[SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...

London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

£250

PARR, Samuel.

A Discourse on Education and on the Plans...

[Norwich, John Crouse for] London, T. Cadell...

First and only edition of this treatise...

£175

[BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]

An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....

London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.

Scarce second edition – in fact a reissue...

£1500

DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.

Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...

Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.

Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...

£250

[CRIMEAN WAR.]

Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

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

£375

[WILSON,] Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man.

A short and plain Instruction for the better...

London, B. Dod, T. Longman & C. Hitch,...

Scarce first posthumous edition of this...

£250

PONSONBY, Emily, Lady.

De Greville’s en de Lorimers. Twee Familie-Tafereelen,...

Amsterdam, P. N. Van Kampen, 1851.

First edition in Dutch of ‘Susan Grenville;...

£250

GERHARD, Johann.

Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...

Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...

First English-printed Latin edition of...

£950

BURNET, Gilbert.

A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

One of three editions, all of the same...

£500

[LE MARCHE.]

Deed relating to the sale of property in...

[Rome, 1616.]

A curiously bound public instrument notarised...

£850

ADRICHEM, Christian van; Francesco BALDELLI, translator.

Gerusalemme e suoi dintorni ai tempi di...

Genoa, Tipografia arcivescovile, 1882.

Scarce first edition thus of Baldelli’s...

£200

[TAYLOR, John.]

The Column called the Monument, described,...

Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of...

Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook...

£350

KAVAN, Anna; Karl Theodor BLUTH.

The Horse’s Tale.

London, Gaberbocchus Press, [1949].

Uncommon first edition of this novel authored...

£850

DONALDSON, Florence.

Lepcha Land or six Weeks in the Sikhim...

London, Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1900.

First edition of Florence Donaldson’s...

£400

CORNEILLE, Thomas.

Il Pirro, tragedia … tradotta dal francese...

Bologna, Longhi, [1700?].

A very uncommon set of eight early translations...

£750

ROCCA, Bernardino.

De’ discorsi di guerra … libri Quattro,...

Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1582.

First edition of Rocca’s military treatise,...

£450

‘RIZZA, Zanclevio’, pseud. [i.e. Vincenzo LAZZARI GUERRA], editor and contributor.

Piccola raccolta di composizioni satiriche...

‘Medina’ [i.e. Mori], ‘Frangipane...

A very rare collection of satirical verses...

£500

PASSI, Carlo.

La selva di varia istoria … la quale...

Venice, Altobello Salicato, 1572.

An unsophisticated copy of Passi and Ruscelli’s...

£500

[GAMES AND RECREATION.]

Trattato de’ giochi e de’ divertimenti...

Rome, Michel'Angelo Barbiellini, 1768.

First edition of a treatise on games and...

£650

[CHARITY.]

Reglement du 11 Juin 1752, concernant la...

Dijon, Antoine Defay, [1752].

Very rare work detailing the regulations...

£850