PARR, Samuel.

A Discourse on Education and on the Plans...

[Norwich, John Crouse for] London, T. Cadell...

First and only edition of this treatise...

£175

[BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]

An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....

London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.

Scarce second edition – in fact a reissue...

£1500

DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.

Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...

Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.

Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...

£250

[CRIMEAN WAR.]

Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...

£375

[WILSON,] Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man.

A short and plain Instruction for the better...

London, B. Dod, T. Longman & C. Hitch,...

Scarce first posthumous edition of this...

£250

PONSONBY, Emily, Lady.

De Greville’s en de Lorimers. Twee Familie-Tafereelen,...

Amsterdam, P. N. Van Kampen, 1851.

First edition in Dutch of ‘Susan Grenville;...

£250

BURNET, Gilbert.

A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

One of three editions, all of the same...

£500

KAVAN, Anna; Karl Theodor BLUTH.

The Horse’s Tale.

London, Gaberbocchus Press, [1949].

Uncommon first edition of this novel authored...

£850

DONALDSON, Florence.

Lepcha Land or six Weeks in the Sikhim...

London, Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1900.

First edition of Florence Donaldson’s...

£400

ROCCA, Bernardino.

De’ discorsi di guerra … libri Quattro,...

Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1582.

First edition of Rocca’s military treatise,...

£450

‘RIZZA, Zanclevio’, pseud. [i.e. Vincenzo LAZZARI GUERRA], editor and contributor.

Piccola raccolta di composizioni satiriche...

‘Medina’ [i.e. Mori], ‘Frangipane...

A very rare collection of satirical verses...

£500

[GAMES AND RECREATION.]

Trattato de’ giochi e de’ divertimenti...

Rome, Michel'Angelo Barbiellini, 1768.

First edition of a treatise on games and...

£650

[CHARITY.]

Reglement du 11 Juin 1752, concernant la...

Dijon, Antoine Defay, [1752].

Very rare work detailing the regulations...

£850

[PSALMS.]

Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

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

A collection of verse paraphrases of the...

£975

[MILITARIA.]

Instruction provisoire arrêtée par le...

Montauban, Vincent Teulières, 1788.

A seemingly unrecorded edition of these...

£750

BLANCHET, Joseph.

L’art, ou les principes philosophiques...

Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel...

First edition, though designated as the...

£750

D’URFEY, Thomas.

Wit and Mirth: or Pills to purge Melancholy;...

Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719 [– 1720].

The first complete edition, second issue...

£2250

[SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.]

The School for Scandal. A Comedy. As it...

[Dublin], Printed for the Booksellers, 1793.

First separate illustrated edition of Sheridan’s...

£750

BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez de.

Aristippus, or, Monsr. de Balsac’s Masterpiece,...

London, Tho. Newcomb for Nat. Eakins and...

First edition in English of Balzac’s...

£750

[WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.

An Eulogy on the Life of General George...

Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.

First edition of this eulogy on Washington,...

£250