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Demosthenes. Gnomologiae, id est sententiae collectaneae, edited by Joannes Loïnus, parallel Greek and Latin text, title with woodcut printer's de...

Demetrius, Phalereus. De elocutione, title in Greek and Latin, preliminaries in latin, text in Greek, title with woodcut basilisk printer's device...

Catholic Church.- Sacerdotale ad consuetudinem sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae, printed in red and black, woodcut printer's device to title and final v...

Missale Romanum, printed in red and black, woodcut printer's device to title and final verso, 2 full-page woodcuts of the crucifixion, numerous sm...

Giunta printing.- Breviarium Secundum ritum Monachorum nigroru[m] observantium ordinis D. Benedicti, Congregationis Casinensis, double column, pri...

Emblemata.- Lebey de Batilly (Denis) Emblemata, fine engraved architectural title and 57 (of 63) emblems by Theodor de Bry after Jean-Jacques Bois...

Orsino (Fulvio) Illustrium Imagines, Ex antiquis marmoribus nomismatibus, et gemmis expressæ, commnetary by Johannes Faber, 2 parts in 1, fine eng...

Ricci (Bartolomeo) Considerationi sopra tutta la Vita di N. S. Giesu Christo, engraved architectural title and 160 full-page illustrations, contem...

Eusebius, Caesariensis. Præparatio Evangelica [and De Demonstratione Evangelica Libri Decem], edited by Franciscus Vigerus, 2 vol., titles and t...

Mazot (François) Le Tableau de la Croix Representé dans les Cermonies de la S[ainte] Messe, 53 ff., finely engraved throughout, including a dedica...

Müller (Louis) Tableau des Guerres de Frédéric le Grand, translated by Prof. de la Veaux, engraved dedication, engraved map hand-coloured in outli...

Emblemata.- Petit Trésor des Artistes (Le) et des Amateurs des Arts, 3 vol. in 1, half-titles, 3 additional engraved pictorial titles and 394 embl...

Exchequer Receipts.- Exchequer Receipt made out to Lady Mary Lisle for £4 13 s, D.s. "M. Lisle" and witnessed "John Clement", tear along left hand...

Royal African Company.- Articles of Agreement made between Hump: Chishull William Pitta Agents, and The Rest of the Officers Establish for the Roy...

French Wine Trade.- Printed letter signed from a wine supplier in Orleans to a wholesale wine merchant in Brussels, 1p. in French, sm. 4to, 14th N...

Economics.- The Excess or the Surplus of the several Duties Revenues and Incomes commonly called the Aggregate Fund established by Acts of Parliam...

Shropshire.- Weaver (William) The Hundred of Stottesden, manuscript, 67pp. excluding blanks, and 8pp. accounts at beginning, ruled in red, first 8...

Gibraltar.- Eliott (George Augustus, first Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, army officer, 1717-90) Copy letter to Sir Horace Mann, 3pp., folio, Gib...

Expedition to Egypt.- Memorandum respecting the Expedition to Egypt, manuscript, 52pp., lacks 8pp., folds, browned, folio, 10th April 1802. ⁂ The...

Literary.- Sheridan (Richard Brinsley, playwright and politician, 1751-1816) Autograph Letter signed "RS" to W. Downes, Brewer Street, Golden Squa...

Botanical.- [?Aikin (John, physician and writer, 1747-1822)] Genera of English Plants according to Haller's Method, ?autograph manuscript, title a...

Disraeli (Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, prime minister and novelist, 1804-81) Autograph Letter signed "D", 1p., 8vo, Inner Temple, 2nd November ...

Brookes (Joshua, anatomist, 1761-1833) Autograph Letter third person to Mr Hall, 1p., sm. 8vo, Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim Street, 7th March 1825...

Beaufort (Sir Francis, naval officer and hydrographer, 1774-1857) Autograph Letter signed to the Rev Fearon Fallows, 3pp., 8vo, Admiralty, 21st Ja...

Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, army officer and prime minister, 1769-1852) Cut letter to ?Mr. Palmer, written by a secret...

Charity.- Hewley (Sarah, Lady Hewley, benefactor, of York, 1627-1710) Lady Hewley's Charity... Brief and Documents... Scotch Claims, Part 1, manus...

Pigeon Fanciers Notebook, manuscript, 80pp. excluding blanks, last f. in pencil, written in The Furniture Gazette Diary... 1877", 7pp. ink stained...

Humperdinck (Engelbert, German composer, 1854-1921) Autograph Card signed to unnamed recipient, 11th August, n.d., thanking him for information on...

Album, drawing and watercolours, some manuscript entries, some ff. loose or working loose, original morocco, gilt, rubbed, lacks spine, 8vo, 1915-...

Haig (Douglas, first Earl Haig, army officer, 1861-1928) Cut signature and photograph portrait of Haig, mounted, with a typed Compliments slip fro...

Edward VIII [later Duke of Windsor, King of Great Britain and Emperor of India, 1894-1972) Signature, on Buckingham Palace note paper, addressed t...

Heraldry.- [Milles (Thomas)] The Catalogue of Honor, first edition, engraved title (laid down), 9 engraved illustrations, woodcut armorials and in...

Daniel (Samuel) The Collection of the History of England, small tear to title, L6 lacking corner, affecting text, [STC 6252], Tho. Cotes for Simon...

Baker (Sir Richard) A Chronicle of the Kings of England, first edition, engraved frontispiece and title, both trimmed and laid down, lacking index...

Monck (George, Duke of Albermarle) The Pedegree and Descent of His Excellency General George Monck, ink annotations (trimmed) to title, loss to co...

Heraldry.- Guillim (John) A Display of Heraldry ..., sixth edition, 65 engraved plates and portraits, illustrations, two small repairs and ink ini...

Pitt (William, Earl of Chatham) A Letter from a Right Hon. Person to ------in the City, printed broadside, engraved portrait of William Pitt at he...

Pugh (John) Remarkable Occurrences in the Life of Jonas Hanway, Esq... an abstract of such parts of his travels in Russia, and Persia, first editi...

[Burney (Frances)] Camilla, 5 vol., first edition, advertisement leaf at end of vol. 1, list of subscribers, ink inscriptions, bookplate (removed)...

Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson, 4 vol., third edition revised and augmented, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding engraved facsimiles, ink...

O'Meara (Barry E.) Napoleon in Exile, 2 vol. in 1, engraved title and 4 plates, ink inscription, occasional spotting and browning, contemporary ha...

[Hotten (John Camden)] "A London Antiquary". A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words Used in the Present Day in the Streets of London....

Dresser (Christopher) Studies in Design, 60 chromolithographed plates, pencil annotations, occasional light finger soiling, original cloth, reback...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, illustrations by Sidney Paget, some damp-staining to later pp., light foxi...

Cave (Henry W.) Golden Tips: A Description of Ceylon and its Great Tea Industry, first edition, map with partial hand-colouring illustrations, ori...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Hound of the Baskervilles, first edition, with "you" for "your" on line 3, p.13, 15 plates only (of 16, lacking front...

Wodehouse (P.G.) The Head of Kay's, 7 plates only (of 8), 8pp. advertisements, frontispiece, half-title and front free endpaper detached, ink owne...

Tipping (H.Avray) and Christopher Hussey. English Homes, 7 vol. only (of 9, lacking Period I vol 1 and, Period V vol 1), all but 3 first editions,...

Russell (Bertrand) Philosophy, ink ownership inscription, some staining to endpapers, 1927; Our Knowledge of the External World, 1929, first Ameri...

Yeats (Willam Butler) The Winding Stair, first edition, errata slip bound in, original decorative green cloth, gilt, dust-jacket, lightly browned ...

Rolls-Royce Ltd. Handbook for the Installation, Running and Maintenance of Rolls-Royce "Merlin" Aero Engines Series II, folding plates (some colou...

Oil.- Gerretson (Dr. F. C.) History of the Royal Dutch, 4 vol., first edition, illustrations, original cloth, faded spines, vol 4. faded upper cov...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Two Towers, first edition, folding map at rear, original cloth, light staining to edges of upper cover, slight bumping to cor...

Caldecott (Randolph) Original illustration for Babes in the Wood, pen and brown ink, heightened with white, on laid paper, 153 x 115 mm. (6 x 4 1/...

Devis (Anthony) Study of a Shepherd with a single sheep, point of the brush, grey ink, traces of graphite, on laid paper, 65 x 60 mm. (2 1/2 x 2 3...

After Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) Three Landsknechte, after a drawing held by Dürer held in Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (see Winkler 18), etching, ...

Napoleon.- Kerr (John) [Series of Views in the Island of St Helena], three plates only (of six), including Napoleon in front of the New House, th...

Napoleon.- Wathen (James) James Town, St Helena; Col. Dovetown's House ... St Helena, two works from "Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812 to Madr...

Rowlandson (Thomas) Rigging out a Smuggler, etching with hand-colouring, 325 x 225 mm. (12 3/4 x 8 3/4 in), date erased from plate, under glass, l...

Rackham (Arthur).- Browne (Maggie) The Surprising Adventures of Tuppy and Tue, first edition, colour frontispiece and 4 plates by Arthur Rackham, ...