SHAKESPEARE, William; Richard Grant WHITE, editor.

The Works of William Shakespeare. The Plays...

Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1893.

An attractive Boston-printed edition of...

£475

[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

[SERMONS.]

[Sermones sensati.]

[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

First and only incunable edition of a rare...

£8500

[THOMAS à Kempis.]

Ioanni Gerson vulgare devota operetta della...

Florence, Antonio Miscomini, 22 July 1493.

Uncommon editions of two classic Latin...

£5750

THOMAS of Cantimpré.

Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

[Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder,...

Second edition of this manual of moral...

£6000

[RINUCCINI, Ottavio, librettist.]

[Drophead title: Maschere di bergiere].

[(Colophon:) Florence, Giorgio Marescotti,...

Extremely rare first edition of Rinuccini’s...

£8000

[JEROME, Saint.]

Obitus beati iheromini.

[Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer,...

Rare incunable edition (first printed in...

£22500

[BEER.]

Jenaischer allgemeiner Bier-Comment nebst...

‘Eschwig, Otter & Kunitz, 183*.’

An apparently unrecorded humorous handbook...

£375

BELLARMINO, Roberto.

De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus....

Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1658.

An uncut copy of Bellarmino’s bibliography...

£1250

CATHERINE of Siena.

Dialogo della serafica vergine, et sposa...

Venice, Giacomo Cornetti, 1589.

An uncommon edition of Saint Catherine...

£550

[CATHERINE the Great of Russia.] BETSKOY, [Ivan]; [Nicolas-Gabriel LE] CLERC, translator; [Denis DIDEROT, contributor].

Les plans et les statuts, des différents...

Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775.

First edition in French, translated from...

£4000

DENISSE, Nicolas.

Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus...

Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].

Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...

£1650

DOD, John, attributed.

A Sermon on Malt. [S.l., s.n., c. 1840].

[c. 1840].

A seemingly unrecorded printing of the...

£875

ZANCHI, Basilio.

Dictionarium poeticum, et epitheta veterum...

Mons, Luca Rivius, 1612.

Scarce Mons-printed edition of Zanchi’s...

£375

YRVEN, Marcelle.

La comédienne et le féminisme.

Paris, L. Pichon, 1914.

First edition of this feminist work on...

£250

THICKNESSE, Philip.

A Letter to her Majesty the Queen of Great...

Printed for the Author, and sold by S. Fores...

First and only edition, very rare. Thicknesse...

£1250

TACITUS, Cornelius.

Les oeuvres … a sçavoir, les Annales...

Paris, Jean Houzé, 1599.

Rare anonymous French translation of the...

£750

SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius, and HERODIAN OF ANTIOCH.

Vita di duodeci imperatori… nuovamente...

Venice, Venturino di Rossinelli [for Curzio...

Annotated copy of a scarce edition of this...

£1250

FLORIO, Blasco.

Lettera sopra alcuni ostacoli che la logica,...

Messina, Giuseppe Fiumara, 1825.

Very rare first edition of this work on...

£475