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  1. [MARIAN DEVOTION.]

    Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin...

    [Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]

    A delightful silk panel, embroidered over...

    £600

  2. MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.

    Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]....

    [(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello...

    A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century...

    £1500

  3. JONES, John Gale.

    An Oration on the late General Washington,...

    Clark, William Dawson, and W. Limbird, 1825.

    Scarce revised second edition, printed...

    £375

  4. STANCOVICH, Pietro.

    Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

    Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

    First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...

    £275

  5. DESPAUTÈRE, Jean, and Gabriel DU PRÉAU.

    Universa grammatica, cum doctissimis commentariis,...

    Lyons, Pierre Rigaud, 1608.

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this comprehensive...

    £400

  6. GOFFE, Thomas.

    The Couragious Turke, or, Amurath the First....

    London, Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcett...

    First edition of this violent Near Eastern...

    £3000

  7. [BECKFORD, William.]

    Vathek, conte arabe.

    Paris, Chez Poinçot ... 1787.

    First Paris edition of Beckford’s Gothic...

    £3250

  8. ROTH, Henry.

    Call it Sleep.

    London, Michael Joseph, 1963.

    First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...

    £250

  9. [JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.]

    The Boke of Justices of Peas the Charge...

    ...

    First edition(?), very rare, of the first...

    £27500

  10. [CARTOUCHE.]

    The Life and Actions of Lewis Dominique...

    London, printed for J. Roberts … 1722.

    First edition in English, published in...

    £1750

  11. CHALKHILL, John.

    Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral History...

    London, Printed for Benj. Tooke … 1683.

    First edition of Chalkhill’s unfinished...

    £1850

  12. [CHAPBOOK.]

    Narrow Escape from the Punishment of Death,...

    London: Printed by Augustus Applegath...

    An uncommon early chapbook from the press...

    £225

  13. COUPÉ, Jacques-Michel.

    De la moralité des sépultures et de leur...

    Paris, Calixte Vollant, an IX [1800–1801].

    A scarce and most interesting pamphlet...

    £475

  14. [DEATH CERTIFICATES.]

    Certificates recording the deaths of three...

    Rome, 1762–1819.

    An interesting set of death certificates...

    £750

  15. [FUNERAL NOTICE.]

    [Incipit:] On recommande à vos...

    [Liège,] L. Devillers, [1796].

    A strikingly printed broadside funeral...

    £1850

  16. GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].

    Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers...

    Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1837.

    First and only edition of the first separate...

    £120

  17. HOGG, James.

    The Pilgrims of the Sun; a Poem …

    London, John Murray, and Edinburgh, William...

    First edition, first issue, of a long poem...

    £200

  18. HOLBEIN, Hans; Wenceslaus HOLLAR, engraver; [Francis DOUCE, editor].

    The Dance of Death, from the original Designs...

    [McMillan] for J. Coxhead, 1816.

    An attractive early nineteenth-century...

    £375

  19. [MILAN – DEATH DUTIES.]

    [Incipit:] Ad un reale dispaccio...

    Milan, Pirola brothers, [31 October 1787].

    Scarce edict issued by Ferdinand Karl,...

    £500

  20. [NOVARA.]

    [Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

    [Novara], 10 May 1805.

    An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

    £175