Fine Books and Manuscripts

ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH)A History of the University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, engra...

CHESSEZRA (ABRAHAM IBN) Neu-Eröffnete Kunststück des Schach-Spiels, darinnen Nicht allein die unterschiedliche Rahmen und Gebrauch auch Anzahl der...

CHESSHYDE (THOMAS) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii, viz. ejusdem Origo, Antiquitas, Ususque per totum Orientem celeberrismus... De ludis Ori...

CHESSPHILIDOR (FRANCOIS DANICAN) L'Analyse des echecs: Contenant une nouvelle methode pour apprendre en peu de tems a se perfectioner dans ce nobl...

CHESSSALVIO (ALESSANDRO) Il Puttino, altramente detto il cavaliero errante, FIRST EDITION, second impression; Trattato dell' Inventione et Arte L...

COOKERY & HOUSEHOLDManuscript receipt book written in several hands containing over 200 culinary and household recipes, including 'To make Portabl...

COOKERY & MEDICINE - IRELANDManuscript notebook bearing the ownership inscriptions 'Mrs Dorcas West/ Mrs Dorcas Price/ her book 1688/ Mrs Dorcas P...

HOROLOGY - ROLEXWILSDORF (HAN), ALFRED CHAPUIS and EUGÈNE JACQUET. Rolex Jubilee Vade Mecum, 4 vol., EACH NUMBERED 802 OF 1,000 COPIES, illustrat...

INDIAN MUTINY & CRIMEASeries of c.25 autograph letters from 3277 Private James Pedder, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, to his parents and siblings, d...

MALTON (THOMAS)A Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster, Illustrated with the Most Interesting Views, Accurately Delineated...

MOTORINGMONTAUT (ERNEST) 10 ans courses. Les Marques Victorieuses 1897-1907, FIRST EDITION, 31 colour printed plates with additional pochoir colo...

NATTES (JOHN CLAUDE) AND JAMES FITTLERScotia Depicta; or, the Antiquities, Castles, Public Buildings, Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats, Cities, Town...

PHOTOGRAPHY - FENTON (ROGER)Volunteer Class at the Hythe, Right Wing, February 1860, albumen print, uneven toning, mounted on paper, image 380 x ...

PSYCHIC AND SPIRITUAL MEDIUM PHOTOGRAPHYAn archive of 16 glass plate negatives, and 5 rolls of film negatives (approximately 160 images), mostly d...

PYNE (WILLIAM HENRY)The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Bu...

STOW (JOHN)A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster... Corrected, Improved, and Very Much Enlarged... to the Present Time; by John Strype,...

WALESWOOD (JOHN GEORGE) The Principal Rivers of Wales Illustrated; Consisting of a Series of Views from the Source of each River to its Mouth, 2 v...

ALBIN (ELEAZAR)A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from Life: And (for those who de...

ANATOMYALBINUS (BERNARD SIEGFRIED) Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body; A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves, 2 work...

BECKETT (WILLIAM)A Free and Impartial Enquiry into the Antiquity of Touching for the Cure of King's Evil... in Two Letters: the one to Dr. Steiger...

BULLER (WALTER LAWRY)A History of the Birds of New Zealand, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], lithographed frontispiece and 35 hand-coloure...

COOK (JAMES) and JOSEPH BANKSBanks' Florilegium. A Publication in Thirty-Four Parts of Seven Hundred and Thirty-Eight Copperplate Engravings of Pl...

CURTIS (WILLIAM)Flora Londinensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of Such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vol. bound in 3, engraved...

DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDIT...

FORESTRY[HAMILTON (THOMAS, EARL OF HADDINGTON)] A Treatise on the Manner of Raising Forest Trees &c... to Which are Added, Two Memoirs; the One on...

PAXTON (JOSEPH)Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, 16 vol., 717 hand-coloured engraved or lithographed botanical plate...

RASHLEIGH (PHILIP)Specimens of British Minerals Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh, FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY THE RASHLEIGH FAMILY, 2 vol...

REDOUTÉ (PIERRE JOSEPH)Les roses.... avec le texte par C.A. Thorry, 40 parts bound in 4 vol., half-title, general title, 159 stipple-engraved pla...

RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)[SINCLAIR (GEORGE)] Hortus Ericaeus Woburnensis: or, a Catalogue of Heaths, in the Collection of the Duke of B...

RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)[FORBES (JAMES)] Salictum Woburnense: or, a Catalogue of Willows Indigenous and Foreign in the Collection of th...

SCLATER (PHILIP LUTLEY) AND OLDFIELD THOMASThe Book of the Antelopes, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, 100 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Smit, after...

WHITE (GILBERT)Autograph letter signed ('I am your humble servant,/ Gil: White') to William Richardson ('Sir') of Mill-land, advising him he has n...

WHITE (GILBERT)The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, FIRST EDITION, 7 engraved plates (2 folding), 2 add...

WILLUGHBY (FRANCIS) AND JOHN RAYThe Ornithology of Francis Willughby... in Three Books wherein all the Birds hitherto known, translated into Engli...

ALDINE PRESSCICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, colophon dated 1659, Aldine device on title and final l...

AMBROSIUS, SAINTOpera [edited by Johann Amerbach, with additions by Johannes de Lapide], vol. 1 (of 3), EDITIO PRINCEPS, 305 leaves, 52 lines plu...

AMBROSIUS, SAINTOpera [edited by Johann Amerbach], vol.1 (of 3), 285 leaves, 49 lines plus headline, gothic type, large woodcut of St. Ambrose on...

BIBLE, IN LATINBiblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi testamenti et sacrorum canonum, title printed in red and black within a wide historiated ...

BIBLE, IN LATINBiblia cum pleno apparatu summariorum concordantiarum, gothic letter, title printed in red and black with device, lacks f.343, A3 ...

BINDING - FRENCHL'Office de la Semaine Sainte, half-title, light toning, contemporary French red morocco gilt, 'Dubuisson plaque' design centred ...

BOETHIUS[De consolatione] Duplex commentatio ex integro reposita atque recognita in Boetium, black letter, surrounding the text, title printed in...

BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF PARISCes presentes heures a lusaige de Paris, text in French and Latin, gothic type, printed in red and black, printer's de...

BREVIARY AND BIBLE PSALTER, USE OF SARUMPortiforium seu breviarum ad insignis Salisburiensis ecclesie usum... Pars estivalis, large woodcut illus...

BREVIARY, USE OF PASSAUBreviarum pars hyemalis [estevalis], 2 vol., printed in black and red, large armorial woodcut printed in red, yellow and b...

CLEMENS V, POPEConstitutiones [with commentary by Johannes Andreae], 60 leaves (including opening and final blanks), 82 lines of commentary aroun...

DURAND (GUILLAUME)Rationale divinorum, 264 leaves, 47 lines and headline, gothic letter, shaved touching lettering to some headlines, sprinkled w...

GELLIUS (AULUS)Noctium atticarum libri vindeuigniti [edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius], title printed in red and black within woodcut border an...

GRATIANUSDecretum with apparatus by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis and Johannes Teutonicus (Semeca), edited by Sebastian Brant, 530 leaves, double colu...

GREGORY IX, POPE[Decretales cum glossa. Comm: Bernardus Parmensis. Add: Hieronymus Clarius], 384 leaves (of 386, lacking a1 & BB8, the opening an...

GREGORY IX, POPEDecretales, accurate diligentia nuper emendate, printed in red and black, large printer's device on title and verso of 2Uiv, one ...

HAUCHINUS (JOANNES) AND MATTHIAS HOVIUSPastorale, ad usum romanum accomodatum, engraved vignette on title, one full-page engraved illustration, e...

HOBBES (THOMAS)Elementa philosophica de cive, engraved pictorial title, thin trace of worming to opening half, mostly lower margin but touching l...

JUSTINIAN ICorpus iuris civilis prudentum responsa caesarumque rescripta, 5 vol., engraved general title within architectural border, sectional t...

JUSTINIAN IInstitutiones Imperiales, gothic letter, printed in red and black throughout, 2 columns with gloss, woodcut device and woodblock borde...

JUSTINIAN IInstitutiones... libri IIII, 2 vol., gothic letter, printed in red and black, large devices on title, large woodcut of Justinian with ...

[LYNDWOOD (WILLIAM)]Provinciale seu constitutiones Anglie [edited by J. Badius], 212 leaves, 73 lines and headline, gothic letter, printed in red...

[LYNDWOOD (WILLIAM)]Provinciale seu Constitutiones Anglie cum summariis [-Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis Anglicanae], 2 parts in on...

[LYNDWOOD (WILLIAM)]Provinciale seu Co[n]stitutiones Anglie, 2 parts in 1 vol., edited by Josse Badius, printed in red and black throughout, 2 pi...

MISSAL, USE OF PASSAUMissale Pataviense cum additionibus, gothic letter, printed in red and black throughout, full-page woodcut of St. Stephen by...

MISSAL, USE OF ROMEMissale ad sacrosanctum Romane ecclesie usum, printed in red and black, large device on title and final leaf, woodcut illustra...