[SMITH, Adam.]

ADLERSPARRE, Georg, et al., editors. Läsning...

Stockholm, Henrik A. Nordström, 1797–1801.

First edition of all fifty parts of the...

£400

VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I]. 

...

Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659. 

First and only edition of this rare...

£3750

[PLAYING CARDS.]

Cartes Magiques Musicales. 1001 Danses...

Paris, Bass, c. 1830.

The complete Piquet deck of these rare...

£3000

[WALLOON CHURCH AMSTERDAM.] 

Ordres et reglemens de la maison des orphelins,...

Amsterdam, David Pierre Humbert, 1772.

Very rare set of regulations governing...

£1450

[LABOURS OF THE MONTHS &c.] 

Januarius.  Februarius.  Merz.  April … 

Nuremberg, Joh. Andreae Endterische Handlung,...

A scarce popular print depicting the labours...

£475

CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

Marcus Tullius Ciceroes three Bookes of...

[London, Richard Tottel,] 1583.

Sixth edition of Grimald’s Cicero, first...

£3200

BREREWOOD, Edward. 

Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...

First edition.  Brerewood, professor of...

£3000

[ANON.] 

Le moine galant, ou la vie de Don F…...

[S.l., s.n.,] 1756. 

Scarce first edition of this satirical...

£450

BARBARO, Francesco. 

De re uxoria libri duo, ut venustate sermonis...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1639. 

An attractive later edition of this famous...

£275

CASANOVA, Giacomo.

Казанова. Мемуары [Kazanova....

[Memuary ‘Casanova. Memoirs’] …...

Very rare first substantial Russian translation...

£2750

[COURTESAN.]

Les confessions d’une courtisane devenue...

‘London’ and Brussels, Le Francq, 1784.

First edition (another appeared in the...

£850

[DICKSON, William, photographer.]

Ambrotype of two young men holding hands.

[Glasgow, 1860s.]

A very attractive ambrotype double portrait...

£450

[KRÜDENER, Barbara Juliane de Vietinghoff, Freifrau von.]

Valérie, ou Lettres de Gustave de Linar...

Paris, Henrichs, 1804.

Rare first edition of Valérie,...

£400

[LA ROCHE, Sophie von.] 

Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim. ...

Leipzig, bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1771. 

First edition of Sophie von La Roche’s...

£750

[LE NOBLE, Pierre, and Eustache LE NOBLE (attributed).] 

Les Amours d’Anne d’Austriche, Epouse...

‘A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1696’...

An early manuscript copy of a salacious...

£850

MEREDITH, George.

Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside,...

London, Chapman & Hall, 1862.

First edition of a daring and innovative...

£450

[MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de, and Gaspar GIL POLO.]

The Troublesome and Hard Adventures in...

Alsop ... 1652 [but 1651].

The rare second edition of a text of 1594...

£7500

MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.

Les secrets de la génération ou l’art...

chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].

Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86)...

£150

[NUPTIALIA.]

Bartolomeo MOLAJONI.  Alla neogama donzella...

Viterbo, brothers Poggiarelli, 1811. 

Seemingly unrecorded sonnet addressed to...

£275

[BREVIARY.]

Sarum Breviary, in Latin.

England, first quarter of fifteenth century.

A fragment of twenty-one leaves from a...

£4250