HAKLUYT, Richard.

The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques...

London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie,...

Second edition, first issue of ‘Hakluyt’s...

£20000

HUGO, Victor.

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

Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1831.

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

£7500

[AGRICULTURE.] BEIJING MUNICIPAL BUREAU FOR AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.

农业机械安全生产挂图 [Nongye...

[Beijing], China Agriculture Press for...

Very rare complete set of posters promoting...

£1750

[CHINA.]

Notes of a Journey from Canton to Wu-chow-fu.

S.l., [c. 1862].

Extremely rare account of an early journey...

£450

[GO Keitai 吳啓太 and TEI Eihō 鄭永邦.]

官話指南 [Guanhua zhinan; ‘A...

Kiukiang [Jiujiang], Central China Press, 1893.

Very rare edition of this guide to Mandarin...

£1750

FLOWER, Stanley Smyth.

Album of 14 watercolours of India and Malaya.

India and Malaya, October 1894 to August 1895.

A charming album of vivid watercolour views...

£750

IDES, E[vert] Ysbrants.

Three Years Travels from Moscow over-land...

London, W. Freeman, J. Walthoe, T. Newborough,...

First edition in English of this important...

£2750

[IRWIN, Eyles.]

Eastern Eclogues; written during a Tour...

London, for J. Dodsley, 1780.

First edition of these travel-inspired...

£850

JOHNSON, Samuel.

A Dictionary of the English Language: in...

London, W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton,...

First edition of ‘the most amazing, enduring...

£20000

KOO, T. Z. [Tsu-Jen KU].  

Songs of Cathay. An Anthology of Songs...

Shanghai, Association Press, [1931].

First edition, fourth impression, of a...

£275

LATHAM, Simon.

Latham’s Falconry: or, the Faulcons Lure,...

London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for...

First collected edition (third edition...

£8500

LEVEY, Michael.

The later Italian Pictures in the Collection...

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Revised second edition of Levey’s catalogue...

£475

LEWIS, Wyndham.

The Childermass … Section 1.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1928.

First edition, no. 74 of 225 copies of...

£2500

[LITURGY.]

L’Office de la Semaine Sainte, selon...

Paris, par la Compagnie des libraires...

Uncommon edition of the offices for Holy...

£1250

VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich.

O Repine [On Repin] …

Moscow, “Ole-Lukoie”, 1913.

First edition thus: three pieces written...

£450

MACHADO, Álvaro de Melo.

Coisas de Macau.

Lisbon, Livraria Ferreira, 1913.

Rare first edition of this early twentieth-century...

£950

MARKHAM, Gervase.

Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning...

London, Edward Allde for Edward White,...

A beautiful copy of the second edition,...

£9750

[MASTER OF THE GENEVA BOCCACCIO.]

St Bartholomew in India, miniature cut...

[France (Loire Valley, Nantes or Angers),...

An iconographically intriguing miniature...

£12500

[METEOROLOGY.] ZHAO Jingdong 赵静东, illustrator.

氣象知䛊掛图（供小型展览）...

Tianjin, Tianjin Municipal Press for the...

An apparently unrecorded set of posters...

£2000

MILL, John Stuart; 中村 敬太郎 NAKAMURA Keitarō [i.e. 中村 正直 NAKAMURA Masanao], translator.

On Liberty. 自由之理 [Jiyū no kotowari].

Shizuoka, Ken’ichiro Kihira, Meiji Mizunoesaru/Jinshin...

First edition, rare, of the first Japanese...

£2500