‘MAWE, Thomas’ [but John ABERCROMBIE]. 

Every Man his own Gardener.  Being a new,...

London: Printed for W. Griffith … 1767. 

Second edition, published in the same year...

£225

[ORAN.]

Diario distinto di tutto il seguito per...

(Colophon:) Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1732.

A daily account in Italian from 20 June...

£175

DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.

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

Shortrede and Co., 1867.

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

£4750

PLAYFAIR, George Macdonald Home.

The Cities and Towns of China. A geographical...

Hong Kong, Noronha & Co., 1879.

First edition of a dictionary of Chinese...

£600

[COMMERCIAL PRESS, SHANGHAI.]

[Cover title:] Views of China – 中國名勝...

Shanghai, Commercial Press, [c. 1913].

A pictorial multilingual souvenir book...

£650

[AGRICULTURE.]

Photographs from the countryside around Beijing.

[Early twentieth century.]

Details of agricultural work and life,...

£3000

PLUTARCH.

La seconda & ultima parte delle vite di...

Venice, Nicolao di Aristotile detto Zoppino,...

An attractive illustrated edition of twenty-seven...

£2750

SPATARI, Pellegrino.

Le orationi delle Messe di tutto l’anno,...

Pesaro, Bartolomeo Cesano, 1555.

Rare first edition of this Italian translation...

£650

[SATIRE.]

‘A Letter to Julian’.

[Circa October, 1685.]

An attractive scribal copy of a ‘shotgun...

£350

FINÉ, Oronce. 

Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...

Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587. 

First Italian edition of the works of Finé. ...

£2750

FENNING, Daniel.

The Ready Reckoner; or Trader’s most...

London, printed for S. Crowder … and...

First edition thus, edited by the mathematician...

£250

[ALMANACK.]

L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...

Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

A very rare enamelled metal binding with...

£2750

[KAFKA, Franz, Max BROD, et al.]

Das bunte Buch.

Leipzig, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1914.

First edition of this literary almanack,...

£250

[POETS’ GUILD.]

Tsekh Poetov I [–III].

Berlin, S. Efron, 1922[–3].

First edition of this literary almanack...

£1250

[TREATIES.]

Volume of tracts on European treaties of...

Vienna and Amsterdam, 1725-1731.

A collection of scarce texts relating to...

£1750

FARIS, Ahmad.

Abdaʻ ma-kan fi suwar Salitan Al ʻUthman...

Leipzig, Carl Garte, [c. 1885].

A handsome set of portraits of thirty-four...

£3500

[ALTAR CARDS.]

Two altar cards with Latin text and images...

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

Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...

£2750

GELLIUS, Aulus; [Johann Friedrich GRONOVIUS, editor].

Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1651.

Jansson’s piracy of Gronovius’s celebrated...

£450

GIBELLI, Giacinto. 

Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...

Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767. 

First and only edition, rare, of these...

£600

HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis...

Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

First edition thus, with annotations by...

£1000