Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Aldus.- Martialis (Marcus Valerius) Epigrammata, first Aldine edition, collation: A-Z8, &8 (lacking final blank), a few leaves browned, paper flaw...

Aldus.- Statius (Publius Papinius) Sylvarum libri quinque, Thebaidos libri duodecim, Achilleidos duo, first Aldine edition, collation: a-z8, A-F8,...

Printed on vellum.- [Book of Hours] Hore dive virginis Marie, collates: A-N8, 104 leaves, 26 lines, printed on vellum in red and black, numerous 1...

Aldus.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) [De institutione oratoria], first Aldine edition, collation: *4, a-z A-E8, F6, (lacking blank *4), title with...

Voragine (Jacobus de) La Legende d'Orée, collation: A-Z8 &8 Ɔ8 AA-GG8, double column, Gothic letter, woodcuts within text, woodcut criblé initials...

Virgilius Maro (Publius) Opera Vergiliana, edited by Badius Ascensius, 2 parts in 1 vol., collation: ɫ8 a-t8 v10 ; ɫɫ6 A-Z. AA-II8 KK6, Roman type...

Binding.- Cato (Marcus Porcius) Varro, Columella & Palladius. De re rustica, collation: a-b A-Z Aa-Zz Aaa-Eee8, Fff4 complete with final blank, wo...

Bible, Latin.- Divi Pauli Apostoli Epistolae, brevissimis & facillimis scholiis per Ioannem Gagneium...illustratae, collation: A8 a-t8 v10, Roman ...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem nuper exacta diligentia recognitae, et infinitis erroribus purgata...

Gemistus (Gregorius), called Pletho. Platonicae atque Aristotelicae Philosophiae differentia, Libellus nuper in lucem editus. Berbardino Donato Ve...

Mathematics.- Finé (Oronce) De rebus mathematicis, hactenus desideratis, Libri IIII, first edition, collation: * a-x6 y4 z6, ruled in red througho...

Plutarch. [Vitae illustrium virorum], collation: α4 a-z A-Z Aa-Ss6 Tt4 Uu6, printed in Greek, woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final...

Fall of Constantinople.- [Akominatos or Choniates (Niketas)] Historia degli Imperatori Greci...gli Annali degli Imperatori di Constantinopoli, fir...

Strabo. Rerum Geographicarum libri septemdecim, collation: *6, α-θ6, ι4, a-k6, l8, m-r6, s8, t-z6, A-B4, C-D6, E2, F6, G-I2, K4, L2, M6, N8, O-Z6,...

Sueyro (Emanuel) Annales de Flandes, 2 vol. in 1, vol.1 half-title and engraved allegorical title, vol.2 printed title with large woodcut vignette...

De Thou binding.- Helwich (Georg) Moguntia devicta, hoc est: de dissidio Moguntinensi, quod fuit inter duos archiepiscopus Moguntinos, Dietherum I...

Lozano (Christoval) Los Reyes Nuevos de Toledo, woodcut vignette on title, a couple of leaves with small holes causing minor loss of text, a few i...

Vergilius Maro (Publius) Opera, 5 vol., engraved throughout, one double-page map by Condet, 28 plates or portraits and 54 vignettes by Marco Pitte...

Bodoni.- Callimachus. [Hymni] Per le Auguste Nozze della R.Principessa di Parma Carolina Teresa di Borbone con S.A.S. Il Principe Massimiliano di ...

Burgkmair (Hans) [Kaiser Maximilians I Triumph], 135 woodcut plates, lacking title and text leaves (in French and German), first few plates crease...

Wine making.- Steinlen (Christian Gottlieb) La Fête des Vignerons at Vevey, extensive panoramic scroll of this once-in-a-generation wine festival,...

Wine.- Fabbroni (Adamo) Dell'arte di fare il vino, first edition, folding engraved plate, occasional spotting, a few small stains, contemporary dr...

NO RESERVE Zotenberg (H.) Notice sur le Livre de Barlaam et Joasaph, minor foxing, ink stamp to foot of title, original upper printed wrapper boun...

Drunkenness.- ?Athanasius (Saint) Fragment of a leaf on parchment in Sahidic Coptic, remains of 12 lines from the centre of a column of text writt...

Papyrus fragment.- Dinarchus. In Demosthenem, 2 fragments from a papyrus scroll, parts of a speech from the Trial of Harpalus, chapters 58-59, rem...

Ambrosiaster. Quaestiones Veteris et novi testamenti, two fragments from leaves from a decorated ms. in Latin, retrieved from a binding, 310 x 65m...

Taurin (Saint, of Évreux, d. c. 410) [Miracles of St Taurin of Evreux], manuscript in Latin, on vellum, bifolium, 32 lines, in Carolingian miniscu...

Bible, Latin.- Bifolium from an Old Testament, (tables of contents of Deuteronomy, with chs. ii-xviii and 2:26-3:26), each leaf 370mm. by 235mm., ...

Medieval spurs as rent.- Charter, grant by Richard ?of Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, to William of land in Hetton, in fee and hereditarily for his homage...

Miniature.- Ulpian as a Roman judge, part of a leaf from a Latin legal codex, 307 x 215mm., 41 lines of main text, enclosed by commentary, red and...

West Yorkshire.- Lepton.- Thomas son of Richard of Ruley [Rowley Hill, Lepton] confirms to Adam son of Robert de Ruley two acres of land in Ruley,...

Medieval.- Quitclaim by John de Houghthon to William de Landon of ?Herdwilk and Joan his wife, 6 marks, 6s. 8d annual rent and any reversions of l...

Wiltshire, ?Hindon.- Charter, grant by Gilbert Ode, rector of 'Sotesbrok Church', of a curtilage and house in Henton [Hindon], to John Holebrok so...

Uffington, Berkshire, now Oxfordshire.- Memorandum about seven acres of land granted to Richard son of Philip le Clover, to him and his heirs in t...

Two bifolia from a Breviary-Antiphoner of Dominican use, 244 x 178mm., 15 lines, in a Gothic hand, initials in red or blue with marginal flourishe...

West Yorkshire.- Grant and quitclaim by John son of Henry son of Robert to Adam son of Thomas dil Hole of all right he might have in a piece of la...

Marriage.- [Fredoli (Berenger), attributed to] Summula in foro poenitentiali, fragment from a manuscript on vellum, in Latin, single column, 19-20...

Cambridgeshire, Ashley.- Ralph Farwell of Aschele [Ashley] confirmation to John Motte mercer of fourteen acres in the fields of Aschele, of which ...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Epistulae ad familiares, 12 rectangular fragments, each c.185 x 120mm., 14-17 lines, initial spaces, watermark close to Br...

Henry VI (King of England and Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, 1421-71) King's Pardon issued to William Bulkeley in Eyton [Eaton], Cheshire...

Leicestershire.- Henry VIII, "the Supp[re]me hedde of the ownly churche of England.- Indenture of a bargain and sale from Radulph ?Largeway shomak...

Anne (Queen).- The account of ye Coronation of Queen Anne, manuscript, 28pp., ruled in red, slightly browned and creased, original marbled wrapper...

Victorian travel journals & diaries.- Bell family (of Ford House, Sunderland & Newbus Grange, near Darlington) Collection of 15 manuscript diaries...

Calligraphy & Penmanship.- Richards (William H.) Ornamental Album Comprising Specimens in Penmanship and Drawing, eighteen original designs and dr...

Persian poetry.- [Persian anthology], 3 vol., including a Mukhammas by Shaykh Baha'i (d. 1621); a poem by Muhammad Hasan; Jami's Yusuf va Zulaykh...

Indian Mutiny.- Kynaston (Henry Edmonds, Private in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), later Major 1889, in the 19th Hussars, son of Rev. John...

Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, 1819-1901) 3 Autograph Letters signed, 1 to Miss Pratt, ...

British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76.- Fulford (Reginald Baldwin, Naval Officer and Arctic Explorer, 1851-86) Photograph Album of the British Arct...

British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76.- Fulford (Reginald Baldwin, Naval Officer and Arctic Explorer, 1851-86).- Snow glasses used by Fulford on th...

Arctic Sledge Flag.- British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76.- Fulford (Reginald Baldwin, naval officer and Arctic Explorer, 1851-86) Sledge flag use...

British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76.- Fulford (Reginald Baldwin, naval officer and Arctic Explorer, 1851-86) Tea cup and saucer and coffee cup an...

Fulford (Reginald Baldwin, naval officer and Arctic Explorer, 1851-86).- Naval Officer's Dress Sword, steel blade, etched decoration of Royal Coat...

British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76.- Fulford (Reginald Baldwin, Naval Officer and Arctic Explorer, 1851-886).- Arctic Medal awarded to Lieutenan...

Fulford (Reginald Baldwin, Naval Officer and Arctic Explorer, 1851-86) Ephemera relating to the life of Reginald Fulford, including: 3 letters (2 ...

British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76.- Fulford (Reginald Baldwin, Naval Officer and Arctic Explorer, 1851-86).- Nares (Sir George S., Captain) Nar...

Sickert (Walter, painter, printmaker and member of the Camden Town Group, 1860-1942) 2 Autograph Letters and 1 autograph note signed to Vanessa Be...

Sickert (Walter, painter, printmaker and member of the Camden Town Group, 1860-1942) 6 Autograph Letters signed to his mother, together 18pp. and ...

Beerbohm (Sir Max, caricaturist and writer, 1872-1956) Autograph sonnet 'To W[alter] S[ickert]' signed 'Max', on the back of an envelope, pin hole...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer, statesman, artist and author, 1874-1965) Typed Letter signed to Walter Sickert, 2pp., 4to, Chartwell Manor, 20th S...

Churchill (Clementine, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, wife of Sir Winston Churchill, 1885-1977) Typed Letter signed to Thérèse Sickert, née Lessore, ...