[JOHNSON, Samuel.] 

The Prince of Abissinia.  A Tale … 

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley...

First edition of Johnson’s only novel,...

£4500

LEE, Edwin.

The Principal Baths of Germany [– The...

London, Whittaker & Cp., Paris, Galignani...

First edition, scarce, of Edwin Lee’s...

£350

DODSON, Owen.

‘Black Mother Praying’ …

Reprinted from Common Ground. [1944?].

Very rare separate printing of Dodson’s...

£150

[ABC.]

Petite géographie amusante abécédaire...

C. Lehuby, ‘Librairie de l’enfance...

A charming and very rare ABC intended to...

£3750

WYCHERLEY, William.

The Posthumous Works … in Prose and Verse....

London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, J....

First edition of an important collection,...

£850

[BREWER, George.]

The Siamese Tales, being a Collection of...

London, Vernor & Hood and Champante &...

First edition of an anonymously published...

£950

BOUTMY, C.

‘Exercitium quotidianum dedicatum perillustri...

[Belgium, 1760.]

An attractively bound unpublished devotional...

£450

GOELICKE, Andreas Ottomar.

Disputatio physica experimentalis exhibens...

Halle, Johann Montag, [1704].

Scarce academic disputation on experimental...

£275

[CURLL, Edmund, editor.]

Impartial Memorials of the Life and Writings...

London, Printed in the Year 1736.

First separate edition, amusing but in...

£450

FLEMING, Ian.

You only live twice.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1964.

First edition, first impression, first...

£850

FLEMING, Ian.

The Man with the golden Gun.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1965.

First edition, first impression, of the...

£650

ARISTOTLE; THEOPHRASTUS; Theodorus GAZA and Pietro ALCIONIO, translators.

Historiae. Cum de natura Animalium, tum...

Lyons, [Nicolas Bacquenois for] Guillaume...

A union of Aristotle on animals and Theophrastus...

£800

POMPONIO LETO, Giulio.

In omnia quae quidem extant, P. Vergilii...

Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1544].

Second edition of Leto’s influential...

£450

RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator.

Some British Ballads.

London, Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919].

First trade edition, illustrated by Rackham,...

£500

SPILBERGEN, Joris van, and Jacob LE MAIRE.

Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae...

Leiden, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1619.

First Latin edition of one of the classic...

£20000

[THAMES ESTUARY.]

Coloured chart of the Thames Estuary extending...

London, Edward Stanford, 16 May 1927.

Attractive maps with plenty of accompanying...

£75

SANSON, Nicolas.

L’Asie en plusieurs cartes nouvelles,...

Paris, for the author, 1658.

Scarce second edition, featuring seventeen...

£2750

LAET, Joannes de, editor.

De imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera...

Leiden, ‘ex officina Elzeviriana’, 1631.

Pocket-sized Elzevir edition (one of two...

£950

[CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]

Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En...

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.

Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...

£300

CLÜVER, Philipp.

Introductio in universam geographiam tam...

Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...

The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...

£2500