Continental printing.- A group of c.100 leaves from continental books of the 15th to 18th centuries, some water-staining and spotting, a few tear...

Terentius Afer (Publius) Comoediæ sex, woodcut printer's device to title, initial spaces with guide-letters, lacking final blank, ink marginalia t...

Petrarch.- Erizzo (Sebastiano) Espositione di m. Sebastiano Erizzo nelle tre canzoni di m. Francesco Petrarca, chiamate le tre sorelle, edited by ...

Quinziano Stoa (Giovanni Francesco) De syllabarum quantitate epographiae sex, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces a...

Aldine connection.- Zeno (Antonio) In concionem Periclis & Lepidi ex primo libro historiarum Thucydidis et Sallustii, commentarius, italic, Roman ...

Boethius (Anicius Manilus Torquatus) De consolatione philosophiæ, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut historiated initials, small section...

Church in England.- Pollini (Girolamo) L'Historia Ecclesiastica della Rivoluzion d'Inghilterra, second edition, title with woodcut 'Aldine' device...

Military.- Cavalry.- Basta (Giorgio) Govverno della Cavalleria, Das ist, Bericht von Anfuhrung der leichten Pferde, first German edition, 11 (of 1...

Military.- Wallhausen (Johann von) Künstliche Picquen-Handlung. Darinnen schrifftlich und mit Figuren dieses Adeliches exercitium angewiesen und g...

NO RESERVE Occitan poetry.- Theron (Vital) Reliquiae poeticae R. P. Vitalis Theroni, Soc. Iesu presbyteri, ad eminentissimum cardinalem Mazarinum,...

Duelling & Etiquette.- Possevino (Giovanni Battista) Dialogo dell'honor...nel quale si tratta con bell'ordine, dottamente, a pieno, & con molta ch...

Duelling.- Law.- Voet (Paul) De duellis, licitis & illicitis, liber singularis, first edition, title with woodcut ornament and contemporary ink ow...

Caesar (Gaius Julius) Les Commentaires..., engraved additional pictorial title, title vignette, folding map and double-page plate, some browning, ...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, 2 vol. in 1, first illustrated edition, second issue, additional engraved pictorial title and h...

Binding.- Horæ diurnæ breviarii Romanii, double column, printed in red and black, engraved additional pictorial title, title device and full-page ...

NO RESERVE Lotti (Lotto) Rimedi per la Sonn da Liezr alla Banzola. Dialoghi del Dottor Lotto Lotti nel suo Idioma naturale Bolognese, first editio...

Antiquities.- Spoor (Henricus) Favissae, utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Graecæ, first edition, etched additional pictorial title by P. Bod...

Lamau de la Jaisse (Pierre) Plans des Principales Places de Guerre et Villes Maritimes Frontieres du Royaume de France, 112 engraved circular plan...

Klauber (J. & J., publishers) Historiae Biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti, parallel Latin and German titles in red and black, 100 engraved plate...

NO RESERVE Occitan.- Languedocien.- Boissier de Sauvages (Pierre-Augustin de) Dictionnaire Languedocien-François, ou choix des mots Languedociens ...

Finger book.- Ambigu magique ou tableaux changeans a l'usage de ceux qui n'ont pas la Berlue, fragment of 27 ff. only, containing a total of 47 (o...

Bodoni.- Rossi (Luigi) Saggio d'Idilli Greci, half-title, first two leaves washed, light marginal soiling, modern half-morocco, Parma, Bodoni, 179...

NO RESERVE Gastronomy.- [Colnet de Ravel (C.J.A.M. de)] L'art de Dîner en Ville à l'usage des gens de lettres, poème en IV chants, second edition,...

Scatalogical.- Fan.- Le faustissime nozze dell'ornatissimo signore Luca Gava colla gentilissima Signora Checca Gava, bifolium, both ff. printed on...

NO RESERVE Erotica.- Sade (Donatien Alphonse François de, Marquis de) Les Crimes de l'amour, one of 500 copies, half-title, title in bistre and bl...

Napoleon.- Masson (Frederic) Cavaliers de Napoleon, illustrated by Edouard Detaille, half-title, additional letter press title (browned), coloured...

Medieval Bulla.- Benedict XII (Pope, 1285-1342) Circular lead bulla, chipped in 2 places with small loss, 38mm., [c. 1330s].

Psalter.- Single leaf from prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary, gothic letter, 33 lines, on vellum, 1 2-line initial in red and gold, ruled in red,...

NO RESERVE Guernsey.- Carteret (Amice de, Jerseyman, Jurat of Jersey's Royal Court and later Bailiff and Lieut-Governor of Guernsey, 1559-1631) & ...

Irish Prisoners in the Savoy Prison.- Guy (Henry, politician, bap. 1631, d. 1711) Letter signed to the Treasury asking for a warrant for payment "...

Dering (Heneage, Dean of Ripon and Latin poet, 1665-1750).- Ordination of Heneage Dering as deacon, D.s. "Jo Ebor", printed form with manuscript i...

Building Blenheim Palace.- Boulter (William, Joint Comptroller of Works on Blenheim Palace, d. 1708).- Invoice for freight on cordage and grindsto...

Burnet (Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury and historian, 1643-1715) Cut signature signed "Gi Sarum" as Bishop of Salisbury, manuscript, 79 x 117mm., 25...

Board of Ordnance.- Savage (Richard, fourth Earl Rivers, army officer and politician, c. 1654-1712) Warrant appointing Cornelius Wade "to be One o...

Norfolk.- Buxton family (of Norfolk) Account Book, manuscript, 23pp. or parts of pp. excluding large quantity of blanks, some ff. excised, browned...

Medicine.- Astruc (Jean) De fistula ani, manuscript copy of Latin text, title and 42 numbered pp., a few small stains, contemporary carta rustica ...

Bottling Bath Water.- Receipt made out to Hon Mrs Harvey "for filling 4 doz & a half red bottles", manuscript, 1p., folds, browned, 157 x 200mm., ...

Library catalogue.- Nota de' libri, manuscript short title catalogue, single sheet, folded into 4, full sheet 284 x 196mm., filled on both sides, ...

Women.- Poetry.- [Sonnets], manuscript in Italian on paper, 12pp., text in red with brown capitals within decorative borders in red and yellow, bl...

18 century Bootmaker's advertisement in the form of a banknote.- Bell Bank Bewdley. Promise to pay Mr Bell or Bearer on Demand the Sum of Three Pe...

Dogs.- Extrait histoire du chien analise botanique force d'amour anecdote, manuscript in French, 156pp., 1f. small piece of lower margin torn away...

Victorian Soldier.- Elliott (John, Sergeant, 9th Regiment of Foot) Copy of John Elliott Senr Testimonials [relating to his army service in India a...

Victorian Matrices.- 4 copies of medieval seal matrices, vesica seal matrices in various metals, largest 86 x 57mm., smallest 66 x 43mm., n.d. [19...

Medicine.- Ghigini (Giovanni) Sull'abuso della sciringa (sic) nell'iscuria vesicale, manuscript in Italian on paper, 19 numbered pp., plus blanks,...

Shakespeare (William).- Original Portrait of Shakespeare by an Italian artist, in the possession of Mr. Rawdon Brown at Venice April 27 1851..., o...

Dickens (Charles, novelist, 1812-70) Autograph cheque signed "Charles Dickens" paid to "Mr Nash" for the sum of "Eight pounds, Nine shillings, and...

NO RESERVE Medicine.- Isle of Wight.- The President and Governors of The Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest on the ...

Cambridge University.- Porson Prizewinner 1893.- Moule (Henry William, of Corpus Christi College, missionary in China, Vicar of Damerham, Wiltshir...

Shackleton (Sir Ernest Henry, Antarctic explorer, 1874-1922) & Princess Iwa (Maori singer).- Autograph Album of cut signatures & letters, cut sign...

Tolstoy (Count Lev Nikolayevich, Russian novelist, playwright and philosopher, 1828-1910) .- Bulgakov (Valentin, secretary and biographer to Tolst...

Bible, English. [The Bible, that is the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament], woodcut illustrations and initials, double colu...

Foxe (John) An abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church, black letter, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials,...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Marcus Tullius Cicero, his three bookes of duties to Marcus his sonne, translated by Nicholas Grimald, parallel English an...

Recusant hagiography .- Villegas (Alonso de) The Lives of saints. Written in Spanish by the learned and reuerend father, Alfonso Villegas, diuine,...

Attack on the clergy.- Asinus onustus. The asse overladen. To his loving, and deare mistresse, Elizabeth the blessed Queene of England. This book ...

Malvezzi (Virgilio) Discourses upon Cornelius Tacitus, translated by Sir Richard Baker, first edition in English, title within elaborate woodcut a...

Embroidered binding.- The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, 2 parts in 1, woodcut pictorial titles with panorama of London at foot...

[Charleton (Walter, translator)].- Epicurus. Epicvrvs's morals, collected partly out of his owne Greek text, in Diogenes Laertius, and partly out ...

Bible, English.- The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the originall tongues and with the former transl...

NO RESERVE Trial.- The tryal of Laurence Braddon and Hugh Speke. Upon an information of high-misdemeanor, subornation and spreading false reports....