SPENCE, James.

The Light of Heaven, on the Path of Youth:...

1849. Preston, John Walker, and London,...

First edition, apparently unrecorded, of...

£175

[REEVE, Gabriel.]

Directions left by a Gentleman to his Sonns:...

London, E. T. and R. H. for R. Royston,...

First and only edition of Gabriel Reeve’s...

£650

SALLUST.

Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant.

London, James Tonson and John Watts, 1713.

First Maittaire edition. The French-born...

£300

SCARRON, Paul.

Le marquis ridicule, ou la comtesse faite...

[Leiden, Elzevir,] 1656.

First Elzevier editions, very rare, of...

£650

BREREWOOD, Edward.

Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

London, [Eliot’s Court Press] for John...

First edition. Brerewood, professor of...

£2750

ZAUNSLIFER, Petrus.

Tafereel van overdeftige Zinnebeelden,...

Amsterdam, Gerard Onder de Linden, 1722.

First edition of this illustrated collection...

£950

VERRIEN, [Nicolas].

Recueil d’emblêmes, devises, medailles,...

Paris, Claude Jombert [part II: Jean Jombert],...

A rich collection of engraved emblems,...

£750

[VAN VEEN, Otto]; EPICTETUS; CEBES.

Theatro moral de la vida humana, en cien...

Antwerp, widow of Hendrick Verdussen [Anna...

A Spanish edition of the Theatro moral,...

£1250

VAN VEEN, Otto.

Amoris divini emblemata …

Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

Second edition (first 1615) of sixty spiritual...

£950

[TARONI, Giovanni Battista, pseud.] ‘Giovanna Statira BOTTINI’.

Cento nodi da sciogliersi proposti al genio...

Bologna, Gaspare de’ Franceschi, 1765.

Extremely rare edition of one hundred widely...

£450

SCHOPPER, Hartmann, translator.

Speculum vitae aulicae. De admirabili fallacia...

Frankfurt, [(colophon:) Nikolaus Basse], 1595.

Fifth and final edition of the first Latin...

£850

‘ABRAHAM a Sancta Clara’ [pseud. Johann Ulrich MEGERLE].

Coraggio e viltà, l’uno nella virtù,...

Trento, Giovanni Parone, 1717.

Scarce first and only Italian edition of...

£1850

SAAVEDRA FAJARDO, Diego de.

Idea de un Principe politico christiano,...

Valencia, heirs of Crisóstomo Garriz,...

Fourth Valencian edition of ‘the most...

£750

RICCI, Vincenzo.

Geroglifici morali … Opera nuova, hora...

Naples, Giovanni Domenico Roncagliolo, 1626.

Uncommon first edition of this work intended...

£2000

CARO Y CEJUDO, Gerónimo Martín.

Refranes y modos de hablar, castellanos...

Madrid, Julián Izquierdo, 1675.

First edition, the Heber–Chorley–Stirling Maxwell–de Guinzbourg...

£1750

[CHILDREN’S TALES.]

Novellette e racconti ai miei giovani bambini.

[(Colophon:) Rambervillers, Mejeat for]...

A pair of uncommon moral tales for children,...

£350

[COTIN, Charles, Abbé.]

‘Enigmes du temps.’

[France, c. 1750.]

A manuscript compendium of 237 French enigmas,...

£1250

[GIRALDI, Giovanni Battista.]

Giuditio sopra la tragedia di Canace et...

(Colophon:) Lucca, Vincenzo Busdraghi,...

First edition of this criticism, in the...

£650

COUPÉ DE SAINT-DONAT, Alexandre; Jean de LA FONTAINE; Camillo UGONI, translator.

Favole di A.L.M. Coupé ed alcune di La...

Brescia, Nicolò Bettoni, 1808.

First edition of Coupé’s fables, rare,...

£400

[RARITIES AND PROVERBS.]

Lyste van Rariteiten, die verkocht zullen...

‘Gedrukt in Arabien, midden op de Zand-Zee,...

A bizarre series of fictitious auction...

£5500