[PSALMS.]

Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per...

Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for]...

Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms...

£1250

MOUSSON, Pierre.

Tragoediae seu diversarum gentium et imperiorum...

La Flèche, George Griveau, 1621.

First edition, provincially-printed, of...

£725

[HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

Deed granting land to the hospice.

Metz, 5 May 1464.

A significant document recording the grant...

£450

GOBINET, Charles. 

Instruction sur la vérité du Saint Sacrement,...

Paris, François le Cointe, 1677. 

Scarce first edition thus, containing an...

£650

[LOVE TOKEN.]

Portrait of a woman wearing photographic...

[1850s].

An ambrotype portrait of a young woman...

£375

RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio. 

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

Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562. 

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

£2800

[NUPTIALIA.]

Bartolomeo MOLAJONI.  Alla neogama donzella...

Viterbo, brothers Poggiarelli, 1811. 

Seemingly unrecorded sonnet addressed to...

£275

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

[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

[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

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

Valérie, ou Lettres de Gustave de Linar...

Paris, Henrichs, 1804.

Rare first edition of Valérie,...

£400

[COURTESAN.]

Les confessions d’une courtisane devenue...

‘London’ and Brussels, Le Francq, 1784.

First edition (another appeared in the...

£850

BARBARO, Francesco. 

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

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1639. 

An attractive later edition of this famous...

£275

DOLCE, Lodovico.

Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e...

Venice, Giovanni Battista, & Marchio Sessa,...

First edition of this exposition of Aristotle’s...

£2500

[DOVES PRESS.] 

Pervigilium Veneris. 

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

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

£950

[THOMAS À KEMPIS.]

Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...

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

Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...

£4000

LUCRETIUS. 

Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...

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

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

£450

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

CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

£9500

[PREDIERI, Luca Antonio, composer; Apostolo ZENO, librettist.]

La tirannide vendicata, drama per musica,...

Pesaro, Gavelli, 1726.

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

£1250