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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...

*** 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...

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

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

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

Wilde (Oscar).- Contract letter signed by Wilde, selling the rights of publication of The Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest to L...

*** 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...

Wilde (Oscar).- Douglas (Lord Alfred) Autograph Letter signed to Robert Sherard , 2pp., declining to view the proofs for Sherard's upcomin...

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

Judaica.- Sepher Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers] , translated by Joseph Nahmuli, text in Greek and Hebrew, titles and 15 ff. with marginal ...

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-...

Japan.- Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Descriptiion of Famous Sites of China] , 6 vol., first edition , c.250 woodcut illustrations (c.170 ...

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

Turks and Christians.- Methodius ( Saint ) Revelationes Divinae a Sanctis Angelis Factae, first illustrated edition, edited by Sebastian Br...

London Trades.- Laroon (Marcellus) The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life , 74 copper-engraved plates by Pierce Tempest afte...

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

Pierced binding.- Moritz of Hesse ( Count ) Davidis regii prophetae Psalterium, Vario Genere Carminis Latine Redditum , second edition, col...

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

Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binders .- Khayyám (Omar) Rubaiyat , translated by Edward Fitzgerald, with an introduction by A.C.Benson, printed on...

[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...

Dubreuil (Jean) La Perspective Pratique, necessaire a tours peintres , 2 vol. only (of 3), second edition, additional engraved titles, ful...

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 ...

Ferrerio (Pietro) Palazzi di Roma de piu Celebri Architetti, [&] Nuovi Disegni dell'Architetture, e Piante de Palazzi di Roma, 2 vol. in 1,...

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...

Humanist Treatise.- [Isabella Sforza ( Lady, author, natural daughter of Giovanni Sforza, Lord of Pesaro, wife of Cipriano del Nero, Lord of Porci...

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

Caesar (Caius Julius) Quæ extant. Accuratissimè cum libris editis & MSS optimis collata, recognita & correcta , edited by Samuel Clarke, addi...

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...

Fashion.- Styl . Blätter für Mode und die angenehmen Dinge des Lebens , Erster Jahrg. Heft 1-10 in 7 issues bound in 1 vol., 90 plates by Em...

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 , ...

Dickens (Charles).- Seymour ( Mrs. [Robert]) An Account of the Origin of the "Pickwick Papers", reprint, one of 50 copies signed by F.G. ...

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

Psalter, in Sahidic dialect of Coptic, in Coptic Uncials, manuscript on parchment, single leaf with a stub from its sister leaf on the other hal...

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...

Silver binding.- Arndt (Johann) Paradiess Gärtlein, 2 parts in 1, title to part 1 printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 5 pl...

Thailand.- Phra Malai [Buddhist Visions of Heaven and Hell], samut knoi (concertina) manuscript in Thai, on paper, with some Pali words cite...