Fine Books and Works on Paper

Bristol.- Law.- The presentment of the Grand Jury of Bristol at the General Sessions of the Peace, &c. holden there, begun March 13. 1682. To the ...

Bristol .- The Case of Thomas Coster, Esq; Sitting Member for the City of Bristol, bifolium, drop-head and docket titles, folds, split to central...

Bristol.- Articles Agreed upon by us Whose Names are hereunto subscribed, Freeman of the ancient, opulent, and loyal City of Bristol, Under the De...

Bristol.- Press gang.- A Plain Narrative of a Wanton and Illegal Attack on the Rights of the People in the Person of Mr. Caton of Bristol, bifoliu...

Bristol.- Shiercliff (E.) The Bristol and Hotwell Guide, folding engraved frontispiece, contemporary tree calf, gilt, Bristol, 1789 § Manby (G.W.)...

Bristol.- Bristol Gaol Bill. Bristol, August 4, 1792. Objections to an Act lately obtained for building a new Gaol within the city of Bristol, dr...

Bristol.- Broadside.- A List of Persons Killed and Wounded (At The Late Riots in Bristol respecting the Bridge Tolls.) On the memorable Evening of...

Bristol.- Bristol Channel Docks. A Necessity for Bristol. Letter from the Right Worshipful The Mayor, E.S. Robinson, Esq., single sheet, folds an...

Somerset & Devon.- Wilt Thou Be Made Whole: or, the Virtues and Efficacy of the Water of Glastonbury, first edition, modern sprinkled calf, 1751 §...

Somerset Estate Maps.- Ilett (P.B., surveyor, of Taunton) Map of the Parish of Broadway Somerset, 380 x 655mm., n.d. [c. 1820s]; Map of the Forest...

Somerset.- Broadside.- The Sorrowful Lamentation of Chas. and Matt. Wednore, now lying under Sentence of Ieath [sic.], in Taunton Gaol, 250 x 179m...

Smallpox & Vaccination.- Clinch (William) An Historical Essay on the Rise and Progress of the Small-pox, first edition, title soiled, text foxed, ...

Smallpox & Vaccination.- Jenner (Edward).- [Hooper (Robert)] The Surgeon's Vade-mecum; containing the Symptoms, Causes, Diagnois, Prognosis, and T...

Smallpox & Vaccination.- Jenner (Rev. George Charles) The Evidence at Large, as Laid Before the Committee of the House of Commons, Respecting Dr J...

Smallpox & Vaccination.- Jenner (Rev. George Charles) The Evidence at Large, as Laid Before the Committee of the House of Commons, Respecting Dr J...

Smallpox & Vaccination.- Jenner (Rev. G.C.).- [Dossie (Robert)] The Elaboratory laid open, or, the Secrets of Modern Chemistry and Pharmacy, first...

Smallpox & Vaccination.- Moseley (Benjamin) A Treatise on the Lues Bovilla; or Cow Pox, 1804; another edition, second edition "with considerable a...

Smallpox & Vaccination.- Ring (John) A Treatise on the Cow-Pox; containing the History of Vaccine Inoculation, 2 vol., first edition, presentation...

Smallpox & Vaccination.- Woodville (William) Reports of a Series of Inoculations for the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-pox..., first edition, James Ph...

Chiromancy & Geomancy.- [Rampalle (Jean Antoine)] La Chyromantie Naturelle de Ronphyle, title with woodcut device, 6 full-page engraved illustrati...

Cryptography.- Breithaupt (Christian) Ars decifratoria sive scientia occultas scripturas solvendi et legendi, title with engraved vignette, foldin...

Freind (John) Chymical Lectures: in which almost all the Operations of Chymistry are reduced to their True Principles, and the Laws of Nature, fir...

Medical Recipes.- [Collection of recipes, mostly medicinal], manuscript, 132pp. excluding blanks, in several hands, numerous manuscript recipes (1...

Newton (Sir Isaac) The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, vol.2 only (of 2), first edition in English, lacking engraved frontispiece, ...

Porta (Giovanni Baptista della) De occultis literarum notis..., woodcut device on title, woodcut ornaments and illustrations including 3 unformed...

Porta (Giovanni Baptista della) De distillatione lib. IX, first edition, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, epigrams in Hebrew, Gree...

Magic & Conjuring.- [Bennett (John)] The Career of an Artful Dodger, first edition, light spotting, original pictorial boards, very slightly rubbe...

Magic & Conjuring.- Dean (Henry) The whole Art of Legerdemain; or, Hocus Pocus in Perfection, 132pp., eighth edition, woodcut frontispiece and ill...

Magic & Conjuring.- Dean (Henry) The whole Art of Legerdemain; or, Hocus Pocus in Perfection, 132pp., ninth edition "corrected, and improved with ...

Magic & Conjuring.- Hardy (F.) Ventriloquism Made Easy, ?first edition, 32pp., 4pp. advertisements at end, original printed orange boards, slightl...

Magic & Conjuring.- Houdini (Harry).- Maggi (Girolamo) De tintinnabulis liber postumus...de equuleo liber, engraved additional pictorial title, ti...

Magic & Conjuring.- [Lewis (Angelo J.)], "Professor Louis Hoffmann". Home Gymnastics for Young and Old, 2 folding plates, 1892; Puzzles Old and Ne...

Magic and Conjuring.- [Weiss (Erich)], "Harry Houdini". Handcuff Secrets, original pictorial boards, spine a little worn and chipped, 1910 § Holde...

Cookery & Medical recipes.- Hutson (Mrs Beulah) [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 82pp. excluding blanks, in at least three hands (most in the ...

Cookery recipes.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 141pp. excluding blanks, in four hands, slightly foxed and browned, original gilt panelled ...

Cookery recipes.- Farrow (Mary) [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 80pp. excluding blanks, in at least three hands (1 hand late 18th century and...

Food & Drink.- Chacon (Pedro) De triclinio, sive, de modo convivandi apud priscos Romanos, & de conviviorum apparatu, collation: *2, A-M8, N6, sec...

Food & Drink.- [Kettilby (Mary, compiler)] A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery, first edition, half-title...

Fowling.- Markham (Gervase) Hungers Prevention: or, the whole Art of Fovvling by Water and Land, second edition, woodcut frontispiece and many ill...

Games.- [Cotton (Charles)] The Compleat Gamester: or Instructions how to Play...Cards, Dice, Billiards, Trucks, Bowls, or Chess. also the Arts and...

Botany.- Ornamental prints.- [Passe the Elder (Crispin van de, 1564-1637) and Crispin van de Passe the Younger (1593-1670)]. An album with sixty-o...

Birds.- Gould (John) Monograph of the Pittidae, part 1 only (of 2), first edition, 10 hand-coloured lithograph plates, a few minor spots, original...

Birds.- Meyer (Henry Leonard) Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs , 7 vol. in 2, wood-engraved title-vignettes, 1842-50; Illus...

Butterflies.- Lewin (William) The Insects of Great Britain...with the natural history of each species, vol.1 only [all published], first edition, ...

Lovell (Robert) Panzooryktologia [graece]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, 2 parts in 1, first editio...

[Perrault (Claude)] The Natural History of Animals containing the Anatomical Description of several Creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sc...

Mela (Pomponius) De totius Orbis descriptione, collation: a-i8 and 4, woodcut device of Jean Petit on title and that of Gilles de Gourmont on colo...

Aldine.- Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, edited by Aldus Manutius and Girolamo Avancio, collation: A-D8 E10 AA-D...

Luther (Martin) Sermo de virtute excomunicationis, collation: A4, large woodcut illustration to title, later marbled boards, [Adams L1959, cites d...

French Poetry.- [Pherotee de la Croix (A.)] L'Art de la Poesie Francoise, second edition, small monogram stamp to title, later blue crushed morocc...

Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de) La Zayre, trimmed close with occasional loss to text at lower and fore-edges, Paris, Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 173...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, 2 vol., "Fermiers Generaux" edition, half-titles, 2 engraved portrait frontispieces of the auth...

Mirabeau (Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, Comte ) Errotika Biblion, first edition, woodcut title-vignette, later green morocco, gilt, by Riviere, inner gi...

Mary (Queen of Scots, 1542-87).- [The trial and execution of Mary Queen of Scots], manuscript in Secretary hand, 78pp., incomplete at beginning (a...

Hermannus (Hugo) The Siege of Breda, translated by Sir Henry Gage, fine engraved title, 15 engraved plates and maps, some double-page, occasional ...

Shakespeare (William) Much adoe about Nothing, with Loves Labour's lost, from the 2nd folio, continuous pagination from 101-144 (but missing one l...

Royal Society.- Glanvill (Joseph) Plus Ultra: or, the Progress and Advancement of Knowledge since the days of Aristotle, first edition, imprimatur...

Milton (John) Paradise Lost, first edition, 7th title-page with 1669 imprint, with no comma after Helder, and with "Angel" in roman type, title tr...

Nostradamus (Michel de) The True Prophecies or Prognostications..., first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece by W.Dolle, title in ...

Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) The History of the most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: and his Trusty Squire Sancho Panza, translated by J[ohn] P[...