MÉRIMÉE, Prosper.

La Chambre bleue. Nouvelle dédiée à...

Brussels, Librairie de la Place de la...

Very rare first procurable edition of Mérimée’s...

£500

MILHAUD, Darius.

Le boeuf sur le toit, ou The nothing doing...

Paris, Editions de la Sirène, 1920.

First edition of Milhaud’s Le boeuf sur...

£2400

WILSON, Charles Thomas, and Robert William FELKIN.

Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan ...

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle &...

First edition, ‘from the archive’ of...

£450

QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius.

Institutiones oratoriae, ac Declamationes,...

[Paris,] Badius Ascensius for Ascensius...

Rare reprint of Badius’s successful 1528...

£1250

PINDAR. 

Carmina, ex editione Chr. Gottl. Heyne. 

Oxford, N. Bliss for M. Bliss and R. Bliss...

An attractive Oxford-printed pocket edition...

£175

SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. 

The School for Scandal, a Comedy [– The...

Dublin, William Porter for William Jones,...

The first attempt to publish a collected...

£275

PASCOLI, Alessandro. 

Nuovo metodo per introdursi ad imitazion...

Venice, Andrea Poletti, 1721. 

Scarce second edition (first 1702) of this...

£450

[VETTORI, Antonio].

Sferza poetica contro i costumi d’oggidi....

[Colophon]: Si vende in Fierra di Venezia...

Uncommon collection of sonnets musing on...

£350

GARGIULO, Raffaele.

Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...

Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.

Second, revised and enlarged edition (first...

£275

TERENCE Afer, Publius. 

Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis...

Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529. 

First folio edition of Terence’s comedies...

£1500

SCRIBE, Augustin-Eugène.

Autograph letter, signed, to an unnamed...

Paris, 21 January, [1840, 1845, or 1851].

The dramatist Augustin-Eugène Scribe (1791–1861)...

£200

PASTEUR, Louis.

Visiting card with autograph note.

[No place, undated.]

With the autograph note ‘Avec ses remerciments...

£400

PALMERSTON, Henry John Temple, Viscount.

Autograph document signed, approving a...

Whitehall, 2 February 1853.

A document signed by Lord Palmerston as...

£400

NIEL, Adolphe.

Autograph note signed.

[No place], 19 March [1851 or 1852].

A brief note in which the French army general...

£150

MÉRIMÉE, Prosper.

Autograph note signed ‘Pr. Mérimée’.

[Paris?, undated].

A brief note by Prosper Mérimée, headed...

£125

LIEBIG, Justus von.

Autograph letter, signed, to an unnamed...

Munich, 10 December 1857.

A fine letter from Justus von Liebig to...

£1250

LIEBIG, Justus von.

Autograph letter to the publishers Heinrich...

Darmstadt, 16 September 1847.

Letter from the German chemist Justus von...

£750

KRUGER, (Paul) Stephanus Johannes Paulus.

Printed document signed, granting land...

Pretoria, April 1897 and 5 May 1897.

A printed document signed by Paul Kruger...

£500

JEROME, Jerome Klapka.

Autograph letter, signed, to W. B. Forster...

Brussels, Wiltcher’s Hotel, 11 May 1904.

A very good letter in which Jerome K. Jerome...

£500

HUMBOLDT, Alexander von.

Autograph letter signed ‘Humboldt’,...

[Paris,] ‘Ce samedi’, [no month or...

An excellent, intimate and unpublished...

£2500