[CARTHUSIANS. GUIGO DE CASTRO, compiler.]

Repertorium statutoru[m] ordinis cartusiensis...

Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1510.

First printed edition of the Statutes of...

£7500

[CHOIRBOOK.]

Large historiated initial ‘I’.

Italy (Umbria), c. 1300.

A very elegant initial in a style characteristic...

£4500

COLONNA, Fabio.

Φυτοβασανος, sive Plantarum...

Naples, Orazio Salviani, 1592.

First edition, a landmark in botanical...

£4000

DU HALDE, Jean-Baptiste.

A Description of the Empire of China and...

London, T. Gardner for Edward Cave, 1738...

The first complete English translation...

£15000

EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.

Historia ecclesiastica.

Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine,...

The Syston Park copy of the earliest history...

£4500

HAKLUYT, Richard.

The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques...

London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie,...

Second edition, first issue of ‘Hakluyt’s...

£20000

HUGO, Victor.

Notre-Dame de Paris. Par Victor Hugo. Troisième...

Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1831.

First edition, third issue, of Victor Hugo’s...

£7500

[AGRICULTURE.] BEIJING MUNICIPAL BUREAU FOR AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.

农业机械安全生产挂图 [Nongye...

[Beijing], China Agriculture Press for...

Very rare complete set of posters promoting...

£1750

[CHINA.]

Notes of a Journey from Canton to Wu-chow-fu.

S.l., [c. 1862].

Extremely rare account of an early journey...

£450

[GO Keitai 吳啓太 and TEI Eihō 鄭永邦.]

官話指南 [Guanhua zhinan; ‘A...

Kiukiang [Jiujiang], Central China Press, 1893.

Very rare edition of this guide to Mandarin...

£1750

FLOWER, Stanley Smyth.

Album of 14 watercolours of India and Malaya.

India and Malaya, October 1894 to August 1895.

A charming album of vivid watercolour views...

£750

IDES, E[vert] Ysbrants.

Three Years Travels from Moscow over-land...

London, W. Freeman, J. Walthoe, T. Newborough,...

First edition in English of this important...

£2750

[IRWIN, Eyles.]

Eastern Eclogues; written during a Tour...

London, for J. Dodsley, 1780.

First edition of these travel-inspired...

£850

JOHNSON, Samuel.

A Dictionary of the English Language: in...

London, W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton,...

First edition of ‘the most amazing, enduring...

£20000

KEATS, John.

Endymion. A poetic romance … with engravings...

[London,] The Golden Cockerel Press, [1947].

No. 200 of 500 copies of the Golden Cockerel...

£1750

KOO, T. Z. [Tsu-Jen KU].  

Songs of Cathay. An Anthology of Songs...

Shanghai, Association Press, [1931].

First edition, fourth impression, of a...

£275

LATHAM, Simon.

Latham’s Falconry: or, the Faulcons Lure,...

London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for...

First collected edition (third edition...

£8500

LEVEY, Michael.

The later Italian Pictures in the Collection...

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Revised second edition of Levey’s catalogue...

£475

LEWIS, Wyndham.

The Childermass … Section 1.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1928.

First edition, no. 74 of 225 copies of...

£2500

[LITURGY.]

L’Office de la Semaine Sainte, selon...

Paris, par la Compagnie des libraires...

Uncommon edition of the offices for Holy...

£1250