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Bible [Latin]. Biblia, Ad vetustissima exemplaria castigata..., Antwerp: Viduam & Haeredes Joannis Stelsii, 1572, title within woodcut border, som...

Justinianus (Petrus). Rerum Venetarum an Urbe Condita ad annum MDLXXV historia, Venice: Ludouicum Auantium, 1576, woodcut printer's device to titl...

Brodeau (Jean). Epigrammatum Graecorum annotationibus, Frankfurt: Andreae Wecheli, 1600, text printed in Greek and Latin, woodcut vignette to titl...

Comines (Philip de). The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, 2nd edition in English, London: A. Hatfield for I. Norton, 1601, woodcut title, en...

Nostradamus (Michel). Les Propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus, reueuës et corrigées sur la copie imprimee à Lyon par Benoist Rigaud en l'an 1568, ...

Galle (Theodor). Vita et miracula S.P. Dominici Praedicatorii Ordinis Primi Institutoris. Antwerp: Th. Gallaerum, 1611, engraved title page (incor...

Gratian. Decretum Gratiani, Emendatum, et Notationibus Illustratum, una cum glossis; Gregorii XIII... coniunctis... Augustini Caravitae, Andreae A...

Bacon (Francis). Sylva Sylvarum: Or, a Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, published after the authors death, by William Rawley, 2 parts in one, L...

Montagu (Edward). Three speeches delivered at a Common-Hall, on Saturday the 28 of July, 1643, London: Peter Cole, 1643, 18pp, title within woodcu...

Charles I. [John Gauden]. Eikon Basilike [in Greek]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings: Together with His p...

Camden (William). Remaines Concerning Britain... 6th impression, with many rare antiquities never before imprinted. By the industry and Care of Jo...

Science. Le Journal des Scavans, 31 volumes, Cologne/Amsterdam/Brussels: multiple publishers, 1666-1703, engraved illustrations throughout (many f...

Thompson (George). Aimatiasis: or, the true way of preserving the bloud in its integrity, and rectifying it, if at any time polluted and degenerat...

Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church..., together ...

Sadler (John). Rights of the Kingdom: or, Customs of our Ancestors. Touching the duty, power, election, or succession of our Kings and Parliaments...

Rossi (Giovanni Giacomo de). Insignium Romae Templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque, a celebrioribus architectis inventi, nunc tandem suis ...

[Wildman, John]. An account of the reasons of the nobility and gentry's invitation of His Highness the Prince of Orange into England· Being a memo...

Graevius (Johann Georg). Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum, 12 volumes, Venice: Typis Bartholomaei Javarina [later Jo. Baptistae Pasquali], 1694-99...

Wooton (William). Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning... With a Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Eurip...

Lewis (David). Golwg ar y Byd sef Llyfr yn cynnwys briwsion oddiar fwrdd y dysgedigion i’r Cymru dymunol; ac yn dangos gallu, doethineb a daioni D...

Locke (John). The Works, 3rd edition, 3 volumes, London: Arthur Bettesworth, 1727, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional engraved plate to...

Swinden (Tobias). An Enquiry into the Nature and Place of Hell..., 2nd edition, with a supplement, London: Printed by H.P. for Tho. Astley, 1727, ...

D'Aquino (Carlo). Nomenclator Agriculturae, 1st edition, Rome: Antonio de Rubeis, 1736, half-title, engraved vignette to title, engraved head and ...

Fuller (Thomas). Pharmacopoeia Domestica: or, the family dispensatory, with remarks on the compositions, and an explanation of their virtues, Lond...

Bindings. Uffizio della settimana santa, Rome: Giovanni Maria Salvioni Stampator, new edition, 1742, engraved publisher's vignette to title, 6 eng...

Gray (Thomas). Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, 1st edition, London: printed for R. Dodsley, 1753, half title, title with e...

Gray (Thomas). Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, 1st edition, London: for R. Dodsley, 1753, [2] 36 [2] leaves (all printed ...

Hume (David). The History of England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution in 1688, new edition, 4 volumes of 6, 1762, manuscript ...

Gibbon (Edward). The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, mixed edition (volumes 1-3 'new edition', 4-6 1st editions), 6 volumes, London: A. Stra...

Metastasio (Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi). Poesie del signor abate Pietro Metastasio, 10 volumes, Turin: Stamperia Reale, 1757-58, engraved fr...

Zanotti (Eustachio). Trattato Teorico-Practico di Prospettiva, 1st edition, Bologna: Lelio Dalla Volpe, 1766, title with engraved vignette, 11 fol...

Smith (Robert). Cours complete d'optique, 1st edition in French, 2 volumes, Avignon: La Veuve Girard, 1767, 73 folding engraved plates, engraved p...

Pufendorf (Samuel, Baron de). Introduction a l'histoire generale et politique de l'Univers... 9 volumes, Amsterdam: Dépens de la Compagnie, 1772, ...

Simes (Thomas). A Military Course for the Government and Conduct of a Battalion, designed for their regulations in quarter, camp, or garrison; wit...

Falconer (William). Remarks on the Influence of Climate, Population, Situation, Nature of Food, and Nature of Country, Way of Life, on the disposi...

Almanacs. A group of 4 French Almanacs, 1783-1794-5, comprising: La Fleur des Plaisirs; etrennes chantantes a la mode dediees aux graces... avec t...

Foulis Press. The Poetical Works of George Lord Lyttelton; The Poetical Works of James Hammond; The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray; The Poetical Wo...

Hall (William Henry). The New Royal Encyclopaedia; or, complete modern universal Dictionary of Arts & Sciences, 1st edition, 3 volumes, London: C....

Ex-Voto. Votive painting of the face of Christ wearing the crown of thorns, 17th/18th century, watercolour on vellum, black painted border, captio...

Flaxman (John). The Iliad/Odyssey of Homer, 2 volumes in one, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1805, engraved titles, 39 and 34 line-engraved ...

Blake (William, illustrator). Robert Blair, The Grave, A Poem. Illustrated by twelve etchings executed by Louis Schiavonetti, from the Original In...

Smith (John Thomas). Vagabondiana; or, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London; with portraits of the most remarkable, draw...

Kitchiner (William). Practical Observations on Telescopes, Opera-Glasses and Spectacles, 3rd edition, London: S. Bagster, 1818, half-title, engrav...

Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator). Doctor Syntax in Paris, or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque, 1st edition, London: for W. Wright, 1820, 18 hand-...

[Egan, Pierce, imitation of]. Real Life in London; or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, throu...

Fashion. The Magazine of the Beau Monde; Or, Monthly Journal of Fashion, a broken run of 71 issues from volumes 1-4, 6-9 & 11 bound in 3 volumes, ...

Guest (Lady Charlotte). The Mabinogion from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest, and other ancient Welsh manuscripts, with an English Translation and Notes, ...

Caimbeul (Gilleaspuig). Orain le Gilleaspuig Caimbeul, aig ceann-loch-earn, Du?n-Eudainn: Mac-Iain agus Hunter, 1851, 72pp, inscribed in a secreta...

Bindings. Anecdotes of Painting in England..., also a catalogue of engravers ... collected by the late George Vertue; digested and published from ...

Proctor (Richard A.). The Stars, in Twelve Maps on the Gnomonic Projection, Collected, in Duplicates, in Four Plates... , 1st edition, London: Lon...

Manuscript Journal. Reminiscence of Seven Years of Early Life, circa 1870, illuminated title, mounted watercolour frontispiece of Gothenburg, 2 pl...

Scott (Walter). Waverley Novels by Walter Scott, 25 volumes, new edition, London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1878-79, engraved frontispie...

Military. The Log of the Valhalla, printed for private circulation, London: Horace Cox, 1894, all edges gilt, some toning, hinges weak, original g...

Bindings. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, 13 volumes, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1896, some volumes with engraved frontispieces, impri...

Masonic Cabinet Card Album. A large and empty cabinet card album, c. 1898, illuminated calligraphic title-page laid in to window mount of first ca...