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Potter (Beatrix).- Lustiges Treiben , plain and chromolithographed illustrations featuring a rare early illustration by Beatrix Potter , ill...

Aquinas (Thomas, Saint ).- Petrus de Bergamo. Tabula operum Thomae Aquinatis , collation: [a–m 10 n 8 o 4 p–u 10 x 8 y 14+1 z A–C 1...

Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk.- Robert Ket: The Wyndham tanner. A poem , 2 parts in 1, first edition , title detached, some finger-marking, occa...

Verne (Jules) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas , first English edition , half-title, 12 plates and illustrations, one detached and l...

Eliot (T.S.) Old Possum's Book of Cats, first edition , original pictorial cloth lettered in red, thin light band of toning to foot of upper ...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** China.- Naide (Gu, compiler ) Fawei lizheng tongshu [The Datong Almanac], ...

Adams (Douglas) The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first edition, signed by the author on upper inner wrapper, original publisher's purc...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Froissart (Jean) [Chronicles] , 2 vol. in 1, first English edition , tr...

Minko (Tachibana) Saiga shokunin burui [Colored Pictures of Occupations of Workmen], 2 vol., first edition, numerous fine hand-coloured wo...

Schoener (Johann) Opera Mathematica , 3 parts in 1, first edition , collation: ? 6 , ? 4 , A-Z 6 , Aa-Cc 6 , Dd-Ee 8 , Ff-Mm 6 , Nn 8 ; a-...

Durer (Albrecht).- Roswitha von Gardersheim. Opera Hrosvite illustris virginis et monialis Germane gentes Saxonica orte nuper a Conrado Celte ...

Japan.- Ryusui (Katsuma, illustrator ) Umi no Sachi [Wealth of the Sea], 2 vol., first edition , 90 finely colour-printed woodcuts, some...

Reynard the Fox.- Reynke Voss de olde, third Low German edition extant, first edition with these illustrations, collation: A-Ll 8 , complete, ...

Turks and Christians.- Methodius ( Saint ) Revelationes Divinae a Sanctis Angelis Factae, first illustrated edition, edited by Sebastian Br...

China.- Medicine.- Chaungshang jingyian [The experience of ulcers], 16 vol., woodblock printed on bamboo paper, 10 columns per page, 20 charac...

Pierced binding.- Moritz of Hesse ( Count ) Davidis regii prophetae Psalterium, Vario Genere Carminis Latine Redditum , second edition, col...

China.- Medicine.- Shizhen (Li, complier ) Bencao gangmu [Medical Encyclopaedia], 32 vol., woodblock printed on bamboo paper, 9 columns p...

China & Japan.- Liu Xiang. Ryukyo Retsujo Den [Biographies of Virtuous Women] , 11 juan bound in 5 vol., Japanese edition, 124 full-page wood...

Japan.- Kyoto.- Akisato (Rito) Miyako Meisho Zue [Collection of Pictures of Famous Places of the Capital], 6 vol., [1786]; Shûi- Miyako M...

China.- Surgery.- Shigong (Chen) Xinkan waike zhengzong [A manual of surgery], 12 vol., woodblock printed on bamboo paper, 8 columns per p...

China.- Murr (Christoph Gottlieb von) and Ignaz Koegler . Litterae patentes Imperatoris Sinarum Kang-Hi, first appearance in book format ...

Lewis (C.S., writer, 1898-1963) Perelandra , Autograph Letter signed from the author to C.L.M Hartley, 2pp., thanking the recipient for ...

Pseudo-Marcellus, Passio sanctorum Petri et Pauli, an apocryphal text based on the Acts of St. Peter, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchmen...

Luciani Palinurus. Luciani Scipio romanus. Luciani heroica in amorem. Luciani Asinus aureus. Bruti romani epistole. Diogenes cynici epistole , co...

Machzor KeMinhag Roma [festival prayers for the entire year], 2 parts in 1, 210ff., printed on blue paper, double column, title within archi...

Mathematics.- Euclid. [Opera], first collected edition, translated by Bartolommeo Zamberti , collation: [10], A-Z AA-EE 8 FF 6 lacking fi...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** South America.- Bertonio (Ludovico) Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara , fir...

Geology.- Smith (William) Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils, with Reference to the Specimens of the Original Geological Collection...

Native American language.- Nantes (Bernardo de) Katecismo Indico da lingua Kariris, first edition, with blank leaf Z7 but lacking final blan...

Bulgakov (Mikhail) Sobach'e serdtse [Heart of a Dog], samizdat typescript, light staining to inner margin of final few leaves, original prin...

China.- Japan.- Manchuria Daily News Souvenir Enthronement Supplement March First 1934 , 3 colour plates, illustrations, many full-page, previo...

Woolf (Virginia) The Years, first edition, signed presentation inscription "Janet [Case] with love from Virginia" to front free endpaper, sh...

Hortulus anime , collation: 1-20, a-z 8 , ζ 8 Ɔ 4 , but lacking 55ff., printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations and initials by Hans Bald...

Economics.- Hayek (Friedrich August) Prices and Production, first edition, 14pp. advertisements, some scattered foxing, browning and ink o...

Collins (Wilkie) The Moonstone. A Romance, 3 vol., first edition, with vol. 1 pp.10 & 11 transposed, vol. 2 with "treachesrouly" on p.129 ...

[Hardy (Thomas)] Desperate Remedies. A Novel, 3 vol., first edition, [one of 500 copies], half-titles, bookplate of Anthony Conyers Surtee...

Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzv...

Cavendish (Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle ) Plays, Never Before Printed , first edition , engraved portrait frontispiece by van Schuppen, c...

Ramsay (Allan) Poems , first collected edition, eighth issue , woodcut initials, previous owner's ink signature to title, spotting and stain...

Broadside.- extreme weather.- Account of the dreadful Thunder Storms, which took place last week in the Neighbouring Towns of Manchester, with t...

Potter (Beatrix).- Weatherly (Frederic E.) A Happy Pair, first and only edition , 6 chromolithographed illustrations, each monogrammed H....

Boccaccio (Giovanni) Laberinto d'amore...Con una epistola á Messer Pino de Rossi confortatoria, collation: A-I 8 , mostly in Italic type, in...

Pharmacopoeia .- [ Dubois (Jacques)], "Jacques Silvius". La Pharmacopee. Qui est la maniere de bien choisir & preparer les simples, & de bien...

Japan.- Persecution of Christians.- Kirishitan Kosatsu , large thick wooden sign board with characters written in black ink, issued by a magist...

Coryate (Thomas) The Odcombian Banquet: dished foorth by Thomas the Coriat, and serued in by a number of noble wits in prayse of his Crudities...

Execution broadside.- Australia.- More of the Horrors of Transportation: Giving the full Particulars of the dreadful condition of the Transports...

Pentland Rising.- A Proclamation, against those rebels that have not accepted the Act of Indempnity. Edinburgh, the ninth day of May, one thousa...

Execution broadside.- Australia.- cannibalism.- Extraordinary and Horrid Confession (The) of Alex. Pierce, an Irish Convict, who was executed .....

Israel.- Public Warning (A)! by His Eminence the Chief Rabbi for Eretz Israel A. I. Kook ... be warned and remember that it is Strictly Forbidde...

Broadside.- Australia.- Unhappy Transport's (The) Sorrowful Account of his Fourteen Years Transportation, at Botany Bay, New South Wales, who wa...

Judaica.- "False Messiah of Izmir".- Coenen (Thomas) Ydele Verwachtinge der Joden Getoont in den Persoon van Sabethai Zevi , text in Dutch ...

Mineralogy.- Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus) Ettliche tractatus. I. Von natürlichen dingen. II. Beschreibung etlicher kreütter. III von ...

Execution broadside.- Strange and Singular Execution (The) of James Hughes, who was twice Hanged ... in the County of Down ... and who after the...

Execution broadside.- T rue and Brief Account (A) of Thos. Clarke & Henry Coster, who suffered upon Lincoln Gallows ... for Burglary , printed b...

Broadside.- extreme weather.- Full and Particular Account (A) of a most dreadful Hurricane, which took place on the 6th of February last, at Tun...

Sticking it to Boney.- [ Harris (T.)], "Author of "The C....LL Volunteer Corps."". Biographical memoirs of that hero of military fame Mr Christ...

Broadside.- Bristol riots.- Further particulars of the dreadful Riots at Bristol, with the number of Killed and Wounded , printed broadside, cr...

Native Americans.- Wrexham imprint.- Painter (John, publisher ) The New prose repository, containing a selection of the most entertaining pi...

[Wyndham (John)], "John Beynon". The Secret People, first edition , original green cloth lettered in black, a little rubbed, dust-jacket pr...

Execution broadside.- child rape.- Dying Speech, Confession, Life, Character and Behaviour of David Proctor (The), who was on this day ... execu...