Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Rolewinck (Werner) Fasciculus temporum, collation: [* a-g8 h10], 74 ff., 57 lines and headline foliation, Gothic type, woodcut diagrams, illustrat...

Terentius Afer (Publius) Comoediae, edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius and with commentary by Guido Juvenalis, collation: a-z [et] [con] [rum] A8,...

Bonaventura (Saint) [Meditationes] Vita Christi, collation: [a8] b-m8, 95ff. (of 96, lacking final blank), 32 lines, Gothic type, rubricated, larg...

Asia.- Mandeville (Sir John) Tractato bellissimo delle piu maravigliose cose & piu motabile che sitrovino nelle parte delmondo, collation: a-k8, 8...

Brussanus Collumbus. Sidus novum...duos continens tractatus: primus, de peccato...secundus, de virtute...editio limata per fratrem Nicolaum Desper...

Alciatus (Andreas) Les Emblemes, collation: A-P8 Q4, French and Latin text, woodcut device on title, another version on final recto, 113 emblemati...

Hebraica.- Fagius (Paul).- Sententiae vere elegantes, piae, mir(a)eque, cum ad linguam discendam, tum animum pietate excolendum utiles, veterum sa...

Chess-like Game of Strategy.- Boissiere (Claude de) Le Tres Excellent et Ancien Jeu Pythagorique, dict Rhythmomachie..., first edition, collation:...

Reissner (Adam) Ierusalem vetustissima illa et celeberrima totius mundi civitas, ex sacris literis et approbaris Historicis ad unguem descripta, f...

Judaica.- Galiatovsky (Ioannikiy) [Messia pravdivy [The Truthful Messiah, Jesus Christ Son of God], first edition, [18], 429, [5]ff., additional p...

Binding.- Bodoni.- Tasso (Torquato) Aminta, Favola Boschereccia, ora per la prima volta alla sua vera lezione ridotta, first Bodoni edition, one o...

Binding.- Printed in 150 languages.- Oratio Dominica CL linguis versa, first edition, edited by J.J. Marcel, every page within typographic border ...

Aristotle. Rhetorica Aristotelis cum fundatissimi artium..., commentary by Aegidius Romanus and edited by Averroes, collation: aa6 a-o8 p6 A8 B6, ...

Binding.- Navagero (Andrea) Orationes duae, Carmina que Nonnulla, first edition, collation: [*]2 a-b4 c2 d-f4 g2 h-k4 l6 (lacking final blank),woo...

Bible, Hebrew.- [The Old Testament], 4 vol. in 8, collation: I: [pi]1, I-648, I-88 (with blanks 398 & 648); II: I-568 (with blank 568); III: I-608...

Bible, Greek.- Kainê Diathêkê. Novum Testamentum, edited by Henri Estienne, 2 parts in 1, collation: *-⁂8 a-z A-F8 : Aa-Xx8, woodcut printer's dev...

NO RESERVE Sundials.- Pini (Valentino) Fabrica de gl' Horologi Solari, first edition, collation: Ϯ4 A-M4 N2, fine engraved pictorial title, some l...

Malta.- Sovereign Military Order of Malta.- [Bosio (Giacomo)] Histoire des Chevaliers de l'Ordre de l'Hospital de S. Iean de Hierusalem, translate...

Annotated.- Saint-Omer.- Coutumes Locales, tant anciennes que nouvelles des Bailliages, Ville et Echevinage de Saint-Omer, d'Audruic & Pays de Bre...

Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, 2 vol., first edition, contemporary ink ownership name to endpaper or half-title, contempora...

Ibn al-Wardi (Zayn al-Din 'Umar) Kharīdat al-ʿajā'ib wa-farīdat al-gharā'ib, text in Arabic, double-page map, 2 full-page illustrations, lacking p...

Zola (Emile).- Goncourt (Edmond & Jules de) La Femme au Dix-Huitiéme siècle, new edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "a Zola,...

Marx (Karl) Kapital, 3 vol. in 4, first Slovakian edition, translated by Pavol Musil and Jan Rozner, all but vol. 2 with ink-stamp to final f., vo...

Secret Speech denouncing Stalin.- Khrushchev (Nikita Sergeyevich) O Kulcie Jednostki I Jego Nastepstwach, first edition, first issue, title with t...

Hebraica.- Temurah, ["gift" or "offering,"] from Exodus 25, 9 fragments, manuscript in Hebrew, on paper, in black ink, larger fragments with 8 or ...

Calendar, probably from a monumental Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, 6 leaves (a single gathering), single column, 33 lines i...

Staffordshire, Willenhall.- Power of attorney by William Harpur of Rushall, John Harpur and William Fourkes to Richard Kempson of Bilston and John...

Hot Gospeller.- Underhill (Edward, courtier and religious radical, b. 1512, d. in or after 1576) & Throckmorton (Sir John, lawyer and member of pa...

Shakespeare (William).- Confirmer of the sale of New Place in Stratford-upon-Avon.- Underhill (Hercules, of Idlicote, Warwickshire, son of William...

Arabic ms.- Ghazaliyaat Kan'at al-Arabi [Divan of Poetry written in Arabic], illuminated manuscript in Arabic on blue paper speckled with gold, 16...

NO RESERVE Wales.- Mary I (Queen of England and Ireland, 1516-58).- Grand Sessions of Wales held in Radnor. Exemplification of Recovery between Jo...

Malta [Melite].- Archive of legal papers, including contracts, property, inheritance etc., with many references to many notable Maltese families (...

Parliament.- [Journal of the House of Commons, May - Nov 1685]. Parliamentum inchoat et tent apud Civtatem Westmonaster die Martis 19 Maij anno re...

Pepys (Samuel, naval official and diarist, 1633-1703) & James II (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1633-1701) Warrant signed by the king an...

Clandestine atheism.- Freret (Nicolas) Lettre de Thrasybule a Leucipe, Traduite du Grec, manuscript in French on paper, 281pp., 22 lines, ruled in...

18th century barrister.- [Way (Lewis, Barrister at the Inner Temple, of Denham Place, Buckinghamshire & Richmond, 1698-1771)] Rider's British Merl...

Netherlands.- [Volume of essays on the history, religion and life in the Netherlands], manuscript in Latin, Dutch and French, c. 464pp., pen and i...

Bentham (Jeremy, philosopher, jurist, and reformer, 1748-1832) [Juvenilia item], including: Bentham's name, doodles, some ink cartoons, pencil ske...

Irish Rebellion of 1798.- Letter distributed as propaganda giving an account of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, beginning "Having now a little peace ...

Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of, army officer and prime minister, 1769-1852) Ephemera relating to the Duke of Wellington, comprising: ...

Scottish scholar.- Bonar (James, solicitor of excise, Greek scholar and writer, eighth son of the ten children of John Bonar (1721-61), minister o...

Scottish Publisher.- Oliver and Boyd (Scottish publishing and printing firm, described as a "stalwart in Scottish publishing", of Edinburgh, 1807/...

India to England.- Campbell (Lt. Col., of the Bombay Establishment) Journal, autograph manuscript, 43pp. only, incomplete, initial p. on different...

Ceylon.- Tennent (Sir James Emerson, first baronet, traveller and politician, 1804-69).- Fraser (J., acting principal Colonial Secretary and JP) &...

Scottish Peerage.- The Annandale Peerage.- Archive covering the claims of various members of the Johnstone family to the earldom of Annandale, inc...

Brunel.- Stevens (E., associate of Brunel) Memoranda of Events connected with the Life of E. Stevens, manuscript, 236pp. & 14pp. from a later date...

Ireland.- Anderson (Sir Samuel Lee, lawyer and secret-service administrator, 1837-86) Diary, autograph manuscript, c. 180pp. excluding blanks, rul...

Central and South America.- Visino (Don Tito, Consul of the King of Bavaria for Cuba) Torn Leaves from The Chronicle of the Ancient Nations of Ame...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan, writer, 1859-1930).- Cambridge University.- Hamilton (Alan King-, President of the CUS, later a judge, 1904-2010) Cambrid...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan, writer, 1859-1930) Autograph Letter signed and Autograph Postcard signed to Alan King-Hamilton as President of the Cambri...

Milne (Alan Alexander [A. A. Milne], writer, 1882-1956) Autograph Letter signed to King-Hamilton, 1p., 8vo, Cotchford Farm, Hartfield, Sussex, 28t...

Wodehouse (Sir Pelham Grenville, writer, 1881-1975) Autograph Postcard signed to Alan King-Hamilton, 1 side, 90 x 110mm., Impney Hotel, Droitwich,...

Judiciary & Politicians.- Collection of letters to Alan King-Hamilton, including: Walter Monckton, Norman Birkett, Lord Denning, Peter Imbert, Bar...

RAF.- Hamilton (Alan King-, judge, censor with the Ministry of Information and by 1945 had achieved the rank of squadron leader in Royal Air Force...

Churchill (Sir Winston, prime minister, 1874-1965) Typed Letter signed to his literary assistant Denis Kelly, 1p. with envelope, 8vo, Chartwell, W...

Betjeman (Sir John, poet, writer, and broadcaster, 1906-1984) Typed Letter signed to Alan King-Hamilton, 1p., sm. 4to, 43 Cloth Fair, London, 3rd ...

Cricket.- Collection of letters to Alan King-Hamilton from various cricketers and cricket writers, comprising: E.W. Swanton (cricket commentator, ...

Thatcher (Margaret, Baroness Thatcher, prime minister, 1925-2013) 2 Autograph Letters signed and 16 Typed Letters signed to Alan King-Hamilton, to...

Forster (E.M., writer, 1879-1970) Typed Letter signed to "Madan" [Madan Blanchard], 2pp., 4to, West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Dorking, 14th Novem...

Forster (E.M., writer, 1879-1970) Autograph Letter signed to A. J. A. Symons, 2pp., 4to, Abinger Hammer, Dorking, 6th September, 1939, thanking Sy...