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[Apperley, Charles James]. The Life of a Sportsman, by Nimrod, 1st edition, London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1842, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece a...

Baker (Richard). A Chronicle of the Kings of England. From the Time of the Romans Government, unto the Death of King James, 8th edition, London: H...

Beacon or Becon (Richard). Solon h is Follie, or a Politique Discourse, touching the Reformation of common-weales conquered, declined or corrupted...

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues..., London: printed by Char...

Bible [Latin]. Biblia ad Vetustissima Exemplaria Nunc recens castigata. In quibus, præterea, quæ subsequens Præfatio indicat, capita singula ita v...

Bindings. Old and New London: a Narrative of its History, its People, and its Place. By Walter Thornbury, 6 volumes, [London]: Cassell, Petter & G...

Bodin (Jean). Les Six Livres de la Republique de I. Bodin Angeuin, a? Monseigneur du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac, conseiller du roy en son conseil pr...

Bunyan (John). Sighs from Hell, or the Groans of a Damned Soul. Discovering, from the 16th of Luke, the Lamentable State of the Damned. And may fi...

Camden (William). The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England; containing all the most Important and...

* Caxton (William, printer). [Leaf from the first edition of Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon], Westminster: William Caxton, 18 August 1480, signature...

Chevreau (Urbain). Histoire du monde, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: widow of Edmé Martin, and Jean Boudot, 1686, engraved frontispiece, title-vig...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius). Opera Omnia ex recensione Io. Augusti Ernesti cum eiusdem notis et Clave Ciceroniana, Halis Saxonum: in Orphanotropheo, 1...

Darton and Co. (publisher). Household Stories, Translated from the German [of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, and others], London, [1850], Darton's Holid...

[Defoe, Daniel]. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, 3rd edition, London: for W. Taylor, 1719, engrav...

Dickens (Charles). The Personal History of David Copperfield, 1st edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850, half-title discarded, 40 etched plates ...

Edmondson (Joseph). A Complete Body of Heraldry, 2 volumes, London: printed for the author by T. Spilsbury, 1780, engraved portrait frontispiece t...

Erasmus (Desiderius). Adagiorum chiliades Des. Erasmus Roterodami quatuor cum dimidia ex postrema autoris recognitione. In hac æditione, prioribus...

Fashion. La Belle Assemblee, A New and Improved Series, numbers 93-97, London, printed by and for J. Bell, January [-May] 1817, five monthly parts...

[Fashion]. The Ladies' Monthly Magazine, The World of Fashion, Journal of Fashion, Literature, Music, the Opera, and the Theatres, volumes 32-34, ...

Fearne (Charles). The Trial of the Honourable Admiral John Bing, at a Court Martial, as taken by Mr. Charles Fearne, Judge-Advocate of his Majesty...

French Fashion. Townsend's Quarterly Selection of French Costumes; Consisting of Six Beautifully Coloured Figures, Selected from the Latest Parisi...

Gibbon (Edward). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 volumes, Dublin: Luke White, 1789, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 e...

Greco (Gioachino). Chess made Easy. With Additional Games and Openings, illustrated with Remarks and General Rules. The whole so contrived, that a...

Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldry ... The sixth edition. Improv'd with large additions of many hundred coats of arms, under their respective b...

[Hooghe, Romeyn de]. Esopus in Europa, 1st edition, Amsterdam: Sebastiaan Petzold, 1701-[2], 39 parts of 40 (lacking part 16), bound in one volume...

James (William). The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France, in February 1793, to the Accession of George IV in Jan...

Johnson (Samuel). The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield; one of ...

[Kenrick, William]. The Whole Duty of Woman. By a Lady. Written at the Desire of a Noble Lord, 1st edition, London: for R. Baldwin, 1753, half-tit...

Mandar (Charles-François). Etudes d'architecture civile, plans élévations, coupes et détails nécessaires pour élever, distribuer et décorer une ma...

Milton (John). Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books, 2 volumes, 6th edition ('with Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton'), London: for J. a...

Noble (Mark). A History of the College of Arms. And the Lives of all the Kings, Heralds, and Pursuivants, from the Reign of Richard III ... until ...

[Payne, William]. Maxims for Playing the Game of Whist; with all Necessary Calculations, and Laws of the Game, London: sold by T. Payne, 1773, [4]...

Phillipps (Thomas). Heralds Visitation Disclaimers, [Middle Hill, Worcestershire]: Ex zincographia Appelana, 1854, letterpress title (with few spo...

Rapin de Thoyras (Paul). Histoire d'Angleterre, contenant ce qui s'est passe depuis l'Invasion de Jule Cesar, jusqu a la Conquete des Normans [l'a...

Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator). The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque. A Poem, [by William Combe], early issue, London: R. Ack...

Southey (Robert). Madoc, A Poem, in two parts, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme; Edinburgh: A. Constable & Co., 1805, half-title, all edges gil...

Type Specimen. Specimen of Book and Newspaper Types, from the Foundry of Vincent and James Figgins, London, 1838, [4] pp., 122 leaves of type spec...

* Library Steps. A pair of Regency-style yew library steps, 20th century, the 4 rung spiral steps, approximately 117cm (46ins) highQty: (1) ...[m...