Mnemonics.- Petrus Ravennas. Phoenix seu De artificiosa memoria, with additional verses by Verses by Antoninus Aegidius Canisius, Johannes Antoniu...

Schedel (Hartmann) Liber Chronicarum, first edition, 326ff. (of 328, lacking the final 2 blank leaves), comprising 20 preliminary ff. (xylographic...

Oratores Graeci, parts 1 and 2 only (of 3), editio princeps, collation: []2 a-m8 n4; aaa-iii8 kkk10 (n4 blank), Greek type, woodcut device on titl...

Gellius (Aulus) Noctium Atticarum, splendid title printed in red with woodcut border, woodcut initials, printer's device at foot of penultimate le...

[Forti (Girolamo)] Inamoramento de' Rinaldo de Monte Albano et diverse ferocissime bataglie..., collation: A-Y8 Z4, complete with final blank leaf...

Greek printing.- Bible (Greek) Novum Iesu Christi D.N. Testamentum, 2 parts in 1, the Editio Regia, collation: *8 **8 a-q8 r6; A-M8 N6, woodcut pr...

Jovius (Paulus) Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium veris imaginibus supposita, first edition, collation: a-q6 r4 s4 t-z A-E6 F8, woodcut de...

Plinius Secundus (Gaius) Naturalis historiae libri trigintaseptem, edited by Paolo Manuzio, collation: A6 B8 a-z A-R6 S4 A-L6 aaa-ccc6, woodcut de...

First novel to be set in Spanish America.- Loubayssin de Lamarca (Francisco) Historia tragicomica de Don Henrique de Castro, first edition, engra...

Sir Henry Blount's copy.- Bartoli (Daniello) La ricreatione del savio in discorso con la natura e con Dio libri due, first edition, Sir Henry Blou...

Music theory.- Fux (Johann Joseph) Gradus ad Parnassum, sive Manuductio ad Compositionem Musicae regularem, first edition, woodcut vignettes and c...

Tasso (Torquato) La Gerusalemme liberata, first edition, first issue (with names and arms of dedicatee to foot of each plate), title printed in re...

Béranger (Pierre-Jean de) Poniatowski. Haton-nous. Chansons Dediées au Général Lafayette, Premier Grenadier de la Garde Nationale Polonaise. Suivi...

[Greek Orthodox Church].- [Menaion], manuscript in Greek, on paper, c. 400pp. only, in Greek letters, in light brown ink, a few pp. in black ink, ...

Yorkshire (West Riding), Kippax.- Court Roll of the Manor of Kippax in the Honour of Pontefract, detailing numerous cases relating to ownership of...

Spanish Nobility.- Philip V (King of Spain, 1683-1746).- Patent of nobility in favour of Juan Gomez de Molino, manuscript in Spanish, in an Italic...

Boulton (Matthew, manufacturer and entrepreneur, 1728-1809) & Watt (James, engineer and scientist, 1736-1819) Autograph Letter signed "Boulton & W...

Spanish Heraldry.- Charles IV (King of Spain, 1748-1819) Grant of arms to Don Francisco Xavier Martinez de Morentin, of Tudela, signed by the Duqu...

India.- Journal of a Voyage to India..., manuscript, 194pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original green vellum, lettered direct on upper co...

Persian manuscript.- Rumi (Jalal ad-Din) Masnavi [Sufi Poetry], copied by the scribe Ahmadallah, known as Hakim, Persian manuscript on paper, 650 ...

Dickens (Charles, novelist, 1812-70) Autograph envelope signed "Charles Dickens" addressed to Mrs Talfourd, in the early form of his signature, sl...

Illuminated prayer book.- Maria Carcer y Trigueros... Santa Misa y Oraciones, illuminated manuscript in Spanish (with the Lord's Prayer in English...

Royal Navy.- Fairlie (Henry James, midshipman, later Commander, RN., of Cookham, Ayrshire, 1841-1922) Log Book of service on HMSs Powerful, Retrib...

Mill (John Stuart).- Morley (John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn, politician and writer, 1838-1923) c. 40 Autograph Letters signed or initialled "J...

Zola (Émile, novelist, playwright, journalist, 1840-1902) Autograph Letter signed to Ernst Ziegler in Vienna, in French, 3pp. & envelope, 8vo, Par...

Greek & Mediterranean Waters.- Royal Navy.- Chichester (Cecil George, DSO, as sub-lieutenant, Royal Navy, 1875-1967) Service in the Royal Navy, co...

Verlaine (Paul, French poet, 1844-96) Autograph Postcard signed to Arthur Symons, in French, 1 side, 90 x 140mm., Paris, 137 Rue St Jacques, 12th ...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Lawrence (David Herbert, writer, 1885-1930) Autograph Letter initialled "DHL" to Else ...

Eliot (T.S., poet, critic and publisher, 1888-1965) Typed Letter signed to Professor R.B. Onions of Bedford College, 1½pp., sm. 4to, on Faber & Fa...

Waugh (Evelyn, writer, 1903-66) 2 Autograph Postcards initialled "E.W." to Miss E Barber of the Society of Authors, 2 sides, 92 x 138mm., Piers Co...

Kennedy (John Fitzgerald, President of the United States, 1917-63) Album of photographs and ephemera, including: 3 signed indistinct photographs o...

Glanville (Bartholomaeus de) Batman uppon Bartholome, his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, largely printed in black letter, double column, title wit...

Piscator (Johannes) Analysis logica septem epistolarum Apostolicarum, quæ catholicæ appellari solent: videlicet Jacobi I. Petri II. Johannis III. ...

Slander.- Vaughan (Sir William) The spirit of detraction conivred and convicted in seven circles. A worke both divine and morall, fit to be pervse...

Logic.- Blundeville (Thomas) The arte of logicke. Plainly taught in the English tongue, according to the best approoued authours. Very necessary f...

Powell (Robert) The life of Alfred, or, Alvred: the first institutor of subordinate government in this kingdome, and refounder of the Vniversity o...

Wine.- Broadside.- Charles I. By the King. A proclamation for the prizing of wines, 2 sheets, now joined vertically, 587 x 223mm., large woodcut r...

Early fore-edge painting.- Bible, English.- The Holy Bible , fine engraved architectural title by Robert Vaughan, ruled throughout in red, Xx8 sm...

Puritanism.- Watson (Thomas) The Holy Eucharist: or, The mystery of the Lords Supper, briefly explained, occasional ink marginalia, title within w...

Apprenticeships.- [Bolton (Edmund)] The Cities Great Concern, in this Case or Question of Honour and Arms, whether Apprenticeship Extinguisheth Ge...

Le Grand (Antoine) Man without passion: or, the wise stoick, according to the sentiments of Seneca. Written originally in French, by that great an...

Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, largely printed in black letter, double column, engraved portrait frontispiece, c1 (mis-signed d1) misbound after c4...

Miniature Bible.- Bible (English) The Holy Bible...Done into Verse, 2 parts in 1, woodcut illustrations including title of OT, corner of C7 defect...

Brown (Thomas).- Garcia (Carlos) France and Spain naturally Enemies. Or, Several Reasons to prove it Impossible they should long be Friends..., tr...

Shakespeare (William) The Works of Shakespear...collated and corrected...by Mr. Pope, 6 vol., title to vol.1 in red and black, list of subscribers...

Fraud, Thrift and Frugal Meals.- Pleasant Art of Money-Catching (The)..., fourth edition, "corrected and much enlarged", woodcut frontispiece dep...

Singing.- Tosi (Pier Francesco) Observations on the Florid Song, or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers, translated by J.E.Galliard, sec...

Homer. [Iliad & Odyssey], 4 vol. in 2, edited by Jacob Moor and George Muirhead, printed in Greek throughout apart from Latin dedication, half-tit...

NO RESERVE Cookery.- Menon. The Art of Modern Cookery Displayed. Consisting of the most Approved Methods of Cookery, Pastry, and Confectionary of ...

Baskerville.- Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) [Opera], engraved frontispiece by Henriquez and engraved title-vignette, with 3 of the 4 additional plate...

Novel.- [Wächter (Leonhard)], "Veit Weber". The sorcerer: a tale. From the German of Veit Weber, first edition in English, lacking half-title, som...

Wesley (John).- Francke (Augustus Herman) Nicodemus: or, A treatise on the fear of man. Written in German, translated by John Wesley, first Americ...

Turner (Sharon) The History of the Anglo-Saxons, 4 vol., first edition, half-titles in vol.2-4 as called for, vol.1 with folding hand-coloured eng...

Shakespeare.- Boydell (John & Josiah, publishers) A Collection of Prints from the Pictures painted for the Purpose of illustrating the Dramatic Wo...

[Hazlitt (William)] An Essay on the Principles of Human Action, first edition, lacking initial blank, with first line of B2 (p.3) crossed out and ...

Hazlitt (William) The Round Table: a Collection of Essays, 2 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles, vol.1 with final blank, old ink and pencil ...

Hazlitt (William) Characters of Shakespear's Plays, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with floral motifs, 1817; Lectures on the English Poets, ha...

Hazlitt (William) Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters, first edition, original cloth, uncut and partly unopened, rubbed and light...

[Hazlitt (William)] Liber Amoris; or, the New Pygmalion, first edition, half-title (bound after Advertisement), engraved vignette title, short tea...

[Hardy (Thomas)] Desperate Remedies, 3 vol., first edition, [one of 500 copies], lacking half-titles, vol.2 with light spotting to head of title a...