‘CHAFF, Gumbo’ [pseud. Elias HOWE].

The Ethiopian Glee Book; a Collection of...

Boston, Elias Howe, 1848 [– 1849].

First editions of all three parts – a...

£2000

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux Chevalier...

[(Colophon:) Poitiers, Jacques Bouchet...

An otherwise unrecorded late sixteenth-century...

£8750

DARWIN, Charles.

The Variation of Animals and Plants under...

London, John Murray, 1868.

First edition, first issue, an important...

£70000

DUER, William Alexander.

The Life of William Alexander, Earl of...

New York, Wiley & Putnam for the New Jersey...

First edition, doubly inscribed ‘To Henry...

£575

CROMPTON, Henrietta Matilda.

Sketchbook of a tour through southern Germany...

July, 1836.

An extremely attractive plein-air...

£8750

[EROTICA.]

Pencil drawing of a woman in eighteenth-century...

[France, early nineteenth century?]

A fine erotically-charged figure study...

£3750

GEORGES D’AMIENS.

Trina Pauli theologia positiva, moralis,...

Paris, ‘apud viduam et Dionysium Thierry’,...

First edition of these commentaries on...

£1250

HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.

[Missal for feast days.]

Madrid, 1827.

An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...

£7500

INCHBALD, Mrs. [Elizabeth].

Nature and Art.

London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796.

First edition of a powerful and tragic...

£3250

[JEROME, Saint.]

Obitus beati iheromini.

[Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer,...

Rare incunable edition (first printed in...

£22500

[LAURENTIUS, Frater; Jan van BREDERODE, translator.]

[Summe le roy of des conincs summe.]

[(Colophon:) Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert],...

Rare early edition in Dutch (first Delft...

£40000

[LOBO, Jerónimo; Lorenzo MAGALOTTI, translator.]

Relazioni varie cavate da una traduzione...

Florence, Piero Matini, 1693.

First edition in Italian of one of the...

£1750

MAUGIN, Jean.

Histoire du noble Tristan, prince de Leonnois,...

Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1586.

A scarce edition of the New Tristan,...

£4750

MORE, Thomas, Sir.

De optimo reip. statu deque nova insula...

Basel, [(colophons:) Johann Froben, March...

Third edition of More’s Utopia,...

£27500

[OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]

Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.

First edition, one of fifty copies on large...

£9500

[SAINT-LAMBERT, Monsieur de.]

‘Les principes du clavecin contenant...

Namur, 1743–4.

Manuscript copy of Saint-Lambert’s celebrated...

£6750

SAUBERT, Johann.

Miracula Augustanae Confessionis, [engraved...

[Nuremberg,] Wolffgang Endter, 1631.

First editions of three works of Lutheran...

£2850

BRODSKY, Iosif [Aleksandrovich].

Новые стансы к Августе:...

[Soviet Union], ‘Ardis’, [c. 1983].

A rare samizdat of Joseph Brodsky’s...

£2000

BULLA, Paolo.

Notizie intorno all’osservatorio privato...

Rome, Tipografia della R. Accademia dei...

First and only edition, very rare, of this...

£1250

BYRON, George Gordon, Lord Byron; Franz THEREMIN, translator.

Hebräische Gesänge. Aus dem Englischen...

Berlin, Duncker und Humblot, 1820.

First edition in German (and first dual-language...

£450