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  1. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    The Childermass … Section 1.

    London, Chatto & Windus, 1928.

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

    £2500

  2. [LITURGY.]

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

    Paris, par la Compagnie des libraires...

    Uncommon edition of the offices for Holy...

    £1250

  3. VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich.

    O Repine [On Repin] …

    Moscow, “Ole-Lukoie”, 1913.

    First edition thus: three pieces written...

    £450

  4. MACHADO, Álvaro de Melo.

    Coisas de Macau.

    Lisbon, Livraria Ferreira, 1913.

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

    £950

  5. MARKHAM, Gervase.

    Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning...

    London, Edward Allde for Edward White,...

    A beautiful copy of the second edition,...

    £9750

  6. [MASTER OF THE GENEVA BOCCACCIO.]

    St Bartholomew in India, miniature cut...

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

    An iconographically intriguing miniature...

    £12500

  7. [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

  8. 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

  9. [NAGAKUBO] Sekisui [長久保] 赤水.

    地球萬國山海輿地全圖說 [Chikyū...

    Tōto [Tokyo] and Naniwa [Osaka], Yahei...

    An early hand-coloured impression of this...

    £5000

  10. NEWTON, Isaac.

    Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions,...

    London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

    First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

    £70000

  11. [PHILIPPINES and CHINA.]

    Album of one hundred gelatin silver prints...

    The Philippines, c. 1915.

    A fascinating album documenting the Philippines...

    £1500

  12. POUND, Ezra.

    An Autobiographical Outline.

    [New York], Nadja, (colophon: March) 1980.

    First separate edition, numbered 114 of...

    £1200

  13. RAIMONDI, Eugenio.

    Delle caccie … libri Quattro, aggiuntovi’n...

    [Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]

    Second edition, expanded and extended,...

    £2500

  14. RICCI, Giovanni, and Ercolano PORTA.

    Storia della missione francescana e del...

    Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...

    First and only edition of this history...

    £750

  15. ROUGEMONT, François de; [Sebastião de MAGALHÃES, translator].

    Relacam do estado politico e espiritual...

    Lisbon, Joao da Costa, 1672.

    First edition in any language of the Dutch...

    £2500

  16. [SHANGHAI.]

    Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of...

    Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly...

    Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...

    £1250

  17. SICARDO, José.

    Christiandad del Japon, y dilatada persecucion...

    Madrid, Francisco Sanz, 1698.

    Rare first edition of this important and...

    £12000

  18. [SINO-VIETNAMESE.]

    ‘朱柏盧家訓 Instructions familières...

    [Vietnam?, late nineteenth century.]

    A set of manuscript lessons and exercises...

    £3500

  19. TRAVERS, John.

    A Letter to the Editor of the Courier Newspaper,...

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1834.

    Second, expanded edition of this tract...

    £850

  20. [WALEY, Arthur.]

    康熙字典 [Kangxi zidian; ‘The Kangxi...

    Shanghai, Dianshizhai for Jiujingzhai,...

    Nineteenth-century Shanghai edition of...

    £1250