(27 cm), 230 (14) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 298 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (lot 50) a late 13th century medical anthology from Bury St Edmunds Abbey, in a medieval binding (lot 50, £48,400 to Quaritch) and the Sir Henry Strachey papers on the American War of Independence (lot 109, £176,000 to “Sloan”). “It was a wonderfully varied bill of fare, and the buyers made the most of it” (saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1988, p.401). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.

(27 cm), (2) 193 (13) pp., illustrations (some in colour, some folding). 270 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The most important lots were purchased by Nico Israel: the 1593 world map engraved by Liang Zhou, based on Ricci’s lost world map of 1584 (£110,000); the 1602 “Complete map of the myriad countries on the earth”, with Ming China placed at the centre (£190,000); Adam Schall’s 1634 map (£110,000); Michael Piotyr Boym’s Mappa Imperii Sinarum, c. 1652 (£60,000); and Ferdinand Verbiest’s Compendium Latinum 1668 (£21,000; now in an Australian collection). The formation of the collection is recounted by the collector himself, in “Collector’s Piece VI: Phillipps 1986: the Chinese puzzle” in The Book Collector, Summer 1976, pp.171-194. ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.