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Lot 1

Austen, Jane

Austen, Jane Northanger Abbey [and:] Persuasion London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First Bentley edition, 8vo, 2 parts in 1 volume with continuous pag...

Lot 2

Austen, Jane

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First ed...

[Bonhôte, Elizabeth] Olivia; or, Deserted Bride By the Author of Hortensia, the Rambles of Frankly, and the Fashionable Friend. Dublin: for W. Wat...

Lot 4

Clare, John

Clare, John The Village Minstrel and Other Poems London: for Taylor and Hessey; and E. Drury, Stamford, 1821. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, [iii...

Peacock, Francis Sketches relative to the History and Theory, but more especially to the Practice of Dancing … intended as Young Teachers of the A...

Minerva Press - Canadian Novel - Slavery Yamboo; or, the North American Slave A Tale. In Three Volumes. By the Author of The Bravo of Bohemia. Lo...

[Wynne, John Huddlestone (1742-1788)] The Man of Honour: or, the History of Harry Waters, Esq. London: printed for F. and J. Noble, at their resp...

[First Australian novelist] Grimstone, Mary Leman The Beauty of the British Alps Or, Love at First Sight. London: G. Virtue, 1825. 8vo in half-she...

Dickens, Charles [Works] London: Chapman and Hall, [n.d.] 26 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red half calf gilt, a little soiling to the covers of the ...

Poe, Edgar Allan Tales of Mystery, Imagination, & Humour; and Poems London: Henry Vizetelly, 1852. [Bound with:] Tales of Mystery, Imagination, & ...

Lot 11

Milton, John

Milton, John Paraphrasis Poetica in tria Poemata Viz Paradisum Amissum, Paradisum Recuperatum, et Samsonen Agaonisten. Autore Gulielmo Hogaeo. Lo...

Continental books Collection of works including Elzevir press titles, 17th-18th century Laet, Johannes de. Gallia, sive de Francorum regis dominii...

Lot 13

Bindings

Bindings Collection of works, English literature, 18th-19th century Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of. Letters to his Son. London: J. ...

Fine bindings and library sets Collection of works, English literature and European literature in translation, 18th-19th century All 8vo unless o...

Antiquarian English and Scottish books Collection of works, 17th-18th century Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. The History of Scotland … The Sec...

19th-century literature Large collection of works including leather bindings Crawford, Alexander Crawford, Earl of. Argo: or, the Quest of the Gol...

Antiquarian literature Collection of works, English and continental, 16th-19th century Petrarch. [Opera]. Con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutell...

Blackwood, Adam Opera Omnia Paris: Sébastien Cramoisy et Gabriel Cramoisy, 1644. 4to, [40] 735 [19] pp., contemporary limp vellum French manuscrip...

Lot 19

Burns, Robert

Burns, Robert Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh: printed for the Author and sold by William Creech, 1787. Second (first Edinburgh) ...

Lot 20

Burns, Robert

Burns, Robert Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh [and London]: William Creech [and T. Cadell and W. Davies], 1798. 2 volumes bound t...

Lot 21

Burns, Robert

Burns, Robert Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh: William Creech, 1787. Second (first Edinburgh) edition with ‘Boxburgh’ for ‘Roxbu...

Johnson, James - and Robert Burns, as contributor The Scots Musical Museum Edinburgh: James Johnson, [1787-1803]. 6 volumes in 2, 8vo, engraved ti...

McGonagall, Sir William Topaz (1825-1902) Two signed poetry broadsides McGonagall's Ode to the King […] Bonnie Montrose. [Together with:] Descrip...

[Scottish Satire, 18th century] A Political and Satirical History Displaying the unhappy influence of Scotch prevalency, in the years 1761, 1762, ...

Lot 25

Watson, James

Watson, James A Choise Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems Edinburgh: James Watson, 1713-1709-1711. 3 volumes in 1. 8vo, second edition o...

Scottish and Jacobite history Collection of works [Scottish herringbone binding]. The Holy Bible. [Old Testament only]. Edinburgh: Alexander Kinca...

Lot 27

Scotland

Scotland 26 volumes Wodrow, Robert. The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restauration to the Revolution. Edinburgh: Ja...

Scottish Enlightenment Collection of works Hume, David. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. Containing Essays, Moral, Political, and Literar...

Jacobite history Collection of works Home, John. The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1745. London: by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, Jun. and W....

Scottish works Collection of 8 books Kelly, James. A Complete Collection of Scotish [sic.] Proverbs… London: William and John Innys, 1721. 8vo, r...

[Martyrdom of King Charles I] Pamphlet volume of sermons preached before the House of Commons on the feast of King Charles the Martyr London: vari...

[John Newton interest] Halyburton, Thomas Memoirs of the Life of the Reverend, Learned and Pious Mr. Halyburton London: R. Cruttenden, 1718. Secon...

Clarke, James Stanier and John McArthur The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson London: T. Cadell, 1809. 2 volumes, large 4to, contemporary half diced rus...

[Symonds, William] [Naval Costume] 20 double-page lithographed plates, each showing 4 vessels, with an additional folding plate, signed and inscri...

[Royal Interest] Windsor Castle - Index to Rooms Windsor Castle (Lord Chamberlain's Department). Index to Rooms. 1909. 16mo (11 x 8.5cm), origina...

Heraldry and Genealogy A small collection Nisbet, Alexander. A System of Heraldry… Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1816. Folio, volume 1 only, fron...

Lot 37

Bindings

Bindings On historical, military and other subjects Clarke, Hewson. The History of the War, from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the ...

Smith, John Raphael (1751-1812) Lt. Col. Tarleton Mezzotint of Lieutenant-Colonel Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833). London: J.R. Smith, 11th October ...

Richardson, J. - and J.H. Nixon The Eglinton Tournament London: Colnaghi & Puckle, 1843. Folio (62 x 44cm), hand-coloured lithographed pictorial t...

Rowlandson, Thomas Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms... [London: R. Ackermann, 1799] 4to (35...

Churchill, Winston S. The Collected Works. Centenary Limited Edition [Together with:] The Collected Essays. Centenary Limited Edition. London: Li...

Gittins, Daniel Remarks on the Tenets and Principles of the Quakers As contained in the Theses Theologicae of Robert Barclay. London: printed by J...

[Geneva Bible] Rouland Hall Geneva: Rouland Hall, 1560. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf with several repairs, without endpapers, lacking Old...

Baskerville, John (printer) The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, with the Apocrypha. Translated out of the Original Tongues, ...

Scottish binding The Holy Bible Edinburgh: Adrian Watkins, 1754. 8vo (19 x 11.5cm), A-3R8, contemporary red-brown morocco, spine gilt with dotted ...

17th-century embroidered binding [The Holy Bible, New Testament and Psalms only] London: Company of Stationers, 1663 [imprint for the Psalms]. 24...

Bibles and religious books 16th to early 18th century [Bible, 1597] 4to in sixes, contemporary calf, all leaves up to Genesis 45:2 supplied in man...

Lot 48

Occult

Occult An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teac...

Lot 49

Popper, Karl

Popper, Karl Conjectures and Refutations The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963. First edition, first impressi...

Elizabethan medicine Annotated medical sammelband 4 works in 1 volume, 8vo, old calf ruled in blind, covers each with blind-stamped monogram ‘TM’...

Lot 51

Boyle, Robert

Boyle, Robert Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours First occasionally written, among some other Essays, to a Friend; and now suffer'd t...

Babbage, Charles On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures London: Charles Knight, 1832. First edition, 8vo, xvi 320 pp., original diagonal-fin...

Maxwell, James Clerk A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1873. First edition, first issue, 2 volumes, 8vo, xxix [3] ...

Maxwell, James Clerk On a Method of Making a Direct Comparison of Electrostatic with Electromagnetic Force With a Note on the Electromagnetic Theo...

Einstein, Albert Relativity, The Special and the General Theory A popular exposition. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1921] Fourth edition, 8vo, orig...

Stevenson, Alan Report to the Committee of the Commissioners of Northern Lights Appointed to take into consideration the subject of Illuminating t...

Stevenson, Alan Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse With notes on the Illumination of Lighthouses. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1748. First...

Provis, William Alexander An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Suspension Bridge constructed over the Menai Strait In North Wales. With a ...

Cleland, Elizabeth A New and Easy Method of Cookery Treating I. Of Gravies, Soups, Broths, etc. II. Of Fish, and their Sauces. III. To Pot and Ma...

Dentistry, 3 volumes 19th century Meredith, L.P. The Teeth and How to Save Them. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1871. 8vo, original red clot...

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