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Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798.

BURTON (Richard F.).

Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798, 1873.

SIGNED AND ANNOTATED BY BURTON

Two unpublished reports to King James I, complaining of “wrongs and abuses” perpetrated by the Dutch on English whale-hunters at Spitsbergen and on English merchants and sailors at Pola Run in the Spice Islands. Compiled in 1618 by the Muscovy and East In

[MUSCOVY COMPANY].

Two unpublished reports to King James I, complaining… 1620.

CULMINATING WITH THE TRANSFER OF MANHATTAN TO THE ENGLAND

Pomona Britannica,

BROOKSHAW (George).

Pomona Britannica, 1817.

MOST ESTEEMED FRUITS

Antigone

PÉCHEUR (Jane), ANOUILH (Jean) & ANTHOINE-LEGRAIN (J.)

Antigone, 1945.

A STUNNING TYPOGRAPHIC BINDING

The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality.

YOUNG (Edward).

The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, &… 1742.

A UNIQUE COPY IN DODSLEY’S ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS

Sir Francis Drake Revived...

[DRAKE (Sir Francis)], & NICHOLS (Philip).

Sir Francis Drake Revived, 1628.

THE QUEEN'S FAVOURITE PIRATE

Birds and Beasts of Shakespeare

CHELONIIDAE PRESS & BROCKMAN (James) [Binder]

Birds and Beasts of Shakespeare, 1990.

A MASTERFUL BINDING BY JAMES BROCKMAN

Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita, opere, et attioni di Gregorio. XIII. pontefice massimo libri vi.
Rome, Bartolomeo Grassi, 1588

FABRICIO (Principio)

Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita,… 1588.

THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON

Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, & picques Selon l'ordre de monseig. le Prince Maurice, Pr. d'Orange, Comte de Nassau...Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten, en spiessen... The exercise of armes for calivres, muskettes, and pikes... Waffen ha

GHEYN (Jacques de)

Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, & picques Selon l'ordre… 1619.

POLYGLOT EDITION WITH ENGLISH TEXT

The First Six Books of Euclid. In which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners.

EUCLID & BYRNE (Oliver)

The First Six Books of Euclid. In which… 1847.

"One of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century"

A Voyage to the South Atlantic and round Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean,

COLNETT (Capt. J.)

A Voyage to the South Atlantic and round… 1798.

NOOTKA SOUND CONTROVERSY

A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean.

BURNEY (James).

A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the… 1817.

Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France, avec le Journal Historique d'un Voyage fait par Ordre du Roi dans l'Amerique Septentrionale.

CHARLEVOIX (François J.)

Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France,… 1744.

A STOREHOUSE OF IMPORTANT MAPS

A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas,

PARKINSON (Sydney).

A Journal of a Voyage to the South… 1773.

Collectanea Adagiorum

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.

WITH CONTEMPORARY SCHOOLBOY DOODLES AND DRAWINGS

A series of watercolours relating to the last voyage of the Sunbeam with Lady Brassey.

[BRASSEY (Lady Anna).] & PRITCHETT (Robert Taylor).

A series of watercolours relating to the last… 1887.

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS FROM LADY ANNA BRASSEY'S VOYAGE

Geografia cioe` Descrittione Universale della terra partita in due volumi ... XXVII. Tauole Antiche di Tolomeo, e XXXVII. altre Moderne, tutte reuiste, & in alcuni luoghi accresciute, & illustrate da ricchissimi Commentar? di detto Sig. Magini ...

PTOLEMY (Claudius). & MAGINI (Giovanni Antonio).

Geografia cioe` Descrittione Universale della terra partita in… 1621.

A small archive of material from the papers of Lionel Curtis, relating to his address given at the dedication of the Oxford High School memorial to T.E. Lawrence.

[LAWRENCE (T.E.)]

A small archive of material from the papers… 1936.

"What a tragedy it is that we have not got Lawrence with us to settle up Palestine"

Salictum Woburnense: or, a catalogue of willows indigenous and foreign in the collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey.

FORBES (James).

Salictum Woburnense: or, a catalogue of willows indigenous… 1829.

ONE OF 50 COPIES: 140 HAND-COLOURED PLATES

Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture.

BELL (Gertrude).

Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in… 1914.

AN ESSENTIAL WORK ON THE FORTRESS OF AL-UKHAIDIR

Στραβωνοσ Γεωγραφικων Βιβλοι Επτα Και Δεκα. Strabonis Rervm Geographicarvm Libri Septemdecim. ...

Στραβωνοσ Γεωγραφικων Βιβλοι Επτα Και Δεκα. Strabonis Rervm… 1571.

The Old Testament Prophet Tobit, in a large historiated initial on a leaf from a very large Antiphonary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[Italy (Bologna or Ferrara?), mid 15th century]

GIOVANNI DI ANTONIO DA BOLOGNA?

The Old Testament Prophet Tobit, in a large… 1450.

SUPERB ILLUMINATION OF THE PROPHET TOBIT

Manchester Guardian Commercial. Reconstruction in Europe. Nos. 1-12.

KEYNES (John Maynard). Editor and Contributor. Et al.

Manchester Guardian Commercial. Reconstruction in Europe. Nos. 1-12, 1922.

Atlas Geographus: or, a Compleat System of Geography, ancient and modern. containing what is of most use in Bleau, Varenius, Cellarius, Cluverius, Baudrand, Brietius, Sanson, &c. with the discoveries and improvements of the best modern authors to this tim

Atlas Geographus: or, a Compleat System of Geography,… 1711.

Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs & Latins, sacrez & prophanes: mises en nostre langue par P. Boaistuau, surnomé Launay, natif de Bretagne: avec les pourtraicts & figures.
Paris,

BOAISTUAU (Pierre)

Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560.

MONSTERS AND PORTENTS

Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum vita.
Strasbourg: Reinhard Beck, 1513.

GAUTIER DE CHATILLON (Philippe)

Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum vita. Strasbourg: Reinhard Beck, 1513, 1513.

'A MOST WITTY STORY': A HANDSOME SAMMELBAND, WITH THE RARE ALEXANDREIS

[Opere]. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con varie annotazioni e copiosi rami adornata.

[Opere]. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con… 1757.

SPECTACULARLY ILLUSTRATED, ROCOCO DANTE

Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema. Cui additae sunt imagines mortis, illustratae epigrammatis G. Aemylii.

CHYTRAEUS (David)

Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema.… 1590.

PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH

A Missionary Archive.

HICKMAN (John Arthur).

A Missionary Archive, 1920.

The Sound and the Fury.

FAULKNER (William).

The Sound and the Fury, 1929.

An excellent copy of Faulkner's fourth novel.

An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean.

DALRYMPLE (Alexander).

An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and… 1771.

A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY

Narrative of a five years' expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772 to 1777:

STEDMAN (Capt. J.G.)

Narrative of a five years' expedition against the… 1806.

THE RARE COLOURED ISSUE

Della Historia di Corfu ...

MARMORA (Andrea).

Della Historia di Corfu , 1672.

A LOVELY COPY IN CONTEMPORARY VELLUM

A new voyage to the East-indies. Viz. I. To Suratte, and the Coast of Arabia, containing a compleat description of the Maldivy-Islands, their Product, Trade, &c. II. The Religion, Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, never before related by any English

SYMSON (William).

A new voyage to the East-indies. Viz. I.… 1715.

With a Description of Muscat

A Report on the Expedition to Western Yunan via Bhamo.

A Report on the Expedition to Western Yunan… 1871.

The English Pilot. The Third Book. Describing the Sea-Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Straits, Soundings, Sands, Shoals, Rocks and Dangers. The Islands, Bays, Roads, Harbors and Ports in the Oriental Navigation. Shewing the Properties and Nature of the Winds an

SELLER (John sr.).

The English Pilot. The Third Book. Describing the… 1675.

Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847.

Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of… 1850.

A CLASSIC ARCTIC RARITY

[Extracts from the diary of the missionary.]

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

EARLY NEWS FROM NEW ZEALAND

McDOUGALL (George F.)

"Arctic Squadron off Cape Wrath. April 29th 1852", 1852.

BELCHER'S SQUADRON HEADING NORTH

Mémoire du comte de Grasse, sur le Combat naval du 12 Avril 1782, avec les Plans des positions principales des Armées respectives.

[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] & GRASSE (Comte Francois Joseph Paul de).

Mémoire du comte de Grasse, sur le Combat… 1782.

A PRIVATELY PRINTED ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF ILES DES SAINTES

Views of British America drawn from nature, and on stone.

Views of British America drawn from nature, and… 1835.

BEAUTIFUL IMAGES OF NEW BRUNSWICK

ALS to the Duke of Medina Sidonia, in which he gives news of the movements of various fleets.

PINEDO (Francisco de).

ALS to the Duke of Medina Sidonia, in… 1699.

NEWS OF AN ENGLISH COLONY AT MOBILE & THE EXTERMINATION OF THE SCOTCH COLONY AT DARIEN