[BOXING.]

The Art of manual Defence; or, System of...

London, G. Kearsley, ‘1799’ [but 1789].

Third edition, scarce, of an early illustrated...

£2750

ALEXANDER, [Charles] A[rmistead].

The Fall of Aztalan, and other Poems …

Washington, W. M. Morrison, 1839.

First edition, a presentation copy, of...

£1750

[PALIN, Nils Gustaf.]

De l’étude des hiéroglyphes. Fragmens....

Paris, Fain for Delaunay, Colnet, Treuttel,...

First edition of this curious work on Egyptian...

£2500

VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.

La Henriade, en dix chants; avec l’histoire...

Edinburgh, J. Watson, 1798.

Rare Edinburgh edition of Voltaire’s...

£150

ZINZERLING, Justus.

Jodoci Sinceri Itinerarium Galliae, ita...

Amsterdam, Janson, 1649.

William Beckford’s copy of a later edition...

£1250

VIRGIL.

Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...

London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt...

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

£650

[REVILLIOD, Gustave.]

Le Cousin l’Abbé.

Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1884.

First editions of two rare works by the...

£450

MUSESTI, Piero; Giovammaria FEBRARI, translator.

Gesta di Napoleone I. imperator de’...

Brescia, Tipografia dipartimentale, 1805.

Uncommon first and only edition of this...

£550

HOME, John.

Douglas: a Tragedy.

Edinburgh, George Reid & Co., 1798.

First illustrated edition, a handsome subscriber’s...

£250

SHAKESPEARE, William; Alexander POPE, editor.

The Works of Shakespear. In eight Volumes....

Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1766.

First and only Foulis edition, issued in...

£450

SANFERMO CARIONI PEZZI, Rocco, Giovanni Battista GARAVETTA, and Francesco D’EMILEI.

Lettera scritta nel castello di S. Felice...

Verona, 1797.

One of several editions published immediately...

£300

PERRET, Jean-Jacques.

La pogonotomie, ou l’art d’apprendre...

Brussels, Benoît Le  Francq, 1803.

Rare Brussels edition (first Paris 1769)...

£400

LORICH, Gerhard.

Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

[Frankfurt am Main], [(colophon:) Christian...

First editions of a pair of Reformation-era...

£1450

EXPILLY, Claude.

Les poemes de Messire Claude Expilly, Conseiller...

Grenoble, Pierre Verdier, 1624.

A wide-margined copy of the expanded second...

£950

[DE GRAAFT, attributed.]

Avantures secrettes, et plaisantes. Recueillies...

Brussels, George de Backer, 1696.

Scarce first Brussels edition, published...

£375

[DAMPMARTIN, Pierre de; Charles SOREL, editor.]

La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux...

Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.

Rare second edition, revised and expanded...

£500

[DALLAS, Eneas Sweetland.]

Kettner’s Book of the Table: A Manual...

London, Dulau and Co., 1877.

First edition of Dallas’s encyclopaedic...

£180

[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

[BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

L’ami des femmes.

Paris, ‘Quay des Augustins’, 1759.

Uncommon early edition, printed a year...

£300

BEROALDO, Filippo.

Opusculum eruditum quo continetur Declamatio...

[(Colophon:) Paris], Denis Roce, [1 August...

Second Paris editions (first 1500) of Beroaldo’s...

£3750