[THOM, Robert].

王嬌鸞百年長恨 Wang Keaou Lẅan...

Canton, Canton Press Office, 1839.

First and only edition, scarce, loosely...

£1750

FENN, John, Sir.

Original Letters written during the Reigns...

London, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787.

Second edition, published in the same year...

£1200

[COSTUME.]

Dresses of different Nations or the Companion...

[N.p., 1810s?]

Very rare costume book, possibly a Scottish...

£1500

CHIANG Yee.

The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh.

[Edinburgh, Constable, for] London, Methuen,...

First edition, signed, of this unusual...

£180

[CARLYLE.]

Illustrated memorial Volume of the Carlyle’s...

London, The Carlyle’s House Memorial...

First edition of an uncommon commemorative...

£325

BARRIE, James Matthew.

A set of seven first editions, and one...

London, 1888–1896.

An attractive set of J. M. Barrie’s...

£650

BOYLE, Robert.

Certain physiological Essays and other...

London, Henry Herringman, 1669.

Second edition in English, enlarged. ‘The...

£1500

MILLER, Henry.

Tropic of Cancer.

London, John Calder, 1963.

First UK editions of Miller’s autobiographical...

£1500

LUCIAN of Samosata.

Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, e Graeco...

Lyons, Jean Frellon, 1549.

First Lyons edition of the works of Lucian...

£3750

[KEIR, James.]

An Account of the Life and Writings of...

London, printed for John Stockdale, 1791.

First edition of this biography of Thomas...

£1500

BULLA, Paolo.

Notizie intorno all’osservatorio privato...

Rome, Tipografia della R. Accademia dei...

First and only edition, very rare, of this...

£1250

PHIPPS, Constantine John.

A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken...

London, W. Bowyer and J. Nicols for...

First edition of Phipps’s account of...

£2500

MAUGIN, Jean.

Histoire du noble Tristan, prince de Leonnois,...

Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1586.

A scarce edition of the New Tristan,...

£4750

LOMBARDI, Giovanni Francesco.

Oratio habita in synodo Tridentina die...

Brescia, Lodovico Sabbio, [1561?].

First edition of this sermon delivered...

£3750

[HEDGE, Mary Anne.]

Samboe; or, the African Boy …

London, Harvey and Darton, 1823.

First edition of an abolitionist novella...

£750

[EROTICA.]

Pencil drawing of a woman in eighteenth-century...

[France, early nineteenth century?]

A fine erotically-charged figure study...

£3750

DUER, William Alexander.

The Life of William Alexander, Earl of...

New York, Wiley & Putnam for the New Jersey...

First edition, doubly inscribed ‘To Henry...

£575

CINQUARBRES, Jean et al.

Linguae Hebraicae institutiones absolutissimae,...

Paris, Guillaume Le Bé, 1609.

A thoroughly annotated copy of Jean Cinquarbres’s...

£1850

ALEXANDER, [Charles] A[rmistead].

The Fall of Aztalan, and other Poems …

Washington, W. M. Morrison, 1839.

First edition, a presentation copy, of...

£1750

[PALIN, Nils Gustaf.]

De l’étude des hiéroglyphes. Fragmens....

Paris, Fain for Delaunay, Colnet, Treuttel,...

First edition of this curious work on Egyptian...

£2500