EHRENBURG, Ilya Grigorievich.

Огонь [‘Ogon’; ‘Fire’].

[Gomel,] “Veka i Dni”, 1919.

First edition of this collection of poems,...

£2000

[HERZEN, Aleksandr Ivanovich]. ISKANDER (pseud.).

Prervannye razskazy… Izdanie vtoroe -...

London, Trübner & Co., 1857.

Second, corrected edition of this collection...

£1250

[BELYI, Andrei, pseud. [Boris Nikolaevich BUGAEV], et al.]

Kak my pishem [How we write].

Leningrad, Izdatel’stvo pisatelei, [1930].

First edition of these sketches on the...

£450

DU BOSC, Jacques.

L’onneste femme, divisée en trois parties....

Lyon, Antoine Cellier, 1661.

Very rare Lyon edition of Du Bosc’s famous...

£450

SHAKESPEARE, William, and Boris Leonidovich PASTERNAK, translator.

Otello, venetsianskii mavr. Perevod s angliiskogo...

Moscow, Ogiz, 1945.

First edition of Pasternak’s translation....

£1000

EHRENBURG, Il’ia Grigorievich.

Ogon’ [Fire].

[Gomel], “Veka i Dni”, 1919.

First edition. Although primarily known...

£200

LACTANTIUS.

Opera.

[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

£25000

SMITH, Albert.

A large archive of printed and manuscript...

[1820s to 1860s.]

Albert Richard Smith (1816–1860) trained...

£15000

BARCLAY, Alexander.

Part-printed commission as Comptroller...

5 August, 1749.

After a dissolute youth and a period in...

£850

AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

First edition of this highly important...

£22500

DIODORUS Siculus.

Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...

Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

Important edition, the first to be overseen...

£2500

TYRE, William, Archbishop of, and Giuseppe OROLOGGI (translator).

Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...

Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

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

£2800

ZEVIANI, Giovanni Verardo. 

Del flato a favore degl’ipocondriaci. 

Verona, Antonio Andreoni, 1755. 

Rare first edition of the first medical...

£650

MARLOWE, Christopher, and Konstantin BAL’MONT, translator.

Tragicheskaia istoriia doktora Fausta [The...

Moscow, K.F. Nekrasov, 1912.

First edition in book form, scarce, of...

£500

ROMANOV, Panteleimon Sergeevich.

Rus’ [Russia] …

Moscow, M. & S. Sabashnikov, 1923–4.

First edition of the first two parts of...

£1200

ROMANOV, Panteleimon Sergeevich.

Pravo na zhizn’ ili problema bespartiinosti...

[Moscow,] “Molodaia gvardiia”, 1927.

First edition, containing three stories:...

£400

[DAGUERRE.] MAYER & PIERSON [after Charles Richard MEADE.]

Carte-de-visite albumen print portrait...

Paris, late 1860s.

In 1848 the pioneering American photographer...

£1200

SSYL’NYM I ZAKLIUCHENNYM.

St. Petersburg, [Vol’naia Tipografiia...

Rare first edition of this anthology of...

£350

COMIDAS DE CARBOGNANO, Cosimo.

Primi principi della gramatica Turca ad...

Rome, stamperia della Sac. Congr. di Prop....

The first complete Ottoman Turkish grammar...

£1500

WALLIS, William.

The Western Gentleman’s Farrier, containing...

Troy (OH), John T. Tullis, 1838.

Second edition of an American work on farriery,...

£250