Shakespeare (William) The Merchant of Venice, from the Second Folio, 22pp., numbered 163-184, double column, woodcut head-piece and decorative ini...

Shakespeare (William) The Life of King Henry the Fift, from the Second Folio, 28 pp., numbered 69-96, double column, woodcut head-piece and decora...

Arthurian literature.- Malory (Sir Thomas) The most ancient and famous history of the renowned prince Arthur King of Britaine, vvherein is declare...

Vermuyden (Sir Cornelius) A Discourse touching the Drayning the Great Fennes, first edition, with the rare leaf A1 with large woodcut of Royal arm...

Law.- Coke (Sir Edward) The Second Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, first edition, mostly black letter, engraved portrait frontispi...

Greek printing.- Bible, Greek. Vetus Testamentum Graecum, 1 vol. in 2, first edition of the Greek Septuagint Bible printed in England, title in re...

Bible, English.- The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of ye original tongues. And with the former transla...

Heraldry.- Mysticism.- Morgan (Sylvanus) Armilogia sive Ars chromocritica, the language of arms by the colours & metals: being analogically handle...

H[obbes] (T[homas]) The history of the civil wars of England· From the year 1640, to 1660. By T.H., first edition, with initial blank, occasional ...

Sports.- H[owlett] (R[obert]) The school of recreation: or, The gentlemans tutor, to those most ingenious exercises of hunting. Racing. Hawking. R...

Greek.- Gretser (Jakob) The rudiments of the Greek tongue, out of the first book of the institutions of James Gretser of the Society of Jesus, tex...

Addison (Joseph) The Works, 4 vol., large paper copy with wide margins, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved initials and vignettes, woodcut h...

?Woman writer.- Novel.- [Herberts (Mary)] The adventures of Proteus, &c. A sett of novels, never before publish'd, first edition, sigs Q & R errat...

Bacon (Sir Francis) Opera Omnia, 4 vol., one of 50 large paper copies, engraved frontispieces (lightly offsetting onto titles), woodcut initials, ...

Austen (Jane).- Knight (Montagu George).- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis, large en...

Sussex Smugglers.- Full and Genuine History (A) of the Inhuman and Unparallell'd Murders committed on the Bodies of Mr. William Galley...and Mr. D...

Double fore-edge paintings.- Hay (William) Deformity: an essay, third edition, lacking ?half-title and a final ?blank f., printed for R. and J. Do...

Man-Midwife.- Mackenzie (Colin, physician and man-midwife, 1697/8-1775) Certificate signed "That Mr Richard Drinkwater Surgeon has diligently atte...

Prime Minister's copy.- Grafton (Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke) Votes of the House of Commons, in the twelfth Parliament of Great Britain, appo...

Boies Penrose copy.- America.- Seward (Anna) Monody on Major Andrè. By Miss Seward. (author of the Elegy on Capt. Cook.) To which are added letter...

Music.- Handel (George Frederick) The Occasional Oratorio in Score, engraved throughout, portrait frontispiece of Handel by Houbraken, list of sub...

Economics.- Eden (Sir Frederic Morton) The State of the Poor: or, an History of the Labouring Classes in England, 3 vol., first edition, half-titl...

Landor (Walter Savage) The Dun Cow; An Hyper-Satirical Dialogue, in Verse, first edition, lacking half-title, Printed by W. and T., Darton, 1808; ...

Chapbooks.- Frailities of Fashion! A...Report of the Trial [of] Sir Jacob Astley, Bart. against Captain Garth for Crim. Con. with Lady Astley, han...

Webster (Noah) A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., first English edition, occasional light spotting, vol. 2 lacking front free endpaper,...

Bradley (Edward), "Cuthbert Bede". Studies of Figures Original and Selected, an album of original drawings and watercolours, together c.37 studies...

Scott (Sir Walter) [Works], 98 vol., comprising, Waverley Novels, 48 vol., Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1853-1854; The Miscellaneous Prose W...

Montefiore (Sir Moses) Report of Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart., on his Mission to the Holy Land, 5626--1866, first edition, slightly browned, title ...

Blackmore (Richard) Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, 3 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles and advertisements, occasional foxing, modern gre...

James (Henry) Stories Revived, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, vol.2 & 3 with initial blank, vol.3 with advertisement leaf at end, some very l...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The Story of the Malakand Field Force, first edition, second issue (with errata slip), half-title, plates and maps...

Binding.- Napoleon II.- Wertheimer (Edward de) The Duke of Reichstadt (Napoleon II), portrait frontispiece, plates, folding facsimile of a documen...

Wells (H.G.) The Works, 28 vol., Atlantic Edition, one of 620 sets signed by the author, photogravure portrait frontispiece, handsome dark blue mo...

[Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)], "Mark Twain". The Writings of Mark Twain, Stormfield Edition, one of 1024 sets, titles in red and black, frontispiec...

Keynes (John Maynard) The End of Laissez-Faire, first edition, light browning to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine, li...

Woolf (Virginia) Orlando: A Biography, first edition, one of 861 copies, this one of 800 signed by the author, plates, original cloth, gilt, cover...

Shaw (George Bernard) The Works..., 33 vol., number 914 of 1025 sets, original cloth, dust-jackets, some minor chipping to spine ends and corners,...

Militaria.- Eisenhower (Dwight D.) Crusade in Europe, number 1,269 of 1,400 copies with a facsimile of the D-Day order signed below by the author,...

Militaria.- Montgomery (Bernard Law, first Viscount Montgomery of Alamein) The Path to Leadership, first edition, signed presentation inscription ...

Tolkien (J. R. R.).- Printed programme for the New College School, Oxford, production of The Hobbit, adapted by Humphrey Carpenter with music by P...

Music.- Williamson (Malcolm) and Ursula Vaughan Williams. Ode to Music, one of only 5 specially printed and bound copies for presentation, signed ...

Astronomy.- Clavius (Christoph) In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco, title in red and black and with large woodcut of an armillary sphere, woodcut ...

Atomic physics.- Bohr (Niels) An archive of Bohr material from the collection of Lewis L. Strauss, comprising, 3 T.L.s.s from Bohr, 3 pp. in total...

Atomic physics.- Bohr (Niels).- Vintage photograph showing Niels Bohr, Ernest Lawrence and Lewis L. Strauss seated around a table, 208 x 254mm., s...

Dialling.- Clavius (Christoph) Gnomonices libri octo, in quibus non solum horologiorum solarium, sed aliarum quoque rerum, quae ex gnomonis umbra ...

Dialling.- Leybourn (William) Dialling, Plain, Concave, Convex, Projective, Reflective, Refractive. Shewing, how to make all such Dials, and to ad...

Euclid. Elementorum libri XV, translated and edited by Federico Commandino, collation: *6 **6 A-Z4 2A-2Z4 3A-3S4, title in woodcut architectural b...

Early motoring.- Trade catalogue.- De Dion-Bouton. Automobiles, printed in orange and black, illustrations of cars, a bus, lorries, and engines, i...

Geology.- Lyell (Charles) Principles of Geology, being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, 3 vol., first edition, hal...

Newton (Sir Isaac) Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, 3 parts in 1, first edition, presentat...

Newton (Sir Isaac) Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology, abridged by himself. To which are added, Some observations on the Chronology of Sir Isaac Newton...

Newton (Sir Isaac) Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, edited by Thomas Le Seur and Franciscus Jacquier, 3 vol., second Jesuit edition, ...

Birds.- Audubon (John James) The Birds of America, 2 vol., number 610 of Great Britain and Commonwealth edition, limited to 250 copies numbered 50...

Birds.- Bonaparte (Charles L.) & H. Schlegel, Monographie des Loxiens, 54 hand-coloured lithographed plates by M. Bädeker, occasional faint spotti...

Birds.- Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, Baron) Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Isles, 7 vol., list of subscribers, photogravure port...

Birds.- McKelvie (Colin Laurie) The Woodcock, Norfolk, 1988; The Snipe, Norfolk, 1989, signed limited editions both numbered 118 of 300 copies sig...

Birds.- Millais (John Guille) British Diving Ducks, 2 vol., first limited edition numbered 85 of 450 copies, 74 plates (39 colour), tissue-guards,...

Birds.- Swainson (William) Zoological Illustrations,, 6 vol. (i.e.1st and 2nd series), 182 and 136 hand-coloured lithographs respectively, some fo...

Botany.- Dodart (Denis) and Nicolas Robert. Eighteen plates from 'Estampes pour servir a l'histoire des plantes', engravings by Nicolas Robert, Ab...

Botany.- Miller (Philip) Abbildungen der nützlichsten, schönsten und seltensten Pflanzen welche in seinem Gärtner-Lexicon vorkommen, 2 vol., first...