Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institutiones oratoriae, commentary by Laurentius Valla, Pomponius Laetus, & Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus, collation:...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Tulli De officis amicitia & senectute. Paradoxa eiusdem, collation: [1-4], A-N8 O4 P-Z8 AA-GG8 HH II6, Roman type, title w...

Voragine (Jacobus de) Legenda hec aurea, collation: A10 a-x8 y10 , title in red and black with large woodcut device and 2 woodcut initials includi...

Greek language.- Suidas. [Lexicon], edited by Demetrius Chalcondylas, collation: aα-zψ, &ω, AΑ-ZΨ, &ω, AA ΑΑ8, double column, Greek type, title wi...

Pantaleon (Heinrich) Prosopographiae herorum atque illustrium virorum totius Germaniæ, 3 parts in 1, first edition, collation: ()6 a-z6 A8 †6; a4 ...

Greek anthology.- Synechia sive summa lectionum Plutarchicarum..., manuscript, 84pp., final contents f. holed / frayed with loss, a few ff. with m...

Astronomy.- Gassendi (Pierre) Tychonis Brahei, equitis dani, astronomorum coryphaei, vita. Accessit Nicolai Copernici, Georgii Peurbachii, & Joann...

Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, first edition, 74 engraved pla...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***French Royalty.- Anselme (Pere) Histoire Genealogique et Chronologique de la Maison Ro...

Military.- Lemau de la Jaisse (Pierre) Carte generale de la monarchie francoise, contenant l'histoire militaire depuis Clovis premier Roy Chretien...

Woman writer.- Diderot.- [Puisieux (Madeleine de)] Zamor et Almanzine, ou L'inutilité de l'esprit et du bon sens, 3 parts in 1, first edition, tit...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Binding fragment.- Losinga (Herbert de, first Bishop of Norwich and founder of Norwich...

Catalan Chirograph.- Geraldus S. Johannis and his wife Arsendis relinquish the manses of Lom, Sabides and Muntpestler to Abbot Roman and the monks...

Somerset, Wedmore.- [List of Wills and Charters relating to the Bytheputt/Bydeput family of Wedmore 1342-1447], manuscript in Latin, on vellum, fo...

John II (King of Aragon & Navarre, 1398-1479) Letter signed absolving Franciscus, of Burgos from any duties to his father and town, so that he may...

Missal, Latin. 2 leaves from a Missal, manuscript in Latin, in a late gothic bookhand, on vellum, numbered ff. 38 & 41, 4 3-line initials, 17 2-li...

Wales.- Tintern Abbey.- Gloucestershire, Woolaston.- Wyche (Richard, last Abbot of Tintern Abbey, surrendered abbey in 1536) Record that at the co...

Tudor Taxation.- The reasons to prove that the loane is moste discontent full the people than the Subsidie bee, manuscript, 2pp. & conjugate blank...

Spain.- Sixtus IV (Pope, 1414-84) Este es un traslado bien y fielmente facado de unas letras Apostolicas y Bulla de la creacion y erection del de ...

Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor.- Hatton (Sir Christopher, courtier and politician, c. 1540-91) & Cecil (Thomas, first Earl of Exeter, courtier and ...

Logic.- Systema totius logicæ, manuscript in Latin, 293ff., excluding blanks, ruled in red throughout, 1 full-page table, occasional spotting, lig...

Economics of Foreign Trade.- Cope (Sir Walter, master of the court of wards, 1553?-1614) Enchiridion. Certaine breife Remonstrances offered unto h...

Jacobean duelling.- Sackville (Edward, fourth Earl of Dorset, politician, 1590-1652) A challenge receaved by Mr Edward Sackvile... from the L. Bru...

[Bacon (Francis, Viscount St Alban, Lord Chancellor, politician, and philosopher, 1561-1626)] A Letter of Advise written to Sr Edw. Coke Lo: Chief...

Muscovy Company.- To the Kings... Matie. An humble and true declaration of... the Govnor & Company of Merchants trading unto Muscovia, of the mani...

Ralegh [Raleigh] (Sir Walter, courtier, explorer, and author, 1554-1618) An Apologie written by Sr Walt. Raleigh touching his voyage to Guyana, im...

Edward Alleyn & Dulwich College.- Alleyn (Edward, actor, theatre entrepreneur, and founder of Dulwich College, 1566-1626) Mr Allen's Proiect of hi...

Paracelsus (Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Ren...

More (Sir Thomas [St Thomas More], Lord Chancellor, humanist, and martyr, 1478-1535).- Roper (William, lawyer and biographer, 1495x8-1578) The lif...

Philosopher's Stone.- Certaine chymicall Observations upon the Philosophers Stone, manuscript in Secretary hand, 3½pp., slightly browned, disbound...

Scotland.- [Stewart (John, first Earl of Traquair, politician, c. 1599-1659)] [Diary relating to correspondence with various Scottish lords over t...

Westminster Abbey.- Crespion (Rev. Stephen, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, in 1675 Confessor to the Royal Household, later prebendary of Bristol, ...

Poet's expenses.- Blackmore (Sir Richard, epic poet & physician, 1654-1729) Autograph signed order to pay to Thomas Williams & Abraham Anselme the...

Finch (Daniel, second Earl of Nottingham & Secretary of State for the Northern Department, 1647-1730) Autograph letter signed on military matters,...

Medical.- [Lecture notes], manuscript in Latin, 31pp., and 7pp. in German in a later hand, 1f. corner torn away, browned, original marbled wrapper...

Poetry.- [Dryden (John)] Mock Flecknoe [Mac Flecknoe], manuscript, 5pp., lacks all after "Let Virtuosos in five years be writ", n.d. [c. 1700] § T...

Queen Anne's health.- "Smith (J.)" Copy letters concerning Queen Anne's poor health in December, 1713 through to March, 1714, manuscript, 4pp., fo...

Receipts.- Collection of receipts for domestic goods, including: Thomas Coleman at the Signe of Bird-Cage in Crooked Lane; John Hall At the Golden...

1745 Rebellion.- Letter giving an account of the trials of Lords Cromarty, Kilmarnock and Balmerino in Westminster Hall, by a ?nephew of Lady Samb...

Music.- Bayly (Richard) [Volume of music], manuscript lyrics and notation, 142pp. excluding blanks, signed twice, slightly browned, original roan,...

Law.- Bodle (Robert, lawyer, of ?Woolston Hall, Chigwell, Essex) Special Pleadings, manuscript notebook, 180pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned...

Lavagna (John, mathematician and artist, active late 18th century) Ad Explicandam Phisicam Eclectcam, including detailed studies on matter and mot...

The Fighting Temeraire.- Harvey (Sir Eliab, naval officer and politician, captain of the Temeraire, 1758-1830) 2 Autograph postscripts signed to t...

Somerset & Devon.- [?Forbes (J., of Avonhill House, Midford, South Stoke, near Bath)] [Diary of a tour in Somerset & Devon], manuscript, 76pp., 11...

France.- Manuscript estate maps.- Marche (Lecoy de la) [Survey of the estates of Château-Renault], manuscript, double-page preface and 2 tables, 9...

Kent.- Rochester Charters.- Devon (Charles, examiner of the translation) [Transcriptions of five Rochester Charters compiled for Sir Thomas Philli...

London, Rotherhithe.- Southwark Park Estate Map.- Sir W.M. Gomm's Estate Rotherhithe... Green shews Land to be Taken by the Proposed Southwark Par...

Police.- Lincoln City Police. Robbery Book, 966pp., printed columns with manuscript insertions, in black and red ink, some margins browned, origin...

Play.- [Denison (Thomas Stewart, American publisher, educator and author, 1848-1911)] The Babes in the Wood, or the Ferocious Uncle, a Domestic tr...

Gomm (Sir William Maynard, army officer, 1784-1875) The Earlier Letters and Journals..., edited by Francis Culling Carr-Gomm, printed title and fr...

More (Sir Thomas) A dyaloge of Syr Thomas More knyghte...Wherin be treatyd dyvers maters as of the veneration of Worshyp of ymagys & relyques, pra...

Bible, English. The Most Sacred Bible, Whiche is the holy scripture, conteyning the old and new testament, translated...by Rychard Taverner, print...

Bible, English. The Byble, that is to say all the Holy Scripture: In whych are contayned the Olde and New Testamente, edited by Edmund Becke, 5 pa...

Bible, English. [The whole Byble. that is the holy scripture of the Olde and Newe testament faythfully translated into Englysshe by Myles Coverdal...

Bible, Latin. Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per Eobanum Hessum, cum annotationibus Viti Theodori Norimbergensis, quæ commentarij vice esse p...

Bible, English. The Bible: That is, The Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament..., text in double column, 70 lines, roman type inc...

Bible, English. The Text of the New Testament, third Fulke edition, title within fine woodcut architectural border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces ...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Thucydides. The Hystory...of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the A...

Chronicle.- Lanquet (Thomas) Coopers chronicle contenynge the vvhole discourse of the histories as well of thys realme, as all other countreis, bl...

Calvin (John) A Commentarie of Iohn Caluine, vpon the first booke of Moses called Genesis, translated by Thomas Tymme, first edition in English, t...