[EROTICA.]

Pencil drawing of a woman in eighteenth-century...

[France, early nineteenth century?]

A fine erotically-charged figure study...

£3750

DUER, William Alexander.

The Life of William Alexander, Earl of...

New York, Wiley & Putnam for the New Jersey...

First edition, doubly inscribed ‘To Henry...

£575

CINQUARBRES, Jean et al.

Linguae Hebraicae institutiones absolutissimae,...

Paris, Guillaume Le Bé, 1609.

A thoroughly annotated copy of Jean Cinquarbres’s...

£1850

[CHAPBOOK.]

The Patriarch: an Account of a Family in...

London and Bristol, Wright, Allis, & Bagnall,...

Unrecorded. ‘This interesting article...

£950

[BOXING.]

The Art of manual Defence; or, System of...

London, G. Kearsley, ‘1799’ [but 1789].

Third edition, scarce, of an early illustrated...

£2750

ALEXANDER, [Charles] A[rmistead].

The Fall of Aztalan, and other Poems …

Washington, W. M. Morrison, 1839.

First edition, a presentation copy, of...

£1750

[PALIN, Nils Gustaf.]

De l’étude des hiéroglyphes. Fragmens....

Paris, Fain for Delaunay, Colnet, Treuttel,...

First edition of this curious work on Egyptian...

£2500

VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.

La Henriade, en dix chants; avec l’histoire...

Edinburgh, J. Watson, 1798.

Rare Edinburgh edition of Voltaire’s...

£150

ZINZERLING, Justus.

Jodoci Sinceri Itinerarium Galliae, ita...

Amsterdam, Janson, 1649.

William Beckford’s copy of a later edition...

£1250

VIRGIL.

Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...

London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt...

Rare student edition of the works of Virgil,...

£650

[REVILLIOD, Gustave.]

Le Cousin l’Abbé.

Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1884.

First editions of two rare works by the...

£450

MUSESTI, Piero; Giovammaria FEBRARI, translator.

Gesta di Napoleone I. imperator de’...

Brescia, Tipografia dipartimentale, 1805.

Uncommon first and only edition of this...

£550

HOME, John.

Douglas: a Tragedy.

Edinburgh, George Reid & Co., 1798.

First illustrated edition, a handsome subscriber’s...

£250

GUARNA, Andrea.

Bellum grammaticale.

Venice, (colophon:) Francesco Rampazetto...

Very rare edition (first published in 1511)...

£750

GAROFANI, Antonio Maria.

L’Hippocreivaga musa invocatoria.

Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1580 [(colophon:)...

First editions of three poetical works...

£1750

SHAKESPEARE, William; Alexander POPE, editor.

The Works of Shakespear. In eight Volumes....

Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1766.

First and only Foulis edition, issued in...

£450

SANFERMO CARIONI PEZZI, Rocco, Giovanni Battista GARAVETTA, and Francesco D’EMILEI.

Lettera scritta nel castello di S. Felice...

Verona, 1797.

One of several editions published immediately...

£300

PERRET, Jean-Jacques.

La pogonotomie, ou l’art d’apprendre...

Brussels, Benoît Le  Francq, 1803.

Rare Brussels edition (first Paris 1769)...

£400

LORICH, Gerhard.

Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

[Frankfurt am Main], [(colophon:) Christian...

First editions of a pair of Reformation-era...

£1450

EXPILLY, Claude.

Les poemes de Messire Claude Expilly, Conseiller...

Grenoble, Pierre Verdier, 1624.

A wide-margined copy of the expanded second...

£950