Maggs Bros.

BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)

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

OWNED BY A PICARDY COUNTESS IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

£9,500.00

[JUDAICA] & RIES (Jacob).

Jacob Ries der Sohn Marcus, gebohren in der… 1710.

COURT DWARF AND JESTER TO THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

£4,500.00

BOOK OF HOURS (French & Latin)

Heures en Francoys & Latin a l'usaige de… 1549.

A MANNERIST BOOK OF HOURS

£9,500.00

HOWGATE (Capt. H.W.) ed. & TYSON (George E.)

The Cruise of the Florence; or Extracts from… 1879.

A COLONY IN THE ARCTIC

£3,250.00

KIPLING (Rudyard).

The Jungle Book. [with:] The Second Jungle Book., 1894.

First editions of these great classics of English children's fiction.

£4,500.00

KIPLING (Rudyard & Alice).

Echoes. By Two Writers., 1884.

An outstanding rarity: the author's second book.

£8,250.00

KIPLING (Rudyard).

Captains Courageous., 1897.

Kipling's morality tale set aboard a New England fishing boat.

£1,000.00

KIPLING (Rudyard).

Quartette., 1885.

RARE EARLY KIPLING FAMILY SHORT STORIES AND POEMS

£2,750.00

CONRAD (Joseph).

Youth: a Narrative and Two Other Stories. [The… 1902.

THE HEART OF DARKNESS

£2,500.00

[TRINITY CHURCH].

An hymn to be sung by the Episcopal… 1794.

"THE WIDOW'S TEARS ARE WIP'D AWAY, / AND SOOTH'D THE NEEDY ORPHAN'S PAIN"

£2,500.00

CASSÉUS (Dr. Augustus).

Du Rôle Civilisateur de la Race Noire., 1911.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

£6,000.00

ISHERWOOD (Christopher) & BACHARDY (Don)

Original pencil, graphite and ink wash portrait of… 1967.

£7,500.00

EDWARDS (Jonathan).

An Account of the Life of the late… 1749.

"IT IS NOT PROPER TO LEND BOOKS TO THOSE WHO ARE CARELES OF THEM"

£2,500.00

[DE BALAGNY (Gauthier)]

Recueil de bonnes et mauvaises poisies, de diferens… 1587.

A MANUSCRIPT MISCELLANY SPANNING MORE THAN A CENTURY

£25,000.00

[ARISTOTLE].

Aristotle's Rhetoric;, 1686.

THE FIRST COMPLETE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ARISTOTLE’S RHETORIC

£8,500.00

[D'AGUERRE (Chrétienne), Comtesse de Sault]

Manuscript notarial account book for regional Provence., 1584.

LA COMTESSE DE SAULT FINANCES THE FRENCH CATHOLIC LEAGUE

£12,500.00

WILDE (Oscar) & ROBINSON (Charles) [illustrator]

The Happy Prince and Other Tales, 1913.

'IN MY GARDEN OF PARADISE THIS LITTLE BIRD SHALL SING FOR EVERMORE'

£1,750.00

[ABSCONDING APPRENTICE].

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

"STOOPS WHEN HE WALKS"

£3,800.00

AUSTEN (Jane).

Sense and Sensibility., 1813.

A second edition in a beautiful Regency binding.

£15,000.00

[CLELAND (John)].

La Fille de Joye., 1751.

THE FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS ENGLISH EROTIC NOVEL

£15,000.00

KHEMNITSER (Ivan Ivanovich)

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

ONE OF THE EARLIEST RUSSIAN FABULISTS

£3,000.00

LEWIS (C.S.)

Prince Caspian the Return to Narnia., 1951.

The second book in The Chronicles of Narnia series.

£2,750.00

VEEN (Otto van)

Amorum emblemata., 1608.

SCARCE ISSUE WITH ENGLISH VERSES BY A CATHOLIC SPY

£7,000.00

[CIVIL RIGHTS ACT]

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

A CRITICAL BILL IN THE PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT

£5,500.00

[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

£2,500.00

WILDE (Oscar)].

The Trial of Oscar Wilde from Shorthand Reports., 1906.

THE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE JAPANESE VELLUM ISSUE

£4,000.00

NARBROUGH (John). & ROBINSON (Tancred), ed.

An Account of Several Late Voyages & Discoveries… 1694.

THE CLASSIC VOYAGE

£6,250.00

POLWHELE (Richard).

The Unsex’d Females: a Poem, 1798.

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

£5,500.00

[ELLIOTT (Ebenezer)].

Corn Law Rhymes. The Ranter, 1830.

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

£5,000.00

DUNBAR (Robert Nugent).

The Cruise;, 1835.

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

£2,500.00

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"

£25,000.00

[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

£8,500.00

BOWEN (Elizabeth).

Seven Winters., 1942.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

£500.00

GARRET (Frank) [Binder)

My Recipe Book, 1929.

£800.00

WILDE (Oscar).

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

ONE OF ONLY 30 COPIES

£2,000.00

NICOLS (Thomas).

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

£16,500.00

UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER

[Album of hand-coloured photographs showing famous sites of… 1906.

£450.00

BOCCACCIO (Giovanni) & TIEMANN (Walter).

[Original Walter Tiemann lettering for Das Dekameron], 1906.

With Tiemann's original designs

£500.00

SERIZAWA (Keisuke).

Wasome egatari [Illustrated book of Japanese Dyeing]., 1939.

One of only 50 reprints by Serizawa of his first self-published book

£2,000.00

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Author.

Autograph Letter Signed (“CD.”) to “My Dear Mitton”…

A hastily written letter of business and meetings

£2,000.00

[TEMPERANCE] & H.F.B.

THINK. ALCOHOL DESTROYS BODY MIND SOUL, 1943.

£125.00

DOBB (Maurice).

Social Insurance in the Soviet Union, 1942.

£25.00

DOBB (Maurice).

Economics of Capitalism. An Introductory Outline., 1943.

£25.00

DOBB (Maurice).

Marx as an Economist., 1943.

£25.00

DOBB (Maurice).

Social Credit Discredited., 1936.

£75.00

DOBB (Maurice).

Trade Union Experience and Policy 1914-1918. An Outline., 1940.

£30.00

DOBB (Maurice).

Production Front!, 1941.

£20.00

DOBB (Maurice).

Modern Capitalism: Its Origin and Growth, 1928.

£50.00

DOBB (Maurice).

'The First General Strike' in: Plebs, June 1926,… 1926.

£30.00

DOBB (Maurice).

How Soviet Trade Unions Work, 1941.

£25.00