FLEMING, Ian.

You only live twice.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1964.

First edition, first impression, first...

£850

ELIOT, George.

The Writings …

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin...

The Large-Paper edition of Eliot’s complete...

£2500

SOPHOCLES; Ezra POUND, translator.

Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

London, Neville Spearman, [1956]. 

First edition of Pound’s version of Sophocles’...

£1000

[I CHING.]

WILHELM, Richard, and Cary F. BAYNES,...

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.

Third edition, reprinted, in a striking...

£1950

WALLIS, William.

The Western Gentleman’s Farrier, containing...

Troy (OH), John T. Tullis, 1838.

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

£250

THACKERAY, William Makepeace. 

The Virginians, a tale of the last century. 

London, Bradbury & Evans, November 1857...

First edition in the original monthly parts...

£600

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

A very fine large initial painted in a...

£6750

MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

Urbis Romae topographia.

Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

First illustrated edition (third overall),...

£5500

GISSING, George.

The Unclassed, A Novel … in three Volumes.

London, Chapman and Hall, 1884.

First edition of Gissing’s second novel...

£950

[CALLIGRAPHIC SCORES.]

Two anonymous manuscript scores.

London, 1820s.

Two charming productions, sent as anonymous...

£850

BOARETTO, Ange.

Twenty-two large prints with paint and...

France, 1960s–1980s.

A fascinating archive relating to the work...

£3750

COPPERTHWAITE, R.H.

The Turf and the Racehorse, describing...

London, Day & Son, 1865.

First edition of a scarce account of mid-nineteenth-century...

£160

REFELL, A. 

Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

First German edition, rare, of this fascinating...

£1250

LAING, Alexander. 

The True Hero and Other Poems … 

Glasgow, Morison Brothers, 1893. 

First edition, scarce, a presentation copy,...

£375

JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...

Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

First Aldine edition of Justinus’ abridgement...

£1850

DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.

The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...

Shortrede and Co., 1867.

First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...

£4750

MILBANK, Augustus Sussex.

A Treatise upon the political & social...

[Richmond, M. Bell for] London, Messrs...

First and only edition of a rare Yorkshire-printed...

£125

ROHAN, Henri, Duke of; [Henry HUNT, translator].

A Treatise of the Interest of the Princes...

London, Richard Hodgkinson, 1641.

First edition in England (and second in...

£1800

KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

Travels from Berlin, through Switzerland,...

London, Richard Phillips, 1804.

First edition in English, quickly translated...

£500

[SOPHOCLES.]

Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum...

Oxford, University Press, 1832.

First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of...

£200