[POETRY.]

‘Récueil de differentes pieces de vers,...

[Belgium, 1777 and later].

An interesting commonplace of verses, songs,...

£750

NICHOLSON, Joseph Shield.

Tenant’s Gain not Landlord’s Loss,...

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1883.

First edition. ‘The vitality of popular...

£250

RUYRA, Joaquim and Carles FONTSERÈ, illustrator.

La fi del món a Girona.

Paris, [Gaston Hallépée], [31 July] 1946.

First separate edition, one of fifteen...

£450

TENNYSON, Alfred, [later Lord]; A. L. BOND, illustrator.

The Miller’s Daughter …

London, Published by W. Kent & Co late...

A handsome edition of The Miller’s...

£120

PRIESTLEY, J. B.

Angel Pavement …

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1930.

First edition, the deluxe issue, no. 308...

£150

YARRELL, William.

A History of British Fishes … illustrated...

London, Samuel Bentley for John van Voorst,...

First collected editions, with an autograph...

£750

COSTER, François. 

Piarum et Christ. institutionum libri...

Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582. 

Very rare Douai edition of this devotional...

£675

[PSALMS.]

Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...

£950

DARRÉ, G.G.

‘Conferences diaconales données par...

Auch, 1864.

An attractively written manuscript of Abbé...

£200

[CAPUCHINS.]

Diploma conferring ‘privilegium maximum’.

‘Bojonii’, 22 October 1779.

An attractive diploma issued by Erhard...

£450

[WALSH, William.]

A Funeral Elegy upon the Death of the Queen....

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1695.

First edition of Walsh’s elegy on the...

£350

ROSINI, Giovanni. 

Alla memoria di Maria Antinori vedova del...

Pisa, Niccolò Capurro, 1852. 

Scarce first and only edition of this poem...

£275

PASSI, Marco Celio.

Memorie sulla vita di Donna Giuseppina...

Bergamo, Stamperia Mazzoleni, 1832.

Scarce first edition of a touching memorial...

£300

[GREY, Jane, Lady.]

‘The last days of Lady Jane Grey’.

[c. 1870?].

A manuscript extract, unfinished or incomplete,...

£175

DRYDEN, John.

Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem: dedicated...

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1692.

First edition of Dryden’s eulogy for...

£275

[VACCINATION.]

Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone...

Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.

A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting...

£650

[SASSOON, Siegfried.] SURTEES, [Robert Smith]; Lionel GOUGH, editor.

Hunting Scenes from Surtees.

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953.

Sassoon’s proof copy of Hunting Scenes...

£850

BUXTON, Thomas Fowell.

An Inquiry, whether Crime and Misery are...

London, [J. M’Creery] for John & Arthur...

Third edition, published the same year...

£195

PERSIUS; [Thomas BREWSTER, translator].

The Satires of Persius translated into...

London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

Second edition, with the addition of Bayle’s...

£375

[CAVALLERI, Paolo Agostino.]

Lettera dall’Adriatico del signor Antonio...

Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1792 (colophon 1793).

First edition, uncommon, of this counter-revolutionary...

£375