GADESBY, Richard.

A new and easy Introduction to Geography,...

London, for the Author, and sold by S. Bladon,...

Second edition, very rare, published following...

£550

GELLIUS, Aulus.

Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...

Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous...

£650

JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...

Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

First Aldine edition of Justinus’ abridgement...

£1850

KECHT, Johann Sigismund.

Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten...

Berlin, [Trowitzsch and Son for] the author,...

Third, expanded edition (first 1813) of...

£450

[LILY, William.]

A short introduction of grammar compiled...

London, S. Buckley and T. Longman, 1738.

Two beautifully printed eighteenth-century...

£550

[LORD LEYCESTER HOSPITAL, WARWICK.]

Account of the Charity of Leicester’s...

Warwick, mid-nineteenth century.

A manuscript copy of the sixteenth-century...

£350

MILLER, Philip.

The Gardeners Kalendar, directing what...

The Fourteenth Edition. London, John Rivington,...

A very attractive copy of the most popular...

£165

AZAÏS, Gabriel, and Charles LABOR.

Illustrated manuscript volume of poetry,...

Béziers, not before 1836.

A charming presentation volume, with French...

£1750

BLANCHON, Jacques.

Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...

£950

[CHINA.]

A collection of 46 Chinese watercolour...

[Canton?, c. 1870].

A series of delicate portraits – the...

£1850

[DEFOE, Daniel.]

A Letter to Dissenters.

London, Printed for John Morphew … 1713.

First edition, the state with the final...

£600

[EMPRESS DOWAGER and DALAI LAMA.]

Photographs of religious traditions in Peking.

Beijing, c. 1908.

A record of religious cultures and traditions...

£4500

PHAEDRUS et al.

Phaedri fabulae. L. Annaei Senecae, ac...

Orléans, Couret de Villeneuve, 1773.

An attractive edition of Phaedrus’ fables...

£250

[MICROSCOPY – RABIQUEAU, Charles.]

Manifeste littéraire, servant de supplément...

Geneva and Paris, the author and Demonville,...

Only edition of this prospectus-cum-supplement...

£250

[TAIWAN.]

中華民國四十六年國慶閱兵大典集影...

[Taiwan, 1957.]

A fine commemorative album documenting...

£1500

DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.

Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um]...

Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs...

Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian...

£3000

[SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...

Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...

Stated second edition but in fact a third...

£375

MILNE, A. A.; E. H. SHEPARD, illustrator.

The House at Pooh Corner.

London, Methuen & Co., 1928.

First edition, first impression, of A. A. Milne’s...

£650

SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.

Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’...

£100

STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.

Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit...

London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s...

£120