[CHOIRBOOK.]

Large historiated initial ‘I’.

Italy (Umbria), c. 1300.

A very elegant initial in a style characteristic...

£4500

EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.

Historia ecclesiastica.

Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine,...

The Syston Park copy of the earliest history...

£4500

ERNST, Max.

Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments...

Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.

First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies on...

£4500

CAMDEN, William.

Britain, or a chorographicall Description...

London, Francis Kingston, Robert Young,...

Second edition in English (first 1610)...

£4500

VINCENS, Jean Alexandre.

Account book.

Nimes, France, 1783-1800.

A unique record of the financial transactions...

£4250

SHERBURNE, Edward, Sir. 

Salmacis, Lyrian & Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia,...

London, W. Hunt, for Thomas Dring, 1651. 

First edition of a charming book of Caroline...

£4250

RICH, Jeremiah.

The Whole Book of Psalms in Meter. According...

London, ‘Printed and are sold by Samuel...

First edition, the issue with Samuel Botley...

£4250

[BREVIARY.]

Sarum Breviary, in Latin.

England, first quarter of fifteenth century.

A fragment of twenty-one leaves from a...

£4250

[PRIMER.]

Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...

London, William Seres, 1568.

Second edition of this rare ‘private’...

£4250

NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.

L’architecture des nations étrangères....

Paris, A. Morel, 1870.

First edition. This is a presentation copy,...

£4000

WALKER, George.

The three Spaniards, a Romance …

London: Printed by Sampson Low; for G....

First edition, very rare; the very brief...

£4000

[THOMAS À KEMPIS.]

Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...

Florence, Piero Pacini da Pescia, 16 April...

Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...

£4000

FERDOWSĪ.

Shāhnāmah.

Tehran, Amir Kabir, AH 1350 [AD 1971].

A lavishly produced edition of the Shāhnāmah...

£4000

OSTROVSKY, Aleksandr Nikolaevich.

Бѣдная Невѣста. Бѣдная...

Moscow, Stepanov, 1852.

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

£4000

XENOPHON; [Philipp MELANCHTHON, editor].

Ξενοφωντος απαντα. Xenophontis...

Schwäbisch Hall, [Peter Braubach], 1540.

The first complete edition of Xenophon’s...

£4000

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

LIVY, Titus. 

T. Livii Patauini […] ex XIIII Decadibus...

Paris, [Michel Vascosan for] Oudin Petit,...

A much-praised edition of Livy’s History,...

£3800

LEGGE, James. 

The Chinese Classics: with a translation,...

Hong Kong, at the author’s; London,...

First editions of the first four volumes...

£3750

AKHTARĪ, Mustafā bin Shams al-Dīn al-Qarahisārī.

Akhtarī Kabīr.

[Margus, Ottoman Balkans, early nineteenth...

A handsome copy of the important Arabic-Turkish...

£3750

NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández. 

Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

£3750