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

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

ALLIONI, Carlo.

Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica...

Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.

First edition of the earliest Italian regional...

£30000

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

[MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat.]

De l’esprit des loix, ou du rapport que...

Geneva, Barrillot [sic], [1748].

First edition, first issue of Montesquieu’s...

£25750

LACTANTIUS.

Opera.

[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

£25000

AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

First edition of this highly important...

£22500

[JEROME, Saint.]

Obitus beati iheromini.

[Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer,...

Rare incunable edition (first printed in...

£22500

JONSON, Benjamin.

The Workes …

London, Will Stansby, 1616.

An excellent set of the canonical Ben Jonson,...

£21000

[GRADUAL.]

Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

£20000

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