Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Macaronic Poetry.- [Folengo (Teofilo)] [Opus Merlini Cocaii], collation: A-Z, AA-MM8, lacking signatures A, M, MM (?index) and Ll4 & 5, with 52 fu...

Arithmetic.- [Recorde (Robert)] [The Grounde of Artes: teaching the perfecte vvorke and practise of arithmetike, both in whole nu[m]bers and fract...

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

Health.- [Joannes de Mediolano.] Regimen sanitatis Salerni. The Schoole of Salernes most learned and iuditious Directorie...for the guide and gove...

Herbal.- Lovell (Robert) Pambotanologia [graece], sive, Enchiridion Botanicum. Or a Compleat Herball, second edition, title within typographic bor...

L. (Sr. T.) Remarques on the Humours and Conversations of the Town, first edition, light browning, paper flaw to lower margin of E1 just touching ...

Alchemy.- Cooper (William) The Philosophical Epitaph of W.C. Esquire. For a Memento Mori on his Tomb-stone, VVith Three Hieroglyphical Scutcheons,...

Miniature Book.- Officium B. Mariae Virg. nuper reformatum, et Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum..., printed throughout in red & black, title with w...

Aubrey (John) Miscellanies..., first edition, lacking initial blank, with a few woodcut illustrations, browned and a little stained, hole to lower...

Turning.- Plumier (Charles) L'Art de Tourner..., first edition, engraved additional title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, Privileg...

Cookery.- Evelyn (John) Acetaria. A Discourse of Sallets, "second edition" (actually reissue of first edition of 1699 with cancel title), folding ...

Mechanical Devices.- Grollier de Serviere (Gaspard) Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet..., firs...

Rome.- [Rossi (Filippo de) & Bartolomeo Marliani.] Descrizione di Roma Antica [Moderna], 2 vol., additional engraved pictorial titles, titles with...

Comenius (Johann Amos) Orbis sensualium pictus..., text in Latin, German, Hungarian and ?Slovak/Czech, printed in double-column, numerous woodcut ...

Gardens.- Switzer (Stephen) An Introduction to a General System of Hydrostaticks and Hydraulicks, Philosophical and Practical..., 2 vol., first ed...

[Cowper (Ashley, editor)], "Timothy Scribble". The Norfolk Poetical Miscellany, 2 vol., first edition, errata leaf at end of vol.2, old ink signat...

Johnson (Samuel).- Ascham (Roger) The English Works, edited by James Bennet, first edition, first issue with 'Additional Subscribers' leaf, engrav...

Science.- Hooper (William) Rational Recreations, in which the Principles of Numbers and Mathematics are...elucidated, 4 vol., first edition, 65 fo...

Metrology.- [Paucton (Alexis Jean Pierre)] Métrologie, ou Traité des Mesures, Poids et Monnoies des anciens Peuples & des Modernes, first edition,...

Britain.- Paterson (Capt. Daniel) Paterson's British Itinerary, first edition, 2 vol. in 1 including Crossroads, page hand-coloured double engrave...

Chess.- Twiss (Richard, editor) Chess, 2 vol. in 1, engraved titles and 2 plates, errata slip, light foxing to second title, later half morocco, b...

Repton (Humphry) Odd Whims and Miscellanies, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, large paper copy, lacking half-titles, with stipple-engraved title-vignet...

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

Rowlandson (Thomas).- More Miseries!! Addressed to the Morbid, the Melancholy, and the Irritable. By Sir Fretful Murmur, Knt., second edition, fol...

Thames.- Cooke (W.B. and George) Views on the Thames, plate vol. only, large paper copy, 75 fine engraved plates, foxing, mostly marginal, tissue ...

Japan.- Photograph Album, 49 hand-coloured albumen prints, comprising scenes of tea-picking & -production, tea-houses, fencing, portraits, a tatto...

Rilke (Rainer Maria) Das Stunden-Buch enthaltend die drei Bücher: Vom moenchischen Leben/ Von der Pilgerschaft/ Von der Armuth und vom Tode, first...

Connolly (Cyril) The Rock Pool, first edition, signed and inscribed "For John Arlott in memory of that poem about cricket at Worcester which ASSUA...

Albumasar. De magnis coniunctionibus, [edited by Johannes Angelus], collation: A-N8, O6, P8, 118 leaves, typically 40 lines, Gothic type, numerous...

Aesop. Fabulae, edited by Bonus Accursius, collation: α-δ8, ε6, double column, parallel text in Latin and Greek, 36ff (of 38, lacking α1 and α8), ...

Mela (Pomponius) Cosmographus de situ orbis, edited by Ermolao Barbaro, collation: a-f4, ink annotations throughout, some marginal foxing and soil...

Vitae patrum.- Vita de sancti padri vulgare hystoriata, collation: a-g8 h10 i-m8 n10 o-p8 q-r6 s8 t-u10 x-z8 &8 Ɔ8 K8, title with woodcut of Saint...

Barlandus (Hadrian) Dialogi XLII. Ad profligandam è scholis barbariem utilissimi, collation: a-k4, title within woodcut composite decorative borde...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Erasmus (Desiderius) Hyperaspistes diatribae adversus Seruum arbitrium M. Lutheri, co...

Catharinus (Ambrosius, Bishop of Gonza) Annotationes in excerpta quaedem de commentariis, collation: a-b8 A-Z8 &4, title with woodcut printer's de...

Fregoso (Antonio Filaremo) Opera nuova, collation: A-F8, title with woodcut vignette, woodcut historiated initials, water-stained, modern boards, ...

Lyon binding.- Ammianus (Marcellinus) Rerum gestarum libri decem et octo, collation: a-z, A-Z8 aa4, with final 2 blanks, woodcut printer's device,...

Robert Browning's copy.- Melanchthon (Philipp) Chronicon absolutissimum ab orbe condito usque ad Christum deductum, collation: a-z8 aa-zz8 A-D6, f...

Denores (Jason) Breve Trattato del Mondo et delle sue parte, collation: A-I8 K4, title with woodcut printer's device, water-stained, 20th century ...

Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli elementi di Euclide libri quindici, collation: *2, **4, ⁂2, A-Z4, AA-ZZ4, AAa-ZZz4, AAAa2 woodcut initials, diagr...

Ariosto (Lodovico) Orlando Furioso, collation: a8, A-Z8, Aa-Ll8, Mm10, 2A-E8, F6, title and printer's device within woodcut architectural border, ...

Annotated copy.- Bible, Greek.- Novum Iesu Testamentum, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, co...

Imperiale (Giovanni) Musæum Historicum et Physicum, 2 parts in 1, engraved architectural title, engraved portraits, some water-staining to lower m...

Ireland.- Boate (Gerard) Histoire Naturelle d'Irlande, first French edition, lacks final blank, slightly browned, some spots, contemporary calf, s...

Ovid. Les Metamorphoses, translated by Pierre Du-Ryer, second edition, half-title, title in red and black with engraved vignette incorporating por...

Binding.- L'Office de la Quinzaine de Pasque, Latin-François, double column, engraved frontispiece, 1 f. of text supplied in contemporary ms, titl...

Architecture.- Diedo (Antonio) Fabbriche e Disegni, plate vol. only, half-title, lacking title, 108 line-engraved architectural plates by G. Berna...

Baudelaire (Charles) Les Fleurs du Mal, one of 200 copies for members of the 'Cercle Grolier' on papier velin, this copy for Albert Rosset, etched...

Xanten, ?Monastery of St. Victor. [Leaf from a Service Book], double-column, initials in red and green, musical notation in diastematic neums, som...

Germany.- Walter of Cronenberg deed granting a property with vinyard, mill and wood, manuscript in German, on vellum, in a fine notary bookhand, 1...

Medieval Church Calendar, removed from a missal, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 12pp., 12 2-line "KL" initials, in red and blue, decorated penwor...

On magic and talismans.- Shihab al Din b. Ahmad b. Ahmad b. 'Abd Al Latif Al Sharji Al Zubaydi (died 1488 AD) Kitab Al Fawa'id Wa Al Silat Wa Al '...

17th century leather box, light wooden box, lined with printer's waste (identified as Samuel Collins' "Epphata to F.T., or, The defence of the Rig...

Drummond (William, of Hawthornden, poet and pamphleteer, 1585-1649) [XXII A Translation printed in Madrigals and Epigramms], manuscript, 9 lines, ...

Walton (Izaak, author and biographer, 1593-1683) Autograph initials and inscription, "ffor my nephew palmer I:W:", ?cut from a letter, laid into a...

St. Margaret's, Westminster.- White (Robert, clerk of the market for the City of Westminster) An Accompt of the svall brasse weights... remaine in...

Recognition of William III as King of England.- Pino (Pietro Francesco dal, Chaplain to Tommaso del Bene, envoy extraordinary of the Grand Duke of...

Ireland, Co. Louth.- Account book relating to a number of County Louth ascendancy families, manuscript, 43pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, slig...

Sussex, Legal.- [Legal cases and precedents], manuscript in at least 2 hands, in neat legal hands, c. 600pp., some reverse entries, some ff. loos...

Virginia map.- Dedman (Samuel, surveyor) 906 acres... Mecklinbugg County... Survey'd for Roger Atkinson..., D.s. "Saml Dedman", small manuscript m...