Books and Works on Paper

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Cicero cu[m] comme[n]to, commentary by Josse Badius, Nicolas Chappusius, and Francesco Maturanzio, Gothic letter, title pr...

Catholic Church.- Hore dive vi[r]ginis Marie se[cun]d[u]m usum Romanu[m], printed in red and black, title printed in red and large woodcut criblé ...

Antoninus Florentius, Saint. Quarta pars totius summe maioris beati Antonini, vol. 4 only (of 4), printer's woodcut device to title, later (possib...

[Jordan (Raymond)], "Idiota". [Contemplationes idiotae], 91 ff. only, some misbound, woodcut illustrations and historiated or decorative initials,...

Roman history.- Livius (Titus) Opus, edited by Josse Badius, Roman type, title within woodcut historiated border, woodcut illustrations in text, h...

English ownership.- Bible, Latin.- Biblia sacra, double column, title and large woodcut criblé printer's device within woodcut architectural borde...

Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) De institutione oratoria ad Marcellum Victorium libri XII, italic type, woodcut decorative and historiated initials, ...

Bible, French.- La Bible, qui est toute la saincte escriture, 2 parts in 1, double column, 5 woodcut maps, of which 4 folding, folding woodcut tab...

Roman civilisation.- Du Choul (Guillaume) Discorso della religione antica de Romani, insieme un'altro [sic] discorso della castrametatione, et dis...

Mazzella (Scipione) Sito, et Antichita della Citta di Pozzvolo e del Suo Amenissimo Distretto, second edition, folding woodcut map tipped in, illu...

Prayer Book.- La Liturgie Angloise ou Le Livre des Prières Publiques, first French edition, title within woodcut border incorporating royal arms, ...

NO RESERVE [Mele (Giovanni Battista, composer)] Il Vello d'Oro Conquistato, first edition, disbound, printer's device to upper wrapper, lightly so...

Serfdom & Agriculture.- [Lehman (Adde Johann)] Ueber die bessere Einrichtung der Leibeigenschaft und der Oekonomie in Niedersachsen, an den Herrn ...

Chateaubriand (François René de) Les Martyrs, ou le triomphe de la religion chrétienn, 2 vol., first edition, ex-library stamp to title verso, occ...

Darwin (Charles) [On the Origin of Species], first translation into Bulgarian, lacking portrait frontispiece, illustration of genealogical tree at...

Marx (Karl) [Das Kapital], translated by Dimitar Blagoev, title with contemporary ink ownership inscription, small ink mark to fore-margin near st...

Čapek (Karel) Továrna na absolutno. [The Absolute at Large], first edition, decorative title in blue and black, full-page illustrations by Josef Č...

Darwin (Charles) Postanak Vrsta. [On the Origin of Species], portrait plate and folding genealogical tree, the latter with short tear to fold with...

Marx (Karl) Kapital, 3 vol. in 4, first Slovakian edition, translated by Pavol Musil and Jan Rozner, all but vol. 2 with ink-stamp to final f., vo...

Dorset, Melbury Osmond.- Charter, gift by Joan, widow of Thomas de Haddon to William de Melepleisch [Melplash], and Joan his wife and John their s...

Dorset, Mangerton.- Charter, grant by William Everard and Elisabeth his wife to Hugh de Melplash, parson of Curry Mallet, and Edmund Everard, pars...

Somerset, Isle Brewers village.- Charter, grant by Thomas de Marleberge [Marlborough], knight, to Sir William de Wyke, parson of Melbury Bubb, Joh...

Dorset, Mangerton.- Quitclaim of Walter of Remmesbury [Ramsbury] for William Everard, knight, Thomas Remmesbury and his wife Margaret, concerning ...

Supporter of Richard Duke of York.- Dorset, Mangerton.- Power of attorney by which John Brooke, armiger, and his brother Edward Brooke, Lord Cobha...

Dorset, Puddletown.- Court Roll of the Manor of Puddletown, entries relating to rents and holdings, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, a few pen and ...

Guernsey.- Exemplification by the bailiff, John Martin and the Jurats of Guernsey, of Hevart Biehault of St Pierre du Bois parish & Colin Blondel ...

17th century prophet.- Sadler (John, political theorist and reformer, 1615-74) A Prophesie related by Mr John Sadlor Warinell [Warmwell] in the Co...

Legal.- [Survey of the Courts of Justice], manuscript, 136pp., ruled in red throughout, on thick paper, some ff. loose, slightly browned, original...

French soldier and scientist.- Courtanvaux (François César Le Tellier, Marquis de, Count of Tonnerre, Duke of Doudeauville, French aristocrat, mil...

Dorset, Poole.- Allen Skutt's Ghost. A Junto of Sir IW's Vassals or Tenants (about 12 Burgesses of Poole) being met in Secret Combination concerni...

NO RESERVE Worcester Sermons.- Clarke (Rev Thomas, vicar of St Michael, Bredwardine, Worcester) On the Parable of the Good Samaritan - Pyle Altere...

Dorset.- George III (King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and King of Hanover, 1738-1820) Letter signed "George R" to his son ...

British soldier in France.- Pearson (John, sergeant, of 43rd Regiment (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) of Infantry) Long Autograph Letter signed to ...

Artists.- Group of letters of nineteenth-century artists, comprising: John Collier (1850-1934), portrait painter, (11); William Etty (1787-1849), ...

Uxbridge (Henry Paget, first Earl of Uxbridge, later first Marquess of Anglesey, army officer and politician, second in command to the Duke of Wel...

Montgomery (James, 1771-1854) & Robert Montgomery, 1807-55, poets. Collection of 15 Autograph Letters Signed, 1 Letter Signed and 2 poems (1 parti...

NO RESERVE Restoration Dean & family.- Turner (Rev Thomas, dean of Canterbury, bap. 1592, d. 1672), his wife Margaret Turner, daughter of Sir Fran...

England to Australia.- Journal of our Voyage from Liverpool to Australia in the Ship Marco Polo..., manuscript, 63pp., first p. extensively browne...

Dorset, Beaminster.- Collection of papers relating to Beaminster, manuscript and printed, including: manuscript legal case relating to tythings in...

NO RESERVE Letters.- Collection, including: William Booth (Deputy Commissioner to the Forces, 1792-188); Rebecca West (2 autographs); John Masefie...

Cotton manufacturers.- Letters Patent awarded to James Shackleton of Halifax and Joseph Pickles Binns engineer for a "Machine or Apparatus for 'ti...

Tennyson (Alfred, first Baron Tennyson, poet, 1809-92) Portrait of Tennyson, albumen photograph, copyright mark in lower left corner, browned, sli...

Tyndall (John, physicist and mountaineer, 1820-93) 40 Autograph Letters signed or initialled to a variety of correspondents, mostly from the Royal...

Theatre.- Bancroft (Sir Squire, actor-manager, 1841-1926) 48 Autograph Letters signed, together 89pp. and 3 correspondence cards, 8vo et infra, 18...

Curzon (George, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, politician, traveller, and viceroy of India, 1859-1925) Collection of 35 Autograph Letters (?1 dicta...

NO RESERVE Gladstone (William Ewart, Prime Minister, 1809-98).- Knowles (Sir James Thomas, architect and editor, 1831-1908) Autograph cheque sign...

Wodehouse (Sir Pelham Grenville, writer, 1881-1975) Autograph Postcard signed to Alan King-Hamilton, 1 side, 90 x 110mm., Impney Hotel, Droitwich,...

NO RESERVE Cricket.- Collection of letters to Alan King-Hamilton from various cricketers and cricket writers, comprising: E.W. Swanton (cricket co...

[Savile (Henry)] Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Post Bedam Praecipui ..., first edition, printers device to title, partial ink ownership inscription ...

[Montaigne (Michel de)] [The Essayes vvritten in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne], translated by John Florio, woodcut headpieces, lacks title,...

NO RESERVE [Du Val (Michael)] Rosa Hispani-Anglica seu Malum Punicum Angl'Hispanicum [Spanish-English rose, or, The English-Spanish pomgranet], in...

Annotated.- [Jerome (Stephen)] The Arraignement of the vvhole creature, at the barre of religion, reason, and experience. Occasioned vpon an indit...

Way to True Happinesse (The), Leading to the Gate of Knowledge, title within typographic border and with woodcut ornament, trimmed close at head, ...

William Lilly, astrologer.- Gataker (Thomas) A Discours Apologetical; wherein Lilies lewd and lowd Lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the Yeer 1654 ...

Dugdale (Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum, 3 vol., first editions, additional engraved architectural title to vol. 1, titles printed in red & bl...

NO RESERVE [North (Dudley, 3rd Baron)] A forest promiscuous of several seasons productions, second edition, first f. blank, lacking L2 (supplied i...

NO RESERVE [Wollaston (William)] The Religion of Nature Delineated, engraved printer's device to title, head- & tail-pieces and initials, light da...

Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha, 4 vol., translated by Thomas Shelton...

NO RESERVE Gray (Thomas) Designs by Mr. Bentley for Six Poems, first edition, first issue with "Drawings, &c." on half-title, printed on rectos on...

NO RESERVE Freemasons.- The Free Mason's Songs, 4pp., rubbed, edges marked and folded, disbound, tall 8vo, Edinburgh, printed for & sold by Br. R....