MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.

Beyond this Limit …

[London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].

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

£75

[PALACE THEATRE, SCUNTHORPE.]

‘Benefit to A. E. Dobney, Thursday,...

[Scunthorpe, 1914.]

A rare broadside programme for a benefit...

£185

GUARNA, Andrea.

Bellum grammaticale.

Venice, (colophon:) Francesco Rampazetto...

Very rare edition (first published in 1511)...

£750

[NUPTIALIA.]

Bartolomeo MOLAJONI.  Alla neogama donzella...

Viterbo, brothers Poggiarelli, 1811. 

Seemingly unrecorded sonnet addressed to...

£275

[GOLD and SILVER.] 

Bando generale per gli orefici, argentieri,...

Rome, ‘nella stamperia della Rev. Camera...

Rare edict governing goldsmiths, silversmiths,...

£475

CASAL, Gaspar do.

Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis...

Coimbra, João da Barreira and João Alvares,...

First edition of Gaspar do Casal’s major...

£2500

[DE GRAAFT, attributed.]

Avantures secrettes, et plaisantes. Recueillies...

Brussels, George de Backer, 1696.

Scarce first Brussels edition, published...

£375

REXROTH, Kenneth.

An Autobiographical Novel …

Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company,...

First edition, inscribed ‘In friendship...

£300

ADORNO, Theodor W., Else FRENKEL-BRUNSWIK, Daniel J. LEVINSON, and R. Nevitt SANFORD

The Authoritarian Personality.

New York, Harper Brothers, 1950.

First edition of this groundbreaking work...

£225

GELLIUS, Aulus.

Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...

Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous...

£650

ARMINESI, Rocco degli.

Attila flagelum Dei, tradotto dalla vera...

Venice, Omobon Bettanino, [mid-eighteenth...

Very rare eighteenth-century edition of...

£600

[BOXING.]

The Art of manual Defence; or, System of...

London, G. Kearsley, ‘1799’ [but 1789].

Third edition, scarce, of an early illustrated...

£2750

PACE, Giulio.

Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus...

Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

 Rare third edition (first 1618) of this...

£750

[PAPER TRADE.] 

Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...

[Besançon?, 1772?] 

A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...

£175

[MURDER.]

Arrest de la cour du Parlement, qui condamne...

Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1778.

Very rare decree documenting the crimes...

£175

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

GRUBBE, Margaret Julia Maria.

Archive of drawings, watercolours, and...

England and Scotland, c. 1900 – 1960s.

A charming archive of the Suffolk artist...

£1500

[ARABIAN NIGHTS.]

Arabian Tales; or, a Continuation of the...

London, Faulder, and Hookham and Carpenter,...

First edition of this translation of the...

£1000

[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

‘PIETRO da VICOVARO’, i.e. Giuseppe CORTESE.

Apparecchio per accompagnare Maria Santissima...

Rome, Komarek, 1735.

Very rare devotional work dedicated to...

£550