NEWTON, Isaac.

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

London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

£70000

FABERT, Abraham.

Voyage du roy a Metz, l’occasion d’iceluy:...

[Metz, Fabert,] 1610.

A splendid hand-coloured and gilt copy...

£60000

GONZÁLES DE MENDOZA, Juan, and Robert PARKE, translator. 

The Historie of the great and mightie Kingdome...

London, Printed by J. Wolfe for Edward...

First edition in English, rare, of the...

£50000

ARCHIMEDES.

Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα,...

Basel, Johannes Herwagen, [(colophon):...

Editio princeps of the works of...

£45000

[INDULGENCE.] 

Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...

[Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.] 

Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...

£34000

ALLIONI, Carlo.

Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica...

Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.

First edition of the earliest Italian regional...

£30000

ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...

Paris, François Huby, 1614.

Second edition, enlarged and revised from...

£30000

[JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.]

The Boke of Justices of Peas the Charge...

...

First edition(?), very rare, of the first...

£27500

[QUESNAY, François.] DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel, editor.

Physiocratie, ou constitution naturelle...

Leiden and Paris, Merlin, 1768.

First edition of the ‘Bible’ of the...

£27000

[MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat.]

De l’esprit des loix, ou du rapport que...

Geneva, Barrillot [sic], [1748].

First edition, first issue of Montesquieu’s...

£25750

LACTANTIUS.

Opera.

[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

£25000

AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

First edition of this highly important...

£22500

JONSON, Benjamin.

The Workes …

London, Will Stansby, 1616.

An excellent set of the canonical Ben Jonson,...

£21000

[GRADUAL.]

Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

£20000

SPILBERGEN, Joris van, and Jacob LE MAIRE.

Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae...

Leiden, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1619.

First Latin edition of one of the classic...

£20000

HAKLUYT, Richard.

The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques...

London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie,...

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

£20000

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

ROUQUET, Jean-André. 

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

London, for J. Nourse, 1755. 

First edition in English, published in...

£19500

[CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.]

Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium...

Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592. 

The most complete edition, rare, of the...

£18500

NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

First edition, printed for private circulation...

£18000