SWIFT, Jonathan.

The Posthumous Works … Volume I [–III].

Edinburgh: Printed for John Balfour. 1766

Very rare, a reissue, with cancel title-pages,...

£450

SCOTT, Sir Walter.

The Lady of the Lake … with all his Introductions...

Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1851.

An attractive Scottish 'Mauchline ware'...

£750

GRASSINEAU, James.

A Musical Dictionary; being a Collection...

… London: Printed for J. Wilcox … 1740.

First edition, based largely on the Dictionnaire...

£650

ECCLES, Mary, Viscountess, and Gordon TURNBULL, eds..

James Boswell’s Book of Company at Auchinleck.

The Roxburghe Club, 1995.

The Book of Company is much more than a...

£260

[SUEZ CANAL.]

Vade-mecum des porteurs de Suez. Extrait...

. Paris, [1882].

Scarce pamphlet, signed ‘J. R.’, advising...

£50

CHOLERA – KÖNIGLICHES MEDICINAL COLLEGIUM.

Bekanntmachung in Betreff der Asiatischen...

Stuttgart: [n.p.], 20 September 1831 [offprint...

As both advice and rumours about the so-called...

£275

[CHOLERA.]

Bitte wegen der Cholera, welche bei den...

[Württemberg: s.n., 11 October 1831].

Cholera, the ‘plague’ of the nineteenth...

£175

DUNDAS, Charles Cecil Farquharson.

Kilimanjaro and Its People. A History of...

London: Northumberland Press for H.F....

First edition. Charles Dundas (1884-1956),...

£350

HERNANDEZ, Joseph François Didace.

Essai sur le typhus ou sur les fièvres...

Paris, Cellot for Méquignon-Marvis, 1816.

First edition by the physiologist and pathologist...

£550

[NORTH, Roger].

A Discourse of Fish and Fish-Ponds ......

London: E. Curll, 1713.

First edition. Written by the polymathematical...

£500

HEDIN, Sven Anders.

Öfver Land till Indien. Genom Persien,...

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1910.

First edition, first to fourth thousand...

£575

HUNT, John.

Typed letter signed (‘John Hunt’) to...

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Westminster,...

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for Boys...

£200

CHOLERA – KÖNIGLICHES MEDICINAL COLLEGIUM.

Verhaltungs Maβregeln für das Publikum...

Stuttgart: Buckdruckerei des Schwabischen...

By 1836 the propagation of health advice...

£300

CUVIGLIA, Ambrogio.

Letter signed (‘Ambrogio Cuviglia’)...

Naples, 27 June 1837.

A fascinating letter reporting on the disastrous...

£150

PALMER, Robert Stafford Arthur, the Hon.

A Little Tour in India.

London: Unwin Brothers, Limited, The Gresham...

First edition. Palmer was the son of the...

£50

[TURKEY.]

Johnston’s war map of Turkey in Europe...

Edinburgh and London, W. and A.K. Johnston,...

Showing the Balkans. A handsome map published...

£100

HARLINGUE, L. [Albert].

'Baktiaris Persans'.

[Iran, c. 1905-1911].

An impressive press image of the Bakhtiari...

£1500

WELLINGTON, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of.

Three autograph letters signed to Lady...

April – November 1842.

Wellington does not object to her son switching...

£750

BYRD, Richard Evelyn.

Little America. Aerial Exploration in the...

New York and London: The Knickerbocker...

First edition, ‘Author’s Autograph...

£400

[PHARMACOPOEIA.]

Pharmacopoea Taurinensis nunc primum edita...

Turin, Jean-Baptiste Chais, 1736.

First edition of this Turin pharmacopoeia,...

£1800