Navarre (Marguerite de) Les Nouvelles, 3 vol., engraved plates and vignettes, contemporary green straight-grain morocco, spines a little rubbed an...

Lesage (Alain René) Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 4 vol., half titles, engraved plates by Bornet, Charpentier and Duplessi-Bertaux under the...

Almanacks.- A collection of 13 French almanacks, engraved plates, some splitting to hinges, original morocco or cloth, gilt, rubbed, 2 with cases,...

Rabelais (François) Les Cinq livres, 5 vol., number 43 of 170 copies on Hollande, etched frontispieces (offsetting), titles printed in red and bla...

Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha, translated by Charles Jarvis, 4 vol., en...

Scott (Sir Walter) The Miscellaneous Prose Works, 28 vol., 1834-36; The Poetical Works, 12 vol., 1833-34, engraved frontispieces and titles, unifo...

Doves Bindery.- Ruskin (John) Sesame and Lilies. Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester in 1864, first edition, handsome russet morocco, gilt, by th...

Austen (Jane) [The Novels], 6 vol. in 10, edited by R. Brimley Johnson, mixed edition, plates by William C. Cooke, decorations by F.C. Tilney, unc...

Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) The Works, 9 vol., engraved frontispieces, olive-green crushed morocco by Riviere & son, spines uniformly faded, t.e.g., 1...

NO RESERVE Victoria (Queen) The Letters... Between the Years 1837 and 1861, edited by Arthur Christopher Benson and Viscount Esher, vol. 1 with si...

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)] "Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ninety-eighth thousand, 1932; Through the Looking-Glass and What A...

Gilchrist (Alexander) Life of William Blake. With Selections from his Poems and other Writings, 2 vol. second edition, portrait frontispieces, pla...

Papageorgiou (Athanasius) Icons of Cyprus, preface by Archbishop Makarios, number 223 of 265 copies signed by Makarios, illustrations, original da...

Tuer (Andrew W.) London Cries with six charming Children, one of 250 signed proof large paper copies, leaves printed recto only, 10 hand-coloured ...

Brooke (Rupert) The Collected Poems, one of 1,000 copies, wood engravings by G. Raverat, endpapers browned, original buckram-backed boards, covers...

Britain.- Lipscomb (George) The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, 4 vol., titles printed in red and black, 47 engraved plates a...

Bewick (Thomas) The Watercolours And Drawings Of Thomas Bewick And His Workshop Apprentices, edited by Iain Bain, no 1 of 13 copies with 6 engravi...

Birds.- Finch-Davies (Claude Gibney) and Dr. Alan Kemp. The Birds of Prey of Southern Africa, 1980; The Birds of Southern Africa, 1982, each numbe...

Birds.- Scott (Peter) Morning Flight, number 680 of 750 copies signed by the author/artist, plates, some colour, spotting, original cloth, some sp...

Botany.- Hay (Roy) and Patrick M.Synge. The Dictionary of Garden Plants, number 223 of 265 copies signed by the authors, colour illustrations, ori...

Sporting.- Clarke (Mrs J. Stirling) The Habit & the Horse; a Treatise on Female Equitation, first edition, frontispiece and 8 plates, light spotti...

Plinius (Gaius Caecilius Secundus) C. Plinii Cecilii Secundi Epistolae cum panagyrico multoties impressae nunc Ioannis Mariae Catanaei uiri docris...

Philosophy.- Xenophon. In hoc volumine continentur infrascripta opera Xenophontis, title in red and black, marginal ink annotations, title with sm...

Classics.- Caesar (Gaius Julius) Commentaria Caesaris prius a Iocundo impressioni data..., woodcut maps and illustrations, several ink ownership a...

Justinus. Trogi Pompei Externae Historiae in Compendium ab Iustino Redactae, printer's woodcut device to title and final leaf verso, [Adams J723; ...

Plotinus. Plotini divini illius e platonica familia philosophi, de rebus philosophicis libri LIIII. In Enneades sex distributi, a Marsilio Ficino,...

Mathematics.- Euclid. Euclide megarense acutissimo philosopho, solo introduttore delle scientie mathematice, translated by Niccolò Tartaglia, [thi...

Theology.- Aquinas (Saint Thomas) [Opera Omnia], Vol.3 & 4 in 1, woodcut portraits of Saint Thomas Aquinas within ornate frame to both titles, woo...

Giovio (Paolo) Delle Istorie del Suo Tempo, 2 vol., woodcut printer's device to titles, woodcut initials, vol. 1 ink inscription to front endpaper...

Zazzera (Francesco) Della nobilta dell'Italia parte prima, part 1 only (of 2), woodcut arms of King of Spain to title, woodcut illustrations, titl...

De Marsellis (Marco) Iconologia della Madre di Dio Maria Vergine, engraved additional architectural title, woodcut arms to letterpress title, addi...

Naples.- Rarissimorum scriptorum rerum Neapolitanarum collectio..., title in red and black with woodcut arms, 7 engraved folding maps and plates, ...

Pasini (Giuseppe) Diḳduḳ leshon ha-ḳodesh hoc est, Grammatica linguae sanctae institutio, text in Hebrew and Latin, ink ownership inscription t...

Accounting.- Puglisi (Onofrio) Aritmetica, seventh edition, woodcut initials, head-pieces and ornament to title, one or two minor instances of lig...

Della Torre (Giovanni Maria) Scienza della Natura Generale, Parts 1 and 3 only (of 3) in 2 vol., 68 engraved folding plates only (a few with paper...

Antiquities.- Trutta (Gianfrancesco) Dissertazioni Istoriche delle Antichità Alifane, engraved title vignette, ink ownership inscription to title,...

Volcanoes.- [Filomarino (Ascanio)] Lettera Prima sull'Eruzione del Vesuvio, lacking ?half-title (torn away from gutter), bound with Lettera Second...

Albertus Magnus. Prima et secunda partes postille super evangeliare luce, title trimmed and laid-down, 2H4-5 misbound, lacking blank at y8 and fin...

Boerio (Niccolao) Consuetudines Bituriceses præsidatuum, seu si mauis balliuiatuum ..., scattered very faint spotting, occasional light finger-soi...

Supernatural.- Boaistuau (Pierre) and others. Histoires Prodigieuses extraictes du plusieurs fameux autheurs, 2 parts in 1, titles with woodcut pr...

Bible, Latin. Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata, woodcut architectural title, woodcut illustrations and decorative initials,...

Barthold (Jirí) Scanderbegus Hoc Est Vita et Res..., first edition, woodcut printer's device to title and final f., title also with library stamp,...

Bindings.- Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII iussu restitutum, printed in red & black, printer's device to title, light finger-soiling or foxing ...

Blanchus (R. D. Franciscum) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum, introduction in Albanian, short tear to O8 affecting text, scattered spotting and brow...

NO RESERVE L'Ecole parfaite des officiers de bouche, contenant le Vray Maistre d'Hostel. Le Grand Ecuyer-Tranchant. Le Sommelier royal. Le Confitu...

Judaica.- Tevele (Rabbi David) Sha'are Zion, final f. blank, Hamburg, Johann Ros, 1715 bound with Tevele (Rabbi David) Masoret ha-Berit, Hamburg, ...

Bindings.- Lenfant (Jaques) Histoire du Concile de Pise, 2 vol. in 1, rather damp-stained,1724; Histoire du Concile de Constance, 2 vol., 1727; Hi...

NO RESERVE De Soria (Giovanni Gualberto) Rationalis Philosophiae Institutiones, sive de Emendanda Regendaque Mente, second edition, title printed ...

Tarin (Pierre) Dictionaire Anatomique, title with woodcut printer's device, some scattered spotting and slight browning, upper hinge cracked but h...

Economics.- Mably (G.B., Abbé) Doutes Proposés aux Philosophes Économistes sur l'Ordre Naturel et Essentiel ..., half-title, scattered faint spott...

Spanish binding.- 18th century red morocco binding bearing the royal arms of Spain, no text block, richly gilt, covers with central arms within an...

Early printing.- Anonymous (German) Adoration of the Magi, woodcut, a good but later impression from the original block from the Derschau collecti...

 *** Please note, the description for this lot has changed.Armenian language.- [Work on the diffusion of knowledge for children], engraved frontis...

French theatre.- Le Mariage de Raison, Paris, Pollet, 1826; bound with Le Plus Beau Jour de la Vie, [c.1825]; and Poujol (MM.) and Charles Hubert....

Grimm (Jacob) Deutsche Rechts Alterthümer, vignette title, scattered spotting, contemporary half-calf, gilt, a little rubbed, Göttingen, 1828 § Ba...

NO RESERVE Stägemann (Elisabeth von) Erinnerungen für edle Frauen, 2 vol. in 1, portrait frontispiece, lacking facsimile plate, publisher's mark r...

Díaz (Porfirio) Rapport du général Porfirio Diaz ... à ses compatriotes sur les actes de son administration pendant les périodes constitution...

NO RESERVE Hahn (J. G. v.) Griechische und Albanesische Märchen, 2 vol., occasional marginal pencil notes, previous owner's ink name-stamp, contem...

Medieval manuscript.- Single leaf from a French Bible on vellum, written in Latin in black ink in a regular gothic book hand, double column, 51 li...

Medieval manuscript.- Bifolium from a text of moral tracts on virtues and vices, manuscript in Italian, in black ink in a clear and fluent informa...