LAVATER, Ludwig (1527-86). De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus, Leiden, 1659, 12mo, engraved title, contemporary vellum. This influential work on ghosts and demons was first published in German in 1569.
LAVATER, Ludwig (1527-86). De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque…
LAVATER, Ludwig (1527-86).  De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus, variisque præsagitionibus, quæ plerunlque obicum hominum, magnas clades, mutationesque Imperiorum prcedunt.…
Hammer price: £450
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MAPS - John SPEED (1552-1629). Holy Iland ... Garnsey ... Farne ... Jarsey, [London], 1610 [but 1611 or later], engraved map, 380 x 510mm., framed and glazed. With 15 other engraved maps and charts, framed and glazed. (16)
MAPS - John SPEED (1552-1629). Holy Iland ... Garnsey ... Farne ... Jarsey…
MAPS - John SPEED (1552-1629).  Holy Iland ... Garnsey ... Farne ... Jarsey. [London:] "Performed by John Speede, and are to be solde in Popes heade alley by Joh. Sudbury and G. Humbell," 1610 [but…
Estimate: £500 - £800
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MAYNWARINGE, Everard (c.1628-99). Morbus polyrhizos et polymorphæs. A Treatise of the Scurvy ... The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, London, 1666, 8vo, modern old-style calf. Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). Wing M1501.
MAYNWARINGE, Everard (c.1628-99). Morbus polyrhizos et polymorphæs. A…
MAYNWARINGE, Everard (c.1628-99).  Morbus polyrhizos et polymorphæs. A Treatise of the Scurvy ... The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author. London: "Printed by J. D. for S. Thompson at…
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £400 - £600
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MAYOW, John (1640-79). Tractatus duo Quorum prior agit de Respiratione: Alter De Rachitide, Oxford, 1669, 8vo, 2 folding engraved plates at the end, contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). Wing 1536. RARE.
MAYOW, John (1640-79). Tractatus duo Quorum prior agit de Respiratione:…
MAYOW, John (1640-79).  Tractatus duo Quorum prior agit de Respiratione: Alter De Rachitide. Oxford: "Excudebat Hen: Hall, Impensis Ric: Davis," 1669 [including, as part of the same work, but with…
Hammer price: £1,500
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MERLIN, Romain (1793-1876). Origine des Cartes a Jouer. Recherches Nouvelles sur les Naïbis, les Tarots et sur les Autres Espèces de Cartes, Paris, 1869, 4to, 73 plates, a few printed in colours, original wrappers (detached, very worn). FIRST EDITION.
MERLIN, Romain (1793-1876). Origine des Cartes a Jouer. Recherches…
MERLIN, Romain (1793-1876).  Origine des Cartes a Jouer. Recherches Nouvelles sur les Naïbis, les Tarots et sur les Autres Espèces de Cartes. Ouvrage accompagné d'un Album de Soixante-Dix Planches…
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE - Miguel de Lardizábal y URIBE (1739-1820).  2 printed proclamations in Spanish, each 3-pages in a single bifolium, [n.p. but Madrid and/or Mexico City], 1814, 1815. (2)
MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE - Miguel de Lardizábal y URIBE (1739-1820). 2…
MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE - Miguel de Lardizábal y URIBE (1739-1820).  2 printed proclamations in Spanish, each 3-pages in a single bifolium, [n.p. but Madrid and/or Mexico City], 1814, 1815. In…
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MOYLE, John (d.1714). Abstractum chirurgiæ marinæ. Or, An Abstract of Sea Chirurgery, London, 1686, 12mo, contemporary calf (copious old annotation). Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Wing M3028. RARE.
MOYLE, John (d.1714). Abstractum chirurgiæ marinæ. Or, An Abstract of Sea…
MOYLE, John (d.1714).  Abstractum chirurgiæ marinæ. Or, An Abstract of Sea Chirurgery: Designed for the use of such Chirurgeons who desire to serve at Sea, yet are unacquainted with Sea practice: In…
Hammer price: £2,000
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
NEVINSON, C. R. W. (1889-1946, artist) - Modern War, London, 1917, 4to, coloured frontispiece SIGNED BY NEVINSON in pencil, plates, boards. FIRST EDITION. With the same artist's The Great War (London, 1918, coloured frontispiece SIGNED BY NEVINSON). (2)
NEVINSON, C. R. W. (1889-1946, artist) - Modern War, London, 1917, 4to,…
NEVINSON, Christopher Richard Wynne (1889-1946, artist) - Modern War. Paintings by C. R. W. Nevinson. With an Essay by P. G. Konody. London: Grant Richards Limited, 1917. 4to (288 x 225mm). Half…
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £500 - £800
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
OGILVIE-GRANT, W. R. (1863-1924), and others. British Game Birds and Wildfowl, London, 1912, 4to, portrait and 26 coloured plates by George E. Lodge, original morocco. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 564 OF 950 COPIES. With 4 other books of related interest. (5)
OGILVIE-GRANT, W. R. (1863-1924), and others. British Game Birds and…
OGILVIE-GRANT, William Robert (1863-1924), and others.  British Game Birds and Wildfowl. London: The London & Counties Press Association Ltd., 1912. 4to (316 x 258mm). Half title, photogravure…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, INCLUDING VIEWS OF SYDNEY, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, MANILA AND JAPAN - An album of c.176 mounted albumen silver print photographed views, [c.1880]. Please see the full description below.
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, INCLUDING VIEWS OF SYDNEY, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, MANILA…
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, INCLUDING VIEWS OF SYDNEY, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, MANILA AND JAPAN - An album of c.176 mounted albumen silver print photographed views, [c.1880], various sizes, some mounted several…
Hammer price: £3,200
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, MONGOLIA - An album of 20 mounted albumen silver print photographed views of the Russian colony in Urga [now Ulaanbaatar], Mongolia, the photographs of varying sizes, some mounted two to a page, [late 19th-century].
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, MONGOLIA - An album of 20 mounted albumen silver print…
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, MONGOLIA - An album of 20 mounted albumen silver print photographed views of the Russian colony in Urga, [now Ulaanbaatar], Mongolia, signed in the plate by the photographer, in…
Hammer price: £1,600
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, THE SECOND ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR - An album of 25 FINE mounted albumen silver print photographed views, with a few other unrelated photographs, in a morocco gilt 4to album, [c.1879-80]. With a related printed work in 2 vols. (3)
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, THE SECOND ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR - An album of 25 FINE…
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, THE SECOND ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR - An album of 25 FINE mounted albumen silver print photographed views of Afghanistan taken during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, some double-page, each…
Hammer price: £1,700
Estimate: £500 - £800
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
PORTLOCK, Nathaniel (c.1748-1817). A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America, London, 1789, 4to, portrait, folding general chart, 17 plates and charts only (of 18), old boards wrapped in hessian. FIRST EDITION.
PORTLOCK, Nathaniel (c.1748-1817). A Voyage Round the World; but more…
PORTLOCK, Nathaniel (c.1748-1817).  A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
RENDEL, A. M. (1910-91). Appointment in Crete. The Story of a British Agent, London, 1953, 8vo, original buckram, dust-jacket designed by John Craxton (jacket torn at head of backstrip and corners with some loss). FIRST EDITION. RARE.
RENDEL, A. M. (1910-91). Appointment in Crete. The Story of a British…
RENDEL, Alexander Meadows (1910-91).  Appointment in Crete. The Story of a British Agent. London: Allan Wingate, 1953. 8vo (196 x 128mm). Half title (some mainly light patches of staining to a few…
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques (1712-78). Oeuvres, Amsterdam, 1769, 11 volumes, 12mo, 5 engraved frontispieces and 36 plates, contemporary calf gilt. With John Tillotson's The Works (Edinburgh, 1748, 9 vols. only (of 10, lacking vol. 4), 12mo, calf. (20)
ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques (1712-78). Oeuvres, Amsterdam, 1769, 11 volumes,…
ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques (1712-78).  Oeuvres ... Nouvelle édition Revue, corrigée, & augmentée de plusieurs morceaux qui n' avoient point encore paru. Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1769. 11 volumes,…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
ROYAL SOCIETY, LONDON - The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1700 to the Year 1720.) Abridg'd and Dispos'd under General Heads, London, 1721, 4to, 19 folding engraved plates, tables, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. With 3 other volumes. (4)
ROYAL SOCIETY, LONDON - The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1700…
ROYAL SOCIETY, LONDON - The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1700 to the Year 1720.) Abridg'd and Dispos'd under General Heads. In Two Volumes. By Henry Jones ... Vol. IV. Containing Part I.…
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
SAVONAROLA, Michele (c.1384-1466). Libro della natura et virtu delle cose, che nutriscono & delle cose non naturali, Venice, 1576, 4to, vellum. Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). Second edition of this important work on nutrition.
SAVONAROLA, Michele (c.1384-1466). Libro della natura et virtu delle cose,…
SAVONAROLA, Michele (c.1384-1466).  Libro della natura et virtu delle cose, che nutriscono & delle cose non naturali, con alcune osseruationi per conseruar la sanità, & alcuni quesiti bellissimi da…
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £500 - £800
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
SMALLEGANGE, Matthaeus (1624-1710, editor and contributor). Nieuwe Cronyk Van Zeeland, Middelburg, 1696 [but 1700-[?]1704], folio, additional engraved title, 3 engraved maps and 87 fine engraved plates, contemporary panelled calf gilt. FIRST EDITION.
SMALLEGANGE, Matthaeus (1624-1710, editor and contributor). Nieuwe Cronyk…
SMALLEGANGE, Matthaeus (1624-1710, editor and contributor).  Nieuwe Cronyk Van Zeeland. Eerste Deel [all published], Vervattende De voor uitgegeven Cronyken van de Heeren, Jacobus Eyndius, en Johan…
Hammer price: £1,100
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
SOONG MEI-LING ("Madame CHIANG") (1898-2003). China in Peace and War, Shanghai, 1940, large 8vo, original pink silk boards gilt. FIRST EDITION. "This book has been printed on specially prepared Chinese paper made by hand from bamboo fiber" (printed note).
SOONG MEI-LING ("Madame CHIANG") (1898-2003). China in Peace and War,…
SOONG MEI-LING ("Madame CHIANG") (1898-2003).  China in Peace and War. Selections from the Writings. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1940. Large 8vo (242 x 175mm). (First and last few leaves…
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
TAUNT, H. W. (1842-1922). A New Map [in book form] of the River Thames, Oxford, [c.1884], 8vo, Woodburytype frontispiece, folding table, 33 double-page maps incorporating 97 Woodburytype views, advertisements, original pictorial roan gilt. Fifth edition.
TAUNT, H. W. (1842-1922). A New Map [in book form] of the River Thames,…
TAUNT, Henry William (1842-1922).  A New Map [in book form] of the River Thames, from Thames Head to London, (On a Scale of Two Inches to a Mile,) From Entirely New Surveys Finished During the Summer…
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
THOMSON, James (1700-48). The Seasons, London, 1797, folio, 10 fine illustrations engraved by F. Bartolozzi and P. W Tomkins after W. Hamilton (lacks the frontispiece, some leaves browned), contemporary calf gilt. With 2 other books. (3)
THOMSON, James (1700-48). The Seasons, London, 1797, folio, 10 fine…
THOMSON, James (1700-48).  The Seasons ... Illustrated with Engravings by F. Bartolozzi, R. A. and P. W. Tomkins ... from Original Pictures Painted for the Work by W. Hamilton. London: Printed for P.…
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
TRUMBULL, Henry (1781-1843). History of the Discovery of America, of the Landings of our Forefathers, at Plymouth, and of their Most Remarkable Engagements with the Indians, Boston, 1819, 8vo, folding hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece, 2 plates, calf.
TRUMBULL, Henry (1781-1843). History of the Discovery of America, of the…
TRUMBULL, Henry (1781-1843).  History of the Discovery of America, of the Landings of our Forefathers, at Plymouth, and of their Most Remarkable Engagements with the Indians, in New-England, From…
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £70 - £100
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
VASNETSOV, Viktor (1848-1926, artist). [In Cyrillic:] "Menu for the Coronation Banquet of the Emperor Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna", 1896, chromolithograph printed in gold and colours, 770 x 220mm., framed and glazed. With 7 others similar. (8)
VASNETSOV, Viktor (1848-1926, artist). [In Cyrillic:] "Menu for the…
VASNETSOV, Viktor (1848-1926, artist), and others.  [In Cyrillic:] "Menu for the Coronation Banquet of the Emperor Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna", 14th May, 1896, chromolithograph printed in…
Hammer price: £2,600
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
A SMALL CHINESE YELLOW-GROUND JARDINIERE
A SMALL CHINESE YELLOW-GROUND JARDINIERE
Circa 1900
Each side painted with a panel of a an official and attendants, against a yellow ground painted with lotus flowers and tendrils, the interior painted with five iron-red carp, 18cm high by…
Shallow glaze chip to the rim, approx. 1cm by 0.5cm. Some wear to the gilding around the rim. Minor wear to the enamels
Hammer price: £350
Estimate: £100 - £200
25 June 2025 , 01:00 BST
25 June 2025 , 01:00 BST

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