Manuscripts For Sale

FANNY BURNEY'S GROUNDBREAKING FIRST NOVEL. BURNEY, FRANCES, MADAME D'ARBLAY. Evelina, Or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. London: T. Lown...

Manuscript ideas for jokes & sketches, handwritten by Eric Morecambe, various ideas on 36 sheets of notepaper, this lot also includes an autograp...

Book of Kells (The); Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Cenannensis, 3 vol. Berne: Urs Graf-Verlag, 1950. NUMBER 324 OF A LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES...

1592). Copy from the collection of the English Dante scholar George Vernon, with the arms of Cardinal Aldobrandini (1536-1605), future Pope Clemen...

Ten manuscript sketch & joke ideas, some used on television & Christmas shows, handwritten by Eric Morecambe, together with a typed & annotated sp...

Manuscript Ideas. Television sketch ideas, handwritten by Eric Morecambe on various sheets of lined notepaper, including ideas for jokes & props, ...

An Indian Miniature Depicting Jahangir Observing an Elephant Fight in a Mughal Court Scene. An Indian miniature painting, likely part of a Mughal ...

Manuscript Ideas. Television sketch ideas, handwritten on notepaper by Eric Morecambe, including small illustrations of props/costumes, on 12 side...

Manuscript ideas for jokes & sketches, handwritten by Eric Morecambe, plus typed & annotated ideas for gags, and jottings on a stereo instruction ...

Manuscript draft of Mr. Lonely, handwritten by Eric Morecambe, [first published 1981], together with a typescript version, and a modern paperback ...

Manuscript draft of Stella, a novel, handwritten & typed by Eric Morecambe, together with a typescript version ❧ This is from Eric Morecambe’s ...

Manuscript ideas for jokes, handwritten by Eric Morecambe on hotel paper during travels (New York and Adelaide); three typed prompt cards for spee...

Gaius Plinius Secundus Naturalis historiae libri XXXVII e castigationibus Hermolai Barbari, ac codicis in Alemania impressi quam emendatissime edi...

Justin Martyr, Saint. [Works in Greek] Ex bibliotheca Regia ... Lutetiae, ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi regii, Regiis typis. (with:] Bea...

Quantity of modern books on manuscripts and calligraphy

A Mughal-Style Miniature Depicting Ascetics and Scholars in a Pastoral Scene. This Indian miniature painting features a serene pastoral setting wi...

COOKERY AND MEDICINE. Manuscript receipt book containing approximately 42 recipes, 45 pp, plus 2 pp index, recipe for pickled french beans to ins...

COOKERY AND MEDICINE OF JANE BOLAM. Manuscript receipt book belonging to Jane Bolam, approximately 38 leaves, including 14 leaves of handwriting e...

Manuscript Jokes. Memo book with Eric Morecambe's handwritten ideas for jokes, 1950s; an exercise book with ideas for gags at front & back; a note...

Tertullian: Opera Q. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani Carthaginensis. Edited by Beatus Rhenanus. Basel: per Hieronymum Frobenium et Nicolaum Episco...

Eusebio. Eusebii Pamphili Evangelicae praeparationis lib. XV. Lutetiae: Robert Estienne, 1544. Eusebii Pamphili evangelikae demonstrationis lib....

Tillemont Histoire des empereurs, et des autres princes qui ont régné durant les six premiers siècles de l'eglise, de leurs guerres contre les Jui...

Appianus, Alexandria Romanorumm... ex Bibliotheca Regia. Paris: Typis Regis, cura ac deligentia Caroli Stephani 1551. 11 fine foliated and grotes...

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. 1547-1616. Vida y hechos del ingenioso cavallero don Quixote de la Mancha.... parte primera. Brussels: Juan Momma...

RARE AUTOGRAPH FICTION. LONDON, JACK. 1876-1916. Autograph Manuscript Signed ('Jack London'), entitled ' A Curious Fragment ,' 39 pp, 4to, Oaklan...

SAINT-EXUPÉRY'S REVISED ENDING FOR WIND, SAND AND STARS. SAINT-EXUPÉRY, ANTOINE DE. 1900-1944. Annotated Carbon Typescript Signed ('Antoine de Sai...

STOKER ON CAGLIOSTRO. STOKER, BRAM. 1847-1912. Autograph Manuscript for 'Cagliostro,' his brief biography of Joseph Balsamo, known as 'Cagliostro,...

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, TEERINK 'A.' SWIFT, JONATHAN. 1667-1745. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver ...

SWINBURNE'S SONNET TO VICTOR HUGO. SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. 1837-1909. Autograph Manuscript for his 'Sonnet to Victor Hugo' and 'Birthday Ode ...

gl`imperatori Comneni fatta da` sig. venetiani. Venice: Nicolini, 1604. First and only edition of this scarce work (only 2 passages at auction, RB...

Faelli, 1498. Editio princeps, never before offered at auction (RBH), of this small treatise examining and commenting on the sentences of the Gree...

Manuscript drafts of letters to David Frost and Ronnie Barker, handwritten by Eric Morecambe; a typed speech honouring Des O'Connor; early Morecam...

Galenus. Opera [Latin]. Basel: Froben, 1549. Second, very rare Froben edition (third overall edition, after the Princeps Giunta of 1541 and the...

Philoponus (Joannes). Ioannu Grammatikou tou Philoponou Ypomnema eis ta Peri psyches biblia Aristototelus... Ioannis Grammatici Philoponi Comenta...

Albertus Magnus De Apprehensione 1504. (35). Uncommon. Condition: some staining towards front and rear of the work. Later vellum binding, manusc...

PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- HISTORIA | ORIENTAL | DE LAS PEREGRINACIONES | DE FERNAN MENDEZ PINTO | PORTVGVEZ, ADONDE SE ESCRIVEN MUCHAS, Y | muy estra...

FREITAS, Frei Serafim de.- DE | IVSTO IMPERIO | LVSITANORVM | ASIATICO. | Auctor Doctor Fr. Seraphino de Freitas Lusitano in Pinciana | Academia A...

MANUSCRITOS.- BENAVENTE (Irmandade dos Passos).- Livro dos assentos dos Irmãos da Irmandade dos Passos de Benavente.- Século XVIII/XIX (1731-1870)...

PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- THE | VOYAGES | AND | ADVENTURES, | OF | Fernand Mendez Pinto, | A Portugal: During his | TRAVELS | for the space of one an...

A Rare Manuscript of "Al-Wafi fi Ma'rifat al-Ilm al-Hidi" on the Secrets of Letters by Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Tahbibi, Written in 844 AH. This manus...

A parchment 'Carondelet Breviary' page and a Gothic music sheet, France, 15th C. Dim.: 43 x 30,5 cm (the frame of the music sheet) Dim.: 40 x 28...

ALCOTT AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY. 1832-1888. Autograph Manuscript, being the printer's copy of 'Jerseys, or the Girl's Ghost,' 54 p...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF 'DESIDERATA'. STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894. Autograph Manuscript Signed ('Robert Louis Stevenson'), a fair copy of h...

SWIFT ON THE GRAMMAR OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND ADJECTIVES. SWIFT, JONATHAN. 1667-1745. Autograph Manuscript, being a note on the instruction of the use...

ATHENAEUS OF NAUCRATIS. 170-223 C.E. Δειπνοσοφιστων βιβλια πεντεκαιδεκα. Dipnosophistarum, hoc est argute sciteque in convivio disserentum. Lib. ...

Scarce work, with only one passage at auction (RBH), by the heterodox preacher Lorenzo Davidico, follower of the doctrines of Battista da Crema an...

First posthumous edition, with a preface by Giovanni Battista Egnazio, of the ten books of treatises by Sabellico, celebrated Venetian historian a...

Venice: Aldo Manuzio; Andrea Torresano, 1514. Second aldine edition of a fundamental work on Latin rhetoric collecting numerous Latin quotations o...

esser ne di eloquentia ne di dottrina alli huomini inferiori. Venice: Giolito de Ferrari, 1549. First edition of this collection of letters in Ita...

Torresano, 1520. First and only Aldine edition, in the first state with the addition of the 'R' superimposed on the erroneous 'Cutius' on the titl...

This scarce first edition of Leopardi's Canti contains 23 compositions, 6 of which appear for the first time: Il Risorgimento, A Silvia (with the ...

di libri a stampa delle più ricercate edizioni. Venice: Alvisopoli. Venice: Alvisopoli, 1816. A scarce sale catologue (only one passage at auction...

Facsimile edition entitled Libre dels Feyts del Rey en Jacme de Jaime I El Conquistador. It contains an exact reproduction of the Poblet manuscrip...

A FINE 19TH CENTURY OTTOMAN LEATHER BOUND MANUSCRIPT, signed Mustafa Rasikh, 23.5cm x 14.5cm.

A FIRST EDITION OF THE PRINTED CHRONICLE TARIH-I SAMI VE ŞAKIR VE SUBHI BY SUBHI MEHMED EFENDI (D. 1769) Istanbul, Ottoman Turkey, dated 1198 AH...

A Spencer Davis Lyric Sheet for 'Stop Me, I'm Falling' Autograph Manuscript, 3 pages, folio, New York, August 18, 1967, untitled, but containing p...

11 Staves of 'Over the Rainbow', signed by Harold Arlen Manuscript music on paperwork signed by Arlen in the top left and 'Over the Rainbow' at to...

Rod Serling Second Draft Screenplay for Planet of the Apes Mimeographed manuscript, 1964, based on the novel by Pierre Boulle, 168pp, 146 being ...

Welser, Marcus Antiqua monumenta, das ist, Alte Bilder, Gemählde, unnd Schrifften : so wol deren so zu Augspurg in Vindelicien als ausserhalb aus...

Ryd, Valerius Anshelm (c.1475-1546/47). Catalogus annorum et principium geminus ab homine conditio usque in presentem... 1540 annum. Folio. 6 pr...