RAREY, John Solomon.

The modern Art of Taming wild Horses.

Columbus, Ohio State Journal Company, 1857.

Rare early edition of Rarey’s method...

£950

[ORAN.]

Diario distinto di tutto il seguito per...

(Colophon:) Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1732.

A daily account in Italian from 20 June...

£175

DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.

The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...

Shortrede and Co., 1867.

First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...

£4750

PLAYFAIR, George Macdonald Home.

The Cities and Towns of China. A geographical...

Hong Kong, Noronha & Co., 1879.

First edition of a dictionary of Chinese...

£600

[COMMERCIAL PRESS, SHANGHAI.]

[Cover title:] Views of China – 中國名勝...

Shanghai, Commercial Press, [c. 1913].

A pictorial multilingual souvenir book...

£650

[AGRICULTURE.]

Photographs from the countryside around Beijing.

[Early twentieth century.]

Details of agricultural work and life,...

£3000

[SATIRE.]

‘A Letter to Julian’.

[Circa October, 1685.]

An attractive scribal copy of a ‘shotgun...

£350

FENNING, Daniel.

The Ready Reckoner; or Trader’s most...

London, printed for S. Crowder … and...

First edition thus, edited by the mathematician...

£250

[KAFKA, Franz, Max BROD, et al.]

Das bunte Buch.

Leipzig, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1914.

First edition of this literary almanack,...

£250

[POETS’ GUILD.]

Tsekh Poetov I [–III].

Berlin, S. Efron, 1922[–3].

First edition of this literary almanack...

£1250

[TREATIES.]

Volume of tracts on European treaties of...

Vienna and Amsterdam, 1725-1731.

A collection of scarce texts relating to...

£1750

GELLIUS, Aulus; [Johann Friedrich GRONOVIUS, editor].

Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1651.

Jansson’s piracy of Gronovius’s celebrated...

£450

GIBELLI, Giacinto. 

Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...

Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767. 

First and only edition, rare, of these...

£600

HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis...

Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

First edition thus, with annotations by...

£1000

NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator). 

Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...

Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668. 

First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...

£5000

SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. 

Constantini Opelii de fabrica triremium...

‘Eleuteropoli’ [Freistadt?], 1672. 

First edition of this treatise on the ancient...

£875

[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.] ECKERMANN, Johann Peter; Dmitry Vasilievich AVERKIEV, translator.

Разговоры Гете, собранные...

St Petersburg, A. S. Suvorin, 1891.

First edition in Russian, very rare, of...

£1500

WEBER, Johann Adam.

Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...

[Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]

Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s wide-ranging...

£6000

ARISTIDES, Aelius.

Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.

First edition in Latin, a remarkable copy...

£2750

CASAL, Gaspar do.

Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis...

Coimbra, João da Barreira and João Alvares,...

First edition of Gaspar do Casal’s major...

£2500