Maggs Bros. Ltd.

SAUVAGE (Slyvain) & DE LACLOS (Choderlos)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1930.

EIGHT ORIGINAL WORKS AND FOUR COPPER PLATES BY SAUVAGE

£6,000

LARMESSIN (Nicolas de).

Le Roy de la Floride, 1680.

THE NEW WORLD

£950

[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

[WEST INDIA STATION] & LEIGH (Commander Jodrell).

Letter Book H.M. Sloop Bann and Ontario, 1821.

WITH NEWS OF HAITI

£3,250

[SAINT-DOMINGUE] & PEYNIER (Louis-Antoine Thomassin de).

M. le Gouverneur général a reçu presqu'en même… 1790.

QUASHING THE REBELLION AT SAINT-MARC

£2,000

[CHAMP D'ASILE COLONY.]

Grandes Marionettes politiques ou la Minerve en Goguettes, 1819.

CONTRIBUTING TO THE LOST CAUSE OF CHAMP D'ASILE

£3,000

[CIVIL RIGHTS ACT]

88th Congress. 1st Session. S.1732 ... A Bill… 1963.

A CRITICAL BILL IN THE PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT

£5,500

HENSON (Mathew A.)

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, 1912.

INSCRIBED BY HENSON

£8,750

MANHATTAN ENGINEER DISTRICT, & GROVES (Major Leslie R.)

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1946.

EARLY REPORTS ON THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMBS

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UNITED STATES ARMY AIR CORPS & [US AIR FORCE].

["Restricted" WWII Era U.S. Military Pilots Aerial Approach… 1941.

A RESTRICTED MAP FOR PILOTS IN ALASKA

£2,500

[BATTLE OF PHILIPPI.]

Telegraph Bulletin! Latest News! Fight at Phillippa [sic]… 1861.

THE FIRST LAND BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR

£1,250

CHOATE (John N.) photographer.

Noted Indian Chiefs who have visited the Indian… 1881.

AVAILABLE TO ORDER THROUGH THE CARLISLE NEWSPAPER

£1,250

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

Naufrage de la frégate la Meduse faisant partie… 1817.

THE INFAMOUS RAFT OF THE MEDUSA

£3,250

LOUIS XVI.

Déclaration du Roi, pour la Police des Noirs, 1777.

THE INFAMOUS POLICE DES NOIRS

£2,000

LOUIS XIV.

Arrest du Conseil d'Estat: Portant que les passeports… 1671.

PASSPORTS FOR THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN

£2,000

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

Satire Sur Les Femmes, 1923.

A FINE ART DECO BINDING BY THE CATALAN MASTER

£4,000

[Anon], LALAU (Maurice), CANAPE (George) [Binder] & CORRIEZ (George) [Binder]

Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage, 1928.

A STRIKING ART DECO BINDING

£2,000

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

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1896.

'The finest book ever printed'

£95,000

[SOLANUS (Saint Francis).]

Verdadero Retrato del Venerable Padre Fray Francisco Solano… 1725.

PORTRAIT OF 'THE MIRACLE WORKER OF THE NEW WORLD'

£2,500

NABOKOV (Vladimir)

Lolita, 1955.

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ERAGNY PRESS & BINYON (Laurence)

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

A DREAM COME TRUE

£1,000

PARKER (Agnes Miller)

The Fables of Esope, 1931.

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

£12,500

MATISSE (Henri) & MALLARMÉ (Stephane)

Poésies, 1932.

MATISSE'S FIRST LIVRE D'ARTISTE

£82,500

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

Parallelement, 1931.

THE LAST GASP OF THE 'ROARING TWENTIES'

£4,000

PÉCHEUR (Jane), ANOUILH (Jean) & ANTHOINE-LEGRAIN (J.)

Antigone, 1945.

A STUNNING TYPOGRAPHIC BINDING

£12,000

GUIRAND DE SCÉVOLA (Lucien Victor) & DIDEROT (Denis)

Les Bijoux Indiscrets, 1928.

THE ARTIST'S COPY, WITH FOUR ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS

£2,500

LEONARD OF CHIOS (Archbishop of Mytilene)

[Historia Captae a Turca Constantinopolis]   [Italy?, third quarter of… 1450.

THE "MOST AUTHORITATIVE" EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE

£47,500

AESOP

Vitta Esopi. Venice, Manfredus de Bonellis, de Monteferrato, 27… 1492.

WITH MAGNIFICENT EARLY WOODCUTS

£12,500

AESOP

Fabellas una cum argumentis novis.   Brescia, heirs of Ludovico… 1563.

A RARE IMPRINT, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED - ONLY ONE OTHER COPY KNOWN

£6,000

VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni)

Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi… 1570.

DESIGNS DRAWN ON THE BLOCKS BY VERDIZOTTI HIMSELF

£6,500

KHEMNITSER (Ivan Ivanovich)

Basni i skazki [Fables and Tales...in three parts], 1830.

ONE OF THE EARLIEST RUSSIAN FABULISTS

£3,500

OVIDIUS NASO

Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumeta.… 1567.

WOODCUTS OF VIRGIL SOLIS

£4,500

DESNOUES (Guillaume)

Lettres de G. Desnoues, Professeur d'Anatomie & de… 1706.

ON EMBALMING PRACTICES, BY AN EARLY ANATOMICAL WAX MODELLER

£2,500

ERAGNY PRESS & VERHAEREN (Emile)

Les Petits Vieux, 1901.

PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS STURGE MOORE

£2,500

WAKAYAMA (Yasoji). & NAITO (Masakatsu), binder.

Kappa aijo-ki [Kappa love story], 1948.

Wakayama's first self-published book, one of 10 special copies

£2,600

MARX (Karl).

El Capital. Crítica de la Economía Política. Traducido… 1898.

FIRST COMPLETE SPANISH TRANSLATION OF DAS KAPITAL

£15,000

GANDHI (Mohandas Karamchand) [known as Mahatma Gandhi],, DESAI (Mahadev) & & NAIR (Pyarelal) Translators.

The Story of my Experiments with Truth, 1929.

FIRST EDITION BOUND IN KHADI

£9,500

AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)

Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496.

HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE

£10,000

SENDAK (Maurice). Illustrator. & STOCKTON (Frank R.)

The Bee-Man of Orn, 1964.

Inscribed by Sendak and with a large pen and ink drawing of the Bee-Man.

£2,000

HOLMES SR. (Oliver Wendell).

[Large cabinet card.], 1886.

SIGNED & INSCRIBED

£750

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

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

RON KING'S FIRST BOOK

£750

[OCCOM (Samson)] & CHAMBERLIN (Mason), after.

The Reverend Samson Occom, 1768.

THE MOHEGAN MINISTER IN LONDON

£25,000