THUCYDIDES; Lorenzo VALLA, translator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

Περι του Πελοποννησιακου...

[Geneva, Henri II Estienne for] Frankfurt,...

A richly annotated and extra-illustrated...

£2250

VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

Valerii Maximi dictorum, & factorum memorabilium...

[(Colophon:) Sélestat, Lazarus Schürer,...

Very rare edition of Valerius Maximus printed...

£2250

VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

Sermones quadragesimales [– de tempore...

[(Colophons:) Venice, Simon de Luere for...

An annotated copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s...

£3250

[CHINA.]

Business report written to a Mr Luo by...

[China], 咸豐壬子年 [1852].

An interesting mid-nineteenth-century report...

£750

[ROWE, Harry.] CROFT, John, editor?, [and Dr. Alexander HUNTER?].

Memoirs of Harry Rowe: constructed from...

York, Printed by Wilson & Spence. Sold...

First edition of this ‘biography’ of...

£1500

BURNET, Gilbert.

A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

One of three editions, all of the same...

£500

‘DORNIS, Jean’ [pseud. Élena BEER].

La voie douloureuse.

[Évreux, Charles Hérissey for] Paris,...

First edition of Jean Dornis’ first novel,...

£275

GERHARD, Johann.

Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...

Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...

First English-printed Latin edition of...

£950

MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.

Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...

[(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].

First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin translation...

£850

PONSONBY, Emily, Lady.

De Greville’s en de Lorimers. Twee Familie-Tafereelen,...

Amsterdam, P. N. Van Kampen, 1851.

First edition in Dutch of ‘Susan Grenville;...

£250

[WILSON,] Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man.

A short and plain Instruction for the better...

London, B. Dod, T. Longman & C. Hitch,...

Scarce first posthumous edition of this...

£250

[CRIMEAN WAR.]

Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...

£375

DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

£450

DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.

Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...

Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.

Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...

£250

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.

Queen Mab.

London, W. Clark, 1821.

First published edition, a piracy second...

£950

[BECKFORD, William.]

Vathek, conte arabe.

Paris, Poinçot; Chatellerault, P. J....

Extremely rare, the only traced copy, of...

£3750

APPIA, Béatrice.

A fine collection of manuscript and typescript...

Paris, 1934–6.

An extraordinary series of love letters,...

£5000

BACON, Francis.

Historia vitae et mortis.

Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1663.

Pocket-sized Amsterdam editions of three...

£975

BARING-GOULD, Sabine.

Iceland: its Scenes and Sagas ... With...

London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1863.

First edition of this account of a visit...

£350

BLACKMORE, Richard, Sir.

King Arthur. An Heroick Poem. In twelve...

London, Awnsham and John Churchil, and...

First edition. Blackmore’s first Arthurian...

£650