DRYDEN, John.

Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem: dedicated...

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1692.

First edition of Dryden’s eulogy for...

£275

[VACCINATION.]

Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone...

Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.

A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting...

£650

[SASSOON, Siegfried.] SURTEES, [Robert Smith]; Lionel GOUGH, editor.

Hunting Scenes from Surtees.

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953.

Sassoon’s proof copy of Hunting Scenes...

£850

BUXTON, Thomas Fowell.

An Inquiry, whether Crime and Misery are...

London, [J. M’Creery] for John & Arthur...

Third edition, published the same year...

£195

PERSIUS; [Thomas BREWSTER, translator].

The Satires of Persius translated into...

London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

Second edition, with the addition of Bayle’s...

£375

[CAVALLERI, Paolo Agostino.]

Lettera dall’Adriatico del signor Antonio...

Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1792 (colophon 1793).

First edition, uncommon, of this counter-revolutionary...

£375

SHAKESPEARE, William, and Bolemir IZBORSKÝ, pseud. [i.e. Antonín MAREK], translator.

Omylowé dle Shakespeara wzdělaná weselohra...

Prague, Jozefa Fetterlowá, ‘in the...

First edition in Czech, very rare, of A...

£1100

REYES, Alfonso.

Corrected carbon typescript, signed, of...

[Buenos Aires?, c. 1952–3.]

Corrected carbon typescript of Alfonso...

£1000

[HEMSTERHUIS, François.] 

Alexis ou de l’age d’or. 

Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1787. 

First edition of Hemsterhuis’s philosophical...

£375

BEBEL, August, and Daniel DE LEON, translator.

Woman under socialism. Translated from...

New York, Labor News Press, 1904.

First edition in English, first printing,...

£125

ALFIERI, Vittorio, and Charles LLOYD, translator.

The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri; translated...

London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees,...

First edition of this translation of Alfieri’s...

£450

DICKENS, Charles; Hablot Knight BROWNE and George CATTERMOLE, illustrators.

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London, Chapman and Hall, 1840–41.

First edition in book form, of Charles...

£175

SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de.

Cours de linguistique générale.

Lausanne & Paris, Payot, 1916.

First edition of this seminal textbook...

£575

[MONTANUS, Arnoldus.]

Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie...

Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680.

First edition in French of an important...

£3500

GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.

Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...

Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

First edition, the complete four-volume...

£6500

APPIAN of Alexandria.

Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine...

£3000

WATSON, Sheila.

‘The Great War, Wyndham Lewis and the...

The recordings included are three sections...

£50

GIOVIO, Paolo. 

Elogia veris clarorum virorum imaginibus...

Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1546. 

First edition of Giovio’s biographies...

£3000

MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.

Beyond this Limit …

[London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].

First edition. This was Lewis’s only...

£75

[WOMEN-PEARLS.]

De Vrouwen-Peirle, ofte dryvoudige historie...

Ghent, J. Begyn, [1780–1810].

An attractive copy of the ‘Women-pearls’,...

£550