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America.- Adams (John Quincy) The Jubilee of the Constitution. A Discourse., lithograph frontispiece, previous owner's ink name-stamp to title, sc...

NO RESERVE Arctic.- Sabine (Edward, editor) The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle, first edition, half-title, engraved arms to general t...

NO RESERVE Australasia.- Inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia.- A bound volume of Australian and New Zealand newspapers and magazines, ma...

Canada.- Douglas (George M.) Lands Forlorn: The Story of an Expedition to Hearne's Coppermine River, portrait frontispiece with captioned tissue-g...

Canary Islands and Azores.- Baedeker (Karl) Madeira, Canary Island, Azores, Western Morocco, first edition, 23 maps or plans, many double-page or ...

Europe.- Reichard (Heinrich) Guide des Voyageurs en Europe, 3 vol., third edition, half-titles, engraved title vignettes, 13 folding engraved maps...

Hakluyt Society.- 56 vol. from the second series, a broken run, plates and maps, some folding, occasional very light spotting and toning, original...

NO RESERVE Middle East.- Auerbach (Rev. Meyer) and Rev. Samuel Salant. An Open Letter Addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore...Together With a Narrativ...

Herbelot (Barthelemy d') Bibliothèque Orientale ou Dictionaire universel contenant généralement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des Peuples de...

North America.- Burden (Philip D. ) Mapping North America: A List of Printed Maps 1511-1670 & 1671-1700, 2 vol., vol. 1 one of a hundred copies, v...

NO RESERVE World.- Hoche (Jules) & C. W. Allers. Notre Tour du Monde, half-title, 16 plates, copious illustrations, cracked hinges, scattered spot...

Britain.- An account of the constitution and present state of Great Britain, together with a view of its trade, policy, and interest, respecting o...

Britain.- The National Gazetteer: A Topographical Description of the British Islands, 3 vol. only (of 4, lacking atlas vol.) first edition, additi...

NO RESERVE London.- Smith (Albert) Gavarni in London: Sketches of Life and Characters, additional pictorial title and wood-engraved plates by Vize...

Birds.- Bree (C. R.) A History of the Birds of Europe, 4 vol., 238 hand-coloured plates of which 58 are eggs, scattered faint spotting, tissue-gua...

Botany.- Palmstruch (J. W.) Svensk Botanik, vol. 1-2 only (of 11), 144 hand-coloured engraved plates, scattered spotting, vol. 1 with cracked uppe...

Flowers & Fruit.- The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine, 3 in 1, 34 hand coloured plates (only, of 36 (1 lacking from both 1869...

Flowers.- Bois (D.) Atlas des Plantes de Jardins et d'Appartements, 3 vol., half-titles, a little browned, 320 colour plates, scattered spotting, ...

NO RESERVE Forestry.- Pontey (William) The Forest Pruner; or, Timber Owner's Assistant, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 7 plates, 3 folding ...

Howitt (Samuel) A New Work of Animals, principally designed from The Fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phædrus, 56 etched plates, scattered faint spotting...

NO RESERVE Weston (Richard) The English Flora. Flora Anglicana, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, additional titles in Latin, bookplate, previous owner'...

Astronomy.- Coining the word 'Gyroscope'.- Foucault (Léon) Sur les phénomènes d'orientation des corps tournant entrainés par un axe fixe à la surf...

NO RESERVE Aviation.- Bradshaw's International Air Guide No.1, folding colour map loose in pocket at end, with bookmark but detached from cord, or...

Bacteriology.- Fermentation.- Pasteur (Louis) Mémoire sur la fermentation appelée lactique [and] Mémoire sur la fermentation alcoolique, first edi...

Bacteriology.- Putrefaction.- Pasteur (Louis) Nouvel exemple de fermentation déterminée par des animalcules infusoires pouvant vivre sans gaz oxyg...

Chemistry.- Mendelejeff (Dimitri) Grundlagen der Chemie, first German edition, 2 plates (of which 1 folding), black and white illustrations, ink a...

Electricity.- Romas (Jacques de) Mémoire sur les moyens de se garantir de la foudre dans les maisons; suivi D'une Lettre sur l'invention du Cerf-v...

NO RESERVE Mathematics.- Bonnycastle (John) An introduction to mensuration and practical geometry, eighth edition, half-title, title with charming...

Mathematics.- Euclid. Euclidis Elementorum sex priores libri recogniti opera Christiani Melder, additional engraved title, title with woodcut prin...

NO RESERVE Sciences.- Physics.- Bohr (Niels), H.A. Kramers and J.C. Slater. The quantum theory of radiation, first edition, in The Philosophical M...

Physics.- Nuclear Fission.- Bohr (Niels) Resonance in Uranium and Thorium Disintegration and the Phenomenon of Nuclear Fission, [and] Oppenheimer ...

Physiology.- Bernard (Claude) Sur le mécanisme de la formation du sucre dans le foie, first edition, in Comptes rendus ... de l'Académie des scien...

Sexual Health.- Stopes (Marie) Married Love, A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties, first edition, 2 charts, ink-stamps to pasted...

Wine.- Pasteurisation.- Pasteur (Louis) Procédé pratique de conservation et d'amélioration des vins [&] Notes sur les dépôts qui se forment dans l...

NO RESERVE Bede, the Venerable. Opera, vol.1&2 only in 1 (of 8), general title within ornate metalcut architectural border, numerous woodcut maps,...

Hugo (Herman, S.J.) De Prima Scribendi Origine et Universa rei literariae antiquitate..., first edition, engraved device to title, early ink owner...

Boxhorn (Marcus Zuerius) Monumenta Illustrium Virorum et Elogia, engraved architectural title and 125 full-page illustrations / plates (2 of which...

Rivière (Lazare) Medicina Practica in succinctum Compendium redacta, studio & sumptibus Bernhardi Verzaschae, lacking half-title and portrait fron...

Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Vida Y Hechos del Ingenioso Cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha, part 1 only, additional engraved title, 16 engraved...

Locke, Boyle & Newton.- Bibliotheque Universelle et Historique, vol.2 and 8 only, the first with Locke's review of Robert Boyle's De Specificorum ...

NO RESERVE Stanley (Thomas) Historische Beschrijving der Grieksche en Oostersche Wijsgeeren, half-title, additional engraved title, 8 engraved pla...

Bindings.- [Sévigné (Marie de Rabutin Chantal)] Lettres de Madam la Marquise de Sévigné a Madame la Comtesse de Grignan sal fille, 8 vol.,2 engrav...

Racine (Jean) Œuvres, 7 vol., all but vol. 6 with half-titles, 12 engraved plates, faint scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary crushed moroc...

NO RESERVE Rural economy.- Liger (Louis) La Nouvelle Maison Rustique; ou, Économie Générale de tous les Biens de Campagne, 2 vol., half-titles, en...

NO RESERVE Georgel (Jean-Francois, Abbé) Mémoires pour Servir a l'Histoire des Événemens...depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806-1810, 6 vol., folding hand-co...

Serbian folk songs.- [Jacob (Therese Albertine Luise von, translator)] "Talvi". Volkslieder der Serben, 2 vol. bound as 1, Halle, 1825-26 § Gerhar...

Greek classics in Braille.- Xenophon. Apologia Socratis et Platonis, Peri aretes, translated into Modern Greek by by A.Pallatianos, letterpress ti...

Economics.- Mises (Ludwig) Grundprobleme der Nationalökonomie, first edition, ink stamp to half-title, twentieth century half leather, 8vo, 1933.⁂...

NO RESERVE Cinema.- Arrosev (A.) Soviet Cinema, design by V. Stepanova and A. Rodchenko, including numerous film-still illustrations, folding phot...

Drummond (William, of Hawthornden, poet and pamphleteer, 1585-1649) [XXII A Translation printed in Madrigals and Epigramms], manuscript, 9 lines, ...

Louis XIV (King of France, 1638-1715) Warrant letter signed "Louis" for the Duc de Pomponne to be admitted to the Bastille to question the Abbé de...

Stone (Andrew, Under-Secretary of State & Commissioner of Trade & Plantations, 1703-1733) 4 Autograph Letters signed, 1 or 2pp., lightly browned, ...

Liverpool Merchant.- Sparling (John, twice Mayor of Liverpool, Liverpool merchant, of St. Domingo House, Liverpool, d. 1796) & William Sparling, s...

Pitt (William, the younger, youngest Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1759-1806) Autograph note relating to the Duke of Atholl's Compensation Bill...

Napoleonica.- Audience donnée au Clergé de Bruxelles par S.M. l'Empereur le 30 Avril 1810, au Chateau Impl. de Lacken, manuscript transcription in...

Accounts.- Alexander (Thomas) Journals A.B. & C. - Waste Book A - Ledger B, 3 vol., manuscript account books, c. 180pp., ruled in red, browned, sm...

Drinkwater (John, poet and playwright, 1882-1937).- Collection of photograph albums and loose photographs relating to Drinkwater, including: 6 ori...

Joyce (James).- Leavis (Frank Raymond, literary critic and academic) Autograph Letter signed to Frank Raymond, 2pp. & envelope, 244 x 200mm., fold...

Sternhold (Thomas) The whole booke of psalmes, black letter, woodcut music, lacking title, Y4&5, and all of final sigs 2A&B, except 2A2, C4 small ...

Civil War.- An ordinance...For the reliefe and maintenance of sicke and maimed souldiers, and of poor widdowes & children of souldiers slain in th...

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