Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Sandeus (Felinus) Epitoma de regno Apuliae et Siciliae, edited by Michael Fernus, collation: a8 b-f6 g8, 46 ff., 28 lines, Roman type, side-notes ...

France.- Gaugin (Robert) Compendium super Francorum gestis, edited by Josse Badius Ascencius, ff. [16] 312, woodcut device to title and at end, w...

Law.- Guymier (Cosme, editor) Pragmatica sanctio decretis sanctorum patrum non parum conformis, immensique thesauri jurisprudentie ac canonice dis...

Martial D'Auvergne. Aresta amorum cum erudita Benedicti Curtii Symphoriani explanation, collation: A-Z8 Aa-Dd8 Ee4, text in Latin and French, wood...

Aeschines. Epistolae, translated into Latin and with commentary by René Guillon, collation: A-D4 E2, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut de...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Rhetoricorum ad Herennium libri quatuor alias, ars nova, sive nova rhetorica, edited by Josse Badius Ascensius and others,...

Aristotle.- Ammonius, Hermiae. In Porphyrii Institutionem, Aristotelis Categorias, et librum De interpretatione, Ioanne Baptista Rasario, medico N...

Maffei (Raffaele) Commentariorum urbanorum raphaelis volaterrani, octo et triginta libri...Item oeconomicus Xenophontis, ab eodem latio donatus, p...

Aldine.- Bizzarri (Pietro) Varia opuscula, quorum indicem sequens pagina demonstrabit, first edition, 4 parts in 1, collation: A-T8 U4, woodcut pr...

Chatsworth-John Sparrow copy.- Rota (Berardino) Carmina. Nunc tantum ab ipso edita. Elegiarum libri III. Epigrammatum liber. Sylvarum seu Metamorp...

[Parsons (Robert)], "Andreas Philopater". Elizabethae Angliae reginae haeresim Calvinianam propugnantis saeuissimum in catholicos sui regni edictu...

Arms & Armour.- Schrenk von Notzing (Jacob) Der Aller Durchleuchtigisyen und Grobmächtigen Kayser... Königen und Ertzhertzogen..., title with smal...

Arms & Armour.- Breen (Adam van) Maniement d'armes de Nassau, avecq rondelles, piques, espees, & targes, engraved pictorial title and 43 plates on...

Arms and Armour.- Rugendas.- Der Harnisch Von Seinem Entstehen Bis Zu Seinem Wiedervergehen In Bildern Dargestelt Und Gezeichnet V G.P. Rugendas, ...

Arms & Armour.- Reibisch (Friedrich Martin von) and Franz Kottenkamp. Der Rittersaal. Eine Geschichte des Ritterthums, seines Entstehens und Fortg...

Arms & Armour.- Sacken (Eduard Freiherrn von) Die vorzüglichsten Rüstungen und Waffen der K. K. Ambraser-Sammlung in Original-Photographien, first...

Emblemata.- Shakespeare.- Veen (Otto van).- Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata, engraved portrait of Horace to title and 1...

Morin (Jacques) Les Armes & Blasons des Chevaliers de l'Ordre du Sainct Esprit creez par Louys XIII Roy de France et de Navarre, engraved architec...

Binding.- Paolacci (Domenico) Pensieri predicabili per i sabbati della quaresima in honore di Maria Vergine, woodcut printer's device to title, wo...

Dottori (Carlo de') Aristodemo Tragedia, first edition, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut ...

Geliot (Louvan) La Vraye et Parfaite Science des Armoiries, ou l'Indice Armorial...augmenté...par Pierre Palliot, half-title, engraved additional ...

[Le Cellyer (Claude)] Le Nouveau Armorial Universel; contenant les Armes et Blazons des Maisons Nobles & Illustres de France ..., engraved hand-co...

Tessereau (Abraham) Histoire Chronologique de la Grande Chancelerie de France, first edition, engraved title vignette and head-piece and initial t...

Libraries.- Le Gallois (Pierre) Traitté Historique des Plus Belles Bibliotheques de l'Europe, first edition, half-title, with 3pp. privilege at en...

Bible, German.- Biblia Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft Altes und Neues Testaments, verteutscht durch D. Martin Luthern, edited by Nicolaus Ha...

Military.- Artillery.- Mieth (Michael) Neue curieuse Beschreibung der gantzen Artillerie, engraved double-page frontispiece and 31 (of 32) folding...

Condillac (Étienne Bonnot de) Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines, 2 vol., first edition, half-title to vol.2 only, woodcut head- and t...

Richardson (Samuel) Clarissa, die Geschichte eines vornehmen Frauenzimmers..., translated by Johann Daniel Michaelis and Johann Mattheson, 8 vol.,...

Chevrier (François-Antoine) Memoires d'une Honnête Femme ecrits par elle-même, 3 parts in 1, parts 2 & 3 with half-title (seemingly not called for...

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) Collection Complette des Oeuvres, 30 vol., 50 engraved plates and portraits including frontispieces in some vo...

Catherine II, Empress of Russia. Instruction...pour travailler à la rédaction d'un nouveau Code de Loix..., engraved title vignette, engraved port...

Bodoni.- Longus. Poimenikon ton kata Daphnin kai Chloen bibloi tettares (graece) cum proloquio de libris eroticis antiquorum, printed in Latin and...

The Estates General of 1789.- French Revolution.- Discours du roi, Prononcé le 5 mai 1789, jour où Sa Majesté a fait l'ouverture des Etats-Générau...

Beckford (William).- Thiébault (Dieudonné) Mes Souvenirs de Vingt Ans de Séjour a Berlin; ou Frédéric le Grand, sa Famille, sa Cour, son Gouvernem...

Sappho, Bion & Moschus. Recueil de Compositions dessinées par Girodet, edited by P.A.Coupin, 40 line engravings by H.G.Chatillon after Anne-Louis ...

Judaica.- [Barukh ben Isaac (a member of the Tosafist school in France, traditionally thought of as from Worms, late 12th - early 13th century)] [...

Yorkshire, Farnley Tyas.- I, Adam Faber (Smith) of Farnelay [Farnley Tyas] grant and quitclaim to Franc[isc]us Teutonicus of all right in an assar...

Medieval Seal Matrices.- Collection of c. 50 Medieval Seal Matrices, including: Seal matrix inscribed William the Chaplain, legend "S William Cape...

Medieval Seal Matrices.- Collection of c. 50 Medieval Seal Matrices, including: Seal matrix inscribed " S Stefani Bonton" surrounding an image of ...

Grendon (Sir Ralph de, 1270-1332) I, Sir Ralph de Grendone, kt, have granted to William de Thomas Faber (Smith) and Agnes his wife two acres calle...

Cambridgeshire, Ashley.- I, William Faber (Smith) of Assele and Rose his wife have conceded by this present charter to Henry Honeman of Ashley and...

Framlingham, Suffolk.- Collection of 6 charters of Framlingham, including: (1). I, Thomas Bareman of Framlingham by this charter has conceded and ...

Medieval Welsh Divorce.- Record by Lewis Myvot, Bachelor of Canon & Civil Law and ?commissary in Powys and the March, in a case of divorce, of the...

Leo X (Pope, born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 1475-1521) Papal bull addressed to the archbishop of Santiago di Compostella, the bishop of Zamo...

Elizabethan Court Roll.- Hornby, Lancashire.- Parker (Edward, twelfth Baron Morley, one of the peers who sat in judgment on Mary, Queen of Scots a...

Elizabeth I's cousin.- Carey (Henry, first Baron Hunsdon, courtier and administrator, Lord Chamberlain, son of Mary Boleyn, 1526-96) Warrant certi...

Cavalry.- Melzo (Lodovico, Italian cavalry officer, a Knight of St John of Jerusalem, fought against the Turks at the Siege of Rhodes and with the...

Alchemy.- [Norton (Thomas, poet and alchemist, c.1433-1513)] [The Ordinall of Alchemy], manuscript copy, 102pp., disbound, 4to, [17th century].⁂ ...

Amsterdam Merchants.- Pellicorne Family (of Amsterdam) [Transcripts and translations of legal documents of marriages, wills etc. relating to the P...

Survey of the King's Wardrobes.- Charles II (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1630-85) Draft addressed to the Lord Chamberlain and Clerk of...

Charles II (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1630-85) Letters Patent addressed to Heneage Lord Finch Keeper of the Great Seal, Henry Lord A...

George II (King of Great Britain and Ireland, and Elector of Hanover, 1683-1760) Letters Patent appointing Sir John Strange as solicitor-general, ...

America.- Province of Massachusetts Bay.- George III (King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and King of Hanover, 1738-1820) War...

George IV (as Prince of Wales, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and King of Hanover, 1762-1830) Epitaph on Mr. Fenton By M...

George III (KIng of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and King of Hanover, 1738-1820) Letter of Marque issued to Francis May Captai...

Surgery.- Cooper (Sir Astley, first baronet, surgeon, 1768-1841).- Notes taken during a Course of Lectures on Surgery, given by Mr. Astley Cooper ...

Brontë sisters.- Shipton (Martha, active 1800-1810) Crofton Hall, near Wakefield, pen and black ink, watercolour, signed in the lower left with ti...

Landon [married name Maclean] (Letitia Elizabeth [pseudonym L. E. L.]), poet and writer, 1802-38) Album of manuscript poetry and engravings compil...

Europe, the Mediterranean & Russia.- Jekyll (Anna Louisa, married first Joseph Jekyll 1802-41, and secondly Hon. Spencer Dudley Montagu, daughter ...

Kent.- Mickleburgh (John, vicar of St Mary's Platt, Kent, son of James Mickleburgh, of Thanet House, Margate, 1818-49) [Account book with diary en...