CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

£9500

TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

[(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...

First edition, annotated throughout by...

£6750

GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.

Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...

Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

First edition, the complete four-volume...

£6500

MEFFRET, Johann.

Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

A volume of sermons with early English...

£6500

GELLIUS, Aulus. 

Noctium Atticarum commentaria per Bonfinem...

Venice, Giovanni Tacuino, 1517. 

Second edition of Gellius’s opus with...

£5500

EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.

Ευστρατιου και αλλων...

[(Colophon:) Venice, heirs of...

Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries...

£5500

NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator). 

Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...

Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668. 

First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...

£5000

PRIOR, Matthew.

Poems on several Occasions.

London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John...

First edition, a subscriber’s copy on...

£5000

MALTHUS, T. R.

Principles of political Economy considered...

London, John Murray, 1820.

First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment...

£5000

[WALLPAPER.]

A substantial album of printed wallpaper...

France, 1923–24.

A delightful sample album of French wallpapers...

£4750

RICHARDUS ANGLICUS.

Correctorium alchymiae ... Das is reformierte...

Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...

£4500

ERNST, Max.

Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments...

Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.

First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies on...

£4500

[THOMAS À KEMPIS.]

Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...

Florence, Piero Pacini da Pescia, 16 April...

Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...

£4000

[CATHERINE the Great of Russia]. BETSKOY, [Ivan]; [Nicolas-Gabriel LE] CLERC, translator; [Denis DIDEROT, contributor].

Les plans et les statuts, des différents...

Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775.

First edition in French, translated from...

£4000

BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).

Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...

London, Henry Colburn, 1829.

First edition, in one volume, recounting...

£3750

[ABC.]

Petite géographie amusante abécédaire...

C. Lehuby, ‘Librairie de l’enfance...

A charming and very rare ABC intended to...

£3750

[MONTANUS, Arnoldus.]

Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie...

Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680.

First edition in French of an important...

£3500

IRENICUS, Franciscus.

Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...

[(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...

First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...

£3500

GIOVIO, Paolo. 

Elogia veris clarorum virorum imaginibus...

Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1546. 

First edition of Giovio’s biographies...

£3000

APPIAN of Alexandria.

Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine...

£3000