BOYLE, Robert.

Certain physiological Essays and other...

London, Henry Herringman, 1669.

Second edition in English, enlarged. ‘The...

£1500

MILLER, Henry.

Tropic of Cancer.

London, John Calder, 1963.

First UK editions of Miller’s autobiographical...

£1500

LUCIAN of Samosata.

Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, e Graeco...

Lyons, Jean Frellon, 1549.

First Lyons edition of the works of Lucian...

£3750

[KEIR, James.]

An Account of the Life and Writings of...

London, printed for John Stockdale, 1791.

First edition of this biography of Thomas...

£1500

BULLA, Paolo.

Notizie intorno all’osservatorio privato...

Rome, Tipografia della R. Accademia dei...

First and only edition, very rare, of this...

£1250

MAUGIN, Jean.

Histoire du noble Tristan, prince de Leonnois,...

Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1586.

A scarce edition of the New Tristan,...

£4750

[EROTICA.]

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

[France, early nineteenth century?]

A fine erotically-charged figure study...

£3750

DUER, William Alexander.

The Life of William Alexander, Earl of...

New York, Wiley & Putnam for the New Jersey...

First edition, doubly inscribed ‘To Henry...

£575

CINQUARBRES, Jean et al.

Linguae Hebraicae institutiones absolutissimae,...

Paris, Guillaume Le Bé, 1609.

A thoroughly annotated copy of Jean Cinquarbres’s...

£1850

[PALIN, Nils Gustaf.]

De l’étude des hiéroglyphes. Fragmens....

Paris, Fain for Delaunay, Colnet, Treuttel,...

First edition of this curious work on Egyptian...

£2500

VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.

La Henriade, en dix chants; avec l’histoire...

Edinburgh, J. Watson, 1798.

Rare Edinburgh edition of Voltaire’s...

£150

VIRGIL.

Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...

London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt...

Rare student edition of the works of Virgil,...

£650

[REVILLIOD, Gustave.]

Le Cousin l’Abbé.

Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1884.

First editions of two rare works by the...

£450

MUSESTI, Piero; Giovammaria FEBRARI, translator.

Gesta di Napoleone I. imperator de’...

Brescia, Tipografia dipartimentale, 1805.

Uncommon first and only edition of this...

£550

SANFERMO CARIONI PEZZI, Rocco, Giovanni Battista GARAVETTA, and Francesco D’EMILEI.

Lettera scritta nel castello di S. Felice...

Verona, 1797.

One of several editions published immediately...

£300

PERRET, Jean-Jacques.

La pogonotomie, ou l’art d’apprendre...

Brussels, Benoît Le  Francq, 1803.

Rare Brussels edition (first Paris 1769)...

£400

LORICH, Gerhard.

Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

[Frankfurt am Main], [(colophon:) Christian...

First editions of a pair of Reformation-era...

£1450

EXPILLY, Claude.

Les poemes de Messire Claude Expilly, Conseiller...

Grenoble, Pierre Verdier, 1624.

A wide-margined copy of the expanded second...

£950

[DE GRAAFT, attributed.]

Avantures secrettes, et plaisantes. Recueillies...

Brussels, George de Backer, 1696.

Scarce first Brussels edition, published...

£375

[DAMPMARTIN, Pierre de; Charles SOREL, editor.]

La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux...

Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.

Rare second edition, revised and expanded...

£500