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Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale, first edition, first impression, original black boards with heart motif in red to upper cover, spine lettered i...

Eliot (T.S. , poet , 1888-1965 ), W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, & others. A Personal Anthology for Er...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** China.- Naide (Gu, compiler ) Fawei lizheng tongshu [The Datong Almanac], ...

Adams (Douglas) The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first edition, signed by the author on upper inner wrapper, original publisher's purc...

Wilde (Oscar) and Aubrey Beardsley.- Contract letters, agreed and signed by Wilde and Beardsley with publishers Elkin Mathews and John Lane , ...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Cavendish (Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle ) Plays, Never Before Printed , ...

Ayrton (Michael) Collection of original illustrations, proof prints, and related ephemera for 'Tittivulus, or The Verbiage Eater ', including...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Japan.- Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Descriptiion of Famous Sites of China...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Froissart (Jean) [Chronicles] , 2 vol. in 1, first English edition , tr...

Graham (Winston, novelist , 1908-2003 ) Collection of correspondence mostly with Max Reinhardt and associates of the Bodley Head, 21 Au...

Henty (G. A.) The March to Magdala, first edition , bookplate to front pastedown, original blue cloth, toning to spine, spine ends and corner...

Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1 vol. bound in 2, first edition in book form, bound from original parts w...

Schoener (Johann) Opera Mathematica , 3 parts in 1, first edition , collation: ? 6 , ? 4 , A-Z 6 , Aa-Cc 6 , Dd-Ee 8 , Ff-Mm 6 , Nn 8 ; a-...

Reynard the Fox.- Reynke Voss de olde, third Low German edition extant, first edition with these illustrations, collation: A-Ll 8 , complete, ...

Dante Alighieri.- Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus) Opera , second edition, the second book by these printers , collation: * 12 1-11 ...

[Lewis (Cecil Day, author , 1904-1972)], "Nicholas Blake". Autograph Manuscript of 'End of Chapter', 3 vol., c.235pp., mostly on recto, fre...

[Greek Orthodox Church].- [Menaion] , manuscript in Greek, on paper, c. 400pp. only, in Greek letters, in light brown ink, a few pp. in black i...

China.- Liu Xiang. Gu Hutou Hua Lienu Zhuan [An Ancient Edition of 'Biographies of Virtuous Women'] , 8 juan in 2 vol., woodcut illustrations...

China & Japan.- Liu Xiang. Ryukyo Retsujo Den [Biographies of Virtuous Women] , 11 juan bound in 5 vol., Japanese edition, 124 full-page wood...

Etterlin (Petermann) Kronica von der loblichen Eÿdtgnoschaft ir harkommen und sust seltzam strittenn und Geschichten, first edition, second ...

Hours, use of Rome.- Catholic Church. Hore christifere virginis marie secundum usum Romanum ... cum illius miraculis & figuris apocalipsis et bi...

Japan.- Kyoto.- Akisato (Rito) Miyako Meisho Zue [Collection of Pictures of Famous Places of the Capital], 6 vol., [1786]; Shûi- Miyako M...

Bible, Welsh. [Testament newydd ein arglwydd Jesu Christ], translated by W. Salesbury, R. Davies and T. Huet, printed in black letter with s...

Dickens' bookplate.- Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1 vol. bound in 2, first edition in book form, with bo...

China.- Murr (Christoph Gottlieb von) and Ignaz Koegler . Litterae patentes Imperatoris Sinarum Kang-Hi, first appearance in book format ...

Lewis (C.S., writer, 1898-1963) Perelandra , Autograph Letter signed from the author to C.L.M Hartley, 2pp., thanking the recipient for ...

Birds.- India.- Jerdon (T. C.) Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of bi...

Thailand.- Folding Horoscope, manuscript in Thai, on white khoi paper, 54 leaves, Cambodian (Kham) script, with a few sentences in Pali, text ...

Gardens.- Switzer (Stephen) An Introduction to a General System of Hydrostaticks and Hydraulicks, Philosophical and Practical , 2 vol. bound...

Pseudo-Marcellus, Passio sanctorum Petri et Pauli, an apocryphal text based on the Acts of St. Peter, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchmen...

Luciani Palinurus. Luciani Scipio romanus. Luciani heroica in amorem. Luciani Asinus aureus. Bruti romani epistole. Diogenes cynici epistole , co...

Machzor KeMinhag Roma [festival prayers for the entire year], 2 parts in 1, 210ff., printed on blue paper, double column, title within archi...

Seder Haggadah shel Pesach , commentary by Isaac Abrabanel, 54pp., additional engraved title (laid down, from another copy, its wormholes repaire...

New Testament, German .- Luther (Martin) Das neuw Testament recht grüntlich teutscht , collation: A-C 4 D-E 2 F 4 B-Z 6 Aa-Gg 6 Hh 8 , ...

Emblemata.- Alciati (Andrea) Emblemes...de nouveau Translatez en Francois vers pour vers jouxte les Latins, first edition of the second Fren...

Lloyd (Trevor, binder ).- Chambers ( Sir William) A Treatise on Civil Architecture, first edition, list of subscribers (bound after pref...

Meer (Fatima) Higher Than Hope: A Biography of Nelson Mandela, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to Simo...

Indian Independence.- Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) Songs from Prison, first edition , "Mirabehn"'s copy, signed ownership inscrip...

Leaf from a Lectionary , in Latin, in archaising script and perhaps that of a student-scribe copying an old exemplar, decorated manuscript on parc...

Scotland.- Boece (Hector) Heir beginnis the hystory and croniklis of Scotland, translated from Latin into Scots English by John Bellenden, f...

Astronomy.- Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller) Kalendarium , second edition, collation: a 8 b 10 c 12 d 2 32ff. complete, printed in red a...

Clare (John) The Village Minstrel, and other poems , 2 vol., first edition, first issue in special presentation binding and inscribed by the ...

Distilling.- Brunschwig (Hieronymus) Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, first edition of the so-called 'Grosses Destillierbuch', col...

Vallisneri (Antonio) Opere diverse , 3 parts in 1, first edition , engraved portrait frontispiece, 30 folding plates, some light m...

Asia.- Mandeville ( Sir John) Tractato bellissimo delle piu maravigliose cose & piu motabile che sitrovino nelle parte delmondo , collatio...

Cornerstone of French Enlightenment Philosophy.- Helvetius (Claude Adrien) De l'Esprit, true first issue "A" of the suppressed first edition...

Mathematics.- Euclid. [Opera], first collected edition, translated by Bartolommeo Zamberti , collation: [10], A-Z AA-EE 8 FF 6 lacking fi...

Japan.- Noh play.- Motokiyo (Zeami) [The Miidera Temple] , single jo or volume, bound in tetchoso style, Saga-bon movable type, original pi...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** South America.- Bertonio (Ludovico) Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara , fir...

Bifolium from a decorated manuscript Antiphonary, illustrated with initials formed of a bird, a richly clothed human arm and a growling green lion...

Levy (D.A.) The North American Book of the Dead , parts 1 and 2, first edition, deluxe issue, one of 7 copies with 3 original paintings on th...

Emblemata.- Paradin (Claude) Devises Heroiques , second edition, collation: a-q 8 r 4 complete with final blank leaf, title within woodcu...

Native American language.- Nantes (Bernardo de) Katecismo Indico da lingua Kariris, first edition, with blank leaf Z7 but lacking final blan...

Islamic Incunabula.- Kitab-I Ligat-I Vankuli [The Crown of Language and the Correct Arabic] , translated by Mehmed ibn-i Mustafa el-Vani [or Van...

Japan.- Noh play.- Utaibon (Koetsu) Kurama tengu [The Goblin of Kurama], single jo or volume, bound in tetchoso style, Saga-bon movable ty...

Ashendene Press.- Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach (The) commonly called Ecclesiasticus, [one of 328 copies on paper], printed in red and bla...

Robinson (William Heath).- Hunter (Norman) The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, first edition, with original captioned pen and...

Anderson (Maxwell) Key Largo, first edition, two signed presentation inscriptions from the author "Dear Victor [Samrock] - When the writing co...

Woolf (Virginia) The Years, first edition, signed presentation inscription "Janet [Case] with love from Virginia" to front free endpaper, sh...

Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first edition, signed bookplate by the author laid down on title, illustrations by Joseph Sc...