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Rare issue of a detailed account Dieppe's defeat of the Flemish in an important 1555 sea battle
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Christianity and children's education intertwined: a very rare Italian ABC book
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Important treatise on palaeontology with 441 illustrations of fossils and shells
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Rare first edition of the leading Dutch translation of the Ship of fools
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One of the many Italian Dorpius editions, illustrated with 76 nice woodcuts
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First edition of a rare work about the Orient and the crusades
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Encompassing collection of turn-of-the-century Magic Lantern slides, many of cavalry horses
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First edition of Labillardière's famous voyage in search of La Pérouse, with 44 plates, including 14 after Redouté
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Rare early edition of a popular book of botanical, mineralogical and zoological wonders,
with a large woodcut of the author among his books
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Emblem book engraved by some of the best Antwerp artists of its time
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Richly illustrated lectures on applied physics, by the Royal Society's de facto curator of experiments