M’LEOD, John.

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

London, John Murray, 1818.

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

£275

MENDES PINTO, Fernão. 

The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez...

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

First edition in English, translated by...

£6500

[MONTANUS, Arnoldus.]

Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie...

Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680.

First edition in French of an important...

£3500

NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández. 

Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

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

£3750

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

SMITH, George.

Lewchew and the Lewchewans; being a narrative...

London, T. Hatchard, 1853.

Three scarce works on the Ryukyu Islands,...

£950

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

WYLD, James.

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

London, James Wyld, 1859–1860.

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

£2750

TERENTIUS Afer, Publius.

Comoediae sex. Ex recensione Heinsiana,...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1658.

An intensely annotated copy of this rare...

£2250

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

SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de.

Cours de linguistique générale.

Lausanne & Paris, Payot, 1916.

First edition of this seminal textbook...

£575

GROUCHY, Nicolas de. 

Praeceptiones dialecticae, Nicolao Gruchio...

Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1563. 

An apparently unrecorded edition of Grouchy’s...

£750

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

POPE, Alexander.

The Temple of Fame: a Vision … London:...

London: Printed for Bernard Lintot … 1715.

First edition. A modernized version of...

£350

[HOARE, Prince.]

Songs, Duets, and Chorus, in the Prize;...

[London,] 1793.

First edition, scarce, of the libretto...

£350

ALFIERI, Vittorio, and Charles LLOYD, translator.

The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri; translated...

London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees,...

First edition of this translation of Alfieri’s...

£450

BEBEL, August, and Daniel DE LEON, translator.

Woman under socialism. Translated from...

New York, Labor News Press, 1904.

First edition in English, first printing,...

£125

BRULL, Mariano, and Mathilde POMÈS, translator.

Solo de Rosa. Poemas.

Con dos rosas de Mariano y Portocarrero....

First edition, no. 186 of 300 copies, printed...

£650

[HEMSTERHUIS, François.] 

Alexis ou de l’age d’or. 

Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1787. 

First edition of Hemsterhuis’s philosophical...

£375

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