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Lucretius Carus (Titus) De rerum natura libri sex, first Tonson edition, engraved frontispiece and 6 plates, one folding of the Plague of Athens, ...

Lucretius Carus (Titus) Of the Nature of Things..., translated by Thomas Creech, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, woodcut printer's device of "Miner...

Lucretius Carus (Titus) De rerum natura libri sex, light foxing at beginning and end, attractive contemporary red straight-grain morocco, covers r...

Dialects.- Grose (Francis) A Provincial Glossary; with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions, 2 parts in 1, second, enlarged e...

[Bigge (Thomas) & James Losh, editors.] The Oeconomist, or, Englishman's Magazine, for 1798 [& 1799], 24 monthly issues bound in 2 vol. [all publi...

Lucretius Carus (Titus) The Nature of Things, a Didascalic Poem, translated by Thomas Busby, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait of Epicurus (s...

Lee Priory Press.- Brydges (Sir Egerton) Excerpta Tudoriana; or Extracts from Elizabethan Literature, one of 100 copies, title printed on thinner ...

Printing.- Johnson (John) Typographia, or the Printers' Instructor, 2 vol., wood-engraved portraits, additional pictorial titles and Roxburghe Clu...

Polar Satire.- Munchausen at the Pole; or the Surprising and Wonderful Adventures of a Voyage of Discovery...By the renowned Capt. Munchausen, hal...

Bindings.- Southey (Robert) A Tale of Paraguay, 2 engraved plates by Heath after Westall (a little foxed and offset), 1825 bound with [Rogers (Sam...

Cruikshank (George).- Mayhew (Horace) The Tooth-ache, 43 hand-coloured etched illustrations by George Cruikshank on four conjoined sheets in panor...

Embroidered Binding.- Browning (Robert) Selections from the Poetical Works, First & Second Series, together 2 vol. in 1, lacking front free endpap...

Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The): containing the Old Testament and the New, General and NT woodcut titles, large coat of arms to general title v...

Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The) Containing the Old Testament and the New, engraved title, small rust hole, NT with separate title, without apoc...

NO RESERVE Pamphlets.- Clagett (William) A discourse concerning the worship of the Blessed Virgin and the saints; with an account of the beginnin...

Norris (John) The Theory and Regulation of Love. A Moral Essay, with initial imprimatur leaf and final errata/advertisement leaf, Oxford, printed ...

Locke (John) An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by Vanderbanck after Brounower, frontispiece ...

Quakerism for French prisoners.- Ashby (Richard) Christian counsel, in the spirit of love and meekness tenderly recommended to the serious conside...

NO RESERVE Johnson (Richard) Grammatical Commentaries being an Apparatus to a New Grammar, first edition, 2 folding tables, trimmed, title and err...

NO RESERVE Scotland.- [Kennett (White)] A letter to the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, concerning one of his predecessors Bishop Merks; on occasion of a...

NO RESERVE Acts.- Plague.- An Act for repealing such clauses in the Act passed (relating to quarentine and the plague) as give power to remove pe...

NO RESERVE Wapole (Sir Robert).- History of the House of Lorraine (The)..., 32pp., first edition, engraved frontispiece, with finaladvertisement l...

NO RESERVE Ward (John) The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College: to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas Gresham. With an a...

Townley (James) A sermon preach'd before the...Lord Mayor the aldermen, and citizens of London, at the cathedral church of St. Paul, on Friday the...

NO RESERVE Hoax.- [Hill ("Sir" John)], "Abraham Johnson". Lucina sine Concubitu. A Letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society...that a woman mig...

Women.- Serviez (Jaques Roergas de) The Roman empresses: or, the history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve Cæsars, tran...

Fisher (Kitty, courtesan).- Kitty's Stream; or, the Noblemen turned Fisher-Men. A Comic Satire...by Rigdum Funidos..., 16pp., first edition, an ex...

NO RESERVE Early form of Guillotine.- [Midgley (Samuel)] Halifax, and its Gibbet-Law placed in a true Light, second edition, engraved frontispiece...

America.- An Act to continue an Act made in the sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the bett...

NO RESERVE Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) [Opera], engraved frontispiece, title-vignette and coat-of-arms at head of dedication, with errata leaf and ...

NO RESERVE [Bethune (John)] Essays and dissertations on various subjects, relating to human life and happiness, 2 vol., Printed for E. and C. Dill...

Penrose (Rev. Thomas) Flight of Fancy, previous owner's ink signature, corrections inserted by hand, modern cloth, J. Walter and J. Willis, 1775 §...

Epistolary Novel.- [Pratt (Samuel Jackson)], "Courtney Melmoth". The Pupil of Pleasure: or, The New System Illustrated. Inscribed to Mrs. Eugenia ...

NO RESERVE Defoe (Daniel) The true-born Englishman, a satire, 'The Twenty-fifth edition', some water-staining, lightly browned, disbound, no print...

Swedenborg (Emanuel) A Treatise concerning Heaven and Hell, first English edition, occasional faint marginal pencil marks, spotting, occasional ve...

NO RESERVE Ripley (James) Select original letters on various subjects, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, lightly off-setting on to ti...

Euripides. The Tragedies, 2 vol., translated by Robert Potter, half-titles, title vignette (vol. 1), engraved frontispiece (vol. 2), list of subs...

Sophocles The Tragedies, small marginal worming to first and last few leaves, cracked upper hinge, contemporary half-calf, slight bumping to corne...

Hunting.- Roach (J., publisher) Sportsman's Evening Brush (The), consisting of the best and most Approved Songs, of the Chace..., first edition, e...

Pegge (Samuel) The Life of Robert Grosseteste, the celebrated Bishop of Lincoln, first edition, 2 engraved plates (1 folding), previous owner's in...

Bindings.- Walpole (Horace) A Catalogue of Engravers, engraved portrait frontispiece and 16 portrait plates, one with short marginal tear, scatter...

Cruikshank (Isaac).- Roach (J., publisher) Roach's Beauties of the Poets of Great Britain, 24 parts in 6 vol. [complete set], first collected edit...

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) The Philosophical Dictionary, half-title, engraved portrait, light offsetting to title, original boards, 1802;...

NO RESERVE Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, [Cantos I & II], first edition, [one of 500 copies], engraved f...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem., first edition, lacking half-title, modern facsimile printed wrap...

Book auction catalogue.- Catalogue of the very select and valuable library of William Roscoe, Esq. which will be sold by auction by Mr. Winstanley...

NO RESERVE Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vol., ink ownership signature to titles, titles lightly ...

NO RESERVE Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vol., light spotting to title and endpapers, later green...

NO RESERVE Gladstone (William Ewart).- Herbert (George) and Isaac Walton. Herbert's Poems and Country Parson, engraved portrait frontispiece and 2...

NO RESERVE [Hood (Thomas) and John Hamilton Reynolds]. Odes and Addresses to Great People, first edition, Hood's first book, half-title, occasiona...

Malthus (Thomas Robert) Principles of Political Economy, Second Edition with considerable additions from the author's own manuscript, a little fox...

Punch's Pocket Book, 28 vol., a broken run, folding hand-coloured etched frontispiece and additional title in each volume, wood-engraved plates an...

[Brontë (Emily & Ann)], "Ellis & Acton Bell". Wuthering Heights & Agnes Grey, half-title, frontispiece and additional illustrated title, 1848 § Br...

Woman novelist.- [Craik (Dinah Maria)] John Halifax, Gentleman, 3 vol., first edition, with author's signature on a slip (dated October, 1878) loo...

Marked for performance.- Aiken (George L.) Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly : a domestic drama in six acts, inter-leaved with pencilled...

NO RESERVE Bindings.- Scott (Sir Walter) Waverley Novels, 25 vol., centenary edition, frontispiece, vignette titles, plates and illustrations, occ...

NO RESERVE [Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)] "Mark Twain". A Tramp Abroad, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, advertisements dated March 1883 at ...

NO RESERVE Pater (Walter) Marius the Epicurean, 2 vol., second edition, C.J.Holmes's copy with his ink signature dated 1889 to front free endpaper...

Cookery.- Young (H.M. ) Choice Cookery, second edition, 4pp. advertisements at end, occasional foxing, original pictorial cloth, Warrington & Lond...

NO RESERVE Binding.- Herrick (Robert) Chrysomela. A Selection from the Lyrical Poems, half-title, red morocco by Ramage, covers with floral design...

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