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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
41 John Ogilby | Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Egypt, Barbary, Lybia [etc.], 1670
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
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