SIMPSON, Alexander.

The life and travels of Thomas Simpson,...

London, Richard Bentley, 1845.

First edition of this account of the life...

£650

[SCHLOSSER, Johann Albert.] BODDAERT, Pieter. 

Epistola ad virum celeberrimum Johannem...

Amsterdam, apud Cornelium van Tongerlo, 1770.

First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

£500

[RICHMOND.]

The Belvidere: a Poem. Inscrib’d to Joseph...

London: Printed in the Year 1749.

First edition, rare (British Library and...

£2750

BAUR, Fidelis. 

Geschichte der Hohenzollernschen Staaten...

Sigmaringen, Bucher & Liener, 1834-6.

First edition.  Perched on the Zollenberg,...

£350

BALBI, Girolamo. 

Oratio habita ab eloquentissimo viro Hieronymo...

[Rome, Francesco Minucio Calvo, 1523.]

First(?) edition of Balbi’s celebrated...

£550

ORLEANS, Pierre Joseph d’ and Francis EGERTON, 1st Earl of ELLESMERE (editor and translator).

History of the two Tartar conquerors of...

London, The Hakluyt Society, 1854.

First edition thus, a Hakluyt society translation...

£175

PEISSEL, Michel.

Tibetan pilgrimage. Architecture of the...

New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

‘Tibetan Pilgrimage … is the result...

£75

MELECRINIS, Maria Teresa. 

Le voci del cuore a Maria Teresa Melecrinis...

Naples, stamperia dell' Iride, 1846. 

Very rare collection of odes and sonnets...

£175

[MILAN, province of.]

Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii...

Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.

Scarce edition of this set of rites for...

£200

BEAUVILLIERS, Marie de.

Conférences spirituelles d’une supérieure...

Paris, Moquet et Cie for Toulouse, 1838.

Scarce second edition (first 1837, also...

£400

[DOMINICAN NUNS.]

Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S....

Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.

Very rare first edition thus of the regulations...

£250

MAURIZI, Maria Luisa.

Morali e divote riflessioni a tutti utilissime...

Rome, Tipografia della Pia Unione alle...

Uncommon first edition of this collection...

£150

ROMANA, Provost.

Nell’aprirsi della nuova chiesa dalla...

Mondovì, Pietro Francesco and Luiggi...

Unrecorded provincially printed broadside...

£275

THACKERAY, William Makepeace. 

The Virginians, a tale of the last century. 

London, Bradbury & Evans, November 1857...

First edition in the original monthly parts...

£600

PIEROTTI, A. 

Il cervello e la difesa delle donne sestine...

Florence, N. Fabbrini, 1842. 

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

£375

BALDWIN, William Charles.

African hunting and adventure from Natal...

London, Richard Bentley, 1863.

Second edition recounting the African hunting...

£150

AUDEN, Wystan Hugh, and Christopher ISHERWOOD.

The Dog beneath the Skin or where is Francis?...

London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1954].

Sixth impression. When Bridson had reviewed...

£100

AYRTON, Michael.

Tittivulus, or the Verbiage Collector …

London, Max Reinhardt, [1953].

First edition, signed, of Ayrton’s first...

£100

[VITTORIO EMANUELE II.]

Alla gloriosa memoria di Vittorio Emanuele...

New York, Tipografia della scuola italiana,...

First edition of this work recording a...

£500

PAZZI, Antonio de, and Torquato TASSO. 

Stanze inedite di Antonio de Pazzi e di...

Venice, Picotti, 1810.

Scarce first edition of verses ‘in blame...

£200