MALTHUS, T. R.

Principles of political Economy considered...

London, John Murray, 1820.

First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment...

£5000

MORGAN, Lewis Henry.

Ancient Society or Researches in the Lines...

New York, Holt, 1877. 

First edition. Morgan’s influential work...

£400

HOWARD, John.

An Account of the Principal Lazarettos...

Warrington, Eyres, Cadell, Johnson, Dilly...

First edition of Howard’s study of quarantine...

£575

COMBE, George.

Phrenology applied to Painting and Sculpture.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1855.

First edition, scarce in commerce. George...

£350

[PRATT, Samuel].

The regulating Silver Coin [sic], made...

London, Bonwick, 1696. 

First and only edition. William Lowndes...

£575

COMTE, Auguste.

Cours de philosophie positive.

Paris, Bachelier, 1830–1842. 

First edition, an attractive set, of Comte’s...

£1600

FERGUSON, Adam.

An Essay on the History of Civil Society.

Edinburgh, A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1768. 

Third edition, corrected: the edition owned...

£700

MARINO, Giambattista; Gasparo MURTOLA.

La Murtoleide fischiate del cavalier Marino...

‘Norinbergh’ [i.e. Venice], Ioseph...

Rare first edition of these Baroque burlesque...

£900

[MOREAN WAR.]

Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under...

London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.

First edition of an important account of...

£2500

JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus, Lucius Annaeus FLORUS, and Sextus RUFUS.

Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattuor...

Paris, Jean Petit [and Jean Marchant], [1509].

A collection of abbreviated Roman histories,...

£1850

[HIGHWAYMEN.]

Processo formato contro due famosissimi...

Milan, Pietro Francesco Malatesta, [1744].

Seemingly unrecorded printing of the trials...

£500

GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.

Mariana Pineda. Romance popular en tres...

Madrid, La Farsa, 1928.

First edition of Lorca’s first published...

£450

[BOOKPLATE.]

Design for an ex libris for Cortlandt...

c. 1910?

The aviator, traveller, and book collector...

£600

[ALMANACK.]

Revill’s illustrated Pocket Keepsake...

[London,] Simpkins for M. E. Revill, [1884].

An unrecorded Christmas gift book, charmingly...

£225

LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

Le Père Noël supplicié.

[Paris, Chantenay, 1952.]

Rare first separate appearance, a presentation...

£250

LAING, John.

An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen;...

[Balfour for], London, J. Mawman and David...

First edition of Laing’s account of his...

£850

[JUVENILE.]

The Weasel Family.

London, Edinburgh, and New York, T. Nelson...

First edition, rare, of a rather charming...

£375

JENKINS, Edward.

The Devil’s Chain … Twentieth Thousand....

[Southwark, M’Corquodale and Co. for]...

A reissue of the illustrated edition, from...

£100

HARDY, Campbell.

Sporting Adventures in the New World; or,...

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.

First edition of this most interesting...

£575

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett.

Poems before Congress …

London, [Bradbury and Evans for] Chapman...

First edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s...

£200