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Horology.- Trade Catalogue.- Album d'Échantillons de la Fabrique de C. A. Bourgeois & Clement Fils, a Morez Departement du Jura, 15 fine lithograp...

Audubon (John James) The Birds of America, 8 vol., half-titles, 500 hand-coloured lithograph plates, very occasional trimming to caption or imprin...

Gould (John) The Birds of Great Britain, 3 vol. (of 5), first edition, 191 hand-coloured lithograph plates, most heightened with gum arabic, by Go...

Knip (Pauline) and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Les Pigeons, vol.1 only (as usual), first edition, 87 etched plates, partly printed in colour and fini...

Birds.- Stonham (Charles) The Birds of the British Islands, 5 vol., first edition, half-titles, 318 photogravured plates, captioned tissue guards,...

Humphreys (Henry Noel) and John Obadiah Westwood. British Moths and Their Transformations, 2 vol., 123 hand-coloured plates, many heightened with ...

Birds.- [Bolton (James)] Harmonia Ruralis; or, An essay towards a Natural History of British Song Birds, 2 vol., second edition, hand-coloured eng...

Birds.- [Syme (Patrick)] A Treatise on British Song-Birds. Including Observations on their Natural Habits, Manner of Incubation, &c., first editio...

Botany.- Curtis (William) The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed, 76 vol. in 55, vols. 19 & 63 only with engraved portrait frontispie...

Botany.- Darwin (Charles) The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, second edition, revised, but, first edition in book form, half-title, illus...

Ferns.- Jaffray (Mrs P, compiler) Darjeeling Ferns, 52 full page fern specimens, printed labels with contemporary manuscript to each corner, one o...

Herbal.- [A lytel herball of the properties of herbes newly amended and corrected, with certayne addiciions at the ende of the boke [as] appoynted...

Herbal.- The grete herball whiche gyueth parfyt knowlege and vnderstandyng of all maner of herbes [and] theyr gracyous vertues whiche god hath ord...

Martyn (William Frederick) A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature, 2 vol. bound in 1, titles in re...

[Ward (Hon. Mrs.)] Sketches with the Microscope in a Letter to a Friend, first edition, 14 hand-coloured plates, lacks front blank, contemporary a...

Racing broadsides.- 17 broadsides advertising horse races, comprising Chesterfield Races, 1833-49 (12, including 2 duplicates, 1 with contemporary...

Brunschwig (Hieronymus) A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye or homely physick booke for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye, fir...

Gilbert (William) De Magnete, first edition, woodcut device on title and coat-of-arms to verso, woodcut illustrations, folding woodcut plate torn ...

Annotated.- Bullein (William) Bulleins bulwarke of defe[n]ce againste all sicknes, sornes, and woundes, that dooe daily assaulte mankinde, whiche ...

Astronomy.- Kepler (Johannes) Epitome astronomicae Copernicanae [libri I. II. III], first editions, 2C6 blank, sig. B misbound before title, **4 a...

Nightingale (Florence) Notes on Hospitals, third edition, initialled presentation inscription from the author to Major General Sir Henry Storkes t...

Euler (Leonhard) [A collection of c.40 papers], in 6 vol., mostly first editions, extracts from Nouveaux Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences et Be...

Lagrange (Joseph Louis) "Sur La Solution des Problemes Indéterminés du Second Degré", 1769; "Sur la Résolution des Équations Numériques", 1769; "R...

Broglie (Louis-Victor de) "L'univers a cinq dimensions et la mecanique ondulatoire", in Le Journal de Physique et le Radium, Serie VI, Vol. VIII, ...

Quantum mechanics.- Broglie (Louis-Victor de) "Ondes et Quanta", "Quanta de lumiere diffraction et interferences " and "Les quanta, la theorie cin...

Feynman (Richard P.) "Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics", in Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 20, no. 2, modern cloth, orig...

Watson (James D.) The Double Helix, slight shelf-lean, light sunning to spine tips, jacket with short closed tear to foot of upper joint light rub...

[Barleti (Marin)] The Historie of George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albanie, first and only edition in English, translated by Zachary ...

Balkans.- Reusch (Erhard) Alter und Neuer Staat des Königreichs Dalmatien, 2 parts in 1, double-page engraved frontispiece, title in red and black...

Greece.- Leake (William Martin) Researches in Greece, first edition, 1 facsimile, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, gilt, slight b...

Americas.- Martyr d'Anghiera (Peter) De rebus oceanicis et novo orbe...et item de rebus aethiopicis Indicis, Lusitanicis & Hispanicis..., woodcut ...

America.- Crockett (David) A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee, first edition, signed presentation inscription fr...

America.- Encounters with Native Americans.- Ashe (Captain Thomas) Travels in America, Performed in 1806, 3 vol., first edition, without half-titl...

South America.- Conquest of Peru.- Cieza De León (Pedro de) Parte primera de la chronica del Peru. Que tracta la demarcacion de sus provincias: la...

Asia.- Mandeville (Sir John) Tractato bellissimo delle piu maravigliose cose & piu motabile che sitrovino nelle parte delmondo, collation: a-k8, d...

Asia.- Polo (Marco) In cui si tratta le meravigliose cose del mondo per lui vedute, collation: A-G8, woodcut device to title, a few minor marginal...

China.- Morrison (John Robert) A Chinese Commercial Guide. Consisting of a Collection of Details Respecting Foreign Trade with China, second editi...

Egypt.- Hieroglyphs.- Champollion (Jean Francois) Grammaire Égyptienne, first edition, lithographed hieroglyphs throughout, some printed in red, a...

India.- Photograph Album of views of India and Burma, mainly c.120 x 94mm. and c.270 x 206mm., c.150 photographs mounted on 41ff., 4 or fewer to a...

India.- Photograph Album of views in Northern India, Kashmir and Southern Africa, ranging between c. 280 x 216mm. and c.124 x 83mm., c.180 photogr...

India.- Briggs (Henry George) The Cities of Gujarashtra: their Topography and History. Illustrated in the Journal of a Recent Tour, first edition,...

India.- Wilson (Horace Hayman) 14 pamphlets on the history and religious cultures of India, slightly browned, modern half calf, gilt spine, 8vo, p...

Middle East.- Arab authors.- Bodoni.- De Rossi (Giovanni Bernardo) Dizionario storico degli autori arabi più celebri e delle loro principali opere...

Middle East.- Stark (Freya) The Southern Gates of Arabia, first edition, folding maps, plates, modern red half morocco, gilt, t.e.g., John Murray,...

Polar.- Ponting (Herbert G.) The Great White South or with Scott in the Antarctic, ninth impression, signed by the author, half-title, frontispiec...

Singapore, Ambon, Penang and Kuala Lumpur.- Album of views of Asia, 47 photographs and 1 water-colour drawing laid down to 25 ff., 1 to a page, 27...

Tibet.- Turner (Captain Samuel) An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet, first edition, 13 engraved plates, 1 double-pa...

Voyages.- Morisot (Claude Barthélemy de) Orbis maritimi sive Rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum generalis historia, first edition, additional en...

West Indies.- MacQueen (James) The West India Colonies; the Calumnies and Misrepresentations circulated against them... Examined and Refuted, seco...

World.- Middleton (C. T. ) A New and Complete System of Geography, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, titles in red and black, 100 engraved plates, 21...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Britain.- Camden (William) Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of the Most Flou...

Ireland.- Davies (Sir John) A Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely Subdued...untill the Beginning of his Maiesties happie ...

Bible leaf, Latin. Single leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, comprising Numbers 7.38-8.12, double column, 42 lines, Gothic type, headlines of Lombard ...

Marchesinus (Johannes) Mammotrectus super Bibliam, collation: A-C8; a10; b-y8; 1 28; 310, double column, 228 ff. (including initial and final blan...

Pseudo-Bonaventura. Meditationes vitae Christi, collation: [a8] b-m8, 95ff. (of 96, lacking final blank), 38 lines, Gothic type, large woodcut dev...

Cologne Chronicle.- Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen, first edition, collation: A B6; 2A-I6 K10 L-Z a-d6 e4 f-z6 aa-nn6, 366ff. (of 3...

Geography.- Dionysius Periegetes. De situ orbis, translated by Antonius Beccaria, first edition, collation: a-d8 e10, 42 ff., the last blank, 24-2...

Augsburg binding.- Petrus de Palude. Sermones Thesauri novi de sanctis, collation: a b6 c-h8.6 i-m6 n-q8.6 r-t6 v8 x-z6 A8 B6 C8 D-F6 G-K8.6, 255 ...

Sir Thomas Phillipps copy.- Aristophanes. Comoediae novem [graece]. With the Scholia, edited by Marcus Musurus, collation: [*8] α-γ8 δ10 ε-κ8 λ-ξ8...

Greek printing.- Epistolæ diversorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum, edited by Marcus Musurus, 2 parts in 1 (the second part bound first), coll...

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