AESOP.

Les fables d’Ésope, mises en françois,...

Lyon, Amable Leroy, 1809.

An illustrated Lyon schoolboy edition of...

£250

ALCIATI, Andrea.

Les emblemes … mis en rime francoyse...

Paris, Chrestien Wechel, 1539.

Third edition of Jean Lefevre’s French...

£1750

ALCIATI, Andrea; Claude MIGNAULT, editor; Fédéric MOREL.

Omnia … emblemata, cum commentariis,...

Paris, Jean Richer for François Gueffier,...

The final Paris printing of Mignault’s...

£850

ALCIATI, Andrea; Joannes THUILIUS, editor.

Emblemata cum commentariis Claudi Minois...

Padua, [(colophon:) Lorenzo Pasquato for]...

First ‘magisterial’ edition (Manning,...

£1250

BÈZE, Théodore de.

Poemata varia: Sylvae, Elegiae, Epitaphia,...

Geneva, Jacques Stoer, 1614.

One of the two ‘most complete’ (Gardy)...

£1250

BOCCHI, Achille.

Symbolicarum quaestionum, de universo genere,...

Bologna, Società Tipografica Bolognese, 1574.

Second edition (first 1555) of this notable...

£1950

BAINES, Thomas.

Explorations in South-West Africa. Being...

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts...

First edition. ‘The volume contains an...

£650

BELL, John.

Travels from St Petersburgh in Russia,...

Edinburgh, printed for William Creech...

Edinburgh edition (first Glasgow 1763)...

£650

BLAND-SUTTON, John, Sir.

Man and Beast in eastern Ethiopia. From...

London, Macmillan and Co., 1911.

First edition, a presentation copy from...

£300

[BLIXEN, Karen.] DINESEN, Isak, pseud.

Babettes Gaestebud.

Copenhagen, Forlaget Fremad, [1952].

First edition in book form of Babette’s...

£200

[COTTLE, Joseph.]

Poems, containing John the Baptist. Sir Malcolm...

Bristol, Printed by Bulgin and Rosser,...

First edition of this rare text with an...

£6000

FAULKNER, William.

A Fable.

[New York], Random House, [1954].

Limited edition, no. 880 of 1000 copies...

£1500

[FRANCISCANS.]

Orationes dicendae in expositione SS. Sacramenti...

[Northern Italy, 1787 and later.]

An intriguing devotional manuscript compiled...

£1250

ZOLA, Émile.

La Curée.

Paris, A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie, 1871.

First edition of the second novel in Zola’s...

£1500

WHITMAN, Walt, and Antonio FRASCONI, illustrator.

A Whitman Portrait.

[New York, Spiral Press, 1960.]

First edition, comprising extracts from...

£250

WEBER, Johann Adam.

Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...

[Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]

Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s wide-ranging...

£4750

VINCENS, Jean Alexandre.

Account book.

Nimes (France), 1783–1800.

A unique record of the financial transactions...

£4250

[VILLAMENA, Francesco.]

A fan leaf drawing of a street fight in Rome.

[Italy, late eighteenth century.]

A fine fan leaf drawing, Italian school,...

£1650

SORBOLI, Girolamo.

Celestina, favola pastorale.

Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1586.

First and only edition, rare, of this verse...

£750

GUSTÁ, Francisco.

Memorie della rivoluzione francese tanto...

Assisi, Ottavio Sgariglia, 1793.

Apparent first edition, very rare, of Gustá’s...

£550