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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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HENTY (G.A.) The Young Franc-Tireurs, and their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War, FIRST EDITION, Griffith & Farran, 1872
HENTY (G.A.) The Curse of Carne's Hold. A Tale of Adventure, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Spencer Blackett & Hallam, 1889
HENTY (G.A.) Dorothy's Double, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Chatto & Windus, 1894
KEATS (JOHN) Endymion: A Poetic Romance, FIRST EDITION, Taylor and Hessey, 1818
REEVE (CLARA) The Exiles; or, Memoirs of the Count de Cronstadt, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, T. Hookham, 1788
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 dated
RUSKIN (JOHN) Autograph letter signed ("J Ruskin"), to "Dear Mrs Stone", discussing work copying illuminated manuscripts, no place or date [c.1854-6]
RUSKIN (JOHN) Autograph letter signed ("J Ruskin"), to Kate Agnew ("My dear Miss Agnew"), sending her some samples of window-design, Denmark Hill, 8 January 1866
RUSKIN (JOHN) Two autograph letters signed ("Uncle John" and "J Ruskin"), to Agnése [Marks] ("Darling little Aggie" and "Darling Aggie"), "Sullenche" (Sallenches), Savoy, and Brantwood, 13 September 1882 and "Whitsun Monday" [10 June] 1889
RUSKIN (JOHN) Autograph letter signed ("J Ruskin"), to "Dear Mr Harris", wishing him a happy New Year; 'I NEVER CAN ALLOW THAT TURNER IS THE LEAST ABOVE ANYBODY WHO CARES FOR GOOD DRAWING' – Ruskin gives a drawing lesson, Brantwood, 2 January 1885
RUSKIN (JOHN) Two autograph letters signed ("J Ruskin" and "JR"), to his secretary W.G. Collingwood; together with the letter by the landscape artist Alfred William Hunt, sending Collingwood his letter of introduction to Ruskin;
RUSKIN (JOHN) Autograph letter signed ("J Ruskin"), to "Dear Mr Hull", giving printing instructions, 'I HATE WRITING', no place or date; with a photograph of Ruskin and two etchings by Hull
RUSKIN (JOHN) Autograph letter signed ("J Ruskin"), to "Madam", agreeing with what she says ("...You are very right in all you say of plain women generally..."), Brantwood, 15 August no year
RUSKIN (JOHN) Autograph letter signed ("J Ruskin"), to "My dear Victor", a hymn in praise of his overcoat, Brantwood, 7 January, no year
RUSKIN (JOHN) Collection comprising two autograph letters, one to the drawing master William Ward, another to J. Lomax, together with an autograph cheque and other items
RUSKIN AND BURNE-JONES Chromograph drawing showing a wombat-dog in a landscape drawn by Burne-Jones and subscribed by him at the Grange, Northend, W., with an autograph letter by Collingwood presenting it to Mrs Steeves, and other related material, 1880 and 1915
RUSKIN AND CAMBRIDGE Presentation address, on vellum, from the University of Cambridge, to John Ruskin, acknowledging the gift of twenty-five pictures, Senate House, Cambridge, 13 June 1861
SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE) St. Irvyne; or, the Rosicrucian: A Romance. By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford, FIRST EDITION, J.J. Stockdale, 1811 [but December 1810]
SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE) Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems, FIRST EDITION, C. and J. Ollier, 1819
WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) Ecclesiastical Sketches, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Longman, Hurst, 1822
CHURCHILL (WINSTON) GOODEN (STEPHEN) The Trumpeter of Saint George. An Engraving by Stephen Gooden A.R.A. with Verses by G. Rostrevor Hamilton, SIGNED AND DATED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL, [George G. Harrap & Company in association with the Royal Society of Saint George, 1941]
GRAVES (ROBERT) Good-bye to All That, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with Sassoon poems on pp.341-343, Jonathan Cape, 1929
KELMSCOTT PRESS MORRIS (WILLIAM) News from Nowhere: or, an Epoch of Rest, being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, Kelmscott Press, 1892 [but 1893]
KELMSCOTT PRESS The Order of Chivalry, LIMITED TO 225 COPIES, Kelmscott Press, 1893
KELMSCOTT PRESS MORE (THOMAS) Utopia, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, Kelmscott Press, 1893
KELMSCOTT PRESS TENNYSON (ALFRED) Maud. A Monodrama, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, Kelmscott Press, 1893
KELMSCOTT PRESS MEINHOLD (WILLIAM) Sidonia the Sorceress... translated by Francesca Speranza Lady Wilde, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM MORRIS TO KATE FAULKNER on fly-leaf ("to Kate Faulkner from William Morris November 29th 1893"), Kelmscott Press, 1893
KELMSCOTT PRESS MORRIS (WILLIAM) The Wood Beyond the World, LIMITED TO 350 COPIES, Kelmscott Press, 1894
KELMSCOTT PRESS Psalmi Penitentiales, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, Kelmscott Press, 1894
KELMSCOTT PRESS Syr Perecyvelle of Gales, LIMITED TO 350 COPIES, Kelmscott Press, 1895
KELMSCOTT PRESS MORRIS (WILLIAM) Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, 2 vol., LIMITED TO 600 COPIES, Kelmscott Press, 1895
KELMSCOTT PRESS Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis, LIMITED TO 260 COPIES, Kelmscott Press, 1896
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KELMSCOTT PRESS [SPENSER (EDMUND)] The Shepheardes Calender, LIMITED TO 231 COPIES, Kelmscott Press, 1896
KELMSCOTT PRESS The Romance of Sire Degrevant, LIMITED TO 350 COPIES, Kelmscott Press, 1896
[LAWRENCE (T.E.)] The Odyssey of Homer, LIMITED TO 530 COPIES, Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers, 1932
MILNE (A.A.) Toad of Toad Hall. A Play from Kenneth Grahame's Book "The Wind in the Willows", NUMBER 28 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY MILNE AND GRAHAME, Methuen, 1929
MORRIS (WILLIAM) Autograph draft of his lecture 'Town and Country','WE HAVE RICH MEN AMONGST US BUT THEY ARE ENEMIES OF THE COMMUNITY', [Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, delivered 29 May 1892]
RACKHAM (ARTHUR) RUSKIN (JOHN) The King of the Golden River, NUMBER 1 OF 9 COPIES WITH AN ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION BY RACKHAM, George Harrap, [1932]
VALE PRESS MOORE (THOMAS STURGE) Danae, ONE OF 10 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM, Printed at the Ballantyne Press, 1903
WELLS (H.G.) The Time Machine. An Invention, FIRST EDITION, William Heinemann, 1895
WELLS (H.G.) The Door in the Wall and Other Stories... Illustrated with Photogravures from Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn, NUMBER 50 OF 60 COPIES "for the United Kingdom, January 1915", SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER ON THE COLOPHON, Grant Richards, [1911/15]
WILDE (OSCAR) The Happy Prince and Other Tales, FIRST EDITION, David Nutt, 1888
WOOLF (VIRGINIA) Orlando, first American edition, NUMBER 180 OF 861 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, New York, Crosby Gaige, 1928
WOOLF (VIRGINIA) The Years, first edition, Hogarth Press, 1937
ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH) The Microcosm of London, 3 vol., R. Ackermann, [1808-1810]
ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH) The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ's Hospital, FIRST EDITION, R. Ackermann, 1816
BOURNE (JOHN C.) Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway, with An Historical and Descriptive Account by John Britton. Inscribed to the Directors and Engineers of the Company, FIRST EDITION, J.C. Bourne, Ackermannn & C. Tilt, 1839
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