WICKSTEED, Edward.

A New Week’s Preparation for a worthy...

London, for Edward Wicksteed, 1739.

‘Second’ (in fact third) edition, rare,...

£450

[WALSH, William].

Letters and Poems, amorous and gallant.

London, Jacob Tonson, 1692.

First edition of Walsh’s principal work...

£2500

[WALPOLE, Robert.]

Observations upon the Treaty between the...

London, J. Roberts, 1729.

First edition, very rare, of Robert Walpole’s...

£2000

[WALPOLE.]

The Norfolk Congress versified. To the...

London, ‘A. Moore’, [1728?]

Apparently unrecorded issue of a biting...

£1250

MARIO, Jessie White.

Sepolcri inglesi in Roma.

Rome, Tipografia Barbèra, 1879.

A presentation copy of this very rare essay...

£1500

SWIFT, Jonathan, attributed author.

The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders; being...

London, ‘Printed from the original Copy...

A fine tract volume, including a scatological...

£2500

[ROSSETTIS.] [PERIODICAL EXTRACTS.]

A collection of thirty items, mostly articles...

1860s to 1880s.

A characteristic tract volume assembled...

£1800

[STOKES, Whitley, translator.]

The Passion. [Pascon agan arluth / The...

[Berlin, Berlin Philological Society, 1861.]

First edition, a presentation copy to ‘D....

£1750

[LANDOR, Walter Savage.]

Savonarola e il priore di San Marco.

[Florence, Barbèra, 1860.]

First edition of a Landor rarity, a fabulous...

£1800

[SHELLEY.] MEDWIN, Thomas.

The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley … In...

London, Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847.

First edition of the first substantial...

£300

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.

The Poems … edited by Derwent and Sara...

London, Edward Moxon, 1854.

Second edition thus, first published 1852...

£350

LATINI, Brunetto.

Il Tesoretto e il favoletto … ridotti...

Florence, Giuseppe Molini, 1824.

An important edition of this verse treasury...

£300

[STANFORD, John Frederick].

John Bull and his wonderful Lamp. A new...

London, John Petherham, 1849.

First edition, a rare hand-coloured presentation...

£600

SCLATER, William.

An Exposition with Notes upon the first...

London, printed for I. Parker and are...

An attractive copy of these best-selling...

£950

[SATIRE.]

C----- and Country. A Play of seven Acts....

London, Printed for the Author, and sold...

One of two similar editions of this scarce...

£1850

RYDER, Joseph.

‘Remarks and Observations from the written...

[20 June 1731 to 19 June 1732, copied 1733].

A fascinating devotional manuscript, comprising,...

£1650

[ROSS, Ellen.]

Gertrude Winn; or, our Nation’s Curse:...

London, William Tweedie, 1863.

First edition, rare, heavily annotated...

£1850

[POSTAL SERVICE.]

Part-printed draft contract with manuscript...

[London? 1787].

An apparently unrecorded draft printed...

£3250

[POETRY.]

The Muse in a moral Humour: being, a Collection...

London, Francis Noble, and John Noble,...

First edition, scarce, complete in two...

£350

PERKINS, John.

A profitable Booke of Master John Perkins...

[(Colophon:) London, Richard Totell, 1567].

A copiously annotated copy of Perkins’s...

£2000