Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

[Macchiavelli (Niccolo)] De migrationibus populorum septentrionalium, translated by Hieronymus Turler, collation: A-M8, title in red and black wit...

Mexia (Pedro), Francesco Sansovino & others. The Treasurie of Aucient and Moderne Times [&] Archaio-Ploutos [graece]..., [translated by Thomas Mil...

Minsheu (John) Hegemon eis tas Glossas [graece], id est Ductor in Linguas, The Guide Into Tongues, 2 parts in 1, first edition, title with decorat...

Stanley (Thomas) The History of Philosophy, in Eight Parts, 8 parts in 1, first edition, with general title dated 1656 and 8 part titles, 17 engra...

Hats.- [Raynaud (Théophile)], "Anselmus Solerius". De Pileo, engraved additional pictorial title after Romeyn de Hooghe, title-vignette, 4 plates ...

Spelman (Henry) Glossarium archaiologicum..., third edition, engraved portrait, title in red and black, printed in double column, browned at begin...

Ovid.- [Metamorphosis oder Verwandelungs Bücher] Bellissimum Ovidii Theatrum, title in red and black, additional engraved pictorial title and 150 ...

La Rochefoucauld (Francois, Duc de) Moral Maxims and Reflections, first edition in English, engraved frontispiece, contemporary ink signatures on ...

Hickes (George) Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus, 2 vol., first edition, mixed set, vol.1 with eng...

[Ward (Edward)] The Secret History of Clubs: particularly the Kit-Cat, Beef-Stake, Vertuosos, Quacks, Knights of the Golden-Fleece, Florists, Beau...

Horsley (John) Britannia Romana: or the Roman Antiquities of Britain, first edition, half-title, engraved pictorial headpiece to dedication, 21 ma...

Ray (John) A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, 2 parts in 1, third edition, advertisement leaf at end, title soiled and reinforced at inner...

Bickham (George) The British Monarchy..., engraved throughout with frontispiece after Gravelot, title, 2pp. list of subscribers and 190 numbered l...

Bible, Gospels, Gothic and Latin. Sacrorum evangeliorum versio gothica, edited by Erik Benzelius and Edward Lye, index leaf at end, title and fin...

Hume (David) Political Discourses, second edition, with Contents and advertisement leaves following title, contemporary ink note on title "with Ms...

Colour-Printing.- [Caraccioli (Louis Antoine de)] Le Livre de Quatre Couleurs, only edition, printed in yellow, blue, brown and red, half-title, t...

Hyde (Thomas) Veterum persarum et parthorum et medorum religionis historia, second edition, 20 engraved plates on 19 leaves, some folding, folding...

Smith (Adam).- Philological Miscellany (The), vol.1 only [all published], containing: Adam Smith's 'Considerations concerning the first formation ...

Bailey (Nathan) A New Universal Etymological Dictionary, edited by Joseph Nicol Scott, engraved frontispiece ( frayed at edges and laid down), dou...

Helvetius (Claude Adrien) De l'Homme, de ses Facultes Intellectuelles et de son Éducation, 2 vol., first edition, first issue with 639 & 760pp. an...

Campbell (John) A Political Survey of Britain, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, Sir Marcus Somerville's copy with his ink signature at head of ...

[Dodsley (Robert, editor)] A Collection of Poems...by Several Hands, 6 vol., half-titles, engraved title-vignettes, head- & tail-pieces and sheets...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, 2 vol., engraved portrait, additional pictorial titles, title-vignettes, 80 plates and 43 tail-...

Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de) A Treatise on Toleration..., translated by Rev. David Williams, 2 parts in 1, title browned and with contempor...

[Blackburne (Francis)] Memoirs of Thomas Hollis, Esq., F.R. and A.S.S., 2 vol. including Appendix, first edition, engraved frontispiece of Britann...

[Pigott (Charles)] The Jockey Club, or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age, 3 vol., vol.1 third edition, vol.2 fifth edition, vol.3 second edition,...

Bodoni.- Gray (Thomas) Poems, [one of 100 large paper copies], light foxing at beginning and end, bookplate, contemporary tan morocco, elaborately...

Bodoni.- Theophrastus. Theophrastou tou eresiou charakteres ethikoi [graece]; Characteres ethici, Greek and Latin text, faint trace of stamp to ti...

Bodoni.- [Montesquieu (Charles Secondat, Baron de)] Le Temple de Gnide, light foxing, book-label of John Waynflete Carter, contemporary green moro...

Binding.- Adventurer (The), vol.2 only, engraved frontispiece, foxed, bookplate of Christopher J.F.Jarchow, contemporary sprinkled calf with Greek...

Knight (Richard Payne) The Landscape, a Didactic Poem...addressed to Uvedale Price, Esq., second edition, 3 etched plates by B.T.Pouncy after Thom...

[Newton (Richard)] Designs to Illustrate Sterne's Sentimental Journey, engraved throughout with title and 12 hand-coloured etched plates after New...

Tasso (Torquato) La Jérusalem Délivrée, en vers francois par L.P.M.F.Baour-Lormian, 2 vol., half-titles, 40 engraved plates after Cochin, tissue g...

Typography.- Fry (Edmund) Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world, first edition, list of subscribers, wo...

Atkinson (John Augustus).- Beresford (Rev. James) The Miseries of Human Life; or The Groans [and Last Groans] of Samuel Sensitive, and Timothy Tes...

Hoare (Sir Richard Colt).- Giraldus Cambrensis. The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales A.D. MCLXXXVIII, translated and edited by Sir Ri...

Ireland.- Hoare (Sir Richard Colt) Journal of a Tour in Ireland, A.D. 1806, first edition, engraved frontispiece (offset on title), lightly browne...

Italy.- Hoare (Sir Richard Colt) Recollections Abroad, during the year 1790. Sicily and Malta, number 24 of 50 copies inscribed by the author, eng...

Hoare (Sir Richard Colt) Hints on the Topography of Wiltshire, Salisbury, 1818; Tumuli Wiltunenses; a Guide to the Barrows on the plains of Stoneh...

Italy.- Hoare (Sir Richard Colt) A Classical Tour through Italy and Sicily, first edition, half-title, engraved map, advertisement leaf at end, fo...

Hoare (Sir Richard Colt) Monastic Remains of the Religious Houses at Witham, Bruton, & Stavordale, one of 50 copies, printed in red and black, 16 ...

Hoare (Sir Richard Colt, editor) Registrum Wiltunense, saxonicum et latinum, engraved plate (foxed), staining to upper outer corner, 1827; Chronic...

[Evans (Arthur Benoni)] The Cutter, in Five Lectures upon the Art and Practice of Cutting Friends, Acquaintances, and Relations, first edition, wi...

Slavery.- Clarkson (Thomas) The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parli...

Lee Priory Press.- Brydges (Sir Egerton, editor) Breton's Longing of a Blessed Heart..., one of 100 copies, title printed in red and black with wo...

Bewick (Thomas).- Aesop and others. The Fables..., with Bewick's signed thumb-mark receipt before title, wood-engraved illustration to each fable ...

Bewick (Thomas and John) Select Fables..., wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, vignettes and tail-pieces by Thomas and John Bewick, occasional fo...

Egyptology.- Champollion (Jean François) Grammaire Égyptienne, ou Principes Généraux de l'Écriture Sacrée Égyptienne..., first edition, half-title...

Egyptology.- Champollion (Jean François) Dictionnaire Égyptienne en Écriture Hiéroglyphique, first edition, half-title, lithographed hieroglyphs t...

[Blocquel (Simon)], "Frinellan". Le Triple Vocabulaire Infernal: Manuel du Démonomane, 4 parts in 1 vol., half-title, preliminaries and pp.15-16 m...

[Abbott (Edwin A.)], "A Square". Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, first edition, half-title, illustrations by the author, some light foxing...

Stevenson (Robert Louis) A Child's Garden of Verses, first edition, issue with smaller "of" in title on spine but rounded apostrophe, no mention ...

Chess.- Fiske (Willard) Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature, first edition, portrait, illustrations, corrigenda leaf at end, original bro...

Ashendene Press.- Thucydides. [History of the Peloponnesian War], translated by Benjamin Jowett, [one of 260 copies], printed in red and black wit...

Cresset Press.- [Bacon (Sir Francis)] The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Lord Verulam Viscount St Alban, number 107 of 250 copie...

Gooden (Stephen).- Aesop. Fables, translated by Sir Roger l'Estrange, number 491 of 525 copies signed by the artist, copper-engraved title and pla...

Hamerton (Philip Gilbert) Landscape, number 116 of 525 large paper copies, title in red and black, 43 plates, mostly photogravure but including se...

Hughes (Ted) Crow, from the Life and Songs of the Crow, second edition, number 384 of 400 copies signed by the author and artist, plates by Leonar...

Kelmscott Press.- Cockerell (Sydney C.) Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century, one of 225 copies on Perch paper, printed in red and black ...

Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de) Essays..., translated by Charles Cotton, 5 vol., number 75 of 150 large paper de luxe sets on handmade paper and sign...