[WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.

An Eulogy on the Life of General George...

Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.

First edition of this eulogy on Washington,...

£250

PRIESTLEY, J. B.

Angel Pavement …

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1930.

First edition, the deluxe issue, no. 308...

£150

MACDIARMID, Hugh [i.e. Christopher GRIEVE], and Valda TREVLYN GRIEVE.

Three Christmas cards, signed from Christopher...

undated.

Three Christmas cards to Douglas Geoffrey...

£100

TENNYSON, Alfred, [later Lord]; A. L. BOND, illustrator.

The Miller’s Daughter …

London, Published by W. Kent & Co late...

A handsome edition of The Miller’s...

£120

RUYRA, Joaquim and Carles FONTSERÈ, illustrator.

La fi del món a Girona.

Paris, [Gaston Hallépée], [31 July] 1946.

First separate edition, one of fifteen...

£450

RICHARD of Wendover.

Correctorium alchymiae … Das is reformierte...

Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...

£4500

NICHOLSON, Joseph Shield.

Tenant’s Gain not Landlord’s Loss,...

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1883.

First edition. ‘The vitality of popular...

£250

[POETRY.]

‘Récueil de differentes pieces de vers,...

[Belgium, 1777 and later].

An interesting commonplace of verses, songs,...

£750

NAPIER, William, publisher and music-seller. 

Three part-books of trios (complete) and...

Mostly London, 1769–1775. 

An impressive collection of string trios...

£1250

HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.

Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...

Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

First collected edition of the neo-Latin...

£600

[POEMS ON DRINKING.]

Raccolta di brindisi per tutte le occasioni;...

Milan, Emilio Croci, 1875.

First edition of this compact font of inspiration...

£200

RAREY, John Solomon.

The modern Art of Taming wild Horses.

Columbus, Ohio State Journal Company, 1857.

Rare early edition of Rarey’s method...

£950

[ORAN.]

Diario distinto di tutto il seguito per...

(Colophon:) Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1732.

A daily account in Italian from 20 June...

£175

DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.

The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...

Shortrede and Co., 1867.

First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...

£4750

PLAYFAIR, George Macdonald Home.

The Cities and Towns of China. A geographical...

Hong Kong, Noronha & Co., 1879.

First edition of a dictionary of Chinese...

£600

[COMMERCIAL PRESS, SHANGHAI.]

[Cover title:] Views of China – 中國名勝...

Shanghai, Commercial Press, [c. 1913].

A pictorial multilingual souvenir book...

£650

[AGRICULTURE.]

Photographs from the countryside around Beijing.

[Early twentieth century.]

Details of agricultural work and life,...

£3000

[SATIRE.]

‘A Letter to Julian’.

[Circa October, 1685.]

An attractive scribal copy of a ‘shotgun...

£350

FENNING, Daniel.

The Ready Reckoner; or Trader’s most...

London, printed for S. Crowder … and...

First edition thus, edited by the mathematician...

£250

[KAFKA, Franz, Max BROD, et al.]

Das bunte Buch.

Leipzig, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1914.

First edition of this literary almanack,...

£250