Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

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

Plinius Secundus (Gaius) De li homini illustri, in lingua senese traducto et brevemente commentato, first edition in Italian, collation: A-N8 comp...

Bound for Jean Grolier.- Negri Stefano Stephani Nigri Elegantissime è Graeco authorum subditorum translationes, uidelicet., Philostrati Icones. Py...

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

Novel.- Du Bail (Louis Moreau) L'Olympe, first edition, fine engraved architectural title by Léon Gaultier, woodcut head-pieces and decorative ini...

Criminology.- Beccaria (Cesare) Dei Delitti e delle Pene, first edition, woodcut device on title, errata leaf at end, foxing and browning, floral ...

Sophocles Quae exstant omnia, 5 parts in 2 vol., edited by R.F.P. Brunck, text in Latin and Greek, occasional foxing, Munden bookplate, contempora...

Verlaine (Paul) Dédicaces, one of 55 copies on Hollande with an autograph poem by the author, this a presentation copy to a M. Louis, initial and ...

Holocaust.- Kirschbaum (Menachem Mendel.) Takanoth eich LeHithnaheg Ka'Eth Be'Epher HaNisraphim, printed in Hebrew, evenly browned, small chipping...

Antiphoner.- manuscript on vellum, 153ff. only (of 165, lacking fol. v, xxxi, xl, l, li, lxiii, lxviii, lxxxv, xci, xcviii, cxx, and, cxxxvii), te...

Banking.- Early cheques.- Clayton & Morris, bankers. Group of 14 early cheques, and 16 other items relating to Clayton & Morris, including receipt...

Charles II (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1630-85) Order to the royal jewellers Francis Sympson and John Sympson, to make "certaine Meda...

Scottish Genealogy.- Seton family.- Maitland (Sir Richard, of Lethington) The Historical Genealogie of the ancient and noble Family of Seton..., m...

Garrick (David, actor and playwright, 1717-79) Autograph Letter signed to Dorothy Boyle, countess of Burlington, 3pp. & address panel, no place, 9...

Miltoniana.- [Addison (Joseph)] A regular Criticism upon Paradise lost, manuscript, 185pp., first 15ff. slightly stained, slightly browned, 19th c...

Venomous toads.- White (Rev. Gilbert, naturalist, author of the "Natural History of Selborne", 1720-93) "The benevolence of modern naturalists hat...

Gynaecology & Midwifery.- [Notes relating to Gynaecology & Midwifery], manuscript in at least a couple of hands, c.95pp., excluding blanks, [?Edin...

Robespierre (Maximilien François Marie Isidore de), French lawyer, statesman, and leading figure in the Revolution, 1758-1794) Les Representans du...

Lord Amherst & Lord Byron.- Amherst (William Pitt, first Earl Amherst of Arracan, diplomat and governor-general of Bengal, 1773-1857) Collection o...

Literary.- Collection of letters, including: Sir Walter Scott, Leigh Hunt, Richard Monckton Milnes, Mary Russell Mitford, Tennyson (cut signature)...

Commonplace book.- Russell (Berthia, of Edinburgh) Commonplace Book of manuscript verses, drawings and ephemera, including 6 signed drawings by He...

France.- French School (circa 1820s) Sketchbook with over 120 original drawings from a tour of Normandy, and northern France, brush and ink, water...

Clare (John, poet, farm labourer, and naturalist, 1793-1864) [Poems], manuscript, one of six copies by Charles Pollington of Boston [Lincolnshire]...

India & elsewhere.- Doran & Magrath families.- Extensive correspondence, journals and some related ephemera relating to the Doran family (of Ely H...

Hong Kong.- Doran (Robert, of 18 Royal Irish, of Ely House, Wexford, Ireland, 1827-52) 3 Autograph Letters from Hong Kong to Mrs Doran, Miss Doran...

Commonplace Book, manuscripts, drawings, watercolours and ephemera, 50pp. excluding blanks and with ephemera loosely inserted, with contributions,...

Creationism.- Nevins (John Birkbeck, surgeon, Consulting Physician to the Stanley Hospital, Liverpool, zoologist, 1818-1903) On the Evidences of t...

Shakespeare.- Roget (John Lewis, art historian, son of the originator of the thesaurus, 1828-1908) [Journal of an art tour to Holland, Belgium and...

Rorke's Drift.- Chard (John Rouse Merriott, Royal Engineers, V.C., 1847-97).- Illuminated address presented by "The Borough of Langport, Eastover ...

Rorke's Drift.- Chard (John Rouse Merriott, Royal Engineers, V.C., 1847-97).-Illuminated address presented to John Chard R.E., V.C. by the "Inhabi...

Spender (Sir Stephen, poet, 1909-95) Autograph Letter signed "Stephen" to Clemence, 2pp., 8vo, University College, Oxford, [?1930], "My nose has j...

Peake (Mervyn, English writer, artist, poet & illustrator, 1911-1968) 2 Autograph Letters signed to his friend Helene Bruce ('Lanie'), 5pp., Walli...

Raleigh (Sir Walter) The History of the World, additional engraved title (dated 1614) with corner defective (just touching platemark), 'The Minde ...

Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, translated by Sir Thomas North, 2 parts in 1, titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut ...

Profusely annotated.- New Testament, Greek. Novi Testamenti libri omnes, edited by Robert Estienne, Joseph Scaliger, and Isaac Casaubon, double co...

Hobbes (Thomas) Leviathan, or The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill, first edition with errata uncorrected, eng...

Royal Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), engraved title, wood engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces, ruled in red throughout, additional en...

Binding.- Herbert of Cherbury (Edward, Lord) The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth, engraved portrait by W.Faithorne, title in red and black...

Restoration binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), and Administration of the Sacraments, additional engraved title, engraved initials, ruled in re...

Bindings.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The) Containing the Old Testament and the New, by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1690 [but 1693], bound ...

Royal Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), ruled in red, Sadler family genealogy (1784-1855) in several hands to early blank, beginning to B5 ma...

Bindings.- Collection of the several Statutes (A), and Parts of Statutes, Now in Force, relating to High Treason, and Misprision of High Treason, ...

Bindings.- Almanack.- Rider (Cardanus) Rider's (1735) British Merlin, one or two manuscript notes and doodles, one or two f. becoming loose, conte...

Royal binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), and Administration of the Sacraments ..., ex-Hampton Court Chapel copy, TLs from the press officer at...

Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), engraved additional title, title in red and black, small section excised from title margin (neatly restored...

Binding.- Almanacks.- Remarkable News from the Stars: or, an Ephemeris for 1768, bound with, The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository...

Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), scattered spotting, bookplate of P.A. and M.I Staines, contemporary red morocco, wide gilt floral border, b...

Miniature Books.- Almanacks.- London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1783, contemporary black morocco tooled in gilt, [1783]; London Almanack for ...

Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old and New Testaments, occasional spotting, family genealogy (1796-1961) in various h...

Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old and New Testaments, occasional light spotting and staining, details of children of...

Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The), faint creasing to fore-edges of first and last few ff., cracked hinges, contemporary latticework silver bi...

Nostradamus (Michel) The True Prophecies or Prognostications, first edition in English, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, light foxin...

Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, edited by Thomas Speght, largely printed in black letter, double column, engraved frontispiece, woodcut arms on d1, ...

Locke (John) An Essay concerning Humane Understanding, second edition, second issue, engraved portrait by P. Vanderbanck after Sylvester Brounower...

Swift (Jonathan) Travels into several Remote Nations of the World, 2 vol., second 8vo edition (Teerink's AA edition), engraved portrait frontispie...

Swift (Jonathan) The Works, 24 vol., titles in red and black, engraved plates, mostly in vol. 1, some foxing and marginal staining, some marginal ...

Judaica.- [Mears (Abraham)] The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers of the Jews, as Practised in their Synagogues and Families on all Occasi...

Georgian Irish actress & socialite.- Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. This present Wednesday, being the 18th of February, will be presented a Comedy ...

Autograph poem concerning Locke.- Locke (John) An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay concerning human understanding, [edited by John Wynne], some spo...

Fielding (Henry) The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, 4 vol. extended to 8, additional titles specially printed in red and black, extra-illustra...