[CATHERINE the Great of Russia.] BETSKOY, [Ivan]; [Nicolas-Gabriel LE] CLERC, translator; [Denis DIDEROT, contributor].

Les plans et les statuts, des différents...

Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775.

First edition in French, translated from...

£4000

DENISSE, Nicolas.

Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus...

Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].

Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...

£1650

DOD, John, attributed.

A Sermon on Malt. [S.l., s.n., c. 1840].

[c. 1840].

A seemingly unrecorded printing of the...

£875

ZANCHI, Basilio.

Dictionarium poeticum, et epitheta veterum...

Mons, Luca Rivius, 1612.

Scarce Mons-printed edition of Zanchi’s...

£375

YRVEN, Marcelle.

La comédienne et le féminisme.

Paris, L. Pichon, 1914.

First edition of this feminist work on...

£250

THICKNESSE, Philip.

A Letter to her Majesty the Queen of Great...

Printed for the Author, and sold by S. Fores...

First and only edition, very rare. Thicknesse...

£1250

TACITUS, Cornelius.

Les oeuvres … a sçavoir, les Annales...

Paris, Jean Houzé, 1599.

Rare anonymous French translation of the...

£750

SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius, and HERODIAN OF ANTIOCH.

Vita di duodeci imperatori… nuovamente...

Venice, Venturino di Rossinelli [for Curzio...

Annotated copy of a scarce edition of this...

£1250

FLORIO, Blasco.

Lettera sopra alcuni ostacoli che la logica,...

Messina, Giuseppe Fiumara, 1825.

Very rare first edition of this work on...

£475

[JUVENILIA.]

Racconti per gli adolescenti. Con tavole...

Trieste, ‘Sezione Letterario-Artistica...

First and only edition, extremely rare,...

£350

MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.

Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...

[(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].

First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin translation...

£850

MEFFRET, Johann.

Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

A volume of sermons with early English...

£6500

MESNY, William.

Mesny’s Chinese Miscellany. A Text Book...

Shanghai, printed at the “China Gazette...

The first volume, collecting the first...

£1500

[ORPHIC POEMS.] ESCHENBACH, Andreas Christian, editor.

Ορφεως αργοναυτικα υμνοι...

Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1689.

First Eschenbach edition, presenting the...

£325

[POSTCARDS.]

‘PSH’. Twenty-nine manuscript postcards.

[London, 1912–c. 1920?]

Hand-drawn postcards providing a rare,...

£375

[RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas, Abbé;] Johann Adam HILLER, translator.

Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter...

Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.

First edition in German of this collection...

£250

S[HEAFE], T[homas].

Vindiciae senectutis, or, a Plea for Old-Age:...

London, George Mither and are to be sold...

First edition of a rare encomium on senectitude...

£1250

ST JOHN, Spenser Buckingham.

Life in the Forests of the Far East.

London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1862.

First edition. A richly illustrated account...

£450

ALBERTI, Rafael.

13 Bandas y 48 estrellas. Poema del Mar Caribe.

Madrid, Manuel Altolaguirre, 1936.

First edition of these thirteen poems by...

£650

[ALKEN, Henry.]

The Beauties & Defects in the Figure of...

Boston, Carter & Hendee, 1830.

First American edition, the second and...

£1200