GELLIUS, Aulus. 

Noctium Atticarum commentaria per Bonfinem...

Venice, Giovanni Tacuino, 1517. 

Second edition of Gellius’s opus with...

£5500

[ARCHERY.]

Programme contenant les conditions du tirage...

Lille, de l’imprimerie de Jacquez, [July...

An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising...

£375

[BRISTOL.] 

The Bristol Contest, being a Collection...

Bristol, ‘sold by the Printing-Office...

Extremely rare first edition of this Bristol-printed...

£650

CONSTANT, Benjamin.

Le “Cahier Rouge” de Benjamin Constant...

Paris, [Paul Brodard for] Calmann Levy. [1907].

First edition, no. 4 of 100 copies printed...

£1000

MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano. 

Illustrium poetarum flores. 

Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563. 

A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...

£1950

[MURDER.]

Arrest de la cour du Parlement, qui condamne...

Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1778.

Very rare decree documenting the crimes...

£175

NIEUHOF, Jean, and Jean LE CARPENTIER (translator). 

L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...

Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665. 

Lavishly illustrated first French edition...

£3500

[ROUSSEAU, Pierre.] 

Considérations sur le théatre de l’opéra. ...

[Paris,] de l’imprimerie de Rignoux, [1822].

Very rare proposal for a new opera house...

£475

VERLAINE, Paul, and Léon LEBÈGUE (illustrator).

Fêtes gallantes.

Paris, F. Ferroud for the Librairie des...

Limited edition on vélin teinté d’Arches,...

£750

[GALEN.] STEPHANUS.   

Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes...

Venice, Giunta, November 1554. 

First edition of Agostino Gadaldini’s...

£950

MASTER B.F.

Three very large historiated initials cut...

Italy (Lodi), early sixteenth century.

Three extremely fine initials by the enigmatic...

£150000

[VERACI, Gaetano.] 

Nuova cicalata sopra la coda in forma di...

[S.l., s.n,. c. 1770.] 

Second edition, extremely rare and significantly...

£850

FENOUILLOT DE FALBAIRE, Charles-Georges. 

Le fabricant de Londres, drame en cinq...

Paris, chez Delalain, 1771. 

First edition of a London-set play by the...

£250

MARVIN, Charles.

The Russians at Merv and Herat and their...

London, W.H. Allen & Co., 1883.

First edition of this work on the Russian...

£875

RISLEY, Herbert Hope, Sir et al.

The gazetteer of Sikhim. With an introduction...

Calcutta, printed at the Bengal Secretariat...

First edition of this comprehensive survey...

£2500

CALMET, Antoine Augustin.

Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres...

Paris, Pierre Emery, 1712.

First edition of the commentary on the...

£450

MAGRE, Maurice.

Les trois métiers de Jeannet. Les bons...

Paris, Hachette (Bibliothèque des écoles...

Two scarce children’s stories, published...

£125

TERENCE; Daniel HEINSIUS, editor.

Pub. Terentii comoediae sex, ex recensione...

Amsterdam, Henrik Wetstein, [c. 1700].

A small-format edition of Terence’s comedies,...

£145

GAMON, Christophe de.

La semaine, ou création du monde du sieur...

[Geneva,] Gédéon Petit, 1609.

Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than...

£950

[GREENE, Asa.]

The Perils of Pearl Street, including a...

New York, Betts & Anstice and Peter Hill, 1834.

First edition of a very early Wall Street...

£2750