Printed Books and Maps

Ransome (John Atkinson, 1779-1837). Wax medallion portrait in profile of John Atkinson Ransome, St. Peter`s Senior Consulting Surgeon to the Manch...

Scrap albums. Four scrap albums, 19th century, including an album of pencil and watercolour sketches and drawings of topographical views and portr...

Share Certificates. A group of fifty bonds and share certificates, c. 1860s/1920s, including Chinese, North American, Russian, Mexican, mostly rel...

Snibston Colliery. An archive of 116 letters, 1879-83, from John White, manager of Snibston Colliery and Railway Wagon Works, Coalville, near Leic...

Spanish Manuscript. A Spanish manuscript on dye production, prob. late 18th c., written in a neat hand with a small number of pen and ink illustra...

Stephenson (Robert, 1803-1859, attrib.). Full-length profile portrait attributed as the civil engineer Robert Stephenson, c. mid-19th c., watercol...

Vellum documents. A group of sixteen vellum deeds, 18th & 19th c., all folding including some large sheets and relating to land, wax seals attache...

Almanacs. A collection of fifty-seven French and German almanacs, late 18th and early 19th c., eng. plts., some folding, most in orig. patterned o...

Aquinas (Thomas, Saint). Opus aureuz sancti Thome de Aquino sup quatuor euangelia nuperrime reuisuz..., Venice, 1521, woodcut at head of typograph...

Augustine (Saint Aurelius, Bishop of Hippo). Preclarissima Aurelii Augustini sermonum opera: summa nuper diligentia revisa atque recognita... emen...

Austen (Jane). Sense and Sensibility, 1837; Mansfield Park, 1837; Northanger Abbey, 1837; Emma, 1841, Richard Bentley, eng. frontis. and vign. tit...

[Ayscu, Edward]. A Historie Contayning the Warres, Treatise, Marriages, and other Occurrents Betweene England and Scotland, from King William the ...

Banks (T.C.). The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England, or, An Historical and Genealogical Accountx of the Lives, Public Employments, and Most ...

Beaumont (Francis & Fletcher, John ). Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, Published by the Authors Original Copies, the Songs to Each Play Being Added, ...

Bewick (Thomas). The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood, 1st Bewick edition, pub. Newcastle, 1818, num. woodcut illusts. to text, Ò...

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the former Translat...

Binding. T. Livii Patavini Historiarum ab Urbe Condita Libri XLV cum universae historiae epitomis... , Venice, 1706, additional eng. title, double...

Burke (Edmund). A Letter from Edmund Burke, Esq; One of the Representatives in Parliament for the City of Bristol, to John Farr and John Harris, E...

Cabala. Mysteries of State, in Letters of the Great Ministers of K. James and K. Charles. Wherein much of the Publique Manage of Affaires is Relat...

Calligraphy. Specimens of Penmanship, Dr. Stone`s Classical, Mathematical and Commercial School, King Square, Bristol, Designed by Dr. Stone... En...

Camden (William). The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England ..., 3rd revised ed., with a new alpha...

Camerarius (Jaochimus). Commentarii Interpretationum Argumenti Thebaidos Fabularum Sophoclis..., Haguenau (France): Ex Officina Seceriana, 1534, 9...

Cannon (Richard). Historical Record of the Second, or Queen`s Royal Regiment of Foot..., 1838, three hand-col. plts., orig. boards gilt, rebacked,...

Cardinal`s Binding. Pontificale Romanum Clementis VIII et Urbani VIII, jussu editum... Benedicto XIV, 3 parts in 1, Venice, 1769, half-title, prin...

Castalione (Sebastiano). Sibyllina oracula de Graeco in Latinum conversa, et in eadem annotationes, Basel, 1546, inkstamp to front blank, b4 blank...

Catholic pamphlets. The Catholikes Supplication unto the Kings Majestie; for Toleration of Catholike Religion in England: with Short Notes [by Gab...

Catrou (Francois, & Rouille, Julien). The Roman History: With Notes Historical, Geographical, and Critical..., vols. 1-5 (of 6) only, 1728-36, nin...

Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, in the Original, From the Most Authentic Manuscripts; And as They are Turn`d into Modern Lang...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius). Philosophica - Epistolica [Opera, vol. 2 of 2], Paris: J. Parvus & J. Badius, 1527, eng. decorative title to both parts, ...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius). Opera, 4 vols. in 2, C. Estienne, Paris, 1555-54, titles with printer`s woodcut device, ruled in red throughout, occasion...

Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl of). The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, 3 vols. in 6, Oxford, 1721, eng....

Combe (William). The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of Consolation; A Poem, 1st ed., 1820, title page and introduction, twenty-four (comp...

[Combe, William]. The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan. A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz, pub. Thomas Tegg, 1816, fold...

Cooke (Edward, trans.). Magna Charta, Made in the Ninth Year of K. Henry the Third, and Confirmed by K. Edward the First, in the Twenty-Eighth Yea...

Cooke (Alexander). Pope Joane. A Dialogue Betweene a Protestant and a Papist. Manifestly Prouing, that a Woman Called Ioane was Pope of Rome: Agai...

Copley (John). Doctrinall and Mall Observations Concerning Religion, Wherein the Author Declareth the Reasons of his Late Un-Enforced Departure fr...

[Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien de]. The French Spy: or, the Memoirs of John Baptist, de la Fontaine, Lord of Savoy and Fontenai, Late Brigadier and ...

Dickens (Charles). Bleak House, 1st ed., . Bradbury and Evans, 1853, bound from the parts, half-title present, forty etched plts. by H.K. Browne (...

[Dickson, Adam]. A Treatise of Agriculture, 1st ed., pub. Edinburgh, 1762, two folding plts. (some offsetting), second half of volume with stain t...

Duncon (John). The Life and Death of the Lady Lettice, Vi-Countess Falkland ..., 3rd enlarged ed., 1653, eng. port. frontis. (slightly offset to t...

Early printed leaves. A collection of nineteen early printed leaves, late 15th-mid 16th c., including a single leaf from Catena aurea..., by St. T...

Elzevir Press. Theatrum Historicum Theoretico-Practicum in quo Quatuor Monarchiae..., Authore Christiano Matthiae..., Amsterdam: Apud Ludovicum & ...

English Civil War. Master Stowd His Speech in Parliament, On Tuesday the third of January, in reply to the Articles of High Treason against himsel...

Foglietta (Uberto). Clarorum Ligurum Elogia, Rome, 1573, title with woodcut device (repair and stamp to verso), some water stains and wormtracks, ...

Fouquet (Charles Louis Auguste de). Correspondence entre le Marechal Duc de Belleisle et le Marechal de Contades, depuis le commencement de Janvie...

Foxe (John). An Abridgement of the Booke of Acts and Monumentes of the Church... , Now Abridged by Timothe Bright... , 2 vols. in 1, [1589], title...

[Franklin, Benjamin]. Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital; From its First Rise to the Beginning of the Fifth Month, Called May, 1754, pub. P...

Hall (Joseph). The Art of Divine Meditation, Profitable for al Christians to Know and Practise: Exemplified with a Large Meditation of External Li...

Home (Henry, Lord Kames). Sketches of the History of Man, 2 vols., 1st ed., Edinburgh: printed for W. Creech, 1774, half-titles present, yellow ed...

Homer. Works [Ilias, Odyssea, Batrachomyomachia, Hymni xxxii, et vitae Homeri], 2 vols., Strasbourg: Wolfgang Cephalaeus, 1542, titles within orna...

Hopton (Arthur). Hoptons Concordancy Enlarged, containing a briefe and more perfect account of the yeares of our Lord God, and any other heretofor...

[Ireland, William Henry, attrib.]. Something Concerning Nobody, Edited by Somebody, Embellished with Fourteen Characteristic Etchings [by George M...

[Jenks, Sylvester]. A Contrite and Humble Heart, 2nd ed., 1693, title repaired to gutta and upper outer corner, some soiling, contemp. calf, rebac...

Jerome (Saint). Epistolae B. Hieronymi Stridonensis, eloquentissimi & praestantissimi Ecclesiae Doctoris, in libros treis distributae. Nunc primum...

Juveniles. Harris (John, pub.). The Monkey`s Frolic. A Humorous Tale, 1st ed., 1823, ff.[i]+[1]-17, sixteen hand-col. letterpress engs., each with...

Lluelyn (Martin). To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, 1660, 12 pp., including title, author`s name at foot of all three poems, imprint and date d...

Macdonald (George). Phantastes, A Faerie Romance for Men and Women, 1st ed., 1858, half-title, 24 pp. publishers catalogue (dated 1859) at rear, t...

[Maudit, Israel]. The Plain Reasoner, or, Farther Considerations on the German War, 1761, half-title with manuscript annotations to upper margin, ...

More (Thomas). The Workes... Wrytten by Him in the Englysh Tongue, [edited by William Rastell], 1st ed. of the Collected Works in English, 1557, b...

New Testament. The text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the traiterous seminarie at Rh...