[ARABIAN NIGHTS.]

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

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

First edition of this translation of the...

£1000

BEROALDO, Filippo.

Opusculum eruditum quo continetur Declamatio...

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

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

£3750

[BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

L’ami des femmes.

Paris, ‘Quay des Augustins’, 1759.

Uncommon early edition, printed a year...

£300

[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

[DALLAS, Eneas Sweetland.]

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

London, Dulau and Co., 1877.

First edition of Dallas’s encyclopaedic...

£180

[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

[DE GRAAFT, attributed.]

Avantures secrettes, et plaisantes. Recueillies...

Brussels, George de Backer, 1696.

Scarce first Brussels edition, published...

£375

EXPILLY, Claude.

Les poemes de Messire Claude Expilly, Conseiller...

Grenoble, Pierre Verdier, 1624.

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

£950

LORICH, Gerhard.

Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

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

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

£1450

PERRET, Jean-Jacques.

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

Brussels, Benoît Le  Francq, 1803.

Rare Brussels edition (first Paris 1769)...

£400

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

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

HOME, John.

Douglas: a Tragedy.

Edinburgh, George Reid & Co., 1798.

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

£250

VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.

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

Edinburgh, J. Watson, 1798.

Rare Edinburgh edition of Voltaire’s...

£150

CHAMPIER, [Symphorien].

Les gestes ensembles la vie du preulx chevalier...

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

Rare first edition of this richly illustrated...

£18000

[FILLASTRE], Guillaume.

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

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

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

£9500

[PUBLICIUS, Jacobus.]

Ars memorativa.

[Cologne, Johann Guldenschaff, c. 1481.]

First illustrated edition, with moving...

£18000

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

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

[THUMB BIBLE.]

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

London, J. Harris, 1778.

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

£1500