SOPHOCLES; Ezra POUND, translator.

Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

London, Neville Spearman, [1956]. 

First edition of Pound’s version of Sophocles’...

£1000

[VOGEL, Johann Christoph.]

Démophon.

[France (probably Paris), c. 1787.]

A contemporary scribal manuscript of Johann...

£5250

VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

Lombardica historia que a plerisque aurea...

Strasbourg, [Georg Husner,] 1502.

Jacobus de Voragine’s influential Legenda...

£8000

[BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]

An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....

London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.

Scarce second edition – in fact a reissue...

£1500

[PRAYERS.]

The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts....

London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.

Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection...

£1200

[POPE, Alexander.]

The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books....

‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed...

Second edition, rare, and of considerable...

£4500

PORTER, [Jane].

Thaddeus of Warsaw. In four Volumes …...

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.

Fifth edition of Jane Porter’s famous...

£500

[PRIMER.]

Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...

London, William Seres, 1568.

Second edition of this rare ‘private’...

£4250

[PSALMS; Basil WOODD, editor.]

The Psalms of David, and other Portions...

London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons,...

A pocket-sized Psalm- and prayerbook with...

£2000

ROHAN, Henri, Duke of; [Henry HUNT, translator].

A Treatise of the Interest of the Princes...

London, Richard Hodgkinson, 1641.

First edition in England (and second in...

£1800

DE QUINCEY, Thomas.

Autograph draft of two passages from his...

Undated, c. 1835.

An interesting autograph fragment with...

£1750

[ATLAS.]

[Cover title:] School Atlas; or,...

London, Richard Phillips, [1810–11].

Likely first edition, very rare, of this...

£475

BERNIER DE MALIGNY, Aristippe-Félix.

Art du comédien. Principes généraux....

Paris, Louis Raymond, [1819].

Very rare broadside encapsulating the ‘art...

£875

CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.

‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate...

[Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.

A manuscript treatise concerning the three...

£375

FATHERS LEGACY (The):

or Counsels to his children. In three Parts....

London, Printed for Henry Brome … 1678.

First and only edition, very scarce, of...

£1850

GIGLI, Mariano.

Esperimento del nobile giovinetto Francesco...

Milan, Società tipografica de’ classici...

First and only edition, rare, of a series...

£1250

GOODWIN, Thomas.

Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps,...

Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks...

£1600

[JUVENILE.]

A Token of Remembrance from a Mother to...

London, William Darton, 1822.

First edition of this collection of moral...

£350

[MONS.]

Histoire de l’institution de l’ecole...

Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.

First and only edition, very rare, of this...

£975

PARR, Samuel.

A Discourse on Education and on the Plans...

[Norwich, John Crouse for] London, T. Cadell...

First and only edition of this treatise...

£175