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Centum Fabulae ex Antiquis Auctoribus Delectae et a Gabrielle Faerno Cremonensi Carminibus Explicatae. Antwerp 1573, 16mo, woodcut illustrations, ...

A New Orchard and Garden: or, the best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good for a rich Orchard... With the Country Housewifes G...

The English Gardener: or, a Sure guide to young Planters and Gardeners, in Three Parts. First edition 1670, small 4to, 24 copper engravings, plate...

The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie, Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas J...

Collection of poetical works in Italian, some with author's inscriptions: Saffo Dramma Lirico, London 1810, 4to, spine rubbed; Canzoni Toscane, c....

PETRARCA (F) Il Petrarca,1546, small 8vo, 5th edition thus, anchor device to title and final leaf, 19th century notes to a fly leaf, green crushed...

CICERO (M T) De Philosophia, vol. I, Venice: Aldus 1523, small 8vo, dark staining to first and last leaves, edges stained black, contemporary blin...

Il Petrarca con L'Espositione D'Alessandro Vellutello. Venice: Fabriel Giolito De Ferari 1558-60, small 4to, wood engraved title, double portrait ...

Le ricchezze della lingua volgare sopra il Boccaccio. Venice: per Paulo Gherado 1557, small 4to, portrait to title, double column text, final leaf...

Il Decameron, 3rd edition, Venice: Giunti, 1585, small 4to, armorial device to slightly soiled title, decorative capitals, few pencil notes, close...

Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio del MDXXII. [London 1725] small 4to, preface by Paolo Rolli, portrait and frontispiece, contemporary bin...

SANNAZARO (Jacopo) Arcadia, 1534, 12mo, bound with - Sonetti e Canzoni del Sannazaro, anchor devices to titles and colophons, a little water stain...

MACHIAVELLI (Nicolo) Historie Fiorentine. Venice: Aldus 1540, 12mo, a little stained in places, occasional later marginal notes, title and colopho...

Prose. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1552, small 8vo, scattered spotting or foxing, early 19th century morroco

SPERONI (Sperone) Dialogi, Aldus 1543, small 8vo, title and colophon slightly stained or soiled, a little underlining to text in places, later cal...

MEDICI (Lorenzo de) Poesie Volgari, first edition 1554, small 8vo (149 x 90mm), lacking 4 leaves O5-O8 as is usual for this edition, anchor device...

Monasticon Anglicanum.., 3 vols. in one, 1693, folio,15 engraved plates, a little toned, some age staining, binding worn with parchment reinforced...

A Relation of a Journey begun An. Dom. 1610 Foure Bookes.., 4th edition, London: Andrew Crooke 1637, small folio, engraved title (laid down), doub...

London: Charles Bill and Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceased 1701, folio, engraved title, final leaves slightly water stained and frayed, recent ...

London: Robert Barker 1608, 213 x 152mm, wood engraved titles, (NT dated 1610), lacks A1, first leaves a little frayed and worn, with slight losse...

London : Robert Barker 1606/1603, 4to, general title dated 1606 (soiled), NT 1603, two prelim leaves repaired with some loss, double column text, ...

Cambridge: Thomas and John Buck, 4to, 235 x 190mm, black letter, engraved title, slightly soiled, edges strengthened, Psalms incomplete at end, li...

London: Christopher Barker, 1586, 4to, double column black letter, general title damage (half lacking), F256-32 with some loss, NT title with smal...

London: Deputies of Christopher Barker 1599, 4to, 2 engraved titles to first part (both with repair to foot), lacking Apocrypha, with Concordance ...

Tremellius and Junius version, Geneva: apud P. Albertum 1630, folio, full bound and skilfully rebacked

The Holy Bible, London: J. Rawlins for Richard Chiswell 1690, folio, first leaves with repaired lower margins, slight worm holes in places through...

The Gentleman's Recreation ... , second edition, London: by J.C. for N.C., 1677, 8vo, engraved additional pictorial title, 4 folding plates, (firs...

A Display of Heraldry, 6th edition, 1724, folio, engraved frontispiece, 17 portraits and numerous armorial plates, some gatherings a little browne...

Vellum bound manuscript folio volume, 173pp, with 3 p. summary table and index at the start, of court sessions covering the Fens around Kings Lynn...

BAYLY (Anselm) A Collection of Anthems used in His Majesty's Chapel Royal. London: Rivington 1769, 8vo, red ruled throughout, full contemporary re...

Fifty Small Original and Elegant Views of the most Splendid Churches, Villages, Rural Prospects. and Masterly Pieces of Architecture, Adjacent to ...

The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, 4 vols in 8, London: for the author, 1795-1815, folio, all plates, plans and maps as calle...

Review of the Turf from the year 1750. London: Mssrs Stubbs 1794, 4to, 11 stipple engraved plates and engraved frontispiece, text incomplete, late...

The Gardener's Dictionary, in two vols., 4th/2nd edition, London 1743/1740, folio, engraved frontispiece (loose) and 3 plates to vol. I, 7 plates ...

The History and Antiquities... of the Isle of Tenet in Kent, 2nd edition London 1736, 4to, mezzotint portrait frontispiece, 25 maps, plans and pla...

Works [in latin and Greek],.. notes by John Hudson. Oxford 1720, folio, speckled calf with neatly repaired spines and later labels (2)

GAMBADO (G) Annals of Horsemanship, 1811, 8vo, coloured plates as called for; later calf gilt; ALKEN (H) Beauties and Defects in the Figure of the...

The Holy Bible, Authorized Version, for the Use of Families, Oxford 1818, 4to, plates and maps, in fine straight grain dark blue morocco gilt spin...

19th century, 4to, Protestant Reformation Society (London) stamp to inside cover, binding by Collier, worn, and lacking backstrip

Scarronides : or Le Virgile Travestie . A Mock-Poem. Being the First Book of Virgils Aeneis in English, Burlesque. London: E. Cotes for Henry Brom...

After RAPHAEL. Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti...in Vaticani Palatii Xystis. Rome, c. 1675, oblong folio (c.344 x 460 mm), engraved title and ...

A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, Or, The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. With the manner how to make diverse kinde of Sirups, and ...

Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, Printers to th...

Anecdotes of Painting in England. Strawberry Hill: T. Farmer 1762-71, 4 vols and Supplement vol.; with - Catalogue of Engravers, 1792, all small 4...

The History of England, new edition in 8 vols., London: Cadell 1770, 4to, portrait frontispiece, full tree calf gilt, some joints cracked (8)

The New British Traveller, c.1790, folio, lacking title page, first leaves cut down, folding general map, 3 others folding and 18 pages of smaller...

London 1770, small 4to, ms entries include 'Of temperaments in general..', 6pp., 'ways to avoid death from fevers', 7pp., 'Catalogue of Medicines ...

The Art of Fencing, or, the Use of the Small Sword. Translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat; Master of that Art at the ...

De Historia Piscium, Libri Quatuor, London: C. Davis 1743, folio, added engraved title dated 1685, 375 x 235mm, 185 engraved plates (of 187?), a f...

A New Dictionary of Natural History, in 2 vols, London 1785, folio, title soiled, damaged and repaired, 100 hand coloured plates (first plate with...

The View of Hindoostan, 2 vols London: Henry Hughs 1798, 4to, plates and folding map as called for, some typical age staining, uncut, detached ori...

The Botanic Garden, 2 parts in one, 1791 and 1789, 4to, general title, engraved frontispieces, 16 engraved plates, (pt. II calls for 2 plates whic...

British Zoology, in 4 vols., London 1812, large 8vo, uncut, additional engraved titles, numerous plates (c.293), some foxing, original cloth (4)

Athenae Oxoniensis, An Exact History of the Writers and Bishops of... Oxford, in 2 vols., London 1721, folio, 2nd edition, titles in red and black...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, new edition in 12 volumes, London 1802, 8vo, folding maps, portrait, some general foxing ...

Employment for the Microscope, first edition 1753, 17 engraved plates; note: the plate called for in the note to the binder at p.422 is bound in a...

Proceedings of a General Court Martial for the trial of Lieut.-General Whitelocke, first edition, 2 vols. in one, 1808, 2 maps, bookplate of Gener...

five 8vo works: A Letter addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the affairs of North-America, 1792; Miscellaneous Articles, 1792; Letter Addressed to the...

Traite Complet de Fortification, 3rd edition, Paris 1818, 2 vols, lacking half titles, 77 folding plates, prize binding for the Royal Military Col...

Voyage aux Iles de Lipari fait en 1781, first edition, Paris, contemporary half calf