PFEFFER DE WYDENBERG, Johannes.

[Directorium sacerdotale.]

[Basel, Johann Besicken, after 20 December...

First and only incunable edition, very...

£6500

PAULUS de Sancta Maria.

Scrutinium scripturarum.

[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 7 January...

Fifth edition (first Strasbourg, not after...

£12500

PATRIZI, Francesco.

Egloga de Christi nativitate …

[Padua, Printer of Lucianus (H 10276),...

Extremely rare first edition of Patrizi’s...

£4500

[LANSPERGER, Johannes Justus;] Serafino ACETI DE’ PORTI, translator.

Pharetra divini amoris, tradotto in volgare...

Venice, Paolo Gherardo [(colophon:) Comin...

Third Italian edition, considerably enlarged,...

£1500

LA VIGNE, André de.

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

[(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

£9500

HERMES TRISMEGISTUS; Marsilio FICINO, translator.

Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei …

[(Colophon:) Venice, Damianus de Mediolano,...

An attractive Venetian edition of the first...

£7500

GAGUIN, Robert.

La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

£8500

[DEVOTION.]

Cy commence une petite instruction et maniere...

[Paris, Guillaume Merlin, c. 1553.]

A gathering of very rare three devotional...

£7500

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...

A rare edition of Champier’s account...

£9500

[CATECHISM.]

Fundamentum eterne felicitatis omnibus...

[(Colophon:) Cologne, [Retro minores (Martin...

Very rare first edition of this small-format...

£5000

[BUTRIO, Antonius de, attributed; HUGH of Saint-Cher; Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo; DENIS the Carthusian.]

[Speculum de confessione; Ars moriendi;...

[(Colophon:) Louvain, Johannes de Westfalia,]...

Rare third(?) edition, printed in Louvain,...

£5750

ACQUAVIVA, Claudio.

Meditationes in Psalmum XLIV, & CXVIII.

Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1616.

First edition of these Jesuit meditations...

£1550

BELLARMINE, Robert.

De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus....

Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1613.

First edition of a remarkable biobibliography...

£350

PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.

Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus...

Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck...

A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd...

£350

KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich.

Александрійскія Пѣсни...

St Petersburg, “Prometei”, [1921].

First separate edition of Kuzmin’s Alexandrian...

£400

FLEMING, Ian.

The Spy who loved me.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition, first impression, of the...

£1250

[EROTICA.]

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

[France, early nineteenth century?]

A fine erotically-charged figure study...

£3750

SCOTT, Walter, Sir.

Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field.

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable; London,...

Tenth edition of Scott’s historical verse...

£1200

[PRAYERBOOK.]

Tägliche Andachts-Ubungen, zum Gebrauch...

Steyr, Johann Ferdinand Holzmayr, 1773.

An attractive and very rare edition of...

£850

POLLUX, Julius.

Ονομαστικον εν βιβλιοις...

Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1706.

A crisp copy of Pollux’s second-century...

£300