BALBI, Girolamo. 

Oratio habita ab eloquentissimo viro Hieronymo...

[Rome, Francesco Minucio Calvo, 1523.]

First(?) edition of Balbi’s celebrated...

£550

ORLEANS, Pierre Joseph d’ and Francis EGERTON, 1st Earl of ELLESMERE (editor and translator).

History of the two Tartar conquerors of...

London, The Hakluyt Society, 1854.

First edition thus, a Hakluyt society translation...

£175

PEISSEL, Michel.

Tibetan pilgrimage. Architecture of the...

New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

‘Tibetan Pilgrimage … is the result...

£75

STAPLETON, Thomas. 

Promptuarium Catholicum ad instructionem...

Antwerp, Pierre Beller, 1592. 

Rare third edition, expanded, of Stapleton’s...

£700

MELECRINIS, Maria Teresa. 

Le voci del cuore a Maria Teresa Melecrinis...

Naples, stamperia dell' Iride, 1846. 

Very rare collection of odes and sonnets...

£175

[MILAN, province of.]

Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii...

Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.

Scarce edition of this set of rites for...

£200

BEAUVILLIERS, Marie de.

Conférences spirituelles d’une supérieure...

Paris, Moquet et Cie for Toulouse, 1838.

Scarce second edition (first 1837, also...

£400

[DOMINICAN NUNS.]

Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S....

Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.

Very rare first edition thus of the regulations...

£250

MAURIZI, Maria Luisa.

Morali e divote riflessioni a tutti utilissime...

Rome, Tipografia della Pia Unione alle...

Uncommon first edition of this collection...

£150

ROMANA, Provost.

Nell’aprirsi della nuova chiesa dalla...

Mondovì, Pietro Francesco and Luiggi...

Unrecorded provincially printed broadside...

£275

THACKERAY, William Makepeace. 

The Virginians, a tale of the last century. 

London, Bradbury & Evans, November 1857...

First edition in the original monthly parts...

£600

PIEROTTI, A. 

Il cervello e la difesa delle donne sestine...

Florence, N. Fabbrini, 1842. 

First and only edition, very rare, of this...

£375

BALDWIN, William Charles.

African hunting and adventure from Natal...

London, Richard Bentley, 1863.

Second edition recounting the African hunting...

£150

[MEDICINE.]

La composition de la theriaque du Mithridat,...

Toulouse, Dominique Desclassan, 1689.

First edition of this rare and most interesting...

£750

AUDEN, Wystan Hugh, and Christopher ISHERWOOD.

The Dog beneath the Skin or where is Francis?...

London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1954].

Sixth impression. When Bridson had reviewed...

£100

AYRTON, Michael.

Tittivulus, or the Verbiage Collector …

London, Max Reinhardt, [1953].

First edition, signed, of Ayrton’s first...

£100

AUDEN, Wystan Hugh.

Louis MacNeice, a memorial Address, delivered...

Privately printed for Faber & Faber, [1963].

First edition, one of 250 copies, of Auden’s...

£150

[VITTORIO EMANUELE II.]

Alla gloriosa memoria di Vittorio Emanuele...

New York, Tipografia della scuola italiana,...

First edition of this work recording a...

£500

PAZZI, Antonio de, and Torquato TASSO. 

Stanze inedite di Antonio de Pazzi e di...

Venice, Picotti, 1810.

Scarce first edition of verses ‘in blame...

£200

ROSINI, Giovanni. 

Alla memoria di Maria Antinori vedova del...

Pisa, Niccolò Capurro, 1852. 

Scarce first and only edition of this poem...

£275