PLATO; Jean DE SERRES, translator and commentator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

Απαντα τα σωζομενα …...

[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1578.

A magnificent large-paper copy of the first...

£18000

POLLUX, Julius.

Ονομαστικον … Vocabularium.

[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus, April 1502.]

Editio princeps of the oldest encyclopaedia...

£8500

[‘ROBERTI, Antonius’, pseud.]; George PERKINS, editor.

Clavis Homerica, reserans significationes,...

London, E. Griffin for Godfrey Emerson, 1638.

First London edition, ‘with the Catholic...

£600

[SIBYLLINE ORACLES.]

Σιβυλλιακοι χρησμοι hoc...

Paris, [Compagnie du grande navire], 1607.

Second edition of a comprehensive scholarly...

£975

STEPHANUS of Byzantium; HANNO; Abraham Van BERKEL, editor and translator.

Genuina Stephani Byzantini de urbibus et...

Leiden, Daniel van Gaasbeeck, 1674.

First edition thus, a volume of short and...

£450

THUCYDIDES; Lorenzo VALLA, translator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

Περι του Πελοποννησιακου...

[Geneva, Henri II Estienne for] Frankfurt,...

A richly annotated and extra-illustrated...

£2250

BATTEN, Henry, and Henry VINER, composers and arrangers.

Responses, Suffrages, Tersanctus, and Chants,...

Penzance, Viner’s Musical Repository, 1844.

Exceedingly rare first and only edition...

£300

CIGAULD, Vincent.

Allegationes Vincentii … iudicis ordinarii...

(Colophon:) Paris, Jean Frellon, 23 December...

Extremely rare first edition of this legal...

£2500

ERASMUS, Desiderius.

Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...

Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.

Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...

£125

FOURCROY DE GUILLERVILLE, Jean-Louis de.

Les Enfans élevés dans l’ordre de la...

Paris, brothers Estienne, and Lausanne,...

Second edition of Fourcroy de Guillerville’s...

£250

GALUPPI, Baldassare.

Daniel in lacu leonum modi sacri recinendi...

Venice, s.n., 1773.

First edition, very rare, of the libretto...

£650

MUSESTI, Piero; Giovammaria FEBRARI, translator.

Gesta di Napoleone I. imperator de’...

Brescia, Tipografia dipartimentale, 1805.

Uncommon first and only edition of this...

£550

[REVILLIOD, Gustave.]

Le Cousin l’Abbé.

Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1884.

First editions of two rare works by the...

£450

VIRGIL.

Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...

London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt...

Rare student edition of the works of Virgil,...

£650

EUNAPIUS; Hadrianus JUNIUS, translator; Hieronymus COMMELIN, editor.

Βιοι φιλοσοφων και σοφιστων...

‘Cologny’ [Geneva], Samuel Crespin, 1616.

An uncommon edition of the twenty-four...

£450

[CATHERINE the Great of Russia.] BETSKOY, [Ivan]; [Nicolas-Gabriel LE] CLERC, translator; [Denis DIDEROT, contributor].

Les plans et les statuts, des différents...

Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775.

First edition in French, translated from...

£3000

JOHNSON, Samuel.

A Dictionary of the English Language: in...

London, W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton,...

First edition of ‘the most amazing, enduring...

£15000

ANNE, Queen.

Warrant, signed, authorising John Grubham...

27 January 1708/9.

An attractive document, bringing together...

£1750

[BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

L’ami des femmes.

Paris, ‘Quay des Augustins’, 1759.

Uncommon early edition, printed a year...

£300

[CAJOT, Jean-Joseph.]

Les plagiats de M. J.J.R. de Genève...

The Hague and Paris, Durand, 1766.

First edition of this scathing critique...

£275