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  1. SHAKESPEARE, William.

    The Works … in ten Volumes …

    Stratford-on-Avon, The Shakespeare Head...

    The handsome ‘Stratford Town’ Shakespeare,...

    £1250

  2. [VICTORIA: DIAMOND JUBILEE.]

    Photograph album: ‘Hampton Court “Jubilee”...

    Hereford, F. Preece, 1897.

    An attractive album memorialising a garden...

    £500

  3. WARD, Colin.

    Anarchy in Action.

    London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1973.

    First edition. Separating the notion of...

    £190

  4. BUQUOY, Georg Franz August de Longueval, Freiherr von Vaux, Graf von.

    Anregungen für philosophisch-wissenschaftliche...

    Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1825.

    First edition, rare, of a comprehensive...

    £950

  5. MARINO, Giambattista; Gasparo MURTOLA.

    La Murtoleide fischiate del cavalier Marino...

    ‘Norinbergh’ [i.e. Venice], Ioseph...

    Rare first edition of these Baroque burlesque...

    £900

  6. TURNER, Sharon.

    The sacred history of the world, as displayed...

    London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green...

    First edition, each volume with a presentation...

    £500

  7. [GEORGE V.]

    The Form and Order of the Service that...

    Oxford, Horace Hart at the University...

    A scarce edition of the order of service...

    £125

  8. OVID.

    P. Ovidii Nasonis operum …

    Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, 1629.

    First Elzevir edition, newly edited by...

    £500

  9. [PSALMS.]

    The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into...

    London, printed by T. C[otes] for the...

    A very attractive pocket psalm book with...

    £2750

  10. SAINT AULAIRE, Achille.

    Voyage autour du monde par St. Aulaire.

    [Clichy, Maurice Loignon for] Paris, Arnauld...

    A hand-coloured copy of this scarce and...

    £1250

  11. SULIVAN, Richard Joseph.

    Philosophical Rhapsodies. Fragments of...

    London, printed for T. Becket … Bookseller...

    First edition of this eccentric travel-inspired...

    £750

  12. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £4750

  13. HELVÉTIUS, Claude Adrien.

    De l’homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles...

    Londres, Société Typographique [recte...

    A rare edition, published in the same year...

    £1200

  14. MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.

    An Essay on the Principle of Population;...

    London, Johnson, 1803.

    Second edition, first published 1798. Called...

    £5750

  15. MILLAR, John.

    Observations concerning the Distinction...

    London, J. Murray, 1773. 

    Second London edition, ‘greatly enlarged’,...

    £1750

  16. MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat.

    Miscellaneous Pieces … translated from...

    London, Wilson and Durham, 1759. 

    Only edition thus, apparently the first...

    £525

  17. FERGUSON, Adam.

    An Essay on the History of Civil Society.

    Edinburgh, A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1768. 

    Third edition, corrected: the edition owned...

    £700

  18. CAREY, Henry Charles.

    The Past, the Present and the Future.

    Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1848.

    First edition. Carey vigorously appeals...

    £375

  19. COMTE, Auguste.

    Cours de philosophie positive.

    Paris, Bachelier, 1830–1842. 

    First edition, an attractive set, of Comte’s...

    £1600

  20. GILBRETH, Frank B.

    Motion Study. A Method for increasing the...

    New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1911.

    First edition, rare, of this pioneering...

    £550