ALFIERI, Vittorio, and Charles LLOYD, translator.

The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri; translated...

London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees,...

First edition of this translation of Alfieri’s...

£450

DICKENS, Charles; Hablot Knight BROWNE and George CATTERMOLE, illustrators.

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London, Chapman and Hall, 1840–41.

First edition in book form, of Charles...

£175

SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de.

Cours de linguistique générale.

Lausanne & Paris, Payot, 1916.

First edition of this seminal textbook...

£575

[MONTANUS, Arnoldus.]

Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie...

Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680.

First edition in French of an important...

£3500

GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.

Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...

Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

First edition, the complete four-volume...

£6500

APPIAN of Alexandria.

Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine...

£3000

WATSON, Sheila.

‘The Great War, Wyndham Lewis and the...

The recordings included are three sections...

£50

GIOVIO, Paolo. 

Elogia veris clarorum virorum imaginibus...

Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1546. 

First edition of Giovio’s biographies...

£3000

MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.

Beyond this Limit …

[London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].

First edition. This was Lewis’s only...

£75

[WOMEN-PEARLS.]

De Vrouwen-Peirle, ofte dryvoudige historie...

Ghent, J. Begyn, [1780–1810].

An attractive copy of the ‘Women-pearls’,...

£550

DAVIDSON, John.

Smith: a Tragedy.

Glasgow, Frederick W. Wilson and Brother, 1888.

First edition of a rare foray into drama...

£300

TYRE, William, Archbishop of, and Giuseppe OROLOGGI (translator).

Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...

Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s...

£2800

[NAPOLEONIC ITALY.] 

Alla società delle gentilissime signore...

Turin, Giacomo Fea, 1799.

An unrecorded sonnet addressed to the to...

£375

GRUBBE, Margaret Julia Maria.

Archive of drawings, watercolours, and...

England and Scotland, c. 1900 – 1960s.

A charming archive of the Suffolk artist...

£1500

[WINCHESTER COLLEGE.]

Printed and manuscript election roll.

[Winchester,] ‘1 November 1782’.

A remarkable eighteenth-century part-printed...

£1250

[WALL, Thomas].

A Second Christian Warning-Piece; wherein...

London, 1681-2.

First edition, very rare, of a vehement...

£1750

CARD, Henry.

Literary Recreations …

London, Printed by W. Wilson … for Longman,...

First edition of a scarce collection of...

£650

[ALMANACK.] 

Le double Liègeois, almanach journalier...

Liège and Paris, Stahl, [1841]. 

Rare issue of the long-running and highly...

£225

[SHIDYĀQ, Ahmad Fāris, attributed author.]

Kitāb al-muhāwarah al-unsīyah fī al-lughatayn...

[Malta, 1840].

First edition, an English grammar and vocabulary...

£950

[NAPOLEON.]

Lois et réglemens pour les lycees.

Paris, ‘de l’imprimerie de la République,...

Rare first edition of this extremely interesting...

£175