X-rays.- Röntgen (Wilhelm Conrad) "Ueber eine neue art von strahlen" [parts 1 & 2] [and] "Weitere beobachtungen uber eigenschaften der x-strahlen"...

Phaedrus Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V, printed in red and black, title with woodcut printer's device, small tear to fore-edge with neat ol...

Du Moulin (Pierre) Apologie pour la Saincte Cène du Seigneur, contre la présence corporelle et transsubstantiation..., with final blank, title wit...

Night-time Vices.- Bossi (Giovanni Angelo) Tractatus de scrupulis, et eorum remediis..., half-title, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut ...

Courtesy book.- [Rivet (Frédéric)] De l'education des Enfans et particulierement de celle des Princes, second edition, title with small woodcut pr...

Aesop. Esope en Belle Humeur, 2 vol., nouvelle edition, engraved frontispiece, vol. 1 title and first leaf of first Fable printed in red and black...

Old Testament.- De Montfaucon (Bernard, editor) Hexaplorum Origenis Quæ Supersunt, multis partibus auctiora ..., vol. 1 only (of 2), text in Latin...

Curtius Rufus (Quintus) De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni, regis Macedonum, libri superstites, edited by Henrik Snakenburg, engraved additional pict...

Montesquieu (Charles Secondat, Baron de) De L'Esprit de Loix, ou du Rapport que les Loix ..., 2 vol. bound as 1, engraved folding map, previous ow...

[Smollett (Tobias)] Histoire et Avantures de Sir Williams Pickle, [translated by F.V.Toussaint], 2 vol., first edition in French, half-titles, tit...

Economics.- [le Mercier de la Rivière (Pierre Paul)] L'Ordre Naturel et Essentiel des Sociétés Politiques, 2 vol., half-titles, vol. 2 p.23 with c...

Economics.- [Galiani (Ferdinando)] Dialogues sur le Commerce des Bleds, first edition, half-title, errata leaf at end, bookseller's label to paste...

Ancient Rome.- Nieupoort (G.H.) Rituum, qui olim apud Romanos, obtinuerunt, succincta explicatio, engraved additional pictorial title, title print...

Ostentatious & Cross-dressing.- [Gauthier (l'Abbé François-Louis)] Traité contre l'amour des parures, et le luxe des habits, second expanded editi...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***History of Art.- Winkelmann (Johann Joachim) Histoire de l'Art ches Les Anciens, 2 vol...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, 2 vol. in 1, one of 150 copies on vélin with plates before letters, from an edition limited to ...

Rousseau (Jean Jacques) Del Contratto Sociale, o Principj del Diritto Politico, translated cy G.Mennini, first edition in Italian, half-title, fox...

Early satirical plays.- [Caron (Pierre-Siméon, editor)] La Farce de la querelle de Gaultier-Garguille, et de Perrine sa femme. Avec la sentence de...

Flagellation.- Meibom (Johann Heinrich) De la flagellation dans la medecine et dans les plaisirs de l'amour, half-title, engraved frontispiece dep...

Salazar (Pedro Franco) Restauracion Politica, Economica y Militar de España, first edition, contemporary tree sheep, spine gilt with red roan labe...

Law.- Alletz (Julien) Dictionnaire de Police Moderne pour toute la France, 3 vol., second edition, half-titles, foxing, ex-library copy with old s...

Zola (Émile) Le Naturalisme au Théâtre, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Philippe Gille on half-title, some light...

Marx (Karl) A Kommunista Kiáltvány, upper joint strengthened, contemporary cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and ext...

Russian Revolution.- [Third All-Russian Congress of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies], [Cyrillic], ex-library with usual ink-stamps, eve...

Memorandum on the Jewish Question.- Denkschrift zur Judenfrage, 20pp., browned, original printed wrappers, 8vo, R. Klett, [?1927].

West Yorkshire.- Charter, William de Boelay, clerk, confirms to William de la Grave, son of Adam all the land which John, my son and heir, has sol...

Lancashire, Duxbury.- Bond, Edward son of John de Coppull has received a bond "obligator[u]m simplex" from Nicholas de Bolton to deliver to Nichol...

Cambridgeshire, Kirtling.- Charter, grant by William le Huet of Coulyngg [Cowlinge] to Roger Kadde de Kertlingg [Kirtling] one piece of land more ...

Essex, Gestingthorpe.- Charter, Geoffrey Anchel of Great Yeldham has granted and confirmed to William Cook of Gestingthorpe of one piece of land c...

Derbyshire.- Charter, grant by Robert Walker of Repyndon [Repton] to John Walker of Burton of arable land in the fields of Wylygmer [?Willington],...

Essex.- Charter, grant by Alice Lenyng of Writtle grants to Thomas Cherchman of one piece of meadow in Writtle in the village of Rokyswelle [Roxwe...

Isle of Wight.- Power of attorney, Alice and Joan Preston daughters and heiresses of John Preston of Stanwell, Middlesex appoint John Taylour, cit...

Burton-on-Trent & Stretton.- Charter, Thomas hitcheson of Stretton in the county of Staffordshire and Johanna his wife grant to William Oxnford on...

Lancastrian France.- Robessart (Sir John, captain of St. Sauveur le Visconte, Normandy, d. 1450).- Percepie (Richard, lieutenant to Robessart) Let...

London Grocer and Burton-on-Trent.- John Sherwood Grocer of London and Robert Smithfield Grocer to Robert middelton, deed relating to a square bui...

Burton-on-Trent.- Charter, John Blount of Burton grants to his son William Blount a burgage in Aulastofte in the land of the Abbey, witnesses: Ric...

Burton-on-Trent Constables.- Charter, Thomas Grove of Burton grant to Thomas Coke & Thomas Hurde, Constables of Burton, one burgage in Cat Street ...

Staffordshire, Kingsley.- Indenture by John Hatfield of Kingsley in the county of Staffordshire yeoman grant to John Holyne of Moseley yeoman a me...

Royal Justiciar to Henry III.- Basset (Philip, justiciar and royalist nobleman, d. 1271) Copy of a charter, granted in 1268 by Sir Henry Longchamp...

Malta.- [Legal documents], manuscript, 5 bifolia, each with text on 3pp., some worming, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, fo...

Jersey.- [English Customs document], manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, slightly browned, folio, [c. 1680]; and 2 others, Citation documents in...

Elizabeth I (Queen).- Precedent of holding Parliament by Com[missione]rs in Qu Eliz: time, manuscript, 5pp. & conjugate blank, folds slightly brow...

French Law.- Boutaric (François de, Professor of French Law at the University of Toulouse, 1672-1733) Institutions au droit civil & françois, manu...

Literary critic.- Blair (Hugh, Church of Scotland minister and literary critic, 1718-1800) Autograph Letter signed to “Dr Sir”, probably his publi...

House of Lords.- Remembrances For Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper house of Parlia.t by the Lords when His Majesty is not there, manuscri...

Music.- Sandby (Paul, painter, drawing master and founding member of the Royal Academy, 1731-1809) Monthly Return of Classes under the First Drawi...

Rodney (Admiral Sir George Rodney, first Baron, naval officer and politician, bap. 1718, d. 1792) Autograph Letter signed “Rodney” to “Mr Blackbur...

Newgate Prison.- List of Prisoners and Families dependant on them Confined on the Common side of Newgate for Debt with the dimentions of the Wards...

19th century poets.- Montgomery (James, 1771-1854) & Robert Montgomery, 1807-55, poets. Collection of 15 Autograph Letters Signed, 1 Letter signed...

Engineering, Mining, Railways etc.- [Maude (Edward James, civil engineer)] [HMS Rattler, 9-gun steam screw sloop of the Royal Navy, and one of the...

Biologist.- Carpenter (William Benjamin, biologist and university administrator, 1813-85) 9 Autograph Letters signed to a variety of people, toget...

Babbage (Charles, mathematician and computer pioneer, 1791-1871) Autograph Letter signed to "Dear Madam", 1p., 119 x 100mm., Dorset [Street], [Lon...

Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire (Kettering & Geddington).- Ellis (G.) Album of watercolours and pen and ink sketches of fields in Cambridgeshire,...

Astronomy.- Airy (Sir George Biddell, astronomer, 1801-92) 10 Autograph Letters, 1 TLs & 2 Autograph Postcards signed to a variety of people inclu...

Music.- Parratt (Sir Walter, organist, 1841-1924) “The face of death”. Anthem sung at Queen Victoria’s funeral. Walter Parratt, autograph music si...

Australian politician.- Garland (John, Minister for Justice in Australia, 1862-1921) Archive relating to Garland who held various significant gove...

First World War.- Smith (Albert E., 363rd Mechanical Transport Coy, d. 1918) Large collection of letters (and some small photographs) from Smith t...

Birmingham Printing and Typography.- Group of Printed British Ephemera, including decorative pamphlets, advertisements and business cards for radi...

Film.- Ken Loach.- Allen (Jim) Hidden Agenda, final draft film typescript, 115pp. on recto only, occasional pencil revisions, hole punch binding i...

Law.- Lambarde (William, compiler) The Dueties of constables, borsholders, tythingmen, and such other lowe and lay ministers of the peace. Whereun...