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  1. SANSON, Nicolas.

    L’Asie en plusieurs cartes nouvelles,...

    Paris, for the author, 1658.

    Scarce second edition, featuring seventeen...

    £2750

  2. LAET, Joannes de, editor.

    De imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera...

    Leiden, ‘ex officina Elzeviriana’, 1631.

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

    £950

  3. [CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]

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

    Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.

    Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...

    £300

  4. CLÜVER, Philipp.

    Introductio in universam geographiam tam...

    Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...

    The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...

    £2500

  5. [BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas].

    Collection of maps from Prévost’s Histoire...

    Paris, Didot, 1746-1789.

    A collection of seventy-four maps taken...

    £2500

  6. [CERCEAU, Abbé.]

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

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

    One of two editions of this early Revolutionary...

    £185

  7. EYRE, Henry.

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

    London, printed for J. Roberts, 1731.

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

    £450

  8. TASSO, Torquato; Giovanni Francesco NEGRI, translator.

    [Drop-head title:] Della tradottione...

    [Bologna, 1628.]

    Rare first edition of Tasso’s Gerusalemme...

    £1500

  9. ATWOOD, Margaret.

    The Handmaid’s Tale.

    Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

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

    £300

  10. [BARSANTI, Pier Vincenzo.]

    Della futura rinnovazione de’ cieli e...

    [Florence,] Stamperia Bonducciana, 1780.

    First edition of this polemical utopia...

    £675

  11. [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

  12. 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

  13. HESSE, Hermann.

    Siddhartha. Eine indische Dichtung.

    Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag, 1922.

    First edition of Hesse’s most celebrated...

    £1200

  14. PAPINI, Roberto.

    Le Arti d’Oggi: Architettura e Arti Decorative...

    Milan and Rome, Bestetti and Tumminelli, 1930.

    First edition of a thorough and extensively...

    £300

  15. [DANIEL, Yuli Markovich,]

    pseud. ‘Nikolai ARZHAK’. Говорит...

    Munich, I. Baschkirzew for Washington,...

    First edition, smuggled out of the Soviet...

    £150

  16. [IMAGINARY VOYAGE.]

    Admirable Travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins...

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

    Rare, a lively chapbook novella of adventures...

    £1500

  17. JOHNSON, Samuel.

    Mr. Johnson’s Preface to his Edition...

    London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and...

    First separate edition. ‘The separate...

    £1500

  18. [ISELIN, Isaak].

    Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.

    Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.

    Uncommon first edition, part one only (very...

    £150

  19. PIRANI, Giovanni.

    Le donne belle del secolo XVIII. Inferme...

    Rimini, Paolo Albertini, 1791.

    Scarce first edition of this ‘libro bizarro’...

    £950

  20. HAWTREY, George Procter.

    Caramella. A Story of the Lotus Eaters...

    Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith; London, Simpkin,...

    First edition of this utopian novel exploring...

    £250