SOPHOCLES. 

Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...

Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.

An early seventeenth-century sammelband...

£950

ARIAS, Francisco.

Paleys der deughden begrypende de naervolghinghe...

Antwerp, Gheleyn Janssens, 1609.

First Dutch edition of this work of Marian...

£375

[PSALMS.]

Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per...

Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for]...

Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms...

£1250

[HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

Deed granting land to the hospice.

Metz, 5 May 1464.

A significant document recording the grant...

£450

GOBINET, Charles. 

Instruction sur la vérité du Saint Sacrement,...

Paris, François le Cointe, 1677. 

Scarce first edition thus, containing an...

£650

[LOVE TOKEN.]

Portrait of a woman wearing photographic...

[1850s].

An ambrotype portrait of a young woman...

£375

MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.

Les secrets de la génération ou l’art...

chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].

Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86)...

£150

[KRÜDENER, Barbara Juliane de Vietinghoff, Freifrau von.]

Valérie, ou Lettres de Gustave de Linar...

Paris, Henrichs, 1804.

Rare first edition of Valérie,...

£400

BARBARO, Francesco. 

De re uxoria libri duo, ut venustate sermonis...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1639. 

An attractive later edition of this famous...

£275

DOLCE, Lodovico.

Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e...

Venice, Giovanni Battista, & Marchio Sessa,...

First edition of this exposition of Aristotle’s...

£2500

ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.

[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....

Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.

First part of the first and only edition...

£450

CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

£9500

[EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

£400

BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).

Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...

London, Henry Colburn, 1829.

First edition, in one volume, recounting...

£3750

[NEW YORK.]

Notarial instrument attesting to the residence...

New York, 27 July 1797.

An interesting notarial document recording...

£850

[STEREOGRAPH.]

‘Going Out’ [and] ‘Coming In’.

London, Gebhardt, Rottmann & Co., [late...

An amusing pair of stereos depicting the...

£70

[STEREOGRAPH.]

James ELLIOTT, photographer.

‘The first Love Letter’ [and] ‘Difference...

Three hand-tinted albumen prints in stereo...

£175

GOLDONI, Carlo.

Scelta di alcune commedie. Per uso de’...

Livorno, Assunto Barbani, 1816.

First edition printed in Italy of a collection...

£175

[LORD LEYCESTER HOSPITAL, WARWICK.]

Account of the Charity of Leicester’s...

Warwick, mid-nineteenth century.

A manuscript copy of the sixteenth-century...

£350

KECHT, Johann Sigismund.

Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten...

Berlin, [Trowitzsch and Son for] the author,...

Third, expanded edition (first 1813) of...

£450