Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

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

Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496 bound with Philostratus of Lemnos. I...

Petrarca (Francesco) Le Cose Volgari, first edition, first issue, collation: a-y8 z4 A8 (z4 & A8 blank), without the 4-leaf gathering at end conta...

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus) Tragoediae Senecae cum duobus commentariis, collation: A4 a-z6 &8, [4] CXVI [i.e. CLXVI] leaves, roman type, woodcut initi...

Albertini (Francesco) Opusculum de mirabilibus nouae & ueteris vrbis Romae, first edition, collation: A-Z4 &4 [cum]4 [rum]4, lacking final blank, ...

Cyprian (Saint, Bishop of Carthage) Opera, collation: à6a-y 8z4 : A-D8E4✝8, title in red and black with large printer's device, first gathering in...

Dionysius Areopagita. Theologia vivificans … coelestis hierarchia. Ecclestiastica hierarchia, collation a-z8 A-E8, title within circles inside an ...

Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone...con tre novelle aggiunte, collation: AA8 a-z8 &8 [pi-2pi]8 A-O8 P10 complete with final leaf (blank except fo...

Against the misuse of excommunication.- Wurm (Matthias) Balaams eselin von dem bann das er umb geldtschuld und andre geringe sachen nit mag Christ...

Military.- Vegetius Renatus (Flavius) De re militari libri quatuor, collation: a4 A-Y6 Z8 complete, title ruled in red and with woodcut vignette, ...

Zacharias, Chrysopolitanus In unu[m] ex quatuor sive de concordantia evangelistarum, libri quatuor, collation: *a4 a-z aa-ii6, double column, titl...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Rhetoricorum secundus tomus, collation 2a-2Q8 2R8 (-2R8), printer's woodcut device to title, border ruled in red throughou...

Bindings.- Officium beatae Mariae virginis, collation: A-Z8 Aa-Kk8, printed in red and black throughout with single ruled borders in red, printer'...

Natalis (Hieronymus) Evangelicae Historiae Imagines ..., engraved title and 153 plates, faint abrasion mark to title where ink ?signature removed,...

Mesa (Cristóbal de) La Navas de Tolosa. Poema Heroica, first edition, collation: ¶4, A-SS8, with final imprimatur and blank ff., woodcut arms on t...

Bible, French. Le Nouveau Testament..., lacking rear endpapers, some wear to extremities, Sedan, Pierre Jannon, 1643 § Le Nouveau Testament, addit...

Descartes (René)[Opera philosophica] Principia Philosophiæ, engraved portrait of the author (misbound before **1 and with horizontal crease), wood...

Broadside.- Funeral Procession.- Scherm (Laurens) Waare Afbeeldinge van de Lyk-Staatsie, gehouden over Hare Majesteyt Maria Stuart ..., printed br...

Bindings.- Officio della B. Vergine Maria dedicato a S. Anna, some spotting, marginal browning and finger soiling, engraved title vignette, 8 engr...

Binding.- Fürstenberg copy.- L'Office de la semaine sainte, a l'usage de la maison du Roy, fine engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title...

Marx (Karl) Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie...Buch I: Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals, Vol. 1 only [all published in Marx's life...

Medieval Germany.- The Codex Manasse, facsimile edition, one of 320, after the original manuscript in the Library of Heidelberg University, 428 ff...

Medieval Anglo-Burgundian Treaty.- Henry VII (King of England and Lord of Ireland, 1457-1509) & Philip the Fair (Lord of the Burgundian Netherland...

German Illuminator (probably circa 1540) The Harrowing of Hell, an illuminated leaf after Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), brush and ink, bodycolour, h...

Scheuchzer (Johann Jakob, Swiss physician and natural scientist, 1672- 1733) Compendiosa Delineatio Stineris cum Animi tum Utilitatus ergo, manusc...

Scotland, Edinburgh.- Cartulary belonging to The Merchant Maiden Hospitall Edinburgh, manuscript, title and 456pp., in several hands, some central...

Napoleon on St. Helena.- Manuscript and printed material relating to English involvement with Napoleon's custody on St. Helena, including Drake (?...

Ecuadorian War of Independence.- Mar (José de la, Peruvian military leader and third President of Peru, 1776-1830) Series of 8 letters signed to A...

Anti-Slavery Expedition.- Niger Expedition of 1841.- Stanger (William, geologist, botanist and medical doctor, 1811-54) Autograph Letter signed to...

Dickens (Charles) Fanny Trollope, Julia Pardoe, J. E. Millais, Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles Reade, W.J. Hooker and others. Album of autograph letters ...

Dickens (Charles).- Album of letters, cut signatures and signed inscriptions, letters, including: Charles Parnell, Matthew Arnold, Lord Roberts, W...

Miscellany.- Shelley (Sir Percy Florence, third Baronet, son of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1819-89) Autograph Letter si...

Victoria (Princess Royal, German Empress, consort of Frederick III, 1840-1901) Long Autograph Letter signed Victoria to her "Cousin", 12pp., 8vo, ...

Dobson (Austin, English Poet and Essayist, 1840-1921) Autograph Manuscripts of his poems "Sine me liber ibis in urbem", "For a Blank Page", "An Ep...

Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, author, mathematician, and photographer, 1832-98), "Lewis Carroll." Autograph Letter signed to Mrs. Tolhurst, 2pp., sm....

Large collection of c.225 photographs, postcards and ephemera relating to circus acrobats, many with ink studio stamps or subjects identified in p...

Chess.- Alekhine (Alexander Aleksandrovich, Russian and French chess player, 1892-1946) 2 Typed Letters signed to G. H. Midgley, Honorary Secretar...

Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Eleanor Roosevelt & others.- Album of autographs, including Pablo Picasso, Eleanor Roosevelt, Salvador Dali, Bela Lu...

Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newlye printed, double column, black letter, 3 divisional titles within woodcut architectural bor...

Heraldry.- Bossewell (John) Workes of Armorie devided into three bookes, entitled the concordes of Armorie, the Armorie of Honor, and of cotes and...

Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, black letter, text in double column, in 72 lines, within ruled border, ...

Atabey copy.- Zarain (Aga) A Relation of the late seidge and taking of the city of Babylon by the Turke, translated by W[illiam] H[olloway], first...

Foxe (John) The Booke of Martyrs, 3 vol., double column, largely in black letter, woodcut titles, half-title to vol.1 only, engraved portrait fron...

Bible, English.- The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New newly translated out of the originall tongues..., general title within or...

Charles II (King of England) A Proclamation Against Vicious, Debauch'd, and Prophane Persons. By the King, printed broadside, recto only, black le...

Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The) and Administration of the Sacraments, text only (lacking portrait frontispiece and without plates), B3 paper...

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

Robert Browning's copy.- Saint-Réal (César Vichard de) A Conspiracy of the Spaniards against the state of Venice. Out of French., woodcut ornament...

Binding.- The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with architectural engraved general title 'The Holy Bible...' of the same imprin...

Behn (Aphra) The Emperor of the Moon: A Farce, first edition, very occasional light trimming at head, slightly touching text of title and a few pa...

Sandford (Francis) The History of the Coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II...and His Royal Consort Queen...

[Locke (John)] Two Treatises of Government: in the Former, False Principles and Foundations of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected ...

[Swift (Jonathan)] A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome, with the Consequences they had u...

[Swift (Jonathan)] A New Journey to Paris: Together with some Secret Transactions between the Fr---h K---g, and an Eng--- Gentleman. By the Sieur ...

[Swift (Jonathan)] The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphras'd: And Address'd to Richard St--le, Esq., first edition, second issue, tit...

Swift (Jonathan) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World... by Captain Lemuel Gulliver, 4 parts in 2 vol., first edition, third issue, Te...

Jacobite rising of 1715.- List (A) of the most Considerable of the Scots and English Noblemen and Gentlemen, with the Number of their Servants tak...

Montfaucon (Bernard de) Antiquity Explained, and Represented in Sculptures, 6 vol. (inc. supplement), translated by David Humphries, titles in red...

Green (G[eorge] S[mith]) The Life of Mr. John Van, A Clergyman's Son, of Woody, in Hampshire, 2 vol., margins of titles and final leaves browned, ...

Utopian science fiction novel.- [Tiphaigne de la Roche (Charles Francois)] Giphantia: or a View of What has Passed, What is Now Passing, and, Duri...