[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

[SPINELLI.]

Illuminated arms of the Spinelli family...

Italy (Florence), c. 1460s.

Florentine border decoration of very high...

£3000

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

SCARRON, Paul. 

Le Marquis ridicule, ou la comtesse faite...

[Leiden, Elzevier], 1656. 

First Elzevier editions, very rare, of...

£800

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

[ROUSSEL DE LA TOUR, Claude Pierre GOUJET, and Abbé MINARD, editors.]

Extraits des assertions dangereuses et...

Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762.

First edition of this systematic selection...

£1500

[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

ST JOHN, Spenser Buckingham.

Life in the Forests of the Far East.

London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1862.

First edition. A richly illustrated account...

£850

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

ANTIPHONAL,

with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...

Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

£5000

[CARDUCCI, Giosuè, Olindo GUERRINI, et al., editors.] 

Il Matto.  Anno I – Num. 1 [– Num. 13;...

Bologna, 19 April [– 29 June] 1874. 

Very rare complete run of this short-lived...

£1000

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