‘SANIVAL, Marchesa di’, pseud. [i.e. SALVANI, Fausto].

La difesa delle donne o sia risposta apologetica...

Siena, Luigi and Benedetto Bindi, 1786.

Very rare first edition, printed on blue...

£1500

[RICHARDSON, Jonathan.]

The general Address (in two Parts) of the...

London, Printed by W. Nicol, late Bulmer...

Rare first edition of a revised version...

£1600

PORTA, Giambattista della.

De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...

Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...

The second Latin edition and the first...

£1950

PLUTARCH; John Moyr SMITH, illustrator.

An Argive Hero … with Illustrations designed...

London, Arthur H. Moxon, 1877.

Scarce first and only edition of John Moyr...

£950

PLUTARCH; Daniel WYTTENBACH, editor.

Τα εθικα. Moralia, id est opera,...

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1795–1800;...

Gaisford’s own copy of the Oxford Plutarch...

£1750

PARKER, Thomas Netherton.

Leaves out of the Book of a Country Gentleman.

Oswestry, W. Price, London, Longman &...

First and only edition of this rare compilation...

£1950

[NAGAKUBO] Sekisui [長久保] 赤水.

地球萬國山海輿地全圖說 [Chikyū...

Tōto [Tokyo] and Naniwa [Osaka], Yahei...

An early hand-coloured impression of this...

£5000

LUCILIUS, Gaius; Franciscus DOUSA, editor.

Satyrarum quae supersunt reliquiae. Franciscus...

Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius, ex Officina...

Editio princeps of the earliest...

£950

HARRIS, James.

Three Treatises the first concerning Art...

London, John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765.

Presentation copies, inscribed ‘From...

£600

GUILLIM, John.

A Display of Heraldrie: manifesting a more...

London, Thomas Cotes for Jacob Blome, 1638.

Third edition, corrected and enlarged,...

£950

GREENE, Graham.

A burnt-out Case.

London, Heinemann, [1961].

Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition...

£275

EHRENBURG, Ilya Grigorievich.

Огонь [Ogon; ‘Fire’].

[Gomel,] ‘Veka i Dni’, 1919.

First edition of this collection of poems,...

£2000

[ACCADEMIA DELL’ARCADIA.]

Favola di due gatti e della scimia coll’appello...

Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1730.

First combined edition, rare, of two fables...

£475

AESOP; Jean-Baptiste Morvan de BELLEGARDE, translator.

Les fables d’Esope phrygien, avec celles...

Utrecht, Jacob van Poolsum, 1734.

Aesop’s Fables in the translation...

£650

AESOP.

Les fables d’Ésope, mises en françois,...

Lyon, Amable Leroy, 1809.

An illustrated Lyon schoolboy edition of...

£250

ALCIATI, Andrea.

Les emblemes … mis en rime francoyse...

Paris, Chrestien Wechel, 1539.

Third edition of Jean Lefevre’s French...

£1750

ALCIATI, Andrea; Claude MIGNAULT, editor; Fédéric MOREL.

Omnia … emblemata, cum commentariis,...

Paris, Jean Richer for François Gueffier,...

The final Paris printing of Mignault’s...

£850

BÈZE, Théodore de.

Poemata varia: Sylvae, Elegiae, Epitaphia,...

Geneva, Jacques Stoer, 1614.

One of the two ‘most complete’ (Gardy)...

£1250

BOCCHI, Achille.

Symbolicarum quaestionum, de universo genere,...

Bologna, Società Tipografica Bolognese, 1574.

Second edition (first 1555) of this notable...

£1950

BAINES, Thomas.

Explorations in South-West Africa. Being...

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts...

First edition. ‘The volume contains an...

£650