MASTER B.F.

Three very large historiated initials cut...

Italy (Lodi), early sixteenth century.

Three extremely fine initials by the enigmatic...

£150000

[ROUSSEL DE LA TOUR, Claude Pierre GOUJET, and Abbé MINARD, editors.]

Extraits des assertions dangereuses et...

Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762.

First edition of this systematic selection...

£1500

[VERACI, Gaetano.] 

Nuova cicalata sopra la coda in forma di...

[S.l., s.n,. c. 1770.] 

Second edition, extremely rare and significantly...

£850

FENOUILLOT DE FALBAIRE, Charles-Georges. 

Le fabricant de Londres, drame en cinq...

Paris, chez Delalain, 1771. 

First edition of a London-set play by the...

£250

ST JOHN, Spenser Buckingham.

Life in the Forests of the Far East.

London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1862.

First edition. A richly illustrated account...

£850

MARVIN, Charles.

The Russians at Merv and Herat and their...

London, W.H. Allen & Co., 1883.

First edition of this work on the Russian...

£875

ANTIPHONAL,

with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...

Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

£5000

[CARDUCCI, Giosuè, Olindo GUERRINI, et al., editors.] 

Il Matto.  Anno I – Num. 1 [– Num. 13;...

Bologna, 19 April [– 29 June] 1874. 

Very rare complete run of this short-lived...

£1000

RISLEY, Herbert Hope, Sir et al.

The gazetteer of Sikhim. With an introduction...

Calcutta, printed at the Bengal Secretariat...

First edition of this comprehensive survey...

£2500

CALMET, Antoine Augustin.

Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres...

Paris, Pierre Emery, 1712.

First edition of the commentary on the...

£450

MAGRE, Maurice.

Les trois métiers de Jeannet. Les bons...

Paris, Hachette (Bibliothèque des écoles...

Two scarce children’s stories, published...

£125

SIMEONI, Gabriele.

Comentarii di Gabriello Symeoni Fiorentino...

Venice, Comino da Trino di Monferrato, 1546.

Scarce first edition of Gabriele Simeoni’s...

£550

TERENCE; Daniel HEINSIUS, editor.

Pub. Terentii comoediae sex, ex recensione...

Amsterdam, Henrik Wetstein, [c. 1700].

A small-format edition of Terence’s comedies,...

£145

GAMON, Christophe de.

La semaine, ou création du monde du sieur...

[Geneva,] Gédéon Petit, 1609.

Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than...

£950

[GREENE, Asa.]

The Perils of Pearl Street, including a...

New York, Betts & Anstice and Peter Hill, 1834.

First edition of a very early Wall Street...

£2750

[HAKEWILL, William].

The Manner of holding Parliaments in England,...

[London,] Printed in the Yeare, 1641.

First (and only lifetime) edition, signed...

£950

ESSER, [Karl?] Michael, Ritter von.

Sei Quartetti per due violini viola, e...

[Venice, Marescalchi e Canobbio, 1774?]

First edition, very rare, of a complete...

£1750

[CHANSONS.]

Manuscript collection of arias, chansons,...

[France (Nantes?), c. 1795.]

A fascinating manuscript collection of...

£2400

[HERVEY, Elizabeth.]

The Mourtray Family. A Novel …

London: Printed by Millar Ritchie …...

First edition of the penultimate novel...

£2500

HUISH, Robert.

Fatherless Rosa; or, the Dangers of the...

London, Published by T. Kaygill … for...

First edition. Like the best-selling Fatherless...

£750