CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer; F. RHODES, editor; Angus McNEILL, illustrator.

The River War: An Historical Account of...

[London, Spottiswoode & Co. for] London,...

First edition of Churchill’s second book,...

£2500

CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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

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

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

£200

[VACCINATION.]

Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone...

Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.

A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting...

£650

BROUGHAM, Henry, first Baron Brougham and Vaux.

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

Clarke ... [1872].

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

£450

CIRIA Y ESCALANTE, José de.

[Poemas.]

Madrid, Artes de la illustración, 1924.

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

£1500

[CURLL, Edmund, et al.]

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

London, Printed for E. Curll …, 1741.

First edition of this obituary pamphlet...

£650

DRYDEN, John.

Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem: dedicated...

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1692.

First edition of Dryden’s eulogy for...

£275

[GRADUAL.]

Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

£20000

[GREY, Jane, Lady.]

‘The last days of Lady Jane Grey’.

[c. 1870?].

A manuscript extract, unfinished or incomplete,...

£175

MANCINI, Celso. 

Il padrino Christiano … per formare i...

Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1592. 

Rare first edition of a meditational work...

£950

MESHCHERSKY, Elim Petrovich, Prince.

Les roses noires …

Paris, Amyot, 1845.

Scarce first edition of this anthology...

£400

PASSI, Marco Celio.

Memorie sulla vita di Donna Giuseppina...

Bergamo, Stamperia Mazzoleni, 1832.

Scarce first edition of a touching memorial...

£300

THICKNESSE, Philip.

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

I [all published]. London: Printed...

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

£1850

[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

ITALY – PIEVE DI SAN MINIATO DI RUBBIANA.

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

The petition explains that the parish of...

£250

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

Abismo. Poemas.

[Coimbra, “Atlantida”, 1932.]

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

£3500

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

Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...

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

First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...

£375

ARISTOPHANES.

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

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

First edition in English, and the only...

£500

ARISTOPHANES, and Henry Francis CARY, translator.

The Birds … with Notes.

London, Printed for Taylor and Hessey …...

First edition of the first metrical translation...

£350

CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.

Claudii Claudiani Alexandrini, poetae illustriss. quotquot...

Paris, Simon de Colines, 1530.

First Colines edition of the major works...

£850