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  1. LONG, Charles Chaillé.

    Central Africa: naked truths of naked people....

    New York, Harper & Brothers, 1877.

    First American edition recounting Charles...

    £100

  2. HARRIS, William Cornwall.

    The wild sports of southern Africa; being...

    London, Henry G. Bohn, 1852.

    Fifth edition, with beautiful hand-coloured...

    £275

  3. DENHAM, Dixon, Hugh CLAPPERTON, and Walter OUDNEY.

    Narrative of travels and discoveries in...

    London, John Murray, 1828.

    Third edition recounting the attempt of...

    £250

  4. CRANWORTH, Bertram Francis Gurdon, Baron.

    Profit and sport in British East Africa....

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1919.

    Second edition, revised and enlarged from...

    £50

  5. STEPNIAK, Sergey. 

    דאָס אינטערערדישע רוסלאַנד...

    New York, Maks N. Maisel, 1921. 

    Scarce first American edition in Yiddish...

    £150

  6. WILSON, David (editor).

    A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, &c....

    [Edinburgh:] Sold by the Editor at his...

    Second(?), expanded edition of this collection...

    £500

  7. SWIFT, Jonathan. 

    A Tale of a Tub … to which is added,...

    London, C. Bathurst, 1751. 

    A scarce later edition of Swift’s classic...

    £175

  8. FAGNANI, Giovanni Marco. 

    De bello Arriano libri sex. 

    Milan, heirs of Pacifico da Ponte and...

    First and only edition of the sole published...

    £900

  9. URCEO, Antonio [or Codro]. 

    Hoc Codri volumine haec continentur. ...

    Bologna, Giovanni Antonio Benedetti, 7...

    First edition of a quintessential piece...

    £3000

  10. MYERS, Robin, Michael HARRIS, and Giles MANDELBROTE (eds).

    Lives in Book History: Changing Contours...

    Leicester, Garendon Press, 2022.

    ‘This volume has grown out of one event...

    £35

  11. [AUGUSTINE, Saint, attributed author.]

    The Meditations of Saint Augustine, from...

    Dublin: Printed for the Author, by H. Fitzpatrick...

    First edition of this rare translation...

    £1250

  12. SYKES, Arthur Ashley. 

    The Duty of Love to God, and to our Neighbours. ...

    London, J. Darby & T. Browne for Chelmsford,...

    First and only edition of this sermon given...

    £150

  13. LEWIS, Wyndham. 

    The Human Age.  Book Two, Monstre Gai. ...

    London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1955]. 

    First edition, inscribed ‘To Geoffrey...

    £1750

  14. POPE, Alexander. 

    The Works …  Vol. I [–VI].  With...

    London, Printed for B. Lintot, 1736 [Vol. II. Printed...

    A fine set of the bibliographically complicated...

    £1750

  15. MAJER, Andrea.

    Discorso sulla origine, progressi, e stato...

    Padua, ‘dalla Tipografia e Fonderia...

    First edition of Majer’s treatise on...

    £450

  16. LUDOPHUS of Saxony. 

    In Psal. David, diligentiss. Simul, &...

    [Lyons,] A. Vincent, [1542]. 

    Uncommon and significant edition of one...

    £2000

  17. SARRATT, Jacob Henry. 

    The works of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez and Salvio,...

    London, T. Boosey, 1813. 

    First edition.  ‘It was not the least...

    £300

  18. PHILIDOR, François-André Danican (William Stopford KENNY, translator). 

    Analysis of the game of chess … illustrated...

    & J. Allman, 1819. 

    First edition of William Kenny’s translation...

    £200

  19. LAING, Alexander. 

    The True Hero and Other Poems … 

    Glasgow, Morison Brothers, 1893. 

    First edition, scarce, a presentation copy,...

    £375

  20. DE LUCA, Giovanni Battista. 

    Il Cardinale della S.R. Chiesa pratico...

    Rome, nella stamperia della Reverenda...

    Scarce first edition of this thorough work...

    £300