HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von.

Die Aegyptische Helena. Oper in zwei Aufzügen.

[Leipzig, Mainzer Presse for Insel-Verlag,...

First edition of Hofmannsthal’s text...

£750

IVANOV, Vyacheslav Ivanovich.

Прометей трагедия [Prometei...

St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.

First edition of Ivanov’s dramatic poem...

£250

[LAFONT, Joseph de.]

Hypermnestre, tragedie, mise au theatre...

Lyon, de l’imprimerie d’Aymé Delaroche...

Very scarce Lyon edition of the libretto...

£175

MUSGRAVE, Samuel.

Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian...

London, printed by J. Nichols, 1782.

First edition of this work by the classical...

£450

PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.

Themis dea, seu de lege divina … Mythologia...

Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.

First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...

£450

PONTOPPIDAN, Erich.

The Natural History of Norway containing...

London, for A. Linde, 1755.

First English edition, a nice copy likely...

£1250

RANK, Otto.

Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden. Versuch...

Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.

First edition of this psychoanalytical...

£100

SOPHOCLES; Ezra POUND, translator.

Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

London, Neville Spearman, [1956]. 

First edition of Pound’s version of Sophocles’...

£1000

[VOGEL, Johann Christoph.]

Démophon.

[France (probably Paris), c. 1787.]

A contemporary scribal manuscript of Johann...

£5250

VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

Lombardica historia que a plerisque aurea...

Strasbourg, [Georg Husner,] 1502.

Jacobus de Voragine’s influential Legenda...

£8000

[BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]

An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....

London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.

Scarce second edition – in fact a reissue...

£1500

HIPPOCRATES.

The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes...

London, W. G. for Rob. Crofts, 1665.

First edition of this translation of the...

£850

[PRAYERS.]

The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts....

London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.

Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection...

£1200

[POPE, Alexander.]

The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books....

‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed...

Second edition, rare, and of considerable...

£4500

PORTER, [Jane].

Thaddeus of Warsaw. In four Volumes …...

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.

Fifth edition of Jane Porter’s famous...

£500

[PRIMER.]

Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...

London, William Seres, 1568.

Second edition of this rare ‘private’...

£4250

[PSALMS; Basil WOODD, editor.]

The Psalms of David, and other Portions...

London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons,...

A pocket-sized Psalm- and prayerbook with...

£2000

ROHAN, Henri, Duke of; [Henry HUNT, translator].

A Treatise of the Interest of the Princes...

London, Richard Hodgkinson, 1641.

First edition in England (and second in...

£1800

DE QUINCEY, Thomas.

Autograph draft of two passages from his...

Undated, c. 1835.

An interesting autograph fragment with...

£1750

[ATLAS.]

[Cover title:] School Atlas; or,...

London, Richard Phillips, [1810–11].

Likely first edition, very rare, of this...

£475