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., ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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.- [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...

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

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

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...

Turgenev (Ivan Sergeyevich, Russian novelist, 1818-83) Autograph Letter signed to "My dear friend" (?George Henry Lewes), in English, 1p., 16mo, S...

Hunt (William Holman, painter, 18271910) 8 Autograph Letters signed to William Linnell (1826-1906 painter), 21pp. & 1 envelope, 8vo, Warwick Garde...

Yeats (William Butler, poet, 1865-1939) 3 Autograph Letters signed to [William] Linnell (1826-1906, artist), 1 Autograph Letter signed to John Lin...

Sardinia & Turkey.- Barnard (Thomas Henry, last family owner of the Bedford Bank, 1866-1916).- 2 hunting journals to Sardinia and Turkey, 2 vol., ...

Peard (Francis Mary, author and traveller, c.1835-1923).- Peard Family photograph album, c.300 black and white photographs across 80ff. along with...

Shackleton (Sir Ernest Henry, Antarctic explorer, 1874-1922) and Frank Worsley, sailor and explorer, 1872-1943. Cut signatures, laid onto album pa...

Artists etc.- Album mostly of loose letters to Thomas Riches and others, including: Bernard Berenson to Thomas Riches, 1923 regarding his manuscri...

James (Montague Rhodes, college head, scholar, and author of ghost stories, 1862-1936) Autograph Letter signed to Thomas Riches, 2pp., 8vo, The Lo...

Housman (A.E., poet and classical scholar, 1859-1936) Autograph Letter signed to Lady Anderson, 1p., 8vo, Trinity College, Cambridge, 21st October...

Williamson (Henry, writer, 1895-1977) 2 Autograph Postcards signed and 3 Typed Letters signed (some autograph corrections) to Tom Copeman, editor ...

Agrippa (Henricus Cornelius) Of the Vanitie and Uncertaintie of Artes and Sciences, translated by James Sandford, largely printed in black letter,...

Bartholomaeus, Anglicus. Batman vppon Bartholome, his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended, translated by John Tre...

Bible, English.- Complete New Testament only, double column, largely printed in black letter, title within elaborate woodcut border with woodcut m...

Downame (John) Foure Treatises, tending to Diswade all Christians from foure no less hainous the common sinnes; namely the abuses of Swearing, Dru...