1. Last seen in 1993, when sold for $1000 by Sotheby’s New York as part of the great Bradley Martin library, the only copy recorded at auction of the first series of Illustrations of Typical Birds produced in 1900 by Theophilus Johnson made £5500 at Forum. An English amateur naturalist and artist, Johnson illustrated his privately printed works with his own mounted gouache illustrations.
2. The title page of a 1651, first issue example of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme & Power of a Common-Wealth, a work that has been compared with those of Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau and Kant in terms of its political significance. It made £13,000.