[ALMANACK.]

Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...

Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...

A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...

£1500

[LANSPERGER, Johannes Justus;] Serafino ACETI DE’ PORTI, translator.

Pharetra divini amoris, tradotto in volgare...

Venice, Paolo Gherardo [(colophon:) Comin...

Third Italian edition, considerably enlarged,...

£1500

MESNY, William.

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

Shanghai, printed at the “China Gazette...

The first volume, collecting the first...

£1500

LUCAS, John.

'Select and Original Pieces written at...

Leeds, 1816 [–1817].

A handsomely illustrated manuscript on...

£1375

SURTEES, Robert Smith.

The Horseman’s Manual, being a Treatise...

London, M.A. Pittman for Alfred Miller, 1831.

First edition of Surtees’s first work,...

£1250

LEWIS, Wyndham.

The Revenge for Love.

London, Cassell & Co. Ltd., [1937].

First edition, very scarce in the dust-jacket,...

£1250

WILLIAMS, William Carlos.

Paterson [Books 1, 2, 3 & 4].

Norfolk, New Classics, [1951]. [with:]

First collected edition of Books One...

£1250

[GRIMOD DE LA REYNIÈRE, Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent.]

Manuel des amphitryons; contenant un traité...

Paris, Capelle and Renand, 1808.

First edition of Grimod de la Reynière’s...

£1250

[WINCHESTER COLLEGE.]

Printed and manuscript election roll.

[Winchester,] ‘1 November 1782’.

A remarkable eighteenth-century part-printed...

£1250

ROSSI, Ottavio, and Bartolomeo FONTANA, compiler.

Lettere del Sig. Ottavio Rossi. Raccolte...

Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621.

First edition of over 150 letters by the...

£1250

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

La tirannide vendicata, drama per musica,...

Pesaro, Gavelli, 1726.

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

£1250

[PSALMS.]

Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per...

Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for]...

Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms...

£1250

BEAUMONT, Joseph.

Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...

London, Printed by John Dawson for George...

First edition of this lengthy religious...

£1250

[TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]

‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...

Modena, 1805.

An unpublished manuscript introduction...

£1250

[BIBLE.]

Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti...

Antwerp, Jan Moretus ‘ex officina Plantiniana’,...

Plantin edition of the Clementine Vulgate,...

£1250

FLEMING, Ian.

The Spy who loved me.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition, first impression, of the...

£1250

[SEVILLE.]

Mercantile contract between Sebastián...

Seville, 25 July 1576.

A commercial document from the heyday of...

£1200

[DAGUERRE.] MAYER & PIERSON [after Charles Richard MEADE.]

Carte-de-visite albumen print portrait...

Paris, late 1860s.

In 1848 the pioneering American photographer...

£1200

SCOTT, Walter, Sir.

Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field.

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable; London,...

Tenth edition of Scott’s historical verse...

£1200

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