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BOYLE (ROBERT) The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, touching the Spagyrist's Principles commonly call'd Hypostatical, as they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists, FIRST EDITION, J. Cadwell, for J. Crooke, 1661BOYLE (ROBERT) The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, touching the Spagyrist's Principles commonly call'd Hypostatical, as they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists, FIRST EDITION, J. Cadwell, for J. Crooke, 1661. Sold for £362,500 inc. premium
DARWIN (CHARLES) The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, John Murray, 1859DARWIN (CHARLES) The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, John Murray, 1859. Sold for £98,500 inc. premium
RUSKIN (JOHN) Series of over forty autograph letters signed, to Jane, Lady Simon, and her husband Sir John Simon; Ruskin writes on Turner, his bouts of madness, the difficulties he has in loving others, his mission in life, the death of his old nurse and of his mother, relations with the mother of Rose La Touche, and the wonder of a woman's ability to sew on buttons, Herne Hill, Denmark Hill, Matlock, Inverness, Bridge of Allan, Glasgow, Corpus Christi College, and elsewhere, 1857-1871 where datedRUSKIN (JOHN) Series of over forty autograph letters signed, to Jane, Lady Simon, and her husband Sir John Simon; Ruskin writes on Turner, his bouts of madness, the difficulties he has in loving others, his mission in life, the death of his old nurse and of his mother, relations with the mother of Rose La Touche, and the wonder of a woman's ability to sew on buttons, Herne Hill, Denmark Hill, Matlock, Inverness, Bridge of Allan, Glasgow, Corpus Christi College, and elsewhere, 1857-1871 where dated. Sold for £79,300 inc. premium
SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) AND JOHN FLETCHER The Two Noble Kinsmen Presented at the Blackfriars by the Kings Maiesties Servants, with Great Applause: Written by the memorable worthies of their time Mr. John Fletcher, and Mr. William Shakspeare, FIRST EDITION, Thomas Cotes, for John Waterson, 1634SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) AND JOHN FLETCHER The Two Noble Kinsmen Presented at the Blackfriars by the Kings Maiesties Servants, with Great Applause: Written by the memorable worthies of their time Mr. John Fletcher, and Mr. William Shakspeare, FIRST EDITION, Thomas Cotes, for John Waterson, 1634. Sold for £47,500 inc. premium
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, Use of Rome, [Flanders, probably Bruges, mid fifteenth century]ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, Use of Rome, [Flanders, probably Bruges, mid fifteenth century]. Sold for £47,500 inc. premium
BRIGHT (RICHARD) Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy, 2 vol. in 3, FIRST EDITION, Longman, Rees, 1827-1831BRIGHT (RICHARD) Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy, 2 vol. in 3, FIRST EDITION, Longman, Rees, 1827-1831. Sold for £22,500 inc. premium
BLOCH (MARCUS ELIEZER) Poissons de l'ouvrage de Bloch corrigés d'apré le texte e disposés selon l'ordre de la zoologie universelle, avec leurs principaux caracteres spécifiques, MANUSCRIPT, in ink, 207 PAGES OF WATERCOLOURS, "Paris, 1788"BLOCH (MARCUS ELIEZER) Poissons de l'ouvrage de Bloch corrigés d'apré le texte e disposés selon l'ordre de la zoologie universelle, avec leurs principaux caracteres spécifiques, MANUSCRIPT, in ink, 207 PAGES OF WATERCOLOURS, "Paris, 1788". Sold for £21,875 inc. premium
LIND (JAMES) A Treatise of the Scurvy, FIRST EDITION, Edinburgh, A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson, 1753LIND (JAMES) A Treatise of the Scurvy, FIRST EDITION, Edinburgh, A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson, 1753. Sold for £18,750 inc. premium
OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) Habebis candide lector... Metamorphosin castigatissima, 1505, bound with 5 othersOVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) Habebis candide lector... Metamorphosin castigatissima, 1505, bound with 5 others. Sold for £18,750 inc. premium
TYSON (EDWARD) Orang-outang, sive homo-sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man, 2 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, T. Bennet, and D. Brown, 1699TYSON (EDWARD) Orang-outang, sive homo-sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man, 2 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, T. Bennet, and D. Brown, 1699. Sold for £8,750 inc. premium

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AMADIS DE GAULE Le premier [-vingt uniesme et dernier] livre d'Amadis de Gaule, 21 vol. in 29, Lyon, F. Didier, B. Rigaud and Louis Cloquemin, 1577-1581
ANDRÉS (JUAN) Confusio Sectae Mahometanae. Interprete ex idiomate Italico Johanne Lauterbach, Utrecht, Jan van Waesberge, 1656
ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS Summa theologica, part 1 (of 4), Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, 28 September 1490 [Tabula undated]
BEMBO (PIETRO) Historiae Venetae libri XII, first edition, Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1551
BINDING - COLBERT LE BOSSU (RENÉ) Traité du poeme epique, Paris, Michel Le Petit, 1675
BINDING - D'ARTOIS MARMONTEL (JEAN-FRANCOIS) Les incas, ou la destruction de l'empire du Pérou, 2 vol., Paris, Lacombe, 1777
BINDING - DE THOU FREHER (MARQUAND) Decisionum Areopagiticarum Sylvula, 1615, bound with 2 other works
BINDING - DUC D'ORLEANS D'ARNAUD (FRANCOIS-THOMAS-MARIE DE BACULARD) Lamentations de Jeremie. Odes dédiées a la reine de Pologne, [Paris, la veuve Lottin], 1757
BINDING - MACHAULT D'ARNOUVILLE ROSEMOND (JEAN-BAPTISTE DE) Histoire des guerres civiles d'Angleterre ...Contenant une rélation suivie de ce qui s'est passé dans ce royaume, depuis l'an 1307, jusqu'à l'an 1326. Sous le régne d'Edouard II... tirée des auteurs anglois, 2 parts in 1 vol., Amsterdam, Henry Desbordes, 1690
BINDING - MADAME VICTOIRE DE FRANCE BASIL, Saint. Lettres de Saint le Grand, Archevesque de Cesaree, en Cappadoce, traduites du Grec, Paris, Pierre and Imbert Debats, 1701
BINDING - SPANISH WENDLINGEN (JUAN) Elementos de la mathematica, 4 vol., Madrid, Joachin Ibarra, 1753-1756
BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Il Decamerone, Venice, Gregorio de Gregori, 1516
CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS) [Gallic Wars] Caii Julii Cesaris des großmechtigen ersten römischen Keysers Historien vom Gallier und der Römer burgerische Krieg, Mainz, Schöffer, July 1532
CHURCH SLAVONIC PANORMITANUS DE TUDESCHI (NICOLAUS) Ispovjedaōnik, sabrana iz pravoslavnjeh naučitelja po Ieronimu Panormitanu, Rome, Congregazione de Propaganda Fide, 1630
COPTIC LITURGY A book of liturgies of the Coptic Church, [probably Egypt, late seventeenth/early eighteenth century, and nineteenth century]
D'AILLY (PIERRE) Quaestiones... super primu[m], tertium et quartum sententiarum, Paris, Jean Petit, [1512]
FAERNO (GABRIEL) Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctores delectae, Rome, Vicentius Luchinus, [1565]
FLORENCE - HERALDRY DEL MIGLIORE (FERDINANDO LEOPOLD) Senatori fiorentini raccolti da..., first edition, Florence, 'nel Sp. di Sas.', 1665
GÓMEZ DE LUQUE (GONZALO) Libro primero delos famosos hechos del principe Celidon de Iberia. Compuesto en estancias, por Gonçalo Gomez de Luque, natural de la ciudad de Cordova, FIRST EDITION, Alcala de Henares, en casa de Juan Iñiguez de Lequerica: a costa de Diego de Xaramillo, 1583
GRATIAN Decretus Gratiani, Venice, Luca-Antonio Giunta, 20 May 1514
HESSUS (EOBANUS HELIUS) De tuenda bona valetudine, Frankfurt, heirs of Christian Egenholph, 1582
HORAE, USE OF THÉROUANNE, IN LATIN Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Terouenne, Paris, Philippe Pigouchet, for Simon Vostre, 4 June 1498
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, Use of Rome, [Flanders, probably Bruges, mid fifteenth century]
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, [France, late fifteenth century]
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT [Composite volume of devotional texts], [France, fourteenth-fifteenth centuries]
LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE) Contes et nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, Amsterdam, Henry Desbordes, 1685
LEONARDUS DE UTINO Sermones aurei de sanctis, Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 22 January 1478
LIPSIUS (JUSTUS) Opera omnia, 6 vol., Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1600-1605
LIVIUS (TITUS) Orationes omene, ex libris de II. bello Punico, Frankfurt, Christian Egenolph, [March 1537]
MAHOMET II Epistolae magni Turci, [edited by Laudivio Zacchia], [Rome, Joannes Philippus de Lignamine, 27 November, 1473]
MARTIAL (MARCUS VALERIUS) Epigrammaton libri xiiii summa diligentia castigati, Paris, S. Colines, 1539
OTTOMAN BINDING POMPONIUS LAETUS (JULIUS) Opera varia, Mainz, Johannes Schoeffer, 1521
OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) Habebis candide lector... Metamorphosin castigatissima, Parma, Mazalis, 1505, bound with 5 others
PINO DA CAGLI (BERNARDINO) L'Eunia, ragionamenti pastorali, 1532; bound with 3 other works
SAVONAROLA (GIROLAMO) Compendio di revelatione, [Florence, Francesco Bonaccorsi, 18 August 1495]
SAVONAROLA (GIROLAMO) Expositiones in psalmos. Quie regis israel, [colophon: Venice, F. Bindani, 24 March 1524]
SPANISH PORTRAITS Retratos de los Espaňoles ilustres con un epitome de sus vidas, bound in 2 vol., Madrid, en la Imprenta Real, 1791
STROZZI (TITO VESPASIANO) Strozzi poetae pater et filius, [Venice, Aldus & Andreae Asulani, January 1513]
[TYARD (PONTUS DE)] Douze fables de fleuves ou fontaines, avec la description pour la peinture, & les epigrammes, first edition, Paris, Jean Richer, 1585
ADAM (JAMES) Autograph letter signed ("James Adam"), to Mr Wood of "Niccolas" Lane, submitting a property valuation, Adelphi, 13 January 1784
ARABIAN NIGHTS The New Arabian Winter Nights Entertainments... Faithfully Translated into English from the Arabick Manuscript of Haly Ulugh Shaschin, Part 1 [?all published], SCARCE, 1711; bound with 24 others including Cyder poem
ASCHAM (ROGER) Apologia... pro caena Dominica, contra Missam & eius prestigias, Francis Coldock, 1578; CRANMER (THOMAS) Defensio verae et catholicae doctrinae de sacramento corporis & sanguinis Christi, [Emden, Egidius van der Erve], 1557; 2 works bound in one vol.
BAKER (THOMAS)] An Act at Oxford. A Comedy, FIRST EDITION, DEDICATEE'S COPY, Bernard Lintott, 1704
BEAUMONT (FRANCIS) AND JOHN FLETCHER The Maides Tragedie: as it hath beene divers times acted at the Black-Friers by the Kings Maiesties Servants... fourth impression, revised and refined, Printed by E[dward] G[riffin] for Henry Shepherd, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bible in Chancery Lane, 1638
BEAUMONT (FRANCIS) and JOHN FLETCHER Comedies and Tragedies... Never Printed Before, and Now Published by the Authours Originall Copies, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, Humphrey Robinson, and Humphrey Moseley, 1647
BERKELEY (GEORGE) A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Part I [all published], FIRST EDITION, Dublin, Aaron Rhames, for Jeremy Pepyat, 1710
BRIDGES (JOHN) A Defence of the Government Established in the Church of Englande for Ecclesiastical Matters, John Windet, for Thomas Chard, 1587
BROME (RICHARD) The Antipodes: a Comedie. Acted in the Yeare 1638, by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at Salisbury Court in Fleet-street, FIRST EDITION, J. Okes for Francis Constable, 1640
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