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Britannia
CAMDEN, WILLIAM
2 vol., folio, by Mary Matthews, for Awnsham Churchill, 1722, second edition of Gibson's translation
£12,500
Collection of Hunting, Genre and Battle Scenes
VAN DER MEULEN, ADAM FRANS
Paris [c. 1685] , Large Folio (580 x 470mm), Contemporary Olive Straight-Grained Morocco, with 27 Fine Double-Page,
£18,000
Composite World Atlas
DELISLE, Guillaume (1675-1726)
Paris: 1700-1745. 2° (530 x 395mm). 2pp. manuscript index, 76 double-page maps, some folding
£12,000
Cosmographia
APIANUS, PETRUS
Antwerp,Gilles Coppens van Diest for Pieter de Bonte, 1550.4to. (2) , 65 (1) leaves. Woodcut of a globe on the title-page, 5 woodcuts
£13,500
Cosmographia Petri Apiani
APIANUS, Petrus
Antwerp for Christopher Plantin, 1574, 4to( 240 x 180mm), Contemporary limp vellum, illustrated throughout with woodcuts, 5 with volvelles
£11,000
DARWIN (CHARLES, 1809-1882)
DARWIN (CHARLES, 1809-1882).
Important Cabinet Portrait by [Herbert Rose] Barraud (1845-1896), [1881], albumen print cabinet card photograph
£3,000
De Europischen insecten
MERIAN. Maria Sibylla
First Dutch edition. Originally this work was published as "Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung and sonderbare Blumennahrung
£22,500
De Toerako's afgebeeld en beschreven
SCHLEGEL, H.
A rare copy with the plates in two states. Probably the finest Dutch large colour-plate book on birds.
£11,000
Ehon Taka Kagami
KYOSAI, Toiku Kawanabe
[Tokyo, 1866-80], First edition 5 vols., (part 1, vols. 1-3: part 2, vols. 1-2), stitched Japanese-style into orig. yellow paper wrappers
£5,000
Gibraltar
De La Feuille
A Fine Ink and Watercolour Plan of Gibraltar, with Simple Compass Arrow and Distance Scale
£1,500
Heylyn’s Cosmograpy
HEYLYN, Peter
Cosmographie,in four books. Containing the chorographie and historie of the whole world, and all the principal kingdoms
£7,500
Histoire Naturelle des Poissons
Cuvier, G
One of the most important iconography on fishes of the world ever published.
£18,000