Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The), elaborate silver latticework binding, Oxford, at the Univ...
Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The) , faint creasing to fore-edges of first and last few ff., cracked hinges, contemporary latticework silve...
Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The) , faint creasing to fore-edges of first and last few ff., cracked hinges, contemporary latticework silve...
Golden Cockerel Press.- Mathers (E.Powys) Procreant Hymn , number 156 of 200 copies, copper-engraved frontispiece and 4 plates by Eric Gill...
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings , 3 vol., first editions, first impressions , T he Return of the King with signature mark "4" and mi...
Mathematics.- Wallis (John) Arithmetica Infinitorum, first edition , woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams, occasional foxing, slight s...
Sri Lanka.- Colombo printed.- Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera. Sella Lihini Sandese. The Sella's message , edited and translated by William Charl...
Golden Cockerel Press.- Song of Songs (The) , translated and edited by W.O.E.Oesterley, number 54 of 65 specially-bound copies with an additi...
Gill (Eric) A group of 10 wood-engravings illustrating the works of William Shakespeare , on various papers, each signed and numbered by th...
Wodehouse (P.G.) Psmith in the City, first edition, first issue with 2pp. of advertisements only, 12 plates by T. M. R. Whitwell, 2 very sma...
Dickens (Charles) Characters from Charles Dickens, An Interesting Game , 52 playing cards, a rules card, and a 'Receive one counter' card, pr...
Doyle ( Sir Arthur Conan) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, original 12 monthly issues in The Strand Magazine , plates and illustrations by...
Gill (Eric) Engravings... a Selection , one of 80 copies on handmade paper signed by the artist and with an extra suite of the engravings on ...
Doves Press.- English Bible (The) , containing the Old Testament & the New Translated out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Ma...
Astronomy.- Gregory (David) Astronomiae Physicae & Geometricae Elementa, first edition , engraved title-vignette, woodcut diagrams, contemp...
Galileo.- Bramer (Benjamin) Beschreibunge und Underricht wie allerley Theylungen zu den Mathematischen Instrumenten zu verfertigen: neben de...
Spender ( Sir Stephen , poet, 1909-95) Autograph Letter signed " Stephen " to Clemence, 2pp., 8vo, University College, Oxford, [?1930]...
Holocaust.- Kirschbaum (Menachem Mendel.) Takanoth eich LeHithnaheg Ka'Eth Be'Epher HaNisraphim , printed in Hebrew, evenly browned, small ...
Raleigh ( Sir Walter) The History of the World, additional engraved title (dated 1614) with corner defective (just touching platemark), 'Th...
Allahabad printed Oxford logician.- Whately (Richard) Elements of logic , first edition of this issue, with an 8pp. autograph letter by the...
Gill (Eric) Collection of 62 wood engravings on 36 sheets for "Troilus and Criseyde" , comprising 31 sheets signed and numbered from an edi...
Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle ) A General System of Horsemanship in All it's Branches , 2 vol., first edition in English , half-tit...
St. Dominic's Press.- Lectiones ad Matutinum officii Defunctorum, [one of 200 copies of which around 180 copies were destroyed], printed in re...
Jones (David).- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, one of 400 copies from an edition limited to 470, Autograph Car...
Angling.- Malone (E.J.) Tying Flies in the Irish Style, 2 vol., one of 60 de luxe copies with companion vol. of 35 actual flies tied by Fran...
Wodehouse (P.G.) The Swoop! Or How Clarence Saved England, first edition , illustrations by C. Harrison, 4pp. advertisements, ink ownership i...
Middle East.- Saadi, of Shiraz. Būstān [The Orchard] , manuscript in Persian, 287pp., 16 fine miniatures, heightened with gilt, text within gil...
Japan.- [ Kokka (The): An Illustrated Monthly Journal of the Fine and Applied Arts of Japan and other Eastern Countries ], vol.1-15 (nos.1-181 ...
Victorian utopian socialist thinker.- Barmby (Goodwyn) The Poetry of Home: a poem [& The Poetry of Childhood. A Poem] , presentation copy f...
Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales , 4 vol., one of 485 copies on paper, wood-engraved decorative borders, i...
Gill (Eric) Autograph Letter, signed , single page, to 'Dear Sirs' writing at the request of 'Mr [Robert] Gibbings to send you a design for t...
Kelmscott Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works [with] A Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer by Duncan Robinson, together 2 vol., one...
Whittington Press.- Butcher (David) British Private Press Prospectuses 1891-2001 , 2 vol., number i of 40 specially bound copies with a...
Telescopes.- Cavalieri (Bonaventura) Lo Specchio Ustorio overo trattato delle settioni coniche, first edition, 10 woodcut plates, woodcut ...
Kelmscott Press.- Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Poetical Works , 3 vol., [one of 250 copies on Flower paper], printed in Golden type, vol.1 in...
London.- Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher ) The Microcosm of London, 3 vol., first edition , wood-engraved pictorial titles, engraved dedicat...
Miniature Books.- Almanacks.- London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1783 , contemporary black morocco tooled in gilt, [1783]; London Almanack...
Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The) , scattered spotting, bookplate of P.A. and M.I Staines, contemporary red morocco, wide gilt floral bor...
Binding.- Herbert of Cherbury (Edward, Lord ) The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth , engraved portrait by W.Faithorne, title in red...
Doves Press.- Catalogue Raisonné of Books printed and published at the Doves Press 1900-1911, second edition, printed in red and black, a few ...
Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde , edited by Arundell del Re, one of 225 copies on handmade paper , wood-en...
Royal Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The) , ruled in red, Sadler family genealogy (1784-1855) in several hands to early blank, beginning to B...
Dickens (Charles, novelist, 1812-70) Autograph cheque signed "Charles Dickens " paid to "Mrs Hedderley" for the sum of "Ten Pounds"drawn o...
[Lorenzini (Carlo)], "Carlo Collodi". The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio, Translated by M.A. Murray, first American edit...
Middle East.- Russell (Alexander) The Natural History of Aleppo , 2 vol., second, revised and enlarged edition, 20 engraved plates includ...
Light.- Huygens (Christiaan) Traité de la lumière. Ou sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la reflexion, & dans le refractio...
Dickens (Charles).- Lacquered papier-mâché snuff box, gift inscription "Tavistock House, Decb. 25/1852, Charles Dickens" in yellow to inside h...
India.- Bible, Gujarati . The Holy Scriptures in Gujarati , [translated by J. Skinner and W. Fyvie], sig. 68 short worm trace to outer margin,...
Newton ( Sir Isaac) Four letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Doctor Bentley, containing some arguments in proof of a deity , half-title, disbound...
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again, first edition, fourth impression, colour frontispiece, illustrations and map endpaper...
Mathematics.- Gauss (Carl Friedrich) A collection of 60 pamphlets from Gausss’s library , on mathematics, astronomy, magnetism, and other to...
Wodehouse (P.G.) A Prefect's Uncle, first edition, first issue without advertisements, 8 plates by R. Noel Pocock, 2 plates neatly tipped in...
Britain.- Dugdale (Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum , 6 vol. in 9, list of subscribers, numerous engraved plates, some double-page, manuscr...
Maritime.- Blanckley (Thomas Riley) A Naval Expositor, first edition, engraved title, list of subscribers, each page with inner margin engra...
North (William) The City of the Jugglers; or, Free-Trade in Souls. A Romance of the "Golden" Age, first edition, etched frontispiece and 3 p...
Asia.- Ogilby (John) Asia, the First Part [all published], first edition , printed title in red and black, additional engraved title bound ...
Radioactivity.- Becquerel (Antoine Henri) Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière. Activité Radiante Spontanée ou Radioactivité ...
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works , edited by Thomas Speght, largely printed in black letter, double column, engraved frontispiece, woodcut arms o...
[Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. Scenes of Clerical Life , 2 vol., 1858; Adam Bede, 3 vol., vol. 2-3 water stained, 1859; The Mill on the Fl...
Binding.- Bible, English .- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old and New Testaments , occasional spotting, family genealogy (1796-1961) in v...
Bindings.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The) Containing the Old Testament and the New , by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1690 [but 1693], ...
Ashendene Press.- Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) The First [& Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don- Quix...