1 Richard Blome | Britannia: or, a geographical description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. London, 1673

2 Boethius | De consolatione philosophiae, Venice, 1489, Paduan half morocco over wooden boards

3 James Bolton | Genera Muscorum, illustrated manuscript, 1787

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

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

6 Colonna | La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, Venice, 1545, second edition, the Syston Park copy

7 John Dee | Document signed (“Joannes Dee Gardianus”) as Warden of Christ's College, Manchester, 1597

8 [Theodore Swaine Drage] | An account of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage, 1748-79, 2 volumes

9 George Edwards | A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, 1739-51 [but 1802-5] [with] Gleanings of Natural History, 1758-64, 7 vols in all, contemporary armorial red morocco bound for Sir Richard Borough

10 John Edwards | The British Herbal, 1770, attractive hand-coloured botanical engravings

11 Elizabeth of Bohemia, the "Winter Queen" | Autograph letter signed to King Charles II, and a related document

12 Paolo Forlani | La descrittione di tutto il Peru. [Venice: Paolo Forlani, c.1562]

13 Giacomo Gastaldi and Paolo Forlani | Africa a veteribus… Venice: Paolo Forlani, 1566

14 Louis Hennepin | A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, 1698, first English edition

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

16 Jansson | Atlas Novus volume IV. British Isles. Amsterdam, 1646, contemporary Dutch vellum gilt

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

18 George, Earl Macartney | Manuscript copy letters on China and library catalogue, 1813

19 Machiavelli | Il principe, Rome, 1532, first edition, [bound with] Historie fiorentine, Florence, 1532, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began

20 Sir John Narbrough, and others | An Account of several late voyages and discoveries, 1711

21 New England—Exceptionally early land grant by the Council of New England, 1624

22 John Ogilby [Arnoldus Montanus] | America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World, 1671

23 Nathaniel Portlock | A voyage round the world, 1789

24 Claudius Ptolemaeus | Sexta Asie Tabula, [Ulm], 1486, hand-colouring, a highly important early map of the Arabian Peninsula

25 Samuel Purchas | Purchas his Pilgrimes, 1625-26, 5 volumes

26 Humphry Repton | Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, [1794]

27 Humphry Repton | Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, 1803

28 Rheticus | Opus palatinum de triangulis, Neudstadt, 1596, contemporary vellum, volume 1 only

29 James Stuart and Nicholas Revett | The Antiquities of Athens, 1762-1816, first edition, 4 volumes

30 Henry Timberlake | The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake..., 1765, first edition

31 Trew and Vogel | Plantae selectae, [Nuremberg]: 1750-73, 10 parts in one vol., contemporary half sheep

32 Dierick Vijt | A portolan chart of northern and western Europe. Probably Amsterdam, c.1575–1580

33 Martin Waldseemuller | Tabula terre nove. [Strassburg, 1513]

34 Australia—Henry Callander | Manuscript Map of Sydney, hand-coloured, 1849

35 Frederick Marshman Bailey | His collection of natural history pamphlets and related letters, 1881-1958

36 Dorothy and Janie Bussy | Correspondence of the Strachey family, Bloomsbury Group, and other writers and artists, 1880s-1960

37 Challenger Expedition—Thomson and Murray | Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage... during the years 1873-76..., 1880-95, first edition, 41 volumes bound in 50

38 Lord Curzon | Series of c.70 autograph letters signed, to Lady Violet Cecil, on political and personal affairs, 1902-22

39 Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol, 1843, first edition, original cloth

40 Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities, 1859, first edition in book form, original cloth

41 Engravings by Eric Gill: A Selection, 1929

42 Eric Gill (illustrator) | The Four Gospels, Golden Cockerel Press, 1931, one of 500 copies

43 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Leipzig, 1774, first edition

44 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Autograph poem, 'Liegt dir Gestern klar und offen', signed, 1831

45 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Autograph letter signed, to Christian Gottlob von Voigt, 11 March 1813

46 Album | Autograph album of Anita Daniel, with entries by artists, writers and musicians, including Frida Kahlo, 1934-1957

47 Martin Luther King, Jr. | Why We Can't Wait, 1964, inscribed by Martin Luther King, Jr. to the parapsychologist Peter Underwood

48 Karl Kraus | Collection of three autograph manuscripts and four autograph letters, c.1899-1922