JOHNSON, Samuel.

Mr. Johnson’s Preface to his Edition...

London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and...

First separate edition. ‘The separate...

£1500

[ISELIN, Isaak].

Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.

Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.

Uncommon first edition, part one only (very...

£150

PIRANI, Giovanni.

Le donne belle del secolo XVIII. Inferme...

Rimini, Paolo Albertini, 1791.

Scarce first edition of this ‘libro bizarro’...

£950

HAWTREY, George Procter.

Caramella. A Story of the Lotus Eaters...

Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith; London, Simpkin,...

First edition of this utopian novel exploring...

£250

BALLOU, Adin.

Practical Christian Socialism: a conversational...

Hopedale and New York, by the author and...

First exposition of Ballou’s most important...

£450

[ISELIN, Isaak; Peder Topp WANDALL, translator].

Philosophiske og Patriotiske Drømme af...

Frid. Stein, 1774.

Very rare first Danish edition of Iselin’s...

£250

JACOMB, Charles Ernest.

And a New Earth. A Romance.

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1926.

First edition of this post-apocalyptic...

£75

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.

Stella. Ein Schauspiel für Liebende in...

Berlin, August Mylius, 1776.

First edition, scarce, of Goethe’s early...

£1800

GIORDANO, Vito.

Il giudice di se stesso.

Naples, Gaetano Tardano, 1793.

Second edition of the first work (first...

£450

BEAUMONT, Joseph.

Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...

London, Printed by John Dawson for George...

First edition of this lengthy religious...

£1250

BARTHOLOMEW OF PISA.

Sermo[n]es lucidissimi et insignes dubiorum...

Lyon, Romain Morin, 3 February 1519.

Rare edition of forty-five sermons for...

£2250

‘CODACCI, Scarpafico’, pseud. [i.e. Gaetano VERACI.]

Cicalata sopra la coda in forma di lettera...

[Florence,] ‘nel Campo Cauditano’, 1765.

First edition of this highly suggestive,...

£550

[DUQUESNE, Arnaud-Bernard d’Icard.]

Vie de la vénérable mère Catherine de...

Nancy, Claude-Sigisbert Lamort; Paris,...

Uncommon biography of the French nun Mechtilde...

£650

GIOVIO, Paolo.

Historiarum sui temporis. Tomus primus...

Lyon, heirs of Sébastien Gryphe, 1561.

The first Lyon pocket edition of Giovio’s...

£350

HERMOGENES.

Τεχνη ρητορικη τελειοτατη....

Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1614.

A parallel text edition of Hermogenes in...

£750

[MISSAL.]

Ordinaire de la Messe.

[Paris?, c. 1890–1900].

A lithographed and elegantly hand-coloured...

£350

[PLAYING CARDS.]

Complete deck of 52 playing cards with...

London, Hunt’s Playing Card Manufacturing...

A lovely and well-preserved complete deck...

£175

[RAGUENEAU DE LA CHAINAYE, Armand Henri.]

Ivrogniana, ou bons mots et aventures d’ivrognes,...

Paris, chez Madame Cavanagh, an. XII – 1804.

Scarce collection of comic anecdotes and...

£550

TACITUS, Publius Cornelius; N. S. SMITH, translator.

Dissertation on the Manners of the Germans,...

London, George and William Budd Whittaker,...

First edition, a seemingly unrecorded issue...

£600

THOMAS À KEMPIS; Johann Michael SAILER, translator.

Das Buch von der Nachfolgung Christi …...

Munich, Ignaz Joseph Lentner, and Leipzig,...

Uncommon ‘second edition’ of Thomas...

£250