[COURTESAN.]

Les confessions d’une courtisane devenue...

‘London’ and Brussels, Le Francq, 1784.

First edition (another appeared in the...

£850

BARBARO, Francesco. 

De re uxoria libri duo, ut venustate sermonis...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1639. 

An attractive later edition of this famous...

£275

[ANON.] 

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

[s.n.,] 1756. 

Scarce first edition of this satirical...

£450

DOLCE, Lodovico.

Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e...

Venice, Giovanni Battista, & Marchio Sessa,...

First edition of this exposition of Aristotle’s...

£2500

[DOVES PRESS.] 

Pervigilium Veneris. 

Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

£950

[THOMAS À KEMPIS.]

Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...

Florence, Piero Pacini da Pescia, 16 April...

Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...

£4000

LUCRETIUS. 

Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...

Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...

First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...

£450

ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.

[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....

Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.

First part of the first and only edition...

£450

CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

£9500

[PREDIERI, Luca Antonio, composer; Apostolo ZENO, librettist.]

La tirannide vendicata, drama per musica,...

Pesaro, Gavelli, 1726.

First edition, very rare, of the libretto...

£1250

HAMILTON, ‘Eliza’ [Elizabeth].

Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo...

London, J. Crowder for G. & J. Robinson, 1801.

Second edition of Hamilton’s first separately...

£575

FLORUS, L. Annaeus; Lucius AMPELIUS; Claude SAUMAISE, editor.

[Rerum romanarum libri IV and Epitome...

Leiden, Elzevir, 1638.

The attractive Elzevir edition of Florus’...

£650

[EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

£400

[ALMANACK.]

L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...

Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

A very rare enamelled metal binding with...

£2750

BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).

Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...

London, Henry Colburn, 1829.

First edition, in one volume, recounting...

£3750

[NEW YORK.]

Notarial instrument attesting to the residence...

New York, 27 July 1797.

An interesting notarial document recording...

£850

[STEREOGRAPH.]

‘Going Out’ [and] ‘Coming In’.

London, Gebhardt, Rottmann & Co., [late...

An amusing pair of stereos depicting the...

£70

[STEREOGRAPH.]

James ELLIOTT, photographer.

‘The first Love Letter’ [and] ‘Difference...

Three hand-tinted albumen prints in stereo...

£175

[HAMBURG.] 

A sammelband of material relating to the...

[Germany, 1842.] 

A fine and unusual volume of materials...

£850

GOLDONI, Carlo.

Scelta di alcune commedie. Per uso de’...

Livorno, Assunto Barbani, 1816.

First edition printed in Italy of a collection...

£175