NEWTON, Isaac.

Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions,...

London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

£70000

BALBUS, Johannes.

Catholicon.

[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch),...

Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...

£65000

FABERT, Abraham.

Voyage du roy a Metz, l’occasion d’iceluy:...

[Metz, Fabert,] 1610.

A splendid hand-coloured and gilt copy...

£60000

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

ARCHIMEDES.

Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα,...

Basel, Johannes Herwagen, [(colophon):...

Editio princeps of the works of...

£45000

GAZA, Theodorus.

Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...

A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

£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

[INDULGENCE.] 

Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...

[Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.] 

Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...

£34000

ALLIONI, Carlo.

Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica...

Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.

First edition of the earliest Italian regional...

£30000

ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...

Paris, François Huby, 1614.

Second edition, enlarged and revised from...

£30000

[JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.]

The Boke of Justices of Peas the Charge...

...

First edition(?), very rare, of the first...

£27500

[QUESNAY, François.] DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel, editor.

Physiocratie, ou constitution naturelle...

Leiden and Paris, Merlin, 1768.

First edition of the ‘Bible’ of the...

£27000

[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

[INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

Sammelband of ten works.

Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...

A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...

£25000

HERP, Hendrik.

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...

First edition of this collection of sermons...

£24000

[PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]

Psalterium.

[Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]

First edition of the Psalter with the commentary...

£24000

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