DARWIN, Charles.

The Variation of Animals and Plants under...

London, John Murray, 1868.

First edition, first issue, an important...

£70000

NEWTON, Isaac.

Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions,...

London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

£70000

BALBUS, Johannes.

Catholicon.

[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch),...

Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...

£65000

FABERT, Abraham.

Voyage du roy a Metz, l’occasion d’iceluy:...

[Metz, Fabert,] 1610.

A splendid hand-coloured and gilt copy...

£60000

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

GAZA, Theodorus.

Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...

A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

£45000

SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin, et al.

A collection of offprints and papers from...

1902–1961.

A remarkable collection of offprints and...

£45000

[PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor.

Ψαλτηριον.

Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October...

The elegant first Aldine printing of the...

£45000

[LAURENTIUS, Frater; Jan van BREDERODE, translator.]

[Summe le roy of des conincs summe.]

[(Colophon:) Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert],...

Rare early edition in Dutch (first Delft...

£40000

HAKLUYT, Richard.

The Principall Navigations, Voiages and...

London, ‘George Bishop and Ralph Newberie,...

First edition, a fine copy, with the world...

£350000

BAKER, Humfrey.

The Well Sprynge of Sciences which teacheth...

London, Roland Hall for James Rowbotham, 1562.

The extremely rare first edition (one of...

£35000

[INDULGENCE.] 

Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...

[Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.] 

Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...

£34000

THOMSON, John.

Illustrations of China and its People....

London, Sampson Low &c, 1873–1874.

A good copy of this rare work (vol. I...

£32500

[BARCLAY FAMILY.]

Album of letters, maps, accounts, and reports...

Mostly Philadelphia and London, 1794–1854.

A large and coherent archive relating to...

£32500

ALLIONI, Carlo.

Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica...

Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.

First edition of the earliest Italian regional...

£30000

ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...

Paris, François Huby, 1614.

Second edition, enlarged and revised from...

£30000

[JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.]

The Boke of Justices of Peas the Charge...

...

First edition(?), very rare, of the first...

£27500

MORE, Thomas, Sir.

De optimo reip. statu deque nova insula...

Basel, [(colophons:) Johann Froben, March...

Third edition of More’s Utopia,...

£27500

QUR’AN.

Safavid Qur’an.

Persia (probably Shiraz), sixteenth century,...

A remarkable sixteenth-century Safavid...

£27500

URSINIS, Bartholomaeus de.

[Quadragesimale quod dicitur Gratia Dei.]

[Naples, Francesco del Tuppo for Bernardinus...

First and only edition, a handsome, wide-margined...

£27500