanded second...

£950

LORICH, Gerhard.

Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

[Frankfurt am Main], [(colophon:) Christian...

First editions of a pair of Reformation-era...

£1450

PERRET, Jean-Jacques.

La pogonotomie, ou l’art d’apprendre...

Brussels, Benoît Le  Francq, 1803.

Rare Brussels edition (first Paris 1769)...

£400

SANFERMO CARIONI PEZZI, Rocco, Giovanni Battista GARAVETTA, and Francesco D’EMILEI.

Lettera scritta nel castello di S. Felice...

Verona, 1797.

One of several editions published immediately...

£300

SHAKESPEARE, William; Alexander POPE, editor.

The Works of Shakespear. In eight Volumes....

Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1766.

First and only Foulis edition, issued in...

£450

HOME, John.

Douglas: a Tragedy.

Edinburgh, George Reid & Co., 1798.

First illustrated edition, a handsome subscriber’s...

£250