Ptolomaeus (Claudius) Geographiae libri octo, edited by Gerard Mercator, second edition, collation: []2 A-L6, M4, (?)4, A-L2, K2, M-O2, N-Z2, Aa-B...

Annotated life of Pythagoras.- Iamblichus. De vita Pythagoræ, & Protrepticæ orationes ad philosophiam lib. II., edited by Johannes Theodoretus Arc...

Bible, Arabic & Latin.- Sacrosancta quatuor Iesu Christi D.N. Evangelia arabice scripta, Latine reddita, title in red and black and with woodcut a...

Descartes (René) Epistola...ad celeberrimum D.Gisbertum Voetium, first edition, title with woodcut device of Minerva with motto "ne extra oleas", ...

NO RESERVE Lyons.- Recueil des Privileges, Authoritez, Pouvoirs, Franchises, & Exemptions des Prevost des Marchands, Eschevins, & Habitans de la v...

Numismatics.- Vaillant (Jean) Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum Praestantiora, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, author's own copy with prices in ink in h...

Brandt (Gerard) Het Leven en Bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter, additional engraved pictorial title, woodcut title vignette, 8 engraved plate...

Shipbuilding.- [Allard (Carel) & others.] L'Art de Batir les Vaisseaux et d'en perfectionner la Construction...avec...les pavillons de divers etat...

Music.- Handel (George Frederick) Suites de Pieces pour le Clavecin, 2 vol. in 1, first uniform edition (fourth edition of vol.1, first edition o...

Music.- Blanchet (Armand François Nicolas) Méthode Abrégée pour Accorder le Clavecin et le Forte-Piano, 13pp., first edition, title with woodcut o...

NO RESERVE Music.- Devienne (François) Méthode pour la Flûte dediée à Monsieur Roslin d'Ivry, Nouvelle Édition, engraved throughout, title with vi...

Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Les Principales Aventures de l'admirable Don Quichotte, title in red and black, engraved title vignette, 31 engrave...

Economics.- Necker (Jacques) A very good sammelband of c.60 printed works, a manuscript, and engraved plates by or relating to Necker, including N...

Almanacs.- Bijou des Dames (Le), ou Description des Diamans, des Perles et des Parfums..., engraved additional pictorial title and frontispiece, 1...

Fénelon (François de Salignac) Les Aventures de Telemaque, 2 vol., half-titles, additional engraved title to vol.1 by Montulay, printed titles wi...

Type Specimen.- Thieme (Carl Albert) Letterproef der Boekdukkery, only edition, 43 plates of specimens of type, scripts, music, ornaments, numbers...

Russian order of merit.- Статутъ Орден Св. Станислава [Statute for the Order of St. Stanislaus], light foxing, some browning to first and last ff....

Proust (Marcel).- Hahn (Reynaldo) Portraits de Peintres, 4 parts in 1, first collected edition, 4 musical pieces for piano, each preceded by a lea...

Medieval Seal Matrices.- Collection of c. 45 Medieval Seal Matrices, including: bronze circular seal matrix inscribed "Sigill Willi Fili Sewardi" ...

Medieval Seal Matrices.- Collection of c. 45 Medieval Seal Matrices, including: lead oval seal matrix inscribed Ralph Mauleverer surrounding indet...

Medieval Seal Matrices.- Collection of 6 Medieval Seal Matrices, including: Bronze vesica seal matrix inscribed in Latin ("St Mary pray for the se...

Jet Matrix.- Ecclesiastical seal matrix, jet vesica seal matrix inscribed indistinctly around a figure of a ?saint, carved decoration on reverse a...

Gratian (jurist). Single leaf from Decretum, manuscript in Latin, in a compressed university gothic hand, in red and black ink, double column, red...

Medici (Catherine de', Queen consort of France, wife of Henry II, King of France, 1519-59, 1519-89) Letter signed "Catherine" to Cardinal Alessand...

16th century Almanac.- Erra Pater (pseudonym) The Prognosticacion for ever of Erra Pater, manuscript in Tudor English, in a cursive hand, on paper...

Taxation without Parliamentary consent.- Davies (Sir John, lawyer and poet, attorney-general for Ireland, bap. 1569, d. 1626) An Argument Uppon th...

Restoration of Charles II.- Public Act by Richard Aylworth declaring his allegiance to Charles II in return for a free pardon as prescribed in the...

17th century Grand Tour to Italy.- Boyle (Robert, natural philosopher, 1627-91) .- Finch (Sir John, physician and diplomat, 1626-1682) & Sir Thoma...

Burning of Whitehall Palace.- Blathwayt (William, government official, bap. 1650, d. 1717) Autograph Letter signed to "Sr", 2pp. with conjugate bl...

Science.- Dereham (Sir Thomas, fourth Baronet, resident in Italy, acted as an informal representative for the Old Pretender, c. 1678-1739) Autogra...

Scotland.- Porteous (John, army officer and victim of crowd violence, c. 1695-1736).- [Examinations of the Witnesses Before the House of Lords in ...

Cookery recipes.- [?Appleby (J., ?housekeeper, of Wootton House, Laceby, Lincolnshire)] [Collection of recipes], manuscript in several hands, 54pp...

Recipe Book.- Collection of domestic recipes, manuscript, 81pp. excluding blanks, 9pp. newspaper cuttings laid down and a 4pp. pamphlet "The Found...

Spanish play.- Saynete nuevo muy Chistoso de los veinte y nueve Fueras. Para quatro hombres y dos Mugeres, manuscript, 29pp., a few corrections an...

Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl of) Continuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon: from the Restoration of the Royal Family in the Year 1660, ...

Maritime exercise book.- The Mariner's Compass [first title], manuscript in an Italic hand, 106pp., pen and ink diagram of the mariner's compass a...

18th century Commonplace Book.- Planta (Rev. Peter Jacob, Moravian Minister, Missionary in Jamaica, of Ockbrook, Derbyshire, 1721-1815) & Benigna ...

Murdered by a French Revolutionary.- Moore (George, manufacturer of soda water, of Hoxton and Warren Street, London, murdered by Emmanuel Barthélm...

Wales, Pembrokeshire.- [Campbell (Matthew, Collector of Customs at Pembroke, 1763-1823)] Accounts Book & Diary, autograph manuscript, in English a...

Northumberland.- Harley (Edward, fifth Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, 1773-1848).- A Survey of Several Baronies, Manors, Townships Ec. lying an...

Lamb (Charles, essayist, 1775-1834) Autograph Letter signed to "Dear Sir", 3pp., 8vo, 5th June 1823, "I like friend Lockwood very much, and have b...

Anti-Slavery.- Babington (Mary, wife of Sir James Parker, judge, 1803-52, daughter of Thomas Babington, philanthropist, politician and anti-slaver...

Royal Navy.- Malcolm (George John, Rear-Admiral, 1830-84) Log of the Proceedings of H.M.S... Inconstant... Curacoa... Firebrand..., autograph manu...

Erotica.- Tragedie de Foutimasse, manuscript, 42pp., ?author's working copy, with corrections, final f. torn with some loss of text, a few tape re...

Hugo (Victor, French poet, novelist, and dramatist, 1802-85) Autograph Note initialled "V.H.", 1p., 102 x 142mm., n.p., n.d. [c. 1851], in French,...

Palmer (Samuel, landscape painter and etcher, 1805-81) 5 Autograph Letters signed, four to John Linnell jnr. (1821-1906, artist) and one to Willia...

Heraldry.- [Morant (Alfred William, FSA, antiquary, heraldry enthusiast and engineer, completed "The Ordinary of British Armorials" after the deat...

Balloonist.- Coxwell (Henry Tracey [pseud. Henry Wells], balloonist, 1819-1900) 4 Autograph Letters signed to Count Schaffgotsch, 11pp., 8vo, Tott...

American Civil War.- Milton Wood (Nathaniel) Violence & Mourning, manuscript, 32pp., occasional neat underlining in orange and blue pencil, disbou...

George V (King of Great Britain, 1865-1936) Grant to George Scoby-Smith of a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, D.s. "George RI" and "E...

Churchill & Tanks.- Crompton (Rookes Evelyn Bell, FRS, engineer, 1845-1940) Proof of Evidence [at the Tank Inquiry held at Lincoln's Inn in 1919],...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) & T. E. Lawrence.- Coote (Capt. M. H.) A Collection of material relating to Churchill and Lawrence, including prin...

Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, Prime Minister, 1874-1965) Typed Letter signed to Mrs Sax-Schlatler of Zurich, 1p. & envelope, sm. 4to, Ch...

Conrad (Joseph, master mariner and author, 1857-1924) Typed letter signed "Joseph Conrad" to C.H. Baldwin, 1p., sm. 4to, Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, K...

Artists etc.- Album mostly of loose letters to Thomas Riches and others, including: Bernard Berenson to Thomas Riches, 1923 regarding his manuscri...

Pound (Ezra, poet and critic, 1885-1972) Autograph Letter signed and 3 Typed Letters signed possibly to I. S. Munro, diplomat and journalist, offe...

Du Maurier (Dame Daphne, novelist, 1907-89) Autograph Letter signed, Autograph Postcard signed & 6 Typed Letters signed to a variety of people, to...

Betjeman (Sir John, poet, writer, and broadcaster, 1906-84) Collection of autograph manuscript and printed material relating to Betjeman, includin...

Kennedy (John Fitzgerald, President of the United States, 1917-63) Album of photographs and ephemera, including: 3 signed indistinct photographs o...

Gower (John) De Confessione amantis, second edition, black letter, mostly printed in double column, lacking title and 3 other leaves of text (H6, ...