Rossetti family copy.- Aristotle. Trattato dei governi, translated by Bernardo Segni, collation: A-Z Aa-Zz Aaa-Iii4, first edition of this transla...

Hooper (John) An Ouersight, and deliberacion vpon the holy prophete Ionas, black letter, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, final errata...

Chaucer (Geoffrey) [The woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with diuers addicions, whiche were neuer in printe before], [edited by William ...

Grafton (Richard) [A Chronicle at large and meere history of the affayres of Englande and kinges of the same], 2 vol. in 1, black letter, second t...

Mary, Queen of Scots.- B[uchanan] (G[eorge]) Ane detectioun of the duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes, touchand the murder of hir husband, and hir ...

Serres (Jean de) The Three Partes of Commentaries, containing the whole and perfect discourse of the Civill warres of Fraunce..., 3 parts in 1, tr...

Calvin (John) A Commentarie of M. Iohn Caluine, vpon the booke of Iosue, finished a little before his death, translated by ?William Fulke, mostly ...

Dictionary.- Cooper (Thomas) Thesaurus linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ, double column, title with 'Bear and Ragged Staff' device, woodcut head- and tai...

Britain.- Holinshed (Raphael) The First and second volumes of Chronicles, vol.1 and 2 only (of 3) in 1, black letter, divisional titles in woodcut...

NO RESERVE Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The description of Germanie, first edition in English, first f. seemingly...

Douai printing.- Sarum Manual.- Sacra institutio baptizandi : matrimonium celebrandi : infirmos vngendi : mortuos sepeliendi : ac alii nonnullirit...

Camden (William) Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha, first edition, first 2 ff. blank (mounted on stubs, but chain lines...

Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England's arch-poët, Edm. Spenser:, title within wood...

Quarles (Francis) A Feast for Womes. set forth in a poeme, title and dedication trimmed and laid down, first 3 ff. detached and loosely inserted, ...

Britain.- Speed (John) The History of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans, second edition, engraved archite...

NO RESERVE Powell (Robert) The Life of Alfred, or Alvred: The first Institutor of subordinate government in this Kingdome, and Refounder of the Un...

Bede, Saint, the Venerable. Historiæ ecclesiasticæ gentis Anglorum libri V., first edition, second issue (with A1 cancelled and replaced with thre...

Crusades.- Fuller (Thomas) The Historie of the Holy Warre, fourth edition, initial f. 'A declaration of the frontispiece', engraved additional pic...

Raleigh (Sir Walter).- Ross (Alexander) The History of the world: the second part, in six books: being a continuation of the famous history of Sir...

Mazzella (Scipione) Parthenopoeia, or The history of the most noble and renowned kingdom of Naples, translated by James Howell, first edition in E...

Scudery (Georges de) Curia Politiæ: or, the Apologies of Severall Princes, first English edition, engraved frontispiece, trimmed at margins, 11 en...

Roman Britain.- Burton (William) A commentary on Antoninus his itinerary, or Journies of the Romane Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain, engra...

Satire on lawyers.- Ruggle (George) Ignoramus. Comoedia coram Rege Jacobo et totius Angliæ magnatibus per academicos Cantabrigienses habita, engra...

Dugdale (Sir William) The Baronage of England; or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility, 3 vol. i...

Nalson (John) The Common interest of king and people: shewing the original, antiquity and excellency of monarchy, compared with aristocracy and de...

Surveying.- Leybourn (William) The Compleat surveyor: containing the whole art of surveying of the land, by the plain table, circumferentor, theod...

Law.- Regicides.- [Finch (Heneage, Earl of Nottingham, compiler)] An Exact and most impartial accompt of the indictment, arraignment, trial, and j...

Burnet (Gilbert) Some letters· Containing, an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, &c. , title with woodcut printer's dev...

Busbequius (Augier Ghislaine de) The Four Epistles of A.G. Busbequius, Concerning his Embassy into Turkey, first English edition, dedication by Na...

Virgilius Maro (Publius) The Works of Virgil: containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Æeneis, translated by John Dryden, engraved frontispiece by ...

NO RESERVE Chronology .- Marshall (Benjamin) Chronological tables in which are contain'd not only all the chief things of sacred history from the ...

Nicolson (William) The English historical library...Giving A Short View and Character of most of our Historians either in Print or Manuscript: Wit...

Stonehenge.- Jones (Inigo) The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, restored, 3 parts in 1, en...

Roman Britain.- Horsley (John) Britannia Romana: or the Roman antiquities of Britain, first edition, half-title, 105 engraved maps and plates, som...

Plays.- Hughes (John) The Siege of Damascus, A Tragedy, 1735; bound with Fenton (E.) Mariamne. A Tragedy, 1735; and Shadwell (T.) Don John: or, Th...

NO RESERVE Whincop (Thomas) Scanderbeg: or, Love and Liberty. A Tragedy, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, illustrati...

NO RESERVE Binding.- Bible, English.- The Book of common prayer, engraved frontispiece, title with woodcut arms, sig. 2N misbound (but complete), ...

Law (William) The Spirit of Prayer; or the Soul Rising out of the Vanity of Time, into the Riches of Eternity. Part 1, third edition, 1752, bound ...

[Murray (James)] A History of the Churches in England and Scotland, from the Reformation to this present Time. By a Clergyman, 3 vol., engraved po...

NO RESERVE Typography.- Caslon (William) A specimen of printing types, by William Caslon, letter-founder to His Majesty, 4 ff., double column, eng...

Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies ..., previous owner's ink signature to...

NO RESERVE Lavater (Johann Caspar) Aphorisms on Man, engraved portrait frontispiece, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, expertly re...

Accounting.- Hamilton (Robert) An Introduction to Merchandize, fifth edition, some light spotting, mostly to endpapers, contemporary calf, spine g...

Southey (Robert) Specimens of the Later English Poets, 3 vol., first edition, bookplate removed from pastedown leaving paper remnants, light spott...

NO RESERVE Froissart (Jean) Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders...Reprinted from Pyn...

Music.- Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus) Il Don Giovanni; Dramma, In Due Atti. Don Juan; a Grand Opera, in Two Acts: represented for the first time in Lo...

Combe (William) The Tour [Second...Third...] of Doctor Syntax, 3 vol., ninth edition, 77 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rowlandson, including...

NO RESERVE Rogers (Samuel) Italy, bookplate, endpapers renewed, original black sheep, 1830 § Aytoun (William Edmondstoune) Lays of the Scottish Ca...

Cambridge drunkeness.- A Sermon on Malt, broadside, large wood-engraved vignette at head, woodcut typographic decorations, fold, creased, laid dow...

Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of) and Lt. Col. Gurwood, editor, The Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, During his vari...

Muller (K.O.) and George Cornwall Lewis, History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, to the Period of Isocrates, armorial bookplate of Hon. Granv...

NO RESERVE Young (Rev. Edward) Pre-Raffaellitism, first edition, 24pp. advertisements at rear, original pink decorative cloth, spines faded, extre...

Bindings.- Macaulay (Lord) The History of England, From the Accession of James the Second, 4 vol. bound in 2, half-titles, contemporary tree calf,...

Patmore (Coventry) The Unknown Eros, endpapers browned, some foxing, heavier to preliminaries or final pp., front free endpaper working loose, ori...

NO RESERVE Carlyle (Thomas) The French Revolution: a History, 2 vol., portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, half-titles, occasional light spott...

Hardy (Thomas) Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman..., 3 vol., first edition in book form, vol. 2 first impression, vol. 1 & 3 second impressi...

NO RESERVE Lyte (Sir H.C. Maxwell) A History of Eton College (1440-1898) third edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece of Henry IV, full-page ...

Military.- Montgomery (Bernard Law, first Viscount of Alamein) El Alamein to the River Sangro, number 86 of 265 copies signed by the author to tit...

Missal, Latin. 2 leaves from a Missal, manuscript in Latin, in a late gothic bookhand, on vellum, numbered ff. 38 & 41, 4 3-line initials, 17 2-li...

Norfolk.- A good group of mostly 17th & 18th century documents relating to Methwold Manor, Norfolk, manuscripts and a few printed works, including...