Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Perotti (Niccolò) Cornucopiae linguae Latinae, collation: A-B8 a-z8 &8 cum8 rum8 A-O6, 307ff. (of 308, lacking final blank), 64 lines, roman type,...

Cordiale quattuor novissimorum, collation: a-g6, 39 ff. (of 42, lacking g3-4 & g6 [blank]), 46 lines, gothic type, title with large woodcut illust...

Bonfire of Vanities.- Benivieni (Girolamo) Canzoni e sonetti dell’amore e della bellezza divina, con commento, first edition, first issue, collati...

Dürer (Albrecht) Hierin sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion, 4 parts in 1, first edition, collation: A-M6 N4 O-S6 T4 U-Z6 132ff...

Calepino (Ambrogio) Calepinus. Ambrosii Calepini Lexicon, ex optimis quibusque auctoribus collectum, collation: A6 B-Z8 2A-3C8, title within large...

New Testament, Hebrew.- Evangelium Matthaei ex Hebraeo fideliter redditum, text in Latin and Hebrew, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's pe...

Plutarch. La prima [- seconda] parte delle Vite..., 2 vol., first edition, translated by Lodovico Domenichi, collation I: *4 A-Z8 AA-ZZ8 AAA-PPP8,...

Sammelband.- Aristotle. Physicorum libri, collation: *-**8 a2 b-n8 o4, multiple ink ownership inscriptions to title in early hand and a library st...

Plutarch. La prima [- seconda] parte delle Vite, 2 vol., translated by Lodovico Domenichi, woodcut printer's device to titles and a different vers...

Hippocrates. Asclepiadae gentis sacrae coryphaei viginti duo commentarii tabulis illustrati, edited by Theodore Zuinger, collation: α6 β8 A-Z Aa-Z...

Hamelmann (Hermann) Oldenburgisch Chronicon, collation a-g6 A-Ss6 Tt1-3 Uu1-7, Gothic type, engraved title laid down, woodcut initials, 106 woodcu...

Alighieri (Dante) La Divina Comedia, engraved title incorporating portrait of Dante at head, one or two headlines slightly trimmed, some water-sta...

Divination.- Cardano (Girolamo) Metoposcopia Libris Tredecim..., first edition, illustrated throughout with woodcut facial diagrams, a few full-pa...

Kircher (Athanasius) Ars Magna Sciendi, 2 parts in 1, first edition, separate engraved title to each part, letterpress title with woodcut printer'...

Desroches (Nicolas) Dictionaire des Termes Propres de Marine, first edition, 21 engraved plates, of which 17 with contemporary hand-colouring, eng...

Pirates.- Exquemelin (Alexandre Olivier) Histoire des Avanturiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes..., 2 vol. in 1, additional engraved title ...

Vico (Giambattista) De Rebus Gestis Antonj Caraphaei Libri Quatuor..., first edition, half-title, title in red and black, 2 engraved portraits, en...

Ovidius Naso (Publius) Metamorphoses in Latin and English..., edited by Abbot Banier, 2 vol. in 1, half-title, engraved allegorical frontispiece a...

Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone, 5 vol., engraved pictorial titles, portrait, 110 charming plates and numerous tail-pieces after Gravelot, Bouc...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, 2 vol. in 1, one of 150 copies on velin with plates before letters, from an edition limited to ...

Hebraica.- [Beit Tefillah L'Italiani], text in Hebrew, trimmed, occasionally touching headline, scattered spotting, lacking front free endpaper, p...

Royal Binding.- État Général de la Marine et des Colonies, watered silk endpapers, contemporary red crushed morocco, gilt arms of Prince Louis, Du...

Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary - Moeurs de Province, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, some reinforcement to inner margins at beginning and en...

Zola (Émile) L'Oeuvre, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "à Henry Bauer, mon divoué confrére Emile Zola" on half-titl...

Askew (Anthony) Bibliotheca Askeviana. Sive Catalogus Librorum Rarissimorum..., outer margins ruled in red, priced in a contemporary hand througho...

Beckford (William) The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the First [- Fourth] Portion of the Beckford Library, [bound with] Catalogue of the...

Bibliotheca Hohendorfiana, ou Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu Monsieur George Guillaume Baron de Hohendorf, 3 parts in 1 vol., browned through...

Catalogo dei Libri dal Conte Angiolo Maria d'Elci donati alla Imperiale e Real Libreria Mediceo-Laurenziana, first edition, engraved portrait fron...

Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. Falconet, 2 vol., priced throughout by Barrois himself (according to a pencil note by Hobson in vol.1), con...

Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. le Comte D. Boutourlin. Dont la vente se fera le lundi 25 novembre 1839 [-14 Octobre 1841], 3 parts in 2 vo...

Catalogue des livres de feu M. le duc de la Vallière, 3 vol. (vol.3 in 2 parts), engraved portrait of La Vallière by Charles-Nicolas Cochin, fils,...

Catalogue des livres de Monsieur le Président Crozat de Tugny, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, priced in a contemporar...

Consul Joseph Smith.- Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu Catalogus Librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, first collected ed...

Consul Joseph Smith.- Bibliotheca Smithiana. A catalogue of the curious, elegant, and very valuable library of Joseph Smith...Which will be sold b...

Drury (Rev. Henry) A Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of... late fellow of King's College Cambridge..., ruled in red, priced and an...

Kloss (Dr. Georg) Catalogue of the Library of...Printed Books with MS Annotations, by Philip Melancthon, 8 folding facsimile plates of Melancthon'...

Martin (Gabriel, compiler & auctioneer) Bibliotheca Fayana, seu Catalogus librorum bibliothecæ, half-title, charming large engraved allegorical vi...

Martin (Gabriel, compiler & auctioneer) Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. Le Blanc, Secrétaire d’État, woodcut arms of Le Blanc to...

Martin (Gabriel, compiler & auctioneer) Musæum Selectum, sive Catalogus Librorum viri clariss. Michaelis Brochard, half-title, title with woodcut ...

Martin (Gabriel, compiler & auctioneer) Catalogus librorum bibliothecæ illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici Comitis de Hoym, Hoym's woodcut arms to t...

Martin (Gabriel, compiler & auctioneer) Catalogue des livres de feu M. l'Abbé d'Orléans de Rothelin, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece po...

Martin (Gabriel, compiler & auctioneer) Catalogue des livres du cabinet de M. Boze, woodcut ornament to title, A1 with fine engraved allegorical h...

Mead (Richard) Bibliotheca Meadiana, ruled in red to outer margins, priced in a contemporary hand, some light browning, contemporary calf, gilt, r...

Morelli (Jacopo) Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti magno iam studio collecta, 6 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of Maffeo Pi...

Spencer (Charles, 3rdEarl of Sunderland) Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana: Sale Catalogue of the Sunderland or Blenheim Library, 10 parts in 2 vol., 1 o...

Volpi (Gaetano) La Libreria de' Volpi, e la Stamperia Cominiana illustrate con utili e curiose annotazioni, first edition, [one of 200 copies], ti...

13th century Lord Mayor of London, Candlewright Street, now Cannon Street.- Richard de Tholosane son and heir of Stephen de Tholosane have granted...

Gregory I (Saint, Pope, commonly known as Gregory the Great, c. 540-604) [Homiliae XL in Evangelia], With his additional homily on mortality [Begi...

Book of Hours, Use of Rome, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 198 leaves (lacks one leaf in a quire but probably a scribe's error as the...

Wedlock & religious etc.- Spirituall Lessons for a Religious person by consideration of ye conditions of wedlocke... A waye for religious to exerc...

Cookery & Medical.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, in several hands, 58pp. excluding blanks, browned, most ff. loose, several manuscript rec...

Brontë [formerly Prunty, Brunty] (Patrick, Church of England clergyman and author, 1777-1861) Seal ring, oval orange hardstone (?carnelian), engra...

Brontë (Emily) The North Wind, watercolour heightened with touches of gum arabic, after Finden's engraving of 'Ianthe' (Lady Charlotte Harley) in ...

Brontë [married name Nicholls] (Charlotte [pseud. Currer Bell], novelist, 1816-1855) 2 cabinet portrait photographs of Charlotte Brontë, taken fro...

Brontë [married name Nicholls] (Charlotte [pseud. Currer Bell], novelist, 1816-1855) Lock of Charlotte Brontë's hair, given by Charlotte's friend ...

Brontë (Charlotte).- Lowndes (T.) Autograph Letter signed to Marion Douglas, 8pp. & envelope, 8vo, Eglinton Park, Kingstown, Dublin, October 1893,...

Unpublished Heger letters and photographs.- Collection, including: 2 ALs.s. from Zoe Heger to Miss Marion Mossman, together 8pp., 6th January - 12...

Heger (Claire Zoë, directrice of the school in Brussels attended by Charlotte and Emily Brontë, 1804-90) 4 Autograph Letters signed and one Autogr...

Langenheim (Frederick) Stereoglass Diapositives of Washington Irving outside his home, Sunnyside, Irvington, NY [and] Rip Van Winkle's Shanty, Cat...

Rorke's Drift.- England (Edward Lutwyche, army officer serving with Col Evelyn Wood's column, later Major-General, d. 1910) Autograph Letter signe...