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BINDINGSBUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS MARIE LECLERC, Comte de) Natural History, General and Particular... New Edition... with Some Account of the Life of ...

BINDINGSLAMB (CHARLES) The Life and Works, 12 vol., 'Edmonton Edition', edited by Alfred Ainger, with introduction and notes, NUMBER 90 250 COPIES...

ENGINEERING - BRITANNIA AND CONWAY BRIDGESCLARK (EDWIN) The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, with General Inquiries on Beams and on the Prope...

GREAT EXHIBITION 1851 - PHOTOGRAPHYExhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations. 1851. Reports of the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty C...

JUDAICAThe Form of Daily Prayers, According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews; As Read in the Synagogues, and Used in the Their Families...

KOESTLER (ARTHUR)Von weissen Nächten und roten Tagen: 12 Reportagen aus den Sowjet-Peripherien, FIRST EDITION, 9 plates (2 folding), publisher's ...

MATHEMATICSSTIRLING (JAMES) The Differential Method: or, a Treatise Concerning Summation and Interpolation of Infinite Series. Translated into Eng...

MATHEMATICSWHITEHEAD (ALFRED NORTH) AND BERTRAND RUSSELL. Principia Mathematica, 3 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, half-titles, pages slightly brittle thro...

MUTEFERRIKA PRESSSUBHI (MEHMED) [In Arabic:] Ta'rih-i Sami ve akir ve Subhi, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, title with ink inscriptions erased...

MUTEFERRIKA PRESSÄ°ZZÎ (SÜLEYMAN) Ta'rih-i-Izzi, tape repairs to title, lacking fols. 85-86, mark erased from blank area of fols. 1 and 288, light...

POPE (ARTHUR UPHAM) AND PHYLLIS ACKERMANNA Survey of Persian Art, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, 1482 plates (195 coloured), mostly photographic, publish...

SCOTLAND - ROYAL BROADSIDE PROCLAMATIONSBy the Queen, a Proclamation, for a Publick Thanksgiving... for the safety of Our Realms, and the Libertie...

SCOTLAND – ROSSLYN CHAPELCollection of drawings, manuscripts and engravings assembled by publisher and antiquarian John Britton (1771-1857), relat...

SLAVERY[OPIE (AMELIA) The Black Man's Lament, or How to Make Sugar], FIRST EDITION, 25pp., 18 hand-coloured wood-engraved illustrations, lacks ti...

STEIN (MARC AUREL)WHITFIELD (RODERICK) The Art of Central Asia: The Stein Collection in the British Museum, 3 vol., ONE OF 550 COPIES of the Engli...

ZULU WAR, 1878-1879'Notes on the Zulu War, South Africa', manuscript diary written by a soldier of the 5th Field Company Royal Engineers, covering...

LEGATI (LORENZO)Museo Caspiano annesso a quello del famoso Ulisse Aldrovandi e donato alla sua Patria dall'Illustrissimo signor Ferdinando Cospi P...

RUSSIAN ARMOURY - KREMLINOpis Moskovskoy Oruzheynoy Palatay [Inventory of the Kremlin Armory], 10 vol., FIRST EDITION, upwards of 500 photographi...

SARRE (FRIEDRICH) AND FREDRIK ROBERT MARTINDie Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst in Muenchen, 1910, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 296 O...

SUN TZUArt militaire des Chinois, ou recueil d'anciens traités sur la guerre composés... par differents généraux chinois, translated by Jean-Jose...

WALLHAUSEN (JOHANN JACOB VON)Kriegskunst zu Pferdt. Darinnen gelehret werden die initia und fundamenta der Cavallery, letterpress title within wi...

ARTHURIAN LEGEND[BORON (HÉLIE DE, attributed to)] Gyron le courtoys, avecques la devise des armes de tous les chevaliers de la table ronde nouvell...

BRAHE (TYCHO)Astronomiae instauratae mechanica, second (first trade) edition, title with large engraved portrait of the author standing beneath a...

DE JODE (GERARD, PUBLISHER)[Thesaurus Sacrarum Historiarum veteris [-Novi] testamenti], 2 parts bound in 1 vol., 320 engraved sheets comprising: ...

GESNER (CONRAD)Mithridates. De differentiis linguarum tum veterum tum quae hodie apud diversas nationes in toto orbe terraru[m] in usu sunt, FIRST...

ILLUMINATED MINIATUREKing David, kneeling in armour, handing the letter to Uriah, illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours, manuscript on vellum, th...

JUSTINIANInstitutiones Imperiales domini Justiniani, printed in red and black, title with printer's woodcut device, within wide decorative woodcu...

LOMBROSO (CESARE) and GUGLIELMO FERREROLa donna delinquente: la prostituta e la donna normale, FIRST EDITION, 8 plates (several folding), final p...

MARX (KARL)Kapitál: kritika politické ekonomie, first edition in Czech, translated by by Theodor Å meral and Ludvík ToÅ¡ner, untrimmed in publisher...

[NODIER (CHARLES)]Apothéoses et imprécations [-de Pythagore], 2 parts in 1 vol., NUMBER V OF 17 COPIES PRINTED, this for M. Dornier de Mallpas of...

SHAKESPEARE AND THE COMÉDIE FRANÇAISECollection of 6 French eighteenth century plays bound in 1 vol., comprising:1) FENOUILLOT DE FALBAIRE DE QUI...

STRADANUS (JOHANNES)Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium. Pugnae bestiariorum: & mutuae bestiarum [-Vermis Sericus], 2 parts in 1 vol., first part ...

TURGENEV (IVAN)Autograph letter in Russian signed ('Ivan Turgenev'), to his English translator Sidney Jerrold, replying to his friendly letter and...

BIBLE, GREEK AND LATINNovum Testamentum iam quintum accuratissima cura recognitum a Des. Erasmo Roter, double column text, woodcut printer's devi...

BIBLE and BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, IN WELSHLlyfr Gweddi Gyffredin a Gweinidogaeth y Sacramentau, 1718; Y Bibl cyssegr-lan, 1717; Llyfr y Psalmau, 17...

[DAVIES (JOHN)]Antiquæ linguæ Britannicae, nunc vulgo dictae Cambro-Britannicae, a suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae, ab aliis Wallicæ, second edition...

[DAVIES (JOHN)]Antiquae linguae Britannicae, nunc communiter dictae Cambro-Britannicae, a suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae, ab alijs Wallicæ, rudiment...

[MORGAN (ABEL)][Cyd-gordiad egwyddorawl o'r Scrythurau: neu daflen lythyrennol o'r prif eiriau yn y Bibl Sanctaidd], browning and staining throug...

ROWLAND (HENRY)Mona Antiqua Restaurata. An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities, Natural and Historical of the Isle of Anglesey, the Antien...

WOTTON (WILLIAM)Cyfreithjeu Hywel dda ac Eraill, seu Leges Wallicae Ecclesiasticae & Civiles Hoeli Boni et Aliorum Walliae Principum quas ex varii...

ANGLINGVENABLES (ROBERT) The Experienc'd Angler: or Angling Improv'd, third edition ('much enlarged'), additional engraved title by Vaughan, engr...

[AULNOY (MARIE CATHERINE DE LA MOTHE, COMTESSE D')]The History of the Tales of the Fairies... Dedicated to the Ladies of Great-Britain, 7 wood-en...

BACON (FRANCIS)The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life, first edition in English,...

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSIONThe Holy Bible, Contayning the Old Testamant and the New, titles within wide woodcut illustrated borders, te...

BURNS (ROBERT)Autograph manuscript of his song 'The Banks of the Cree', comprising sixteen lines in four stanzas of four lines each, beginning: 'H...

CAMPANELLA (TOMMASO)A Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy. Wherein We Have a Political Glasse Representing Each Particular Country, Province, ...

CHARLES IIManuscript copy of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham's memoir entitled 'A Short Character of Charles the Second King of England', 5 pag...

COMMONWEALTH ACTSA Collection of the Severall Acts, Ordinances, & Orders as Well of Parliament as of His Highness The Lord Protector... for the Le...

COURTSHIP MANUALA New Academy of Compliments: or, the Lover's Secretary: Being With and Mirth Improved, by the Most Elegant Expressions Used in th...

[ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS)Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentencious Sayinges], FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Ni...

FRY (FRANCIS)The Bible by Coverdale MDXXXV, PRINTED ON VELLUM, 15 plates, publisher's cloth, faded, 4to, Willis & Sotheran, 1867--[Bible, in Lati...

GIBBON (EDMUND)The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION of volumes 1, 4, 5 & 6, 'new edition' of volumes 2 ...

JOHNSON (SAMUEL)A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, titles printed in red and black, light paper toning, modern calf, gi...

LAWSON (WILLIAM)A New Orchard and Garden: or The Best Way for Planting, Grafting, and to Make any Ground Good, for a Rich Orchard: Particularly in...

LOGGAN (DAVID)Oxonia illustrata, sive omnium celeberrimæ istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, scholarum publicarum, T...

MARKHAM (GERVASE)A Way to Get Wealth, Containing Sixe Principall Vocations... tenth time corrected and augmented by the Author, 6 parts in one vol...

NEWTON (ISAAC)Manuscript notebook of John Wickins (d.1719), friend, collaborator and amanuensis of Isaac Newton, bearing ownership inscription on ...

NEWTON (ISAAC)ALGAROTTI (FRANCESCO) Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of the Ladies. In Six Dialogues on Light and Colours, 2 vo...

REYNARD THE FOXThe Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox. Newly Corrected and Purged, from all grossness in Phrase and Matter [-The Second Pa...

SAMPSON (WILLIAM)Vow Breaker. Or The Faire Maide of Clifton. In Notinghamshire as it hath beene diuers times acted by severall companies with grea...

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