[GAMES AND RECREATION.]

Trattato de’ giochi e de’ divertimenti...

Rome, Michel'Angelo Barbiellini, 1768.

First edition of a treatise on games and...

£650

[CHARITY.]

Reglement du 11 Juin 1752, concernant la...

Dijon, Antoine Defay, [1752].

Very rare work detailing the regulations...

£850

CHALMERS, David.

Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...

Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.

First edition of Chalmer’s historical...

£950

‘SANIVAL, Marchesa di’, pseud. [i.e. SALVANI, Fausto].

La difesa delle donne o sia risposta apologetica...

Siena, Luigi and Benedetto Bindi, 1786.

Very rare first edition, printed on blue...

£1500

[PSALMS.]

Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...

A collection of verse paraphrases of the...

£975

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

Apparecchio per accompagnare Maria Santissima...

Rome, Komarek, 1735.

Very rare devotional work dedicated to...

£550

[MILITARIA.]

Instruction provisoire arrêtée par le...

Montauban, Vincent Teulières, 1788.

A seemingly unrecorded edition of these...

£750

BLANCHET, Joseph.

L’art, ou les principes philosophiques...

Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel...

First edition, though designated as the...

£750

D’URFEY, Thomas.

Wit and Mirth: or Pills to purge Melancholy;...

Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719 [– 1720].

The first complete edition, second issue...

£2250

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

[SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.]

The School for Scandal. A Comedy. As it...

[Dublin], Printed for the Booksellers, 1793.

First separate illustrated edition of Sheridan’s...

£750

PACE, Giulio.

Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus...

Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

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

£750

BENZI, Ugo; Giovanni Lodovico BERTALDI, commentator.

Regole della sanità et della natura de...

Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.

Scarce first vernacular edition of the...

£2500

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

RICHARDUS ANGLICUS.

Correctorium alchymiae ... Das is reformierte...

Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...

£4500

[WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.

An Eulogy on the Life of General George...

Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.

First edition of this eulogy on Washington,...

£250

[IMAGINARY VOYAGE.]

Admirable Travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins...

London, ‘for the Benefit of Robert Barker,...

Rare, a lively chapbook novella of adventures...

£1500

POMPONIO LETO, Giulio.

In omnia quae quidem extant, P. Vergilii...

Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1544].

Second edition of Leto’s influential...

£450

CLÜVER, Philipp.

Introductio in universam geographiam tam...

Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...

The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...

£2500

GUILLIM, John.

A Display of Heraldrie: manifesting a more...

London, Thomas Cotes for Jacob Blome, 1638.

Third edition, corrected and enlarged,...

£950