ROUQUET, Jean-André. 

The present State of the Arts in England. ...

London, for J. Nourse, 1755. 

First edition in English, published in...

£19500

MATURIN, Charles.

Melmoth the Wanderer: a Tale … Edinburgh,...

London, Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1820.

First edition, with excellent provenance,...

£7500

HUGO, Victor.

Notre-Dame de Paris. Par Victor Hugo. Troisième...

Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1831.

First edition, third issue, of Victor Hugo’s...

£7500

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

A very fine large initial painted in a...

£6750

WEBER, Johann Adam.

Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...

[Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]

Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s wide-ranging...

£6000

MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

Urbis Romae topographia.

Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

First illustrated edition (third overall),...

£5500

DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.

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

Shortrede and Co., 1867.

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

£4750

FERDOWSĪ.

Shāhnāmah.

Tehran, Amir Kabir, AH 1350 [AD 1971].

A lavishly produced edition of the Shāhnāmah...

£4000

COLONNA, Fabio.

Φυτοβασανος, sive Plantarum...

Naples, Orazio Salviani, 1592.

First edition, a landmark in botanical...

£4000

VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I]. 

...

Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659. 

First and only edition of this rare...

£3750

[BECKFORD, William.]

Vathek, conte arabe.

Paris, Poinçot; Chatellerault, P. J....

Extremely rare, the only traced copy, of...

£3750

NIEUHOF, Jean, and Jean LE CARPENTIER (translator). 

L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...

Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665. 

Lavishly illustrated first French edition...

£3500

BREREWOOD, Edward. 

Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...

First edition.  Brerewood, professor of...

£3000

LOCKE, John. 

[An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding]. ...

Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waesbergi, Boom,...

A substantial and extremely influential...

£2850

[GREENE, Asa.]

The Perils of Pearl Street, including a...

New York, Betts & Anstice and Peter Hill, 1834.

First edition of a very early Wall Street...

£2750

[ALTAR CARDS.]

Two altar cards with Latin text and images...

‘A Paris, chez I. Baudemont’, second...

Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...

£2750

[PSALMS.]

Les Pseaumes de David, mis en rime Françoise,...

‘Se vendent à Charenton, par Antoine...

Charenton-printed French Psalms in a remarkable...

£2750

ELIOT, George.

The Writings …

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin...

The Large-Paper edition of Eliot’s complete...

£2500

[SACROBOSCO, Johannes de.] 

CLAVIUS, Christophorus.  In sphaeram Ioannis...

Rome, Francesco Zanetti for Domenico Basa,...

Third edition, the first to contain Clavius’s...

£2500

[HERVEY, Elizabeth.]

The Mourtray Family. A Novel …

London: Printed by Millar Ritchie …...

First edition of the penultimate novel...

£2500