Books and Works on Paper

Demosthenes. Demosthenous Logoi, kai Proomimia demegorika, kai epistoli, syn tais exegesesin ophelimotatais tou Ulpianu .. kai epimeleias tou Goul...

Mathieu (Pierre) The History of Lewis the Eleventh, first edition in English, woodcut initials and headpieces, odd ink underlining and marginal no...

Leicestershire.- Burton (William) The Description of Leicester Shire, first edition,  engraved portrait frontispiece and title, folding engraved m...

Portenari (Angelo) Della Felicità di Padova, engraved title, wood engraved illustrations (one full-page), engraved initials and headpieces, small ...

Britain.- Speed (John) The Historie of Great Britaine, third edition, 2 engraved portrait plates, printer's woodcut device to title, illustrations...

Britain.- Speed (John) The Historie of Great Britain under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans, third edition, lacking engraved...

Birckbek (Simon) The Protestants Evidence, taken out of good records, title in red and black, woodcut initial, head- and tail-pieces, corrections ...

Hooker (Richard) Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, engraved architectural title by William Hole, 6 divisional titles within woodcut border w...

Goodwin (John) Imputatio Fidei or A Treatise of Justification ..., engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title, wood engraved initials and head...

*** Please note the description of this lot has changed *** Charles I (King of England) Reliquiæ Sacræ Carolinæ The Workes of that Great Monarch a...

Charles I (King of England) Eikon Basilike [graece]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings, engraved royal coat...

Wilson (Arthur) The History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King James the First, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood engraved init...

Britain.- Burton (William) A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary, or Journies of the Romane Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain, engraved po...

Gualdo Priorato (Galeazzo) Scena d'alcuni huomeni illustri d'Italia, additional engraved title (trimmed and laid down), engraved title vignette, 4...

World.- Petau (Denis) The History of the World: or, an Account of Time, engraved portrait frontispiece, lacking map, one or two marginal ink notes...

Binding.- Brownrig (Ralph) Fourty Sermons by the ... Late Lord Bishop of Exceter, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved initials and headpieces...

Cowley (Abraham) The Works, engraved portrait frontispiece, O1 with small loss to top edge (just touching headline), tiny rustholes (F3 & 3D1), sm...

Girard (Guillaume) The History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon, the Great Favourite of France, first English edition, translated by Charles Co...

Oxford.- [Wood (Anthony)] Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis, additional engraved title (laid down), engraved double-page plan, eng...

Churchill (Sir Winston) Divi Britannici: Being a Remark Upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle, first edition, engraved vignette title print...

Smith (William) Balm from Gilead. A Collection of the Living Divine Testament, previous owner's ink and pencil inscriptions to early blank, correc...

Nottinghamshire.- Thoroton (Robert) The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, first edition, title in red and black, initial imprimatur f. with expert r...

Royal binding.- Book of Common-Prayer (The), wood cut initials, ruled in red, monarchy updated by hand, occasional light soiling, lacking A4, D1 a...

England.- Brady (Robert) A Complete History of England, first edition, imprimatur f., engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, wood...

Wiseman (Richard) Several Chirurgical Treatises, second edition, A1 verso with abrasion mark where bookplate detached (now loosely inserted), one ...

Barnes (Joshua) The History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward III, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved plates only (of ...

Platina (Bartholomaeus Sacchi) The Lives of the Popes, second edition, translated by Paul Rycaut, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and...

Virgil. The Works, second edition, translated by Mr. Dryden, 101 engraved plates only (of 102), title in red and black (small tears to edges and l...

Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old Testament and the New, vol. 2 only (of 2), engraved title at beginning, New Testam...

Usher (James) A Body of Divinity: or, the Sum and Substance of Christian Religion, engraved portrait frontispiece, small marginal loss to title, c...

Fleming (Robert) A Practical Disourse, occasioned by the Death of King William, second edition, engraved frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements at end,...

England.- Milton (John), Thomas Moore, Francis Bacon and others. A Complete History of England: with the Lives of all the Kings and Queens, 3 vol....

Pozzo (Andrea) Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects, etc., first English edition,  engraved architectural frontisp...

London.- Newcourt (Richard) Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Dicoese of London, 2 vol....

Scotland.- Abercromby (Patrick) The Martial Atchievements of the Scots Nation, 2 vol., list of subscribers, short marginal tear (vol. 2 Q1), scatt...

Northamptonshire.- Morton (John) The Natural History of Northampton-shire, first edition, 14 engraved plates, one folding engraved map (large tear...

Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, plates, ruled in red throughout, trimmed occasio...

London.- Dugdale (Sir William) The History of St Paul's Cathedral, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece (trimmed and laid down), 12 engr...

London.- Dart (John) Westmonasterium: or The History and Antiquities of The Abbey Church of St Peters Westminster..., 2 vol., engraved titles, 147...

Wales.- Rowlands (Henry) Mona Antiqua Restaurata. An Archæological Discourse on the Antiquities, Natural and Historical, of the Isle of Anglesey, ...

Guillim (John) A Display of Heraldry, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 63 engraved plates, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, ...

Lincolnshire.- Peck (Francis) Academia tertia Anglicana; or the Antiquarian Annals of Stanford in Lincoln, Rutland, and Northampton Shires, first ...

Bale (John) A Brefe Chronycle concernynge the Examynacyon and Death of the Blessed Martyr of Christ Syr Johan Oldecastell the Lorde Conham, engrav...

Bailey (Nathan) Dictionarium Britannicum: or a more Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary, first edition, title in red and black, one...

Dumont (Jean) The Military History of His Serene Highness Prince Eugene of Savoy ... as also His Grace the late Duke of Marlborough, one part only...

Binding.- Almanack.- Ladies Diary (The): or, the Woman's Almanack For the Year of our Lord, 1738, bound with, Gadbury (J.) [Graece] or, a Diary As...

[Serao (Francesco)] The Natural History of Mount Vesuvius, first English edition, one folding engraved plate only (of 2), one folding table, woodc...

Spence (Joseph) Polymetis: or, an Enquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the Antient Artists, f...

Scotland.- Maitland (William) The History of Edinburgh, first edition, double-page folding engraved map frontispiece, 20 engraved plates (one doub...

Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), contemporary black morocco tooled in gilt, double-panelled, outer panel with gilt detail to corners and cen...

[Ward (Edward)] The Wooden World Dissected: in the Character of a Ship of War, fifth edition, engraved frontispiece, soiling, occasional light spo...

Agriculture.- Lisle (Edward) Observations in Husbandry, first edition, engraved frontispiece, occasional light spotting, bookplate, contemporary c...

England.- Thoyras (Rapin de) The History of England, 21 vol., translated by N. Tindal, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved plates and maps (s...

Saxe (Maurice, Comte de) Mes Réveries Ouvrage Posthume, 2 vol., 84 engraved plates, many folding, all but 3 hand-coloured, engraved head- and tail...

Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), double-column, Cambridge, by Joseph Bentham, 1758, bound before, The Whole Book of Psalms, triple-column, C...

Saunier (Jean de) A Guide to the Perfect Knowledge of Horses, folding engraved frontispiece, 8 engraved folding plates (one with short tear into i...

Cornwall.- Borlase (William) Antiquities, Historical and Monumental of the County of Cornwall, second edition, 25 engraved plates (one folding), 2...

England.- Sydney (Temple) A New and Complete History of England, engraved frontispiece and 100 plates, one engraved map, scattered faint spotting ...

Hoadly (Benjamin) The Works ... published by his son John Hoadly, 3 vol., half-title to vol. 1 only, engraved portrait frontispiece, scattered lig...

Goldsmith (Oliver) An History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 8 vol., first edition, engraved plates, one or two short marginal tears, scattered...