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  1. EARL, George Samuel Windsor.

    The eastern seas, or voyages and adventures...

    London, Wm H. Allen and Co., 1837.

    First edition. Earl (1813–1865) spent...

    £650

  2. GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.

    Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...

    Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

    First edition, the complete four-volume...

    £6500

  3. HALL, Basil.

    Account of a voyage of discovery to the...

    London, John Murray, 1818.

    First edition of this important work on...

    £1250

  4. JESUS, Carlos Augusto Montalto de.

    Historic Macao …

    Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, 1902.

    First edition of an important history of...

    £950

  5. KRASHENINNIKOV, Stepan Petrovich; James GRIEVE, translator.

    The history of Kamtschatka, and the Kurilski...

    Gloucester, R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, 1764.

    First edition of this English abridgement...

    £1850

  6. M’LEOD, John.

    Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Alceste,...

    London, John Murray, 1818.

    Second edition (first 1817), with five...

    £275

  7. MENDES PINTO, Fernão. 

    The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez...

    London, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry...

    First edition in English, translated by...

    £6500

  8. MESNY, William.

    Mesny’s Chinese miscellany. A text book...

    Shanghai, printed at the “China Gazette...

    The first of an eventual four volumes of...

    £1500

  9. [MONTANUS, Arnoldus.]

    Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie...

    Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680.

    First edition in French of an important...

    £3500

  10. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández. 

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £3750

  11. 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

  12. SMITH, George.

    Lewchew and the Lewchewans; being a narrative...

    London, T. Hatchard, 1853.

    Three scarce works on the Ryukyu Islands,...

    £950

  13. ST JOHN, Spenser Buckingham.

    Life in the forests of the far east …...

    London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1862.

    First edition, a nice copy in the publisher’s...

    £1600

  14. WYLD, James.

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

    London, James Wyld, 1859–1860.

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

    £2750

  15. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

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

    First edition, annotated throughout by...

    £6750

  16. TERENTIUS Afer, Publius.

    Comoediae sex. Ex recensione Heinsiana,...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1658.

    An intensely annotated copy of this rare...

    £2250

  17. PEROTTO, Niccolò, and Benedetto BRUGNOLO, editor.

    Cornucopi[a]e nuper emendatum a domino...

    [Milan], Giovanni Giacomo and brothers...

    Scarce Milanese edition of Perotto’s...

    £1750

  18. SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de.

    Cours de linguistique générale.

    Lausanne & Paris, Payot, 1916.

    First edition of this seminal textbook...

    £575

  19. GROUCHY, Nicolas de. 

    Praeceptiones dialecticae, Nicolao Gruchio...

    Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1563. 

    An apparently unrecorded edition of Grouchy’s...

    £750

  20. 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