CLAUDIANUS, Claudius; Tommaso MEDINA, translator.

Il ratto di Proserpina di Claudio Claudiano...

Brescia, Bettoni, 1804.

Very rare first edition of a translation...

£650

COLIN, Hyacinthe.

Vie de la venerable servante de dieu Marie...

Paris, Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hérissant, 1744.

Uncommon first edition of this biography...

£500

ERASMUS, Desiderius.

Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...

Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.

Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...

£125

FOURCROY DE GUILLERVILLE, Jean-Louis de.

Les Enfans élevés dans l’ordre de la...

Paris, brothers Estienne, and Lausanne,...

Second edition of Fourcroy de Guillerville’s...

£250

GALUPPI, Baldassare.

Daniel in lacu leonum modi sacri recinendi...

Venice, s.n., 1773.

First edition, very rare, of the libretto...

£650

GAROFANI, Antonio Maria.

L’Hippocreivaga musa invocatoria.

Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1580 [(colophon:)...

First editions of three poetical works...

£1750

GUARNA, Andrea.

Bellum grammaticale.

Venice, (colophon:) Francesco Rampazetto...

Very rare edition (first published in 1511)...

£750

[HENLAND, Cecil.]

Your hidden Skeleton. A novel Autograph...

Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Company,...

Very rare first edition under this title...

£350

MUSESTI, Piero; Giovammaria FEBRARI, translator.

Gesta di Napoleone I. imperator de’ Francesi...

Brescia, Tipografia dipartimentale, 1805.

Uncommon first and only edition of this...

£550

[REVILLIOD, Gustave.]

Le Cousin l’Abbé.

Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1886.

First editions of two rare works by the...

£375

JOURNET, Henri.

‘Cahier correct à Journet Henri. Classe...

Ambert, 1851–1854.

A charmingly decorated exercise-book belonging...

£275

VIRGIL.

Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...

London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt pro...

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

£650

VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.

La Henriade, en dix chants; avec l’histoire...

Edinburgh, J. Watson, 1798.

Rare Edinburgh edition of Voltaire’s...

£100

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