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Kempis (Thomas à) De imitatione Christi libri quatuor, the John Sparrow copy, engraved pictorial title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorati...

Birds.- Hewitson (William C.) Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 138 hand-coloured plates, a...

Wine.- Various Cartographers (20th century) Collection of sixteen wine maps, and maps of French wine producing regions, including Les Côtes de Pro...

Drinking.- Pasteur (L[ouis]) Studies on Fermentation. The Diseases of Beer, first English edition, translated by Frank Faulkner and D. Constable R...

Salt.- [Arrangements for the distribution of salt in Chambéry], broadside, woodcut arms at head, central horizontal fold, small hole to upper marg...

Chesterfield (Philip Dormer, Earl of) Letters Written...to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq, 2 vol., first edition, second issue with "qui auroit" in...

Bibliotheca Historico-Philologico-Theologica, 8 vol., titles in red and black, woodcut ornamentation, some light browning, contemporary vellum, a ...

Rye House Plot.- The Deposition of William Carstares, when he was examined before the Lords of Secret Committee...upon the 22 of December 1684, bi...

Heyerdahl (Thor) The Kon-Tiki Expedition, first English edition, signed by the author to front free endpaper, translated by F. H. Lyon, plates, li...

Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), printed in red and black, double-column, some small loss to corners, scattered spotting, contemporary black...

Oceanography.- Maury (F.) The Physical Geography of the Sea, first edition, 8 folding maps and plates at end, 4 illustrations and maps in text (al...

Bunyan (John) The Works, 2 vol., third edition, engraved portrait frontispieces (one trimmed and laid down), 7 engraved plates, illustrations, sca...

Housman (Laurence) A Farm in Fairyland, contemporary ink ownership inscription to endpaper, light toning to spine, 1894; The Field of Clover, H. M...

Vernet (Carle) Les Accidents de la chasse, title, 12 lithographs on wove paper without watermarks by François Séraphin Delpech, each sheet approx....

Broadsides.- Crimea.- Why Spare Sebastopol!; Russia May Well Blush!; Another Victory!; News for Country Friends!; Bombardment!; Condensed Report o...

Africa.- Big Game.- Harris (William Cornwallis) The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, fourth edition, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, addit...

London.- Newcourt (Richard) Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Dicoese of London, 2 vol....

Lace manufacture.- I Robert Thorp the Younger ... Do hereby grant Licence and Authority until Mary Catanach ... to deal in Thread Lace of British ...

Hebraica.- [Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah], lacking general title, and 5ff. elsewhere (including 38 i-ii, and final blank), divisional titles within woodc...

Bible commentaries.- Psalms.- Bugenhagen (Johann) In librum Psalmorum interpretatio, title within figurative woodcut border by Hans Holbein, ink i...

Prisoners.- Worcester.- Calendar of Prisoners (A) for Trial at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace ... before Frederick Albert Bosanquet, Es...

Bindings.- Liturgie (La) c'est à dire, Le Formulaire des Prieres Publiques ...,, ruled in red, double-column, ?lacking frontispiece, previous owne...

Wine.- Vizetelly (Henry) The Wines of the World. Characterised & Classed,, first edition, 8 pp. advertisments at front and 11pp at end, a few spot...

Hunter (Dr. Alexander) Culina famulatrix medicinæ: or, Receipts in modern cookery, fourth edition, etched frontispiece, this offsetting on to titl...

Gross (Anthony).- Theocritus. Sixe Idyllia, one of 270 copies, from an edition limited to 417, 8 etchings by Anthony Gross, original cloth-backed ...

Oysters.- Cookery.- Martin (Alexandre) Manuel de l'amateur d'huitres, engraved folding hand-coloured frontispiece, engraved folding plate, without...

Markham (Gervase) The English hous-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman, 'fifth edition', woodcut...

Irish mathematician & physicist.- Stokes (Sir George Gabriel, Irish mathematician & physicist, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University...

Bentivoglio (Cardinal Guido) Historia della Guerra di Fiandra, 3 parts in 1, half-title and divisional titles, woodcut devices to titles, small wo...

Freemasonry.- Richard Linnecar.- Lodge of Unanimity, No. 202. [List of resolutions], printed handbill, with a related manuscript statement running...

Bibles & Commentaries.- Musculus (Wolfgang) In epistolas Apostoli Pauli, ad Galatas & Ephesios, commentarii, woodcut printer's device to title and...

Satirical rebus.- King George III.- Laurie & Whittle, publishers. Hierogliphick on the King's Birth-day, engraved 'Hierogliphick' and 'A Political...

Indian burial rites.- Hurst (Gunner John) Autograph Letter signed to his sisters, 3¼pp., bifolium, folio, Dum Dum [Greater Kolkata], 17 March, 183...

Charles III (King, as Prince of Wales, b. 1948) & Diana (Princess of Wales, 1961-97) 2 Christmas Cards signed "Charles" and "Charles and Di...

Scotland.- Leslie (John) De origine, moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum libri decem, folding map of Scotland, printer's woodcut device to title and...

Godlie Garden (A): out of the which most cofortable hearbs may be gathered for the health of the wounded, woodcut borders, lacking A1 (initial bla...

Bible, Greek.- Erasmus (Desiderius) Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, text in Greek and Latin, in double column, woodcut printer's device to tit...

Manuscript receipts.- Culpeper (Nicholas) Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or The London dispensatory, 2 parts in 1, 'sixth edition', double column, tit...

Crimean War.- Order of Anchoring, hand-coloured manuscript chart on paper showing order of landing of craft, note on verso “Copied on board the st...

Bloomfield (Robert) The Farmer's Boy; A Rural Poem, first edition, half-title, 4 wood-engraved plates and vignettes, publisher's advertisement lea...

Australian mining.- Wyld (James) Gold regions of Australia, engraving with hand-colouring, sheet 334 x 266mm., ?correction slip at foot, little sp...

Rogers (Timothy) The righteous mans evidence for heaven: or A treatise shewing how every one, while he lives here, may certainly know what shall b...

Asia.- M'Leod (John) Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew, second edition, half-title, portrai...

Europe.- Swinburne (Henry) Travels in the Two Sicilies, 4 vol., second edition, 22 engraved folding plates and plans, one folding engraved map, on...

Peterloo Massacre.- Norfolk.- [Protestation of the Peterloo Massacre and its subsequent handling by Freeholders of Norfolk], printed document with...

Penn (Granville) Memorials of the Professional Life and Times of Sir William Penn, 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces and 2 plates, one...

Italy.- Florence & Siena.- Nardi (Jacopo) Le historie della Città di Fiorenza, title within decorative oval border, woodcut initials and ornamenta...

Queen Anne.- Album of 26 engraved portraits of Queen Anne, twenty-five 18th and 19th century line and mezzotint portraits, including examples by o...

Music.- Choir leaf, manuscript in red and black, piece from outer margin, soiled, folio (350 x 258mm.), no place, [fourteenth century]. 

England.- Costume.- Strutt (Joseph) A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, 2 vol., 1842; The Regal and Ecclesiastical A...

Europe.- Jigsaw.- Philips' Series of Dissected Maps. Europe, lithographed map printed in colours, mounted on wood and dissected, 330 x 430mm., sli...

Italy.- Venice.- Sabellicus (Marcus Antonius Coccius) Le Historie Vinitiane, first edition in Italian, woodcut printer's device to title and final...

Craig (Edward Gordon, editor) The Page, Christmas Number, illustrations, text block slightly pulling away from wrappers but still sewn, original w...

Royalty.- Collection of letters, documents, signatures, pamphlets and newspaper cuttings, including: George III, George IV (as Prince of Wales), Q...

Bible, French.- [La Sainte Bible] traduite en françois, Avec l'explication du sens literal & du sens spirituel : Tirée des SS Peres & des auteurs ...

Rows (John) [The Rows Rol] This rol was laburd & finished by Master John Rows of Warrewyk, lithograph title and 33 hand-coloured lithographs heigh...

Fortified Wine.- Simon (André L.) History of the Champagne Trade in England, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to fro...

Williamson (Henry) Tarka the Otter, advance proof copy with author's manuscript notes and corrections for inclusion in The Animal Saga, loosely in...

Binding.- [Fontaine (Nicolas)] "Sieur de Royaumont". The History of the Old and New Testament, second edition, engraved frontispiece and plates, m...

West Indies.- Rainsford (Marcus) An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 8 plates...