HEXHAM, Henry.

A Tongue-Combat, lately happening betweene...

‘Printed at London’ [i.e. Holland], 1623.

First edition, written in reply to a rare...

£1650

[HORNOR, Thomas.]

Bird’s-Eye Views of London, beautifully...

London, [c. 1845–1847].

A very rare panorama of London in eight...

£2750

KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

The Constant Lover, or William and Jeanette:...

London, John Bell, 1799.

First edition in English, rare, of ‘Geprüfte...

£1600

[LA VIGNE, André de, and Octavien de SAINT-GELAIS.]

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

[Paris, Pierre le Dru and Jean Petit, 1503.]

Extremely rare first edition of the Vergier...

£120000

[LE MARCHE.]

Deed relating to the sale of property in...

[Rome, 1616.]

A curiously bound public instrument notarised...

£850

LIVY.

Libri omnes, quotquot ad nostrum aetatem...

Frankfurt, [Georg Rab for] Johann and...

An elegantly illustrated and scholarly...

£1750

[MARKOVIC AFFAIR.]

Oui aux barbouzes … Fifty-fifty?

[Paris], Imprimerie Speciale Sorbonne,...

Two rare posters printed back-to-back on...

£500

[NUNS.]

Il paradiso in terra aperto alle sagre...

Rome, Ottavio Puccinelli, 1747.

Second edition (first 1718) of an anonymous...

£1750

[ORDE, John Powlett.]

A collection of 111 original compositions...

Eton, 1818–1820.

A delightful insight into classical education...

£1750

PETRINI, Giovanni.

Sixteen copper engravings depicting scenes...

[Rome, late eighteenth century.]

An attractive volume containing sixteen...

£1750

[PORTUGAL.]

O povo está com o MFA. Dinamização cultural,...

Comissão dinamizadora central, [Lisbon, 1974].

Two rare pieces of ephemera on the Portuguese...

£200

PRIOR, Matthew.

Poems on several Occasions.

London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John...

First edition, a subscriber’s copy on...

£5000

[PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor.

Ψαλτηριον.

Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October...

The elegant first Aldine printing of the...

£45000

QUR’AN.

Safavid Qur’an.

Persia (probably Shiraz), sixteenth century,...

A remarkable sixteenth-century Safavid...

£27500

QUR’AN.

Maghribi Qur’an leaf with illumination...

?Andalusia, c. 1250–1350 AD.

A fine example of a maghribi frontispiece...

£15000

[RUSSIA – 1905 REVOLUTION.]

Зритель [Zritel’; ‘The...

St Petersburg, “Sever”/A. M. Lesman,...

Very rare penultimate number, confiscated...

£750

SCALVO, Bartolomeo.

Rosariae preces ad gloriosam Dei genitricem...

Milan, Pacificus Pontius, 1569.

First edition of this Marian book of prayers...

£3500

SCOTT, Walter, Sir.

Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field.

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable; London,...

Tenth edition of Scott’s historical verse...

£1200

SIBILLA, Bartolomeo.

Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum … Tres...

[(Colophon:) Lyon, Jacques Myt, 9 August 1521.]

Second Lyon edition of Sibilla’s popular...

£1500

SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.

De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum...

[(Colophon:) Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 1509.]

A beautiful copy of the second edition...

£4500