CARTARI, Vincenzo.

Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...

Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.

First edition of Cartari’s influential...

£800

COLLIN DE BLAMONT, François.

Les festes grecques et romaines, ballet...

Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard, 1723.

First edition of the first ‘Ballet-héroïque’,...

£3500

GIOVANNI GUALBERTO, Saint.

Sanctus Ioannes Gualbertus Florentinus...

[S.l., s.n.,] 1774.

A wonderful engraving, extremely rare,...

£1250

HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von.

Die Aegyptische Helena. Oper in zwei Aufzügen.

[Leipzig, Mainzer Presse for Insel-Verlag,...

First edition of Hofmannsthal’s text...

£750

FERDOWSĪ.

Shāhnāmah.

Tehran, Amir Kabir, AH 1350 [AD 1971].

A lavishly produced edition of the Shāhnāmah...

£4000

IVANOV, Vyacheslav Ivanovich.

Прометей трагедия [Prometei...

St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.

First edition of Ivanov’s dramatic poem...

£250

[LAFONT, Joseph de.]

Hypermnestre, tragedie, mise au theatre...

Lyon, de l’imprimerie d’Aymé Delaroche...

Very scarce Lyon edition of the libretto...

£175

MUSGRAVE, Samuel.

Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian...

London, printed by J. Nichols, 1782.

First edition of this work by the classical...

£450

PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.

Themis dea, seu de lege divina … Mythologia...

Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.

First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...

£450

PONTOPPIDAN, Erich.

The Natural History of Norway containing...

London, for A. Linde, 1755.

First English edition, a nice copy likely...

£1250

RANK, Otto.

Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden. Versuch...

Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.

First edition of this psychoanalytical...

£100

SOPHOCLES; Ezra POUND, translator.

Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

London, Neville Spearman, [1956]. 

First edition of Pound’s version of Sophocles’...

£1000

[VOGEL, Johann Christoph.]

Démophon.

[France (probably Paris), c. 1787.]

A contemporary scribal manuscript of Johann...

£5250

VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

Lombardica historia que a plerisque aurea...

Strasbourg, [Georg Husner,] 1502.

Jacobus de Voragine’s influential Legenda...

£8000

EURIPIDES; SOPHOCLES; AESCHYLUS.

Tragoediae selectae Aeschyli, Sophoclis,...

[Geneva,] Henri Estienne, 1567.

Handsome pocket-sized Estienne edition...

£1850

PLUTARCH; John Moyr SMITH, illustrator.

An Argive Hero … with Illustrations designed...

London, Arthur H. Moxon, 1877.

Scarce first and only edition of John Moyr...

£950

[BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]

An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....

London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.

Scarce second edition – in fact a reissue...

£1500

[COLVIL, Samuel.]

‘Mock Poem, or Whiggs Supplication Part ii’.

1670s?

A fine contemporary manuscript of the second...

£1250

HARRIS, James.

Three Treatises the first concerning Art...

London, John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765.

Presentation copies, inscribed ‘From...

£600

HIPPOCRATES.

The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes...

London, W. G. for Rob. Crofts, 1665.

First edition of this translation of the...

£850