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  1. BOSWELL, James.

    A Letter to the People of Scotland, on...

    London, Charles Dilly, 1785.

    First edition of Boswell’s second Letter...

    £1500

  2. CUMMINGS, E. E.

    i: six nonlectures.

    Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University...

    First trade edition, inscribed to the BBC...

    £750

  3. DICKENS, Charles.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club...

    London, Chapman & Hall, 1837.

    First edition, first issue. The Pickwick...

    £2000

  4. DURRELL, Lawrence.

    Collected Poems.

    London, Faber and Faber, [1960].

    First edition, inscribed ‘For Geoff from...

    £400

  5. [WINCHESTER COLLEGE.]

    Printed and manuscript election roll.

    [Winchester,] ‘1 November 1782’.

    A remarkable eighteenth-century part-printed...

    £1250

  6. VERHEYEN, Pierre Emmanuel.

    Requiem mass in C minor.

    [Flanders, c. 1810.]

    A very grand unpublished Requiem mass in...

    £4750

  7. [VAN DER STRAET, Jan, after.]

    Imperatorum XII a Suetonio descriptorum...

    [Netherlands or Rome, early seventeenth...

    A set of large-format equestrian portraits...

    £1500

  8. [TOWNLEY, William Dalison.]

    Punch’s Pocket-Book for 1877, containing...

    London, [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. for]...

    A Punch almanack for 1877 with nearly...

    £450

  9. SUETONIUS.

    [De XII Caesarum vitis. De Illustribus...

    Paris, Typographia Regia, 1644.

    An attractive, illustrated pocket Suetonius....

    £350

  10. [SPANISH FISHING.]

    Artes, aparejos e instrumentos de pesca...

    [Madrid, Artes Gráficas ‘Mateu’?, 1920?]

    First and only edition, very rare, a striking...

    £2000

  11. SMITH, Albert Richard.

    The Story of Mont Blanc …

    London, David Bogue, 1853.

    First edition of Smith’s famous book...

    £1275

  12. [SKETCHBOOK.]

    Album of pencil sketches.

    ...

    A charming turn-of-the-century album of...

    £300

  13. ‘SANIVAL, Marchesa di’, pseud. [i.e. SALVANI, Fausto].

    La difesa delle donne o sia risposta apologetica...

    Siena, Luigi and Benedetto Bindi, 1786.

    Very rare first edition, printed on blue...

    £1500

  14. [RICHARDSON, Jonathan.]

    The general Address (in two Parts) of the...

    London, Printed by W. Nicol, late Bulmer...

    Rare first edition of a revised version...

    £1600

  15. PORTA, Giambattista della.

    De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...

    Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...

    The second Latin edition and the first...

    £1950

  16. PLUTARCH; John Moyr SMITH, illustrator.

    An Argive Hero … with Illustrations designed...

    London, Arthur H. Moxon, 1877.

    Scarce first and only edition of John Moyr...

    £950

  17. PLUTARCH; Daniel WYTTENBACH, editor.

    Τα εθικα. Moralia, id est opera,...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1795–1800;...

    Gaisford’s own copy of the Oxford Plutarch...

    £1750

  18. PARKER, Thomas Netherton.

    Leaves out of the Book of a Country Gentleman.

    Oswestry, W. Price, London, Longman &...

    First and only edition of this rare compilation...

    £1950

  19. [NAGAKUBO] Sekisui [長久保] 赤水.

    地球萬國山海輿地全圖說 [Chikyū...

    Tōto [Tokyo] and Naniwa [Osaka], Yahei...

    An early hand-coloured impression of this...

    £5000

  20. LUCILIUS, Gaius; Franciscus DOUSA, editor.

    Satyrarum quae supersunt reliquiae. Franciscus...

    Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius, ex Officina...

    Editio princeps of the earliest...

    £950