Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Oxford Martyr’s copy.- Spiera (Francesco) Quiquod susceptam semel Evangelice veritati...

Pole (Reginald, Cardinal) De summo pontifice Christi in terris vicario, eiusque officio & potestate, first edition, collation: *8 A-T8 V4, title w...

Caxton (William).- Original Leaf (An) from the Polycronicon printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the year 1482..., one of 297 copies, print...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***[Langland (William)] The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted...,...

More (Sir Thomas, Saint) The Workes, first edition in English of the complete works, largely printed in black letter, title within fine woodcut bo...

Dictionary.- Elyot (Sir Thomas) Bibliotheca Eliotæ. Eliotes dictionarie, edited by Thomas Cooper, third edition, double column, black and Roman le...

Bible, English. [The holie Bible], [Bishops' Version], black letter, double column, woodcut illustrations, maps and initials, lacks 4 leaves of pr...

Spain.- Mayerne (Louis Turquet de) The Generall Historie of Spaine... translated into English, and continued unto these times by Edward Grimeston,...

Bible, English. The Bible: Containing the Old Testament, and the New, 2 parts in 1, black letter, double column, general & NT titles within heart-...

London.- Dugdale (Sir William) The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, first edition, title printed in red and black, lacking portrait front...

Hardy (Thomas) [Works], 18 works in 39 vol., comprising Desperate Remedies, 3 vol., half-titles, very light spotting and marginal toning, 1871; Un...

Federigo da Venezia. Commentum in Apocalypsim (with title: Apocalypsis cum glosis Nicolai de Lyra), collation: [a-o10 p8 q-r10 s8], 137 ff. (of 17...

Aquinas (Thomas) Tractatulus solemnis de arte et vero modo predicandi, collation: [a10], 9ff. only (of 10, lacking f.3), 36 lines, Gothic letter, ...

Bible, Czech. Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular (ie Bohemian), collation: a–g10 h8 i–z A10 B8 C–Z AA BB10 CC8 ...

Luciani Palinurus. Luciani Scipio romanus. Luciani heroica in amorem. Luciani Asinus aureus. Bruti romani epistole. Diogenes cynici epistole, coll...

Chess.- Damiano de Odemeira. Libro da imparare giochare a scachi, collation: A-H8 64 numbered ff., roman letter, text in Italian and Spanish, larg...

Seder Haggadah shel Pesach, commentary by Isaac Abrabanel, 54pp., additional engraved title (laid down, from another copy, its wormholes repaired)...

Milan.- Corio (Bernardino) Bernardini Corii viri clarissimi mediolanensis Patria historia, first edition, collation: [π]6 a10 b12 c-d6 e-m8 n6 o-z...

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

Canon law.- Vio (Tommaso de, Cardinal Cajetan) Questiones rare et religiosis, first edition, collation: A4, woodcut decorative initial, small worm...

Heliodorus (Emesenus, Bishop of Tricca) Historiae Aethiopicæ libri decem, nunquam antea in lucem editi, collation: a-z A-G4 H6, title in Greek and...

Bible, Greek.- Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta [graece], Novum Testamentum, 2 parts in 1, first edition, second issue (with November in colophon), col...

Cicero against agrarian reform.- Loredano (Bernardino) In M. Tullii Ciceronis orationes de lege agraria contra P. Servilium Rullum tribunum pl. co...

Astrology.- Scevolini (Domenico) Discorso...nel quale con le auttorita cosi de gentili, come de catolici si dimostra l'astrologia giudiciaria esse...

Provençal poetry.- Nostredame (Jean de) Le vite delli piu celebri et antichi primi poeti provenzali che fiorirno nel tempo delli re di Napoli, tra...

Emblemata.- Camilli (Camillo) Imprese illustri di diversi coi discorsi, 3 parts in 1, first edition, collation: a4 A-L8 M4, A-F8, A-C8 D4, engrave...

Bio-Bibliography of Englishmen.- Pitts (John) Relationum historicarum de rebus Anglicis, Vol.1 [all published], first edition, title printed in re...

Hoe copy.- Iconography.- Giarda (Cristoforo) Bibliothecæ Alexandrinæ icones symbolicæ … elogiis illustratæ, engraved architectural title with Sain...

Imaginary voyage to the moon.- Cyrano de Bergerac (Savinien de) Histoire Comique. Contenant les Estats & Empires de la Lune, title with large wood...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Fables Choisies, mises en vers, vol.2 & 3 only (of 4), half-titles, 135 superb engraved plates after Jean-Baptiste Oudry, nu...

Economics.- [le Mercier de la Rivière (Pierre Paul)] L'Ordre Naturel et Essentiel des Sociétés Politiques, 2 vol., half-titles, vol. 2 p.23 with c...

Economics.- [Galiani (Ferdinando)] Dialogues sur le Commerce des Bleds, first edition, half-title, errata leaf at end, bookseller's label to paste...

Foscolo (Ugo) Vera storia di due amanti infelici, ossia Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, 2 parts in 1, first edition, divisional title, engraved me...

Secret speech denouncing Stalin.- Khrushchev (Nikita Sergeyevich) O Kulcie Jednostki I Jego Nastepstwach, first edition, first issue, scattered fa...

Two leaves from a Gospel Lectionary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, two large single leaves, each with double column of 33 lines of a g...

Leaf from a very large copy of the Acta Sanctorum, with a monumental decorated initial ‘T’, in Beneventan minuscule, in Latin, decorated manuscrip...

Bifolium from a decorated manuscript Antiphonary, illustrated with initials formed of a bird, a richly clothed human arm and a growling green lion...

Leaf from a collection of Homilies on St. Peter and the Ascension by SS. Augustine and Jerome, in Latin, leaf from a monumentally large lectern ma...

Leaf from a Lectionary, in Latin, in archaising script and perhaps that of a student-scribe copying an old exemplar, decorated manuscript on parch...

Illuminated Manuscript.- Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, with three animal-headed drollery creatures, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment...

Illuminated leaves.- Single leaf from a Psalter, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 15 lines, in a gothic bookhand, 5-line initial "P", 9 single-line...

Book of Hours (Hours of the Virgin), Use of Paris, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 87 leaves only (including Calendar) imperfect at end, in a lett...

Book of Hours, Use of Poitiers, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 107 leaves (plus modern vellum endleaves at front and back), wanting t...

Isle of Wight.- [Tour of the Isle of Wight], manuscript, 28pp., ink inscription on reverse of wrapper "Hannah Albright Charlbury 1822", slightly b...

Newhouse estate.- Account books, 1792-98; 2 household account books 1790-1806; Whiteparish Poor Book 1801-1806, manuscripts, numerous pp., origina...

18th century poet.- Trapp (Joseph, poet and pamphleteer, 1679-1747) & Rev. George Hudson. A Book of all ye names of the Severall Inhabitants & oth...

Manuscript novel.- Blennerhasset (Andrew, editor) Annesley a Tale of the West..., manuscript, 154pp., some corrections, "Guide or Finger-Post" man...

Royal Navy.- Manning (George) Jottings from Memory of my Voyages Round the World [1861-1877], autograph working draft manuscript, 101pp. excluding...

America.- Barnum (H.L.) Family Receipts, or Practical Guide for the Husbandman and Housewife, first edition, woodcut frontispiece depicting garden...

Bees.- Butler (Charles) The Feminin' Monarchi', or the Histori of Bee's, third edition, verso of title with half-page woodcut illustration of the ...

Brewing.- [Child (Samuel)], “A Gentleman, lately retired from the Brewing Business”. Every man his own brewer; or, a compendium of the English bre...

Coffee.- Slavery.- Laborie (P.J.) The Coffee Planter of Saint Domingo...Containing a View of the Constitution, Government, Laws and State of that ...

Collingwood (Francis) and John Woollams. The Universal cook, and city and country housekeeper. Containing all the various branches of cookery, fir...

Cornish cook.- [Rabisha (William)] The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught, and fully manifested, Methodically, Artificially, and according to...

Everard Digby's copy.- [Ruscelli (Girolamo)] The Secretes of the Reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont. Containing excellent remedies against divers ...

Farriery & household.- Montague (Peregrine) The Family Pocket-book: or, Fountain of true and useful knowledge. Containing the Farrier's Guide; or,...

Grey (Elizabeth, Countess of Kent) A Choice manual, or, Rare and select secrets in physick and chirurgery...Whereto are added several experiments ...

Jenks (James) The Complete cook: teaching the art of cookery in all its branches...With an appendix teaching the art of making wine, Mead; Cyder, ...

Northern cookery.- Thacker (John) The Art of Cookery. Containing above Six Hundred and Fifty of the most approv'd Receipts, first edition, a few w...

Pollution.- Evelyn (John) Fumifugium: or the Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoak of London dissipated, first edition, first issue (with 'Published ...