DOLCE, Lodovico.

Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e...

Venice, Giovanni Battista, & Marchio Sessa,...

First edition of this exposition of Aristotle’s...

£2500

[DOVES PRESS.] 

Pervigilium Veneris. 

Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

£950

LUCRETIUS. 

Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...

Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...

First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...

£450

ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.

[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....

Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.

First part of the first and only edition...

£450

CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

£9500

[EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

£400

BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).

Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...

London, Henry Colburn, 1829.

First edition, in one volume, recounting...

£3750

[NEW YORK.]

Notarial instrument attesting to the residence...

New York, 27 July 1797.

An interesting notarial document recording...

£850

[STEREOGRAPH.]

‘Going Out’ [and] ‘Coming In’.

London, Gebhardt, Rottmann & Co., [late...

An amusing pair of stereos depicting the...

£70

[STEREOGRAPH.]

James ELLIOTT, photographer.

‘The first Love Letter’ [and] ‘Difference...

Three hand-tinted albumen prints in stereo...

£175

GOLDONI, Carlo.

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

Livorno, Assunto Barbani, 1816.

First edition printed in Italy of a collection...

£175

[LORD LEYCESTER HOSPITAL, WARWICK.]

Account of the Charity of Leicester’s...

Warwick, mid-nineteenth century.

A manuscript copy of the sixteenth-century...

£350

[LILY, William.]

A short introduction of grammar compiled...

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

Two beautifully printed eighteenth-century...

£550

KECHT, Johann Sigismund.

Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten...

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

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

£450

GELLIUS, Aulus.

Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...

Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous...

£650

[VITTORIO EMANUELE II.]

Alla gloriosa memoria di Vittorio Emanuele...

New York, Tipografia della scuola italiana,...

First edition of this work recording a...

£500

CASAL, Gaspar do.

Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis...

Coimbra, João da Barreira and João Alvares,...

First edition of Gaspar do Casal’s major...

£2500

ARISTIDES, Aelius.

Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.

First edition in Latin, a remarkable copy...

£2750

NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator). 

Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...

Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668. 

First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...

£5000

GIBELLI, Giacinto. 

Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...

Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767. 

First and only edition, rare, of these...

£600