[GULIELMUS de Lavicea.]

Dieta salutis. Sancti Bonaventure doctoris...

[(Colophon:) Venice, Cesare Arrivabene,...

A compilation of Franciscan devotional...

£1250

LIPSIUS, Justus.

Politicorum sive civilis doctrinae libri...

Antwerp, Jan Moretus, ex officina Plantiniana,...

A volume containing controversial works...

£1250

[LOBO, Jerónimo; Lorenzo MAGALOTTI, translator.]

Relazioni varie cavate da una traduzione...

Florence, Piero Matini, 1693.

First edition in Italian of one of the...

£1750

SCALVO, Bartolomeo.

Rosariae preces ad gloriosam Dei genitricem...

Milan, Pacificus Pontius, 1569.

First edition of this Marian book of prayers...

£3500

ZECEÑA, Basilio.

Oracion pronunciada en la santa iglesia...

[Guatemala], imprenta de La Paz, 1851.

A pair of contemporary works commemorating...

£450

LUCIAN of Samosata; Étienne MOQUOT, editor.

Luciani Samosatensis dialogi selecti. Cum...

Lyons, Claude Obert, 1636.

Uncommon parallel Greek and Latin edition...

£375

FREEMAN, Arthur.

Historical Forgery in Romanophobe Britain:...

London, 2021.

A new and particular account of the anti-Catholic...

£20

BOTTO, Giuseppe Domenico.

Observations microscopiques sur les mouvements...

[Turin], Imprimerie Royale, [1840].

An extremely rare offprint from the Memorie...

£675

[BENDISCIOLI, Faustino.]

Quadro ossia saggio epilogato del Sistema...

Milan, Stamperia [dei Patrioti d’Italia]...

An impassioned tract attacking the claims...

£200

[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

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