Gregory I (Pope) Regula pastoralis, collation: A-G8, double column, 55 ff. (of 56, lacking final blank), 37 lines, Gothic type, initial spaces, wo...

Lombardus (Petrus, Bishop of Paris) Sententiarum libri IV, commentary by St Bonaventura and others, Tabula by Johannes Beckenhaub, pars 1 and 2 on...

[Shakespeare (William] [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, lacking all before B3 (including engraved portrait), B6, 3c6, 3...

Civil War Pamphlet.- Most Exact and True Relation (A) of the Proceedings of His Maiesties Armie at Shelborne...by a Lover of Truth, 8pp., woodcut ...

Hollar (Wenceslaus) Theatru[m] mulierum, sive varietas atq. differentia habitum foeminei sexus..., engraved throughout with title and 48 plates, t...

Andrewes (Lancelot) A Manual of Directions for the Sick...Translated out of a Greeke MS. of His Private Devotions by R[ichard] D[rake], additional...

Bindings.- Bible, French. Le Nouveau Testament, additional engraved architectural title, Charenton, Pierre Des-Hayes, 1655 bound with Marot (C.) &...

Greene (Robert) The Honorable History of Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay. As it was lately plaid by the Prince Palatine his Servants, third edition, ...

Bonnefons (Jean) Basia, 2 parts in 1, additional engraved pictorial title by Hackius, letterpress title with woodcut device, woodcut initials and ...

Nostradamus (Michel) Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties, additional engraved title depicting the execution of Charles I and the Great Fire of Lond...

Cookery.- M. (W.) The Queens Closet Opened. Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chirurgery, Preserving and Candying, &c., 3 parts in 1, engraved port...

Cookery.- Young Lady's Companion (The) in Cookery, and Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, &c., first and only edition, occasional spotting or...

Medicine.- Collection of medical recipes, 23pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, slightly browned, bound in a late 17th century black morocco sombr...

Bindings.- Almanachs.- Rider's British Merlin: for the Year of Our Lord God 1774; 1775, 1776, 1788, 1789 & 1793, together 6 vol., printed in red ...

Hairdressing.- Stewart (James) Plocacosmos: or The Whole Art of Hair Dressing..., first edition, lacking half-title, with engraved frontispiece pr...

Fielding (Henry) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling...A New Edition, 3 vol., half-titles, engraved frontispieces and one plate, some very light...

Conjuring.- Hocus Pocus, or the Art of Conjuration..., half-title, ?lacking engraved plate, contemporary ink signature to title, half-title, title...

Conjuring.- English School (circa 1900) The British magician, Charles Bertram (1853-1907), watercolour over pencil on wove paper, 110 x 190 mm. (4...

Transport.- Guide (A) to Stage Coaches, Mails, Diligences, Waggons, Caravans, Carts, Coasting Vessels, Barges and Boats which carry Passengers and...

Bindings.- Treble Almanack (The) for the Year MDCCXCVII, 3 parts in 1 (comprising: Watson Stewart (John) The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack......

[Wordsworth (William) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.] Lyrical Ballads, with a few other poems, first edition, second (London) issue, with errata lea...

[Coleridge (Sara)] Phantasmion, first edition, half-title, a few spots to title and final leaf, contemporary burgundy morocco with decorative leaf...

Barrett (Elizabeth Barrett) Poems, 2 vol., first edition, 8pp. publisher's catalogue dated January 1 1845 at beginning of vol.1 and advertisement ...

[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily and Anne)], "Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell". Poems, first edition, second issue, with errata slip tipped in at beginning, a...

Bindings.- Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Beppo and Don Juan, 2 vol., light foxing, bound in contemporary red morocco with all over design of in...

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)] Notes by an Oxford Chiel, 6 parts in 1, first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author, lower hinge a littl...

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Phantasmagoria, first edition, first issue, presentation copy inscribed by the author on half-title...

Binding.- Carman (Bliss) The Pipes of Pan..., bound in padded vellum, upper cover hand-illuminated with title in black & several colours and gold ...

Binding.- Spenser (Edmund) Epithalamion and Amoretti, number 182 of 250 copies, etched portrait frontispiece, etched vignettes on india paper and ...

Angling.- Cole (Ralph) The Young Angler's Pocket Companion; or a New and Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling, first edition, folding engraved ...

Herbal.- Gerard (John) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, edited by Thomas Johnson, third edition, lacking [para]1 & 3 (initial blank an...

Wallace (Alfred Russel) Island Life: or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the...

Africa.- Richardson (James) Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the years of 1845 and 1846, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait, 2 plat...

Americas.- Canada.- Heriot (George) Travels through the Canadas, first edition, fine folding aquatint frontispiece of Quebec and 26 aquatint plate...

Americas.- Canada.- Serres (After Dominic) and Richard Short. Part of the Town & Harbour of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Looking down George Street to ...

Americas.- Heap (After George) and Scull (Nicholas). An East Perspective View of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pensylvania, in Nort...

Americas.- Hennepin (Louis) A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, Extending above Four Thousand Miles, between New France and New Mexico.....

Antarctica.- Mayer (Attributed to Auguste Etienne Francois, French painter who participated in several Arctic expeditions, 1805-1890) Astrolable, ...

China.- Chinese Export School (circa 1830s) A souvenir album with 53 fine original watercolours, including 14 portraits of noble men and women, 17...

Falklands.- Pernety (Antoine) The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, Made in 1763 and 1764, Under the Command of M. de Bou...

India.- Anglo-Indian School (19th century) A composite souvenir album with drawings, watercolours, and mica paintings, including 15 watercolours o...

Italy.- Lear (Edward) Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, 2 parts in 1, first edition, signed presentation copy from Douglas Fre...

Channel Islands.- Jersey.- Complaint (The) of the Inhabitants of the Island of Jersey, of the Oppressions and Violences committed by the Officers ...

Levant.- Thévenot (Jean de) The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant. In Three Parts. viz. Into I. Turkey II. Persia. III. The East-Ind...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Arabic ms.- Single leaf in dispersed Kufic script on vellum, text: sura VI, al-An'am, ...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***NO RESERVE Arabic ms..- Single leaf in muhaqqaq script on paper, text: sura LXIX, Al-H...

Middle Eastern ms.- Kamal al-Din Vahshi Baqfi (c.1532-83). Farhad u Shirin, Persian manuscript on paper, 20 leaves and 2 blanks, text written hori...

Voyages.- Hakluyt (Richard) The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Dicoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or overland..., 3 vol...

World.- Malham (Rev. John) The Naval Gazetteer; or Seaman's Complete Guide, 2 vol., large folding engraved map of the world and 16 folding engrave...

Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Declamationes Minores, edited by Thaddaeus Ugoletus, collation: [*]2 a-g8 h-n6 o4, 98 ff., 40 lines, Roman type, init...

Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Oratoriarum institutionum, collation: A4 a-z8 &8 Ɔ8, title and a woodcut vignette of St. George slaying the dragon wi...

Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Oratoriarum institutionu[m] Lib. XII., edited by Raphael Regius, Georgius Merual & Badius Ascensius, collation: Aa8 a...

Aldus.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institutionum oratoriarum libri XII, collation: *4 a-z, A-E8 F6, title and verso of final f. with woodcut pri...

Binding.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Oratiarum institutionum, edited by Raphael Regius, collation: A4 a-x8 y6, title within ornate woodcut flora...

Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institutiones Oratoriae ac Declamationes, edited by Guillaume Philandrier and with commentary by Petrus Mosellanus Pr...

Colines.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Epitome [institutionis], collation: a-i8 K4, title within handsome woodcut criblé border after Geoffroy Tor...

Binding.- Gryphius.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institvtionvm oratoriarvm libri XII, 2 parts in 1, collation: a-z, A-Q8 R4; aa-pp8 qq4, titles w...

Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institutionum oratoriarum libri XII, collation: aa10 bb8 A-Z8, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut criblé in...

Colines.- Annotated copy.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Oratoriarum institutionum lib. XII, collation: a4 a-z, A-G8 H10, title with large woodcut ...

Estienne.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institutionum Oratoriarum Libri XII., collation: A8 b-z, A-Y8, title with woodcut printer's device, initia...