Early Printed Books, Historical Autographs & Documents, Travel, Maps & Decorative Prints

Illuminated Leaves. Bifolium vellum leaves from an illuminated Book of Hours, Northern France, mid 15th century, comprising 4 pages with 15 lines ...

Incunabula leaves. A group of ten leaves from incunabula, c.1473-1499, each with double column text, some with letters heightened in red, each wit...

Ferrerius (Vincentius). Sermones sancti Vincentii fratris ordinis predicato[rum] sacre theologie professoris eximii de te[m]pore per te[m]pus hyem...

Horatius Flaccus (Quintus). Opera [with the commentaries of Acron, Porphyroion and Christophorus Landinus, edited by Johannes Franciscus Philomusu...

Suetonius Tranquillus (Gaius). Vitae XII Caesarum, Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 5 April 1493, lacks A1 & A6 and final leaf V4 (blank), leaves A2-...

Ovidius Naso (Publius). De Fastis cum duobus, commentariis. Antonii de Fano et Pauli Marsi, [edited by Bartholomaeus Merula], Venice: Johannes Tac...

Horatius Flaccus (Quintus). Opera cu[m] quibusdam Annotat[i]o[n]ib[us], Imaginibusque pulcherrimis, aptisque ad Odaru[m] conce[i]tus & sente[n]tia...

Wynkyn de Worde. Two printed leaves from The Golden Legende, [Westminster 1498], text printed in double-column in black letter, 47 lines to the co...

Alfonso I (Duke of Ferrara). Resposta Alla Invectiva Qvi Annexa Di Don Alphonso gia Duca di Ferrara, publicata contra la Sancta & gloriosa me. di ...

Vergil (Polydore). De la origine e de gl'invenori de la leggi. Costumi, scientie, arti et di tutto quello che a l'humano uso conuiensi, con la esp...

Boccaccio (Giovanni). Ameto Comedia delle nimphe Fiorentine, Vinegia: G. Giolito de Ferrari, 1545, engraved vignette to title, numerous engraved i...

Bible [English; Great Bible]. [The Byble in English, that is, the Olde and New Testament… Imprynted at London… by Edwarde Whitchurche…, 1549], 5 p...

Greek Anthology. Epigrammatum Graecorum libri VII, annotationibus Joannis Brodaei Turonensis illustrati, quibus additus est in calce operis rerum ...

Munster (Sebastian). Cosmographiae Universalis Lib. VI..., [Basel: Heinrich Petri, circa 1550], lacks title, four (of fourteen) double-page maps o...

[Phayer, Thomas]. [A Boke of Presidentes, exactly written, in maner of a Register, Newly corrected, with addicions of divers necessarie Presydent...

Bible [English; Matthew's Version]. [The Byble, that is to saye, all the holye Scripture…, Nicolas Hyll, 1551], 5 parts in one, 533 (of 730) leave...

Justin Martyr (Saint). Tou agiou Joustinou philosochou kai martyros..., ex Bibliotheca Regia, 1st edition, Paris, Robert Estienne, 1551, title wit...

Tauler (Johannes). Tam de Tempore quam de Sanctis Homilie, Operaq; eiusdem alia Pietati quam maxime infe inservientia, summo studio recens ab ipso...

Possevini (Giovanni Battista). Dialogo dell'honore di M. Giovanni Battista Possevini Mantovano. Nel quale si tratta a pieno del duello, con la tra...

Bible [Latin]. Biblia interprete Sebastiano Castalione una cum ejusdem annotationibus, Basel: Johannes Oporinus, March 1556, double column, roman ...

Goltz (Hubert). Les Images presque de tous les empereurs, depuis C. Julius Caesar jusques a Charles V et Ferdinandus son freere, pourtraites au vi...

Langland (William, circa 1332-1386). [The Vision of Pierce Plowman: nowe the seconde tyme imprinted by Robert Crowlye... Whereunto are added certa...

Hertel (Jakob). Ta ek ton palaion kai panton sophon komikon, Vetustissimorum sapientissimorum comicorum quinquaginta, quorum opera integra non ext...

Nannini (Remigio). Orationi in Materia Civile, e Criminale, tratte da gli Historici Greci, e Latini, antichi, e moderni, raccolte, e tradotte per ...

Patrizi (Francesco). Il Sacro Regno del vero reggimento, e de la vera felicita del principe... tradotto da Giovanni Farbrini da Fighine, Venice: D...

Benoist (Rene). Les Epistres de S.Paul. Les Epistres Catholiques de S. Iaques, S. Pierre, S. Iean & S. Iude. l'Apocalypse ou Reuelation de S. Iaen...

Major (Georg). Cantica ex Sacris literis, in ecclesia cantari solita, cum Hymnis & Collectis, seu orationibus Ecclesiasticis, in usum Pastorum, Di...

Ovid. Le Metamorfosi di Ovidio, ridotte da Giouanni Andrea dell'Anguillara, in ottaua rime, impressione sesta, al Christianissimo re di Francia He...

Cartari (Vincenzo). Imagines Deorum, qui ab Antiquis colebantur, Lyon: Stephanum Michaelem, 1581, printer's woodcut device to title, woodcut portr...

Josephus (Flavius). Di Flavio Givseppe, dell' Antichita' de Givdei Libri XX. Tradotto novamente per M. Franceso Baldelli, Venice: Gio et Gio. Paol...

Herodotus. Historiae Libri IX: Et de vita homeri libellus, Frankfurt: Andrae Wecheli, 1584, title with woodcut device, errata leaf at end, occasio...

Dedekind (Friedrich). Grobianus, et Grobiana, De Morum Simplicitate...Frankfurt: Adami Loniceri, (1584), 97pp, engraved initials to text, spotting...

Blundeville (Thomas, 1522?-1606?). A Briefe Description of Universal Mappes and Cardes, and of Their Use: and also of the use of Ptholemey his Tab...

Du Bellay (Guillaume). Discipline militaire de messire Guillaume Du Bellay, seigneur de Langey... premièrement faite et compilée par l'auteur, tan...

Agrippa (Camillo). Nvove Inventioni di Camillo Agrippa Milanese. Sopra il modo di Nauigare. Rome: Domenico Gigliotti, 1595, [iii], A-G4, [i], lack...

Terence. Terence in English. Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetæ Terentii omnes Anglicæ factæ, & hac noua forma editæ: opera ac indu...

Ovid. Metamorphosis dat is: die herscheppinghe oft veranderinghe beschreven vanden vermaerden ende gheleerden poët Ovidius..., Antwerp: Guilliam L...

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former tran...

[Wateson, George]. A Rich Storehouse, or Treasurie for the Diseased. Wherein are many approved medicines for divers and sundry diseases, which hav...

Baldwin (William). A Treatise of Morall Philosophie: wherein is contained the worthy sayings of philosophers, emperours, kings and orators...and n...

Serres (Jean de). La Vie de Messire Gaspar de Colligny, Segneur de Chastillon, Admiral d France. A Laquelle Sont Adiouste ses Memoires sur ce qui ...

Manorial courts. The Order of keeping a Court Leet; and Court Baron, with the charges appertaining to the same: truly and plainly delivered in the...

[Mearne Binding for Charles II]. The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro. Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, by Joh...

Charles I. Reliquiae Sacrae Carolinae: The Workes of that Great Monarch and Glorius Martyr King Charles the Ist. both Civil and Sacred. Hague [Lon...

New Testament [Greek]. Tes Kaines Diathekes hapanta, En te Kantabrigia: Exetypothe par' Ioannou Phieldou, tou tes Akademias typographou, Etei apo...

Almanacs. A collection of 12 almanacs, bound in one volume, all 1672, including Merlini Anglici Ephemeris, or Astrological Judgements for the year...

Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldry ... to which is added a Treatise of Honour Military and Civil..., 3 parts in one, 5th edition, London: print...

Burnet (Gilbert). The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 3 volumes including Supplement, 2nd edition, corrected, London: T.H. fo...

Panvinio (Onofrio). De ludis circensibus, libri II. De triumphis, liber unus. Quibus universa fere Romanorum veterum sacra ritusque declarantur, a...

Crouch (Nathaniel, publisher). Delights for the Ingenious, in above fifty select and choice emblems, divine and moral, ancient and modern, collect...

Almanacs. A collection of 13 almanacs bound in one volume, all 1688, including William Lilly's Merlinus Anglicus Junior: or an ephemeris for the y...

[Pitcairn, Archibald, 1652-1713]. The Assemblie or Scotch Reformation. A Comedie. The Third Edition Corrected and Enlarged by the Authors, 1691 [b...

Ozanam (Jacques). Recreations Mathematiques et Physiques, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: Jean Jombert, 1694, 84 engraved plates, 4 pp. advertiseme...

House of Lords. Standing Orders of the House of Lords Relating to Order and Decency to be Kept in the King's Absence, manuscript, early 18th centu...

Aa (Pieter van der). Les delices de Leide, une des ce?le?bres villes de l'Europe, qui contiennent une description exacte de son antiquite?, de ses...

[Prior, Matthew]. Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson & John Barber, 1718, engraved frontispiece, engraved title-vignette, decorative...

Aubrey (John). Miscellanies, upon the following subjects. I. Day-Fatality. II. Local-Fatality. III. Ostenta. IV. Omens. V. Dreams. VI. Apparitions...

Gay (John). Fables, 1st/2nd edition, London: J. Tonson & J Watts, 1728-38, 2nd edition of volume 1, 1st edition of volume 2, frontispiece to volum...

Alber (Erasmus). L'Alcoran des cordeliers. Tant en latin qu'en françois, 2 vols., new edition, Amsterdam: Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1734, engrav...

Stanyan (Temple). The Grecian History, from the original of Greece, to the death of Philip of Macedon, 2 volumes, London: J. and R. Tonson, 1751, ...