Maggs Bros. Ltd.

LA POPELLINIERE (Lancelot-Voisin, Seigneur de).

L'Amiral de France, et par occasion, de celuy… 1584.

PROMOTING THE FRENCH COLONIZATION OF THE NEW WORLD

£18,750

FRENCH ARTIST

The Stigmatization of St Francis, miniature on a… 1500.

FRANCIS OF ASSISSI RECEIVES THE STIGMATA

£3,000

LEWIS (Matthew Gregory)

Poems, 1812.

First edition of Monk Lewis’s scarce final work, appearing the month after the death of his father.

£1,000

FLAUBERT (Gustave).

Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners. Translated from the French… 1886.

“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”

£4,500

ATWOOD (Margaret).

The Handmaid's Tale, 1986.

First edition of Margaret Atwood's famous dystopian novel.

£750

FRENCH ARTIST

St. Lawrence, an illuminated miniature on vellum from… 1425.

WITH GRIDIRON IN HAND

£4,750

BOAISTUAU (Pierre)

Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560.

MONSTERS AND PORTENTS, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION

£10,000

SKIRVING (William).

The Husbandman's Assistant;, 1792.

RADICAL HUSBANDRY: UNFINISHED AS THE AUTHOR WAS TRANSPORTED TO AUSTRALIA

£2,500

DOYLE (Arthur Conan).

The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902.

£4,500

RADCLIFFE (Ann).

The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance, 1794.

£3,000

BUCKINGHAM (James Silk).

A Single Lecture on Egypt Will be Given… 1840.

RARE BROADSIDE ADVERTISING A LECTURE BY JAMES SILK BUCKINGHAM

£1,500

RAYMOND OF PENAFORT

The Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, with the… 1300.

ILLUMINATED OPENING LEAF OF THE DECRETALS

£15,000

[FRANKLIN IMPRINT] & SMITH (John).

The doctrine of Christianity, as held by the… 1748.

QUAKER PACIFISM IN A TIME OF WAR

£12,500

[FRENCH CARICATURES].

A collection of 17 rare French caricatures on… 1805.

HOW THE FRENCH VIEW THE ENGLISH

£9,000

[JESUITS]

Constitutiones Cum earum Declarationibus. Rome, In Collegio eiusdem Societatis, 1583.

SIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE JESUITS IN ROME, A CORRESPONDENT OF PLANTIN'S

£2,750

NICOLL (John).

The Advantage of Great Britain Consider'd in the… 1727.

"ENCOURAGING HIS MAJESTY'S PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA, AND OUR NAVIGATION, AND HANDY CRAFTS AT HOME"

£1,800

WEST BERKS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROSECUTION OF FELONS.

Six Pounds Reward. Whereas During the Night of… 1835.

A FESTIVE FELON FEASTS ON FOWL

£275

POLWHELE (Richard).

The Unsex’d Females: a Poem, 1798.

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

£5,500

SENDAK (Maurice).

In the Night Kitchen, 1970.

With a signed letter from Maurice Sendak: "I love my book - my most private lovely book."

£2,250

WILDE (Oscar).

Pan A Double Villanelle. And Desespoir a Sonnet.… 1909.

A GREAT RARITY, ONE OF ONLY 30 COPIES

£2,000

WILDE (Oscar)].

The Trial of Oscar Wilde from Shorthand Reports, 1906.

THE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE JAPANESE VELLUM ISSUE

£4,000

THE ADMIRALTY. & [WAR OF 1812]

A Proclamation for Granting the Distribution of Prizes… 1812.

REDISTRIBUTING PRIZES IN THE WAR OF 1812.

£4,500

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

The Reverend Samson Occom, 1768.

THE MOHEGAN MINISTER IN LONDON

£25,000

WATANABE (Seisho).

Nikko Meisho Ichiran zenzu. [A Complete Map of… 1882.

UNRECORDED & WITH THE ORIGINAL ENVELOPE

£850

KIHEI (Kinshiro).

Toshogu sairyaku no zu. [Outline of the Festival… 1882.

A procession in Nikko

£350

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

DESNOUES (Guillaume)

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

ON EMBALMING PRACTICES, BY AN EARLY ANATOMICAL WAX MODELLER

£2,500

OVIDIUS NASO

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

WOODCUTS BY VIRGIL SOLIS

£4,500

AESOP

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

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

£6,000

HENSON (Mathew A.)

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, 1912.

INSCRIBED BY HENSON

£8,750

ARENDT (Hannah).

Über die Revolution, 1963.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

£4,500

FAULKNER (William).

The Sound and the Fury, 1929.

An excellent copy of Faulkner's fourth novel.

£9,750

FAULKNER (William).

Absalom, Absalom!, 1936.

First edition in exceptional condition.

£4,500

SAMUELSON (Paul A.)

Correspondence with Mark Donoghue, 1992.

A RICH LITTLE ARCHIVE OF FIVE LONG AND SUBSTANTIAL LETTERS

£10,000

HAYEK (Friedrich August von).

Individualism and the Economic Order, 1949.

SIGNED BY HAYEK

£5,000

LEWIS (C.S.)

Prince Caspian the Return to Narnia, 1951.

The second book in The Chronicles of Narnia series.

£2,750

[CUGOANO (Ottobah)] & FISHER (Thomas).

The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, by an… 1825.

EARLIEST OBTAINABLE EDITION OF THE NARRATIVE OF OTTOBAH CUGOANO

£17,500

[RALEGH (Sir Walter)] & DRAKE (Samuel G.)

A Brief Memoir of Sir Walter Ralegh; prepared… 1862.

ABUNDANTLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED

£12,500

[HENSON (Matthew).] & BROWN BROTHERS.

[Portrait photograph.], 1909.

THE SPECTACULAR MATTHEW HENSON

£1,250

HALL (Mary G.)

Views of British America drawn from nature, and… 1835.

BEAUTIFUL IMAGES OF NEW BRUNSWICK

£9,500

WEST (Richard), Attorney General.

[An Important Document Addressed to the Lords of… 1720.

PROSECUTING PIRATES IN AMERICA

£15,000

[SERVIDIO (Guido)]

Constitutiones Synodales, et decreta, condita a Reverendiss. D.… 1590.

RULES FOR THE CLERGY OF VOLTERRA, IN WASTE VELLUM BINDING

£2,000