Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Bible, English. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testament, 2 parts in 1 vol., largely double-column, engraved additional title (trimmed ...

Bookbinding.- Quaritch (Bernard) A Catalogue of Fifteen Hundred Books remarkable for the beauty or the age of their Bindings, 103 plates, many hei...

Bullfighting.- Fernandez Noseret (Luis) Coleccion de las principales suertes de una corrida de toros, 13 fine engraved plates by Noseret after Ant...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The River War, 2 vol., first edition, second state with typographical correction to p.459 in vol.2, half-titles, p...

Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) The Poetical Works, 3 vol., presentation copy with ink inscription "The Honble. Mrs. [Caroline] Norton with the author's...

Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, first edi...

Falconry.- Huber (Jean) Observations sur le vol des oiseaux de proie, first edition, woodcut device on title, 7 double-page engraved plates, occas...

Falconry.- Salvin (Francis Henry) and William Broderick. Falconry in the British Isles, second edition, revised and enlarged, half-title, 28 hand-...

Horses.- Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux, first edition, first issue with date on titl...

Horses.- Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) A General System of Horsemanship in All it's Branches, 2 vol. in 1, first edition in English, half...

Horses.- Eisenberg d' (Barone) Description du Manege Moderne dans sa perfection, first edition, engraved additional title and 59 plates by Picart ...

Horses.- Galiberto (Giovanni Battista di) II Cavallo da maneggio, first edition, engraved additional title, engraved device on title verso, 55 eng...

Horses.- Ridinger (Johann Elias) Vorstellung und Beschreibung derer Schul [- Anmerkungen von dem Carousel], 2 works in 1 vol. (as usual), first ed...

Horses.- Solleysel (Jacques de) The Compleat Horseman: Discovering the surest Marks Beauty, Goodness, faults and Imperfections of Horses, 2 parts ...

Horses.- Tacquet (Jean) Philippica ou Haras de cheuaux, engraved title (torn, repaired and laid down with some loss to margins and possibly obscur...

Hunting and falconry.- [Goury de Champgrand (Charles Jean)] Traite de Venerie, et de Chasses, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, half-titles, 39 en...

Mathematics.- Newton (Sir Isaac).- Stirling (James) Lineae tertii ordinis Neutonianae, first edition, 6pp. list of subscribers at end, occasional ...

Mathematics.- Stirling (James) The Differential Method: or, a Treatise Concerning Summation and Interpolation of Infinite Series. Translated into ...

Middle East.- Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., first edition, [one of 500 copies], 8 plates, some folding, numerous illustr...

Orlers (Jean) La Généalogie des Illustres Comtes de Nassau, second French edition,  half-title, engraved title with architectural border, coat-of-...

Stirling (James) Methodus differentialis, sive tractatus de summatione et interpolatione serierum infinitarum, chip to head, later wrappers, J. Wh...

Stirling (Major William) The Rivers of Paradise and Children of Shem... and a Disquisition Concerning the Expedition of Sesostris Into India, 2 li...

Stirling-Maxwell (Sir William, publisher).- Arms, Devices, Initials, Monograms & Cyphers, one of 40 copies, printed in red and black, 59 plates pr...

Stirling-Maxwell (Sir William, publisher).- Examples of the Engraved Portraiture of the Sixteenth Century, one of 50 copies, printed in red and bl...

Stirling-Maxwell (Sir William, publisher).- Coecke van Aelst (Pieter) The Turks in MDXXXIII A series of drawings made in that year at Constantinop...

Textiles.- Gli Universali di tutti e bei dissegni..., first edition, title and colophon in red and black, title within elaborate pictorial woodcut...

Thailand.- Bock (Carl) Temples and Elephants, first edition, portrait frontispiece, folding map, plates and illustrations, 2pp. advertisements, or...

Blake (William) Jerusalem, one of 516 copies, 100 colour facsimile plates, 5 fascicles in original wrappers, printed labels to upper covers, origi...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Song of Songs (The) called by many the Canticle of Canticles, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, printed in red and blac...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 4 vol., one of 485 copies on paper, wood-engraved decorative borders, illustratio...

Kelmscott Press.- Voragine (Jacobus de) The Golden Legend, translated by William Caxton, one of 500 copies on Flower paper, printed in Golden type...

Kelmscott Press.- Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Maud, a Monodrama, one of 500 copies on Flower paper, first issue with cancel leaves, printed in Golden ...

Rackham (Arthur) .- Poe (Edgar Allan) Tales of Mystery & Imagination, first trade edition, 12 colour plates and numerous illustrations by Arthur R...

Breydenbach (Bernhard von) [Peregrinatio in terram sanctam], first edition of the first illustrated travel book, 133ff. only (of 148), and also la...

Law.- Henricus de Segusio. Summa super titulis Decretalium, double column, collation: a-z8 ⁊8 ɔ8 ꝝ8 A-R8 S T6, 356 ff., 76 lines and headline, Got...

Canon law.- Salzburg.- Statuta provincialia Salisburgensia, collation: A-C6, text in Latin and German, 17 ff. (of 18, lacking final blank), 49 lin...

Perottus (Nicolaus) Cornucopiæ, sive linguæ latinæ commentarii, [edited by Aldus Manutius], first Aldine edition, collation: [aa-ee6] a-z A-H10 I1...

Ars memorandi.- Rosenheim (Petrus von) Hexastichon Sebastiani Brant in memorabiles evangelistarum figuras, first edition, 18ff. including final bl...

Euripides. Euripidis tragoediæ septendecim, 2 vol., editio princeps, collation: Α-Γ8 Δ4 Ε-Η8 Θ6 Ι-Λ8 Μ6 Ν Ξ8 Ο10 Π Ρ8 Σ10 Τ Υ8 Φ6 Χ-Ω8 ΑΑ ΒΒ8 ΓΓ6 ...

Law.- Papa (Guido) Libertates per illustrissimus principes Delphinos Viennenses..., 3 parts in 1, first edition, ff. iv, LXXXVII, [i, blank]; XXX...

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...

Pamphlet.- Luther (Martin).- [Pseudo-Ulrich von Augsburg.] Epistola divi hulderichi augustensis episcopi, adversus constitutionem de cleri coeliba...

Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institutionum Oratoriarum Libri XII, second Aldine edition, collation: *4 a-z, A-E8 F6, title and verso of final f. w...

English provenance.- Annotated.- Trithemius (Johannes) Catalogus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum sive illustrium virorum, collation: A B4 a-z aa-zz4, ...

Canon Law.- Bonifacius VIII (Pope) Sextus decretalium liber...in Lugdunensi coniclio editus [& others], 4 parts in 1, collation: a-k8, aa-dd8 ee4,...

Fish & fishing.- Oppianus. Alieuticon, sive De Piscibus...C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historiae libri duo, in quorum priori quidem tractat de natu...

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

Caesar (Gaius Julius) Commentarii di Gaio Giulio Cesare, translated by Agostino Ortica della Porta, collation: A10, B-Z AA-HH8 II10, woodcut print...

Catullus (Gaius Valerius) Carmina et in eum commentarius M. Antonii Mureti, edited by Marc-Antoine Muret, first Muret edition, collation: *4 A-Q8 ...

Commines (de) (Philippe) Historia di Filippo d'Argenton delle guerre di Lodovico XI re di Francia; et di Carlo duca di Borgogna, collation: *8 **4...

Strada (Jacopo) Imperatorum Romanorum omnium Orientalium et Occidentalium Verissimae Imagines ex Antiquis Numismatis quam Fidelissime Delineatae, ...

Diabolical literature.- Feyerabend (Sigmund, editor) Theatrum Diabolorum, Das ist: Warhaffte eigentliche und kurtze Beschreibung, allerley grewlic...

Sami language.- Manuale Lapponicum, first edition, preface in Latin and Swedish, text in Sami, title within typographic border, small tear in penu...

Baroque Venetian Silver Gilt binding.- Bible, Greek. [New Testament and Evangeliare], double column, printed in red and black, 2 repeated title-bo...

Bible, Portuguese. Do Velho Testamento, vol.1 only (of 2), ie most of Old Testament, translated by Joao Ferreira d'Almeida, some lower margins tri...

Early Sinhalese printing.- Bronsveld (Sigisbertus Abrahamsz. van) Catechismus, ofte onderweyzing in de Christelicke leere, first edition, 2 letter...

Chastity from the library of Kenelm Digby.- Drexel (Jeremias) Nicetas seu triumphata incontinentia, engraved pictorial title and 2 full-page illus...

Rome.- Gardens.- Falda (Giovanni Battista) Li Giardini di Roma con le loro Piante Alzate e Vedute in Prospettiva, engraved throughout, title and 2...

Italy.- Sculpture.- Rossi (Domenico de) Raccolta di Statue Antiche e Moderne, first edition, plate vol. only (of 3), engraved letterpress title, e...

WW2 Warsaw Telephone Directory.- Spis Abonentow sieci Telefonicznej M. St. Warszawy P.A.S.T., folding map, advertisments, some ink names and telep...