CESAROTTI, Melchiorre, librettist.

Adria consolata festa teatrale nel solenne...

Venice, Vincenzo Rizzi, [1803].

First edition, very rare, of this libretto...

£275

[FÉNELON, François de Salignac de La Mothe.]

The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of...

London, M. Matthews; A. Bettesworth; T....

First illustrated edition of the first...

£550

SAULCY, Louis Félicien, Caignart de.

Note sur une inscription punique découverte...

[Paris], Imprimerie Royale, 1843.

Rare offprint from the Journal Asiatique...

£250

SMITH, Arthur Henderson.

Chinese characteristics …

Shanghai, printed and published at the...

First edition of this important and influential...

£550

WORMALD, Francis; Jonathan ALEXANDER, editor.

An Early Breton Gospel Book: A ninth-century...

Cambridge, ‘Printed [at the University...

First edition, dedicated and presented...

£175

BARKER, Nicolas.

Bibliotheca Lindesiana: The Lives and Collections...

Chatham, ‘Printed [by W. & J. Mackay...

Limited edition, dedicated and presented...

£250

ASCHEHOUG, Torkel Halvorsen.

Social-økonomik: en videnskabelig fremstilling...

Christiania, H. Aschehoug, 1903–1908.

First edition of a systematic handbook...

£350

GELLIUS, Aulus. 

Noctium Atticarum commentaria per Bonfinem...

Venice, Giovanni Tacuino, 1517. 

Second edition of Gellius’s opus with...

£5500

[ARCHERY.]

Programme contenant les conditions du tirage...

Lille, de l’imprimerie de Jacquez, [July...

An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising...

£375

[BRISTOL.] 

The Bristol Contest, being a Collection...

Bristol, ‘sold by the Printing-Office...

Extremely rare first edition of this Bristol-printed...

£650

CONSTANT, Benjamin.

Le “Cahier Rouge” de Benjamin Constant...

Paris, [Paul Brodard for] Calmann Levy. [1907].

First edition, no. 4 of 100 copies printed...

£1000

[SPINELLI.]

Illuminated arms of the Spinelli family...

Italy (Florence), c. 1460s.

Florentine border decoration of very high...

£3000

[EROTICA.] 

Pencil drawing of a woman in eighteenth-century...

[France, early nineteenth century?] 

A fine erotically-charged figure study...

£6500

MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano. 

Illustrium poetarum flores. 

Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563. 

A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...

£1950

[MURDER.]

Arrest de la cour du Parlement, qui condamne...

Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1778.

Very rare decree documenting the crimes...

£175

NIEUHOF, Jean, and Jean LE CARPENTIER (translator). 

L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...

Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665. 

Lavishly illustrated first French edition...

£3500

[ROUSSEAU, Pierre.] 

Considérations sur le théatre de l’opéra. ...

[Paris,] de l’imprimerie de Rignoux, [1822].

Very rare proposal for a new opera house...

£475

SCARRON, Paul. 

Le Marquis ridicule, ou la comtesse faite...

[Leiden, Elzevier], 1656. 

First Elzevier editions, very rare, of...

£800

VERLAINE, Paul, and Léon LEBÈGUE (illustrator).

Fêtes gallantes.

Paris, F. Ferroud for the Librairie des...

Limited edition on vélin teinté d’Arches,...

£750

[GALEN.] STEPHANUS.   

Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes...

Venice, Giunta, November 1554. 

First edition of Agostino Gadaldini’s...

£950