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

[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

NEWTON, Isaac.

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

London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

£70000

[PHILIPPINES and CHINA.]

Album of one hundred gelatin silver prints...

The Philippines, c. 1915.

A fascinating album documenting the Philippines...

£1500

POUND, Ezra.

An Autobiographical Outline.

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

First separate edition, numbered 114 of...

£1200

RAIMONDI, Eugenio.

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

[Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]

Second edition, expanded and extended,...

£2500

RICCI, Giovanni, and Ercolano PORTA.

Storia della missione francescana e del...

Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...

First and only edition of this history...

£750

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

[SHANGHAI.]

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

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

Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...

£1250

SICARDO, José.

Christiandad del Japon, y dilatada persecucion...

Madrid, Francisco Sanz, 1698.

Rare first edition of this important and...

£12000

[SINO-VIETNAMESE.]

‘朱柏盧家訓 Instructions familières...

[Vietnam?, late nineteenth century.]

A set of manuscript lessons and exercises...

£3500

TRAVERS, John.

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

London, Effingham Wilson, 1834.

Second, expanded edition of this tract...

£850

[WALEY, Arthur.]

康熙字典 [Kangxi zidian; ‘The Kangxi...

Shanghai, Dianshizhai for Jiujingzhai,...

Nineteenth-century Shanghai edition of...

£1250

WILLIAMSON, Thomas; Samuel HOWITT, illustrator.

Oriental Field Sports; being a complete,...

London, J. McCreery for H. R. Young, 1819.

Second quarto edition, one of the most...

£3250

MARKHAM, Sheila.

A Book of Booksellers: Conversations with...

London, 2007.

First paperback edition of the first collection...

£20

WINES, Enoch Cobb.

A Peep at China, in Mr. Dunn’s Chinese...

Philadelphia, for Nathan Dunn, 1839.

Scarce first edition of a guide to the...

£1250

[WUHAN.]

武汉影集 [Wuhan yingji; ‘Wuhan Album’].

Wuhan, 国营长虹摄影图片社 [State...

Exceptionally rare promotional photobook...

£150

YAMAZAKI Kane’ichirō 山崎 鋆一郎.

满洲の展望 [Manshū no tenbō, i.e....

Dalian, Kane’ichirō Yamazaki for Kinjirō...

A highly illustrated photobook on Manchuria...

£650

ARENA, Antoine.

Antonius de Arena Provençalis de bragardissima...

London [i.e. Paris, Joseph-Gérard Barbou],...

A fine copy of the 1758 edition of this...

£1100

ARNOLD, Edwin, Sir.

Enfin: A Poem, hitherto unpublished ...

New York, Thomas Perry Stricker for Julian...

First edition, one of only fifty copies...

£350