Books and Works on Paper

NO RESERVE Boerio (Niccolao) Consuetudines Bituriceses præsidatuum, seu si mauis balliuiatuum ..., scattered very faint spotting, occasional light...

Cato (Marcus Porcius) & Terentius Varro. Libri de re rustica, printer's woodcut device to title, C1-c.E3 small wormhole (affecting letters, no sig...

Manutius (Paulus) Scholia, quibus Ciceronis philosophia partim corrigitur, partim explanatur, near contemporary ink inscription "Ex Babliotecha Ra...

Petrarca (Francesco) Il Petrarcha con l'Espositione di M. Gio. Andrea Gesualdo ..., title with woodcut printer's device, 6 woodcut illustrations, ...

Ovidius Naso (Publius) [and Nicolas Renouard], XV Discours sur les Metamorphoses d'Ovide, contenans l'explication morale des fables, 1618 bound af...

Bacon (Sir Francis) Novum organum scientiarum, early ink manuscript inscription to front endpaper, [Gibson 104], Leiden, Adriaen Wijngaerden and F...

Menestrier (Claude François) L´Art Des Emblemes, first edition, woodcut printer's device on title, engraved additional title and 9 plates, engrave...

Descartes (René) Opera philosophica, 4 parts in 1, fourth edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, titles with woodcut printer's devic...

Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin de) Oeuvres, 6 vol. in 3, general titles in red and black with woodcut vignette, woodcut head- & tail-pieces, 30 e...

Hobbes (Thomas) Elementa Philosophica de cive, engraved pictorial title, one or two instances of light spotting or damp-staining, later vellum bac...

Brothels.- [Mandeville (Bernard)] Venus la Populaire, or Apologie des Maisons de Joye, first edition in French, wood-engraved device to title of a...

Frasso (Antonio de lo) Los Diez Libros de Fortuna de Amor, 2 vol., second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 8 engraved plates, ink ownershi...

Thomson (James) Herrn B. H. Brockes...aus dem Englischen übersetzte Jahres-Zeiten des Herrn Thomson, first edition in German and the first German ...

[Defoe (Daniel)] La vita e le avventure di Robinson Crusoe, 2 vol. in 1, second edition of the first Italian translation, woodcut frontispieces to...

British authors in German.- Young (Edward) Der nicht fabelhafte Centaur, first edition in German, engraved frontispiece, small ink ownership stamp...

Hume (David) Pensées philosophiques, morales, critiques, littéraires et politiques, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece after Cochin, woodc...

Baxter (Andrew) Matho: of jongelings waereld-beschouwing, 2 vol., first Dutch edition, half-titles, 2 folding tables, contemporary half calf, uppe...

Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Histoire de l'Admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche, 6 vol., half-titles, 32 engraved plates, titles printed in red ...

Clement VIII. Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII et Urbani VIII, engraved title vignette and illustrations, printed in red & black, light spotting...

Burke (Edmund) Philosophische Untersuchungen über den Urspung unsrer Begriffe vom Erhabenen und Schönen, first German edition, title with small po...

Fables.- Wolff-Bekker (Elisabeth) Fabelen voor de Nederlandsche jeugd, half-title, small woodcut floral ornament to title, fine engraved illustrat...

British & American authors in Swedish.- Scott (Sir Walter) Waverley, eller Skottland för 80 år sedan, translated by Jakob Ekelund, 4 vol. bound ...

[Colonna (Francesco)] Poliphili Hypnerotomachia..., half-title, woodcut illustrations, some light damp-staining, occasional spotting (including to...

NO RESERVE [Guénard (Élisabeth)] Vie et amours de Marion de Lorme, 4 vol., first edition, half-titles, occasional soiling, green crushed half moro...

Medieval.- Fragment of a work on religious commentary, with glosses, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, in black and brown ink in a regular gothic bo...

Bible, Latin. 8 cuttings from a folio bible, Book of Solomon, manuscript in Latin, in black ink, in a small regular gothic bookhand, 7 marginal de...

Hampshire, Titchfield.- 5 frankpledge documents, manuscripts in Latin, on vellum, 1 document with 3 holes slightly affecting text, folds, browned,...

Cumbria, Penrith.- The Lands Lett in Penreth... Jn: James... in the yeare 1672, manuscript, 2pp., second page with small tear slightly affecting t...

Spain.- Illustrated philosophical manuscript.- Bonifant (Franciscus) Ph[ilosphi]ae Cursus..., manuscript in Latin and Spanish, on paper, principal...

Cumbria.- Musgrave Family of Eden.- Collection of documents and letters relating to the Musgrave family, including: accounts of Sir Christopher Mu...

Cumbria.- A Rentall for ye Mann[or] of Hartley & Kirby Stephen, manuscript, 2pp., 1p. with long tear along fold, folds, browned, each 420 x 320mm....

Rabbit Seller.- Rabbatt Booke, manuscript accounts, 12pp., 2 receipts for rabbits sold loosely inserted, folds, extensively browned, edges chipped...

Coffee.- de Silhouette (Arnaud, financial adviser to the kings of France, director general of the general receipts of the finances of Limoges, d. ...

Waterford (Henry de La Poer Beresford, second Marquess of, 1772-1826) Collection of 19 Autograph Letters signed or Letters signed, mostly to F. Bo...

NO RESERVE Heraldry.- [Manual of Heraldry], manuscript, 26pp., 7 pages of pen and ink symbols, original morocco backed cloth, gilt spine, sm. 4to,...

Naval.- Notebook, kept by Peter James Borner "Established 16 June 1849 as Rigger in Sheerness Yard" and as Leading man on 18 October 1865, with ta...

British Museum Library.- Jenner (Henry, librarian and promoter of Cornwall and the Cornish language, 1848-1934) Letters addressed to Jenner at the...

Theatre.- Fagan (James Bernard, actor, theatre manager, and playwright, 1873-1933) Archive of letters to his wife Mary, his father Sir John Fagan ...

Fry (Christopher, playwright, 1907-2005) Archive of articles and letters to Christopher Fry, including: a diary account of a trip to New York in 1...

Royalty.- Collection of photographs of members of the Royal Family, mostly of Queen Elizabeth II, 49 syndicated press agency photographs, some siz...

Elizabeth II (Queen) & Philip (Duke of Edinburgh) Mounted photograph signed "Elizabeth R" and "Philip" and dated 1980 on mount, light crackling to...

Douai Bible.- The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English, largely translated by Gregory Martin, Vol.1 only (of 2), title within woodcut ty...

Chapman (George, translator).- Homer. Homer's Odysses, lacking initial blank but with blank leaves R8 and 2I8, engraved title, laid down with earl...

[Bird (William)] Judge Dodaridge, his Law of Nobility and Peerage..., trimmed at head, occasionally shaving headline or pagination, [Wing D1794], ...

Segoing (Charles) Armorial Universel contenant les Armes des Principales Maisons Estalz et Dignitez des plus Considerables..., engraved title, ded...

York printing.- B[addeley] (R[ichard]) The Life of Dr. Thomas Morton, late Bishop of Duresme, woodcut frontispiece, with initial imprimatur and fi...

Philips (Katherine) Poems ... The Matchless Orinda. To which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, Tragedies, engraved portrait frontispi...

Naval.- Spragge (Sir Edward) A True and Perfect Relation of the Happy Successe & Victory Obtained against the Turks of Argiers at Bugia, by His Ma...

NO RESERVE Spanish Inquisition.- Dugdale (Richard) A Narrative of Unheard of Popish Cruelties towards Protestants beyond Seas: or a New Account of...

Royal Court.- Character of an Ill-Court Favourite (The): representing the Mischiefs that flow from the Ministers of State when they are More Great...

Nalson (John) The Complaint of Liberty & Property against Arbitrary Government: dedicated to all True English Men, and Lovers of Liberty, Laws, an...

[Arnauld (Antoine) and Pierre Nicole], Logic; Or, the Art of Thinking, second edition, 3 ff., with later ink annotations (K8, M8, P9), browning, l...

Dugdale (Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum, or, the History of the Ancient Abbies and Other Monasteries..., title in red and black, 15 engraved p...

NO RESERVE France.- Bounds set to France by the Pyrenean Treaty (The); and the interest of the Confederates not to accept the Offers of Peace made...

NO RESERVE [Courtilz de Sandras (Gatien de)] The French Spy: or, the Memoirs of John Baptist de La Fontaine, first English edition, ink ownership ...

Dunton (John) The Merciful Assizes, Or, A Panegyric on the Late Lord Jefferys hanging so many in the West with the lives, characters, dying speech...

NO RESERVE Etherege (Sir George) Works... Containing his Plays and Poems, half-title, bookplate, some light spotting, contemporary panelled calf, ...

Crafty Courtier (The): or the Fable of Reinard the Fox: Newly Done into English Verse, half-title, some scattered spotting, armorial bookplate of ...

Binding.- A Collection of the several Statutes, and Parts of Statutes, Now if Force, relating to High Treason, and Misprision of High Treason, 2 p...

NO RESERVE Theatre.- Bullock (Christopher) A Woman's revenge: or, A match in Newgate. A comedy, first edition, engraved frontispiece, some soiling...