SHAKESPEARE, William.

The Works … in ten Volumes …

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

The handsome ‘Stratford Town’ Shakespeare,...

£1250

[VICTORIA: DIAMOND JUBILEE.]

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

Hereford, F. Preece, 1897.

An attractive album memorialising a garden...

£500

WARD, Colin.

Anarchy in Action.

London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1973.

First edition. Separating the notion of...

£190

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

MARINO, Giambattista; Gasparo MURTOLA.

La Murtoleide fischiate del cavalier Marino...

‘Norinbergh’ [i.e. Venice], Ioseph...

Rare first edition of these Baroque burlesque...

£900

TURNER, Sharon.

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

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

First edition, each volume with a presentation...

£500

[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

OVID.

P. Ovidii Nasonis operum …

Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, 1629.

First Elzevir edition, newly edited by...

£500

[PSALMS.]

The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into...

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

A very attractive pocket psalm book with...

£2750

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

SULIVAN, Richard Joseph.

Philosophical Rhapsodies. Fragments of...

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

First edition of this eccentric travel-inspired...

£750

NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.

Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

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

£4750

HELVÉTIUS, Claude Adrien.

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

Londres, Société Typographique [recte...

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

£1200

MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.

An Essay on the Principle of Population;...

London, Johnson, 1803.

Second edition, first published 1798. Called...

£5750

MILLAR, John.

Observations concerning the Distinction...

London, J. Murray, 1773. 

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

£1750

MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat.

Miscellaneous Pieces … translated from...

London, Wilson and Durham, 1759. 

Only edition thus, apparently the first...

£525

FERGUSON, Adam.

An Essay on the History of Civil Society.

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

Third edition, corrected: the edition owned...

£700

CAREY, Henry Charles.

The Past, the Present and the Future.

Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1848.

First edition. Carey vigorously appeals...

£375

COMTE, Auguste.

Cours de philosophie positive.

Paris, Bachelier, 1830–1842. 

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

£1600

GILBRETH, Frank B.

Motion Study. A Method for increasing the...

New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1911.

First edition, rare, of this pioneering...

£550