HARRIS, James.

Three Treatises the first concerning Art...

London, John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765.

Presentation copies, inscribed ‘From...

£600

GUILLIM, John.

A Display of Heraldrie: manifesting a more...

London, Thomas Cotes for Jacob Blome, 1638.

Third edition, corrected and enlarged,...

£950

GREENE, Graham.

A burnt-out Case.

London, Heinemann, [1961].

Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition...

£275

EURIPIDES; SOPHOCLES; AESCHYLUS.

Tragoediae selectae Aeschyli, Sophoclis,...

[Geneva,] Henri Estienne, 1567.

Handsome pocket-sized Estienne edition...

£1850

EHRENBURG, Ilya Grigorievich.

Огонь [Ogon; ‘Fire’].

[Gomel,] ‘Veka i Dni’, 1919.

First edition of this collection of poems,...

£2000

[ACCADEMIA DELL’ARCADIA.]

Favola di due gatti e della scimia coll’appello...

Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1730.

First combined edition, rare, of two fables...

£475

AESOP; Jean-Baptiste Morvan de BELLEGARDE, translator.

Les fables d’Esope phrygien, avec celles...

Utrecht, Jacob van Poolsum, 1734.

Aesop’s Fables in the translation...

£650

AESOP.

Les fables d’Ésope, mises en françois,...

Lyon, Amable Leroy, 1809.

An illustrated Lyon schoolboy edition of...

£250

ALCIATI, Andrea.

Les emblemes … mis en rime francoyse...

Paris, Chrestien Wechel, 1539.

Third edition of Jean Lefevre’s French...

£1750

ALCIATI, Andrea; Claude MIGNAULT, editor; Fédéric MOREL.

Omnia … emblemata, cum commentariis,...

Paris, Jean Richer for François Gueffier,...

The final Paris printing of Mignault’s...

£850

ALCIATI, Andrea; Joannes THUILIUS, editor.

Emblemata cum commentariis Claudi Minois...

Padua, [(colophon:) Lorenzo Pasquato for]...

First ‘magisterial’ edition (Manning,...

£1250

BÈZE, Théodore de.

Poemata varia: Sylvae, Elegiae, Epitaphia,...

Geneva, Jacques Stoer, 1614.

One of the two ‘most complete’ (Gardy)...

£1250

BOCCHI, Achille.

Symbolicarum quaestionum, de universo genere,...

Bologna, Società Tipografica Bolognese, 1574.

Second edition (first 1555) of this notable...

£1950

BAINES, Thomas.

Explorations in South-West Africa. Being...

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts...

First edition. ‘The volume contains an...

£650

BELL, John.

Travels from St Petersburgh in Russia,...

Edinburgh, printed for William Creech...

Edinburgh edition (first Glasgow 1763)...

£650

BLAND-SUTTON, John, Sir.

Man and Beast in eastern Ethiopia. From...

London, Macmillan and Co., 1911.

First edition, a presentation copy from...

£300

[BLIXEN, Karen.] DINESEN, Isak, pseud.

Babettes Gaestebud.

Copenhagen, Forlaget Fremad, [1952].

First edition in book form of Babette’s...

£200

[COTTLE, Joseph.]

Poems, containing John the Baptist. Sir Malcolm...

Bristol, Printed by Bulgin and Rosser,...

First edition of this rare text with an...

£6000

FAULKNER, William.

A Fable.

[New York], Random House, [1954].

Limited edition, no. 880 of 1000 copies...

£1500

[FRANCISCANS.]

Orationes dicendae in expositione SS. Sacramenti...

[Northern Italy, 1787 and later.]

An intriguing devotional manuscript compiled...

£1250