CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

£9500

LA VIGNE, André de.

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

[(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

£9500

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux Chevalier...

[(Colophon:) Poitiers, Jacques Bouchet...

An otherwise unrecorded late sixteenth-century...

£8750

GAGUIN, Robert.

La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

£8500

[BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT and APOCRYPHA, Greek; Johann LONITZER, editor.]

Της θειας γραφης παλαιας...

Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1526.

The first edition of the Old Testament...

£8500

GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.

Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...

Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

First edition, the complete four-volume...

£6500

GELLIUS, Aulus. 

Noctium Atticarum commentaria per Bonfinem...

Venice, Giovanni Tacuino, 1517. 

Second edition of Gellius’s opus with...

£5500

[RARITIES AND PROVERBS.]

Lyste van Rariteiten, die verkocht zullen...

‘Gedrukt in Arabien, midden op de Zand-Zee,...

A bizarre series of fictitious auction...

£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

MALTHUS, T. R.

Principles of political Economy considered...

London, John Murray, 1820.

First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment...

£5000

[POOR CLARES.]

A Pious Collection of severall profitable...

Douai, M. Mairesse, [1684.]

First edition, rare, of A Pious Collection...

£5000

MAUGIN, Jean.

Histoire du noble Tristan, prince de Leonnois,...

Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1586.

A scarce edition of the New Tristan,...

£4750

[BREVIARY, Use of Passau.]

Breviarium s[ecundu]m chorum alme Ecclesie...

[(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein...

A rare Passau breviary with numerous woodcut...

£4500

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

[EROTICA.]

Pencil drawing of a woman in eighteenth-century...

[France, early nineteenth century?]

A fine erotically-charged figure study...

£3750

LUCIAN of Samosata.

Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, e Graeco...

Lyons, Jean Frellon, 1549.

First Lyons edition of the works of Lucian...

£3750

HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker.

The History, Antiquities, and Topography...

Lewes, John Baxter, and London, Nichols...

First edition, a handsome set extensively...

£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