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[Three Watercolours of Chinese flowers].

[Three Watercolours of Chinese flowers], 1780.

[Three Government Printing Office offprints about the Cook vs. Peary race for the North Pole].

[Three Government Printing Office offprints about the Cook… 1915.

[Three Articles on the Canadian Lakes, extracted from various sources].

BIGSBY (John J.).

[Three Articles on the Canadian Lakes, extracted from… 1854.

[The Rights of Women at Sea.] Pravo Zhenshchin na More.

SEDOV (Georgy).

[The Rights of Women at Sea.] Pravo Zhenshchin… 1908.

PROMOTING WOMEN'S EDUCATION AT SEA

[Sir Henry Morton Stanley and Kalulu carte de visite.]

[STANLEY (Sir Henry Morton).]

[Sir Henry Morton Stanley and Kalulu carte de… 1872.

[Seven adventure novels of the Americas, in the English publisher's

AIMARD (Gustave). & [LASCELLES WRAXALL (Sir Frederic Charles) Third Baronet. Translator.]

[Seven adventure novels of the Americas, in the… 1862.

SENSATIONAL STORIES FROM THE AMERICAN FRONTIER

[Serat Gurma Lelana]

RHEMREV (J.L.T.)

[Serat Gurma Lelana], 1884.

[Sammelband of works on the French Revolution].

[FRENCH REVOLUTION]

[Sammelband of works on the French Revolution], 1796.

[Sammelband of congressional and constitutional laws.]

[Sammelband of congressional and constitutional laws.], 1831.

[Sammelband of Leyes i decretos espedidos por el Congreso constitucional.]

[Sammelband of Leyes i decretos espedidos por el… 1839.

[Reward of Merit. Engraving featuring a game of wicket in Connecticut.]

[PROTO-BASEBALL] & [CHENEY (John).]

[Reward of Merit. Engraving featuring a game of… 1821.

THE PRECURSOR TO BASEBALL

[Prospectus:] Choix des plus Belles Fleurs et des plus Beaux Fruits.

REDOUTE (Pierre-Joseph).

[Prospectus:] Choix des plus Belles Fleurs et des… 1835.

"THE RAPHAEL OF FLOWERS"

[Portrait of Captain Richard Francis Burton.]

[BURTON (Captain Richard Francis).]

[Portrait of Captain Richard Francis Burton.], 1876.

[Photographs of Afghanistan and the North West Frontier during the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919 and the Waziristan Campaign in 1919-1920].

[AFGHANISTAN & WAZIRISTAN]. & HOLMES (Randolph Bezzant).

[Photographs of Afghanistan and the North West Frontier… 1919.

[Photographic Archive]

QUAGLINO (Alfredo).

[Photographic Archive]

SOCIETY LIFE ALONG THE FRENCH RIVIERA

[Photograph album of Bermuda].

[Photograph album of Bermuda], 1880.

[Passport allowing an enslaved man to travel to Saint-Domingue.]

[Passport allowing an enslaved man to travel to… 1771.

A RARE PASSPORT GRANTING AN ENSLAVED MAN PASSAGE TO HAITI

[Original secret despatch signed by the Governor of Puerto Cabello in Venezuela.]

GUILLELMO (Antonio).

[Original secret despatch signed by the Governor of… 1793.

HARBOURING A SPANISH SQUADRON IN AMERICAN WATERS

[On the Origin of the Species] O proiskhozhdenii vidov v tsarstvakh zhivotnom i rastitel'nom putem estestvennago podbora rodichei.

DARWIN (Charles). & RACHINSKII (Sergei Aleksandrovich), trans.

[On the Origin of the Species] O proiskhozhdenii… 1864.

THE FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION

[Mémoires pour Servir à l'Art et l'Histoire de la Guerre de 1756, jusqu'à 1763, avec les Plans et Cartes Requises, 1re Partie.]

TIELKE (Johann Gottlieb)

[Mémoires pour Servir à l'Art et l'Histoire de… 1777.

[Myanmar album.]

BEATO (Felice).

[Myanmar album.], 1889.

[Ms. documents concerning the financing of a ship and preparing for an expedition.]

MONLUC (Blaise de).

[Ms. documents concerning the financing of a ship… 1568.

EARLY VOYAGE DOCUMENTS

[Miscellany of medical notes on blood flow and circulation]

[Miscellany of medical notes on blood flow and…

[Maps, manuscripts, and printed ephemera from Trollope's time as British Commander in Quebec.]

TROLLOPE (Charles).

[Maps, manuscripts, and printed ephemera from Trollope's time… 1858.

WITH AN IMPORTANT MS. MAP OF QUEBEC

[Maps of the Gallipoli Peninsula.]

[LAWRENCE (T.E.)] & INTELLIGENCE OFFICE, ARAB BUREAU.

[Maps of the Gallipoli Peninsula.], 1915.

SECRET MAPS OF THE GALLIPOLI PENINSULA

[Manuscript document concerning the sale of a house in Blois-Vienne, France.]

[NOTARY DOCUMENT.]

[Manuscript document concerning the sale of a house… 1647.

[Los Cuartro Continentes. The Four Continents.]

SADELER (Jan) & BARENDSZ (Dirk)

[Los Cuartro Continentes. The Four Continents.], 1581.

[Loan of 314 Livres 2 Sols 8 Deniers to be Repaid in Good Beaver at the Price and Weight of the Bureau.]

TONTY (Henri de),, DAUPHIN LA FOREST (François) & & JUCHEREAU DE SAINT-DENYS (Charles).

[Loan of 314 Livres 2 Sols 8 Deniers… 1693.

A 17th-CENTURY CONTRACT PRICED IN BEAVER FUR

[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

[Greek text, transliterated ‘Tes palai kai tes nyn Oikoumenes Periegesis.’] Sive Dionysii Geographia emendata & locupletata, additione scil. geographiæ hodiernæ Græco carmine pariter donatæ: cum 16 tabulis geographicis ...

DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES

[Greek text, transliterated ‘Tes palai kai tes nyn… 1704.

[Four convict disciplinary reports: Mary Murray, Mary Ann North, James Woolf and William White.]

[VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.]

[Four convict disciplinary reports: Mary Murray, Mary Ann… 1845.

RARE RECORDS OF CONVICTS AND THEIR PUNISHMENTS

[Five stereocards illustrating Jamaica & the South.]

[COTTON, SUGAR, & COCOA.]

[Five stereocards illustrating Jamaica & the South.], 1899.

[Fine head-and-shoulders cabinet photograph.]

KITCHENER (Herbert Horatio, Earl).

[Fine head-and-shoulders cabinet photograph.], 1898.

[Extracts from The Universal Traveller on Persia and Arabia.]

[THE UNIVERSAL TRAVELLER.]

[Extracts from The Universal Traveller on Persia and Arabia.], 1753.

[Extracts from the diary of the missionary.]

[Extracts from the diary of the missionary.], 1828.

EARLY NEWS FROM NEW ZEALAND

[Engraved portrait of Sir Francis Drake with a map of the World] Francisco Draco nobilissimus Angliae Eques ... 1598.

PASSE (Crispin van de, sr.)

[Engraved portrait of Sir Francis Drake with a… 1598.

[East African Trophy Exhibition.]

[KOLONIAL-HAUS]

[East African Trophy Exhibition.], 1903.

[Diary of the Sudan Campaign.]

[Diary of the Sudan Campaign.], 1897.

A RARE FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT

[Costumes des differentes nations composant les etats hereditaires de S.M. et R.].

KININGER (Vincenz Georg).

[Costumes des differentes nations composant les etats hereditaires… 1821.

[Complete manuscript copy of Geography Anatomiz'd: Or, the Geographical Grammar.]

[Complete manuscript copy of Geography Anatomiz'd: Or, the… 1702.

[Collection of edicts and decrees relating to John Law's System.]

[MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE.] & [LAW (John).]

[Collection of edicts and decrees relating to John… 1719.

AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF ROYAL EDICTS AND DECRESS RELATING TO THE WORLD’S FIRST FINANCIAL CRASH