HEINSIUS, Daniel.

Poematum editio nova; accedunt praeter...

Leiden, [Isaac] Elzevir and Jean Maire, 1621.

First Elzevir edition of the poems of Daniel...

£800

HOGG, James.

The Pilgrims of the Sun; a Poem …

London, John Murray, and Edinburgh, William...

First edition, first issue, of a long poem...

£200

HOLBEIN, Hans; Wenceslaus HOLLAR, engraver; [Francis DOUCE, editor].

The Dance of Death, from the original Designs...

[McMillan] for J. Coxhead, 1816.

An attractive early nineteenth-century...

£375

[HÖSS,] Maria Crescentia, Saint.

‘Wahre Abbildung der From[m]en Schwester...

Jahr ihres Alters.’ Mindelheim, Lingauer,...

Extremely rare devotional engraving of...

£750

[MILAN – DEATH DUTIES.]

[Incipit:] Ad un reale dispaccio...

Milan, Pirola brothers, [31 October 1787].

Scarce edict issued by Ferdinand Karl,...

£500

[NOVARA.]

[Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

[Novara], 10 May 1805.

An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

£175

[NUNS.]

[Incipit:] Illustrissimi Sigg. Sigg....

Florence, 20 March 1784.

Extremely rare broadside confirming the...

£450

PICKERING, Amelia.

The Sorrows of Werter: a Poem …

London, T. Cadell … 1788.

First edition of this retelling of Goethe’s...

£1200

PITOU, Louis-Ange.

L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...

Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...

First and only surviving edition of this...

£650

[RAMEAUX, François-Alexis.]

Notice of the death of Rameaux issued by...

[China, 1845.]

A circular notifying the Christian community...

£2000

ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, Wentworth Dillon ROSCOMMON, 4th Earl of, et al.

A Collection of Poems: viz. the Temple...

London, printed for Daniel Brown and Benjamin...

Fourth edition of the important ‘Temple...

£500

SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.

Designs for furniture, funerary monuments,...

Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s].

An interesting sammelband containing over...

£3750

[SHEPHEARD, James.]

The Dying Speech of James Shepheard: who...

[London, s.n., 1718.]

One of at least five printings of this...

£750

TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington…

London: Edward Moxon … 1852.

First edition of Tennyson’s ode to the...

£100

TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.

Живой Трупъ. Драма въ...

Moscow, A. Ia. Petrov, [1911].

One of the earliest printings of Tolstoy’s...

£1750

[TOWNLEY, William Dalison.]

Punch’s Pocket-Book for 1877, containing...

London, [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. for]...

A Punch almanack for 1877 with nearly...

£450

TREVLYN, Valda.

High Death.

Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.

One of 100 copies of this poem on death...

£75

[WINSLOW, Jacob Benignus.]

Terrible supplice et cruel désespoir des...

[Paris, Joseph Bullot, 1752].

Extremely rare first edition of this anonymous...

£850

[WISHART, George.]

I. G. de rebus auspiciis serenssimi,...

[Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.

First edition, rare, a fine-paper copy...

£1750

ANACREON.

Ανακρεοντος τηιου μελη...

Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’,...

Thick paper copy, apparently one of 12...

£650