[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

[CRIMEAN WAR.]

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

Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

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

£375

DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

£450

DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.

Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...

Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.

Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...

£250

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.

Queen Mab.

London, W. Clark, 1821.

First published edition, a piracy second...

£950

[BECKFORD, William.]

Vathek, conte arabe.

Paris, Poinçot; Chatellerault, P. J....

Extremely rare, the only traced copy, of...

£3750

APPIA, Béatrice.

A fine collection of manuscript and typescript...

Paris, 1934–6.

An extraordinary series of love letters,...

£5000

BACON, Francis.

Historia vitae et mortis.

Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1663.

Pocket-sized Amsterdam editions of three...

£975

BARING-GOULD, Sabine.

Iceland: its Scenes and Sagas ... With...

London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1863.

First edition of this account of a visit...

£350

BLACKMORE, Richard, Sir.

King Arthur. An Heroick Poem. In twelve...

London, Awnsham and John Churchil, and...

First edition. Blackmore’s first Arthurian...

£650

CARTARI, Vincenzo.

Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...

Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.

First edition of Cartari’s influential...

£800

COLLIN DE BLAMONT, François.

Les festes grecques et romaines, ballet...

Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard, 1723.

First edition of the first ‘Ballet-héroïque’,...

£3500

GIOVANNI GUALBERTO, Saint.

Sanctus Ioannes Gualbertus Florentinus...

[S.l., s.n.,] 1774.

A wonderful engraving, extremely rare,...

£1250

HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von.

Die Aegyptische Helena. Oper in zwei Aufzügen.

[Leipzig, Mainzer Presse for Insel-Verlag,...

First edition of Hofmannsthal’s text...

£750

BRIDGES, Robert.

Eros and Psyche, a Poem in XII Measures...

[Gregynog], The Gregynog Press, 1935.

One of 300 copies, one of the most beautiful...

£1500

FERDOWSĪ.

Shāhnāmah.

Tehran, Amir Kabir, AH 1350 [AD 1971].

A lavishly produced edition of the Shāhnāmah...

£4000

IVANOV, Vyacheslav Ivanovich.

Прометей трагедия [Prometei...

St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.

First edition of Ivanov’s dramatic poem...

£250

[LAFONT, Joseph de.]

Hypermnestre, tragedie, mise au theatre...

Lyon, de l’imprimerie d’Aymé Delaroche...

Very scarce Lyon edition of the libretto...

£175

MUSGRAVE, Samuel.

Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian...

London, printed by J. Nichols, 1782.

First edition of this work by the classical...

£450

PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.

Themis dea, seu de lege divina … Mythologia...

Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.

First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...

£450