SCARRON, Paul. 

Le Marquis ridicule, ou la comtesse faite...

[Leiden, Elzevier], 1656. 

First Elzevier editions, very rare, of...

£800

[ROUSSEAU, Pierre.] 

Considérations sur le théatre de l’opéra. ...

[Paris,] de l’imprimerie de Rignoux, [1822].

Very rare proposal for a new opera house...

£475

[MURDER.]

Arrest de la cour du Parlement, qui condamne...

Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1778.

Very rare decree documenting the crimes...

£175

[BRISTOL.] 

The Bristol Contest, being a Collection...

Bristol, ‘sold by the Printing-Office...

Extremely rare first edition of this Bristol-printed...

£650

GELLIUS, Aulus. 

Noctium Atticarum commentaria per Bonfinem...

Venice, Giovanni Tacuino, 1517. 

Second edition of Gellius’s opus with...

£5500

AURIGNAC, Sara Thérèse d’.

Cahier de dessins.

[Villiers-en-Bière], c. 1896.

An album of fin-de-siècle sketches by...

£875

CELLINI, Benvenuto. 

Vita di Benvenuto Cellini orefice e scultore...

‘Cologne’ [i.e. Florence],...

The counterfeit edition of Benvenuto Cellini’s...

£675

[ZATTA, Antonio.] 

Il filosofo del nord, ovvero Corso di morale...

‘Londra’ [i.e. Venice], [Zatta],...

First edition under this title of this...

£950

COMIDAS DE CARBOGNANO, Cosimo.

Primi principi della gramatica Turca ad...

Rome, stamperia della Sac. Congr. di Prop....

The first complete Ottoman Turkish grammar...

£1500

[DAGUERRE.] MAYER & PIERSON [after Charles Richard MEADE.]

Carte-de-visite albumen print portrait...

Paris, late 1860s.

In 1848 the pioneering American photographer...

£1200

DIODORUS Siculus.

Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...

Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

Important edition, the first to be overseen...

£2500

RUFIANDER, Fabius Jocosus, pseud. [Friedrich Julius ROTTMANN]. 

Curiöse Inaugural Disputation von dem...

‘Teutschland, Gedruckt in denen Hundes-Tagen,...

First edition, very rare, of this satirical...

£675

[WALKER, Patrick.]

Some remarkable Passages of the Life and...

Glasgow: J. and M. Robertson, 1794.

Very rare chapbook life of the Covenanter...

£225

MARTIN, Theodore, Sir.

Horace and his Friends. Two Lectures delivered...

Printed for private Circulation. 1881.

First editions of two privately-printed...

£400

RINUCCINI, Ottavio.

La Dafne, nuovamente stampata in occasione...

Florence, Borgognissanti, 1810.

Scarce edition of Rinuccini’s Dafne,...

£650

MOZART, et al.

A volume of twelve piano duets adapted...

London, mostly Birchall & Co., 1810s–1820s.

A good collection of late Georgian piano...

£350

LOCATELLI, Lodovico. 

Theatro d’Arcani … nel quale si tratta...

Milan, Gio. Pietro Ramellati, 1644. 

First edition of Locatelli’s alchemical...

£2500

FLINDERS, Matthew.

Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner...

[London,] The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946.

No. 327 of 750 copies, of which the first...

£650

BOEMUS, Johann, and ‘Lucio FAUNO’ [pseud. Giovanni TARCAGNOTA] (translator).

Gli costumi, le leggi, et l’usanze di...

Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1542.

First edition in Italian of Johann Boemus’s...

£475

[RICHARD, Charles-Louis.]

Lettres d’un archevêque, à l’auteur...

A Cologne, 1770.

First edition, uncommon, of this response...

£200