DRYDEN, John.

Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem: dedicated...

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1692.

First edition of Dryden’s eulogy for...

£275

[GRADUAL.]

Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

£20000

[GREY, Jane, Lady.]

‘The last days of Lady Jane Grey’.

[c. 1870?].

A manuscript extract, unfinished or incomplete,...

£175

MANCINI, Celso. 

Il padrino Christiano … per formare i...

Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1592. 

Rare first edition of a meditational work...

£950

MESHCHERSKY, Elim Petrovich, Prince.

Les roses noires …

Paris, Amyot, 1845.

Scarce first edition of this anthology...

£400

PASSI, Marco Celio.

Memorie sulla vita di Donna Giuseppina...

Bergamo, Stamperia Mazzoleni, 1832.

Scarce first edition of a touching memorial...

£300

THICKNESSE, Philip.

A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs...

I [all published]. London: Printed...

First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed,...

£1850

[WALSH, William.]

A Funeral Elegy upon the Death of the Queen....

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1695.

First edition of Walsh’s elegy on the...

£350

ITALY – PIEVE DI SAN MINIATO DI RUBBIANA.

Petition to Pope Clement VII, in Latin,...

The petition explains that the parish of...

£250

[TORGA, Miguel, pseud.] ROCHA, Adolpho Correia da.

Abismo. Poemas.

[Coimbra, “Atlantida”, 1932.]

First (and only) edition of one of the...

£3500

AESOP, et al. [George STEWART, editor].

Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...

Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart,...

First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...

£375

ARISTOPHANES.

The Frogs, a Comedy. Translated from the...

Oxford, J. and J. Fletcher; London,...

First edition in English, and the only...

£500

ARISTOPHANES, and Henry Francis CARY, translator.

The Birds … with Notes.

London, Printed for Taylor and Hessey …...

First edition of the first metrical translation...

£350

ARISTOTLE.

Αριστοτελους περι ποιητικης:...

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1780.

Large-paper issue of the first Winstanley...

£675

CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.

Claudii Claudiani Alexandrini, poetae illustriss. quotquot...

Paris, Simon de Colines, 1530.

First Colines edition of the major works...

£850

HORACE.

...

Edinburgh, George Mosman, 1704.

A rare, modestly printed Scottish Horace,...

£450

HORACE; James TATE, editor. 

Horatius restitutus: or the books...

Cambridge, J. Smith for J. & J.J. Deighton,...

First edition of this attempt to arrange...

£150

HORACE.

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera cum novo commentario...

Paris, Didot, 1855.

The deluxe issue of Didot’s Horace, a...

£750

JUVENAL, Decimus Junius, and Aulus Persius FLACCUS.

Satyrae.

London, J. Brindley, 1744.

First Brindley edition, edited by the Irish...

£650

COSTER, François. 

Piarum et Christ. institutionum libri...

Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582. 

Very rare Douai edition of this devotional...

£675