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. Coke, Sir Edward.

La Neufme Part [1613 – First Edition] / [et La Dixme Part – 1629 – ] / [et La Unzme Part – 1631] des Reports de Sr. Edw. Coke Chivalier, chiefe Justice del Banke : des divers Resolutions & Jugements donez sur solennes arguments & avec grand deliberation & conference des tresreverend Juges & Sages de la Ley, se cases en Ley queux ne fueront unques resolus ou adivges par devant : Et les raisons & causes des dits Resolutions & Jugements. Publie en la dixiesme [et unziesme / et troisiesme] an de treshaut & tresillustre Jaques Roy Dengleterre, France, & Ireland, & Escosse le 46. Le founteyne de toute Pietie & Justice, & la vie de la Ley.

Three Volumes in One. [London], [A. Islip], Printed for the Societie of Stationers [Neufme Part et Dixme Part] / Printed by the Assignes of John More, Esquire [Unzme Part], 1613 / 1629 / 1631. Quarto (19.5 cm x 27.5 cm). Collation complete: La Neufme Part: [34], 286, [1 unnumbered] pages / La Dixme Part: [54], 291 pages / La Unzme Part: [10], 100 pages. Original 17th century full leather on five raised bands with modern spinelabel and new endpapers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor damage to upper spine and a very minor sign of a faded dampstain to small region of the upper bookblock. Interior beautiful and clean with all three titlepages intact. Extremely beautiful condition of this early set of three Volumes of Coke’s Reports. This is the french edition of Coke’s Reports with all three prefaces in English and Latin, the main text is in ‘Law-French’ and Latin. Contemporary manuscript-signature/entry of the preowner, one “Lionel Holle”.

9. 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.

10. [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.]