1. The Scots Musical Museum by James Johnson - £5,193 ($8,500)
The pivotal collection of Scots music compiled by James Johnson with contributions, both musically and editorially, by Robert Burns. Published in 1792 as four volumes, this bound in two.
2. Oeuvres by Pierre de Ronsard - £4,544 ($7,435)
The complete first volume of the first edition of Ronsard's "Works"; bound with an incomplete copy of the second volume and the preliminary matter of the third volume. Published in Paris in 1560, the present first two volumes contain the complete text of Renouard's "Amours," and the following three volumes contained odes and hymns.
3. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien - £3,972 ($6,500)
A signed second edition of Tolkien’s fantasy masterpiece.
4. The Bonefish Brigade by Zane Grey - £3,055 ($5,000)
Privately published in 1922, this was a special edition with “Christmas Greetings” and a candle design printed in red and green on the upper cover. This was Zane Grey’s copy with his library blind-stamp on the front free endpaper.
5. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer; Frank Lloyd Wright; Yukio Futagawa - £2,750 ($4,500)
The complete 12-volume monograph of a lifetime of Wright’s work. Published 1984, first American edition.
6. The original pen, ink, and watercolour that was used for the dust wrapper of The Fairy Tales of Perrault by Harry Clarke - £2,750 ($4,500)
Harry Clarke’s set of pen, ink and watercolour which he used to create the intricate dust cover for The Fairy Tales of Perrault.
7. Historia De Las Indias by Bartolomé de las Casas - £2,641 ($4,321)
The Complete History of the Indies as written by the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, Bartolomé de las Casas which documents his campaign for the rights of Native Americans as well as his initial openness, and later bitterly opposition, to importing African slaves.
8. The first tome or volume of the Paraphrases of Erasmus vpon the newe testament : conteinyng the fower Euangelistes, with the Actes of the Apostles: eftsones conferred with the latine and throughly corrected as it is by the kinges highness by Desiderius Erasmus - £2,495 ($4,187)
Erasmus' (d. 1536) famous paraphrase was ordered to be placed in all churches with the Great Bible during the reign of Edward VI. His successor, Mary I, consequently ordered all copies to be destroyed, in part accounting for its rarity today, this was a second 1551 edition.
9. XCVI. Sermons by The Right Honorable, and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Late Lord Bishop of Winchester By Richard Badger - £2,445 ($4,000)
Ninety-six sermons by Lancelot Andrewes. This second edition, published 1632. Andrewes was among the most learned of churchmen of the period, he was also an important member of the scholars that created the King James translation of the Bible.
10. Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway - £2,292 ($3,750)
First edition, first printing published in 1935.