PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. 

The History of the Conquest of China by...

London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671. 

First edition in English of Palafox's Historia...

£1750

SMITH, George.

Lewchew and the Lewchewans; being a narrative...

London, T. Hatchard, 1853.

Three scarce works on the Ryukyu Islands,...

£950

WYLD, James.

Map of the islands of Japan, Kurile &c....

London, James Wyld, 1859–1860.

Rare four-sheet map of Japan, the Russian...

£2750

TERENTIUS Afer, Publius.

Comoediae sex. Ex recensione Heinsiana,...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1658.

An intensely annotated copy of this rare...

£2250

SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de.

Cours de linguistique générale.

Lausanne & Paris, Payot, 1916.

First edition of this seminal textbook...

£575

GROUCHY, Nicolas de. 

Praeceptiones dialecticae, Nicolao Gruchio...

Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1563. 

An apparently unrecorded edition of Grouchy’s...

£750

RUSH, John; Jacob F. SHEEK, editor.

The Hand-Book to veterinary Homoeopathy,...

New York & San Francisco, Boericke & Tafel,...

Later American edition of a rare hand-book...

£275

POPE, Alexander.

The Temple of Fame: a Vision … London:...

London: Printed for Bernard Lintot … 1715.

First edition. A modernized version of...

£350

[HOARE, Prince.]

Songs, Duets, and Chorus, in the Prize;...

[London,] 1793.

First edition, scarce, of the libretto...

£350

ALFIERI, Vittorio, and Charles LLOYD, translator.

The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri; translated...

London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees,...

First edition of this translation of Alfieri’s...

£450

BEBEL, August, and Daniel DE LEON, translator.

Woman under socialism. Translated from...

New York, Labor News Press, 1904.

First edition in English, first printing,...

£125

BRULL, Mariano, and Mathilde POMÈS, translator.

Solo de Rosa. Poemas.

Con dos rosas de Mariano y Portocarrero....

First edition, no. 186 of 300 copies, printed...

£650

[HEMSTERHUIS, François.] 

Alexis ou de l’age d’or. 

Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1787. 

First edition of Hemsterhuis’s philosophical...

£375

GONZÁLES DE MENDOZA, Juan, and Robert PARKE, translator. 

The Historie of the great and mightie Kingdome...

London, Printed by J. Wolfe for Edward...

First edition in English, rare, of the...

£50000

WHITE, James.

A Compendium of the veterinary Art, containing...

Canterbury, W. Bristow for J. Badcock,...

First edition of one of the first works...

£275

MARKHAM, ‘J.’ [Gervase], G. JEFFERIES, ‘and Experienced INDIANS’, [and C.D. LESHER (editor)].

The Citizen and Countryman’s experienced...

Chambersburg, Thomas J. Wright, [c. 1839].

Undated Chambersburg edition. Among the...

£250

[GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich, Osip MANDELSTAM, et al, translators.]

Поэты французского Возрождения...

Leningrad, Goslitizdat, 1938.

First edition of a rare anthology of Russian...

£1750

HUME, David, [and Octavie BELOT, translator].

Histoire de la maison de Tudor sur le trône...

Amsterdam [i.e. Paris], 1763.

A very fine set of the first French edition...

£600

BEDFORDSHIRE – ARLESEY.

Charter of William Hoye of Arlesey (‘Auricheseya’)...

Bedfordshire, 1st half of 13th century.

Witnessed by Roger Burnard, William Rixpaud,...

£1400

CHEESMAN, Thomas. 

No. I. Six Heads Drawn and Engraved, by...

[London,] T. Cheesman, No. 40 Oxford...

First and only edition, extremely rare,...

£850