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Morton (Thomas) A CATHOLIKE APPEALE FOR PROTESTANTS 1610. Folio. Engr. initials. Ex-library, with ink stamp to verso of title. Cont. calf. Upper board

Guilliadus (Claudius) IN EVANGELIUM SECUNDUM JOANNEM Paris, 1550. Folio. Woodcut device on title. Initials. Cont. signature on title. Ex-library with

Beveridge (William, Bishop of St. Asaph) THE WORKS.... 1720. 2 vols. Folio. Fldg. port. frontis. Titles in red/black. Ex-library, with stamps to verso

Foxe (John) ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, CONTEYNING THE ACTES AND MONUMENTS.... 1576. 2 vols in 1. Folio. Black Letter. Woodcut ills. & Engr. title t...

[Papal Bull] BOLLA.......GREGORIO X1V. CONTRA CHI SCOMMESSE SOPRA LA VITA & MORTE O SOPRA LA FUTURA ELECTIONE DEL PONTEFICO ROMANO. Rome, 1591. ...

Kitto (John) THE GALLERY OF SCRIPTURE ENGRAVINGS [1847]. 3 vols in 2. 4to. 192 engr. plates. Cont. half calf gt. a little scuffed. Some wear to head o

Appianus Alexandrinus ROMANARUM HISTORIARUM PUNICA, SIUE CARTHAGINIENSIS, PARTHICA etc. Paris (Estienne), 1592. Folio. Text in Latin & Greek. Wo...

Langius (Joseph) FLORILEGIUM MAGNUM SEU POLYANTHEAE.... Lyon, 1681. Folio. Engr. title page & with cont. signatures. T.p. torn at lower margin w...

Sadeler (Aegidius) SYMBOLA DIVINA & HUMANA Prague [G. Nigriaus?], 1601-03. 3 vols in 1. Fo. (Includes: SYMBOLA VARIA DIVERSORUM PRINCIPUM as vol...

Strabo RERUM GEOGRAPHICARUM LIBRI XVII. Amsterdam, 1707. Folio. Added engr. title. Vignette. Woodcut initials. Ex-library, with stamp to lower margin

Fazelli (Tomaso) LE DUE DECHE DELL' HISTORIA DI SICILIA Trans: R. Fiorentino Venice, 1574. 1st Italian edition. 4to. Woodcut title device, initi...

Machiavelli (Niccolo) THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE. 1680. Folio (with the LETTER TO BUONDELMONTIUS bound-in). Ex-library, but unstamped. Some light foxing.

Ingelo (Nathaniel) BENTIVOLIO AND URANIA 1682. 4th edn. 2 vols in 1. Folio. Engr. frontis. Woodcut devices to title pages. Ex-library, with stamp to f

Sidney (Sir Philip) THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S ARCADIA Ed: Mrs Stanley 1725. Folio. Engr. t.p. device & headpieces. Ex-library, with stamp t...

Fabyan (Robert) THE CHRONICLE.....OF ENGLAND AND OF FRAUNCE [ca 1542]. 2 vols in 1. Folio. Black Letter. Woodcut title to vol 2. Vol. 1 lacks Ai. Vol

Bacon (Sir Francis) THE HISTORY OF THE RAIGNE OF KING HENRY THE SEVENTH 1622. 1st edn; 1st issue. Folio. Port. frontis & engraved title. Ex-libr...

Raleigh (Sir Walter) THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD. Ills: after R. Elstrick 1614. 1st edition, 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Engr. frontis and title port. 8 do

Speed (John) THE HISTORIE OF GREAT BRITAINE UNDER THE CONQUESTS OF THE ROMANS, SAXONS, DANES AND NORMANS 1623. 2nd edn. Large folio. Added hand-col. e

Wilkins (John) AN ESSAY TOWARDS A REAL CHARACTER, AND A PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE 1668. 1st edn. Folio. License leaf. Engr. arms on title. 3 plates. 2 fl

Bacon (Francis) DE AUGMENTIS SCIENTARUM Leiden, 1645. 12mo. Engr added title and woodcut device. Some light staining. Possibly lacking one leaf. Cont.

Astle (Thomas) THE ORIGINS AND PROGRESS OF WRITING. 1784. 1st edn. 4to. Half-title. Dedication before title. 30 (of 31) engr. plates. Some fldg. some

Hogg (James) SONGS BY THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD Edin. & L. 1831. 1st edn. 12 pp booklist at front. Authors' name inserted on t.p. Orig. boards, r...

Rogers (Samuel) POEMS 1852. 2 vols. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Lord Glenely on blank leaf before frontis. vol 1. Engr. frontis &a...

Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Scondat, Baron de) DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS Paris 1820. 4 vols. Cont. half calf, blind-tooled. Plus 2 others, French l...

Clemens (Samuel Langhorne, "Mark Twain") THE WORKS. 1899-1900. 22 (of 25) vols. Ltd edition [600]. Signed twice by the author on limitatio...

Dering (E.H.) THE BAN OF MAPLETHORPE L & Leamington, 1894. 1st edn. 2 vols. B/w plates. Monastic library stamps to title & first leaf of tex...

Hume (Fergus) THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB n.d. 6pp advts. Orig. printed wraps. Crease in upper cover. £50-70

Christie (Agatha) HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS 1939 [1938]. 1st edn. Half-title. Orig. printed cloth. £40-60

Graves (Robert) POEMS 1938-45. 1946. 1st edn. Orig. cloth. Unclipped d/w. Madge (Charles) THE DISAPPEARING CASTLE 1937. 1st edn. Unclipped d/

(Golden Cockerel Press) THE CHESTER PLAY OF THE DELUGE Ills: D. Jones Waltham St. Lawrence, 1927. 4to. Ltd. edn on hand-made paper, [234/275]. 10 full

Whitman (Walt) WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOMED Ills: C.R. Ashbee. L., Essex House Press, 1900. Ltd edn. [125] numbered. Printed on vellum. Ha

Laurence (John) A NEW SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE....HUSBANDRY AND GARDENING 1726. 1st edn. Folio. Engr. frontis. 2 plates. Ex-library, with stamps to title

Hartwig (G.) THE POLAR WORLD/THE SEA AND ITS LIVING WONDERS/THE TROPICAL WORLD 1874; 1873; 1877. 3 vols. Chromoxylographic plates, wood engr. plates...

Dykes (William Ricketson) THE GENUS IRIS Cambridge, 1913. 1st edn. Folio. 48 col. plates. Library stamp to verso of title. Partly untrimmed. Orig. Qua

Evelyn (John) SILVA: A DISCOURSE OF FOREST-TREES Ed: A. Hunter. York, 1776. 1st Hunter edn. 4to. Plates as called for. Subscribers' list, with r...

Smith (Sir James Edward) & Sowerby (James) ENGLISH BOTANY. 1840. 2nd edn. Vol.7 only. 25 hand-col. plates. Cont. green half-calf. Crimson title ...

Wiseman (Richard) EIGHT CHIRURGICAL TREATIISES 1705. 4th edn. Folio. Half-title with licence on verso. Ex-library, with stamp to f.e.p. Cont. panelled

Wright (J.M.F.) A COMMENTARY ON NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA. 1833. 2 vols. Partly untrimmed. Ex-library, with stamps to titles. 19th Century quarter moro...

Sedgwick (James) A NEW TREATISE ON LIQUORS: WHERIN THE USE AND ABUSE OF WINE, MALT-DRINKS, WATER etc, ARE PARTICULARLY CONSIDER'D. 1725. Some sp...

Clarke (James Stanier) & McArthur (John) THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD NELSON, K.B. 1809. 2 vols. Large 4to. Plates & plans as called for. Some m...

Tyrrell (Henry) THE HISTORY OF THE WAR WITH RUSSIA n.d. 3 vols in 1. 4to. 4 double-p. maps. Engr. plates. cont. half morocco gt. W.a.f. Gibbon (Edward

Day (St. John Vincent) PLATES AND NOTES RELATING TO SOME SPECIAL FEATURES IN STRUCTURES CALLED PYRAMIDS Edin. 1869. Folio. 15 engr. plates. Ex-library

[Drummond, Sir William and Walpole, Rev. Robert] HERCULANENSIA: OR ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL DISSERTATIONS. 1810. 1st edn. Large 4to. 3 engr. pl

Disney (John) MUSEUM DISNEIANUM, BEING THE DESCRIPTION OF A COLLECTION OF ANCIENT MARBLES. 1846-49. 3 vols. Fo. 130 litho plates, some col. Ex-library

Panofka (Theodor) MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE GREEKS Ills: G. Scharf 1849. 4to. Engr. title & 21 plates based on Greek vase designs. Ex-library, ...

Barnes (William) NOTES ON ANCIENT BRITAIN AND THE BRITONS 1858. 1st edn. Sm. 8vo. Half-title. 16pp booklist. A little very light spotting towards the

Stone (E. Herbert) THE STONES OF STONEHENGE 1924. 1st edn. 4to. Litho frontis. B.w plates & ills. Orig. cloth gt. £40-50

Layard (Austen Henry) NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS 1854. 6th edn. 2 vols. Fldg. map & plans. Engr. plates. Booklist in vol. 1. Partly untrimmed. Mod....

Peake (Harold) & Fleure (Herbert John) THE CORRIDORS OF TIME Vols 2-7. Oxford, 1927-1931. 1st edns. 6 vols. B/w ills. Orig. cloth gt. D/w torn w...

Russell (William Howard) A MEMORIAL OF THE MARRIAGE OF HRH ALBERT PRINCE OF WALES AND HRH ALEXANDRA PRINCESS OF DENMARK. Ills: R. Dudley [1864]. Folio