THEOCRITUS et al.

Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....

[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.

An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...

£9000

MEFFRET, Johann.

Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

A volume of sermons with early English...

£6500

[BIBLE.]

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and...

Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.

First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’...

£5250

PRIOR, Matthew.

Poems on several Occasions.

London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John...

First edition, a subscriber’s copy on...

£5000

[PRIMER.]

Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...

London, William Seres, 1568.

Second edition of this rare ‘private’...

£4250

[WALLPAPER BINDING.]

‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves...

Hainaut, 1750–1773.

A manuscript account book compiled by Joseph...

£3500

[ALMANACK.]

L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...

Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

A very rare enamelled metal binding with...

£2750

LUCAN.

Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...

Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.

An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on...

£2500

[ALMANACK.]

Les étrennes à la rose, ou le rosier...

Paris, Janet, [1804?].

A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...

£2500

ZACHARIÄ, Just Friedrich Wilhelm.

Les quatre parties du jour, poëme traduit...

Paris, J. B. G. Musier fils, 1769.

First edition in French of this proto-Romantic...

£1500

[ALMANACK.]

Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...

Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...

A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...

£1500

[ALMANACK.]

Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances...

Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du S^r...

A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1800,...

£1450

[SHANGHAI.]

Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of...

Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly...

Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...

£1250

[BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...

£1200

[PSALMS.]

Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...

A collection of verse paraphrases of the...

£975

[PSALMS.]

Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...

£950

[WALLET.]

Wallet with manuscript and printed waste.

France, c. 1790.

An attractive late eighteenth-century wallet...

£950

CHALMERS, David.

Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...

Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.

First edition of Chalmer’s historical...

£950

[ALMANACK.]

London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.

[London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...

A very attractive miniature London Almanack...

£950

NIXON, Howard M. 

Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

First edition, one of three hundred copies,...

£875