OZEROV, Vladislav Aleksandrovich.

Sochineniia … Chast’ pervaia [–vtoraia]...

St Petersburg, Imperial Theatre, 1817 [-1816].

One of two rival collected editions published...

£1800

VENERONI, Giovanni. 

The Complete Italian Master; containing...

London, J. Nourse, 1763. 

First edition thus, revising an earlier...

£750

[PALACE THEATRE, SCUNTHORPE.]

‘Benefit to A. E. Dobney, Thursday,...

[Scunthorpe, 1914.]

A rare broadside programme for a benefit...

£185

MARTIAL.

Epigrammaton libri XIII. Ex fide vetustissimorum...

Paris, Jean Libert, 1612 [(colophon:) 1613].

An uncommon small-format edition of Martial’s...

£650

SOPHOCLES. 

Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...

Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.

An early seventeenth-century sammelband...

£950

[BOUTREUX D’ESTIAU, Jacques de.]

De la puissance roialle sur la police de...

Paris, Pierre Durand, 1625.

A pair of uncommon works defending the...

£950

ARIAS, Francisco.

Paleys der deughden begrypende de naervolghinghe...

Antwerp, Gheleyn Janssens, 1609.

First Dutch edition of this work of Marian...

£375

[PSALMS.]

Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per...

Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for]...

Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms...

£1250

MOUSSON, Pierre.

Tragoediae seu diversarum gentium et imperiorum...

La Flèche, George Griveau, 1621.

First edition, provincially-printed, of...

£725

[HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

Deed granting land to the hospice.

Metz, 5 May 1464.

A significant document recording the grant...

£450

GOBINET, Charles. 

Instruction sur la vérité du Saint Sacrement,...

Paris, François le Cointe, 1677. 

Scarce first edition thus, containing an...

£650

[LOVE TOKEN.]

Portrait of a woman wearing photographic...

[1850s].

An ambrotype portrait of a young woman...

£375

RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio. 

Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...

Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562. 

The third edition (first 1557) of a remarkable...

£2800

[NUPTIALIA.]

Bartolomeo MOLAJONI.  Alla neogama donzella...

Viterbo, brothers Poggiarelli, 1811. 

Seemingly unrecorded sonnet addressed to...

£275

MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.

Les secrets de la génération ou l’art...

chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].

Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86)...

£150

[LE NOBLE, Pierre, and Eustache LE NOBLE (attributed).] 

Les Amours d’Anne d’Austriche, Epouse...

‘A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1696’...

An early manuscript copy of a salacious...

£850

[LA ROCHE, Sophie von.] 

Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim. ...

Leipzig, bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1771. 

First edition of Sophie von La Roche’s...

£750

[KRÜDENER, Barbara Juliane de Vietinghoff, Freifrau von.]

Valérie, ou Lettres de Gustave de Linar...

Paris, Henrichs, 1804.

Rare first edition of Valérie,...

£400

[COURTESAN.]

Les confessions d’une courtisane devenue...

‘London’ and Brussels, Le Francq, 1784.

First edition (another appeared in the...

£850

BARBARO, Francesco. 

De re uxoria libri duo, ut venustate sermonis...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1639. 

An attractive later edition of this famous...

£275