Rare Books September 2011

A large copy in limp vellum of the first edition of Dürer's geometrical treatise on perspective and the uses of mathematical geometry in art.

First edition of Bartoli's account of the mission of the Jesuit Ridolfo Aquaviva to the Court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great in 1580.

First edition in a contemporary binding of Spinoza's influential posthumous publication.

First edition of Francisi's extraordinary illustrated treatise on bizarre natural phenomena and Fortean wonders.

Decker’s rare suite of engravings - unsophisticated in a contemporary binding - illustrating the battles of the War of the Spanish Succession.

First edition of the published works of Inigo Jones in a fine contemporary binding.

Rare first edition - entirely unsophisticated in the original marbled boards - of one of the greatest and most beautiful 18th century books on architecture.

First edition, second issue - the Feltrinelli copy in a contemporary binding by Derome le Jeune - of Piranesi's Le Antichità Romane.

First edition of Passeri's important collection of lives of 17th-century artists.

First edition, later issue of Piranesi's Le Antichita Romane.

First edition of Repton's classic work on landscape gardening in contemporary green morocco.

First edition, large paper copy in folio, uncut and in the original publisher's binding.

First edition of Rusca's architectural work in Russia for the Imperial Court.

First edition of 'Sind-Bâd' and the first printing of any part of the Arabian Nights in Arabic.

A large copy of the first edition - limited to 325 copies - with uncut sheets.

Extremely rare suite of plates depicting Ledoux's famous 'barrières' or toll-gates for Paris.

William Beckford's copy of one of Alken's greatest works.

A charming copy of a rare early Italian fashion almanac in contemporary red morocco.

Fine presentation copy of the de luxe edition of Edwards' Scinde with hand-written paper label to front pastedown: 'Presentation Copy / Mrs.

The most desirable issue of the first edition of Robert's monumental work, with the plates coloured by hand and mounted on card.