GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.

Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...

Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

First edition, the complete four-volume...

£6500

HALL, Basil.

Account of a voyage of discovery to the...

London, John Murray, 1818.

First edition of this important work on...

£1250

JESUS, Carlos Augusto Montalto de.

Historic Macao …

Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, 1902.

First edition of an important history of...

£950

KRASHENINNIKOV, Stepan Petrovich; James GRIEVE, translator.

The history of Kamtschatka, and the Kurilski...

Gloucester, R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, 1764.

First edition of this English abridgement...

£1850

M’LEOD, John.

Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Alceste,...

London, John Murray, 1818.

Second edition (first 1817), with five...

£275

MENDES PINTO, Fernão. 

The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez...

London, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry...

First edition in English, translated by...

£6500

[MONTANUS, Arnoldus.]

Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie...

Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680.

First edition in French of an important...

£3500

NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández. 

Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

£3750

PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. 

The History of the Conquest of China by...

London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671. 

First edition in English of Palafox's Historia...

£1750

SMITH, George.

Lewchew and the Lewchewans; being a narrative...

London, T. Hatchard, 1853.

Three scarce works on the Ryukyu Islands,...

£950

ST JOHN, Spenser Buckingham.

Life in the forests of the far east …...

London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1862.

First edition, a nice copy in the publisher’s...

£1600

WYLD, James.

Map of the islands of Japan, Kurile &c....

London, James Wyld, 1859–1860.

Rare four-sheet map of Japan, the Russian...

£2750

TERENTIUS Afer, Publius.

Comoediae sex. Ex recensione Heinsiana,...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1658.

An intensely annotated copy of this rare...

£2250

PEROTTO, Niccolò, and Benedetto BRUGNOLO, editor.

Cornucopi[a]e nuper emendatum a domino...

[Milan], Giovanni Giacomo and brothers...

Scarce Milanese edition of Perotto’s...

£1750

SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de.

Cours de linguistique générale.

Lausanne & Paris, Payot, 1916.

First edition of this seminal textbook...

£575

GROUCHY, Nicolas de. 

Praeceptiones dialecticae, Nicolao Gruchio...

Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1563. 

An apparently unrecorded edition of Grouchy’s...

£750

RUSH, John; Jacob F. SHEEK, editor.

The Hand-Book to veterinary Homoeopathy,...

New York & San Francisco, Boericke & Tafel,...

Later American edition of a rare hand-book...

£275

POPE, Alexander.

The Temple of Fame: a Vision … London:...

London: Printed for Bernard Lintot … 1715.

First edition. A modernized version of...

£350

[HOARE, Prince.]

Songs, Duets, and Chorus, in the Prize;...

[London,] 1793.

First edition, scarce, of the libretto...

£350

ALFIERI, Vittorio, and Charles LLOYD, translator.

The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri; translated...

London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees,...

First edition of this translation of Alfieri’s...

£450