1. Americas – Kircher, Athanasius. (1602-1680).

Mappa fluxus et refluxus rationes in isthmo Americano, in Freto Magellanico, cæterisque Americæ litoribus exhibens.

Original copper engraving. Amsterdam, Kircher, [c.1665]. Plate Size: 40.2 cm x 34.1 cm. Sheet Size: 37 cm x 39.1 cm. Original Map. Very good condition of an increasingly rare map. Very minor traces of browning to outer margins.

2. Asia – Kircher, Athanasius. (1602-1680).

Tabula Geographica Hydrophylacium Asiae Majoris Exhibens, quo Omnia Flumina sive proxime sive remote per occultos maeandros Originem suam Sortiuntur.

Original copper engraving. Amsterdam, Kircher, [c.1665]. Plate Size: 41.2 cm x 34.2 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 39.2 cm. Original Map in very good condition. Very minor traces of browning to outer margins.

3. [Banks, Joseph] O’Brian, Patrick.

Joseph Banks – A Life.

Chicago, The University of Chicago, 1997. 14 cm x21.5 cm. Frontispiece (Protrait: Joseph Banks painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds), Frontispiece (Myrmecodia becarii Ant-House Endeavour River), 328 pages. Some black and white illustrations throughout and one map. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition.

4. Beaumont, Fletcher / Fletcher, John / Gurr, Andrew (Editor).

Philaster or Love Lies a-Bledding.

Manchester / New York, Manchester University Press, 2003. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. Frontispiece (Title-page of the 1620 Quarto (reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum)), LXXXIV, 142 pages. One black and white copy of second impression of title-page of the 1622 Quarto (reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum). Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition+ with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Beuamont, Francis / Fletcher, John / Craik, T.W. (Editor).

The Maid’s Tragedy.

Manchester / New York, Manchester University Press, 1988. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. Frontispiece (Title-page of the 1619 quarto (courtesy of Bodleian Library)), XII, 212 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. Bohus / Sweden – [Pufendorf, Samuel von] Dahlberg, Erik / Perelle, A. / (1632 – 1694)

BAHVSIA Arx Norwegiae Regi Suecia CAROLO GUSTAVO ex pactis Rodschildensibus traetin enandem …/ Die 30. Martij 1658.

Original copper engraving from Pufendorf’s “De rebus a Carolo Gustavo”, this being Plate No.80 with an inset map of the border-region between Sweden and Norway at the end of the 17th century. Nuremberg, Christoph Riegel, 1696. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with the copper engraving: 54.5 cm x 45.5 cm. Size of the actual engraving: c. 44 cm x 35.5 cm. Excellent condition.

7. [Clarendon, Henry Hyde Earl of] Powney, Richard.

The State Letters of Henry, Earl of Clarendon – Lord Lieutenant of Ireland During the Reign of K. James the Second: and His Lordship’s Diary for the Years 1687,1688, 1689 and 1690. From the Originals in the Possession of Richard Powney, Esq. with an Appendix from Archbishop Sancroft’s Manuscript in the Bodleian Library.

Oxford / Dublin, The Clarendon Press / Elizabeth Watts in Skinner-Row, 1765. Octavo. Volume I: XXXII, 407 pages [including a list of subscribers which also mentions Richard Meade, Esq. [Richard Mead] / Volume II: 480 pages plus 20 unnumbered pages of a thorough Index. Original Hardcover / 18th century full calf with gilt lettering on spinne. Both Volumes in protective collector’s mylar. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of Volume One and the name of John Meade to the titlepage of Volume II. Faded dampstain only to the endpapers of Volume I / Minor wormhole-damage to the endpaper and titlepage of Volume II. Otherwise in very good and firm condition. A very rare and significant publication.

8. Denmark – De Wit, Frederick. (1629/1630 – 1706).

Insularum Danicarum ut Zee-Landiae, Fioniae, Langelandiae, Lalandiae, Falstriae, Fembriae, Monae, aliquarumque in Mari Balthico Sitarum descriptio

Original hand-coloured engraving. Amsterdam, F. de Wit, [c.1680]. Plate Size: 58.1 cm x 48.8 cm. Sheet Size: 63.8 cm x 53 cm. Original map. In very good condition with only the slightest hints of browning to outer margns only.

9. [Dou, Gerard] Martin, W.

Gerard Dou. Translated from the Dutch by Clara Bell.

London, George Bell and Sons, 1902. 13 cm x 20 cm. XII, 152 pages. Several black and white plates throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Endpapers and pastedowns markedly discoloured with signs of an old dampstain and some tanning of first and last few pages. A little colour staining between cover and endpaper. Internal pages and plates in good condition. Some foxing throughout. Rare. [Bell’s Handbooks of the Great Masters in Painting & Sculpture. Edited by G.C. Williamson, Litt.D.]

10. Emery, Jack.

The Putney Debates.

Cambridge, The Rampant Lions Press, 1983. 18.8cm x 27.8 cm. Colour Lino Frontispiece. 94 pages. With 6 colour lino-print illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with plain card slipcase. Deckled edges. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Moderate foxing and discolouration to slip case. Book in as new condition. Front pastedown contains ‘Erik Haugaard’ Exlibris dated 1974. With navy colour decorated top edges. ‘This book was designed and five hundred copies were printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge. This type is 12 point Times New Roman set by the Stellar Press, with displayed matter in Hunt Roman; the paper is Zerkall Silurian; the lino-cuts were printed from the original blocks. The binding, in specially designed patterned paper boards, was by Woolnough of Wellingborough. This is number 174.’

11. [English History Collection] – Picard, Liza.

Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, From Medicine to Magic, From Slang to Sex, From Wallpaper to Women’s Rights.

First US Edition. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1998. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXI, 330 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

12. [English History Collection] – Weiss, David A. / Papin, Joseph (drawings).

The Great Fire of London.

New York, Cumberland Enterprises, 1968. 15 cm x 23 cm. 159 pages including multiple illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

13. Finlay, T.A.

With the Army of O’Neill. An Irish Historical Romance.

Dublin and Cork, The Educational Company of Ireland Limited, no year. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Frontispiece, 176 pages. 4 other illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Pictoral to front board also. Fair condition. Some soiling to front board. Wear to spine cloth. Board corners rubbed and bumped. Gutter between endpage and rear pastedown cracked with exposed cloth. Binding shaky. Minor damp staining to top edges. Marking to interior. Some dog-eared pages. Front endpaper carries private signature of ‘James O’Sullivan, Bantry.’

14. [Fletcher, John / Massinger, Philip].

Beggar’s Bush. Edited by John H. Dorenkamp.

First published 1647 Folio of ‘Comedies and Tragedies’ Beaumont and Fletcher. The Hague, Paris, Mouton & Co, 1967. 15 cm x 22 cm. 202 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor pencil markings in text and back flap of dustjacket.

15. Franklin, Benjamin / Wright, Esmond (editor).

Benjamin Franklin: His Life As He Wrote It.

London, The Folio Society, 1989. 16 cm x 25.5 cm. 260 pages. Original hardcover with slipcase. As new.

16. [Gadadhara] Bhattacharyya, Sibajiban.

Gadadhara’s Theory of Objectivity – Part Two – Containing the Text of Gadadhara’s ‘Visayatavada’. With an English Translation, Explanatory Notes and a General Introduction.

Part Two of two. Delhi, Varanasi, Patna, Bangalore, Madras, Motilal Banarsidass, 1990. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. IX, 188 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

17. [Galilei, Galileo] Heilbron, J.L.

Galileo.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010. Octavo. XIV, 508 pages. With several illustrations (also in colour). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition.

18. Germany – Blaeu, Willem J. (1571 – 1638).

Ducatus Holsatiae Nova Tabula.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Amsterdam Blaeu, [1638]. Plate Size: 51.4 cm x 38 cm. Sheet Size: 56.5 cm x 47 cm. Original and rare map. In very good, clean condition. Minor tear to lower edge at center-fold. French text on reverse.

19. Germany – Blaeu, Willem Janszoon. (1596 – 1673).

Celeberrimi Fluvii Albis nova Delineatio.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Amsterdam, Blaeu, 1628. Plate Size: 53 cm x 30.6 cm. Sheet Size: 60 cm x 48.7 cm. Original map. In very good condition. Clean and bright with generous margins. Very minor tear to centre-fold at lower edge. French text on reverse.

20. Góngora y Argote, Luis de.

The Solitudes. Translated and with an introduction by Edward Meryon Wilson. Revised and edited by Willis Barnstone.

New York, Las Americas Publishing Company, 1965. Octavo. 159 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [A Cypress Book].