QUARLES, Francis.

Emblemes [– Hieroglyphikes of the Life...

London, for William Freeman, [1709].

Quarles’ Emblemes, ‘the work...

£375

[PROVERBS.]

Proverbs English, French, Dutch, Italian,...

London, Simon Miller, 1659.

First and only edition of a scarce collection...

£1200

PIETRASANTA, Silvestro.

De symbolis heroicis libri IX …

Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

First edition of this Jesuit collection...

£850

PHAEDRUS; David van HOOGSTRATEN, editor.

Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V … in usum...

Amsterdam, François Halma, 1701.

A richly illustrated and handsomely printed...

£450

PÉREZ DE HERRERA, Cristóbal.

Proverbios morales, y consejos christianos...

Adornadas con trece emblemas … Madrid,...

Second edition, the Stirling Maxwell copy,...

£1450

DAVID, Jan.

Paradisus sponsi et sponsae, in quo messis...

Antwerp, Balthasar and Jan Moretus ‘ex...

Second edition (first 1607) of an early...

£850

[DU ROSIER, Simon.]

Antithesis Christi et Antichristi, videlicet...

[Geneva], Eustache Vignon, 1578.

First expanded edition of this satirical...

£2500

[ENIGMAS.]

‘Recueils d’Enigmes’.

[France, mid-eighteenth century.]

Four manuscript volumes collecting over...

£750

EPIPHANIUS, Pseudo-; Gonzalo PONCE DE LEÓN, editor and translator.

Εις τον φυσιολογον. Του...

Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1588.

Second edition, with finely engraved illustrations...

£675

FAERNO, Gabriele.

Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae,...

Padua, Giuseppe Comino, [(colophon:) 27 October]...

A collection of popular verse fables by...

£300

GERMBERG, Hermann.

Proverbiorum centuriae XIV. quibus adjecta...

Basel, Sebastian Henricpetri, [(colophon:)...

First edition of this compendium of proverbs,...

£850

WEBER, Johann Adam.

Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...

[Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]

Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s wide-ranging...

£4750

[WALL, Thomas].

A Second Christian Warning-Piece; wherein...

[London, c. 1681?]

First edition, very rare, of a vehement...

£1750

UGARTE, Manuel; Georges FOUCART, translator.

‘Contes de la Pampa’.

Paris, [c. 1923–5].

A fine, largely unpublished manuscript,...

£950

STEIN, Aurel.

Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan. Personal Narrative...

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1904.

‘Cheaper edition’ (published a year...

£500

THÜNEN, Johann Heinrich von.

Der isolirte Staat in Beziehung auf Landwirthschaft...

Rostock, G.B. Leopold, 1842–50.

Scarce second edition of the first part,...

£1750

[SPINELLI.]

Illuminated arms of the Spinelli family...

Italy (Florence), c. 1460s.

Florentine border decoration of very high...

£2750

RICH, Jeremiah.

The Whole Book of Psalms in Meter. According...

London, ‘Printed and are sold by Samuel...

First edition, the issue with Samuel Botley...

£3500

RENOWNED HISTORY (The)

of Primrose Prettyface, who by her Sweetness...

London, Printed & sold by J. Marshall...

One of three undated editions, probably...

£950

PYNCHON, Thomas.

Gravity’s Rainbow.

New York, The Viking Press, [1973].

First edition of Pynchon’s magnum...

£900