BARBARO, Francesco. 

De re uxoria libri duo, ut venustate sermonis...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1639. 

An attractive later edition of this famous...

£275

CASANOVA, Giacomo.

Казанова. Мемуары [Kazanova....

[Memuary ‘Casanova. Memoirs’] …...

Very rare first substantial Russian translation...

£2750

[COURTESAN.]

Les confessions d’une courtisane devenue...

‘London’ and Brussels, Le Francq, 1784.

First edition (another appeared in the...

£850

[DICKSON, William, photographer.]

Ambrotype of two young men holding hands.

[Glasgow, 1860s.]

A very attractive ambrotype double portrait...

£450

[KRÜDENER, Barbara Juliane de Vietinghoff, Freifrau von.]

Valérie, ou Lettres de Gustave de Linar...

Paris, Henrichs, 1804.

Rare first edition of Valérie,...

£400

[LA ROCHE, Sophie von.] 

Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim. ...

Leipzig, bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1771. 

First edition of Sophie von La Roche’s...

£750

[LE NOBLE, Pierre, and Eustache LE NOBLE (attributed).] 

Les Amours d’Anne d’Austriche, Epouse...

‘A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1696’...

An early manuscript copy of a salacious...

£850

MEREDITH, George.

Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside,...

London, Chapman & Hall, 1862.

First edition of a daring and innovative...

£450

[MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de, and Gaspar GIL POLO.]

The Troublesome and Hard Adventures in...

Alsop ... 1652 [but 1651].

The rare second edition of a text of 1594...

£7500

MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.

Les secrets de la génération ou l’art...

chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].

Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86)...

£150

[NUPTIALIA.]

Bartolomeo MOLAJONI.  Alla neogama donzella...

Viterbo, brothers Poggiarelli, 1811. 

Seemingly unrecorded sonnet addressed to...

£275

[BREVIARY.]

Sarum Breviary, in Latin.

England, first quarter of fifteenth century.

A fragment of twenty-one leaves from a...

£4250

[POSTCARDS.]

‘PSH’. Twenty-nine manuscript postcards.

London, 1912–c. 1920?.

Hand-drawn postcards providing a rare,...

£375

RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio. 

Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...

Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562. 

The third edition (first 1557) of a remarkable...

£2800

[LOVE TOKEN.]

Portrait of a woman wearing photographic...

[1850s].

An ambrotype portrait of a young woman...

£375

JOHN OF FREIBURG.

Summa confessorum [and] Tractatus de instructione...

France, mid-fourteenth century.

From a large and well-decorated manuscript...

£1500

BOOK OF HOURS,

in Latin, from the Hours of the Virgin...

Flanders or northern France, early 14th...

An exquisite leaf from an exceptionally...

£1800

CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

Epistolarum ad Atticum, libri XVI. Eiusdem...

Paris, Jean Bienné, 1573.

A finely bound copy of Cicero’s letters...

£975

GARNIER, Robert.

Les tragedies de Robert Garnier conseiller...

Rouen, Jean Crevel, 1611.

Very uncommon Rouen printed edition of...

£550

GOBINET, Charles. 

Instruction sur la vérité du Saint Sacrement,...

Paris, François le Cointe, 1677. 

Scarce first edition thus, containing an...

£650