MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.

Beyond this Limit …

[London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].

First edition. This was Lewis’s only...

£75

ANDREWS, Mark E.

The Science and Engineering of Water: An...

Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

A finely bound deluxe copy, one of twenty...

£675

HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, attributed.

[Portraits of celebrated Courtezans.]

Nineteenth century?

A famous series of portraits depicting...

£1200

YRVEN, Marcelle. 

La comédienne et le féminisme. 

Paris, L. Pichon, 1914. 

First edition of this feminist work on...

£250

STEPHENSON BLAKE. 

A Book of Types – SL1. 

Sheffield & London, [1956]. 

Two beautiful type specimen books from...

£85

POPE, Alexander.

The Dunciad. With Notes variorum, and the...

London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver … 1729.

‘Second’ octavo edition, revised. This...

£450

POPE, Alexander.

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with...

London, ‘printed under the direction...

A good set of Pope’s works, printed for...

£175

NELSON, John.

An Extract of John Nelson’s Journal,...

Bristol, E. Farley & Co., 1767.

Rare first edition, printed in Bristol,...

£600

CASSANDRE, A.M.

Dubonnet.

Copenhagen, Axel Andreasen & Sønner, c., 1956.

A fine example of Cassandre’s now iconic...

£750

[DRYDEN, John.]

The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition....

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1682.

First edition, second issue, adding two...

£750

[STANHOPE, Hester Lucy, Lady.] [MERYON, Charles Lewis, editor.]

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as...

London, [Frederick Shoberl for] Henry...

First edition, the entertaining memoirs...

£650

[HERVEY, Elizabeth.]

The Mourtray Family. A Novel …

London: Printed by Millar Ritchie …...

First edition of the penultimate novel...

£2500

[HAKEWILL, William].

The Manner of holding Parliaments in England,...

[London,] Printed in the Yeare, 1641.

First (and only lifetime) edition, signed...

£950

[GREENE, Asa.]

The Perils of Pearl Street, including a...

New York, Betts & Anstice and Peter Hill, 1834.

First edition of a very early Wall Street...

£2750

BRADLEY Gertrude M., illustrator.

An archive of drawings for Just Forty...

[c. 1897].

Fifty-eight delightful preliminary pencil...

£850

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

L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...

Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665. 

Lavishly illustrated first French edition...

£3500

VERLAINE, Paul, and Léon LEBÈGUE (illustrator).

Fêtes gallantes.

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

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

£750

MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano. 

Illustrium poetarum flores. 

Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563. 

A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...

£1950

SPENCER, Eleanor P. 

The Sobieski Hours: A Manuscript in the...

London, [Rampant Lion Press for] Academic...

Limited edition, dedicated and presented...

£475

CESAROTTI, Melchiorre, librettist.

Adria consolata festa teatrale nel solenne...

Venice, Vincenzo Rizzi, [1803].

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

£275