Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) Oeuvres Completes, 100 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait with partial hand-colouring (trimmed), attractive ...

La Rochefoucauld (François, Duc de) Oeuvres, edited by M.D.L.Gilbert, 3 vol., number 90 of 150 copies, handsome red crushed morocco, gilt, by Luci...

Home (Henry, Lord Kames) Sketches of the History of Man, 4 vol., mixed edition, half-titles, first few leaves of vol.1 mounted on stubs, bookplate...

Walpole (Horace) The Works, 5 vol., first collected edition, lacking half-titles, with engraved portrait, title vignettes and plates, some folding...

Monstrelet (Enguerrand de) The Chronicles..., translated by Thomas Johnes, 5 vol., engraved title vignettes, 51 plates, one folding, ex-library se...

Swedenborg (Emanuel) Diarii spiritualis, edited by J.F.I.Tafel, 4 vol., 26pp. lithographed facsimiles printed on both sides in vol.4, lacking port...

Economics.- Keynes (John Maynard) The Economic Consequences of the Peace, original blue cloth, a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, small stain ...

[Mountbatten (Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma)] An Introduction to Polo, with a Foreword by Lord Wodehouse, number 1 of 100 copies, signed by...

Munby (A.N.L.) Phillipps Studies, 5 vol., prospectus loosely inserted, original cloth, all but vol.4 with dust-jackets, spines browned, Cambridge,...

Beerbohm (Max) A Christmas Garland, 1912; Seven Men, browned, 1919; A Survey, tipped-in plates, 1921; Fifty Caricatures, second impression, tipped...

Douglas (Norman) London Street Games, first edition, 1916; Fountains in the Sand: Rambles among the Oases of Tunisia, first edition, plates, 1912;...

Medicine.- Bravo (Francisco) The Opera Medicinalia 1570, 2 vol. comprising facsimile reprint and introduction by Francisco Guerra, original vellum...

Science.- Galton (Francis) Finger Prints, with supplement 'Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints', together 2 vol., [PMM 376], 1892-93; Finger Pri...

Illuminated Manuscripts.- Delaissé (L.M.J.) & others. The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Illuminated Manuscripts, 1977 § Al...

Beckford (William).- [Redding (Cyrus)] Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill..., 2 vol., first edition, mounted lithographed portrait frontispie...

Beckford William).- Rutter (John) Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, first edition, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, addition...

Beckford (William).- Rutter (John) Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, first edition, large paper copy, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint fro...

Beckford (William).- [Sale Catalogue] The Valuable Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey (The). A Catalogue of the Magnificent, Rare, and Valuable Li...

Beckford (William).- Hamilton Palace Libraries (The). [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the First [- Fourth] Portion of the Beckford Library, removed ...

Beckford (William).- [Waldron (Francis Godolphin) and Silvester Harding.] The Biographical Mirrour, comprising a series of Ancient and Modern Engl...

Beckford (William).- Antigüedades Arabes de España [Granada & Cordoba], 2 parts in 1, 31 engraved plates comprising 2 pictorial titles and 29 plat...

Beckford (William).- Jackson (James Grey) An Account of the Empire of Marocco, and the Districts of Suse and Tafilelt, second edition, half-title,...

Beckford (William).- Polo (Marco) The Travels..., translated by William Marsden, large paper copy, folding engraved map, bound without half-title ...

Beckford (William).- Defoe (Daniel).- Stothard (Thomas) [Proofs to Robinson Crusoe], 22 india paper proofs before letters on large paper, comprisi...

Beckford (William).- Hoskins (G.A.) Travels in Ethiopia, above the Second Cataract of the Nile, first edition, folding engraved map, 54 lithograph...

Argenti (Philip P., editor) The Massacres of Chios, 1932; The Expeditions of the Florentines to Chios (1599), 1934; The Expedition of Colonel Fabv...

Bible, Syriac. Novum Testamentum Syriace..., Syriac half-title with Latin title on verso, printed slip at end, presentation copy from the editor, ...

Bleek (W.H.J.) Über den Ersprung der Sprache, plate, light foxing, modern cloth-backed boards, Weimar, 1868 § Dartnell (G.E.) & E.H.Goddard. A Glo...

Budge (Sir E.A. Wallis, editor & translator) Lady Meux Manuscript No. 6: The Book of Paradise being the Histories and Sayings of the Monks and Asc...

Budge (Sir E.A. Wallis) Amulets and Superstitions, first edition, 1930 § Barrett (Sir William) & Theodore Besterman. The Divining Rod, first editi...

Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, 3 vol., first edition, half-title in vol.3 only as calle...

Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration, edited by N.M.Penzer, first edition, original cloth, 1924 § Pe...

Champollion (Jean François) Grammaire Égyptienne, first edition, lithographed throughout with hieroglyphs, some printed in red, half-title and tit...

Dalton (O.M.) East Christian Art, Oxford, 1925 § Runciman (Steven) A History of the Crusades, 3 vol., vol.2 reprint, Cambridge, 1951-54; The Sicil...

Doughty (Charles M.) Wanderings in Arabia, 2 vol., second edition, photogravure portrait spotted, 1908;  Travels in Arabia Deserta, with an Introd...

Du Chesne (André, editor) Historiae Francorum Scriptores Coaetanei, 5 vol., half-titles in vol.1, 4 & 5, titles in red & black with engraved vigne...

Egypt Exploration Fund.- Naville (Edouard) The Temple of Deir El Bahari, 6 vol., 1895-1908; The Store-City of Pithom and the Route of the Exodus, ...

Egypt Exploration Fund.- Petrie (W.M.Flinders) Tanis, 2 vol., 1885-88; The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty, 2 vol., 1900-01; Abydos, 2 vol., 1902...

Gardiner (Alan H.) Egyptian Grammar being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, first edition, 1927; Late-Egyptian Stories, Brussels, 1932 ...

[Gospel of St. John], text in ?Syriac, title with woodcut border, first 2 gatherings working loose, "Scotstoun" bookplate to rear pastedown, conte...

Gulik (R.H. van) Hsi K'ang and his Poetical Essay on the Lute, Monumenta Nipponica Monographs, errata leaf loosely inserted, original wrappers, fa...

Hafez. Divan, Persian text in naskh and nasta'liq on paper, without the bilingual title page, ff. 155-157 supplied in contemporary manuscript facs...

[Hammer-Purgstall (Joseph von) and Count Wenceslaus Rzewusky, editors.] Fundgruben des Orients/Mines de l'Orient, vol.1-3 only (of 6) in 12 origin...

Hammer[-Purgstall] (Joseph von) Histoire de l'Empire Ottoman, vol.1-8 only (of 18), text only, also lacking Atlas, foxing, bookplate of Frances Ma...

Homer. The Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, 6 vol., engraved portrait, folding map and plates, some folding, contemporary calf, worn, covers d...

Hopkins (Lionel C., translator) The Six Scripts, first edition, a little worming, original cloth, spine very slightly worn at head, Amoy, A.A.Marc...

Jami. al-Fawa'id al-Diya'iyah [a commentary on the Kafiya of Ibn Hajib], Arabic manuscript on paper, copied by Haydar ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad 'A...

Jerusalem.- [Wilson (Capt. Charles W.)] [Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem], a collection of plates only comprising: 24 plates & plans (of 30, lacking ...

Kall (Johann Christian) Fundamenta Linguae Arabicae, second edition, browned and soiled, unbound, frayed at edges, Copenhagen, J.H.Schuboth, 1818 ...

Karaka (Dosabhai Framji) History of the Parsis, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, titles printed in blue & brown, 8 plates including 2 mounted W...

Layard (Austen H.) Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, first edition, half-title, folding frontispiece, 10 plates (mostly tinted lith...

Letronne (Antoine Jean) I. Sur les écrits et les Travaux d'Eudoxe de Cnide d'apres M.Ludwig Ideler...II. Du Revètement des Pyramides de Gizeh..., ...

Manuscripts.- [Psalter, Songs of David], Ga'ez manuscript on vellum in red and black with occasional decoration, light browning and soiling, some ...

Manuscripts.- [Commentary on the Qur'an], Arabic manuscript on paper, copied on the eighth day of Ghasht (August) by Abu Bakr ibn Yusuf for Sultan...

Manuscripts.- Qur'an, Arabic manuscript on paper, complete, unsigned and undated, imaginatively illuminated with polychrome ink throughout, sura h...

Manuscripts.- Arabic-French phrasebook, autograph manuscript, 89pp., marginal browning, original cloth-backed boards, spine defective, rubbed, sma...

Marsham (Sir John) Chronicus canon Aegyptiacus Ebraicus Graecus et disquisitiones, half-title, title with engraved coat-of-arms and old ink inscri...

Needham (Joseph) & others. Heavenly Clockwork: The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China, Cambridge, 1960; Clerks and Craftsmen in China and...

Penzer (N.M., editor) The Ocean of Story, being C.H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara, 10 vol., limited edition, original pic...

Persian-Syriac grammar.- Kitāb-i ṣarf va naḥv-i zabān-i Fārsī, Persian and Syriac text, stab-holes to inner margin, some very light toning t...