Books, Maps & Prints

* Illuminated Leaf. A leaf from a manuscript psalter on vellum, Italian, circa 1450, text in Latin on recto and verso, large illuminated initial '...

* Schedel (Hartman, 1440 - 1515). Two printed leaves from the Nuremberg Chronicle: Das sechst alter der welt, Blat LXIX and LXXI, Nuremberg, circa...

* Early printed leaves. Original Leaves from Famous English Books, London: The Folio Society, [1963], 12 single printed leaves, 7 loosely containe...

Sidonius Appolinaris. Lucubrationes, liberalium literarum studiosis cognoscendae & Iiterum atque iterum repetende, linguam enim, mentem & ingenium...

Couteau (Nicolas, publisher). [Le premier [-second] volume de la mer des histoires. Auquel le second ensuyua?t Est contenu ... toutes les Hystoire...

[Chaucer, Geoffrey]. [The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before, London: by Nicholas Hill,...

Law. Regis pie memorie Edwardi tertii a quadragesimo ad quinquagesimum, anni omnes a mendis quibus miserrime scatebant repurgati et suo nitori res...

Bible [English]. The Holy Byble, conteynyng the Olde Testament, and the New. Set foorth by aucthoritie, Imprinted at London by the assignement of ...

Bodin (Jean). Les six livres de la Republique, ensemble une apologie par René Herpin, Paris: Jacques de Puys, 1583, [24], 1060, [44] pp., title wi...

Actius (Thomas). De Ludo Scacchorum in Legali Methodo Tractatus. Nunc primum in lucem editus cum summariis & indice. Ad serenissimum franciscum ma...

Geoffrey of Monmouth (Bishop of St. Asaph). Pontici Virunnii viri doctissimi Britannicae historiae libri sex, magna et fide et diligentia conscrip...

Saint Gregentius of Taphar. Disputatio cum Herbano Judaeo: nunc primùm Graecè edita, cum interpretatione Nic. Gulonii, carnutis, literarum Graecar...

Dion Cassius. Historiae Romanae libri XLVI, partim integri, partim mutili, partim excerpti..., frankfurt: Andreae Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marniu...

Mercuriale (Girolamo). Praelectiones Pisanae Hieronymi Mercuralis Foroliviensis medicinam Pisis loco supraordinario vocato profitentis in epidemic...

[Saint German, Christopher]. Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, and a student in the lawes of England, newly corrected, with new...

Bible [English]. The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in divers Languages..., Imprint...

Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New: newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Tr...

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Olde Testament, and the New..., London: Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1613, woodcut titles...

Carrera (Pietro). Il Gioco de Gli Scacchi, Diviso in Otto Libri, 1st edition, Militello: Giovanni de' Rossi, 1617, 556 [i. e., 552], [87] pp., wo...

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former tra...

Venner (Tobias). Via Recta ad Vitam Longam: or, a Plaine Philosophicall demonstration of the Nature, faculties, and effects of all such things ......

Church of England. Certaine Sermons or Homilies appoynted to be read in Churches, in the time of the late Queene Elizabeth of famous memory, Londo...

[Chaucer, Geoffrey]. [Amorum Troili et Creseidae libri duo priores Anglico Latini, 1st edition, Oxford, J. Lichfield, 1635], woodcut initials, ini...

Heywood (Thomas). The Hierarchie of the blessed Angells. Their Names, Orders and Offices the fall of Lucifer with his Angells, London: Adam Islip,...

Bayly (Lewis). The Practice of Pietie: Directing a Christian how to walke that he may please God. Amplified by the Author. The last edition, Londo...

Berdini (Vincenzo). Historia Dell' Antica, e Moderna Palestina, descritta in tre parti, nella quale si ha particolare descrittione de luoghi piu s...

Nuremberger Schonbart. An original watercolour of a carnivalesque male figure with a pig's head and wolf's clothing, holding a small nude female h...

Bochart (Samuel). Geographiae sacrae pars prior Phaleg, seu de dispersione gentium et terrarum divisione facta in dedificatione turris Babel, 2 pa...

[Cotton, Charles]. Scarronides: Or, Le Virgile Travesty. A Mock-Poem. Being the first of Virgils Aeneis in English, Burlesque, 1st edition, E. Cot...

Saunders (Richard). Saunders Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, the symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body, fully and accu...

Clement X (Pope). Breve SSmi. D. N. Clementis Papae X, Confirmationis, & novae Concessionis Indulgentiarum, &c. pro Archiconfraternitate Cincturat...

Burton (Robert). The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & severall cures of it..., 8th editio...

Bacon (Francis). Baconiana. Or Certain genuine remains of Sr Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans; in arguments civil and m...

Cotton (Charles). The Wonders of the Peake, 1st edition, London: Joanna Brome, 1681, faint old concomitant damp-stain to upper right-hand corner (...

Heylyn (Peter). The Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, 2 volumes in 1, London: M. Clark, 1681, engraved portrait frontispiece, divisional title ...

Monmouth Rebellion. The Impostor Expos'd, in a dissection of a villanous libell, entituled, a letter to a person of honour, concerning the black b...

Nunez de Cepeda (Francisco). Idea de El Buen Pastor copiada por los SS. Doctores representada en Empresas Sacras, con avisos espirituales, morales...

Greco (Gioachino). Le Jeu des Echets, traduit de l'Italien de Gioachino Greco, Calabrois, 2nd French edition, Paris: Jacques le Febvre, 1689, wood...

Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldry, to which is added A Treatise of Honour Military and Civil..., 6th edition, London: printed by T. W., 1724, ...

Bradley (Richard). The Country Housewife and Lady's Director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm, 2nd edition, L...

Castel (Louis Bertrand). Mathematique Universelle, abrege'e a l'usage et a la porte'e de tout le monde, principalement des jeunes seigneurs, ingen...

Luyken (Jan). Histoire les plus Remarquables de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament, Amsterdam: Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, 1732, half-title, le...

Paoli (Sebastiano). Codice Diplomatico del Sacro Militare Ordine Gerosolimitano oggi di Malta ... illustrato con una serie cronologica de'Gran Ma...

[Penn, William]. Some Fruits of Solitude, in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life, 7th edition, London: Printed and sold b...

Floyer (John). Pharmako-Basanos, or the Touch-Stone of Medicines. Discovering the Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals, by their Tastes and ...

[Gynaecology]. The Ladies Physical Directory. Or, a Treatise of all the Weaknesses, Indispositions, and Diseases peculiar to the Female Sex, from ...

[Constable, John]. The Conversation of Gentlemen. Considered in most of the Ways, that make their Mutual Company Agreeable, or Disagreeable, 1st e...

Deventer (Hendrik van). Observations importantes sur le manuel des accouchemens. Premier partie [-seconde partie] ...Traduite du Latin de M. Henry...

[Roberts, Henry]. Calliope or English Harmony. A Collection of the most Celebrated English and Scots Songs Neatly Engrav'd and Embellish'd with De...

Potier (Pierre). Opera omnia practica ey chymica, cum annotationibus & additamentis utilissimis pariter ac curiosis. Friderici Hoffmani, filii hal...

Stackhouse (Thomas). A New History of the Holy Bible, from the beginning of the World, to the establishment of Christianity, 2 volumes, 2nd editio...

Bachiene (Willem Albert). A Biblical atlas containing 11 maps and one plan by Bachiene mostly of the Holy Land during different historical periods...

[Saintard, Pierre-Louis de]. Roman politique sur l'état présent des affaires de l'Amérique, ou lettres de M*** a M*** sur les moyens d'établir une...

Lolli (Giambatista). Osservazioni teorico-pratiche sopra il giuoco degli scacchi ossia il giuoco degli scacchi esposto nel suo miglior lume da Gia...

Harris (James). Three Treatises. The first concerning Art. The second concerning Music, Painting and Poetry. The third concerning Happiness, 2nd e...

Cramer (Johann Andreas). Anfangsgründe der Probierkunst, in zweyen Theilen abgefasset, von welchen der erste die Theorie, der andere die Ausübung,...

[Charnieres, Charles Francois Phillippe de]. Mémoire sur l'observation des longitudes en mer, publié par ordre du Roi, Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale,...

Voltaire. The Man of Forty Crowns. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1768, bookplate of John T. Beer to front pa...

Calcott (Wellins). A Candid Disquisition of the principles and practices of the most ancient and honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons; t...

Gray (Thomas). The Poems of Mr. Gray, to which are prefixed Memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason, York & London: Printed by A. Ward and so...