HUGHES, Langston. 

Shakespeare in Harlem. 

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.

First edition of this wartime collection...

£1000

LIVY, Titus. 

T. Livii Patauini […] ex XIIII Decadibus...

Paris, [Michel Vascosan for] Oudin Petit,...

A much-praised edition of Livy’s History,...

£3800

TACITUS. 

C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exemplaribus...

Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1678. 

A remarkably fresh set of the third and...

£275

[VIRGIL.]  RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE). 

Georgica, P. Rami … praelectionibus...

Paris, André Wechel, 1564. 

Second editions of Ramus’s extensive...

£950

[CAESAR.]  RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE). 

Liber de militia C. Julii Caesaris, cum...

Frankfurt, heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584. 

An attractively bound copy of Ramus’s...

£450

CHRYSOSTOM, John. 

[Opera: Homeliae.]  Que in secundo Ioannis...

Venice, Stagnino & de Gregoriis, 1503. 

First edition of Chrysostom’s Opera...

£2800

CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo. 

La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...

Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559. 

Second edition, published in the same year...

£2250

LINNAEUS, Carl (or von LINNÉ), and James JENKINSON (translator). 

A generic and specific Description of British...

Ashburner, and Lancaster, A. Ashburner,...

First edition of this provincially printed...

£225

[PRAYERS.] 

‘Orationes diversae pro temporum opportunitate...

[Likely Lucca, late eighteenth century.] 

A delightful manuscript prayerbook for...

£475

MANTELL, A. M. (attr.).

Views in North Wales.

Circa 1880.

A magnificent album of large-format views...

£6500

AIKEN, Conrad.

Thee.

New York, George Braziller, 1967.

First trade edition, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey...

£250

AIKEN, Conrad.

Ushant, an Essay.

New York & Boston, Duell, Sloan and Pearce...

First edition, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey...

£300

REXROTH, Kenneth.

An Autobiographical Novel …

Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company,...

First edition, inscribed ‘In friendship...

£300

ZUKOFSKY, Louis.

Some Time. Short Poems …

Stuttgart, Jonathan Williams, 1956.

First edition, one of 300 copies, inscribed...

£500

DURRELL, Lawrence.

Collected Poems.

London, Faber and Faber, [1960].

First edition, inscribed ‘For Geoff from...

£400

DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.

The Mandarins. A Novel …

Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing...

First edition in English, signed by De...

£750

AIKEN, Conrad.

Selected Poems.

New York, Oxford University Press, 1964.

Second printing (first 1961), inscribed:...

£150

LOCKE, John. 

[An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding]. ...

Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waesbergi, Boom,...

A substantial and extremely influential...

£2850

MARTINENQ, Jean Baptiste Thomas.

Codex medicamentarius, seu pharmacopoea...

Paris, apud Guillelmum Cavelier, 1748.

Revised and enlarged edition (first 1638)...

£2500

ANON.

‘Snap-shots taken on a tour in Algeria...

Algeria, 1900.

A charming album of snapshots recording...

£200