MASTER B.F.

Three very large historiated initials cut...

Italy (Lodi), early sixteenth century.

Three extremely fine initials by the enigmatic...

£150000

[VERACI, Gaetano.] 

Nuova cicalata sopra la coda in forma di...

[S.l., s.n,. c. 1770.] 

Second edition, extremely rare and significantly...

£850

FENOUILLOT DE FALBAIRE, Charles-Georges. 

Le fabricant de Londres, drame en cinq...

Paris, chez Delalain, 1771. 

First edition of a London-set play by the...

£250

MARVIN, Charles.

The Russians at Merv and Herat and their...

London, W.H. Allen & Co., 1883.

First edition of this work on the Russian...

£875

RISLEY, Herbert Hope, Sir et al.

The gazetteer of Sikhim. With an introduction...

Calcutta, printed at the Bengal Secretariat...

First edition of this comprehensive survey...

£2500

CALMET, Antoine Augustin.

Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres...

Paris, Pierre Emery, 1712.

First edition of the commentary on the...

£450

MAGRE, Maurice.

Les trois métiers de Jeannet. Les bons...

Paris, Hachette (Bibliothèque des écoles...

Two scarce children’s stories, published...

£125

TERENCE; Daniel HEINSIUS, editor.

Pub. Terentii comoediae sex, ex recensione...

Amsterdam, Henrik Wetstein, [c. 1700].

A small-format edition of Terence’s comedies,...

£145

GAMON, Christophe de.

La semaine, ou création du monde du sieur...

[Geneva,] Gédéon Petit, 1609.

Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than...

£950

[GREENE, Asa.]

The Perils of Pearl Street, including a...

New York, Betts & Anstice and Peter Hill, 1834.

First edition of a very early Wall Street...

£2750

ESSER, [Karl?] Michael, Ritter von.

Sei Quartetti per due violini viola, e...

[Venice, Marescalchi e Canobbio, 1774?]

First edition, very rare, of a complete...

£1750

[CHANSONS.]

Manuscript collection of arias, chansons,...

[France (Nantes?), c. 1795.]

A fascinating manuscript collection of...

£2400

HUISH, Robert.

Fatherless Rosa; or, the Dangers of the...

London, Published by T. Kaygill … for...

First edition. Like the best-selling Fatherless...

£750

[OVERINGTON.]

Overington family pedigree.

Kirdford, c. 1620–1674. 

A manuscript pedigree on vellum tracing...

£500

[SHEFFIELD, John, Earl of Mulgrave, afterwards Duke of Buckingham.]

An Essay on Poetry.

London, Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh … 1682.

First edition, a verse satire in imitation...

£1200

[STANHOPE, Hester Lucy, Lady.] [MERYON, Charles Lewis, editor.]

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as...

London, [Frederick Shoberl for] Henry...

First edition, the entertaining memoirs...

£650

[DRYDEN, John.]

The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition....

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1682.

First edition, second issue, adding two...

£750

MONTERO LACASA, José.

Prototipos Bonaerenses. Ilustraciones del Autor.

[Buenos Aires,] Carlos y Roberto Nale,...

First edition of a collection of short...

£325

[AQUHORTIES.]

Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...

Edinburgh, Printed by J. Moir, Paterson’s...

Broadside rules for the newly established...

£850

BALFOUR, Arthur James, first Earl of Balfour.

Letter, signed, to ‘Sir John’.

London, 10 Downing Street, 28 June 1901.

A letter from Arthur Balfour, as first...

£300