GUILLIM, John.

A Display of Heraldrie: manifesting a more...

London, Thomas Cotes for Jacob Blome, 1638.

Third edition, corrected and enlarged,...

£950

PLINY the Younger, Gaius SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, and Julius OBSEQUENS.

C. Plinii Secundi Novocomensis Epistolarum...

[(Colophon:) Venice, in the house of Aldus...

The second Aldine edition of the letters...

£975

POMPONIO LETO, Giulio.

In omnia quae quidem extant, P. Vergilii...

Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1544].

Second edition of Leto’s influential...

£450

RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator.

Some British Ballads.

London, Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919].

First trade edition, illustrated by Rackham,...

£500

SPILBERGEN, Joris van, and Jacob LE MAIRE.

Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae...

Leiden, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1619.

First Latin edition of one of the classic...

£20000

[THAMES ESTUARY.]

Coloured chart of the Thames Estuary extending...

London, Edward Stanford, 16 May 1927.

Attractive maps with plenty of accompanying...

£75

SANSON, Nicolas.

L’Asie en plusieurs cartes nouvelles,...

Paris, for the author, 1658.

Scarce second edition, featuring seventeen...

£2750

LAET, Joannes de, editor.

De imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera...

Leiden, ‘ex officina Elzeviriana’, 1631.

Pocket-sized Elzevir edition (one of two...

£950

[CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]

Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En...

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.

Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...

£300

CLÜVER, Philipp.

Introductio in universam geographiam tam...

Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...

The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...

£2500

[BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas].

Collection of maps from Prévost’s Histoire...

Paris, Didot, 1746-1789.

A collection of seventy-four maps taken...

£2500

[CERCEAU, Abbé.]

[Drop-head title:] La constitution vengée...

[Paris,] Lenoir & Leboucher, [1790].

One of two editions of this early Revolutionary...

£185

EYRE, Henry.

A brief account of the Holt waters, containing...

London, printed for J. Roberts, 1731.

First edition. The waters from Bath, Bristol...

£450

ATWOOD, Margaret.

The Handmaid’s Tale.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

First American edition of Atwood’s award-winning...

£300

[BARSANTI, Pier Vincenzo.]

Della futura rinnovazione de’ cieli e...

[Florence,] Stamperia Bonducciana, 1780.

First edition of this polemical utopia...

£675

[BOUCHET, Jean.]

Les triu[m]phes de la noble et amoureuse...

Paris, Estienne Caveiller for Pierre Sergent,...

Unrecorded issue of Jean Bouchet’s contemplative...

£4500

HAREL, Charles.

Ménage sociétaire ou Moyen d’augmenter...

Paris, Bureau de la Phalange, à la librairie...

First edition of this work by the entrepreneur...

£975

HESSE, Hermann.

Siddhartha. Eine indische Dichtung.

Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag, 1922.

First edition of Hesse’s most celebrated...

£1200

[DANIEL, Yuli Markovich,]

pseud. ‘Nikolai ARZHAK’. Говорит...

Munich, I. Baschkirzew for Washington,...

First edition, smuggled out of the Soviet...

£150

[IMAGINARY VOYAGE.]

Admirable Travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins...

London, ‘for the Benefit of Robert Barker,...

Rare, a lively chapbook novella of adventures...

£1500