‘CODACCI, Scarpafico’, pseud. [i.e. Gaetano VERACI.]

Cicalata sopra la coda in forma di lettera...

[Florence,] ‘nel Campo Cauditano’, 1765.

First edition of this highly suggestive,...

£550

[DUQUESNE, Arnaud-Bernard d’Icard.]

Vie de la vénérable mère Catherine de...

Nancy, Claude-Sigisbert Lamort; Paris,...

Uncommon biography of the French nun Mechtilde...

£650

GIOVIO, Paolo.

Historiarum sui temporis. Tomus primus...

Lyon, heirs of Sébastien Gryphe, 1561.

The first Lyon pocket edition of Giovio’s...

£350

HERMOGENES.

Τεχνη ρητορικη τελειοτατη....

Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1614.

A parallel text edition of Hermogenes in...

£750

[MISSAL.]

Ordinaire de la Messe.

[Paris?, c. 1890–1900].

A lithographed and elegantly hand-coloured...

£350

[PLAYING CARDS.]

Complete deck of 52 playing cards with...

London, Hunt’s Playing Card Manufacturing...

A lovely and well-preserved complete deck...

£175

[RAGUENEAU DE LA CHAINAYE, Armand Henri.]

Ivrogniana, ou bons mots et aventures d’ivrognes,...

Paris, chez Madame Cavanagh, an. XII – 1804.

Scarce collection of comic anecdotes and...

£550

THOMAS À KEMPIS; Johann Michael SAILER, translator.

Das Buch von der Nachfolgung Christi …...

Munich, Ignaz Joseph Lentner, and Leipzig,...

Uncommon ‘second edition’ of Thomas...

£250

CARY, John.

A new map of Arabia, including Egypt, Abyssinia,...

London, John Cary, 28 November 1804.

An attractive hand-coloured map of the...

£800

[TACCONI, Gaetano.]

‘Medicae inst[ructio]nes’, ‘Tractatus...

[Bologna, Italy,] 1739.

An extensive manuscript compendium of apparently...

£1250

QUARLES, Francis.

The Shepheards Oracles: delivered in certain...

London, Printed by M. F. for John Marriot...

Third edition of this pastoral allegory,...

£300

[REEVE, Gabriel].

Directions left by a Gentleman to his Sonns:...

London, Printed by E. T. and R. H. for...

Sole edition of one of the first books...

£650

CLEVELAND, John.

Clievelandi Vindiciae: or, Clieveland’s...

London, Printed for Nath. Brooke ... 1677

First edition, the issue with Nathaniel...

£250

KERKHERDERE, Jan Gerard.

De situ Paradisi Terrestris ... Praecedit...

Leuven, Martin van Overbeke, 1729.

First edition of this work attempting to...

£550

[LOQUET, Marie-Françoise].

Voyage de Sophie et d’Eulalie, au Palais...

Paris, Charles-Pierre Berton, 1781.

First edition of this rare utopian voyage...

£1500

[BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...

Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.

First editions of two scarce works by the...

£2500

BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez de.

Aristippus, or, Monsr. de Balsac’s Masterpiece,...

London, Tho. Newcomb for Nat. Eakins and...

First edition in English of Balzac’s...

£750

BENZI, Ugo; Giovanni Lodovico BERTALDI, commentator.

Regole della sanità et della natura de...

Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.

Scarce first vernacular edition of the...

£2500

MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

Urbis Romae topographia.

Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

First illustrated edition (third overall),...

£5500

DALLAS, R[obert] C[harles.]

Sir Francis Darrell; or The Vortex: a Novel...

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

First edition of this epistolary novel...

£1600