S[HEAFE], T[homas].

Vindiciae senectutis, or, a Plea for Old-Age:...

London, George Mither and are to be sold...

First edition of a rare encomium on senectitude...

£1250

VINCENT OF LÉRINS.

The Waie home to Christ and Truth leadinge...

[London, Robert Caly, 22 October 1554].

First edition in English, very rare, of...

£9500

INCHBALD, Mrs. [Elizabeth.]

Nature and Art.

London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796.

First edition of a powerful and tragic...

£3250

DE QUINCEY, Thomas.

Autograph draft of two passages from his...

Undated, c. 1835.

An interesting autograph fragment with...

£1750

MATURIN, Charles.

Melmoth the Wanderer: a Tale … Edinburgh,...

London, Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1820.

First edition, with excellent provenance,...

£7500

ANGELL, Norman, Sir.

The Money Game.

London, J.M. Dent, [c. 1930].

Early edition of this ‘new instrument...

£100

[ATLAS.]

[Cover title:] School Atlas; or,...

London, Richard Phillips, [1810–11].

Likely first edition, very rare, of this...

£475

BERNIER DE MALIGNY, Aristippe-Félix.

Art du comédien. Principes généraux....

Paris, Louis Raymond, [1819].

Very rare broadside encapsulating the ‘art...

£875

CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.

‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate...

[Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.

A manuscript treatise concerning the three...

£375

FATHERS LEGACY (The):

or Counsels to his children. In three Parts....

London, Printed for Henry Brome … 1678.

First and only edition, very scarce, of...

£1850

GIGLI, Mariano.

Esperimento del nobile giovinetto Francesco...

Milan, Società tipografica de’ classici...

First and only edition, rare, of a series...

£1250

GOODWIN, Thomas.

Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps,...

Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks...

£1600

[JUVENILE.]

A Token of Remembrance from a Mother to...

London, William Darton, 1822.

First edition of this collection of moral...

£350

MAXIMUS OF TYRE.

Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου...

[Geneva,] Henri II Estienne, 1557.

Editio princeps of the forty-one...

£1500

[MONS.]

Histoire de l’institution de l’ecole...

Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.

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

£975

[ORDE, John Powlett.]

A collection of 111 original compositions...

Eton, 1818–1820.

A delightful insight into classical education...

£1750

PARR, Samuel.

A Discourse on Education and on the Plans...

[Norwich, John Crouse for] London, T. Cadell...

First and only edition of this treatise...

£175

POPE, William.

Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.

[Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr 24.th 1804’.

A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging...

£850

[SANDOW, Eugen, pseud. (i.e. Friedrich Müller).]

Manuscript manual of exercises for use...

[France, c. 1920].

A seemingly unpublished French manuscript...

£850

[SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...

London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

£250