STEIN, Aurel.

Sand-buried ruins of Khotan. Personal narrative...

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1904.

‘Cheaper edition’ (published a year...

£500

BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE, Jean Baptiste Joseph.

China, its costume, arts, manufactures,...

London, for J.J. Stockdale, 1813.

Fifth edition (first 1812) of this popular...

£950

SMITH, Albert Richard.

The Story of Mont Blanc …

London, David Bogue, 1853.

First edition of Smith’s famous book...

£1275

SIMPSON, Alexander.

The life and travels of Thomas Simpson,...

London, Richard Bentley, 1845.

First edition of this account of the life...

£650

[SCHLOSSER, Johann Albert.] BODDAERT, Pieter. 

Epistola ad virum celeberrimum Johannem...

Amsterdam, apud Cornelium van Tongerlo, 1770.

First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

£500

[RICHMOND.]

The Belvidere: a Poem. Inscrib’d to Joseph...

London: Printed in the Year 1749.

First edition, rare (British Library and...

£2750

KIRAM, Zeki Hasmet. 

Vocabularium anatomiae latine-turcice. ...

Berlin, Morgen- und Abendland-Verlag, 1923.

First edition of a comprehensive glossary...

£375

KIRAM, Zeki Hasmet. 

Vocabularium anatomiae latine-arabice. ...

Berlin, Morgen- und Abendland-Verlag, 1923.

First edition of an uncommon glossary of...

£375

BAUR, Fidelis. 

Geschichte der Hohenzollernschen Staaten...

Sigmaringen, Bucher & Liener, 1834-6.

First edition.  Perched on the Zollenberg,...

£350

BALBI, Girolamo. 

Oratio habita ab eloquentissimo viro Hieronymo...

[Rome, Francesco Minucio Calvo, 1523.]

First(?) edition of Balbi’s celebrated...

£550

ORLEANS, Pierre Joseph d’ and Francis EGERTON, 1st Earl of ELLESMERE (editor and translator).

History of the two Tartar conquerors of...

London, The Hakluyt Society, 1854.

First edition thus, a Hakluyt society translation...

£175

PEISSEL, Michel.

Tibetan pilgrimage. Architecture of the...

New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

‘Tibetan Pilgrimage … is the result...

£75

STAPLETON, Thomas. 

Promptuarium Catholicum ad instructionem...

Antwerp, Pierre Beller, 1592. 

Rare third edition, expanded, of Stapleton’s...

£700

MELECRINIS, Maria Teresa. 

Le voci del cuore a Maria Teresa Melecrinis...

Naples, stamperia dell' Iride, 1846. 

Very rare collection of odes and sonnets...

£175

[MILAN, province of.]

Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii...

Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.

Scarce edition of this set of rites for...

£200

BEAUVILLIERS, Marie de.

Conférences spirituelles d’une supérieure...

Paris, Moquet et Cie for Toulouse, 1838.

Scarce second edition (first 1837, also...

£400

[DOMINICAN NUNS.]

Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S....

Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.

Very rare first edition thus of the regulations...

£250

MAURIZI, Maria Luisa.

Morali e divote riflessioni a tutti utilissime...

Rome, Tipografia della Pia Unione alle...

Uncommon first edition of this collection...

£150

ROMANA, Provost.

Nell’aprirsi della nuova chiesa dalla...

Mondovì, Pietro Francesco and Luiggi...

Unrecorded provincially printed broadside...

£275

THACKERAY, William Makepeace. 

The Virginians, a tale of the last century. 

London, Bradbury & Evans, November 1857...

First edition in the original monthly parts...

£600