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AYRES, Ralph ("Radolphus") (fl.early-mid-18th-century).  A fine manuscript recipe book on paper containing 69 recipes on 38 leaves, most written on the rectos only, inscribed on the verso of the…

BINDING - Biblia, dat is de Gantsche Heylige Schrifture. Amsterdam: Bij de Nederlandsche Bijbel-Compagne, 1837. 5 parts in one volume, 12mo (142 x 85mm). Engraved frontispiece, printed in double…

BOYLE, Robert (1627-91).  A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things: Wherein it is Inquir'd, Whether, And (if at all) With what Cautions, a Naturalist should admit Them? ... To which…

[BURTON, Robert (1577-1640)].  The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, With all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & several cures of it. In three Partitions, with their severall Sections,…

CHESSER, Eustace (1902-73).  Live and Let Live. The Moral of the Wolfenden Report ... With a Foreword by Sir John Wolfenden. London: Heinemann, 1958. 8vo (183 x 125mm). Half title (some large spots…

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1875-1964) - A collection of c.30 books about Winston Churchill, most FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES, inscribed by their authors to the late Lady Jane Williams of…

"DINESEN, Isak" [i.e. Karen BLIXEN (1885-1962)].  A typed letter in Swedish, signed ("Karen Blixen"), on blue paper, to "Mrs Shou", two-pages, dated 2 September 1938, thanking her very warmly for her…

[DOWER, John (1825-1901).  A New General Atlas of the World. London: Orr & Company, c.1840]. 4to (295 x 240mm). 51 engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, with an additional chart [not called for on…

FEININGER, Lyonel (1871-1956, German-American expressionist painter).  A series of 15 letters, of which two autograph and the remainder typed, all but three signed ("Leo" or "Larry"), sent to "Fritz"…

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. 8vo (189 x 125mm). Half title. Original black cloth with blind-stamped circular device to the upper cover, the spine lettered…

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 8vo (188 x 125mm). Half title (faint strip of browning to left side of half title, a few leaves with marginal stains, in particular at…

[GILLRAY, James (1757-1815)].  A collection of 45 "suppressed" plates on 23 sheets, etched and engraved by Hannah Humphrey after James Gillray, variously dated in the plates 1779-1804 [but re-issued…

HOWELL, James ([?]1594-1666).  Londinopolis; An Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and Chief Emporium of Great Britain: Whereunto is added another of…

JOYCE, James (1882-1941).  Ulysses. Paris/Dijon: "Published for the Egoist Press, London, by John Rodker, Paris," [colophon: "Printed by Maurice Darantiere at Dijon, France"], [October] 1922. 4to …

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936).  23 autograph letters and cards, signed, and 5 typed letters, signed ("Rudyard Kipling", "Ruddy"), to Edward ("Teddy" or "Ted") Price or to Teddy's mother, Sarah (six…

LAW - Lord DENNING (i.e. Alfred Thompson "Tom" DENNING, Baron DENNING (1899-1999)), and others.  The Discipline of Law. London: Butterworths, 1979. 8vo (215 x 140mm). Half title, one full-page…

LEAR, Edward (1812-88).  Illustrated autograph letter, signed ("Edward Lear"), to Emily, Lady Tennyson, address given phonetically as "Oatlands Parcotel, Waltnontems, Surry", 14 January 1861. Four…

LEAR, Edward (1812-88).  Illustrated autograph letter, signed ("Edward Lear"), to Hallam Tennyson, Varese and Monte Generoso, 16 and 21 September 1880. Four-pages, 210 x 130mm and 262 x 205mm,…

LEIBOVITZ, Annie (b.1949, photographer).  Annie Leibovitz. New York: Taschen, 2014. "SUMO" size, i.e. very large 4to (690 x 500mm). Half title, preface by Steve Martin titled "The Preface No One Will…

LONDON - [David HENRY (1710-92)].  An Historical Account of the Curiosities of London and Westminster, in Three Parts. Part I. Contains a full Description of the Tower of London ... Part II. Contains…

MANUSCRIPT, NATURAL HISTORY - "The Flower Garden; in Two Parts. The First Part, Contains the Culture of all the Annual and Bienl. Plants and Flowers, together with all Bulbous Rooted Flowers, and…

MILLER, Henry (1891-1980).  A collection of corrected typescripts and letters, [late 1920s-after 1979]. 6 typed drafts of magazine articles with autograph annotations, together with 16 autograph and…

MILLER, Henry (1891-1980).  A series of 38 autograph and typed letters, all but one signed ("Henry Miller", "Henry", "Heinrich von Mueller", "Heinrich der Knarr", "Henry-san", "Heinrich von Offenbach…

MISCELLANY - LONGUS (2nd-century AD).  Daphnis et Chloé. Traduction d' Amot. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1872. 8vo (160 x 102mm). Half title, etched and wood-engraved illustrations and…