[CERCEAU, Abbé.]

[Drop-head title:] La constitution vengée...

[Paris,] Lenoir & Leboucher, [1790].

One of two editions of this early Revolutionary...

£185

[BARSANTI, Pier Vincenzo.]

Della futura rinnovazione de’ cieli e...

[Florence,] Stamperia Bonducciana, 1780.

First edition of this polemical utopia...

£675

[BOUCHET, Jean.]

Les triu[m]phes de la noble et amoureuse...

Paris, Estienne Caveiller for Pierre Sergent,...

Unrecorded issue of Jean Bouchet’s contemplative...

£4500

HAREL, Charles.

Ménage sociétaire ou Moyen d’augmenter...

Paris, Bureau de la Phalange, à la librairie...

First edition of this work by the entrepreneur...

£975

[DANIEL, Yuli Markovich,]

pseud. ‘Nikolai ARZHAK’. Говорит...

Munich, I. Baschkirzew for Washington,...

First edition, smuggled out of the Soviet...

£150

[IMAGINARY VOYAGE.]

Admirable Travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins...

London, ‘for the Benefit of Robert Barker,...

Rare, a lively chapbook novella of adventures...

£1500

JOHNSON, Samuel.

Mr. Johnson’s Preface to his Edition...

London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and...

First separate edition. ‘The separate...

£1500

[ISELIN, Isaak].

Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.

Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.

Uncommon first edition, part one only (very...

£150

PIRANI, Giovanni.

Le donne belle del secolo XVIII. Inferme...

Rimini, Paolo Albertini, 1791.

Scarce first edition of this ‘libro bizarro’...

£950

HAWTREY, George Procter.

Caramella. A Story of the Lotus Eaters...

Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith; London, Simpkin,...

First edition of this utopian novel exploring...

£250

BALLOU, Adin.

Practical Christian Socialism: a conversational...

Hopedale and New York, by the author and...

First exposition of Ballou’s most important...

£450

[ISELIN, Isaak; Peder Topp WANDALL, translator].

Philosophiske og Patriotiske Drømme af...

Frid. Stein, 1774.

Very rare first Danish edition of Iselin’s...

£250

JACOMB, Charles Ernest.

And a New Earth. A Romance.

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1926.

First edition of this post-apocalyptic...

£75

GIORDANO, Vito.

Il giudice di se stesso.

Naples, Gaetano Tardano, 1793.

Second edition of the first work (first...

£450

‘CODACCI, Scarpafico’, pseud. [i.e. Gaetano VERACI.]

Cicalata sopra la coda in forma di lettera...

[Florence,] ‘nel Campo Cauditano’, 1765.

First edition of this highly suggestive,...

£550

[DUQUESNE, Arnaud-Bernard d’Icard.]

Vie de la vénérable mère Catherine de...

Nancy, Claude-Sigisbert Lamort; Paris,...

Uncommon biography of the French nun Mechtilde...

£650

GIOVIO, Paolo.

Historiarum sui temporis. Tomus primus...

Lyon, heirs of Sébastien Gryphe, 1561.

The first Lyon pocket edition of Giovio’s...

£350

HERMOGENES.

Τεχνη ρητορικη τελειοτατη....

Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1614.

A parallel text edition of Hermogenes in...

£750

[MISSAL.]

Ordinaire de la Messe.

[Paris?, c. 1890–1900].

A lithographed and elegantly hand-coloured...

£350

[PLAYING CARDS.]

Complete deck of 52 playing cards with...

London, Hunt’s Playing Card Manufacturing...

A lovely and well-preserved complete deck...

£175