Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Mediavilla (Richardus de) Commentum super quarto libro Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, collation: aa8 bb10 cc10 a-z10 ɿ10 ͻ10 ψ10 A10 B-D8, double co...

Rolewinck (Werner) Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens, 96ff., (of 98, lacking final 2 blank leaves), collation: [pi]6 A8 B-...

Laetus (Julius Pomponius) Romanae historiae compendiumab interitu Gordiani Iunioris usque ad Iusti num. III, collation: a-p4, 60 ff., 28 lines, Ro...

Martialis (Marcus Valerius) Martialis, collation: A-Z8 &8, italic type, initial spaces with guide-letters, &7 colophon recto otherwise blank, lack...

Alighieri (Dante) Le Terze Rime, [edited by Pietro Bembo], collation: a-z8 A-G8 H4, italic type, l2 blank, woodcut printer's device to final verso...

Pindar. [Odes]. Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. Kallimachou hymnoi, edited by Aldus Manutius, collation: *8 1-238 244, dedication italic type, te...

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus) Tragoediae, edited by Girolamo Avanzi, collation: a4 b-z8 A-D8 E4, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of final f....

Vigerius (Marcus) Decachordum Christianum, collation: aa8 a10 b-z8 &8 A10 B-E8 F10 AA BB8, aa8 blank, title and author's arms within woodcut borde...

[Paulus Diaconus, compiler] Homiliarius doctorum qui omeliarius dici solet: in evangelia sacratissima dierum dominicalium ac feriatorum, 2 parts i...

Aeschylus. Tragoediae sex, edited by Gian Francesco Torresano, collation: a-n8 o10, italic and Greek letter, title in Greek and Latin, 'to the rea...

Pontanus (Johannes Jovianus) Opera Omnia, edited by Franciscus Asulanus, 3 vol., collation: *4 a-z aa-ss8 : A-Z AA-QQ8 RR6 : aaa-zzz AAA-RRR8, ita...

Boccaccio (Giovanni) La Fiammetta del Boccaccio per messer Tizzone Gaetano di Pofi novamente revista, collation: A-N8 O4, italic type, initials su...

Brenz (Johannes) Homiliae viginti due sub incursionem Turcarum in Germaniam ad populu dicte, preface by Martin Luther, collation: [par]4 B-Q8, tit...

Gregorius IX, Pope. Decretales epistolae, collation: A-B8 C4, a-z8 A-S8 T4, title with woodcut criblé printer's device, attractive woodcut histori...

Catholic Church.- Council of Trent.- [A Sammelband of 69 Addresses, Decrees and other documents from the Council of Trent], in Latin, individual w...

Ariosto (Lodovico) Orlando Furioso, collation: *4 **-***8 A-Z8 a-u8 a-l4, title within ornate engraved architectural border, and two similar divis...

Cardanus (Hieronymus) Offenbarung der Natur und natürlicher Dingen auch mancherley wunderbarlichen und subtilen Wurckungen, second German edition,...

Festival Book.- Scarabelli (Orazio) [A Suite of Engravings relating to the Wedding of the Grand Duke Ferdinando I de Medici to Princess Christine ...

Pereyra (Abraham) Espejo de la Vanidad del Mundo, tears to title, laid down on paper, old manuscript notes to title verso now obscured, trimmed oc...

Hooghe (Romeyn de) Esopus in Europa, 40 parts in 1, each of 8pp., first title in red & black, each title with engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe, some ...

Binding.- [Missale Romanum], text in Latin, in red and black, numerous printed musical notation in the text, engraved initials and 3 full-page pla...

Bible, New Testament. Bifolium from Acts of the Apostles, manuscript in Latin, 4pp., on vellum, double column, in black ink, in  a small regular g...

Cambridgeshire & Suffolk, Ashley & Silverley.- Charter, Alice wife of Thomas Randulf of Silverley has granted to Robert Swyft ten acres of arable ...

Amulet or Prayer Roll against Disease and Demons.- Incipient nomine sancta Jhesu Christi, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, in a neat cursive hand, ...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** French or Netherlandish Workshop.- Single leaf from an illuminated Prayers of St Brid...

Psalms.- Single leaf from the Psalms, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 21 lines, in dark brown and red ink, large seven-line initial "S" in burnish...

Lancastrian France.- Piot (Michiel or Michael of Paris, clerk to Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick and Henry VI's French secretary) Receipt from ...

Prayerbook for the English Market.- Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 147 leaves (plus an original pastedow...

Medieval French Gothic Coffer for a Book of Hours.- Leather coffer with metal strap mounts for devotional books such as a book of hours, domed lid...

Office of the Dead.- [Prayers for the Dead], manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 15 leaves only of a larger work, in an attractive Gothic bookhand, te...

Calendar from a Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 5 leaves only from a larger work (lacks March/April), in a Gothic b...

Scotland.- James IV (King of Scots, died at the Battle of Flodden, 1473-1513) Feu-charter from James IV to David Hoppringill of Smalehame and Marg...

Shakespeare (William).- Spencer [married names Stanley, Egerton] (Alice, Countess of Derby, wife of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, 1559-15...

Shakespeare (William).- Confirmer of the sale of New Place in Stratford-upon-Avon.- Underhill (Hercules, of Idlicote, Warwickshire, son of William...

Charles I (King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1600-49) Warrant to Sir William Uvedale, Treasurer of the King's Chamber that "John Harvey shall...

Norfolk, Hainford, Frettenham & Spixworth.- [Court Leet book of the Manors of Haynford, Frettenham & Spixworth], manuscript in Latin and English, ...

Great Plague.- Burgess (William, Clerk to Sir Robert Long, Auditor of the Reciept in the Exchequer) Autograph Letter signed to Sir Robert Long, as...

Defoe (Daniel).- Law (John).- Lovell (Sir Salathiel, Judge, Recorder of London, 1631/2-1713) Warrant signed to constables and other officers in We...

Scotland, Aberdeen.- [Orem (Thomas, historian, d. 1730)] A Description of the Chanonry in Old Aberdeen... King’s College…, manuscript, 236pp., sli...

Cookery.- [Collection of Recipes], manuscript, 38pp., some reverse entries, some ff. loose and working loose, browned, some edges chipped, disboun...

Bentham (Jeremy, philosopher, jurist and reformer, 1748-1832) Autograph Letter signed to [William Petty] Earl of Shelburne [later 1st Marquess of ...

Bentham (Jeremy, philosopher, jurist and reformer, 1748-1832) Autograph Letter signed to Sir Charles Bunbury, 3pp. of bifolium, 232 x 189mm., Hend...

Irish soldier.- Carrol (William Parker, soldier, Lt. Col. of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment of Foot, acted as Governor of Malta, 1776-1842) Commonp...

St Domingue (Haiti) & England.- [Touzi (Lucinde Maria Louise Antoinette) & Zébée Ann Rose Touzi] The Twins..., manuscript, title and 131pp., origi...

19th century Novel.- The Sy Book, manuscript, 188pp. excluding blanks, "R Barnard 1834" watermark [Richard Barnard of Eyehorne Mill, Kent], slight...

Dickens (Charles, novelist, 1812-70) Autograph Letter signed to Frederic Ouvry, 1p. with conjugate blank, 8vo, Gads Hill Place, Rochester, Kent, 2...

Disraeli (Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, prime minister and novelist, 1804-81) & Ibbetson (Henry Selwin-, Baron Rookwood, politician, 1826-1902)....

Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, Victoria, 1819-1901) & family.- Downey (W. & D., studio ...

Thomas (Dylan, poet, 1914-1953) Autograph Letter signed from the author to Anthony Thwaite, on printed letterhead paper, Boat House, Laugharne, 25...

Pound (Ezra, poet and critic, 1885-1972) 9 Typed ff. of Typed Letters to Mr Ronald L. Perry, 2 ff. initialled by Pound, 5ff. with autograph correc...

Miller (Henry, writer, 1891-1980) 38 Autograph and Typed Letters, all but one signed, to Zofia Slaboszowska (later Schreiber), c.63pp., in German ...

Bossewell (John) Workes of Armorie, 3 parts in 1, first edition, largely printed in black letter, title within typographic border, woodcut initial...

Preston (John) The Saints Qualification, divisional titles, two within woodcut borders and the last within architectural border, throughout woodcu...

Ariosto (Lodovico) Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse, 2 parts in 1, translated by Sir John Harington, engraved title incorporating portra...

Preston (John) Foure Godly and Learned Treatises..., fourth edition, divisional titles, ruled borders throughout, title trimmed to single rule bor...

Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Cambridge, Printed by Tho. Buck & Roger Daniel, [1638]; The New Testament, Printed by the Company of Stationers, 1...

Broadside.- Die Jovis 13. Januarii. 1641. Whereas Information hath been given to the Parliament that the Lord Digbie (son to the Earle of Bristol)...

Broadside.- Servants causing house fires.- Abstract of the clause in the Act of Parliament of the 6th year of Queen Ann [sic] with respect to serv...

Dugdale (Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum, 3 vol., first edition, additional engraved architectural title to vol. 1, 109 engraved plates only (?...

Shakespeare (William) The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth, extracted from the third folio, pp.541-568, slight worming to inner...