[HERALDRY.]

Manuscripts relating to Low Countries nobility.

[Low Countries, mid-seventeenth century?]

A fine set of manuscripts relating to Low...

£1750

[JESUITS.]

The Travels of several learned Missioners...

London, for R. Gosling, 1714.

First English translation of twenty-two...

£1250

[LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]

156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.

[Holland, c. 1760–80].

A truly stunning collection of over 150...

£100000

IBN VERGA, Solomon; Georg GENTIUS, translator.

Historia Judaica res Judaeorum ab eversa...

Amsterdam, Pieter Niellius, 1651.

First Latin edition of Solomon Ibn Verga’s...

£3750

MILL, John Stuart; Jan VÁŇA, translator.

O Individualitě. Z anglického jazyka...

Váňa … Prague, Militký and Novák, 1880.

First edition in Czech, very rare, of Mill’s...

£350

MILL, John Stuart; Hugo KOSTERKA and Václav PETRŽELKA, translators.

O Svobodě. Přeložili H. Kosterka a...

Prague, Czech student magazine press, 1891.

First edition in Czech of On Liberty...

£650

‘WOODLAND SKETCHES.

With poetical Selections …

Frome. 1836’.

A delightful illustrated manuscript commonplace...

£1250

PITTER, Přemysl.

Domovu i exilu [Home and Exile].

London, Čechoslovák-FCI, [1956].

First editions, association copies, of...

£850

NEVILL, Ralph; Geoffrey HOLME, editor.

Old English Sporting Prints and their History.

London, Herbert Reiach for the Studio...

Limited edition, numbered 576 of 1500 copies....

£165

LANDI, Bassiano.

De origine et causa pestis Patauinae, anni...

Venice, apud Balthassarem Constantinum...

First edition of this important work investigating...

£1250

ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.

[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....

Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.

First part of the first and only edition...

£450

HIEROCLES of Alexandria.

Ύπομνηνα εις τα των Πυθαγορειων...

London, J. R. [John Redmayne] for J. Williams,...

London edition of the only complete work...

£500

LUCIAN of Samosata.

Opera graece et latine ad editionem Tiberii...

Zweibrücken, Typographia Societatis,...

Renouard’s copy of the Bipontine Lucian,...

£8000

LUCRETIUS. 

Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...

Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...

First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...

£450

[DOVES PRESS.] 

Pervigilium Veneris. 

Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

£950

BOLZANIO, Urbano or URBANUS BELLUNENSIS.

Institutionum in linguam Graecam grammaticarum,...

Basel, Johann Walder, September 1535.

Basel edition of this popular grammar commissioned...

£2000

ASCHAM, Roger.

A Report and Discourse … of the Affaires...

London, Printed by John Daye … [1570?].

First edition. Ascham’s account of his...

£2000

RANDOLPH, Thomas.

The Poems … edited by G. Thorn-Drury …

London, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald,...

No. 21 of 40 copies on all-rag laid paper,...

£75

DAMPIER, William, et al.

A Collection of Voyages. In four volumes....

London, for James and John Knapton, 1729.

The first collected edition, ‘considered...

£9500

[SMITH, Adam.]

ADLERSPARRE, Georg, et al., editors. Läsning...

Stockholm, Henrik A. Nordström, 1797–1801.

First edition of all fifty parts of the...

£400