Maggs Bros. Ltd.

[ABSCONDING APPRENTICE].

Eight Dollars Reward. Ran-away from the subscriber...an apprentice… 1792.

"STOOPS WHEN HE WALKS"

£3,800

[CLELAND (John)].

La Fille de Joye, 1751.

THE FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS ENGLISH EROTIC NOVEL

£15,000

[WATSON-TAYLOR (George)].

The Old Hag in a Red Cloak. A… 1801.

"THY DOOM IS DECIDED: PREPARE FOR THY FATE": A PRIVATELY PRINTED PARODY OF MATTHEW "MONK" LEWIS

£2,500

POLWHELE (Richard).

The Unsex’d Females: a Poem, 1798.

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

£5,500

[ELLIOTT (Ebenezer)].

Corn Law Rhymes. The Ranter, 1830.

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

£5,000

DUNBAR (Robert Nugent).

The Cruise;, 1835.

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

£2,500

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

[SWIFT (Jonathan)].

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, 1731.

"WIT UNEXAMPLED!" AND "WHAT DAMN'D DRY HARD STUFF": READING, CORRECTING AND EDITING GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

£8,500

NICOLS (Thomas).

A Lapidary: Or, The History of Pretious Stones:, 1652.

£16,500

[THAMES TUNNEL]. & [BRUNEL (Marc Isambard)].

The Tunnel!!! or another Bubble Burst!, 1827.

"MY HYPOTHESIS IS GONE TO THE DEVIL"

£1,800

[PROSTITUTION].

A St. Giles's Beauty, 1784.

A POOR PROSTITUTE IN 18TH-CENTURY LONDON

£1,500

[AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR].].

Qualifying for a Campain [sic], 1777.

THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AS CHILD'S PLAY

£3,800

GILLRAY (James).

Britania's Assassination. or___The Republicans Amusement, 1782.

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

£3,800

[NEWTON (John)].

An Authentic Narrative of some Remarkable and Interesting… 1764.

THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF NEWTON'S REMARKABLE CONVERSION

£17,500

[CRIME].

Five bound volumes of Sessions Papers covering the… 1730.

“NOT ONLY NECESSARY FOR ALL LAWYERS, JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, CLERKS OF INDICMENTS…BUT ARE USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING TO THE GENRALITY OF READERS”

£12,500

BROOKES (Joshua)., SCHARF (George) artist and lithographer, & HULLMANDEL (Charles Joseph), printer.

A View of the Vivarium, constructed principally with… 1830.

A PRIVATELY PRINTED IMAGE OF JOSHUA BROOKES'S VIVARIUM

£2,500

PERROT (John).

A Sea of the Seed’s Sufferings, Through which… 1661.

"HERE ENDS WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN ROME-PRISON OF MAD-MEN"

£3,800

WALWYN (William).

Englands Lamentable Slaverie, 1645.

“LIBERTIE AND PRIVILEDGE…IS, AS DUE UNTO YOU, AS THE AYRE YOU BREATH IN”

£5,000

DRAYTON

Letters of Freeman, &c, 1771.

"...ALL TRUE LOVERS OF LIBERTY THROUGHOUT AMERICA..."

£5,000

[ROCK (Richard)].

A Letter from Dr. Rock, 1745.

"...IS NOT HIS LIXIVIUM A SORT OF LIQUID SOAP?": A MEDICAL SATIRE

£1,250

DU BOSC (Jacques)

The Compleat Woman, 1639.

"READING IS VERY REQUISITE FOR WOMEN; FOR SINCE THEY NO LESSE NEED OF DUMBE TEACHERS, THEN PRINCES..."

£18,500

MORTON (Charles).

An Essay towards the Probable Solution of this… 1703.

"PROBABLY THE MOST REMARKABLE THEORY THAT HAS BEEN ADVANCED TO ACCOUNT FOR MIGRATION"

£2,800

HOOKE (Robert).

Micrographia Restaurata:, 1745.

WITH CRITICAL ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONAL DRAWINGS BY A KNOWLEDGABLE READER

£20,000

STOCK (Richard).

The Churches Lamentation for the losse of the… 1614.

MOURNING THE YOUNG JOHN HARINGTON

£4,500

[LOCKE (John).]

Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693.

THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF LOCKE'S PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

£9,500

PAYNELL (Thomas), translator.

Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, 1575.

THE REGIMEN OF THE SCHOOL OF SALERNO - A BRISTOL SURGEON'S COPY

£8,500

LANDSCAPE GARDENING. SPENCER (John, III), of Cannon Hall, Cawthorne, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

"An Account of the Improvements in the Gardens…

LANDSCAPING THE GROUNDS AT CANNON HALL, SOUTH YORKSHIRE

£8,500

BEDE , The Venerable, 673/4-735.

Ecclesiasticae historiae gentis Anglorum, Libri V, 1566.

CAREFULLY COLLATED WITH THE OLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND ANNOTATED THROUGHOUT BY THE SCHOLAR FRANCIS TATE

£45,000

VAUGHAN (Henry).

Silex Scintillans: or Sacred Poems and Priuate Eiaculations… 1650.

A VERY FINE COPY

£65,000

MUILMAN (Teresia Constantia, née Phillips).

An apology for the conduct of Mrs. Teresia… 1748.

£3,500

TOLSTOÏ [TOLSTOY] (Léon). [(Leo).]

La Guerre et la Paix. Roman historique traduit… 1879.

THE RARE FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION OF TOLSTOY'S MASTERPIECE

£7,500

GIBSON (George Rutledge).

The Stock Exchanges of London, Paris, and New… 1889.

THE EFFICIENT-MARKET HYPOTHESIS

£2,000

SARTRE (Jean-Paul).

La Nausée, 1938.

INSCRIBED BY SARTRE, IN A REVORIM BINDING BY JEAN DE GONET

£5,000

[BANK OF ENGLAND]. & [GODFREY (William).]

A Short Account of the Bank of England, 1695.

A DEFENCE OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND BY ITS FIRST DEPUTY GOVERNOR

£5,500

KANAI (Nobuyuki).

Seinan shoko hokoku-sho. [Report about Various Southern and… 1882.

£750

THOMSON (H[arry] C[raufurd]).

The Chitral Campaign. A Narrative of Events in Chitral,… 1895.

£185

[SUGAR]

Ventes en Denrées Coloniales , 1809.

UNRECORDED HANDBILL OF FRENCH COLONIAL COMMODITIES

£550

CHILDERS (Erskine)

War and the Arme Blanche, 1910.

£450

SEKINO (Junichiro)

Ugetsu Monogatari [Tales of Moonlight and Rain], 1944.

Fine copperplate etchings by Sekino Junichiro

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SCHOOLCRAFT (Henry Rowe).

Inquiries, Respecting The History, Present Condition and Future… 1847.

£400

BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)

Le Philocope de Messire Jehan Boccace florentin, contena(n)t… 1542.

OWNED BY A PICARDY COUNTESS IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

£9,500

[MASTER OF MORGAN 947]

Book of Hours, Use of Arras & Tournai,… 1400.

A LONG-LOST MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, STRIKINGLY ILLUMINATED

£35,000