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WILLIAM OF ORANGE'The Life and Glorious Actions of William the Third, King of England &c. Wrote in 1726', manuscript in ink on laid paper, 66 pag...

BAYNE COLLECTION – LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTSCollection of over 100 autograph letters, postcards and cut signatures, assembled by author, jour...

BROWNING (ROBERT)Autograph letter signed ('Robert Browning') to Peter Bayne ('Dear Sir'), expressing grateful thanks for his book on Elizabeth Bar...

CARLYLE (THOMAS)Three autograph letters signed ('T. Carlyle') to an unnamed recipient [Peter Bayne], the first thanking him for the book, assuring...

DICKENS (CHARLES)Autograph letter signed ('Charles Dickens') to Peter Bayne Esq. ('Dear Sir'), thanking him for his letter and moving words ('...I...

HUXLEY (THOMAS HENRY)Three autograph letters signed ('TH Huxley') to Peter Bayne ('Dear Sir' or 'My dear Sir'), the first responding to Bayne's ar...

RUSKIN (JOHN)Autograph manuscript leaf from Ruskin's work on Giorgione and Turner, The Two Boyhoods, vol.V, part 9, chapter 9, numbered 'L' and be...

DARWIN, FARADAY & KELVINMAGUIRE (THOMAS HERBERT) Lithographed portraits with facsimile signatures of Charles Darwin, half-length, seated facing l...

KOKI (MITANI)Kaitai Hatsumo [A New Work of Anatomy], 5 vol., in Japanese, 26 colour-printed illustrations (10 double-page, most full-page), occas...

LOBACHEVSKY (NICKOLAI IVANOVICH)Ponizhenie stepeni v dvuchlenom uravnenii kogda pokasatel bes edinitsy delitisia na 8, in Ucheniyia Zapiski, izdav...

LOMONOSOV (MIKHAIL VASILIEVICH)[Opera academica], a sammelband of 9 works, comprising: Panegyricus Elisabetae Augustae Russiarum Imperatrici, tit...

NEWTON (ISAAC)Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica... Editio secunda auctior et emendatior, PRESENTATION COPY FROM NEWTON TO HIS CHAMBER-F...

NEWTON (ISAAC)Optice; sive de reflexionibus, refractionibus, inflexionibus & coloribus lucis libri tres, PRESENTATION COPY FROM NEWTON TO HIS CHAM...

ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDONPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the Year MDCCCI [-MDCCCXI], 11 vol. (nos. 91-101), numerous...

SHORT (RICHARD)Peri psychroposias [in Greek], of Drinking Water, against our Novelists that Prescribed it in England... Whereunto is added Peri th...

BLAGRAVE (JOHN)Baculum Familliare, Catholicon sive Generale. A Booke of the Making and Use of a Staffe, Newly Invented by the Author, Called the F...

[BONNEFONS (NICOLAS DE)]The French Gardiner: Instructing how to Cultivate all Sorts of Fruit-Trees, and Herbs for the Garden... Transplanted.. by ...

C[HURCHE] R[OOKE])An Olde Thrift Newly Revived. Wherein is Declared the Manner of Planting, Preserving, and Husbanding Yong Trees of Divers Kindes...

CHARLETON (WALTER)Two Discourses. The First, Concerning the Different Wits of Men. The Second... Concerning the Various Sicknesses of Wines, and t...

COPLAND (WILLIAM, PUBLISHER)Here begynneth the Boke of the Arte or Crafte of Graffynge and Plantyng of Trees, 16pp., black letter, large woodcut ...

COUNTRY-MAN'S RECREATIONSThe Country-mans Recreation, or the Art of Planting, Graffing, and Gardening, in three Bookes, 3 parts in 1, woodcut ill...

DIGGES (LEONARD)A Booke Named Tectonicon, large woodcut illustration on title, 2 folding tables, woodcut illustrations, diagrams, initials and de...

[ESTIENNE (CHARLES)]Maison Rustique, or the Countrey Farme... Translated into English by Richard Surfleet... Now Newly Reviewed, Corrected, and Au...

[FITZHERBERT (JOHN)]Surveyinge, black letter, title within woodcut architectural border, lacks colophon (H8), annotation in a contemporary hand i...

[HAMILTON (THOMAS, EARL OF HADDINGTON)]A Treatise on the Manner of Raising Forest Trees &c... to Which are Added, Two Memoirs; the One on Preservi...

[HAYES (SAMUEL)]A Practical Treatise on Planting, and Management of Woods and Coppices, FIRST EDITION, engraved pictorial title-page, 4 engraved ...

HUNTAR (WILLIAM)A Treatise, of Weights, Mets and Measures of Scotland, FIRST EDITION, with A1r catchword 'sures', woodcut armorial device on titl...

LAMBARDE (WILLIAM)A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the Description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre, second edition, black letter, title ...

LANGLEY (BATTY)A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by Plantation of Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech, and Other Timber-trees, Coppice-woods, &c., FIRST EDITIO...

[LANGLEY (BATTY)New Principles of Gardening: Or the Laying Out and Planting [of] Parterres, Groves, Wildernesses, Labyrinths... After a More Grand...

LANGLEY (BATTY)The Landed Gentleman's Useful Companion: or, a Sure and Easy Method of Improving Estates, folding engraved plate, some dampstainin...

LEIGH (VALENTINE)The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surveying of Lands, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes... Newly Imprinted and Correc...

LEIGH (VALENTINE)The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surveying of Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes, FIRST EDTION, black letter...

[LEYBOURN (WILLIAM)]Planometria: or the Whole Art of Surveying of Land: Shewing the Composition, and Use of All the Most Necessary Instruments the...

LEYBOURN (WILLIAM)The Compleat Surveyor: Containing the Whole Art of Surveying of Land, by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor, and Peract...

N[ORDEN] (J[OHN)]The Surveyors Dialogue... Very Profitable for All Men to Peruse, that Have to Do with Revenues of Land, or the Manurance, Use, or...

PLAT (HUGH)The Garden of Eden: or, An accurate Description of all Flowers and Fruits now Growing in England... as well in Seeds and Herbs, as the ...

RATHBORNE (AARON)The Surveyor in Foure Bookes, FIRST EDITION, engraved allegorical title-page, 2 engraved portraits (that of the author cut to si...

STANDISH (ARTHUR)New Directions of Experience to the Commons Complaint... for the Planting of Timber and Fire-wood, title within double-rule bord...

[STANDISH (ARTHUR)]The Commons Complaint. Wherein Is Contained Two Speciall Grievances. The First, the Generall Destruction and Waste of Woods in ...

T[AYLOR] (SILVANUS)Common-good: or, the Improvement of Commons, Forrests, and Chases, by Inclosure. Wherein the Advantage of the Poor, the Common ...

TUSSER (THOMAS)Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, as Well for the Champion or Open Countrie, as Also for the Woodland... Newly Set Forth, b...

WINE[J.(S.)] The Vineyard: Being a Treatise Shewing I. The Nature and Method of Planting, Manuring, Cultivating and Dressing of Vines in Foreign-p...

WINE and CIDER[WARD (EDWARD, 'Ned')] The Delights of the Bottle: or, the Compleat Vintner. With the Humours or Bubble Upstarts. Stingy Wranglers. ...

WYLD (SAMUEL)The Practical Surveyor, or, the Art of Land-Measuring, Made Easy, FIRST EDITION, engraved folding frontispiece and 5 plates (one wit...

YOUNG (ARTHUR)A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales, second edition, folding engraved frontispiece [ESTC T139688],...

YOUNG (Miss S.A.)Studies of Trees, With and Without Foliage, FIRST EDITION, drop-head title above list of subscribers, 12 lithographed plates of ...

ZOPPINO (NICCOLO, publisher)Operetta nova de cose stupende in agricultura vere, 8pp., large woodcut illustration of two men prunning a tree on ti...

SMITH (PHILIP)OUSPENSKY (P.D.) A New Model of the Universe, Principles of the Psychological Method in its Application to Problems of Science, Reli...

SMITH (PHILIP)MILTON (JOHN) Complete Poetry & Selected Prose... edited by E.H.Visiak, bound by Philip Smith in turquoise crushed morocco, front c...

SMITH (PHILIP)Partially used exercise book for binding notes, c.150 leaves, some page headings, index and a bibliography supplied by the binder i...

SMITH (PHILIP)The Order for the Administration of The Lord's Supper or Holy Communion, bound by Philip Smith in cream pigskin, covers with figura...

SMITH (PHILIP)RABELAIS (FRANÇOIS) The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais... Rendered into English By Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux...

SMITH (PHILIP)MEYERSON (SIMON) Fungus and Curmudgeonly, the first play of a quartet... designed, illustrated and produced by Natalia d'Arbeloff, N...

SMITH (PHILIP)D'ARBELOFF (NATALIA) For a Song, LIMITED TO 15 COPIES, this being one of 4 copies in black and brown inks on Rives d'Arches, inscri...

SMITH (PHILIP)PHILLIPS (TOM, translator and illustrator) The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Inferno. A Verse Translation by Tom Phillips with I...

Smith (Philip)'The Imperfect-white Book' [or 'Black Monolith'], approximately 120 blank leaves of thick black paper, binder's printed notes tippe...

SMITH (PHILIP)[Book Wall] Contemplations, 9 vol., each volume containing 52 brightly-coloured marbled paper leaves, some with literary and philos...

SMITH (PHILIP)Le Labourd. A la découverte d'une province du Pays Basque, number 155 of 350 copies, bound by Philip Smith in patented 'lap-back' ...

Smith (Philip)[Lap-back binding], first finished prototype, blank paper leaves with 6 pages of binder's typed notes tipped-in at beginning, inscr...

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