PALGRAVE, William Coates.

Cape of Good Hope. Ministerial Department...

Cape Town, Saul Solomon, 1877.

Uncommon first edition. ‘From 1869 until...

£175

BRUCE, Peter Henry.

Memoirs of Peter Henry Bruce, Esq. a military...

Dublin, J. and R. Byrn, 1783.

Dublin edition (first London 1782) of the...

£450

FRASER, James.

The history of Nadir Shah, formerly called...

London, W. Strahan for the author, 1742.

First edition of ‘the first book in English...

£650

BONVALOT, Gabriel.

Across Thibet, being a translation of ‘De...

New York, Cassell Publishing Company, 1892.

Second edition (first 1891) relating the...

£200

[TICHBORNE, Herbert.]

Rambles in Polynesia by ‘Sundowner’ …

London, European Mail Ltd, 1897.

First edition, with a presentation inscription...

£125

BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE, Jean Baptiste Joseph.

China, its costume, arts, manufactures,...

London, for J.J. Stockdale, 1813.

Fifth edition (first 1812) of this popular...

£950

SIMPSON, Alexander.

The life and travels of Thomas Simpson,...

London, Richard Bentley, 1845.

First edition of this account of the life...

£650

[SCHLOSSER, Johann Albert.] BODDAERT, Pieter. 

Epistola ad virum celeberrimum Johannem...

Amsterdam, apud Cornelium van Tongerlo, 1770.

First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

£500

[RICHMOND.]

The Belvidere: a Poem. Inscrib’d to Joseph...

London: Printed in the Year 1749.

First edition, rare (British Library and...

£2750

BAUR, Fidelis. 

Geschichte der Hohenzollernschen Staaten...

Sigmaringen, Bucher & Liener, 1834-6.

First edition.  Perched on the Zollenberg,...

£350

BALBI, Girolamo. 

Oratio habita ab eloquentissimo viro Hieronymo...

[Rome, Francesco Minucio Calvo, 1523.]

First(?) edition of Balbi’s celebrated...

£550

ORLEANS, Pierre Joseph d’ and Francis EGERTON, 1st Earl of ELLESMERE (editor and translator).

History of the two Tartar conquerors of...

London, The Hakluyt Society, 1854.

First edition thus, a Hakluyt society translation...

£175

PEISSEL, Michel.

Tibetan pilgrimage. Architecture of the...

New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

‘Tibetan Pilgrimage … is the result...

£75

STAPLETON, Thomas. 

Promptuarium Catholicum ad instructionem...

Antwerp, Pierre Beller, 1592. 

Rare third edition, expanded, of Stapleton’s...

£700

MELECRINIS, Maria Teresa. 

Le voci del cuore a Maria Teresa Melecrinis...

Naples, stamperia dell' Iride, 1846. 

Very rare collection of odes and sonnets...

£175

[MILAN, province of.]

Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii...

Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.

Scarce edition of this set of rites for...

£200

BEAUVILLIERS, Marie de.

Conférences spirituelles d’une supérieure...

Paris, Moquet et Cie for Toulouse, 1838.

Scarce second edition (first 1837, also...

£400

[DOMINICAN NUNS.]

Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S....

Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.

Very rare first edition thus of the regulations...

£250

MAURIZI, Maria Luisa.

Morali e divote riflessioni a tutti utilissime...

Rome, Tipografia della Pia Unione alle...

Uncommon first edition of this collection...

£150

ROMANA, Provost.

Nell’aprirsi della nuova chiesa dalla...

Mondovì, Pietro Francesco and Luiggi...

Unrecorded provincially printed broadside...

£275