ECK, Johann.

Enchiridion locorum communium adversus...

Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1572.

A rare pocket edition of Johann Eck’s...

£375

THOMAS À KEMPIS.

De imitatione Christi libri quatuor.

‘Leiden’ [Amsterdam], Elzevir, 1658.

Second Elzevir edition of Thomas à Kempis’s...

£675

[LITURGY.] Girolamo GIOVANNINI, editor.

Officium hebdomadae sanctae, juxta formam...

Venice, ‘ex typographia Balleoniana’, 1742.

Very rare small-format edition of the Offices...

£275

ARIAS, Francisco.

Paleys der deughden begrypende de naervolghinghe...

Antwerp, Gheleyn Janssens, 1609.

First Dutch edition of this work of Marian...

£375

[BOUTREUX D’ESTIAU, Jacques de.]

De la puissance roialle sur la police de...

Paris, Pierre Durand, 1625.

A pair of uncommon works defending the...

£950

SOPHOCLES. 

Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...

Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.

An early seventeenth-century sammelband...

£950

MARTIAL.

Epigrammaton libri XIII. Ex fide vetustissimorum...

Paris, Jean Libert, 1612 [(colophon:) 1613].

An uncommon small-format edition of Martial’s...

£650

[PALACE THEATRE, SCUNTHORPE.]

‘Benefit to A. E. Dobney, Thursday,...

[Scunthorpe, 1914.]

A rare broadside programme for a benefit...

£185

[PSALMS.]

Les Pseaumes de David, mis en rime Françoise,...

‘Se vendent à Charenton, par Antoine...

Charenton-printed French Psalms in a remarkable...

£2750

SMITH, Albert Richard.

The new Game of the Ascent of Mont Blanc.

London, printed by Hall, 43, South Molton...

Rare first edition of this attractive board...

£3750

VENERONI, Giovanni. 

The Complete Italian Master; containing...

London, J. Nourse, 1763. 

First edition thus, revising an earlier...

£750

OZEROV, Vladislav Aleksandrovich.

Sochineniia … Chast’ pervaia [–vtoraia]...

St Petersburg, Imperial Theatre, 1817 [-1816].

One of two rival collected editions published...

£1800

BORBONI, Domenico.

Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi...

[Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano...

Only known edition of this very rare collection...

£3750

BUXTORF, Johannes.

Epitome grammaticae Hebraeae, breviter...

London, Roger Daniel, 1653.

Second edition (first Cambridge, 1646)...

£650

[CALLIGRAPHIC SCORES.]

Two anonymous manuscript scores.

London, 1820s.

Two charming productions, sent as anonymous...

£850

CAMPBELL, Thomas.

Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale....

London, T. Bensley, for the Author ... 1809.

First edition of Campbell’s most re-printed...

£650

[GOETHE.] 

REICHARDT, Johann Friedrich.  Goethe’s...

Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, [1809–11]. 

Very rare first complete edition of Reichardt’s...

£6500

[JOHNSON, Samuel.] 

The Prince of Abissinia.  A Tale … 

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley...

First edition of Johnson’s only novel,...

£4500

LEE, Edwin.

The Principal Baths of Germany [– The...

London, Whittaker & Cp., Paris, Galignani...

First edition, scarce, of Edwin Lee’s...

£350

DODSON, Owen.

‘Black Mother Praying’ …

Reprinted from Common Ground. [1944?].

Very rare separate printing of Dodson’s...

£150