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  1. WILSON, Charles Thomas, and Robert William FELKIN.

    Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan ...

    London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle &...

    First edition, ‘from the archive’ of...

    £450

  2. QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius.

    Institutiones oratoriae, ac Declamationes,...

    [Paris,] Badius Ascensius for Ascensius...

    Rare reprint of Badius’s successful 1528...

    £1250

  3. PINDAR. 

    Carmina, ex editione Chr. Gottl. Heyne. 

    Oxford, N. Bliss for M. Bliss and R. Bliss...

    An attractive Oxford-printed pocket edition...

    £175

  4. SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. 

    The School for Scandal, a Comedy [– The...

    Dublin, William Porter for William Jones,...

    The first attempt to publish a collected...

    £275

  5. PASCOLI, Alessandro. 

    Nuovo metodo per introdursi ad imitazion...

    Venice, Andrea Poletti, 1721. 

    Scarce second edition (first 1702) of this...

    £450

  6. [VETTORI, Antonio].

    Sferza poetica contro i costumi d’oggidi....

    [Colophon]: Si vende in Fierra di Venezia...

    Uncommon collection of sonnets musing on...

    £350

  7. GARGIULO, Raffaele.

    Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...

    Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.

    Second, revised and enlarged edition (first...

    £275

  8. TERENCE Afer, Publius. 

    Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis...

    Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529. 

    First folio edition of Terence’s comedies...

    £1500

  9. SCRIBE, Augustin-Eugène.

    Autograph letter, signed, to an unnamed...

    Paris, 21 January, [1840, 1845, or 1851].

    The dramatist Augustin-Eugène Scribe (1791–1861)...

    £200

  10. PASTEUR, Louis.

    Visiting card with autograph note.

    [No place, undated.]

    With the autograph note ‘Avec ses remerciments...

    £400

  11. PALMERSTON, Henry John Temple, Viscount.

    Autograph document signed, approving a...

    Whitehall, 2 February 1853.

    A document signed by Lord Palmerston as...

    £400

  12. NIEL, Adolphe.

    Autograph note signed.

    [No place], 19 March [1851 or 1852].

    A brief note in which the French army general...

    £150

  13. MÉRIMÉE, Prosper.

    Autograph note signed ‘Pr. Mérimée’.

    [Paris?, undated].

    A brief note by Prosper Mérimée, headed...

    £125

  14. LIEBIG, Justus von.

    Autograph letter, signed, to an unnamed...

    Munich, 10 December 1857.

    A fine letter from Justus von Liebig to...

    £1250

  15. LIEBIG, Justus von.

    Autograph letter to the publishers Heinrich...

    Darmstadt, 16 September 1847.

    Letter from the German chemist Justus von...

    £750

  16. KRUGER, (Paul) Stephanus Johannes Paulus.

    Printed document signed, granting land...

    Pretoria, April 1897 and 5 May 1897.

    A printed document signed by Paul Kruger...

    £500

  17. JEROME, Jerome Klapka.

    Autograph letter, signed, to W. B. Forster...

    Brussels, Wiltcher’s Hotel, 11 May 1904.

    A very good letter in which Jerome K. Jerome...

    £500

  18. HUMBOLDT, Alexander von.

    Autograph letter signed ‘Humboldt’,...

    [Paris,] ‘Ce samedi’, [no month or...

    An excellent, intimate and unpublished...

    £2500

  19. HARRIS, James, later first Earl of Malmesbury.

    A small group of documents.

    [1779–1785].

    Harris (1746–1820) was ‘the leading...

    £325

  20. HALÉVY, Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie.

    Autograph musical quotation, signed.

    Paris, 15 May 1846.

    Fromental Halévy (1799–1862) showed...

    £750