New York School of abstract expressionists.- Abbott (Mary Lee) [Sketch book of original artwork], c.190pp., numerous ink, pencil or crayon sketche...

Smith (Dorothy Gladys [Dodie], playwright and writer, author of 101 Dalmatians, 1896-1990) Autograph Letter signed "Dodie" to Miss John Evelyn Moo...

Gregorius IX (Pope) Decretales, with gloss of Bernardus Parmensis, collation: [a-c10 d e6 f-h10 i k6 l m10 n8 o10 p12 q-s8 t-x10 y6 z6+1 A-C10 D8 ...

Contemporary colouring.- Nitzschewitz (Hermannus) Novum beatae Mariaevirginis psalterium, collation: A B8 C10 A-F8 H8 [*]4 HH I-K8 L6, 97ff. only ...

Kempis (Thomas à, Saint) Opera, collation: [*4] a b8 c d6 e f8 g-m8.6. n o6 p8 q6 r-B8.6.6. C8, double column, 184ff., 53 lines plus headline, Got...

Bible (Latin) Textus Biblie, collation: a-z8 A-C8 D4 E-L8, title in red and black within elaborate woodcut historiated border, 3ff. Canones evange...

Agricola (Johann) Drey hundert Gemeyner Sprichworter, der wir Deutschen uns gebrauchen, und doch nicht wissen woher sie kommen...Das Ander teyl......

Lucian, of Samosata. Enalioi dialogoi IE. Marini dialogi XV, collation: a b8, title in Greek and Latin, text in Greek, woodcut printer's device to...

Ovid. Metamorphoseon; Fastorum..., together 2 vol., collation: A-Z, Aa-Ee8 Ff12; a-z, aa-gg8 , vol.1 lacks Q4 and 5 and final leaf Ff12 (?blank),...

Guevara (Antonio de) La primera [& segunda] parte del Libro llamado monte calvario, 2 vol., collation: ¶8 *8 A-Z8 Aa-Ll8 : ()8 a-z A-T8, titles an...

Annotated.- Aristotle & Theophrastus. Aristoteles et Theophrastus, Scripta quædam, collation: ¶4 b-k8 l4, title in Greek and Latin and with woodcu...

Emblemata.- Ovid. La Vita et Metamorfoseo d'Ovidio, edited by Gabriello Simeoni, 2 parts only (of 3) in 1, collation: a-q8, A8, first title with w...

Guevara (Antonio de) L'Horloge Des Princes, translated by Nicolas d'Herberay des Essarts, collation: ã-õ8 a-z8 A-Z8 Aa-Cc8 Dd4, title with woodcut...

Estienne (Henri) Poetae Graeci Principes Heroici Carminis, collation: *⁶. **⁴. A-D⁸. E⁴. a-z⁸. aa-bb⁸. cc⁶. Aa¹⁰. Bb-Yy⁸. Zz⁶. Zzz⁴. a-g⁴. AA-ZZ⁶....

Gracián (Diego, translator).- Isocrates. De la governacion del reyno...Agapeto Del officio y cargo de Rey al Emperador Iustiniano. Dion Dela insti...

Stadius (Johannes) Ephemerides... secundum Antwerpiae longitudinem, ab anno 1554. usque ad annum 1606, woodcut device on title and diagrams, lacks...

Pastoral romance.- Corral (Gabriel del) La Cintia de Aranivez, prosas y versos, title with large engraved royal arms, woodcut head- and tail-piece...

Spanish plays.- Teatro poético : repartido en veinte y un entremeses nuevos, first edition, water-stained, spotting, lightly browned, contemporar...

Italy.- Bartoli (Pietro Santi) and Giovanni Pietro Bellori. Colonna Traiana eretta dal Senato e Popolo Romano, title, engraved dedication to Louis...

Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob) Kupfer-Bibel in welcher die Physica Sacra, 4 vol., first edition in German, vol.1 with half-title and engraved frontispi...

America (New Spain) & the Philippines.- Papal Bull.- Quinta Predicacion de la Decima Quarta Concession de Urbano Octavo. Bulla de la Santa Cruzada...

Spanish Trade.- Ulloa (Bernardo de) Restablecimiento de las fabricas y comercio espanol, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, woodcut initials and woodcut ...

Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia, vol.1-3 only (of 4), vol.1 with half-title, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black with engraved vigne...

Goldoni (Carlo) Opere Drammatiche Giocose ... fra gli arcadi Polisseno Fegejo, 4 vol., first edition, woodcut device to titles, uncut, scattered f...

Ovid. Les Metamorphoses, 4 vol., half-titles, titles in red and black and with engraved vignette, additional engraved title to vol.1, 140 engraved...

Libraries for all.- Gilles-Gibert (Judge) Projet d'éducation et d'instruction sociales, first edition, foxed, original yellow printed wrappers (th...

Mallarmé (Stéphane).- Beckford (William) Vathek, preface by Stephane Mallarmé, number 1 of 220 copies initialled by the publisher, signed presenta...

Ibsen (Henrik) En Folkefiende, 1882; Bygmester Solness, 1892, first editions, original decorative cloth, gilt, some slight shelf-lean, light rubbi...

*** Please be aware that the description of this lot has changed *** Medieval Manuscript facsimile.- Beatus of Liebana. Commentaria in Apocalypsin...

Elyot (Sir Thomas) Bibliotheca Eliotae. Eliotes Dictionarie the second tyme enriched, and more perfectly corrected, by Thomas Cooper ..., text in ...

Elizabethan almanac.- [Low (Henry)] [A new almanacke and prognostication], fragment of a single sheet, 320 x 260mm., black letter, printed in red ...

Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de) Diana of George of Montemayor: translated out of Spanish into English by Bartholomew Yong of the M...

Smith (Henry) Three sermons made by Maister Henry Smith. 1. The benefit of contentation. 2. The affinitie of the faithfull. 3. The lost sheepe is ...

Guicciardini (Francesco) The Historie of ... containing the Warres of Italie and other partes ..., collation: A-Hhhh⁶, lacking A1 & 4H6 (blanks),...

Simson (Patrick) The historie of the Chvrch since the dayes of our Saviour Iesvs Christ, vntill this present age...by the famous and worthy preach...

Pleasant Comedie Called Wily Beguilde (A), small hole to C4 expertly repaired with odd letter supplied in facsimile, bookplate, red morocco by Riv...

Ovid. Ovids Festivalls, or Romane Calendar, first English edition, translated into English verse equinumerally by John Gower, title in red and bl...

Ovid. Ovids Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd and Represented in Figures ... by G[eorge] S[andys], additional engraved title, lacking engrave...

Milton (John) Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, Compos'd at several times, first edition, state with "S" in "S. Pauls" in imprint,...

Westmorland (Mildway Fane, Earl of) Otia sacra optima fides, 2 parts in 1, first edition, presentation copy from the author, 2 engraved pictorial ...

Jones (Inigo) The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbury Plain, first edition, title in red and black, w...

Political theory.- Harrington (James) Aphorisms political, first edition, woodcut ornament to title and a head-piece, later lengthy ink note on Ha...

American Midwest binding.- Diodati (Giovanni) Pious and learned annotations upon the Holy Bible. Plainly expounding the most difficult places ther...

Wing (Vincent) Wing's Ephemeris For Thirty Years, first edition, initial blank leaf present, title in red and black, woodcut diagrams, contemporar...

[Boursault (Edmé)] Deceptio visus: or Seeing and believing are tvvo things. A pleasant Spanish history, faithfully translated, first edition in En...

Broadsides.- By the King. A proclamation declaring the Parliament shall be prorogued until the first day of October next, 355 x 283mm., woodcut ro...

Heraldry.- London Guilds and Merchants.- Collection of plates of coats of arms of livery companies and merchant companies, 52 engraved plates, all...

Almanacks.- Coley (Henry) Merlinus Anglicus Junior: Or, an Ephemeris for the Year 1688, [Wing A1439], by J. Macock, 1688, bound with, Nuncius Syde...

Byzantine architecture.- Wheler (Sir George) An account of the churches, or places of assembly, of the primitive Christians; from the churches of ...

Woman mystic & adventurer.- Bourignon (Antoinette) The light of the world: a most true relation of a pilgrimess, M. Antonia Bourignon, travelling ...

Unrecorded.- Four Plain Practical Discourses concerning four last things viz: I. Death, II. Judgment, III. Hell, IV: Heaven, second edition, title...

Imaginary voyages.- Australia.- [Killigrew (Thomas, the younger, contributor)] and others. Miscellanea aurea: or the golden medley. Consisting of ...

With manuscript notes by the author.- Gray (Thomas) An elegy written in a country church yard, third edition (with the first printing of the 'red-...

Hanway (Jonas) An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea, 2 vol., second edition, 2 engraved frontispieces, 9 folding maps a...

Hanway (Jonas) A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston Upon Thames..., To which is added an Essay on Tea, 2 parts in 1 vol., f...

[Hanway (Jonas)] A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames; through Southampton, Wiltshire, &c...To which is added, ...

Hanway (Jonas) Reflections, essays and meditations on life and religion... The customs of foreign nations in regard to Harlots. The lawless commer...

[Hanway (Jonas)] Serious Considerations On The Salutary Design Of The Act Of Parliament For A Regular, Uniform Register Of The Parish-poor In All ...

Hanway (Jonas) Advice to a Farmer's Daughter, Given in the Character of a Father, 3 vol., first edition, engraved frontispiece, occasional light b...

Hanway (Jonas) Virtue in Humble Life, containing reflections on the reciprocal duties of the wealthy and indigent, the master and the servant, 2 v...