OHNET, Georges; Lady GODOLPHIN OSBORNE, translator.

The Battles of Life. The Ironmaster. From...

Authorized Translation … London, Wyman...

First edition in English of this bestselling...

£450

OSTROVSKY, Aleksandr Nikolaevich.

Бѣдная Невѣста. Бѣдная...

Moscow, Stepanov, 1852.

First separate edition, rare, of the second...

£4000

PEACOCK, Thomas Love.

Rhododaphne: or the Thessalian Spell. A Poem.

London, T. Hookham, Jun., and Baldwin,...

First edition of Peacock’s last and most...

£750

PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.

Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus...

Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck...

A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd...

£350

[SAURIN, Bernard-Joseph, attributed.]

Le nouvel an, pöeme heroī-fou.

‘A Brochuro-manie, l’an du deluge...

An extremely rare satirical tale of two...

£950

TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.

Живой Трупъ. Драма въ...

Moscow, A. Ia. Petrov, [1911].

One of the earliest printings of Tolstoy’s...

£1750

PICKERING, Amelia.

The Sorrows of Werter: a Poem …

London, T. Cadell … 1788.

First edition of this retelling of Goethe’s...

£1200

[WEDDING POETRY.]

Applausi alli felicissimi sponsali dell’illustrissimo...

Siena, Stamperia del Pubblico, 1699.

Seemingly unrecorded collection of sonnets...

£350

BELLARMINE, Robert.

De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus....

Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1613.

First edition of a remarkable biobibliography...

£350

[BOLOGNA.] 

Delle oggetti di belle arti nel famoso...

Bologna, ‘nella stamperia di San Tommaso...

First edition of this detailed description...

£275

ACQUAVIVA, Claudio.

Meditationes in Psalmum XLIV, & CXVIII.

Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1616.

First edition of these Jesuit meditations...

£1550

BALBUS, Johannes.

Catholicon.

[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch),...

Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...

£65000

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...

A rare edition of Champier’s account...

£9500

GAGUIN, Robert.

La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

£8500

GAZA, Theodorus.

Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...

A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

£45000

HERP, Hendrik.

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...

First edition of this collection of sermons...

£24000

[INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

Sammelband of ten works.

Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...

A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...

£25000

LA VIGNE, André de.

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

[(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

£9500

[LA VIGNE, André de, and Octavien de SAINT-GELAIS.]

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

[Paris, Pierre le Dru and Jean Petit, 1503.]

Extremely rare first edition of the Vergier...

£120000

[LANSPERGER, Johannes Justus;] Serafino ACETI DE’ PORTI, translator.

Pharetra divini amoris, tradotto in volgare...

Venice, Paolo Gherardo [(colophon:) Comin...

Third Italian edition, considerably enlarged,...

£1500