‘WALINCOURT, Vicomte de’ [i.e. FONTAINE DE RESBECQ, Eugène de].

Voyage à Botany-Bay … suivi d’autres...

Limoges, Martial Ardant brothers [Louis...

First edition, very rare, of this light-hearted...

£475

MITFORD, Algernon Bertram, translator.

The Tale of forty seven Ronins …

Tokyo, Bible & Tract Repository [and (colophon:)...

A seemingly unrecorded Tokyo edition of...

£850

MITFORD, Algernon Bertram, translator.

英譯. 佐倉宗五郎之傳. The Ghost...

Tokyo, Seishi-bunsha, 1892.

Extremely rare Tokyo-printed edition of...

£450

BOARETTO, Ange.

Twenty-two large prints with paint and...

France, 1960s–1980s.

A fascinating archive relating to the work...

£3750

ABBIATE FORIERI, Matteo.

La Colonna di chiesa santa. Panegirico...

Milan, Lodovico Monza, 1660.

Very rare panegyric given at the Church...

£175

ALAMANNI, Luigi.

Opere toscane.

[(Colophon:) Florence, [Bernardo Giunta],...

First Florentine edition of this collection...

£650

[ANON.]

L’Isola de’ solitari o sia il felice...

Pisa, Ranieri Prosperi, 1791.

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

£350

ARNIGIO, Bartolomeo.

Rime dell’Arnigio per la ill[ustre] signora...

Brescia, Giovanni Battista Bozzola, 1566.

First edition of Bartolomeo Arnigio’s...

£1750

BENZI, Ugo; Giovanni Lodovico BERTALDI, commentator.

Regole della sanità et della natura de...

Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.

Scarce first vernacular edition of the...

£1750

BUONACCORSI, Biagio, and Niccolò VALORI.

Diario de’ successi piu importanti seguiti...

Florence, Filippo & Jacopo Giunta, 1568.

First edition of an insider account of...

£850

CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo.

La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...

Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559.

Second edition, published in the same year...

£2250

[CHARITY.]

Costituzioni della Congregazione della...

Parma, Stamperia Reale, [1778].

Uncommon set of constitutions for the Congregazione...

£300

CIUCCI, Antonio Filippo.

Promptuarium Chirurgicum In quo agitur...

Macerata, Joseph Piccinus, 1679–1680.

First edition, very rare, of this handbook...

£2850

[COLLEGIO DEI NOBILI DI MODENA.]

Il buon’ uso della vittoria, ossia Publio...

Modena, eredi di Bartolomeo Soliani, [1776].

First edition of a scarce play with music...

£450

CORNEILLE, Thomas.

Il Pirro, tragedia … tradotta dal francese...

Bologna, Longhi, [1700?].

A very uncommon set of eight early translations...

£750

DELL’UVA, Benedetto.

Le vergini prudenti.

Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.

First editions of three religious poems...

£650

DONI, Anton Francesco.

Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...

Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

A handsome copy of the second edition of...

£850

FAGNANI, Giovanni Marco.

De bello Arriano libri sex.

Milan, heirs of Pacifico da Ponte and...

First and only edition of the sole published...

£900

FERRARI, Giovanni Francesco.

Le rime burlesche, sopra varii, et piacevoli...

Venice, heirs of Melchior Sessa, 1570.

First edition of the only work published...

£1250

GASPARI, Giovanni Battista.

Sanctorum Ticinensis ecclesiae episcoporum...

Pavia, Giovanni Andrea Magri, [1651].

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

£850