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Traité de paix entre le Roi et le Roi de la Grande-Bretagne, conclu à Versailles le 3 septembre 1783.

[TREATY OF VERSAILLES.]

Traité de paix entre le Roi et le… 1783.

ENDING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

A fascinating album with images of the aftermath of the Zulu War and the burning of Ulundi with the restortation of Cetshwayo in January 1883. Including a small loose watercolour of the Prince Imperial's grave, done at the time by an artillery officer

LLOYD (General [Henry Humphrey Evans]) & PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM

A fascinating album with images of the aftermath… 1880.

ALS from Father Baltasar de Mansilla to the Duchess of Aveiro.

[MEXICO] & MANSILLA (Baltasar de).

ALS from Father Baltasar de Mansilla to the… 1684.

Lady Harriet Ackland [sic] ...

[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] & POLLARD (Robert).

Lady Harriet Ackland [sic] , 1794.

A HEROINE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Esquisses d'un Voyage Autour du Monde et un Épisode de Guerre Civile dans un District du Nord de la Basse-Californie.

ALRIC (Abbé Henry Jean Antoine).

Esquisses d'un Voyage Autour du Monde et un… 1867.

A RARE ACCOUNT OF CALIFORNIA

The Nativity, historiated initials on a leaf from an early Book of Hours, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Northern France (Picardy, Noyon?), 14th century (c. 1370s)]

NORTHERN FRENCH ARTIST

The Nativity, historiated initials on a leaf from… 1370.

Devises heroiques.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau,

PARADIN (Claude)

Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557.

INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT

The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.

KEYNES (John Maynard).

The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, 1936.

A Chinese Commercial Guide

MORRISON (John Robert).

A Chinese Commercial Guide, 1844.

Price Theory. A Provisional Text.

FRIEDMAN (Milton).

Price Theory. A Provisional Text, 1962.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

Aritmetica Prattica... tradotta da Latino in Italiano dal Signor Lorenzo Castellano patritio Romano. Reuista dal medesimo padre Clauio con alcun e aggiunte.
Rome, heirs of Nicolo Muzio, 1602

CLAVIUS (Christopher)

Aritmetica Prattica... tradotta da Latino in Italiano dal… 1602.

JESUIT ASSOCIATIONS - A GIFT FROM A FAMOUS MATHEMATICIAN TO A FUTURE MISSIONARY

A Vendre Belle Propriété...

[NEW YORK], [CASTORLAND] & COLINET (Victor).

A Vendre Belle Propriété, 1840.

THE REMNANTS OF A SETTLER COLONY IN NEW YORK

Clavis theologiae sive repertorium... in summam doctoris irrefragabilis Alexander de Hales.
Basel, Nicolaus Kessler, 1502.

KESCHINGER (Petrus de) & HALES (Alexander of)

Clavis theologiae sive repertorium... in summam doctoris irrefragabilis… 1502.

IN A SUPERB CONTEMPORARY MONASTIC BINDING

Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners. Translated from the French Édition Définitive by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.

FLAUBERT (Gustave).

Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners. Translated from the French… 1886.

“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”

Künstliche Waffenhandlung der Musqueten und Piquen oder Langen Spiessen...Maniement des Mousquets & Piques.
Nuremberg: Peter Isselburg (Simon Halbmayer), 1620.

ISSELBURG (Peter)

Künstliche Waffenhandlung der Musqueten und Piquen oder Langen… 1620.

RARE EDITION, WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS

[HMS Phoenix and the Breadalbane at the moment when the latter was crushed and sunk. The field of ice, easing off from the Phoenix passed astern to the Breadalbane, and entering her bow, she filled and sank in less than 15 minutes, in 30 fathoms of water.

INGLEFIELD (Edward Augustus), Lieutenant R.N.

[HMS Phoenix and the Breadalbane at the moment when… 1855.

PROOF BEFORE LETTERS

Instructions de Daprès sur la Navigation des Indes Orientales.

MANNEVILLETTE (after).

Instructions de Daprès sur la Navigation des Indes… 1819.

BOUND FOR LOUIS-PHILIPPE, THE LAST KING OF FRANCE.

Naaukeurige en Uitvoerige Beschryving van de Kaap de Goede Hoop; Behelzende Een zeer omstandig Verhaal van den tegenwoodigen toestant van dat vermaarde Gewest, dezzelfs Gelegenheit, Haven, Sterkte, Regerings-vorm,Uitgestrektheit, en onlangs ondekte aanle

Naaukeurige en Uitvoerige Beschryving van de Kaap de… 1727.

The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

STOWE (Harriet Beecher)

The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1896.

MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE IS NOT INSANE

Atlas Geographico del Peru ...

PAZ SOLDAN (Mariano Felipe).

Atlas Geographico del Peru , 1865.

La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P. Durand & G.C. Molini (da' torchi di Quillau),

TASSO (Torquato)

La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P.… 1771.

"RELIURE DE PRESENT" DESIGNED BY GRAVELOT FOR THIS EDITION

Leaf from a finely illuminated manuscript Missal - with an almost nude man and two men’s heads within the initials, in Latin on vellum
[Italy, Umbria (probably Assisi), c. 1290]

ITALIAN ILLUMINATOR

Leaf from a finely illuminated manuscript Missal -… 1290.

UNRECORDED LEAF FROM AN OPULENTLY DECORATED MISSAL

Initia doctrinae physicae, dicta in academia Vvitebergensi.
Wittenberg: J. Lufft, 1549

MELANCHTHON (Philip)

Initia doctrinae physicae, dicta in academia Vvitebergensi. Wittenberg: J.… 1549.

EDUCATIONAL SAMMELBAND IN HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING

Log of the ships

BAYNE (Alexander).

Log of the ships "Earl of Balcarras" and… 1841.

A Woman of No Importance.

A Woman of No Importance, 1894.

Les Nuées Magellaniques

DUBOC (Dr Gustave).

Les Nuées Magellaniques, 1854.

Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book by Messrs. Maurice & Edward Detmold.

KIPLING (Rudyard).

Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle… 1903.

Poems.

JOHNSON, Lionel

Poems.

Observations made during a Voyage round the World, on Physical Geography, Natural History, and Ethic Philosophy...

FORSTER (John Reinold).

Observations made during a Voyage round the World, on… 1778.

WITH THE RARE MAP

An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage performed by Captain Cook

ELLIS (William).

An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage performed by… 1783.

AN EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY

Geography Rectified: or, a Description of the World, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries, islands, cities, towns, seas, rivers, bayes, capes, ports; ... Illustrated with seventy six Maps. ...

MORDEN (Robert)

Geography Rectified: or, a Description of the World,… 1693.

Vingt-cinq poèmes. Dix Gravures sur bois de Hans Arp.

TZARA (Tristan). & ARP (Hans)

Vingt-cinq poèmes. Dix Gravures sur bois de Hans… 1918.

Atlas Universel de Geographie, physique, politique, ancienne & moderne. Contenant les cartes generales et particuliere de toutes les parties du monde; redigee conformement aux progres de la science pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire de la Geograph

BRUE (Adrien Hubert).

Atlas Universel de Geographie, physique, politique, ancienne &… 1838.

Tre Navigationi fatte dagli Olandesi, e Zelandesi Al Settentrione nella Norvegia, Moscovia, e Tartaria verso il Catai, e Regno de Sini, doue scopersero il Mare di Veygatz, La Nuova Zembla,

VEER (Gerrit de).

Tre Navigationi fatte dagli Olandesi, e Zelandesi Al… 1599.

THE DISCOVERY OF SPITZBERGEN AND A FIRST ARCTIC WINTERING

Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Iles Antilles de l'Amerique. Enrichie d'un grand nombre de belles Figures en taille douce, des Places & des Raretez le plus considerables, qui y font décrites. Avec un Vocabulaire Caribe. [With the supplement:] Recit de l'

[ROCHEFORT (Charles de)].

Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Iles Antilles de… 1681.

Letters on the West Indies.

[WILBERFORCE (William).] & WALKER (James).

Letters on the West Indies, 1818.

INSCRIBED TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE FROM A FELLOW BERBICE COMMITTEE MEMBER

A Description of the East, and Some other Countries.

POCOCKE (Richard).

A Description of the East, and Some other… 1743.

A handsome copy

Bacco in Toscana.

REDI (Francesco).

Bacco in Toscana, 1685.

A VERY FINE COPY WITH THE RARE PORTRAIT

Alcools - Poèmes - (1898-1913).
Paris [Tours, E. Arrault et Cie.], Mercure de France, 20 April, 1913.

APOLLINAIRE (Guillaume).

Alcools - Poèmes - (1898-1913). Paris [Tours, E. Arrault… 1913.

NUMBERED FIRST EDITION OF AN 'ASTONISHING' WORK OF FRENCH POETRY

[Album of photographs of whaling and trading voyages.]

[PEDERSEN (Captain Christian Theodore)], & LEVY (Aaron), compiler.

[Album of photographs of whaling and trading voyages.], 1930.

TRADING IN THE ARCTIC: C.T. PEDERSEN, ROALD AMUNDSEN, JOHNNIE JOHNS

Squarings. Twelve Poems. Lithographs by Felim Egan.

HEANEY (Seamus).

Squarings. Twelve Poems. Lithographs by Felim Egan, 1980.

'SHIFTING BRILLIANCIES' SIGNED BY HEANEY AND FELIM EGAN

Two books by Mirza Reza Khan, Persian diplomat and poet, with related material.

KHAN (Mirza Reza).

Two books by Mirza Reza Khan, Persian diplomat… 1920.

Life of a Qajar Diplomat

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