MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano. 

Illustrium poetarum flores. 

Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563. 

A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...

£1950

[NUPTIALIA.]

Bartolomeo MOLAJONI.  Alla neogama donzella...

Viterbo, brothers Poggiarelli, 1811. 

Seemingly unrecorded sonnet addressed to...

£275

[NAPOLEONIC ITALY.] 

Alla società delle gentilissime signore...

Turin, Giacomo Fea, 1799.

An unrecorded sonnet addressed to the to...

£375

VERLAINE, Paul, and Léon LEBÈGUE (illustrator).

Fêtes gallantes.

Paris, F. Ferroud for the Librairie des...

Limited edition on vélin teinté d’Arches,...

£750

[CASTILLO Y SORIANO, José del.]

Amor á la creacion. Poesia dedicada á...

Madrid, Sociedad de Tipógrafos, 1879.

Very rare survival: a poem in twenty-four...

£375

[VETTORI, Antonio].

Sferza poetica contro i costumi d’oggidi....

[Colophon]: Si vende in Fierra di Venezia...

Uncommon collection of sonnets musing on...

£350

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von; Thomas HOLCROFT, translator.

Herman and Dorothea. A Poem, from the German …

London, Biggs and Cottle (Bristol), for...

First edition in English of Hermann...

£350

PIEROTTI, A. 

Il cervello e la difesa delle donne sestine...

Florence, N. Fabbrini, 1842. 

First and only edition, very rare, of this...

£375

PAZZI, Antonio de, and Torquato TASSO. 

Stanze inedite di Antonio de Pazzi e di...

Venice, Picotti, 1810.

Scarce first edition of verses ‘in blame...

£200

PÉREZ DE HERRERA, Cristóbal.

Proverbios morales, y consejos christianos...

Adornadas con trece emblemas … Madrid,...

Second edition, the Stirling Maxwell copy,...

£1450

[DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre-Samuel, and Konrad Engelbert OELSNER.]

Notice sur la vie et les écrits de M. Joël...

[Paris,] Smith [for the authors], 1813.

First edition, one of 500 copies, of this...

£500

BUQUOY, Georg Franz August de Longueval, Freiherr von Vaux, Graf von.

Anregungen für philosophisch-wissenschaftliche...

Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1825.

First edition, rare, of a comprehensive...

£950

CARLI, Paolo Francesco da Montecarlo.

La Svinatura di Barbigi Mezzabarba (Paol...

Campobasso, Stab. Tip. Del Progresso, 1878.

Rare edition of a satire by poet and abbot...

£150

DU BOURGET DE CHAULIEU, Nicolas.

Nicolai Burgetii Cadomaei ex regia litteratorum...

Caen, Guillaume Richard Poisson, [c. 1700].

Rare Caen edition of the Latin and French...

£375

GERMBERG, Hermann.

Proverbiorum centuriae XIV. quibus adjecta...

Basel, Sebastian Henricpetri, [(colophon:)...

First edition of this compendium of proverbs,...

£850

WAPPEROM, Jacobus Joannes. 

Gezangen door J.J. Wapperom. 

The Hague, 1805. 

Very rare collection of songs by the Dutch...

£675

[NUPTIALIA.]

Per le Faustissime Nozze del Nobile Signor...

Guastalla, ‘Nella Regio-Ducale Stamperia...

Seemingly unrecorded, provincially printed...

£250

[VIRGIL.]  RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE). 

Georgica, P. Rami … praelectionibus...

Paris, André Wechel, 1564. 

Second editions of Ramus’s extensive...

£950

[RARITIES AND PROVERBS.]

Lyste van Rariteiten, die verkocht zullen...

‘Gedrukt in Arabien, midden op de Zand-Zee,...

A bizarre series of fictitious auction...

£5500

CARO Y CEJUDO, Gerónimo Martín.

Refranes y modos de hablar, castellanos...

Madrid, Julián Izquierdo, 1675.

First edition, the Heber–Chorley–Stirling Maxwell–de Guinzbourg...

£1750