RÜCKERT, Friedrich.

Die Weisheit des Brahmanen, ein Lehrgedicht...

Leipzig, Weidmann’sche Buchhandlung, 1836-39.

First edition of one of the most important...

£500

[COMMON PRAYER.] 

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

London, Millar Ritchie for J. Good and...

A splendid copy of the Good and Harding...

£1850

[COMMON PRAYER.]

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

London & Glasgow, Collins’ Clear-Type...

A George V Common Prayer and hymnal, uniformly...

£275

[PREDIERI, Luca Antonio, composer; Apostolo ZENO, librettist.]

La tirannide vendicata, drama per musica,...

Pesaro, Gavelli, 1726.

First edition, very rare, of the libretto...

£1250

[GOSPELS.] Charles HURÉ, translator.

Le nouveau testament de notre-seigneur...

Paris, L. Roulland, 1712.

An attractive early Jansenist binding,...

£950

FAULKNER, William.

A Fable.

[New York,] Random House, [1954].

Limited edition, no. 880 of 1000 copies...

£1500

GADESBY, Richard.

A new and easy Introduction to Geography,...

London, for the Author, and sold by S. Bladon,...

Second edition, very rare, published following...

£550

GELLIUS, Aulus.

Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...

Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous...

£650

JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...

Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

First Aldine edition of Justinus’ abridgement...

£1850

KECHT, Johann Sigismund.

Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten...

Berlin, [Trowitzsch and Son for] the author,...

Third, expanded edition (first 1813) of...

£450

[LILY, William.]

A short introduction of grammar compiled...

London, S. Buckley and T. Longman, 1738.

Two beautifully printed eighteenth-century...

£550

[LORD LEYCESTER HOSPITAL, WARWICK.]

Account of the Charity of Leicester’s...

Warwick, mid-nineteenth century.

A manuscript copy of the sixteenth-century...

£350

MILLER, Philip.

The Gardeners Kalendar, directing what...

The Fourteenth Edition. London, John Rivington,...

A very attractive copy of the most popular...

£165

AZAÏS, Gabriel, and Charles LABOR.

Illustrated manuscript volume of poetry,...

Béziers, not before 1836.

A charming presentation volume, with French...

£1750

BLANCHON, Jacques.

Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...

£950

[CHINA.]

A collection of 46 Chinese watercolour...

[Canton?, c. 1870].

A series of delicate portraits – the...

£1850

[DEFOE, Daniel.]

A Letter to Dissenters.

London, Printed for John Morphew … 1713.

First edition, the state with the final...

£600

[EMPRESS DOWAGER and DALAI LAMA.]

Photographs of religious traditions in Peking.

Beijing, c. 1908.

A record of religious cultures and traditions...

£4500

PHAEDRUS et al.

Phaedri fabulae. L. Annaei Senecae, ac...

Orléans, Couret de Villeneuve, 1773.

An attractive edition of Phaedrus’ fables...

£250

[MICROSCOPY – RABIQUEAU, Charles.]

Manifeste littéraire, servant de supplément...

Geneva and Paris, the author and Demonville,...

Only edition of this prospectus-cum-supplement...

£250