NEVILL, Ralph; Geoffrey HOLME, editor.

Old English Sporting Prints and their History.

London, Herbert Reiach for the Studio...

Limited edition, numbered 576 of 1500 copies....

£165

LANDI, Bassiano.

De origine et causa pestis Patauinae, anni...

Venice, apud Balthassarem Constantinum...

First edition of this important work investigating...

£1250

ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.

[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....

Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.

First part of the first and only edition...

£450

HIEROCLES of Alexandria.

Ύπομνηνα εις τα των Πυθαγορειων...

London, J. R. [John Redmayne] for J. Williams,...

London edition of the only complete work...

£500

LUCIAN of Samosata.

Opera graece et latine ad editionem Tiberii...

Zweibrücken, Typographia Societatis,...

Renouard’s copy of the Bipontine Lucian,...

£8000

LUCRETIUS. 

Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...

Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...

First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...

£450

SALLUST.

Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant.

London, James Tonson and John Watts, 1713.

First Maittaire edition. The French-born...

£300

TAULER, Johannes, attributed. 

Exercitia D. Ioannis Thauleri piissima,...

Antwerp, Philippus Nutius, 1565. 

Uncommon Antwerp edition of Laurentius...

£1500

[THOMAS À KEMPIS.]

Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...

Florence, Piero Pacini da Pescia, 16 April...

Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...

£4000

HEXHAM, Henry. 

A Tongue-Combat, lately happening betweene...

Printed at London [i.e. Holland].  1623. 

First edition, written in reply to a rare...

£1650

[DOVES PRESS.] 

Pervigilium Veneris. 

Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

£950

BOLZANIO, Urbano or URBANUS BELLUNENSIS.

Institutionum in linguam Graecam grammaticarum,...

Basel, Johann Walder, September 1535.

Basel edition of this popular grammar commissioned...

£2000

ASCHAM, Roger.

A Report and Discourse … of the Affaires...

London, Printed by John Daye … [1570?].

First edition. Ascham’s account of his...

£2000

RANDOLPH, Thomas.

The Poems … edited by G. Thorn-Drury …

London, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald,...

No. 21 of 40 copies on all-rag laid paper,...

£75

DAMPIER, William, et al.

A Collection of Voyages. In four volumes....

London, for James and John Knapton, 1729.

The first collected edition, ‘considered...

£9500

THÜNEN, Johann Heinrich von.

Der isolirte Staat in Beziehung auf Landwirthschaft...

Rostock, G.B. Leopold, 1842–50.

Scarce second edition of the first part,...

£2500

[SMITH, Adam.]

ADLERSPARRE, Georg, et al., editors. Läsning...

Stockholm, Henrik A. Nordström, 1797–1801.

First edition of all fifty parts of the...

£400

VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I]. 

...

Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659. 

First and only edition of this rare...

£3750

[PLAYING CARDS.]

Cartes Magiques Musicales. 1001 Danses...

Paris, Bass, c. 1830.

The complete Piquet deck of these rare...

£3000

[WALLOON CHURCH AMSTERDAM.] 

Ordres et reglemens de la maison des orphelins,...

Amsterdam, David Pierre Humbert, 1772.

Very rare set of regulations governing...

£1450