Holy Land.- New World.- Crusades.- Breydenbach (Bernhard von) Le grant voyage de Hierusalem diuise en deux parties, translated and edited by Nicol...

Erasmus (Desiderus, editor).- Plinius Secundus (Gaius) Historia mundi, edited by Desiderius Erasmus, 2 parts in 1, collation: A-C6 a-z A-Z Aa-Kk6;...

Lancelot du Lac.- Le premier [-le second; -le tiers] volume de Lancelot du Lac nouuellement imprime a Paris, 3 vol. in 1, collation: A4 a-z6 &6 aa...

Bible, German.- Biblia, Das ist die gantze heylige Schrifft: Deutsch Auffs new zugericht, translated by Martin Luther, 3 parts in 1, collation: ❧8...

Whitney (Geoffrey) A Choice of Emblemes, and Other Devises, 2 parts in 1, first edition, collation: *-2*4 3*2 A-Z4 a-f4, lacking final blank, titl...

Claude-Enoch Virey's copy.- Baif (Lazare de) Annotationes in legem II de captiuis & postliminio reversis, in quibus tractatur de re navali, per au...

Machines.- Ramelli (Agostino) Le diverse et artificiose machine, collation: [-]1 *7 **8 a-s8 t6 v-z8 A-D8 E-K4.2 L6 M-P4.2 Q4 R-X8 Y4 Z2, Aa2 Bb8 ...

ben Israel (Menasseh) De Creatione Problemata XXX, first edition, printer's device to title, contemporary ink noting to title and a couple of inst...

Language.- Trost (Martin) Grammatica Ebræa Generalis, cui Chaldæo-Syriasmus Collectus..., sig. A bound before title, browned, Wittenberg, Johann R...

Golden Bull.- Thülemeyer (Heinrich Günther von) Tractatio De Bulla Aurea, Argentea, Plumbea Et Cerea in Genere, nec non in Specie De Aurea Bulla C...

Dutch poetry.- Kerkherdere (Jan Gerard) Vox academica sive genethliacum serenissimo principi Leopoldo Joanni Austriaco Caroli Cæsaris et regis nos...

Virgilius Maro (Publius) Codex antiquissimus a Rufio Turcio Aproniano V.C. distinctus et emendatus qui nunc Florentiae in Bibliotheca Mediceo-Laur...

Merian (Matthaeus) Todten-Tanz / La Danse des Morts, text in French and German, roman and blackletter type, French letter press title with woodcut...

Persian manuscript.- Leaf from an illustrated Shahnameh, commissioned by the library of Qiwam al-Dawla wa'l-Din Hasan, the vizier of Fars, with a ...

Hall (Arthur, Elizabethan translator and politician, 1539-1605) Indenture between Henrye Hall of Greatford and Octavian ffisher "Merchant of the S...

Walsingham (Sir Francis, principal secretary, c. 1532-90).- Supplicaton from ye officers of the Customes... [docket title] To the righte honorable...

Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin & French, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 93 leaves (catchword on f. 83 does not follow, but text complete,...

Elizabethan Courtier.- Spencer [married names Stanley, Egerton] (Alice, Countess of Derby, noblewoman, daughter of Sir John Spencer, d. 1586 of Al...

Scottish Discourses and Sermons.- Schank or Shank (Martin, minister of Banchory, Aberdeenshire, married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Downie, Edinb...

Hertfordshire.- Clutterbuck (Robert, local historian and landowner, 1772-1831) [Autograph manuscript notes relating to Hertfordshire], autograph m...

Telemann's librettist.- Paulli (Wilhelm Adolph) Commonplace book, manuscript, 430pp., text in German and French, in various hands, ?some autograph...

Austen (Jane, novelist, 1775-1817).- Brydges (Sir (Samuel) Egerton, first baronet, styled thirteenth Baron Chandos, writer and genealogist, 1762-1...

Scottish Heraldry.- Hooke (John Campbell, Lord Lyon King of Arms, c. 1737-95) Grant of arms to William Graham of Limekilns, gold and watercolour d...

Sade (Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de, revolutionary politician, philsopher, writer & libertine, 1740-1814) Autograph Letter signed to Mada...

Sade (Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de, revolutionary politician, philsopher, writer & libertine, 1740-1814) Autograph Letter signed to his ...

Gunmaker to George III.- Mortimer (Harvey Walklate) and others. Commonplace book, manuscript, 94pp., excluding blanks, includes 6pp. index at end ...

English landscape.- Newbery (William, artist and friend of John Constable, 1787-1838) Two albums containing 40 drawings and watercolours, and 6 et...

Quakers.- Davis (Lydia, compiler) Album of Quaker manuscripts & original art, including autograph contributions by notable Quakers such as Jeremia...

Royal Navy.- [Log of Royal Navy personnel], manuscript, 20pp., excluding final f. blank, double column, penultimate verso with 2 small sketches of...

European Travel Journal.- [Journal of a visit to Paris], manuscript, c. 290pp., 6pp. of pen and ink drawings and numerous other pen and ink drawin...

Royal Navy.- China.- Chimmo (William) [Log of proceedings on H.M.S. Cornwallis, H.M.S. Rose, H.M.S. Modeste, H.M.S. Castor, and H.M.S. Agincourt],...

Qur'an, manuscript in Arabic.- An Attractive Ottoman Qur'an, illuminated manuscript on paper (many leaves tinted yellow), in Arabic, single column...

Mutiny on the Bounty.- Christian (Mary Ann, only daughter of chief Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and his Tahitian consort Mauatua who settled...

Charge of the Light Brigade.- Plan of the Battle of Balaclava, manuscript in red and black ink on tracing paper (some folds a little yellow), tipp...

Dickens (Charles, novelist, 1812-70).- Pratt (George Watson, American politician and Union Army officer, killed in the American Civil War, 1830-62...

Collins (Wilkie, writer, 1824-89) Autograph envelope signed "Wilkie Collins" to G. Thomas of Robson & Sons, printers, St Pancras, London, Penny Re...

India, Burma, Great Britain and France.- Beer (Edwin John, chemist, geologist, mineralogist, archaeologist, historian and librarian, 1879-1986) 10...

Cambridge University Rowing Records.- Volume of Records, manuscript, 12pp., some ephemera, including an original watercolour, relating to the Univ...

Herzl (Theodor, proponent of modern political Zionism, 1860-1904) Autograph Letter signed to an unknown correspondent, 2pp. on printed Neue Freie ...

Tolstoy's translator.- Maude (Alymer, friend and translator of Leo Tolstoy, 1858-1938) 12 Autograph Letters signed to the publisher Grant Richards...

Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, Prime Minister, 1874-1965) Letter signed to Lord Northcliffe, 1p. with conjugate blank, 1st December 1911,...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer, statesman, artist and author, 1874-1965) Proof page from Marlborough. His Life and Times with 4 ink corrections by...

United States neutrality.- Nind Hopkins (Sir Richard Valentine, Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office) Copy document marked 'Very Confidential'...

Potter (Beatrix, afterwards Beatrix Heelis, writer and illustrator, 1866-1943) Autograph Letter signed to "Dear Miss Wilson", 2pp., 8vo, Castle Co...

Crompton (Gigi, née Richter, art conservator, botanist and author, 1922-2020).- Collection of material from the archive of Gigi Crompton, includin...

Einstein (Albert, theoretical physicist, 1879-1955) Typed Letter signed "A. Einstein" to Dr Martin H.Berman, 1p. & envelope, sm. 4to, The Institut...

Durrell (Lawrence, novelist and poet, 1912-90) Collection of letters and postcards signed "Larry" and "Larry D" to Margaret McCall, a British tele...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Hardyng (John) The chronicle of Ihon Hardyng, from the firste begynnyng of Englande, v...

Henry VIII's Primer.- Church of England. The Primer, set foorth by the Kynges maiestie and his clergie, to be taught lerned, & read: and none othe...

Bible, English.- The Bible. That is the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament, titles with woodcut illustration, general title ...

Livius (Titus) The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, large woodcut device on title, woodcut portrait of Q...

Gunpowder plot.- Mr. George Blackwel...his answeres vpon sundry his examinations...with his approbation and taking of the Oath of allegeance: and ...

Drayton (Michael) Poems, title with woodcut border, woodcut head-pieces, trimmed, affecting head-lines, M4 with an early manuscript note, trimmed,...

Augustine (Saint, Bishop of Hippo) St. Augustine, Of the citie of God: vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues, translated by John Healey, fi...

[Shakespeare (William)] The Taming of the Shrew, single leaf extracted from the first folio, pp.227/28, double column, a few small marginal chips,...

Shepherds Kalender (The)...Newly augmented and corrected, collation: A-Q⁶ R⁴, largely printed in black letter, numerous woodcut illustrations, dia...

[Shakespeare (William)] The Tempest [and] The two Gentlemen of Verona, from the Second Folio, pp.1-38, double-column, woodcut head-pieces and deco...

Sir Joshua Reynolds' copy.- Donne (John) Poems, by J.D. With elegies on the authors death, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece (not call...

Sombre Binding.- Booke of Common Prayer (The)..., title within woodcut border, Robert Barker, by the Assignes of John Bill, 1636, bound with Bible...

The Irish Rebellion of 1641.- Temple (Sir John) The Irish Rebellion: or an History of the Beginnings and first Progresse of The Generall Rebellion...