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

PEROTTO, Niccolò, and Benedetto BRUGNOLO, editor.

Cornucopi[a]e nuper emendatum a domino...

[Milan], Giovanni Giacomo and brothers...

Scarce Milanese edition of Perotto’s...

£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.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]

Psalterium.

[Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]

First edition of the Psalter with the commentary...

£24000

[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

RAPIN, Paul de, Sieur de Thoyras.

Histoire d’Angleterre … Nouvelle édition.

Basel, Jean Louis Brandmuller, 1740.

First Basel edition of Rapin’s influential...

£2000

[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

SHORE, John, Sir, Baron Teignmouth.

Letters patent as a baronet, and subsequently...

London, 27 October 1792, and Dublin, 38...

Two attractive Georgian letters patent,...

£2500

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

SWIFT, Jonathan, attributed author.

The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders; being...

London, ‘Printed from the original Copy...

A fine tract volume, including a scatological...

£2500