BALBUS, Johannes.

Catholicon.

[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch),...

Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...

£65000

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

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

A rare edition of Champier’s account...

£9500

GAGUIN, Robert.

La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

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

Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

£8500

GAZA, Theodorus.

Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...

A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

£45000

LA VIGNE, André de.

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

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

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

£9500

BURTON, John.

Hophni et Phinees, sive impietas sacerdotum...

Oxford, ‘e theatro Sheldoniano, impensis...

First edition of a sermon on clerical impiety...

£350

BOCK, Jean-Nicolas-Étienne.

Recherches philosophiques sur l’origine...

‘À Londres. Se trouve à Paris, chez...

First edition of an interesting work on...

£500

BISSEL, Johannes.

Illustrium ab orbe condito ruinarum decades...

Würzburg, ‘typis viduae Walderi’, [1762].

Scarce later edition of the first part...

£450

[COTTON, Charles.]

Scarronnides: or, Virgile Travestie. A...

London, ‘printed by E. Cotes for Henry...

First edition of the second part of Cotton’s...

£400

CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

M. Tulli Ciceronis orationes omnes: perpetuis...

Frankfurt, ‘typis et impensis Joannis...

An edition of Cicero’s speeches with...

£450

[CONFRATERNITY OF AGONIZANTS.]

Exercice de dévotion, pour les personnes...

Robert’, [c. 1758–1779].

Very rare devotional manual for members...

£650

GOODWIN, Thomas.

Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

London, R.W. for Peter Parker, 1661.

A wholly unsophisticated Restoration sammelband...

£850

KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

The Guardian Angel. From the German …...

London, J. Wright for Vernor and Hood,...

First edition in English (and the first...

£800

[HOLY SCAPULAR.]

Instruction pour ceux et celles qui portent...

Le Mans, ‘chez Madame V.e Dureau’,...

A seemingly unrecorded broadside addressed...

£350

MINUCIUS FELIX; CYPRIAN, Saint, of Carthage; RIGAULT, Nicolas, editor.

M. Minucii Felicis Octavius, et Caecilii...

Paris, ‘apud viduam Mathurini du Puis’,...

First Rigault edition of two works of early...

£575

[POMEY, François.]

Syllabus seu lexicum Graeco-Latino-Gallicum:...

Lyon, ‘apud viduam Molin, viduam Tomas,...

Rare later edition (first 1664) of this...

£500

SAINT-VICTOR.

Le pretendu ennemi de Dieu et de la loy...

Lille, ‘chez la vefue Christofle Du...

Very rare first edition of this interesting...

£450

[ROUEN.]

L’Office de Saint Godard, archevesque...

Rouen, ‘chez la veuve de Jacq. Jos. Le...

Rare office for the feast of St Gildard...

£575

THEOPHRASTUS; CASAUBON, Isaac, editor.

Θεοφραστου ητικοι χαρακτηρες....

Lyon, ‘apud viduam Ant. de Harsy’...

Isaac Casaubon’s celebrated edition of...

£600

[MASSES FOR THE DEAD.]

Missae pro defunctis seu privatim, sive...

Paris, François Coustelier, (colophon:)...

A seemingly unrecorded Requiem Missal printed...

£950