Books and Works on Paper

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...

Estienne.- Terentius Afer (Publius) Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis, woodcut printer's device to title, early ink ownership inscription ...

Theology.- Guillaume (Perault) Vitritum vitoriumque exempla , ex vtrisque legis promputario decerpta, ?printer's device and early ink ownership in...

Aquinas (Thomas, Saint) [Summae totius theologiae divi Thomae Aquinatis] Secunda secundæ Summae theologiae, i.e. part 3 only (of 5, complete in it...

Petrarch.- Petrarca (Francesco) Il Petrarca di nuovo ristampato, et diligentemente corretto, general title with woodcut printer's device and withi...

Domenichi (Lodovico) Facetie, Motti, et Burle di Diversi Signori, et Persone Private, woodcut device to title, a few ink marks and notes to margin...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Witchcraft.- Malleus maleficarum: de lamiis et strigibus, et sagis aliisque magis & d...

Prosper of Aquitaine (Saint) Divi Prosperi Aquitanici, Episcopi Rhegiensis, Viri eruditissimi, Opera, printer's woodcut device to title, early ink...

Antique sculpture.- Perrier (François) [Segmenta Nobiliarum Signorum et Statuarum], etched frontispiece, lacking title, with index, and 99 etched ...

Martialis (Marcus Valerius) Epigrammata, title within ornate architectural border, with 18th century ink ownership inscription, Amsterdam, Joan I ...

Equality of the Sexes.- [Poullain de la Barre (François)] De l'Excellence des Hommes, contre l'Egalité des Sexes, first edition, title with large ...

Rosini (Giovanni) Antiquitatum Romanarum, additional engraved title, folding plan of Rome and 7 plates, some light water-staining to lower corner,...

Lenfant (Jaques) Histoire de la Guerre des Hussites et du Concile de Basle, 2 vol., half-titles, titles in red and black, 8 engraved plates, engra...

Maritime.- Langenbeck (Hermann) Anmerkungen uber das Hamburgische Schiff- und See-Recht..., second edition, Gothic letter, browned, some ink stain...

Etruscology.- Lampredi (Giovanni Maria) Saggio sopra la filosofia degli antichi Etruschi, title in red and black and with engraved arms, woodcut h...

Pombal (Sebastiao José de, Marquis de) Estatutos dos Mercadores de Retalho, ?first edition, title with large woodcut arms of King Joseph I and woo...

Broadside.- Salt distribution.- [Arrangements for the distribution of salt in Chambéry], broadside, woodcut arms at head, central horizontal fold,...

Silk-dyeing.- Macquer (Pierre Joseph) Arte de la Tintura de Sedas, translated by Miguel Geronimo Suarez y Nuñez, first Spanish edition, with final...

Pastoret (Emmanuel) Zoroastre, Confucius et Mahomet, comparés comme Sectaires, Législateurs, et Moralistes..., first edition, contemporary pen & i...

Sieyes (Emmanuel Joseph, Abbé) Préliminaire de la Constitution. Reconnoissance et Exposition Raisonné des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen. Lu les ...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***History of Art.- Winkelmann (Johann Joachim) Histoire de l'Art ches Les Anciens, 2 vol...

Agriculture.- Parmentier (Antoine-Augustin) Traité Théorique et Pratique sur la Culture des Grains, suivi de l'Art fe Faire le Pain, 2 vol., first...

Russia.- Nicholas I.- [Certificate of Commendation for Captain Andrei Turgarinov], printed in Russian on vellum, 16 lines, including three manuscr...

Lefrançais (Gustave) Etude sur le mouvement Communaliste a Paris, en 1871, first edition, half-title, a little browned at edges, first few leaves ...

Ibsen (Henrik) En Folkefiende, previous owner's ink signature to front free endpaper verso, Copenhagen, 1882; Lille Eyolf, Copenhagen, 1894; John ...

Strindberg (August) Dikter, half-title, faint ink-stamp to title, original decorative cloth, fractional rubbing to extremities, Stockholm, 1883; V...

Reliquary.- Reliquary of 7 Female Saints, being Saints Lucia, Agatha, Agnes, Catherine of Siena, Cecelia, Catherine ?of Bologna and Veronica Giuli...

Tolstoy (Count Lev Nikolayevich "Leo") Krieg und Frieden, 4 vol., half-titles, vol. 1 lacking front free endpaper, titles with ink signature "Leo ...

Missale Romanum, presentation copy of Arthur Edward Waite, presentation f. loosely inserted, chromolithographed title heightened with gold, illust...

Judaica.- Greenwald (Leopold, Rabbi) Sefer ha-zikhronot... [Book of Memories], text in Hebrew, some light soiling or very light spotting, modern c...

De Musset (Alfred) Ses Plus Beaux Vers, illustrations, contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper, light chips to edges, Editions Nilsson...

Officina Serpentis.- Bible, Hebrew. Chamishah Chumshei Torah, 2 vol., one of 850 copies on Van Gelder paper, from a total limitation of 856, type ...

Warwickshire, Bulkington.- A deed for the manor of Bramcote in Warwickshire, by Willliam de Grendon, Lord of Bramcote, to William del Hul of Bramc...

Deed of a Medieval Warwickshire woman.- Isabella Geffrey of Ilmington's manuscript release and quitclaim for land at Ilmington, near Shipston on S...

West Yorkshire.- Charter, William de Boelay, clerk, confirms to William de la Grave, son of Adam all the land which John, my son and heir, has so...

Cambridgeshire, Kirtling.- Charter, grant by William le Huet of Coulyngg [Cowlinge] to Roger Kadde de Kertlingg [Kirtling], one piece of land more...

West Yorkshire.- Charter, Richard le Watchher of Pontefract confirms to William de ffolby [Foulby], carpenter, and Osanne his wife of a messuage i...

Cambridgeshire, Kirtling.- Charter, Richard Caddo of Kirtling concedes and confirms to William ffarewell of Chestford, [Great Chesterford] and Ral...

Derbyshire.- Charter, grant by Robert Walker of Repyndon [Repton] to John Walker of Burton of arable land in the fields of Wylygmer [?Willington],...

Isle of Wight.- Power of attorney, Alice and Joan Preston daughters and heiresses of John Preston of Stanwell, Middlesex appoint John Taylour, cit...

Derbyshire.- Power of attorney for John Worthington of Burton, 5 lines, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, red wax seal with fine impression, folds, ...

London Grocer and Burton-on-Trent.- John Sherwood Grocer of London and Robert Smithfield Grocer to Robert middelton deed relating to a square bui...

Coningsby (Sir William, English Member of Parliament and a Justice of the King's Bench, c. 1483 -1540) Exemplification of common recovery for Hugh...

Kent, Sundridge.- Charter of John Cowlard of Sundrysshe [Sundridge] husbandman, grant to John Fowrde and John Peeke one messuage and two pieces or...

Elizabeth I (Queen of England and Ireland, 1533-1603) Exemplification of two messuages and pasture owned in Foxearth, Essex by John Mayer against ...

17 century obligation bonds.- 9 Obligation Bonds, manuscripts in Latin and English, on paper, papered and wax seals, folds, slightly browned, foli...

The Lord High Treasurer helps a Jacobean Widow Scammed by a Captain.- Cranfield (Lionel, first Earl of Middlesex 1575-1645) A petition to the Lord...

Colonisation of North America & the Virginia Company of London.- Abbott (Sir Maurice, English merchant, Committee Member and Auditor of the Virgin...

Tichborne (Sir Richard, 2nd Baronet, Royalist commander in the English Civil War and English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1597,...

Irish Rebellion of 1641.- Bacon (Sir Francis, English judge who condemned Irish leader Conor Maguire to death, 1587-1657). Manuscript reckoning re...

Miscellany.- Prytherge or Pretherch (William, ?son of Lewis, of St. Mary's, Anglesea, educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Magdalen College, Camb...

Oliver Cromwell's Secret Intelligence Network.- Obligation Bond in the name of Gamaliell Capell, obliging him inter alia to "not plot, contrive or...

Raising of King Charles II's restoration militia.- Townsend (Horatio, 1st Baron Townsend, 1630-1687) The Right Hon:[ora]ble L[or]d Townshend's Tro...

Indictment for bestiality.- An indictment, Suffolk [assizes] 1682; Andrew Berry late of Westhorpe (Westropp) in Suffolk, labourer, for buggering a...

Salem witchcraft figure & pirate hunter.- Sewall (Stephen, Major, Court Clerk at the Salem witchcraft trials, militia commander, county and court ...

Louis XVI (King of France, 1754-93) Order to Joseph Micault d'Garvelay to pay the Widow Paulmier, widow of Paulmier, carriage boy of the stable, 1...

London, Camberwell.- Release of land belonging to the Parish of Camberwell in Trust for the Benefit of the said parish [docket title], D.s., manus...

Montague Family.- Large collection of portraits, coats of arms, landscapes, and ephemera relating to the Montague family, engravings, etchings, li...

George IV (King, as Prince Regent, 1762-1830) Commission appointing Richard Cleveland a Captain in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, D.s. "George P...

Poetry.- Collection of poetry by various authors, manuscript, 91pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original calf, gilt, rubbed, upper cover d...