Books and Works on Paper

[Osborne (Francis)] Advice to a Son; or Directions for your better Conduct through...this Life...I.Studies &c. II.Love and Marriage. III.Travell. ...

Dryden (John) Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem: Dedicated to the Memory of the Late Countess of Abingdon, first edition, browned, disbound and loose, ...

Selden (John) Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, second edition, light browning, hole to lower margin of F4, light water-staining to...

[Vanbrugh (Sir John)] A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok'd Wife, from Immorality and Prophaneness, first edition, half-title, old i...

Prideaux (Humphrey) La Vie de Mahomet, first edition in French, fine engraved frontispiece and 9 plates in the style of Romeyn de Hooghe, 4pp. adv...

NO RESERVE Army & Navy.- 10 Acts of Parliament concerning disbanding the army, recruitment and raising the militia, punishing mutiny, defraying pa...

[?Goussault (Abbé Jacques)] Reflections on our Common Failings...By a Person of Honour, only edition in English, with initial blank and 4 final ad...

NO RESERVE Acts of Parliament.- A collection of 19 Acts on various subjects including mining, woollen & textile trade and machinery, import of sea...

[Morrice (John)] Some Rules for Speaking and Action; to be observed at the Bar, in the Pulpit and the Senate..., 24pp., second edition, half-title...

Engineering.- Perry (Capt. John) An Account of the Stopping of Daggenham Breach, first edition, with errata slip pasted to verso of title, folding...

Military.- Woodward (Josiah) The Soldier's Monitor. Being Serious Advice to Soldiers, with initial leaf 'The Soldier's Monitor, published and dist...

[Deslandes (André Francois)] The Art of Being Easy at all Times and in all Places. Written chiefly for the use of a Lady of Quality, translated by...

More (Thomas) The Life of Sir Thomas More, Kt...., engraved portrait by Vertue after Holbein, title in red & black (lightly browned), 2 advertisem...

Cannibalism.- Deane (John) A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Nottingham Galley, &c. publish'd in 1711. Revis'd, and Re-printed with Additions in...

Horses.- Burdon (Capt. William) The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier..., first edition, light spotting, stab-holes, free endpapers pasted down, contempo...

Education.- Clarke (John) An Essay upon Study. Wherein Directions are given for the Due Conduct thereof, and the Collection of a Library..., first...

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) Alzire, our les Americains. Tragedie, first edition, issue with 8pp. dedicatory epistle, with privilege and er...

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) L'Esprit de Monsieur de Voltaire, [edited by C.Villaret], a little soiled and browned, contemporary sheep, joi...

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) La Pucelle d'Orleans, Poëme Héroïque-Comique, en Dix-Huit Chants, engraved frontispiece of Voltaire and Joan o...

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) La Pucelle d'Orleans, Poeme divisé en Vingt Chants, 2 vol., half-titles, titles within decorative frame and wo...

Military.- Williamson (Brig.-Gen. A., editor) Military Memoirs and Maxims of Marshal Turenne, first Dublin edition, 3pp. publisher's catalogue at ...

NO RESERVE Mathematics.- Bedford (Arthur) Horæ Mathematicæ Vacuæ: or, a Treatise of the Golden and Ecliptick Numbers, only edition, half-title, oc...

Women.- W.(A.) The Enormous Abomination of the Hoop-Petticoat, as the Fashion Now is..., 28pp., only edition, title and final leaf lightly soiled,...

Novels.- [Graffigny (Francoise d'Isembourg de'Happoncourt de)] Lettres d'une Peruvienne, ?first edition, ?lacking half-title, author's name suppli...

Marriage.- Essay (An) on Modern Gallantry. Address'd to Men of Honour, Men of Pleasure, and Men of Sense. With a Seasonable Admonition to the Youn...

Europe.- Stevens (Sacheverell) Miscellaneous Remarks made on the Spot, in a late Seven Years Tour through France, Italy, Germany and Holland..., f...

Moser (Friedrich Carl von) Der Herr und der Diener geschildert mit Patriotischer Freyheit, first edition, engraved frontispiece and decorative roc...

Johnson (Samuel).- Ascham (Roger) The English Works, edited by James Bennet, first edition, second issue with half-title, undated title and withou...

Fielding (Henry) The Works...with the Life of the Author, 4 vol., first collected edition, engraved portrait, occasional light browning or damp-st...

Hurd (Richard) Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel; considered as a Part of An English Gentleman's Education..., first edition, title in red &...

Johnson (Samuel) Mr. Johnson's Preface to his Edition of Shakespear's Plays, first separate edition, with the half-title (often missing), woodcut ...

[Sterne (Laurence)] A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, by Mr. Yorick, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, list of subscribers, engrav...

Sterne (Laurence) A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy..., first edition in English printed in France, half-title, woodcut coat-of-arms ...

Servants.- Laws concerning Masters and Servants, second edition, with initial advertisement leaf, contemporary calf, rubbed, spine repaired, [Gold...

[Marmontel (Jean-François)] Le Huron, Comédie..., first edition, without the music found in some copies, Paris, Merlin, 1768 § [D'Ozicourt] Bélisa...

Masturbation & Nymphomania.- Tissot (Samuel August André David) L'Onanisme. Dissertation sur les Maladies produites par la Masturbation, fourth ed...

NO RESERVE Weather.- Mills (John) An Essay on the Weather; with...directions for preserving lives and buildings from the fatal effects of lighteni...

Phaedrus. Fabulae..., printed in very small type, half-title, all leaves within ornamental frame, wide margins, half-title and title loose, origin...

Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of) Letters Written...to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq., 2 vol., first edition, first issue with "quia ...

Harwood (Edward) Of Temperance and Intemperance: Their Effects on the Body and Mind..., only edition, half-title, 2 advertisement leaves at end, m...

[?Lyttelton (Thomas, Lord)] A Letter to a celebrated Young Nobleman on his late Nuptials, only edition, half-title, light marginal foxing or stain...

Laughing Philosopher (The), first edition in book form, engraved title with vignette and decorative rococo frame, one or two small stains, bookpla...

NO RESERVE Medicine.- Warner (Joseph) An Account of the Testicles, their common coverings and coats; and the diseases to which they are liable...,...

Brown (Rev. George) The New English Letter-Writer..., engraved frontispiece of a lady and gentleman writing at a library table, with pp.13-24 (sig...

Europe.- Moore (John) A View of Society and Manners in Italy, 3 vol., first Dublin edition, contemporary ink inscription "Emma Townshend Nov.r 186...

[Pennant (Thomas)] The Journey from Chester to London, first edition, engraved portrait, vignette title and 21 plates, one folding, a good copy in...

NO RESERVE American War of Independence.- Courier l'Europe, vol.13 no.47, 8pp., printed in double-column, cropped slightly affecting pagination, d...

Europe.- [Randolph (Francis)] Observations on the Present State of Denmark, Russia, and Switzerland, only edition, half-title, with contemporary i...

France.- Andrews (John) Letters to a Young Gentleman, on his setting out for France..., first edition, half-title, some light foxing, original boa...

Razors.- Savigny (John Henry) A Treatise on the Use and Management of a Razor...the form of the Convex Penknives...to which are now first added, I...

Paradès (Robert de) Mémoires Secrets de Robert, Comte de Paradès...pour servir à l'Histoire de la dernière Guerre, first edition, half-title (labe...

[?Johnson (Richard, editor)] Moral Sketches for Young Minds, only Dublin edition, engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, Marcus Gage's copy with his ...

Tassie (James) A Descriptive Catalogue of a General Collection of Ancient and Modern Engraved Gems, Cameos as well as Intaglios..., arranged and d...

Europe.- [Radcliffe (Ann)] Voyage en Hollande et sur les Frontieres Occidentales de l'Allemagne, fait en 1794, 2 vol., first edition in French, vo...

[Deguerle (Jean Marie Nicolas] Éloge des Perruques...par le Docteur Akerlio, first edition, half-title, light foxing, bookseller's ticket of Rouan...

Northern Europe.- James (J.T.) Journal of a Tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland, during the years 1813 and 1814, first edition, title with woo...

Duelling.- Bosquett (Abraham) The Young Man of Honour's Vade-Mecum, being a salutary Treatise on Duelling, first edition, with long contemporary i...

[Hazlitt (William)] Liber Amoris; or, the New Pygmalion, first edition, engraved vignette title with vignette portrait of Sarah Walker, half-title...

[Surtees (Robert Smith)] [Sporting Novels], 8 vol., first or first illustrated editions, plates and illustrations, those in first two by Phiz, the...

Atomic Bomb.- Smyth (Henry De Wolf) A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspice...