[BOYER, Abel.]

A View of Paris, and Places adjoining....

London, John Nutt, 1701.

The dedication copy, an apparently unique...

£1250

[BOXING.]

The Art of manual Defence; or, System of...

London, G. Kearsley, ‘1799’ [but 1789].

Third edition, scarce, of an early illustrated...

£2750

BOWLES, William Lisle.

The Missionary: a Poem … Second Edition,...

London, [T. Davison for] John Murray, 1815.

Second, enlarged edition (first 1813),...

£750

[BIGG-WITHER.]

Recipe and accounts book.

1730s, and 1845–53.

An eighteenth-century manuscript recipe...

£5000

[BIGG-WITHER.]

The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament...

London, Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1628.

An attractive octavo Bible, with the apocrypha,...

£8750

BEAUMONT, Francis, and John FLETCHER.

Cupids Revenge. As it was often acted (with...

London, Thomas Jones, 1630.

Second edition of a striking classical...

£3500

[BARCLAY MOUNTAIN, PENNSYLVANIA.]

Archive of over 200 letters, maps, accounts,...

Mostly Philadelphia and London, 1794–1854.

A large and coherent archive relating to...

£32500

[ALBUM.]

The Conversational Album. For recreative...

[and booksellers in Birmingham, Brighton,...

An amusing late-Victorian book of printed...

£1500

ALBEMARLE, Arnold Joost van Keppel, Earl of; WILLIAM III, et al.

A substantial archive of autograph letters,...

June 1699–November 1701.

A fascinating archive, covering, among...

£17500

ADAMSON, Andrew.

‘A Collection of Sentences, moral, divine...

‘Cliftonhall 1777’ [–1808].

An unusual Scottish commonplace book of...

£1750

HAHN, Reynaldo.

Portraits de peintres. Pièces pour piano...

Paris, Au Ménestrel, 1896.

First edition of Hahn’s piano suite based...

£1750

LANGBAINE, Gerard.

The Lives and Characters of the English...

London, William Turner, 1699.

A delightful association copy, from the...

£1250

COWLEY, Abraham.

The Guardian; a Comedie. Acted before Prince...

London, [Thomas Newcombe] for John Holden,...

First edition, second issue, of this royalist...

£3000

[ALBUM.]

‘A Manuscript Album written by an affectionate...

Deptford, Kent, 1833.

An attractive small-format gift album of...

£375

ALEXANDER, [Charles] A[rmistead].

The Fall of Aztalan, and other Poems …

Washington, D.C., W. M. Morrison, 1839.

First edition, a presentation copy, of...

£1750

[BYRON, George Gordon, Lord.] Edward FINDEN, illustrator.

[Landscape and Portrait Illustrations of Byron.]

[London, John Murray, 1833–4.]

Finden’s attractive engraved illustrations...

£850

[CALLIGRAPHIC SCORES.]

Two anonymous manuscript scores.

London, 1820s.

Two charming productions, sent as anonymous...

£850

[EUDISTS.]

‘Vive Jesus et Marie. Regles des freres...

[Northwestern France, c. 1730].

A most interesting manuscript detailing...

£750

FITZGERALD, Edward.

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám … With...

Harrap & Co. Ltd, [1940].

Limited illustrated edition, no. 75 of...

£600

HOME, John.

Douglas: a Tragedy.

Edinburgh, George Reid & Co., 1798.

First illustrated edition, a handsome subscriber’s...

£250