RUYRA, Joaquim and Carles FONTSERÈ, illustrator.

La fi del món a Girona.

Paris, [Gaston Hallépée], [31 July] 1946.

First separate edition, one of fifteen...

£450

NICHOLSON, Joseph Shield.

Tenant’s Gain not Landlord’s Loss,...

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1883.

First edition. ‘The vitality of popular...

£250

NAPIER, William, publisher and music-seller. 

Three part-books of trios (complete) and...

Mostly London, 1769–1775. 

An impressive collection of string trios...

£1250

HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.

Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...

Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

First collected edition of the neo-Latin...

£600

[POEMS ON DRINKING.]

Raccolta di brindisi per tutte le occasioni;...

Milan, Emilio Croci, 1875.

First edition of this compact font of inspiration...

£200

RAREY, John Solomon.

The modern Art of Taming wild Horses.

Columbus, Ohio State Journal Company, 1857.

Rare early edition of Rarey’s method...

£950

[ORAN.]

Diario distinto di tutto il seguito per...

(Colophon:) Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1732.

A daily account in Italian from 20 June...

£175

DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.

The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...

Shortrede and Co., 1867.

First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...

£4750

PLAYFAIR, George Macdonald Home.

The Cities and Towns of China. A geographical...

Hong Kong, Noronha & Co., 1879.

First edition of a dictionary of Chinese...

£600

[COMMERCIAL PRESS, SHANGHAI.]

[Cover title:] Views of China – 中國名勝...

Shanghai, Commercial Press, [c. 1913].

A pictorial multilingual souvenir book...

£650

[AGRICULTURE.]

Photographs from the countryside around Beijing.

[Early twentieth century.]

Details of agricultural work and life,...

£3000

[SATIRE.]

‘A Letter to Julian’.

[Circa October, 1685.]

An attractive scribal copy of a ‘shotgun...

£350

[KAFKA, Franz, Max BROD, et al.]

Das bunte Buch.

Leipzig, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1914.

First edition of this literary almanack,...

£250

[POETS’ GUILD.]

Tsekh Poetov I [–III].

Berlin, S. Efron, 1922[–3].

First edition of this literary almanack...

£1250

[TREATIES.]

Volume of tracts on European treaties of...

Vienna and Amsterdam, 1725-1731.

A collection of scarce texts relating to...

£1750

GELLIUS, Aulus; [Johann Friedrich GRONOVIUS, editor].

Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1651.

Jansson’s piracy of Gronovius’s celebrated...

£450

GIBELLI, Giacinto. 

Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...

Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767. 

First and only edition, rare, of these...

£600

HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis...

Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

First edition thus, with annotations by...

£1000

NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator). 

Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...

Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668. 

First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...

£5000

SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. 

Constantini Opelii de fabrica triremium...

‘Eleuteropoli’ [Freistadt?], 1672. 

First edition of this treatise on the ancient...

£875