BALLARIN, Vincenzo. 

Dimostrazione sintetica della quadratura...

Venice, Fracasso, 1828. 

First and only edition of this confident...

£900

GABARO, Antonio. 

Alla pregiatissima Signora Domenica Schiavon...

Padua, ‘Nella Tipografia del Seminario’,...

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

£380

ORIBASIUS. 

Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...

£1750

[YOUATT, William, and Isambard Kingdom BRUNEL.]

The Horse, with a Treatise on Draught and...

London, W. Clowes for Baldwin and Cradock...

First edition of the first of Youatt’s...

£350

LAWSON, A.

The modern Farrier, or the Art of Preserving...

Newcastle upon Tyne, Mackenzie & Dent, 1822.

Early issue of an uncommon farriery manual,...

£120

[JEREMY, Henry.]

The Laws relating to Horses, considered...

London, Luke Hansard & Sons for J. & W.T....

First edition of a manual on laws relating...

£450

LAWRENCE, Richard.

An Inquiry into the Structure & animal...

Birmingham, executors of T.A. Pearson...

Second edition of the treatise on farriery...

£650

NETTEN, Cornelis Anthonie Geisweit van der.

Handboek der Paardenkennis, ten dienste...

Amsterdam and the Hague, [P.E. Briët...

First edition of the first part, second...

£750

MYERS, Robin, Andrew BURNETT, and Renae SATTERLEY.

‘I do not eat the bread of idleness’:...

The Garendon Press, 2023.

This volume brings together revised versions...

£45

QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius, and Jacques-Louis d’ESTREBAY (editor).

Compendium libri secundi, tertii, et quinti...

Paris, Thomas Richard, 1558.

Very rare third edition of this compendium...

£350

[AGRIPPA, Heinrich Cornelius.]

De la grandeur et de l’excellence des...

Paris, François Baruty, 1713.

The third translation into French, but...

£650

BECQUE, Henry.

Les Corbeaux, pièce en quatre actes.

Paris, Tresse, [1882].

First and second editions of Becque’s...

£2000

[COLETTE.] ‘WILLY’, pseud. [Henri GAUTHIER-VILLARS].

...

Paris, Nilsson, Per Lamm, [1904].

First edition of these vignettes of bohemian...

£600

DELLOYE, H.-L. (editor).

Chants et chansons populaires de la France...

Paris, Félix Locquin [– Dondey-Dupré;...

First edition of a finely illustrated,...

£450

DEVILLE, Albéric.

Voyage aux grottes d’Arcy, suivi de poésies...

Paris, Munier for Gérard, an XI (1802-3).

Scarce first edition, presented by the...

£250

GOGOL’, Nikolai Vasil’evich, and Louis VIARDOT (translator).

Tarass Boulba… traduit du russe par Louis...

Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1853.

First separate appearance of Gogol’s...

£250

MÉRIMÉE, Prosper.

La Chambre bleue. Nouvelle dédiée à...

Brussels, Librairie de la Place de la...

Very rare first procurable edition of Mérimée’s...

£500

MILHAUD, Darius.

Le boeuf sur le toit, ou The nothing doing...

Paris, Editions de la Sirène, 1920.

First edition of Milhaud’s Le boeuf sur...

£2400

WILSON, Charles Thomas, and Robert William FELKIN.

Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan ...

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle &...

First edition, ‘from the archive’ of...

£450

QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius.

Institutiones oratoriae, ac Declamationes,...

[Paris,] Badius Ascensius for Ascensius...

Rare reprint of Badius’s successful 1528...

£1250