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

POLLUX, Julius.

Ονομαστικον εν βιβλιοις...

Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1706.

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

£300

OVID; Georg SABINUS, editor.

Metamorphoses seu fabulae poeticae earumque...

Frankfurt, Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1608.

A pocket edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses...

£325

NOMEXY, Nicolas de.

Parnassus poeticus … nunc primum in Germania...

Rome, Guglielmo Facciotti, for Vincenzo...

A bestselling compilation of Latin verse,...

£650

[MISSAL.]

Nouveau paroissien romain, contenant l’offices...

Lyons, H. Curnier, 1869.

A pocket Paroissien in a charming...

£275

MARCHESE, Annibale.

Poema per la nascita del serenissimo Leopoldo...

Naples, Felice Mosca, 1716.

Rare first edition of this verse encomium...

£650

KRUG, [Wilhelm Traugott].

Apologia della chiesa protestante contro...

[S.l., s.n.,] 1822.

First edition, extremely rare, of this...

£275

[HESIOD, THEOCRITUS, MOSCHUS, et al.;] Isaac CASAUBON, commentator.

Τα σωζομενα των παλαιοτατων...

Cologny [i.e. Geneva], Jean Vignon, 1612.

A small-format edition of the Greek bucolic...

£450

GUSTÁ, Francisco.

Memorie della rivoluzione francese tanto...

Assisi, Ottavio Sgariglia, 1793.

Apparent first edition, very rare, of Gustá’s...

£550

FERRAZZI, Marc’Antonio.

Dissertationes criticae in linguam hebraicam …

Padua, ‘Typis Seminarii’, 1691.

Rare first edition of this philological...

£600

DONI, Anton Francesco.

Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...

Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

A handsome copy of the second edition of...

£850

[CHARLES VII.]

‘Trauer- und Todten-Gerüste, worauf...

Augsburg, Johann Andreas Steißlinger, [1745].

An attractive broadside mourning the death...

£275

BERSUIRE, Pierre.

Fragment of the Repertorium morale, covering...

Italy, second half of fourteenth century.

A very interesting fragment from an early...

£950

XENOPHON; Antonmaria SALVINI, translator.

Di Senofonte Efesio degli amori di Abrocome...

London (i.e. Florence?), ‘presso gli...

Second edition of this erotic work on the...

£650