BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (c.1203-72). De proprietatibus rerum, Cologne, 1481, folio, 456 leaves, contemporary pen flourishes in red and grey ink to initials on two pages incorporating drawings of hares, old calf. Provenance: John Yudkin (bookplate). RARE.
BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (c.1203-72). De proprietatibus rerum, Cologne, 1481…
BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS or BARTHOLOMAEUS DE GLANVILLE [with many variants] (c.1203-72).  De proprietatibus rerum. [Colophon:] Cologne: "Impressus per me Johanem koelhoff de lubeck", 1481. Chancery…
Hammer price: £14,000
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR - Plan of the Attack of Lord Nelson, on the Combined Fleet, October 21st, 1805. [London:] November 1805, broadside, with a hand-coloured illustration of the Battle of Trafalgar (browned), 620 x 390mm., framed and glazed. RARE.
THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR - Plan of the Attack of Lord Nelson, on the…
THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR - Plan of the Attack of Lord Nelson, on the Combined Fleet, October 21st, 1805. [London:] "Published by R. Dodd under the Admiralty," November 1805. Contemporary broadside…
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £400 - £600
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
[?BEAUFOY, Henry Benjamin Hanbury (1786-1851, attributed)]. Scloppetaria: or Considerations on the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns, London, 1808, 8vo, 13 engraved plates (stained), contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. With another related work. (2)
[?BEAUFOY, Henry Benjamin Hanbury (1786-1851, attributed)]. Scloppetaria:…
[?BEAUFOY, Henry Benjamin Hanbury (1786-1851, attributed; see note)].  Scloppetaria: or Considerations on the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns with Reference to their Forming the Basis of a…
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £400 - £600
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
BERENGER, Charles Random de (1772-1845). Helps and Hints How to Protect Life and Property. With Instructions in Rifle and Pistol Shooting, London, 1835, 8vo, 10 plates, 2 of which folding, original green publisher's pebbled cloth. FIRST EDITION.
BERENGER, Charles Random de (1772-1845). Helps and Hints How to Protect…
BERENGER, Charles Random de (1772-1845).  Helps and Hints How to Protect Life and Property. With Instructions in Rifle and Pistol Shooting, &c. London: "Published for the Proprietor, by T. Hurst, 65,…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
BIBLE, in English - The Bible, London, 1599 [but later], [with:] Psalms of David, in Scots Meter, Edinburgh, 1632. 3 parts in one vol., square 8vo, titles with woodcut borders, contemporary calf (rubbed). Geneva Bible, with "breeches" reading in Genesis.
BIBLE, in English - The Bible, London, 1599 [but later], [with:] Psalms of…
BIBLE, in English - The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in divers…
Hammer price: £750
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
BIBLE, in English - The Holy Bible, London, "Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament", 1653, tall 24mo, engraved title, contemporary calf with a design of tendrils and flowerheads and initials "F. P." stamped on each cover (rubbed, lacks clasps).
BIBLE, in English - The Holy Bible, London, "Printed by John Field,…
BIBLE, in English - The Holy Bible Containing Ye Old and New Testaments Newly Translated out of ye. Original Tongues and with the Former Translations diligently compared and revised. London: "Printed…
Hammer price: £600
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
BINDING - E. B. CHANCELLOR (1868-1937). Memorials of St James’s Street, London, 1922, large 8vo, 16 plates, FINELY BOUND in red crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun. FIRST EDITION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 74 engraved or aquatint plates, some hand-coloured.
BINDING - E. B. CHANCELLOR (1868-1937). Memorials of St James’s Street,…
BINDING - Edwin Beresford CHANCELLOR (1868-1937).  Memorials of St James's Street together with The Annals of Almack's. London: Grant Richards, 1922. Large 8vo (216 x 135mm). Half title, 16 half tone…
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
BINDING - "Lewis CARROLL" (1832-98). Alice in Wonderland, London, 1940, square 8vo, coloured plates after John Tenniel, FINELY BOUND in red half morocco gilt by Bayntun (Rivière), the spine gilt in compartments with white rabbit and playing card motifs.
BINDING - "Lewis CARROLL" (1832-98). Alice in Wonderland, London, 1940,…
BINDING - "Lewis CARROLL" [i.e. Charles Lutwidge DODGSON (1832-98)].  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1940. Square 8vo (208 x 155mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece…
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
BINDING - The Book of Common Prayer, London, 1864, large 8vo, interleaved with 27 FINE FULL-PAGE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS ON VELLUM, IN A FINE HIGHLY ELABORATE 19TH-CENTURY EMBROIDERED BINDING.
BINDING - The Book of Common Prayer, London, 1864, large 8vo, interleaved…
BINDING - The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments ... Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. Large 8vo (205 x…
Hammer price: £3,500
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
BINDING - William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). Complete Works and Life, London, 1904, 4 volumes, large 8vo, plates, attractively bound in contemporary burgundy half calf gilt (covers stained, spines lightly rubbed). "The Hampstead Edition." (4)
BINDING - William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). Complete Works and Life, London…
BINDING - William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616).  Complete Works and Life. London: James Finch & Co., Limited, 1904. 4 volumes, large 8vo (188 x 125mm). 4 photogravure portrait frontispieces, titles…
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
BIZOT, Pierre (1630-96). Histoire Metallique de la Republique de Hollande, Paris, 1686, folio, additional engraved title, initials and illustrations, 12 engraved plates, contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION of this work on Dutch coins, medals and emblems.
BIZOT, Pierre (1630-96). Histoire Metallique de la Republique de Hollande,…
BIZOT, Pierre (1630-96).  Histoire Metallique de la Republique de Hollande. Paris: "Chez Daniel Horthemels Libraire, rue Saint Jacques, au Mecenas," 1687. Folio (370 x 240mm). Additional engraved…
Hammer price: £190
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
BLUNT, Charles F. (fl.1811-45). The Beauty of the Heavens, London, 1845, 4to, 104 FINE coloured aquatint and chromolithographed plates by Charles Blunt, contemporary burgundy half morocco gilt.
BLUNT, Charles F. (fl.1811-45). The Beauty of the Heavens, London, 1845,…
BLUNT, Charles F. (fl.1811-45).  The Beauty of the Heavens. A Pictorial Display of the Astronomical Phenomena of the Universe. Exhibited in One Hundred and Four Scenes, Accompanying and Illustrating…
Hammer price: £1,300
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
BONNYCASTLE, John (1751-1821). An Introduction to Astronomy, London, 1786, large 8vo, engraved allegorical frontispiece and 20 plates, most folding, contemporary half calf (very worn). FIRST EDITION.
BONNYCASTLE, John (1751-1821). An Introduction to Astronomy, London, 1786,…
BONNYCASTLE, John (1751-1821).  An Introduction to Astronomy. In a Series of Letters, from a Preceptor to his Pupil. In Which the Most Useful and Interesting Parts of the Science are Clearly and…
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
BUCHAN, John (1875-1940). The Gap in the Curtain, London, 1932, 8vo, original green buckram, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the author's only novel which incorporates supernatural and science fiction elements.
BUCHAN, John (1875-1940). The Gap in the Curtain, London, 1932, 8vo,…
BUCHAN, John (1875-1940).  The Gap in the Curtain. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. 8vo (186 x 130mm). Half title, 4-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end. Original green buckram with a…
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
"CARROLL, Lewis" (1832-98). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, 1872, 8vo, illustrations by John Tenniel, original red buckram, "Twenty-Ninth Thousand". With the same author's Through the Looking-Glass (London, 1872, "Thirty-Second Thousand"). (2)
"CARROLL, Lewis" (1832-98). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, 1872…
"CARROLL, Lewis" [i.e. Charles Lutwidge DODGSON (1832-98)].  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., printed by Richard Clay, 1872 [but October 1871]. 8vo in 4s (183 x 125mm).…
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
CASAL, Gaspar (1680-1759). Historia Natural, y Medica de el Principado de Asturias. Obra. Posthuma. Madrid, 1762, 4to, engraved frontispiece (some staining), contemporary vellum. Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). FIRST EDITION.
CASAL, Gaspar (1680-1759). Historia Natural, y Medica de el Principado de…
CASAL, Gaspar (1680-1759).  Historia Natural, y Medica de el Principado de Asturias. Obra Posthuma ... La Saca a Luz el Doct. Juan Joseph Garcia. Madrid: "En la Oficina de Manuel Martin, Calle de la…
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £500 - £800
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
CASSINI DE THURY, César-François (1714-84). La Meridienne de l' Observatoire Royal de Paris, Paris, 1744, 4to, 14 folding engraved plates and maps, contemporary mottled calf gilt (rubbed). FIRST EDITION.
CASSINI DE THURY, César-François (1714-84). La Meridienne de l'…
CASSINI DE THURY, César-François (1714-84).  La Meridienne de l' Observatoire Royal de Paris, Vérifiée dans toute l' Etendue du Royaume par de Nouvelles Observations. Pour en Déduire la Vraye…
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
CATS, Jacob (1577-1660). Alle de Wercken, Amsterdam, 1712, 2 volumes bound in one, folio, additional engraved allegorical title, engraved plates and c. 400 emblematic illustrations, contemporary calf gilt.
CATS, Jacob (1577-1660). Alle de Wercken, Amsterdam, 1712, 2 volumes bound…
CATS, Jacob (1577-1660).  Alle de Wercken ... Ridder Oudt Raadtpensionaris van Hollandt. &c. De laatste Druk; waar on het Twee-en-Tachtig Jaarig Leeven des Dichters beneffens desselfs Slaapeloose…
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £400 - £600
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
CHAUCER, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400). The Poetical Works, Edinburgh, 1782, 14 volumes, 12mo, engraved portrait and titles, contemporary diced calf (joints split, heavily rubbed). With 2 other works in 9 volumes. (23)
CHAUCER, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400). The Poetical Works, Edinburgh, 1782, 14…
CHAUCER, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400).  The Poetical Works. ... In Fourteen Volumes. The Miscellaneous Pieces from Urry's Edition 1721, The Canterbury Tales from Tywhitt's Edition 1775. "Edinburg" [sic]: …
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). The World Crisis 1911-[1918], London, April 1923 - March 1929, volumes I - IV only, bound in 5 (of 6), plates and maps, attractively bound in contemporary red half morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION. Woods A31(a). (5)
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). The World Crisis 1911-[1918],…
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965).  The World Crisis 1911-[1918]. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, April 1923 - March 1929. Volumes I - IV only, bound in 5 (of 6). Large 8vo (226 x 148mm).…
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
CLARKE, Graham (b.1941, illustrator). Balyn and Balan, Monchelsea: Ebenezer Press, [1969], folio, coloured linocut text and plates by Clarke printed on folded sheets, each plate initialed by the artist, original boards. ONE OF 25 ARTIST'S PROOF COPIES.
CLARKE, Graham (b.1941, illustrator). Balyn and Balan, Monchelsea:…
CLARKE, Graham (b.1941, illustrator).  Balyn and Balan. Boughton Moncheslea, Kent: Ebenezer Press, [1969]. Folio (510 x 355mm). Coloured linocut title, text and plates by Graham Clarke, printed on 16…
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND, ACT OF PARLIAMENT - An Act giving Licence for Transporting Fish in Forreign Bottoms, London, "Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector," 1657, bifolium.
COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND, ACT OF PARLIAMENT - An Act giving Licence for…
COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND, ACT OF PARLIAMENT - An Act giving Licence for Transporting Fish in Forreign Bottoms. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th Day of September, Anno Domini 1656.…
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £70 - £100
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
CONDE José Antonio (1766-1820). Historia de la Dominacion de los Arabes en España, Madrid, 1820-21, 3 volumes bound in 2, small 4to, 6 engraved plates (some staining), contemporary Spanish mottled calf gilt. FIRST EDITION. (2)
CONDE José Antonio (1766-1820). Historia de la Dominacion de los Arabes en…
CONDE, José Antonio (1766-1820).  Historia de la Dominacion de los Arabes en España, sacada de varios manuscritos y memorias Arabigas. Madrid: "Imprenta que fue de Garcia," 1820-21. 3 volumes bound…
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) - T. J. WISE (1859-1937). A Bibliography of the Writings of Joseph Conrad, London, "For Private Circulation," 1920, 4to, boards (worn). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 150 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Wise to Miss Hallowes.
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) - T. J. WISE (1859-1937). A Bibliography of the…
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) - Thomas James WISE (1859-1937).  A Bibliography of the Writings of Joseph Conrad (1895-1920). London: "Printed for Private Circulation Only," 1920, 4to (225 x 178mm). Half…
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST

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