Books and Works on Paper

Numismatics.- [Huttichius (Johannes)] [Imperatorum Romanorum Libellus], numerous woodcut medallions portraits by Hans Weiditz, one or two illustra...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) De philosophia, prima pars, id est, italic type, title with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, o...

White Kennett's copy.- Psalms, Latin.- Liber Psalmorum Davidis, commentary by François Vatable, text double column, title with woodcut printer's d...

Vesaliensis (Arnoldus) Epitome Singularum Distinctionum in quatuor libros Sententiarum, old ink-stamp and ownership inscription to title, first c....

Estienne (Henri) L'introduction au traité de la conformité des merveilles anciennes avec les modernes. Ou, traité preparatif à l'Apologie pour Her...

Bourghesius (Joannes) Vitæ passionis et mortis Jesu Christi domini nostri mysteria, first edition, engraved pictorial title and 75 (of 76) plates ...

Aquinas (Thomas) De regimine principum libri quatuor, engraved pictorial title, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contempora...

Classical History & Literature.- Historiæ Romanæ epitomæ, engraved pictorial title, woodcut printer's device at end, final f. blank, 2B1 short pap...

Judaica.- Benjamin, of Tudela. Itinerarium D. Benjaminis, title in Hebrew & Latin, text in Hebrew, title and small woodcut floral ornament within ...

Astronomy.- Postel (Guillaume) De universitate libri duo: in quibus astronomiæ, doctrinaeve coelestis compendium, 2 vol. in 1 (2nd vol. in 2 parts...

Strada (Famiano) De bello Belgico decas secunda..., with the Leo Belgicus additional pictorial title, but without the 11 engraved portraits, lette...

Lipsius (Justus) De constantia libri duo, title with engraved vignette, final f. blank, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary v...

Low Countries.- Strada (Famiano) De bello Belgico decas prima [- decas secunda], 2 vol., engraved folding 'Leo Belgicus' map, 2 additional pictori...

Johnston (Robert) Historia Rerum Britannicarum, first edition, engraved title vignette, marginal toning, 18th century vellum, modern morocco spine...

NO RESERVE Cats (Jacob) Alle de Wercken, Zoo Oude als Nieuwe, engraved frontispiece and title vignettes, occasionally trimmed, occasional light st...

Geography.- Dionysius Periegetes. Dionysii orbis descriptio: commentario critico & geographico, 8 folding engraved maps (including a world double-...

Horae diurnae breviarii Romanii, printed in red and black, additional engraved title, title-vignette and full-page illustrations, light foxing and...

Thou (Jacques-Auguste de) Il Falconiere, 2 parts in 1, engraved frontispiece and title vignette, bookplates to endpapers, contemporary vellum, red...

Holland House.- Prostitution.- Bretonne (Rétif de la) Le Pornographe, ou Idees d'un honnete-homme sur un projet de reglement pour les prostituees,...

[La Forest (P.T. de)] Traite de l'Usure, 2 parts in 1, contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt, rubbed and scuffed, Lyon, Pierre Bruyset Ponthus, 1...

Mirabeau (Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, Comte ) Aux Bataves sur le Stathouderat, first edition, 2 parts in 1, engraved title with medallion vignette, li...

Bodoni.- Anacreon. Anakreontos Teiou Melle [graece], title with engraved oval portrait, another on following leaf, contemporary red morocco, elabo...

NO RESERVE Juveniles.- Gerrits (G. Engelberts) De vruchten eener goede opvoeding, geschetst in eenige belangrijke tafereelen ter veredeling van ve...

NO RESERVE Lenormant (Francois) Lettres Assyriologiques sur l'Histoire et les Antiquites de l'Asie anterieure, 4 vol. in 2., lithographed text thr...

Marx (Karl) O Capital, translated by Albano de Moraes, half-title with ink ownership inscription to head, uniform light browning, contemporary clo...

NO RESERVE Erotica.- Bretonne (Rétif de la) Zeitgenössinnen: Abenteuer Hübscher Frauen, 2 vol., half-titles, 18 plates, one working loose, very oc...

Kafka (Franz) Der Prozess. [The Trial], first edition, half-title, some very light soiling to first and last few ff., modern boards, with original...

Dala'il al-khayrat, Ottoman, in Arabic, 11 lines of naskh per page, within gilt borders, chromolithograph headpieces and section headings, full-pa...

Harbou (Thea von) Metropolis. Roman Prelozila Marie Dolejsi, first Czech edition, black and white photographic illustrations, lightly browned thro...

Kafka (Franz) Prosessen. [The Trial], first Norwegian edition, half-title, original pictorial wrappers, upper wrapper with tear and small chip to ...

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

Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of, army officer and prime minister, 1769-1852).- Portrait of the Duke of Wellington holding his field ma...

NO RESERVE United States Mail Coach.- Way Bill from Boston to Groton and Keene [Connecticut and Massachusetts]... by Geo Hims Driver, printed docu...

NO RESERVE Pius IX (Pope, 1792-1878) Papal Bull, D.s., decorated initials at head and tail, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 14 lines, folds, lead ...

Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of, army officer and prime minister, 1769-1852).- The Lying in State of the Remains of Field Marshal The...

Astronomy.- Lee (John, antiquary and astronomer, 1783-1866) Autograph Letter signed to JW Sears, 3pp., 8vo, Hartwell, near Aylesbury, 27th January...

NO RESERVE African explorer.- Bathurst (Walter Dundas, Officer of the Association Internationale du Congo (AIC), 1883-86, 1859-1940) "Extract from...

Capa (Robert, 1913-1954) Socialist Stronghold - Hemsworth in the Division of Yorkshire, vintage gelatin silver print, c.250 x 195mm., various stam...

Elizabeth I.- Humphrey (Laurence) Ad illustrissimam R. Elizabetham, L.H. vice-can. Oxon. oratio Woodstochiæ habita. An. 1572. August. 31, first ed...

[Jewel (John)] [An Exposition vpon the two Epistles of the Apostle Sainct Paule to the Thessalonians], first edition, mostly in black letter, lack...

Allott (Robert) VVits theater of the little world, defective copy, lacking title and other ff., but the majority present, a few ff. burnt with los...

Drayton (Michael) Poemes lyrick and pastorall. Odes, eglogs, the man in the moone, two defective copies, titles with woodcut device, woodcut head-...

Chivalric romance.- The Famous and renovvned historie of Primaleon of Greece, sonne to the great and mighty Prince Palmerin d'Oliua, Emperour of C...

Persian Queen.- Quarles (Francis) Hadassa: or The history of Queene Ester: with meditations thereupon, diuine and morall, first and only separate ...

[Du Val (Michael)] Rosa Hispani-Anglica seu Malum Punicum Angl'Hispanicum [Spanish-English rose, or, The English-Spanish pomgranet], initial foldi...

NO RESERVE Dering (Edward) A Collection of Speeches made by Sir Edward Dering Knight and Baronet, in matter of Religion, lacking initial blank and...

Qur'an, English.- The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabique into French; by the Sieur du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, first octavo edition of ...

[Gauden (John)] Eikon Basilike [graece]: The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie, remnants of folding plate only, previous owner's ink inscriptio...

[North (Dudley, 3rd Baron)] A forest promiscuous of several seasons productions, second edition, first f. blank, lacking L2 (supplied in typescrip...

[Burton (Robert)], "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy, seventh edition, lacking half-title with "Argument of the Frontispiece" on vers...

Medicine.- Galenus (Claudius) Galen's Art of Physick...Translated into English, and largely Commented on...By Nich. Culpeper, title a little chipp...

Truman (Joseph) The Great Propitiation; or, Christs Satisfaction; and Man's Justification by it upon his Faith, second edition, by A. Maxwell, fo...

NO RESERVE Cave (William) Primitive Christianity: or, the Religion of the Ancient Christians in the first Ages of the Gospel, 2 parts bound as 1 v...

NO RESERVE Selden (John) Table-talk: being the discourses of John Selden Esq; or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relat...

Coley (Henry) Merlinus Anglicus Junior: or, An ephemeris for the year 1689, title with engraved portrait of William Lilly, final advertisement f.,...

Blank paper.- An album of c.260 sheets, sheet size 350 x 237mm., some spotting or mostly light foxing, lower hinge broken, contemporary vellum, la...

NO RESERVE Cookery.- Salmon (William) The Family-Dictionary; or, Household Companion, second edition, double column, title strengthened at inner g...

NO RESERVE English Civil War.- Holles (Denzil, Baron) Memoirs of Denzil Lord Holles, Baron of Ifield in Sussex, from the Year 1641, to 1648, engra...

NO RESERVE English Civil War.- Hyde (Edward) A Collection of Several Tracts of the Right Honorable Edward, Early of Clarendon, first edition, owne...

Fables.- Aesop. Fables, of Æsop and other eminent mythologists, edited by Sir Roger L'Estrange, 2 parts in 1, engraved frontispiece of the Aesop s...