[INDENTURE.]

Between Edward and Adam Bates and Humphrey...

Thornton, Yorkshire, 20 March 1593/4.

An interesting Elizabethan indenture detailing...

£375

[LECTIONARY.]

Four leaves from a twelfth-century lectionary.

Northeast Spain?, 2nd half of the 12th century.

Four leaves from a large and handsome twelfth-century...

£4500

LOMBARDI, Giovanni Francesco.

Oratio habita in synodo Tridentina die...

Brescia, Lodovico Sabbio, [1561?].

First edition of this sermon delivered...

£3750

LONGINUS, [Pseudo-]; Jonathan TOUP and David RUHNKEN, editors.

Quae supersunt Graece et Latine.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1778.

The first Toup edition of Longinus’ On...

£375

MARMONTEL, Jean-François.

Contes moraux ...

Paris, J. Merlin, 1765.

Expanded edition, with a new suite of illustrations...

£1650

MAXIMUS OF TYRE.

Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου...

[Geneva,] Henri II Estienne, 1557.

Editio princeps of the forty-one...

£1500

[OLD MAID.]

Six lithograph plates with verses below:...

c. 1835?

Apparently unrecorded – an attractive...

£450

PHIPPS, Constantine John.

A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken...

London, W. Bowyer and J. Nicols for...

First edition of Phipps’s account of...

£2500

[RIVERS, David.]

Literary Memoirs of living Authors of Great...

London, R. Faulder, T. Egerton, and...

First edition of a literary ‘Who’s...

£1200

[TAYLOR, John.]

The Column, called the Monument, described,...

London, printed by J. Bryan ... for Samuel...

Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook...

£350

THEODORET.

Διαλογοι τρεις κατα τινων...

Leipzig, [(colophon:) Ernst Vögelin], 1568.

First edition of Strigel’s Latin translation...

£1350

VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius, and Louis CARRIO, translator. 

Argonauticon ... libri VIII, a Ludovico...

Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, [15 July] 1565. 

First edition, a very attractive copy,...

£950

WILLIAM OF TYRE; Giuseppe OROLOGGI, translator.

Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...

Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s...

£2750

SHAKESPEARE, William.

Mr. William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories,...

London, H. Herringman, E. Brewster,...

An exceptional copy of Shakespeare’s...

£350000

MARKHAM, Sheila.

A Book of Booksellers: Conversations with...

London, 2004.

First edition, limited to five hundred...

£180

[EDGEWORTH, Maria.]

The Parent’s Assistant; or, Stories for...

London, J. Johnson, 1796.

Second edition, very rare, of the first...

£850