Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Catholic Church. Missale Basiliense, collation: [*6] a–f10 g12 [16] h–k10 A–F10 G H8, 189 ff. (of 190, lacking [*1] (first f. of Calendar), [11] b...

Luther (Martin) Operationes in duas psalmorum decades. Iam secundo recognitæ, collation: a-c6 A-Z6 Aa Bb6 Cc8 Dd-Nn6 Oo8, title within woodcut fol...

Catholic Church. Pontificale secundum ritum sacrosancte Romane ecclesie, collation: [Maltese cross]4 a-x8 y6 z8, A-H8 I10, printed in red and blac...

Leo I (Pope) Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, edited by Petrus Canisius, first Canisius edition, collation: *6 **4 A-N6 O P4 Q-Z6 AA-DD6 EE FF4 G...

Luther (Martin) Auslegung der Evangelien an den fürnemesten festen im gantzen jar geprediget, edited by Stephan Roth, 2 parts in 1, collation: [*]...

Justin Martyr (Saint) Opera [graece], collation: (*)4 a-t8 v6, Greek type, title with woodcut printer’s basilisk device, attractive woodcut head-p...

Calvin (Jean) Harmonia ex tribus evangelistis composita, Matthæo, Marco & Luca : adiuncto seorsum Iohanne, 2 parts in 1, collation: *8 a-z8 Aa Bb8...

Michael (Bishop of Merseburg) Catechismus, das ist Christliche underweisung und gegründter bericht nach warer Evangelischer und Catholischer lehr,...

Chaucer (Geoffrey) [The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyvers workes whiche were never in print before], [edited by William Thynne]...

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 bible in Englishe], 5 parts in one, [Great Bible version], double column, black letter, woodcuts in the text, decorative init...

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

[Gentillet (Innocent)] A Discourse upon the Meanes of Wel Governing and Maintaining in Good Peace, A Kingdome...Against Nicholas Machiavel, transl...

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

Bible, English. The Text of the New Testament, third Fulke edition, title within fine woodcut architectural border, lacking initial blank, title w...

[Shakespeare (William)] [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, lacks A1-*3 (i.e. 'To the Reader', title, preliminaries), A1-4...

Speed (John) The Historie of Great Britaine under the conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans..., third edition, engraved portrait, woo...

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

Locke (John) An Essay concerning Humane Understanding, fourth edition, engraved portrait, 18th century ownership inscription to front free endpape...

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...

Biographies of women.- Boccaccio (Giovanni) De Claris Mulieribus, second edition, collation: [a10 b–i8 k10], 84ff. including initial blank, 35 lin...

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

Macedonia.- Justinus (Marcus Junianus) Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii historias, collation: a8 b-l6, 67 ff. (of 68, lacking initial blank), 55 lines, R...

Bordone (Benedetto di).- Commentaria in Bibliam. Ed: Bernardinus Gadolus, 3 vol., collation: I: A8 6 6 a-c8 d10 e8 f6 g-h10 i8 k6 l-u8 x-y6, II: A...

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 ...

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...

Trissino (Gian Giorgio).- Alighieri (Dante) Dante. De la Volgare Eloquenzia, translated by Gian Giorgio Trissino, collation: a-b8 c6 d4, title wit...

Luther (Martin) Omnium operum, 4 vol., collation: I: *6 ()6 A-Z Aa-Zz Aaa-Zzz Aaaa-Zzzz Yyyy6 II: *6 A-Z a-z AA-ZZ aa-zz AAA-GGG6 HHH8 III: *4 A-Z...

South Sea Bubble.- Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, Vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie ..., title i...

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...

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...

Elizabeth I (Queen of England & Ireland, 1533-1603) & Charles I (King of England, Scotland & Ireland, 1600-49).- [Volume of speeches and tracts in...

Aubrey (John, antiquary and biographer, 1626-97) [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, in the professiona...

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

Rosicrucianism.- [Rules of the Confraternity of the Cross] Regola Della Venerabile e Santa Compagnia Della Croce, manuscript in Italian, title and...

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...

World War I.- Rutter (Edward, English historian, novelist and travel writer, 1889-1944) Salonika Picnic, 10pp., central folds, last f. loose, unbo...

Booke of Receipts, manuscript in several hands, together 113pp. excluding blanks (39pp. 17 century, 32pp. 18 century & 15pp. a mix of 18 & 19 cent...

Play.- Beaumont (Francis) & John Fletcher.  The Wild-Goose Chase. A Comedie, first edition, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, correctio...

Caesar (Caius Julius) Quæ extant. Accuratissimè cum libris editis & MSS optimis collata, recognita & correcta, edited by Samuel Clarke, additional...

Edgeworth (Maria, novelist and educationist, 1768-1849) One page of a leaf of the autograph manuscript of her novel Garry Owen, or, The Snow-Woman...

Poem-of-the-Month Club.- Collection of 48 broadsides signed by the authors, including W.H. Auden, Natural Linguistics; Philip Larkin, The Explosio...

Blake (William) Illustrations of the Book of Job...Being all the Water-Colour Designs, Pencil Drawings and Engravings Reproduced in Facsimile, wit...

Blake (William) William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray, Introduction and Commentary by Geoffrey Keynes, number 370 of 3...

Blake (William) William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray, Introduction and Commentary by Geoffrey Keynes, 3 vol., number ...

Blake (William).- Bo (Lars) Fourteen Etchings after Auguries of Innocence by William Blake, number 22 of 120 copies on vélin de Rives, 14 colour e...

Blake (William) William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job, edited by David Bindman, 10 parts in 4 vol. contained in 3 large slip-cases, let...

Blake (William).- William Blake's Watercolour Inventions in Illustration of The Grave by Robert Blair, edited by Martin Butlin and an Essay on the...

Blake (William) America: A Prophecy, number 7 of only 10 copies signed by the artist/printer, large folding colour linocut by Linda Landers number...

Smith (Philip, binder) New Directions in Bookbinding [&] The Book: Art & Object, 2 works in 1, extraordinary binding by Philip Smith of full tan g...

Detmold (Maurice & Edward J.) Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book", 14 mounted colour plates only (of 16, lacking 'Kaa t...

Laser die-cut work.- Eliasson (Olafur) Your House, one of 225 copies, signed by the artist, 908 pp. illustrated by Olafur Eliasson using computer-...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), according to the Authorized Version of King James I, number 333 of 500 copies...

China.- The Shop Signs of Peking, one of 100 unnumbered copies, preface by H.K. Fung, 101 fine hand-coloured illustrations on 18 leaves, text in E...

Italy.- Saint-Non (Jean Claude Richard, l'Abbé de) Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, 4 vol. in 5, first editi...