Bible leaf from 1462.- Bible, Latin, Single leaf, from Genesis chapters 34 to 36, double column, 48 lines, Gothic type, 2 initials supplied in red...

Albertus Magnus. Compendium theologicae veritatis, collation: a-l8 m10, double column, 96 ff. (of 98, lacking m1 and m10, the latter with woodcut ...

Plays.- Verardus (Carolus) Historia Baetica, collation: [a-e8], 39 ff. (of 40, lacking e8), 27 lines, Roman type, woodcut music and decorative ini...

First book printed in Ge'ez.- Bible, Ethiopic.- Psalterium David et Cantica aliqua, edited by Johann Potken, collation: [1-128, 13-146], 108 ff., ...

Dante Alighieri. [Divina Commedia] Dante col sito, et forma dell'Inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del poeta, collation: [*]2 a-z, A-H8, w...

Tycho Mommsen's copy.- Xenophon. Xenofontis omnia, quae extant [graece], collation: [*]2 a-z8 &6 Ɔ6 a6 b8, title with woodcut printer's device, in...

Castiglione (Baldassare) Il libro del cortegiano del conte Baldesar Gastiglione, collation: A-Z8 AA-BB8, woodcut printer's device to title and ver...

Plato. Opera [with commentary by Proclus], edited by Oporinus and Simon Grynaeus, 2 parts in 1 vol., second collected edition in Greek, first edit...

Architecture.- Serlio (Sebastiano) Il terzo libro...nel qual si figurano, e descrivono le antiquita di Roma..., Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1540;...

Chronicle of England.- William, of Newburgh. Rerum Anglicarum Libri Quinque, collation: A-Z8 Aa-Mm8, title with large woodcut printer's device, wo...

Rossetti (Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe).- Petrarca (Francesco) Il Petrarca con nuove spositioni, 2 parts in 1, collation: *8 A-Z8 Aa-Yy8 Zz12, title...

Winds & Earthquakes.- Padovani (Fabrizio) Tractatus duo alter de ventis alter perbrevis de terraemotu, woodcut printer's device to title, 39 engra...

Military.- Melzo (Lodovico) Regole Militari ... sopra il Governo e Servitio della Cavalleria, first edition, additional engraved title, small marg...

Opitz (Martin) Teutsche Pöemata und: Aristarchvs Wieder die verachtung Teutscher Sprach, edited by Julius Wilhelm Zincgref, first edition of this ...

Languedoc.- Catel (Guillaume) Memoires de l'Histoire du Languedoc..., first edition, half-title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, wi...

Broadside.- Backgammon.- Wonderlik Verkeer-Spel, 430 x 310mm., text in double-column, large engraved illustration to head depicting Cromwell playi...

Mortier (Pierre, publisher) Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved frontispieces, title vignettes, 5 double-page...

United Provinces.- Le Clerc (Jean) Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden, 3 vol., first Dutch edition, half-title in vol.1, engraved frontisp...

[Diderot (Denis) & J.-B. d'Alembert.] Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences, les Arts Liberaux, et les Arts Méchaniques, vol.8 only, half-title, 2...

Orphans.- Lutheran Church.- Schulze (Johann Ludwig) Frankens Stiftungen. Eine Zeitschrift zum Besten vaterloser Kinder, Vol 2., Parts 1-4, some fo...

Austro-Hungarian Empire.- Diocese of Königgrätz [Hradec Králové].- Collection of Church notices, ordnances and directives, 2 vol., c. 1,000 printe...

Bible, Latin. Exceptional single leaf from a monumental lectern Bible, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 42 lines, double column, in an early and la...

Medieval Seal Matrices.- Collection of c. 50 Medieval Seal Matrices, including: Lead seal matrix inscribed "Sigil heldrede Fiil Epe" ("Seal of Eld...

Medieval Seal Matrix.- Seal matrix inscribed "S Petri Fil Thome Ppositi de Swafhm" [Swaffham, Norfolk] surrounding an image of a man holding a sta...

Medieval Seal Matrices.- Collection of c. 50 Medieval Seal Matrices, including: Bronze round seal matrix inscribed "Sum Leo Fortis" ("I am a stron...

Venetian Gold Ducat.- Michele Steno (63rd Doge of Venice, 1331-1413) Gold Ducat, Obverse: St. Mark standing right, presenting banner to the kneeli...

Medieval Glossed Leaf.- Single leaf from an unidentified treatise on canon law, probably Decretals, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 48...

Isle of Wight.- I, William Wigot have conceded by this present charter have confirmed to Thomas son of Thomas de la ffayreley [Fairlee] the younge...

Book of Hours.- Single leaf from an illuminated Book of Hours with miniature depicting the Adoration of the Magi, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, ...

Illuminated leaf.- Single leaf from an illuminated Book of Hours with arched miniature depicting the Nativity, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, sin...

First Calais Roll.- [Wetewang (Walter de, treasurer of the household of Edward III)] Coates of Armes [of] severall noblemen in this Kingdome [Here...

Mexico.- Luis de Velasco (first Marqués of Salinas del Río Pisuerga, eighth Viceroy of New Spain, and later Viceroy of Peru, c. 1534-1617).- Grant...

Lincolnshire Acre Book.- Pinchbeck, Spalding, & Cowbit Acre Book, Mr. Foster, [upper cover title], manuscript in three different Secretary hands, ...

Charles I (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1600-49) Charles R. Trusty and wel-beloved, We greet you well. Whereas all Our Subjects of the ...

Charles II (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1630-85) Royal Commission issued in exile appointing county commissioners to levy soldiers aga...

Clarendon (Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon, politician and historian, 1609-74) Religion and Policy and the countenance and assistance each sh...

Royal Mint.- Goldsmiths' Company and the Trial of the Pyx, manuscript in Secretary hand, loose leaves, 20pp., margins chipped with small loss, fol...

Advice to daughters.- Osgood (Salem) Advice to my daughters...25 March, 1704, manuscript on thick paper in red, blue and black inks, title and 20p...

Natural Philosopher.- [Burnet (Thomas, natural philosopher and headmaster, conducted an extensive correspondence with Sir Isaac Newton, c. 1635-17...

Westminster Abbey & the City of Westminster.- W[ynne] (W[illiam], lawyer and author, Serjeant at Law, of St. Anne's, Westminster, bap. 1692, d. 17...

Spanish Heraldry.- Guerra y Villegas (José Alfonso de, herald, King of Arms to Carlos II, d. 1722) Certificazion, Blazon I Despacho de Armas [for ...

Gloucestershire Enclosure Act.- A Mapp of Prestbury Fields and Hill as allotted by Act of Parliament... 1731, title within elaborate watercolour c...

Architectural Receipt Book.- Wentworth House, 5 St James's Square, London.- Account book of works carried out in building Wentworth House for Will...

Cookery & Medical.- An Old Receipt Book which was Mrs Lansdowns the wife of Coll. Lansdown of Woodborough [Collection of recipes], manuscript in s...

Cookery & Medical Recipes.- Wells (Ann) [Collection of recipes], manuscript in several hands, c. 110pp. excluding blanks, most of title torn away,...

Cookery.- Hill (Mrs.) [Collection of recipes], manuscript, c. 250pp. excluding blanks, 13pp. index at front, in a variety of hands, 1f. loose, a f...

Cookery.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, c.330pp. excluding blanks, 3pp. of index, in a variety of hands, 2 printed recipes tipped-in (1 for...

Hutton Family of Marske Hall, Richmond.- Ducarel (Andrew Coltée, librarian and antiquary, 1713-85) Memoires of the Hutton Family, stencilled title...

Naples.- Bracebridge (S[amuel], of Lindley Hall, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, fl. 1759) Autograph Letter signed to George Lucy at Charlecote Park,...

Norfolk.- The Town Book of Smallburgh, manuscript in several hand, 345pp., ruled in red throughout, text a little faded at times, occasional small...

London Poor Law Settlement Certificates.- [Camberwell Poor Law Settlement Certificates], printed certificates with manuscript insertions, manuscri...

Cowper (William, poet and letter-writer, 1731-1800).- ?Part Letter signed "A Subscriber" to William Cowper, 3pp., sm. 4to, n.p., 19th July 1791, a...

Spanish Heraldry.- Carta Executoria for Josef Antonio Capistrano Remon Ortiz, manuscript in Spanish, signed at end by Don Gabriel Ortiz de Cagigue...

HMS Victory & Royal Navy ships.- British Navy M.S.S. Extracts from Navy Office, manuscript, 37pp., ruled in red, slightly browned, ff. loose, book...

Yorkshire (West Riding).- Wharfdale Delineated being an Attempt to display the Beauties, Antiquities, Curiosities, and General Appearance of that ...

Turner (Joseph Mallord William, landscape and history painter, 1775-1851) Autograph Letter signed To Hugh Munro, 1p., 8vo, Queen Anne Street West,...

Victorian Brewer.- Mackeson (Henry Bean, brewer, co-owner of Mackeson's Brewery, of Hythe, Kent, 1812-94) Diary & Brewing Memoranda, together 5 vo...

Artists etc.- Collection of letters, all Autograph Letters signed unless otherwise indicated, including: J.J. Chalon, to D[?avid] Roberts; Alfred ...

Seaweeds.- [Long] (Isabella Henrietta Theodora, daughter of Henry Lawes Long, of Hampton Lodge, Farnham, Surrey, 1833-1929) Album of seaweed speci...

Berlioz (Hector, composer, 1803-69) Autograph Letter signed to [Pauline Viardot], 2pp. with conjugate blank, in French, 8vo, [Paris], n.d. 26th [O...