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  1. CHURCHILL, Winston S.

    A History of the English-Speaking Peoples,...

    London, Cassel & Company Ltd, [1956; –...

    First editions, with dust-jackets, of Churchill’s...

    £200

  2. [VACCINATION.]

    Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone...

    Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.

    A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting...

    £650

  3. BROUGHAM, Henry, first Baron Brougham and Vaux.

    Albert Lunel. A Novel ... In three Volumes...

    Clarke ... [1872].

    First edition, Sadleir’s ‘really scarce’...

    £450

  4. CIRIA Y ESCALANTE, José de.

    [Poemas.]

    Madrid, Artes de la illustración, 1924.

    Scarce first edition, no. 172 of 200 copies,...

    £1500

  5. [CURLL, Edmund, et al.]

    An impartial History of the Life, Character,...

    London, Printed for E. Curll …, 1741.

    First edition of this obituary pamphlet...

    £650

  6. DRYDEN, John.

    Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem: dedicated...

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1692.

    First edition of Dryden’s eulogy for...

    £275

  7. [GRADUAL.]

    Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

    Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

    A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

    £20000

  8. [GREY, Jane, Lady.]

    ‘The last days of Lady Jane Grey’.

    [c. 1870?].

    A manuscript extract, unfinished or incomplete,...

    £175

  9. MESHCHERSKY, Elim Petrovich, Prince.

    Les roses noires …

    Paris, Amyot, 1845.

    Scarce first edition of this anthology...

    £400

  10. PASSI, Marco Celio.

    Memorie sulla vita di Donna Giuseppina...

    Bergamo, Stamperia Mazzoleni, 1832.

    Scarce first edition of a touching memorial...

    £300

  11. THICKNESSE, Philip.

    A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs...

    London, 1784.

    First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed,...

    £1850

  12. [WALSH, William.]

    A Funeral Elegy upon the Death of the Queen....

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1695.

    First edition of Walsh’s elegy on the...

    £350

  13. ITALY – PIEVE DI SAN MINIATO DI RUBBIANA.

    Petition to Pope Clement VII, in Latin,...

    The petition explains that the parish of...

    £250

  14. [TORGA, Miguel, pseud.] ROCHA, Adolpho Correia da.

    Abismo. Poemas.

    [Coimbra, “Atlantida”, 1932.]

    First (and only) edition of one of the...

    £3500

  15. AESOP, et al. [George STEWART, editor].

    Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...

    Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart,...

    First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...

    £375

  16. ARISTOPHANES.

    The Frogs, a Comedy. Translated from the...

    Oxford, J. and J. Fletcher; London,...

    First edition in English, and the only...

    £500

  17. ARISTOPHANES, and Henry Francis CARY, translator.

    The Birds … with Notes.

    London, Printed for Taylor and Hessey …...

    First edition of the first metrical translation...

    £350

  18. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.

    Claudii Claudiani Alexandrini, poetae illustriss. quotquot...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1530.

    First Colines edition of the major works...

    £850

  19. HORACE.

    ...

    Edinburgh, George Mosman, 1704.

    A rare, modestly printed Scottish Horace,...

    £450

  20. HORACE; James TATE, editor

    Horatius restitutus: or the books...

    Cambridge, J. Smith for J. & J.J. Deighton,...

    First edition of this attempt to arrange...

    £150