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Federigo da Venezia. Commentum in Apocalypsim (with title: Apocalypsis cum glossis Nicolai de Lyra), first edition in Italian, Rome, Printer of the Apocalypsis, 1469.

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Milan.- Corio (Bernardino) Bernardini Corii viri clarissimi mediolanensis Patria historia, first edition, Milan, Alessandro Minuziano, 1503; bound after Dello eccellentissimo oratore messer Berna...

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Alighieri (Dante) . Le terze rime di Dante con sito, et forma de lo Inferno novamente in restampito, counterfeit edition, Venice, Gregorio de Gregori, 1515.

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Miniature book.- Alighieri (Dante) Dante col sito, et forma dell'Inferno, Venice, Alessandro Paganini, [c.1515-16].

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Music.- Gafurius (Franchinus) De Harmonia Musicorum Instrumentorum Opus, first edition, Milan, Gotarto da Ponte, 1518.

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Spain & Catalonia.- Carbonell (Pedro Miguel) Chroniques de España fins aci no divulgades que tracta..., Barcelona, Carles Amorós, 1546 [but 1547].

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Alchemy.- Llull (Ramon) Opusculum Raymundinum de auditu Kabbalistico sine ad omnes scientias introductorium, Paris, Apud Aegidium Gorbinum, 1578; bound with 2 other works by Llull.

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Orlers (Jean) La Généalogie des Illustres Comtes de Nassau, second French edition, Leiden, Jean Orlers, 1615

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Descartes (René) [Opera Philosophica], 3 parts in 1 only, fourth edition, Amsterdam, 1654

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Hippology.- Winter (Georg Simon) Tractatio Nova De Re Equaria, first edition in Latin, Nürnberg, Johann Andreas Endter, 1672.

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[Montesquieu (Charles Secondat, Baron de)] De L'Esprit des Loix, 2 parts in 1 vol., early counterfeit edition, Geneva, Barrillot & Fils, [1749].

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Champollion (Jean François) & Ippolito Rosellini. Les Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie, subscription prospectus, presentation copy from Major Orlando Felix to the recipient, printed pamphlet,...

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Catalyst for the Geneva Convention.- Dunant (J. Henry) Un Souvenir de Solferino, second (first public) edition , Geneva &c., Joel Cherbuliez, 1862.

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Medieval manuscript fragment.- Augustine (Saint, Bishop of Hippo) Substantial fragment of a large bifolium from a collection of excerpts from his works, Italy, 12th century; and 3 other smaller f...

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Germany, Nuremberg.- [?Rotenecker (Johann, Abbot of St. Aegidius, Nuremberg)] Copy letter concerning the Bishop of Bamberg’s efforts to extract taxation from the monastery, manuscript in Latin, [...

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Catholic Church.- Gradual, by an artistic nun, manuscript on paper, Florence, 1584.

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Kent, Dover.- The names of all the certaine officers, and souldiers of the selected bands in the parishes… of the Towne of Dover in the Counte of Kente, manuscript on vellum, 2 membranes, 1599.

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Unrecorded dialogue on friendship & unpublished play.- Commonplace book, including Dell'Amicizia and Tragedia di Santa Caterina detta d'Alessandria, [Italy], [early 17th century].

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Heraldry & Genealogy.- [Cady [or Cade] (William)] [Book of Arms produced for William Cady], manuscript in Secretary hand, c.70 small pen and ink coats of arms in margins, of which 46 hand-coloure...

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17 century Kentish estate owner.- Curteis (William, of Rolvenden) [Accounts, expences, rents (including agricultural items) & commonplace book] A true Accompt of the totall Disbursemts. of me Wm....

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18 century poetry.- Dry (Benjamin) [Collection of poetry, epitaphs and prose], manuscript, original vellum, [c. 1730].

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Ireland.- Otway family (of Castle Otway, County Tipperary, Ireland) [Receipt book], manuscript in several hands, original leather-backed wrappers, 1752.

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River Thames & Kennet & Avon Canal.- Brindley (James) A Plan of the River Thames from Boulters Lock to Mortlake Surveyed..., hand-coloured engraved map, 1771; and a large correspondence relating ...

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Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, first duke of) Extensive collection of letters and free franks by, to and relating to the Duke of Wellington, 1828-47 (c. 130 pieces).

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Woman traveller in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey and Greece.- Williams (Eliza A.) In the Orient - Where we went, what we saw, manuscript, original half morocco, 1874.

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Lanquet (Thomas) Coopers Chronicle, conteininge the whole discourse of the histories as well of this realme, as all other countreis, [Thomas Berthelettes], 1560.

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Milton (John) The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, 1644m [bound with] An Answer to a Book...; and Urry's The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (2)

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Popish Plot.- Sammelband of c.45 works relating to the Popish Plot, 1678-80.

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Infamous travel hoax.- Psalmanazar (George) An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, Dan. Brown et al., 1704.

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Newton (Sir Isaac) Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John, 2 parts in 1, first edition, by J.Darby and T.Browne, 1733.

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Gaming Probability.- Moivre (Abraham de) The Doctrine of Chances; or, a Method of Calculating the Probability of Events in Play, second edition, for the Author, by H. Woodfall, 1738.

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Maritime.- M. (J., a Lieutenant in the Fleet) The Maritime Campaign of 1778, first edition, for William Faden, 1779.

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Wollstonecraft (Mary) Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: with Reflections on Female Conduct, in the more Important Duties of Life, first edition, for J.Johnson, 1787.

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Wollstonecraft (Mary) An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, vol.1 (all published), first edition, Printed for J. Johnson, 1794.

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Angling.- Walton (Izaak) The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Part I. being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish & Fishing, fifth edition, much corrected and enlarged, fo...

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Chess.- Philidor (François-André Danican) Chess analysed: or instructions by which a perfect knowledge of this noble game may in a short time be acquir'd, first edition in English, Niemeijer-Schm...

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Chess.- Lambe (Robert) The History of chess, together with short and plain instructions by which any one may easily play at it without the help of a teacher, first edition, no printer [one attrib...

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Henry VIII's Primer.- Church of England.- The Primer, set foorth by the Kynges maiestie and his clergie, to be taught lerned, & read: and none other to be vsed throughout all his dominion, first ...

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Rare English printed fragment as endpaper.- Leo I (Pope) Epistolae decretales ac familiares, Cologne, Melchior von Neuß, 1548.

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Bible, English. The Bible, that is the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament, London [i.e. Amsterdam], by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599 [but later]; bound with 'The Bo...

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Witchcraft and Exorcism.- Darrell (John) A Detection of that Sinnful Shamful Lying and Ridiculous Discours, of Samuel Harshnet, Entituled: A Discoverie of the Fraudulent Practises of John Darrell...

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Du Bosc (Jacques) The Excellent Woman Described by her True Characters and Their Opposites, for Joseph Watts, 1692

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Princeton University.- Tennent (Gilbert) and Samuel Davies. To the worthy and generous friends of religion and learning, In Great Britain and Ireland..., 1754.

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America.- Sterling (James) Zeal against the Enemies of our Country pathetically recommended: In a remarkable Sermon, Preached before His Excellency the Governor of Maryland, Annapolis, Printed : ...

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Sower imprint.- Uncertainty of a death-bed repentance (The), illustrated under the character of Penitens, rare, [Germantown, Pa], [Printed by Christopher Sower, Jr], [1756].

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Bible, English.- The Holy Bible, 8 vol., Printed for Thomas Macklin, by Thomas Bensley, 1800-16

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Crime & Execution.- Walker (William) The last dying speech, and travels..., [c. 1800].

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Women & Executions.- Watkins (John) The Important Results of an Elaborate Investigation into the Mysterious Case of Elizabeth Fenning..., first edition, 1815.

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Illustrated London News (The), c,400 vol., 1842-1993.

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[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Jane Eyre. An Autobiography, 3 vol., first edition, Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1847.

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[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], "Currer Ellis and Acton Bell". Poems, first edition, second issue, Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 [but 1848].

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[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Shirley. A Tale, 3 vol., first edition, Smith, Elder and Co., 1849.

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Gaskell (Elizabeth C.) Cranford, first edition, 1853.

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[Evans (Mary Ann)], "George Eliot". Mill on the Floss, first editions, 3 vol., 1860.

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[Evans (Mary Ann)], "George Eliot". Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, 4 vol., first edition in book form, 1871-72.

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Economics.- Malthus (T. R.) Opyt o zakonie narodonaseleniia. [An Essay on the Principle of Population], 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition in Russian, St Petersburg, 1868.

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Economics.- [Collection of c.1,500 offprints, journal issues, monographs and pamphlets relating to economics], many with Nobel Prize Winner, Richard Stone's ink ownership inscription, a small num...

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Economics.- Keynes (John Maynard) The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, first edition, 1936.

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Stevenson (Robert Louis) New Arabian Nights, 2 vol., first edition, 1882.

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Keats (John) The Poetical Works, no. 10 of 50 large paper copies signed by the printer 1884.

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Verne (Jules) The Clipper of the Clouds, first English edition, 1887

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Wilde (Oscar) The Picture of Dorian Gray, first published appearance, English issue, 1890.

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Wilde (Oscar) [Works], 14 vol., first collected edition, one of 1000 sets on hand-made paper, 1908.

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Miniature Book.- Mite (The), the printer/publisher's own copy with the original type and printing blocks for all three of its editions (1891, 1893 & 1896), Grimsby, Ernest A. Robinson, 1891.

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Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [&] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 2 vol., first editions, 1892-94.

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Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The River War, 2 vol., first edition, London, New York & Bombay, 1899

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Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The People's Rights, first edition, second state, [1909].

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Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The World Crisis, 6 vol., 1923-37.

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Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The Second World War, 6 vol., first editions, 1948-54.

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Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) A History of the English Speaking People, 4 vol., first editions, 1956-58

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Popper (Sir Karl) Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, second edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1965.

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Popper (Sir Karl) The Logic of Scientific Discovery, revised edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to front endpaper, 1968.

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