ALBUM – WRITERS, SCIENTISTS & NOTABLESAlbum containing some 120 autograph letters, cut signatures and autograph free fronts, the majority from emi...

ARISTOTLE'S MASTER-PIECEAristotle's Master-piece, or, The Secrets of Generation displayed in all the parts thereof., Containing, 1. The Signes of ...

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION[The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New], 2 parts in 1 vol., FOURTH FOLIO EDITION, black ...

BLACKSTONE (WILLIAM)Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, 2 engraved tables (one folding), contemporary calf, spines gilt t...

BRUNEL, RAILWAYS AND ENGINEERINGCollection of forty-nine nineteenth-century engineering drawings and plans relating to I.K. Brunel's Great Western...

[CHARLES I EXECUTION]Fragment of blue silk ribbon sewn onto a nineteenth-century note of provenance, presumably copying out an old label ('A port...

EUCLID - OLIVER BYRNEBYRNE (OLIVER) The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Are Used Instead of Lette...

HOBBES (THOMAS)Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiatical and Civill, [second edition], additional engraved allego...

HUME (DAVID)Series of six autograph letters to his close friend William Mure of Caldwell (1718-1776), and one contemporary copy of a letter to his...

JERVIS (JOHN, 1st EARL ST. VINCENT)Scent box in book form with intricate silver wire work decoration, sent from Italy by the then Captain Jervis t...

JERVIS (JOHN, 1st EARL ST VINCENT)Silk Union flag belonging to John Jervis, Earl St. Vincent, seemngly exhibited at the 1891 Royal Naval Exhibitio...

JERVIS (JOHN, 1st EARL ST VINCENT)Manuscript account book of the Earl of St Vincent '...in Account with Benjamin Tucker...', containing details of...

LONDONSTOW (JOHN) A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster... Corrected, Improved, and Very Much Enlarged... to the Present Time; by John ...

MALTON (THOMAS)A Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster, Illustrated with the Most Interesting Views, Accurately Delineated...

WESLEY (SAMUEL)Autograph manuscript score titled Concerto for the Organ in B flat on upper cover, signed and dated ('Wesley/ 21 Feb. 1800'), inscr...

ANTIPHONAL[Antiphonarium secundum morem Sancte Romane Ecclesie completum continens dominicale, sanctuarium, commune et hymnarium et quedam officia...

BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, SaintDe consideratione... ad Eugenium Papam, 38 leaves (of 45, lacking final section 'Cypriani...'), 37-39 lines, Gothic te...

BIBLE, IN LATIN[Biblia Latina] Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi testamenti, 408 leaves, 56 lines and headline, 2 columns, Gothic letter, ...

BIBLE, IN LATINBiblia latina [With table of Gabriel Brunus], 491 leaves (of 528, lacking a1 and 36 leaves of table of interpretations of Hebrew n...

BIBLE, PSALTER, IN LATINQuincuplex psalterium. Gallicum. Rhomanum. Hebraicum. Vetus. Conciliatu[m] [edited by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples], FIRST ED...

BIBLE, POLYGLOT[Biblia Sacra Hebraice, Chaldaice, Graece, & Latine...] Hebraicorum Bibliorum Veteris Testamenti Latina interpretatio [-Novum Testa...

BIBLE, IN HEBREWDerech Ha'Kodesh [in Hebrew] Via sancta...sive Biblia Sacra eleganti et maiuscula characterum forma, edited by Elias Hutter, Roma...

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSIONThe Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testment, and the New, black letter, general title within wide woodcut hi...

MISSAL, USE OF ROMEMissale Romanu[m] noviter impressum cu[m] annotationibus in margine ad facillime o[mn]ia que i[n] ipso ad alias paginas remittu...

PEREGRINUS DE OPPELNSermones de tempore et de sanctis, 172 leaves, 39 lines, Gothic letter, red manuscript initials, occasional manuscript annota...

TORQUEMADA (JUAN DE)Expositio regulae S. Benedicti, 159 leaves (of 160, without first blank), 50 lines, Gothic text, blue and red manuscript init...

GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFANG VON)Letter signed ('ergebenst Goethe'), to Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Professor at the University of Jena, in German, send...

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTCompendium, including Pseudo-Augustine (De spiritu et anima), Canon Law and Theology, on vellum, 208 leaves (incomplete), G...

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT[GRADUAL] Proprium de tempore, on vellum, in Latin, 215 leaves (only), 10 lines of alternate text and music on four-line re...

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTBook of Hours, use of Utrecht, text in Dutch, from translation by Geert Grote, on vellum, 191 leaves (including 4 blanks), ...

KANT (IMMANUEL)Critik der reinen Vernunft [Critique of Pure Reason], FIRST EDITION, woodcut device on title, head- and tail-pieces, 2 small holes...

[KEMPIS (THOMAS À)][Meditationes] De vita et beneficiis salvatoris Jesu christi devotissime meditationes cum gratiarum actione, 112 leaves, 23 li...

NAPOLEON BONAPARTEAutograph letter in English, to Emmanuel, Comte de Las Cases ('Sir Count Las Cases'), '...j write you this letter for say to you...

SCHOOPER (HARTMANN)Panoplia [in Greek] Omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium genera continens, first edition in Latin, 132 wo...

SOUTH SEA BUBBLEHet groote Tafereel der dwaasheid, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 70 engraved plates (most double-page, some fold...

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND – CONVICT SETTLEMENT & HUTT VALLEY CAMPAIGNManuscript journal of Cecil Rice Arney (1806-1852), wife of Major Charles Augus...

BELLIN (JACQUES NICOLAS)Le petit atlas maritime. Recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde, FIRST EDITION, 6 parts in 5 vol., engrav...

BLAEU (WILLEM AND JAN)Toonneel des Aerdrycz, oft Nieuwe Atlas... Tweede Deels, 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved architectural and allegorical titles w...

BLAEU (WILLEM AND JAN)Toonneel des Aerdrycks oft Nieuwe Atlas...Vierde Deel, engraved title and 58 engraved maps, marginal damp-staining, small w...

BLAEU (JOANNES)America, quae est Geographiae Blauianae pars quinta liber unus volumen undecimum, text in Latin, hand-coloured vignette on title, ...

CHESHIRE - SAXTONSAXTON (CHRISTOPHER) Cestriae comitatus (romanis legionibus et colonys olim insignis) vera et absoluta effigies, double-page han...

ESQUEMELIN (ALEXANDRE OLIVIER)De Americaensche Zee-Roovers. Behelsende een pertinente en waerachtige Beschrijving van alle de voornaemste Roveryen...

ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM)Theatrum orbis terrarum, Latin text, engraved allegorical title with epigram on verso, 53 double-page maps engraved by Franz Ho...

ALBUM - DARWIN, NATURAL HISTORY & SCIENCECollection of c.64 autograph letters from nineteenth- and twentieth-century naturalists, scientists and i...

DARWIN (CHARLES)Autograph letter signed ('Charles Darwin') to Thomas Davidson, F.R.S. ('My dear Sir'), thanking him for his '...long and interesti...

DARWIN (CHARLES)Autograph letter signed ('C. Darwin') to Joseph Dalton Hooker ('My dear Hooker'), thanking him for recommending a gardener ('...I ...

DARWIN (CHARLES), ROBERT FITZROY AND PHILIP PARKER KINGNarrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, Between the...

EINSTEIN (ALBERT)Portrait photograph by Yousuf Karsh, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPER ('Y. Karsh') on the mount, gelatin silver print, mounted on card,...

JARDINE (WILLIAM)The Naturalist's Library, 40 vol., 40 engraved portraits, 40 additional engraved pictorial titles (25 hand-coloured), 1286 engra...

NEWTON (ISAAC)Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica...Editio tertia aucta & emendata, edited by Henry Pemberton, engraved portrait frontis...

OPPENHEIMER (J. ROBERT)Robert Oppenheimer's passport with photograph for 1924, SIGNED TWICE ('J. Robert Oppenheimer'), once as 'signature of bear...

STRICKLAND (HUGH EDWIN) AND ALEXANDER GORDON MELVILLEThe Dodo and its Kindred; or the History, Affinities, and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, a...

TURING (ALAN)NEWMAN (MAXWELL H.A.) Elements of the Topology of Plane Sets of Points, FIRST EDITION, ALAN TURING'S COPY, signed 'A.M. Turing' in p...

TURING (ALAN)'The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis', offprint from: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological...

WILSON (ALEXANDER)American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States, 9 vol., FIRST EDITION, 76 hand-coloured engrave...

BEARDSLEY (AUBREY)Portrait photograph of Aubrey Beardsley, half-length in tweed suit, by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, INSCRIBED BY THE SITTER 'To M...

BEATON (CECIL)Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, seated wearing a dress and jacket designed by Elsa Shiaparelli, bromide print, stamped 'Cecil B...

BRUNHOFF (JEAN DE)Le voyage de Babar, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH FULL-PAGE PEN AND INK DRAWING OF BABAR IN A HAT SHOP opposit...

CÉZANNE (PAUL)Autograph letter signed ('Paul Cézanne'), to Camille Pissarro ('Mon cher Pissarro'), in French, discussing the reception of the seco...

CÉZANNE (PAUL)Autograph letter signed ('Paul Cézanne'), to Gustave Geffroy ('Cher Monseiur Geffroy'), in French, confirming he has received Geffro...