Maggs Bros. Ltd.

BRUGALLA (Emilio), JUVENAL & DE BECQUE (Maurice)

Satire Sur Les Femmes, 1923.

A FINE ART DECO BINDING BY THE CATALAN MASTER

£4,000

VERLAINE (Paul), YSEUX SR. DE THIERRY-SIMIER [Binder] & CHIMOT (Édouard)

Parallelement, 1931.

THE LAST GASP OF THE 'ROARING TWENTIES'

£4,000

GUILLEMEAU (Jacques).

Child-Birth or, the Happy Deliverie of Women, 1612.

THE SECOND ENGLISH MIDWIFERY MANUAL

£15,000

[TEA ACT].

An Act to allow a Drawback of the… 1773.

THE INFAMOUS TEA ACT: A KEY DOCUMENT IN THE STORY OF AMERICA'S INDEPENDENCE - THE CATALYST FOR THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

£25,000

[ERSKINE (Thomas)].

Reflections on Gaming Annuities, and Usurious Contracts, 1777.

ANNOTATED BY FRANCIS MASERES

£1,650

MORE (Henry).

Apocalypsis Apocalypseos; or the Revelation of St John… 1680.

FROM THE PAROCHIAL LIBRARY OF TRINITY CHURCH, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND

£5,750

STELE (James).

An Essay on Manufacturing Milk into Butter and… 1794.

HOW TO MAKE GOOD CHEESE AND BUTTER IN SCOTLAND

£1,800

JACKSON (Thomas, Dean of Peterborough).

The Works of the Reverend and Learned Divine,… 1673.

BOUND BY MEARNE FOR CHARLES II

£8,500

SHELLEY (Percy Bysshe). & SHELLEY (Mary) editor.

Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, 1840.

"I PROMISED DR C. A SET OF SHELLEYS WORKS": A PRESENTATION COPY FROM MARY SHELLEY

£28,500

CHARLES (Richard).

An Essay on the Treatment of Consumptions, 1787.

"WHERE IT FAILED I NEVER KNEW MEDICINE SUCCEED”: CURING TUBERCULOSIS WITH MILK AND VEGETABLES

£950

[POOR APPRENTICES].

Register of Children Bound or Assigned by the… 1802.

PARISH RECORD OF POOR CHILD APPRENTICES IN RURAL DEVON

£2,500

GRAHAM (James).

A collection of books, prints and broadsides related… 1780.

ELECTRICITY, SEX THERAPY AND VEGETARIANISM: THE CURIOUS LIFE AND CAREER OF JAMES GRAHAM.

£45,000

GILLRAY (James).

Britania's Assassination. or___The Republicans Amusement, 1782.

"ONE OF THE BOLDEST POST-REVOLUTIONARY ATTACKS LEVELED AGAINST THE NEW MINISTRY"

£3,800

[QUAKERISM]. After, & HEEMSKERCK (Egbert van).

The Quaker's Meeting, 1723.

"IT IS CURIOUS THAT IMPRESSIONS OF THIS ENGRAVING ARE EXCESSIVELY RARE IN ENGLAND”

£3,500

YOUNG (Edward).

The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, &… 1742.

A UNIQUE COPY IN DODSLEY’S ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS

£12,000

[AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR].].

Qualifying for a Campain [sic], 1777.

THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AS CHILD'S PLAY

£3,800

[GILLRAY (James)].

Ladies Dress, as it soon will be, 1796.

"I HAVE SEEN LADIES IN A STATE OF UNDRESS"

£2,800

[DRUNKENESS]

Like Mistress - Like Maid, 1781.

THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON WOMEN OF ALL CLASSES

£1,250

[DEFOE (Daniel)]. & DUMOULIN (Francois Aime Louis).

Collection de Cent-Cinquante Gravures représentant et format une… 1818.

A PROTO GRAPHIC NOVEL? ROBINSON CRUSOE TOLD THROUGH 150 ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS BASED ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE WEST INDIES

£15,000

POPE (Alexander).

ALS from the young Alexander Pope to his… 1707.

"MY MUSE IS EVER UNEMPLOY'D WHEN I CAN DIVERT MY SELF ANY OTHER WAY"

£25,000

[ANONYMOUS].

The Return of Peace. A Poem, 1802.

"MY LOSS OF FORTUNE, PARTNER, CHILD - MY ALL!"

£2,500

DUNBAR (Robert Nugent).

The Cruise;, 1835.

A ROMANTIC POET TURNS FROM ITALY TO THE WEST INDIES FOR INSPIRATION

£2,500

[ELLIOTT (Ebenezer)].

Corn Law Rhymes. The Ranter, 1830.

THE PRIVATELY PRINTED FIRST EDITION OF "THIS HITHERTO OBSCURE POEM"

£6,000

POLWHELE (Richard).

The Unsex’d Females: a Poem, 1798.

"SEE WOLLSTONECRAFT, WHOM NO DECORUM CHECKS, / ARISE, THE INTREPID CHAMPION OF HER SEX"

£5,500

ELLIS (William).

Narrative of a Tour Through Hawaii, or, Owhyhee;, 1826.

OWNED AND USED BY ROBERT SOUTHEY

£2,500

[DOWSON, Ernest, ed.]

Ben Jonson His Volpone: Or The Foxe, 1898.

ILLUSTRATED BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY

£2,800

SAVIGNY (J.B. Henri) & & CORREARD (Alexandre).

Naufrage de la frégate la Meduse faisant partie… 1817.

THE INFAMOUS RAFT OF THE MEDUSA

£3,250

NABOKOV (Vladimir)

Lolita, 1955.

Sold

CHAUCER (Geoffrey), KING (Ronald), EDITIONS ALECTO & [CIRCLE PRESS]

The Prologue from the Canterbury Tales, text based… 1967.

RON KING'S FIRST BOOK

£750

GREGYNOG PRESS & MILLER PARKER (Agnes)

Wood Engravings From the Fables of Esope, with… 1996.

A SURVEY OF AGNES MILLER PARKER'S ENGRAVINGS

£1,500

KRULL (Germaine)

Études de Nu, 1930.

'Why make nudes? because it has always been beautiful and I liked it one summer morning'

£8,500

ERAGNY PRESS & VERHAEREN (Emile)

Les Petits Vieux, 1901.

PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS STURGE MOORE

£2,500

CHAUCER (Geoffrey), BURNE-JONES (Edward) & KELMSCOTT PRESS

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1896.

'The finest book ever printed'

£95,000

PARKER (Agnes Miller)

The Fables of Esope, 1931.

A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED COPY OF AGNES MILLER PARKER'S MASTERPIECE

£12,500

ERAGNY PRESS & BINYON (Laurence)

Dream-Come-True. Poems by Laurence Binyon, 1905.

A DREAM COME TRUE

£1,000

SHACKLETON (Sir Ernest).

South, 1919.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION

£4,000

MATISSE (Henri) & MALLARMÉ (Stephane)

Poésies, 1932.

MATISSE'S FIRST LIVRE D'ARTISTE

£82,500

ALLIX (Susan)

The Golden Temple, 2001.

SIX INDIAN EPISODES FROM SUSAN ALLIX'S DIARY

£3,500

HENSON (Mathew A.)

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, 1912.

INSCRIBED BY HENSON

£8,750

FELIBIEN (André)

Description sommaire du Chasteau de Versailles.  Paris, 1674, 1674.

EARLIEST GUIDE BOOK TO PALACE OF VERSAILLES & PARK

£2,500

SCORESBY (Rev. William).

Narrative of the Loss of the Esk and… 1826.

A VERY RARE SCORESBY NARRATIVE

£4,000

AN AMERICAN [HART (Julia Catherine Beckwith).]

Tonnewonte, or, The adopted son of America. A… 1824.

CANADA'S FIRST NOVELIST

£6,750