BOWMAN, William, Sir.

Autograph letter, signed, to ‘Mr Cooke’.

[London?,] 18 January 1870.

Bowman writes to ‘Mr Cooke’ to postpone...

£200

BONAPARTE, Jerôme-Napoléon.

Letter signed as governor of Les Invalides...

Paris, Hôtel des Invalides, 16 February 1849.

Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte (1784–1860)...

£300

BELL, Charles, Sir.

Letter signed to ‘the Treasurer of the...

Soho Square, London, 18 March [probably...

The neurophysiologist Sir Charles Bell...

£375

KEATE, George. 

An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated...

Dublin, Luke White, 1788. 

First Dublin edition of this popular work,...

£650

[JAMIESON, John.] 

Congal and Fenella; A Tale in Two Parts. 

London, C. Dilly, 1791. 

First and only edition of Jamieson’s...

£250

[PAPER TRADE.] 

Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...

[Besançon?, 1772?] 

A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...

£175

[CAMBOUT, Sébastien Joseph du; John EVELYN, attributed translator].

The moral Practice of the Jesuites. Demonstrated...

London, Printed for Simon Miller, at the...

First edition in English of La morale...

£700

MARINIS, Dominico de. 

Dissertatio philosophico-medica de re monstrosa...

Rome, typis Iacobi Mascardi ... sumptibus...

First edition of this scarce dissertation...

£1850

[COOK, James, and Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de la PÉROUSE.]

Tableau des decouvertes du Capne. Cook,...

S. Sauveur, l’an 7 de la République...

A splendid hand-coloured engraving depicting...

£1500

[SARPI, Paolo (pseud.).] ‘Pietro Soave POLANO’. 

Historia del Concilio Tridentino di Pietro...

Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1629. 

Second edition, the first to omit the extraneous...

£450

CREVE, Carl Caspar. 

Vom Metallreize, einem neuentdeckten untrüglichen...

Leipzig and Gera, Wilhelm Heinsius, 1796.

First edition of this uncommon contribution...

£550

GASPARIN, Agénor Étienne, Comte de.

Des tables tournantes du surnaturel en...

Paris, Bonaventure and Ducessois for E....

Scarce first edition of Gasparin’s early...

£1500

PERUCCI, Francesco.

Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo,...

Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.

First edition of Perucci’s account of...

£975

REFELL, A. 

Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

First German edition, rare, of this fascinating...

£1250

STIRLING, A.M.W.

Ghosts vivisected. An impartial inquiry...

London, Robert Hale, 1957.

First edition, a very readable account...

£40

FRY, Theodore.

A brief Memoir of Francis Fry, F.S.A. of...

[London, Printed by Barclay and Fry,] 1887.

First edition. Francis Fry (1803–1886)...

£850

[BOOKBINDER.]

Sentence rendue en la chambre criminelle...

Paris, Jean-Charles Desaint, 1782.

Scarce pamphlet documenting the misdemeanours...

£575

[FIELDING, Sarah.] 

The adventures of David Simple: containing...

London, printed for A. Millar, 1744. 

First edition, very fine.  The first and...

£1500

WAPPEROM, Jacobus Joannes. 

Gezangen door J.J. Wapperom. 

The Hague, 1805. 

Very rare collection of songs by the Dutch...

£675

VERHEYEN, Pierre Emmanuel.

Requiem mass in C minor.

[Flanders, c. 1810.]

A very grand unpublished Requiem mass in...

£4750