JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...

Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

First Aldine edition of Justinus’ abridgement...

£1850

KECHT, Johann Sigismund.

Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten...

Berlin, [Trowitzsch and Son for] the author,...

Third, expanded edition (first 1813) of...

£450

[LILY, William.]

A short introduction of grammar compiled...

London, S. Buckley and T. Longman, 1738.

Two beautifully printed eighteenth-century...

£550

[LORD LEYCESTER HOSPITAL, WARWICK.]

Account of the Charity of Leicester’s...

Warwick, mid-nineteenth century.

A manuscript copy of the sixteenth-century...

£350

MILLER, Philip.

The Gardeners Kalendar, directing what...

London, John Rivington, H. Woodfall, A....

A very attractive copy of the most popular...

£165

AZAÏS, Gabriel, and Charles LABOR.

Illustrated manuscript volume of poetry,...

Béziers, not before 1836.

A charming presentation volume, with French...

£1750

BLANCHON, Jacques.

Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...

£950

[CHINA.]

A collection of 46 Chinese watercolour...

[Canton?, c. 1870].

A series of delicate portraits – the...

£1850

[DEFOE, Daniel.]

A Letter to Dissenters.

London, Printed for John Morphew … 1713.

First edition, the state with the final...

£600

PHAEDRUS et al.

Phaedri fabulae. L. Annaei Senecae, ac...

Orléans, Couret de Villeneuve, 1773.

An attractive edition of Phaedrus’ fables...

£250

[MICROSCOPY – RABIQUEAU, Charles.]

Manifeste littéraire, servant de supplément...

Geneva and Paris, the author and Demonville,...

Only edition of this prospectus-cum-supplement...

£250

[TAIWAN.]

中華民國四十六年國慶閱兵大典集影...

[Taiwan, 1957.]

A fine commemorative album documenting...

£1500

[SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...

Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...

Stated second edition but in fact a third...

£375

SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.

Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’...

£100

STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.

Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit...

London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s...

£120

GUILLÉN, Jorge, and Reginald GIBBONS, translator.

Fuera del mundo. Translated by Reginald Gibbons.

Trenton, New Jersey, Eleutherian Printers,...

First edition of the Spanish text and of...

£550

DONI, Antonio Francesco.

Disegno … partito in piu ragionamenti,...

Venice, Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1549.

First edition of an important art-theoretical...

£1250

GOLDONI, Carlo.

Scelta di alcune commedie. Per uso de’...

Livorno, Assunto Barbani, 1816.

First edition printed in Italy of a collection...

£175

NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

First edition, printed for private circulation...

£18000

[NEW YORK.]

Notarial instrument attesting to the residence...

New York, 27 July 1797.

An interesting notarial document recording...

£850