JONSON, Benjamin.

The Workes …

London, Will Stansby, 1616.

An excellent set of the canonical Ben Jonson,...

£21000

ALCIONIO, Pietro.

Petri Alcyonii Medices legatus de exsilio.

[Venice, in the house of Aldus Manutius...

First edition of Alcionio’s dialogue...

£5750

KRYLOV, [Ivan Andreevich]; William Ralston SHEDDEN-RALSTON, translator.

Krilof and his Fables …

London, Strahan and Co., 1869.

First edition in English in book form of...

£850

[MILITARIA.]

Instruction provisoire arrêtée par le...

Montauban, Vincent Teulières, 1788.

A seemingly unrecorded edition of these...

£750

MONTE DI PIETÀ DI MILANO.

Piano, e regole per il buon governo della...

Milan, Giuseppe Richino Malatesta, [1753].

An uncommon description of the workings...

£400

‘PIETRO da VICOVARO’, i.e. Giuseppe CORTESE.

Apparecchio per accompagnare Maria Santissima...

Rome, Komarek, 1735.

Very rare devotional work dedicated to...

£550

[PSALMS.]

Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...

A collection of verse paraphrases of the...

£975

‘SANIVAL, Marchesa di’, pseud. [i.e. SALVANI, Fausto].

La difesa delle donne o sia risposta apologetica...

Siena, Luigi and Benedetto Bindi, 1786.

Very rare first edition, printed on blue...

£1500

CHALMERS, David.

Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...

Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.

First edition of Chalmer’s historical...

£950

[CHARITY.]

Reglement du 11 Juin 1752, concernant la...

Dijon, Antoine Defay, [1752].

Very rare work detailing the regulations...

£850

[GAMES AND RECREATION.]

Trattato de’ giochi e de’ divertimenti...

Rome, Michel'Angelo Barbiellini, 1768.

First edition of a treatise on games and...

£650

MEFFRET, Johann.

Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

A volume of sermons with early English...

£6500

PASSI, Carlo.

La selva di varia istoria … la quale...

Venice, Altobello Salicato, 1572.

An unsophisticated copy of Passi and Ruscelli’s...

£500

‘RIZZA, Zanclevio’, pseud. [i.e. Vincenzo LAZZARI GUERRA], editor and contributor.

Piccola raccolta di composizioni satiriche...

‘Medina’ [i.e. Mori], ‘Frangipane...

A very rare collection of satirical verses...

£500

ROCCA, Bernardino.

De’ discorsi di guerra … libri Quattro,...

Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1582.

First edition of Rocca’s military treatise,...

£450

BATTY, John.

The Scope and Charm of antiquarian Study...

London, George Redway, 1883.

First edition of The Liberty of independent...

£150

CORNEILLE, Thomas.

Il Pirro, tragedia … tradotta dal francese...

Bologna, Longhi, [1700?].

A very uncommon set of eight early translations...

£750

CLEVELAND, John.

With Additions, never before printed …

London, Printed by S. G. for John Williams...

The first title here was one of the most...

£650

‘SANCTA CLARA, Abraham a’, i.e. Johann Ulrich MEGERLE.

Coraggio e viltà, l’uno nella virtù,...

Trento, Giovanni Parone, 1717.

Scarce first and only Italian edition of...

£2250

ZACHARIÄ, Just Friedrich Wilhelm.

Les quatre parties du jour, poëme traduit...

Paris, J. B. G. Musier fils, 1769.

First edition in French of this proto-Romantic...

£1500