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

[MANNING,] Henry Edward, Archbishop of Westminster.

The good Soldier’s Death. Preached at...

Liverpool, [Boys’ Refuge Printing Works...

First edition, very rare, of this sermon...

£175

FOUQUET DE BELLE-ISLE, Marie-Magdeleine.

Mémoire pour Dame Marie-Magdeleine Fouquet...

[Paris], Jacques Guérin, 1747.

A seemingly unrecorded legal brief prepared...

£275

CASAL, Ugo Alfonso.

A small archive of letters, photographs,...

[Japan and California, 1930–1955.]

A fascinating archive relating to the extensive...

£975

[FRENCH REVOLUTION.]

Liste générale des contre-révolutionnaires...

‘A Commune-affranchie’ [Lyon], chez...

An uncommon and quite remarkable list of...

£550