Mary Renault's scarce third book and only lesbian novel

Mary Renault

The Friendly Young Ladies

The Second Apology.

JUSTIN, Martyr, Saint.

Sancti Justini philosophi & martyris Apologia secunda pro Christianis, ................. praemissis vero Langi praefationibus, quibus summam…

SOLVING SCURVY

PRINGLE, Sir John.

A Discourse upon some late Improvements Of the Means for Preserving the Health of Mariners. Delivered…

Copy No.1 with an original Mucha drawing

Alphonse Mucha; Emile Gebhart

Cloches de Noel et de Paques

Limited edition of 55 copies

Jeremy Greenwood

Ravilious : Engravings

[French Revolution] Reform Advised. Reform Begun. Reform Compeat.

Thomas Rowlandson

[French Revolution] Reform Advised. Reform Begun. Reform Compeat.

FENCING IN CONTEMPORARY RED GOATSKIN

McARTHUR (John).

The Army and Navy Gentleman's Companion; or a New and Complete Treatise on the Theory and…

Early and rare work by Carlo Allioni on (marine) fossils.

ALLIONI, Carlo.

[Fossils - Geology] Oryctographiae Pedemontanae Specimen, exhibens corpora fossilia terræ adventitia, 1757.

“Excalibur, wrought by the lonely maiden of the Lake” -…

SANGORSKI, Alberto (illum.); TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

Morte d’Arthur.

Peaceful revolution - Important book for Surrealism co-founder André Breton…

FIORE, Joachim di.

[Surrealism - Occult] Vaticinia sive prophetia, 1589. - With Breton's bookplate by Salvador Dali.

With Dadaist commentary for mid-century art collectors

BRACCELLI, & TZARA, Tristan

Bizzarie. Propos sur Bracelli par Tristan Tzara

WILDE, Oscar.

Salome. A tragedy in one act.

Inscribed association copy: one of only one or two dozen…

Pasternak, Boris.

V Pereryve. Stikhotvore nija 1945-1957 godov [In the Interlude: Poems 1945-1957].

A unique survival: early erotic science manual in the Bangla…

[Kama Shastra - Bengali].

Sri Sri Kamadeva namah. Sambhog Ratnakar, athat Kama Shastra.

A compendious system of astronomy.

MARGARET BRYAN (c.1759-d.1836?).

PIONEERING SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION OF WOMEN

Ibrahim Müteferrika

[MÜTEFERRIKA PRESS] [Lugat-I Vankulu.] Ebu Nasr Ismail b. Hammad el-Cevheri. Tercumetu’s- Sihahi’l- Cevheri…

[SANDWICH, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792)].

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR LETTERS

In English

Anon

Geneva / Breeches Bible

Contemporary to key moment in the French Revolution.

Published by Cailleau, [Francois-Paul-Valère], rue Gallande, No. 64. Paris. [1790].

Étrennes nationales, curieuses et instructives contenant les époques les plus intéressantes de l'histoire. Pour l'année 1791…

Diameter globe: 3 inch / 7.6 cm. – Total height: 5,12 inches / 13,5 cm.

John & William Cary, London 1791

Rare and early George III, miniature terrestrial globe.

David Bryce's wife's copy - each volume signed in 1912.

Shakespeare, William.

Miniature Works of Shakespeare. Published by Bryce, David & Son. Glasgow. 1904.

August Strindberg

The Red Room [Röda Rummet], first edition in English

‘Calculated to instruct Youth’

[TEACHING GAME].

Scripture Conversation, Illustrative of the Old Testament. Calculated to instruct Youth in the first principles of…

One of the Gregynog Presses Finest Productions

MURRAY Gilbert 1866-1957 (translator). MAYNARD Robert Ashwin 1888-1966. BRAY Horace Walter

The Plays of Euripides

Scarce with the wrapper

Harrison, Jane Ellen

Reminiscences of a Student’s Life

'HERE'S TO FIRSTS!'

[Anon.]

Forty-five French wine labels & a carte-de-visite of a wine producer.

In a richly blind-tooled contemporary binding and complete with all…

Antwerp, Daniel Vervliet 1599

Hand-coloured copy of the famous Moerentorf Bible

POETRY IN A LACQUER BINDING

Horiguchi (Daigaku).

Token Ryubisho [Notes about Attractive Eyes]. 

Nova et accurata totius Americae tabula auct. G. I. Blaeu

Pietro Todeschi, Bologna 1673

One of the most influential maps of America ever made.

Scarce first edition

Andrew and Leonora Lang; H. J. Ford (illustrator)

The Violet Fairy Book