Books and Works on Paper

Alchemy & allied arts.- Figulus (Benedictus) and Lorenzo Ventura. Rosarium novum olympicum et benedictum, 2 parts in 1 (part 2 here bound before p...

De Bie (Jacques) Explication ou Description Sommaire des Medailles Contenuës en L'Oeuvre de la France Metallique, colophon dated 1635, 1636 bound ...

I. V. A. R. Sylloge Variorum Tractatuum, Anglico quidem idiomate & ab Auctoribus Anglis conscriptorum sed in linguam Latinam translatorum, first ...

[Swift (Jonathan)] Voyages du Capitaine Lemuel Gulliver, 3 vol., first French edition, titles in red and black, portrait frontispiece, trimmed and...

Alpinus (Prosper) De Praesagienda Vita & Morte Aegrotantium Libri Septum ..., previous owner's ink signatures to blanks, lacking portrait plate, e...

NO RESERVE Oberlin (Jeremias Jacob) De fluminibus, fontibus, lacubus, nemoribus, paludibus, montibus, gentibus quorum apud poetas mentio fit, wate...

Classics.- A good group of c.50 vol. of editions of Greek and Latin authors, many Homer, also Cicero, and Plutarch, amongst others, some spotting ...

Costume.- Ferrari (Filippo) Costumi Ecclesiastici Civili e Militari, Rome, engraved hand-coloured title and 61 hand-coloured plates, faint spottin...

NO RESERVE Cobbett (William) Historia da Reforma Protestante, en Inglaterra e Irlanda..., superficial splitting to hinges, contemporary calf, a li...

Bindings.- Saint-Simon (Duc de) Mémoires Complets et Authentiques ..., 36 vol. only (?of 40) bound in 16, engraved portrait frontispieces, vignett...

Catalan literature.- Plana Y Dorca (José) Papellones (Sonets que ho semblen y Sonets que no ho semblem), number 19 of 70 copies on 'papier de fil'...

Decorated Paper.- Maisch (Johann) Sheet of brocade paper of flowers and fruit, printed in gold on grey paper with pattern in relief, imprint at fo...

Decorated Paper.- Meyer (Johann Wilhelm) Sheet of brocade paper of flowers and fruit, No.?1, printed in gold on brownish painted paper with patter...

Decorated Paper.- Munck (Johann Carl) Sheet of brocade paper of flowers and fruit, No.42, printed in gold on grey-green painted paper with pattern...

Decorated Paper.- Munck (Johann Carl) Sheet of brocade paper of saints, No.24, 4 rows of 8 saints with S.Salvator in top left corner, printed in g...

Decorated Paper.- Reimund (Paul) Sheet of brocade paper of saints, No.15, 4 rows of 8 saints with S.Thadeus in top left corner, printed in gold on...

Decorated Paper.- Sheet of brocade paper of flowers and fruit, printed in gold with large flowers and berries on cream paper, horizontal & vertica...

Decorated Paper.- Sheet of brocade paper of flowers and fruit, printed in gold on grey painted paper with pattern in relief, indiscernible imprint...

Decorated Paper.- 4 sheets of "Dutch gilt" brocade paper, printed in gold with pattern in relief in colours through stencil, central fold, stab-h...

Decorated Paper.- Sheet of cotton paper with bucolic figures, featuring shepherds playing pipes and shepherdesses amongst a rural landscape with s...

Decorated Paper.- [?Letourmy (Jean-Baptiste)] Sheet of Dominoterie paper with pattern of circles and small crosses, No. 308 A, printed in blue wit...

Decorated Paper.- Sheet of chintz paper of flowers and leafy tendrils, printed in orange and black on dark blue painted paper, central fold, c.34...

Decorated Paper.- Sheet of patterned paste-paper of twisting rods, printed in burgundy with pattern of orange and yellow diamonds supplied by hand...

Bible, English.- , Bible (The): That is the Holy Scriptures Contained in the Old and New Testament, lacking N.T title, Geneva version, double colu...

NO RESERVE Senault (Jean-François) Man Become Guilty, Or the Corruption of Nature by Sinne, According to St. Augustine's Sense, translated by Henr...

Juvenalis (Decimus Junius) and Aulus Persius Flaccus [Satires], translated by Barten Holyday, title in red and black, small loss to upper corner n...

Gunpowder plot.- [Barlow (Thomas)] The Gunpowder-Treason: With a Discourse of the Manner of its Discovery, 2 marginal losses, neatly repaired, bro...

NO RESERVE Coppinger (Matthew) Poems, Songs and Love-Verses, Upon Several Subjects, first edition, even faint browning, some soiling, a very littl...

NO RESERVE Bridoul (Toussain) The School of the Eucharist Established upon the Miraculous Respects and Acknowledgments ..., first English edition,...

NO RESERVE [Burnet (Gilbert)] "Sa. Oxon". An Enquiry into the Reasons for Abrogating the Test Imposed on all Members of Parliament..., [Wing B5813...

NO RESERVE Wallis (Ralph) Room For the Cobler of Gloucester and His Wife: With Several Cartloads of Abominable Irregular, Pitiful Stinking Priests...

NO RESERVE [Wheeler (Maurice)] The Royal Grammar Reformed into A more Easie Method..., first edition, author's presentation copy, publisher's adve...

NO RESERVE Religion.- Clutterbuck (J.[ohn]) A Plain and Rational Vindication and Explanation of the Liturgy of the Church of England..., third edi...

NO RESERVE Cobb (Samuel) Poems on Several Occasions. With Imitations..., third edition, some browning, most to endpapers, soiling, a few ff. sligh...

NO RESERVE Poetry.- Irish Printing.- A Select Collection of Modern Poems, divisional titles, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title and fron...

NO RESERVE Economics & Finance.- [Defoe (Daniel, attrib.)] A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons to His Friend in the Country..., 1713 § ...

NO RESERVE [Defoe (Daniel)] The Secret History of the White-Staff..., [Part I] - Part III, part titles, for J.Baker, 1714; Memoirs of the Conduct ...

NO RESERVE Religion.- The Occasional Paper. Numb. X. An Expedient for Peace among all Protestants..., woodcut and typographical decorations, a ver...

NO RESERVE History & Parliamentary.- [Steele (Sir Richard)] "R.S.". Town-Talk. In a Letter to a Lady in the Country...Friday, January 13. 1715/16,...

NO RESERVE Parliamentary & Legal.- [Turnor (Sir Edward)] The True Case of Mrs. Clerke..., for John Morphew, ?1718 § [Pulteney (William)] "Caleb D'...

NO RESERVE [Sewell (George)] A New Collection of Original Poems..., [Maslen & Lancaster Bowyer Ledgers, 646; Foxon, p. 722], for J.Pemberton, 1720...

NO RESERVE [Earbery (Matthias)] An Historical Account of the Advantages that have Accru'd to England, by the Succession..., 1722 § [Burgess (Danie...

Phaedrus & Aesop.- Phaedrus.- Terentius Afer (Publius) Comoediae, Phaedri Fabulae Aesopiae.., edited by Richard Bentley, first Bentley edition, co...

Milton (John) Paradise Regain'd: a Poem in four books, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, marginal damp-staining, contemporary calf, r...

[Pope (Alexander)] The Dunciad, Variorum. with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus, 2 works bound in 1, first edition, engraved title, previous owner's ...

[Fowke (Martha)] The Platonic Lovers: Consisting of Original Letters in Prose and Verse, third edition, contents misbound after dedication, occasi...

Pope (Alexander) Of the Characters of Women: an Epistle to a Lady, first edition, half-title, faint spotting, advertisement leaf at end, later hal...

Pluche (Noel Antoine) The History of the Heavens ... translated from the French by ... J. B. De Freval, 2 vol., first English edition, engraved fr...

Bindings.- [Butler (Samuel)] Hudibras, 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece and 16 plates, 5 folding, list of subscribers, faint abrasion marks ...

NO RESERVE Anonymous Fiction.- The History of Tom Jones The Foundling, in His Married State, first edition, first issue, final f. with erratum, Ha...

NO RESERVE Scotland.- Acts of Parliament.- A Collection of the Acts of Parliament, Now in Force, Relating to the Linen Manufacture..., ink inscrip...

Piracy.- [Smollett (Tobias)] The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, ?pirate edition, ink corrections inserted, small tear with loss, restored (...

NO RESERVE Racine (Louis) Religion, A Poem..., translated by James Elphinston, for W.Strahan, 1754 § Pitt (Christopher) Poems and Translations, co...

NO RESERVE Johnsoniana.- The Universal Visiter, and Monthly Memorialist..., engraved sheet music and lyrics, some pencil markings, a few quires de...

Military.- Muller (John) A Treatise of Artillery, engraved frontispiece and 28 folding plates, tear to plate 8, plate 27 browned and frayed at edg...

NO RESERVE [Conway (Henry Seymour)] The Officer's Answer to the Country Gentleman's Reply, publisher's advertisement to final f. verso, [Maslen an...

Militia.- [Savile (Sir George)] An Argument Concerning the Militia, 19pp., slightly browned, small stain in margin of last f., stitched as issued,...

NO RESERVE [Almon (John)] A Letter to J. Kidgell..., second edition, for J.Williams, 1763 § Kenrick (William) Falstaff's Wedding..., new edition, ...

NO RESERVE Parliamentary Petition.- Thames Coal Porters.- The Coal-Heavers Case, bifolium, docket title to verso of last f., folds, a very little ...

NO RESERVE Johnsoniana.- "A Civilian". Free Thoughts on Seduction, Adultery, and Divorce..., half-title, publisher's advertisement f. at end, even...