[‘ROBERTI, Antonius’, pseud.]; George PERKINS, editor.

Clavis Homerica, reserans significationes,...

London, E. Griffin for Godfrey Emerson, 1638.

First London edition, ‘with the Catholic...

£600

LONGINUS, [Pseudo-]; Jonathan TOUP and David RUHNKEN, editors.

Quae supersunt Graece et Latine.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1778.

The first Toup edition of Longinus’ On...

£375

DIOGENES LAERTIUS; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

Περι βιων, δογματων και...

[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1570.

First Estienne edition of The Lives...

£850

CHEKE, John, Sir, and Stephen [GARDINER], Bishop of Winchester.

De pronuntiatione graecae potissimum linguae...

Basel, Nikolaus Episcopius the younger, 1555.

First edition of this collection of letters...

£950

[ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]

Ανθολογια διαφορων επιγραμματων...

[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1566.

First Estienne edition of the Planudean...

£5000

MESNY, William.

Mesny’s Chinese Miscellany. A Text Book...

Shanghai, printed at the “China Gazette...

The first volume, collecting the first...

£1500

FLORIO, Blasco.

Lettera sopra alcuni ostacoli che la logica,...

Messina, Giuseppe Fiumara, 1825.

Very rare first edition of this work on...

£475

[ANON.] 

Le moine galant, ou la vie de Don F…...

[S.l., s.n.,] 1756. 

Scarce first edition of this satirical...

£450

[SERMONS.]

[Sermones sensati.]

[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

First and only incunable edition of a rare...

£8500

LA VIGNE, André de.

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

[(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

£9500

GAGUIN, Robert.

La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

£8500

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...

A rare edition of Champier’s account...

£9500

BELLARMINE, Robert.

De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus....

Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1613.

First edition of a remarkable biobibliography...

£350

PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.

Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus...

Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck...

A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd...

£350

KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich.

Александрійскія Пѣсни...

St Petersburg, “Prometei”, [1921].

First separate edition of Kuzmin’s Alexandrian...

£400

FLEMING, Ian.

The Spy who loved me.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition, first impression, of the...

£1250

OVID; Georg SABINUS, editor.

Metamorphoses seu fabulae poeticae earumque...

Frankfurt, Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1608.

A pocket edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses...

£325

NOMEXY, Nicolas de.

Parnassus poeticus … nunc primum in Germania...

Rome, Guglielmo Facciotti, for Vincenzo...

A bestselling compilation of Latin verse,...

£650

KRUG, [Wilhelm Traugott].

Apologia della chiesa protestante contro...

[S.l., s.n.,] 1822.

First edition, extremely rare, of this...

£275

FERRAZZI, Marc’Antonio.

Dissertationes criticae in linguam hebraicam …

Padua, ‘Typis Seminarii’, 1691.

Rare first edition of this philological...

£600