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Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern
26 June - 11 July 2024 • London
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1. R. Ackermann, publisher | The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster, 1816, 3 volumes, green morocco gilt

2. R. Ackermann, publisher | The Microcosm of London. London, 1808-1810, 3 volumes

3. W. Bartram | Travels through North and South Carolina. London, 1792

4. George Berkeley | Treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge. Dublin, 1710

5. Bible, Polyglot, edited by Walton, London, 1655-1657, 6 volumes, calf

6. Richard Blome | Britannia: or, a geographical description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. London, 1673
![Richard Blome | A description of the island of Jamaica... [with:] The present State of Algiers..., London, 1678, 2 works in one vol.](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1f8b92b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1218x2000+0+0/resize/150x246!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fb2%2F0e%2F9dd0b84845aa8ef93dff5d9ab78f%2Fl24404-bhcsg-t2-03.jpg)
7. Richard Blome | A description of the island of Jamaica... [with:] The present State of Algiers..., London, 1678, 2 works in one vol.

8. William Camden | Britannia. London, 1722, second edition, 2 volumes

9. Bartolomé de las Casas | Narratio regionum indicarum per Hispanos quosdam devastatarum verissima. Frankfurt, 1598

10. Castiglione | Il libro del cortegiano, Venice, Aldus, 1541, contemporary Venetian morocco gilt

11. A. and J. Churchill | A collection of Voyages and Travels. 1732, 6 vols

12. Cicero | Opera, Paris, Torresano, 1544, 4 volumes, later calf gilt

13. Captain Christopher Cole | Manuscript narrative of the capture of Banda Neira in August 1810
![[Costumes] | The Costume of China [-Turkey] [-Russian Empire] [-Austria] [-Great Britain], Military Costume of Turkey, and Punishments of China, 1802-18, 7 vols in all](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0046c9b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1484x2000+0+0/resize/150x202!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F30%2F56%2Fb41cf78a4219b4d9fd0a91c77406%2Fl24404-bhcvj-t2-03.jpg)
14. [Costumes] | The Costume of China [-Turkey] [-Russian Empire] [-Austria] [-Great Britain], Military Costume of Turkey, and Punishments of China, 1802-18, 7 vols in all

15. William Dampier | A Collection of Voyages, 1729, 9 parts in 4 vols, contemporary calf
![[Theodore Swaine Drage] | An account of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage, 1748-79, 2 volumes](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/87c7fcb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1363+0+0/resize/150x102!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F5a%2Fcf%2F0b84c45b418997382aab1ddc4bd6%2Fl24404-bhct7-t2-01.jpg)
16. [Theodore Swaine Drage] | An account of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage, 1748-79, 2 volumes

17. Sir Francis Drake | Sir Francis Drake Revived, 1653

18. England—Exchequer | Abstract of Government income and expenditure, 1685-1702, red morocco elaborately gilt

19. James Gibbs | A book of architecture, 1739

20. William Godwin | An Inquiry Concerning Political Justice, 1793, 2 vols, contemporary tree calf

21. John Gould | A monograph of the ramphastidae or... toucans. London, 1834-1835, first edition, subscriber's copy
![John Gould | A monograph of the trogonidae, [1836-]1838, first edition, subscriber's copy](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6f32b18/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1416x2000+0+0/resize/150x212!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F30%2F09%2Fd476690944f9956617e380c61e95%2Fl24404-bhcth-t2-01.jpg)
22. John Gould | A monograph of the trogonidae, [1836-]1838, first edition, subscriber's copy

23. Francis Grose | Treatise on ancient armour, extra-illustrated with original watercolours and drawings, 1786

24. William Hayes | Portraits of rare and curious birds ... from the menagery of Osterley Park, 1794-99

25. Louis Hennepin | A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, 1698, first English edition
![Lord Herbert of Cherbury | The Life, 1764, presentation copy [with] ALS from Gerard Langbaine to John Selden and 2 LS from Lord Herbert to Vossius](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e78deda/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5205x2557+0+0/resize/150x74!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fe4%2F30%2F73b2089b4724a114b038f53fd087%2Fl24404-bhcts-t2-03.jpg)
26. Lord Herbert of Cherbury | The Life, 1764, presentation copy [with] ALS from Gerard Langbaine to John Selden and 2 LS from Lord Herbert to Vossius

27. A. de Herrera | The General History of the vast Continent and Islands of America... Translated... by Capt. John Stevens, 1725-6, 6 volumes, contemporary mottled calf

28. Peter Heylyn | Cosmographie, 1652

29. Raphael Holinshed | Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande. London, 1577, first edition

30. Homer, Opera, Florence, 1488, later English red morocco gilt

31. Griffith Hughes | The natural history of Barbados, 1750, first edition, large paper copy

32. Thomas Jefferys | The natural and civil history of the French dominions in North and South America, 1760
![James Jenkins | The Naval Achievements of Great Britain [and] The Martial Achievements of Great Britain, 1815-17, 2 vols](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/bb5d048/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1645+0+0/resize/150x123!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F27%2F87%2Fbc6bfa9747c6be0f075383ee178f%2Fl24404-bhcv3-t2-02.jpg)
33. James Jenkins | The Naval Achievements of Great Britain [and] The Martial Achievements of Great Britain, 1815-17, 2 vols

34. J. M. Kinneir | Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia and Koordistan, 1818

35. Johannes Kip | Nouveau théâtre de la Grande Bretagne, 1714-16, five volumes

36. Lancelot du Lac | Paris, 1513, three volumes in two, half green calf, Edward Gage's copy

37. Badia y Leblich | Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey. 1816, 2 volumes

38. Francois Levaillant | Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis. Paris, 1806, 2 volumes

39. Richard Ligon | A true & exact history of the island of Barbados, London, 1657, first edition, contemporary calf

40. Sir John Narbrough, and others | An Account of several late voyages and discoveries, 1711
![John Ogilby | Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Egypt, Barbary, Lybia [etc.], 1670](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/68324f8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1338x2000+0+0/resize/150x224!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F02%2F01%2F507a16414332b9b7461ccace15f8%2Fl24404-bhcvq-t2-02.jpg)
41. John Ogilby | Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Egypt, Barbary, Lybia [etc.], 1670
![John Ogilby [Arnoldus Montanus] | America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World, 1671](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2167fa9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1479+0+0/resize/150x111!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F88%2F65%2F403e3d534ab3a7ac3b3953387492%2Fl24404-bhcvr-t1-02.jpg)
42. John Ogilby [Arnoldus Montanus] | America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World, 1671

43. Arthur Phillip | The Voyage... to Botany Bay, 1789, first edition
![Alexander Pope | An Essay on Man, [c.1733], bound with: Jonathan Swift, On Poetry, 1733](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/594efe4/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1595+0+0/resize/150x120!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F40%2F5e%2F142466e045a69d9cae73d8da5634%2Fl24404-bhcvv-t2-02.jpg)
44. Alexander Pope | An Essay on Man, [c.1733], bound with: Jonathan Swift, On Poetry, 1733

45. Nathaniel Portlock | A voyage round the world, 1789

46. Samuel Purchas | Purchas his Pilgrimes, 1625-26, 5 volumes

47. C.A. Rogers | A Collection of Prints in Imitation of Drawings, 1778, first edition, 2 volumes

48. G. Shelvocke | A Voyage Round the World by way of the Great South Sea, 1726