Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Oratoris eloquentissimi, de Institutione Oratoria Libri XII, 2 parts in 1, collation: AA6 A-Z8 Aa8 Bb6 AA-BB8; A-F8 G...

Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Compendium libri secundi, tertii, & quinti institutionum oratoriarum M. Fab. Quintiliani, edited by Jacques Louis d'E...

Estienne.- pseudo-Quintilianus.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Declamationes, quae ex CCCLXXXVIII. supersunt, CXLV. Calpurnii Flacci excerptae X. R...

Isocrates. Oratio de laudibus Helenae [translated by Joannes Petrus Lucensis] [and] Herodotus. Historiae [translated by Laurentius Valla and edite...

Henricus de Hassia. Secreta sacerdotum, edited by Michael Lochmaier, collation: A6 B4, double column, 10 ff., 37-40 lines, Gothic type, initial sp...

Rabanus Maurus. De Laudibus Sancte Crucis, edited by Jacobus Wimpheling, collation: Aa6 Bb4 a-k6; A, B6 C4, printed in red and black, Roman type, ...

Demosthenes. Orationes duas & sexaginta [graece], collation: a-b6, α-Ω6, A-T6, Y8, aa-qq6, rr8, ss-xx6, yy4, woodcut printer's device on title and...

Estienne.- Terentius Afer (Publius) Comoediae sex, collation: a-z, A-R8, S6 (lacking final blank), woodcut printer's device on title, title with m...

Estienne.- Bible, Latin. Biblia, collation: *8, a-z, aa-mm8, nn10, oo-xx8, yy6, aa-ll8, mm10 complete with blank leaf gg8, title with woodcut bord...

Law.- Justinianus I. [Corpus Juris Civilis], 5 vol., printed in red and black throughout, titles within woodcut border and with printer's salamand...

Estienne.- Anacreon. [Odes], editio princeps and the first work printed by Henri Estienne, collation: *4, A-O4, complete with final blank, Greek t...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Orationum, edited by Paulus Manutius, 3 vol., italic type, titles and final ff. of parts I & II with woodcut printer's dev...

Estienne.- Poetae Graeci Principes heroici carminis & alii nonnulli, 2 vol. in 1, collation: *6, **4, A-D8, E4, a-z, aa-bb8, cc7, Aa9, Bb-Yy8, Zz6...

Estienne.- Apollonius Rhodius. Argonauticon libri IIII, edited by Henri Estienne, collation: ¶4, a-z, A-H4, printed in Greek, woodcut printer's de...

Plinius Secundus (Gaius) Historiae mundi libri xxxvii, 2 parts in 1, collation: A-C6, a-z, A-S8, T-V6, X-Z8; a-l8, m4 , woodcut printer's device o...

Pollini (Girolamo) L'Historia Ecclesiastica della Rivoluzion d'Inghilterra, collation: a8, b4, A-3C8, 3D-3G4 (lacking final blank), foxed and brow...

Drake (Sir Francis).- Vega Carpio (Lope de) La Hermosvra de Angelica, con otras diuersas Rimas, 3 parts in 2 vol. (mixed set, with part 1 in 1 vol...

Plague.- Broadside.- Bando per Occasione di Peste, 295 x 205mm., woodcut arms at head, small hole within text, with loss of a couple of letters, s...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, 2 vol. in 1, first illustrated edition, second issue, additional engraved title and half-page i...

Senault (Louis) Heures nouvelles tirees de la Sainte Ecriture, engraved throughout, calligraphic script with fine decorative initials, fleurons, s...

Horae Diurnae Breviarii Romani, printed in red and black, additional engraved title, title-vignette and full-page illustrations, light foxing and ...

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) Lettres Ecrites de Londres sur les Anglois et Autres Sujets, contemporary red morocco, gilt, g.e., very slight...

Malta.- Maltese.- Agius de Soldanis (Giovann Pietro Francesco) Della lingua Punica presentemente usata da Maltesi &c. ovvero nuovi documenti, li ...

Klauber (J. & J., publishers) Historiae Biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti, dual letter-press title in Latin and German both in red and black, 10...

Bruno (Giordano).- Spinoza (Baruch de) Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn, engraved portraits at beginning and ...

Reibisch (Friedrich Martin von) and Dr Franz Kottencamp. Der Rittersaal. Eine Geschichte des Ritterthums, seines Entstehens und Fortgangs, seiner ...

Egyptian Papyrus.- Funerary procession and Funerary Sacrifices on fragments from a Book of the Dead, 8 fragments, remains of 16 lines in hieratic ...

Egyptian Papyrus.- Book of the Dead.- Fragment from the Book of the Dead, New Kingdom, c.1550-1327 B.C.. 470 x 375mm.), composed of thirty-three e...

Horus.- Egyptian papyrus depicting the god Horus, in black ink, on a fragment of papyrus, holes in figure and headdress, browned, 92 x 75mm., [Egy...

Aristotle. [Opera], Rhetorica from the Latin translation of William of Moerbeke, the Magna moralia in the Latin translation of Bartholomeus de Mes...

Osbern of Gloucester. Osbern Pinnock [known as Osburn Pinnuc Claudianus] Benedictine monk, theologian, and lexicographer, monk at St Peter's Abbey...

Psalter, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum, in a compressed Gothic bookhand, single column, 22 lines, in black ink, 1 10-line historiated...

Aristotle. Metaphysica, book VIII, single leaf only, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, in a gothic bookhand, double column, 32 lines, 1 2-line init...

Voragine (Jacobus de, Italian chronicler and Archbishop of Genoa, c. 1230-98) Single leaf from a copy of Legenda Aurea, manuscript in Latin, on ve...

Gualterus Anglicus (Walter the Englishman, Anglo-Norman poet and scribe, c. 1175) [Aesopi Fabulae metrice], a fragment of eight leaves containing ...

Arabic treatise on mathematics.- Muhammad ibn Muhammad Sibt al-Mardini al-Dimashqi (Egyptian mathematician and astronomer, teacher and timekeeper ...

Defence of Calais.- Wyatt (Sir George, landowner and writer, youngest son of Sir Thomas Wyatt, soldier and rebel, executed by Queen Mary, b. in or...

Irish student at the University of Perugia.- Diploma awarded to "Edmundus Lucharenus" of doctor in Canon and Civil Law awarded by Perugia Universi...

17th century legal cases.- Papers relating to legal cases in the Chester area, including an adultery case between George Wilson and his wife Eleno...

17th century passport.- Juxon (William, Archbishop of London, (bap. 1582, d. 1663) Passport made out to Captain Thomas Edwards to travel abroad, D...

James II (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1633-1701) Inspeximus and exemplification relating to Sir Ralph Sadler, fine engraved portrait o...

Mathematics.- De Moivre (Abraham, French mathematician known for de Moivre's formula, friend of Sir Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley, 1667-1754) Aut...

Walpole (Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, 1717-97) Cut signature, laid down, browned, 37 x 64m...

Captain Cook & Arthur O'Connor.- Commonplace book of poetry and prose, manuscript, 91pp. excluding blanks, 1f. loose, others working loose, slight...

Hamilton (Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson, wife of Sir William Hamilton, bap. 1765, d. 1815).- Wade (Matthew or Matteo, Irish expatri...

Trevithick (Richard, engineer, inventor of the steam locomotive, 1771-1833) Autograph draft signed of a letter to James Slade, and on verso draft ...

Albert (Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria, 1819-61) Autograph Letter signed to Lord Melbourne, 2pp. with ...

Brunel (Sir Marc Isambard, civil engineer, 1769-1849) Autograph Letter signed to M. Charpentie at the George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill, in Fren...

Telescopes etc.- Varley (Cornelius John, of Kentish Town, London, maker of astronomical & scientific apparatus, son of John Varley, landscape pain...

Ruskin (John, art critic and social critic, 1819-1900) Autograph Letter signed to his Mother, 2½p., 8vo, Winnington, [Cheshire], 22nd May [c. ?186...

Suppression of the slave trade.- Malcolm (George John, Rear-Admiral, 1830-84) Letter book as Captain of HMS Briton deployed in the suppression of ...

Brönte family.- Haworth Church.- ?Oak tobacco jar made from the wood of Haworth Church, circular wood jar secured with metal band, small split in ...

Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, 1819-1901) More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the...

Sudan War.- Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmad, religious leader in the Sudan, 1844-85) Dispatch from the Mahdi to Osman Digna military commander during the Ma...

Jack the Ripper case.- [Buckle (George Earle, newspaper editor and historian, 1854-1935)] Autograph Letter third person as editor of The Times to ...

Nightingale (Florence, reformer of Army Medical Services and of nursing organization, 1820-1910) Autograph Letter signed to Dr Ord, 1p. with conju...

Stoker (Bram, novelist and theatre manager, author of Dracula, 1847-1912) Autograph Letter signed to "My dear Mr [or ?Mrs] Gielgud", 1p. with conj...

Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson.- Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan, writer, 1859-1930) Autograph Postcard signed to R. Pascoe, 1 side, 89 x 115mm., Windlesham ...

Holst (Gustav Theodore, composer and teacher of music, 1874-1934) Assignment of copyright for his partsong "Evening Watch"... Right of Publication...

Autograph album.- Orwell (George).- Hauser (Ena "Anna") & George Liddle, proprietors of The White Room Club, 19 Denman Street, Soho, London. Album...