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  1. [ARABIAN NIGHTS.]

    Arabian Tales; or, a Continuation of the...

    London, Faulder, and Hookham and Carpenter,...

    First edition of this translation of the...

    £1000

  2. BEROALDO, Filippo.

    Opusculum eruditum quo continetur Declamatio...

    [(Colophon:) Paris], Denis Roce, [1 August...

    Second Paris editions (first 1500) of Beroaldo’s...

    £3750

  3. [BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

    L’ami des femmes.

    Paris, ‘Quay des Augustins’, 1759.

    Uncommon early edition, printed a year...

    £300

  4. [CAJOT, Jean-Joseph.]

    Les plagiats de M. J.J.R. de Genève...

    The Hague and Paris, Durand, 1766.

    First edition of this scathing critique...

    £275

  5. [DALLAS, Eneas Sweetland.]

    Kettner’s Book of the Table: A Manual...

    London, Dulau and Co., 1877.

    First edition of Dallas’s encyclopaedic...

    £180

  6. [DAMPMARTIN, Pierre de; Charles SOREL, editor.]

    La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux...

    Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.

    Rare second edition, revised and expanded...

    £500

  7. [DE GRAAFT, attributed.]

    Avantures secrettes, et plaisantes. Recueillies...

    Brussels, George de Backer, 1696.

    Scarce first Brussels edition, published...

    £375

  8. EXPILLY, Claude.

    Les poemes de Messire Claude Expilly, Conseiller...

    Grenoble, Pierre Verdier, 1624.

    A wide-margined copy of the expanded second...

    £950

  9. LORICH, Gerhard.

    Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

    [Frankfurt am Main], [(colophon:) Christian...

    First editions of a pair of Reformation-era...

    £1450

  10. PERRET, Jean-Jacques.

    La pogonotomie, ou l’art d’apprendre...

    Brussels, Benoît Le  Francq, 1803.

    Rare Brussels edition (first Paris 1769)...

    £400

  11. SANFERMO CARIONI PEZZI, Rocco, Giovanni Battista GARAVETTA, and Francesco D’EMILEI.

    Lettera scritta nel castello di S. Felice...

    Verona, 1797.

    One of several editions published immediately...

    £300

  12. SHAKESPEARE, William; Alexander POPE, editor.

    The Works of Shakespear. In eight Volumes....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1766.

    First and only Foulis edition, issued in...

    £450

  13. HOME, John.

    Douglas: a Tragedy.

    Edinburgh, George Reid & Co., 1798.

    First illustrated edition, a handsome subscriber’s...

    £250

  14. VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.

    La Henriade, en dix chants; avec l’histoire...

    Edinburgh, J. Watson, 1798.

    Rare Edinburgh edition of Voltaire’s...

    £150

  15. CHAMPIER, [Symphorien].

    Les gestes ensembles la vie du preulx chevalier...

    Lyons, Gilbert Devilliers, [(colophon:)...

    Rare first edition of this richly illustrated...

    £18000

  16. [FILLASTRE], Guillaume.

    Le premier [– second] volume de la Thoison...

    Paris, Jean Petit [for Poncet Le Preux],...

    Rare third edition (first, 1516) of the...

    £9500

  17. [PUBLICIUS, Jacobus.]

    Ars memorativa.

    [Cologne, Johann Guldenschaff, c. 1481.]

    First illustrated edition, with moving...

    £18000

  18. ARCHIMEDES, BOETHIUS, and CAMPANO da Novara; Luca GAURICO, editor.

    Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura...

    Venice, [Giacomo Penzio for] Giovanni...

    The first appearance in print of any complete...

    £18000

  19. TRIMMER, [Sarah], Mrs.

    An Explanation of the Office for the public...

    London, printed for T. Longman, and G. G. J. and...

    First edition, dedicated with the Queen’s...

    £650

  20. [THUMB BIBLE.]

    The Bible in Miniature, or a concise History...

    London, J. Harris, 1778.

    A very rare thumb bible, the last Harris...

    £1500