Rare Books, Manuscripts, Works on Paper

A complete 16th-century Ottoman manuscript Qur'an, the elegant production of Hasan ibn 'Abdallah.

The first edition of Juan de Arfe's very scarce, comprehensive and influential treatise, De Varia Commensuracion, signed by de Arfe at the foot of the title.

A striking hand-coloured etching of 'Promenade du Boulevart Italien' by Etienne Claude Voysard after a drawing by C.

The first edition of 'Lord Ruthwen, ou les Vampires', a superb unsophisticated copy in the original wrappers.

The first issue of the first edition of Grandville's 'Les Fleurs Animées' in an extraordinary polychromatic binding, the rarest of those issued by the publisher.

An exceptional gift: Beethoven's 'Lieder' in a binding painted by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and presented by him to Mary Gladstone, daughter of the Liberal Prime Minister.

A very scarce complete set of the 'Deuxième Série' of Redon's 'Tentation de Saint-Antoine' issued in 1889 and dedicated by Redon 'A Gustave Flaubert'.

The de luxe edition of John Gray's decadent 'Silverpoints' bound in full vellum.

An excellent copy of André Gide's 'Le Voyage d'Urien' with Maurice Denis' only original lithographs.

Odilon Redon's Apocalypse de Saint-Jean.

An exceptional copy from the édition de tête of Mucha's mystical Art Nouveau masterpiece with an original signed watercolour and in a binding by Marius Michel.

An excellent copy of the Eragny Press edition of Keats' 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' with its variant.

An excellent presentation copy, the limp morocco wrappers matching the text block.

A complete set, broché as issued and entirely unsophisticated, of the first edition of Proust's magnum opus 'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu'.

A very good copy of the first edition of Tzara's first book and the first publication of Zurich dada.

An excellent example of one of Schwitters' finest productions, 'Die Kathedrale', including the additional white paper label to the front and rear covers.

Autograph manuscript by Gino Severini contrasting and comparing Futurism and Cubism and making reference to Seurat, Blake, Baudelaire, Apollinaire and Matisse.

An exceptional collection of autograph manuscripts and drawings by Tristan Tzara spanning Zürich and Dada and Paris and Surrealism from the collection of René Gaffé, bound for him by Paul Bonet.

A very scarce uncut and unsophisticated copy of the large paper édition de tête of Picabia's dada verse composition.