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  1. [CHARLES II.]

    RIVET, Jean. ‘Le favory du Ciel ou Meditation...

    [Caussade en Quercy, 1664.]

    A fascinating manuscript meditation on...

    £1850

  2. ROHAN, Henri, Duke of; [Henry HUNT, translator].

    A Treatise of the Interest of the Princes...

    London, Richard Hodgkinson, 1641.

    First edition in England (and second in...

    £1800

  3. DE QUINCEY, Thomas.

    Autograph draft of two passages from his...

    Undated, c. 1835.

    An interesting autograph fragment with...

    £1750

  4. ANGELL, Norman, Sir.

    The Money Game.

    London, J.M. Dent, [c. 1930].

    Early edition of this ‘new instrument...

    £100

  5. [ATLAS.]

    [Cover title:] School Atlas; or,...

    London, Richard Phillips, [1810–11].

    Likely first edition, very rare, of this...

    £475

  6. BERNIER DE MALIGNY, Aristippe-Félix.

    Art du comédien. Principes généraux....

    Paris, Louis Raymond, [1819].

    Very rare broadside encapsulating the ‘art...

    £875

  7. CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.

    ‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate...

    [Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.

    A manuscript treatise concerning the three...

    £375

  8. FATHERS LEGACY (The):

    or Counsels to his children. In three Parts....

    London, Printed for Henry Brome … 1678.

    First and only edition, very scarce, of...

    £1850

  9. GIGLI, Mariano.

    Esperimento del nobile giovinetto Francesco...

    Milan, Società tipografica de’ classici...

    First and only edition, rare, of a series...

    £1250

  10. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

    Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps,...

    Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks...

    £1600

  11. [JUVENILE.]

    A Token of Remembrance from a Mother to...

    London, William Darton, 1822.

    First edition of this collection of moral...

    £350

  12. MAXIMUS OF TYRE.

    Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου...

    [Geneva,] Henri II Estienne, 1557.

    Editio princeps of the forty-one...

    £1500

  13. [MONS.]

    Histoire de l’institution de l’ecole...

    Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.

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

    £975

  14. [ORDE, John Powlett.]

    A collection of 111 original compositions...

    Eton, 1818–1820.

    A delightful insight into classical education...

    £1750

  15. 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

  16. [SANDOW, Eugen, pseud. (i.e. Friedrich Müller).]

    Manuscript manual of exercises for use...

    [France, c. 1920].

    A seemingly unpublished French manuscript...

    £850

  17. [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

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

    London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

    Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

    £250

  18. SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar.

    A View of the elementary Principles of...

    Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832.

    First American edition (first Edinburgh,...

    £125

  19. [TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]

    ‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...

    Modena, 1805.

    An unpublished manuscript introduction...

    £1250

  20. VARILLAS, [Antoine].

    La pratique de l’education des princes,...

    Amsterdam, H. Wetstein & H. Desbordes, 1686.

    A highly unusual pyrographic binding, likely...

    £750