[PORTUGAL.]

Memorias economicas da Academia Real das...

Lisbon, Officina da Academia Real das...

First edition. The long period of publication...

£750

WOOLLEY, C. Leonard and Thomas Edward LAWRENCE.

The Wilderness of Zin ... With a Chapter...

London: The Alden Press for Jonathan Cape,...

Second English edition. The Wilderness...

£150

ALBERTI, Leon Battista.

El Momo. La moral e muy graciosa historia...

Alcalá de Henares, Joan Mey Flandro, 1553.

First edition in Spanish of Alberti’s...

£3800

HAEFTEN, Benedictus van.

Regia via crucis.

Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris...

First edition of an important counter-reformation...

£1100

[BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.]

La Liturgie. C’est a dire, le formulaire...

A Londres, pour Jean Dunmore & Octavien...

First edition of this translation, printed...

£750

FORDYCE, James.

Addresses to young Men … The second Edition.

London: Printed for T. Cadell … 1777.

Second edition, uncommon, of Fordyce’s...

£200

LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.

Listen! The Wind ... With Foreword and...

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1938.

First edition of an award-winning book....

£400

SWIFT, Jonathan (attr.).

The Life and genuine Character of Doctor...

London: Printed for J. Roberts … and...

First edition. Authorship of this fine...

£1000

[SWIFT, Jonathan.]

On Poetry: a Rapsody.

Printed at Dublin, and Re-printed at London:...

First edition. On Poetry, one of...

£750

GOLDSMITH, Oliver.

Essays … Collecta revirescunt.

London: Printed for W. Griffin … 1765.

First edition, a collection of twenty-seven...

£500

ETHEREGE, George.

The comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub....

London, Printed for Henry Herringman ... 1669.

Fourth edition of Etherege’s first play,...

£500

WALTON, Izaak.

The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop...

London, Printed for Richard Marriott. 1678.

First edition, the last of Walton’s five...

£400

SWIFT, Jonathan.

The Works … accurately revised in twelve...

London, Printed for C. Bathurst, C. Davis,...

The large octavo first Hawkesworth edition...

£750

WALLER, Edmund. 

Poems, &c. written by Mr. Ed. Waller...

London, Printed by I. N. for Hu. Mosley...

Second (but first licensed) edition of...

£850

[JOHNSON, Samuel].

The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. In two...

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley...

First edition of Johnson’s only novel,...

£1600

[DODSLEY, Robert, editor].

A Collection of Poems. By several Hands....

London: Printed for R. Dodsley … 1748.

First edition, the most influential poetical...

£450

DRYDEN, John.

Religio Laici or a Layman’s Faith. A Poem …

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1683.

First edition, second issue (with a few...

£400

COLERIDGE, S[amuel] T[aylor].

The Watchman. No. I [III, IV]. Tuesday,...

Bristol: and sold by the Booksellers and...

Three (of ten) issues of The Watchman,...

£750

JOHNSON, Samuel.

Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson,...

… London: Printed for A. Strahan; and...

First edition. Mrs Piozzi, when she was...

£650

[SMOLLETT, Tobias].

The Adventures of Roderick Random … in...

London: Printed for J. Osborn … 1748.

Second edition, with ‘major imaginative...

£500