NEWTON, Isaac.

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

London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

£70000

QUR’AN,

signed Ghaybi bin ‘Umar, Edirne.

Ottoman Turkey, dated the end of Muharram...

An important early Ottoman Qur’an...

£65000

BALBUS, Johannes.

Catholicon.

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

Third edition of the earliest printed...

£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

SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin, et al.

A collection of offprints and papers from...

1902–1961.

A remarkable collection of offprints...

£50000

ARCHIMEDES.

Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα,...

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

Editio princeps of the works...

£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...

£45000

[QUESNAY, François].

DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel, editor....

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

£37500

THOMSON, John.

Illustrations of China and its People....

London, Sampson Low &c, 1873–1874.

A good copy of this rare work (vol....

£35000

[INDULGENCE.] 

Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...

[Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.] 

Extremely rare incunable indulgence...

£34000

FOREST, BISSON FRERES, &c. 

A collection of eight albumen prints (or...

France, 1864-5.

An exceptional series of oversize prints...

£30000

ALLIONI, Carlo.

Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica...

Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.

First edition of the earliest Italian...

£30000

ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...

Paris, François Huby, 1614.

Second edition, enlarged and revised...

£30000

QUR’AN. 

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. Montesquieu’s...

£25750

LACTANTIUS.

Opera.

[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

Magnificent incunable edition of the...

£25000

[LUYNES, Honoré Théodore Paul Joseph d’Albert, duc de.]  VIGNES, Louis, photographer; Charles NEGRES, printer. 

Voyage d’exploration à la mer Morte,...

Printed 1874–76. 

A fine set of the photogravures for...

£25000

[INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

Sammelband of ten works.

Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...

A sammelband of ten Roman incunables,...

£25000