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DARWIN (CHARLES) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1859. Estimate: £50,000 - £70,000

JOYCE (JAMES) Annotated typescripts from Finnegans Wake, [mainly Paris, 1936-37]. Estimate: £45,000 - £55,000

ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome Manuscript Book of Hours on vellum in Latin, with calendar in French, [Flanders, probably Bruges, mid fifteenth century]. Estimate: £25,000 - £35,000

FLEMING (IAN) Casino Royale, FIRST EDITION, Jonathan Cape, [1953]. Estimate: £20,000 - £30,000

TURING (ALAN) Autograph mathematical calculations setting out a problem in n-dimensional geometry, [Bletchley Park, 1941 or 1942]. Estimate: £20,000 - £30,000

COOK (JAMES) and JOSEPH BANKS Banks' Florilegium. A Publication in Thirty-Four Parts of Seven Hundred and Thirty-Eight Copperplate Engravings of Plants Collected on Captain James Cook's First Voyage Round the World in H.M.S. Endeavour, 35 parts in 11 vol., NUMBER 42 OF 100 COPIES, Alecto Historical Editions, 1980-1990. Estimate: £15,000 - £25,000

ROYALTY - ABDICATION OF EDWARD VIII Papers from the collection of Sir Albert George Allen (1888-1956), solicitor to the Duke of Windsor during the abdication,. Estimate: £10,000 - £20,000

SUFFRAGETTES - HUNGER STRIKE MEDAL Hunger strike medal awarded by the WSPU to Ada Wright, [1909], with original presentation box and copy of Votes for Women leaflet no. 75. Estimate: £15,000 - £20,000

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249 lots available

1^• —
ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH)
A History of the University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, R. Ackermann, 1815

£1,500 - £2,500

2^• —
CHESS
EZRA (ABRAHAM IBN) Neu-Eröffnete Kunststück des Schach-Spiels, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1743; and three others (4)

£400 - £600

3^• —
CHESS
HYDE (THOMAS) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii... De ludis Orientalium, FIRST EDITION, Oxford, 1694

£1,000 - £1,500

4^• —
CHESS
PHILIDOR (FRANCOIS DANICAN) L'Analyse des echecs, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, London, 1749

£800 - £1,200

5^• —
CHESS
SALVIO (ALESSANDRO) Il Puttino, FIRST EDITION, Naples, Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634

£1,000 - £2,000

6^• —
COOKERY
Manuscript receipt book containing over 200 culinary and household recipes, [eighteenth century]

£1,000 - £1,500

COOKERY & MEDICINE - IRELAND Manuscript notebook containing c.300 culinary and medicinal receipts, ownership inscription of Dorcas Price of Hollymount, [late seventeenth/early eighteenth century]

7^• —
COOKERY & MEDICINE - IRELAND
Manuscript notebook containing c.300 culinary and medicinal receipts, ownership inscription of Dorcas Price of Hollymount, [late seventeenth/early eighteenth century]

£1,000 - £1,500

8^• —
ROLEX VADE MECUM
WILSDORF (HAN), ALFRED CHAPUIS and EUGÈNE JACQUET. Rolex Jubilee Vade Mecum, 4 vol., 802 OF 1,000, Geneva, Rolex Watch Company, 1946

£200 - £300

9 —
INDIAN MUTINY & CRIMEA
Series of letters from Private James Pedder, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, 1853-1860

£2,000 - £3,000

10^• —
MALTON (THOMAS)
A Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 1792[-1801]

£3,000 - £4,000

11^• —
MOTORING
MONTAUT (ERNEST) 10 ans courses, FIRST EDITION, Paris, Montaut-Mabileau et Cie, 1907

£1,500 - £2,000

12^• —
NATTES (JOHN CLAUDE) AND JAMES FITTLER
Scotia Depicta, 1804; and 2 others, by Westall/Harding on Kent, and Cooke/Rennie on London Bridges (3)

£500 - £700

13 —
PHOTOGRAPHY - FENTON (ROGER)
Volunteer Class at the Hythe, Right Wing, February 1860, [1860]

£300 - £500

14 —
PSYCHIC AND SPIRITUAL MEDIUM PHOTOGRAPHY
16 glass plate negatives, and 5 rolls of film negatives [c.1938-1940]; and 5 books

£600 - £800

15^• —
PYNE (WILLIAM HENRY)
The History of the Royal Residences, 3 vol., A. Dry, 1819

£1,000 - £2,000

16^• —
STOW (JOHN)
A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster..., 2 vol, 1720

£800 - £1,200

17^• —
WALES
WOOD (JOHN GEORGE) The Principal Rivers of Wales Illustrated,T. Bensley, 1813

£600 - £800

18^• —
ALBIN (ELEAZAR)
A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, FIRST EDITION, for the Author, 1720

£1,500 - £2,000

19^• —
ANATOMY
ALBINUS (BERNARD SIEGFRIED) Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, 1749; Explanation, 1754 (2)

£1,500 - £2,500

20^• —
BECKETT (WILLIAM)
A Free and Impartial Enquiry into the Antiquity of Touching for the Cure of King's Evil, J. Peele, 1722

£500 - £700

21^• —
BULLER (WALTER LAWRY)
A History of the Birds of New Zealand, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], John Van Voorst, 1873

£2,000 - £3,000

22^• —
COOK (JAMES) and JOSEPH BANKS
Banks' Florilegium, 35 parts in 11 vol., NUMBER 42 OF 100 COPIES, Alecto Historical Editions, 1980-1990

£15,000 - £25,000

CURTIS (WILLIAM) Flora Londinensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of Such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vol. bound in 3, Printed for and Sold by the Author, 1777

23^• —
CURTIS (WILLIAM)
Flora Londinensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of Such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vol. bound in 3, Printed for and Sold by the Author, 1777

£3,000 - £4,000

24^• —
DARWIN (CHARLES)
On the Origin of Species, FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1859

£50,000 - £70,000

25^• —
[HAYES (SAMUEL)]
A Practical Treatise on Planting, FIRST EDITION, [London, 1799]; and 5 others, forestry and cultivation (6)

£500 - £700

26^• —
PAXTON (JOSEPH)
Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, 16 vol., Orr and Smith, 1834-1849

£1,000 - £2,000

RASHLEIGH (PHILIP) Specimens of British Minerals Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh, FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY THE RASHLEIGH FAMILY, 2 vol. bound in 1, W. Bulmer & Co. for G. & W. Nicol and J. White, 1797-1802

27^• —
RASHLEIGH (PHILIP)
Specimens of British Minerals Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh, FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY THE RASHLEIGH FAMILY, 2 vol. bound in 1, W. Bulmer & Co. for G. & W. Nicol and J. White, 1797-1802

£3,000 - £5,000

28^• —
REDOUTÉ (PIERRE JOSEPH)
Les roses...., 40 parts bound in 4 vol., C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1824-1826]

£2,500 - £3,500

29^• —
RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)
[SINCLAIR (GEORGE)] Hortus Ericaeus Woburnensis, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 50 COPIES], 1825

£2,000 - £3,000

30^• —
RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)
[FORBES (JAMES)] Salictum Woburnense, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED, 1829

£3,000 - £5,000

31^• —
SCLATER (PHILIP LUTLEY) AND OLDFIELD THOMAS
The Book of the Antelopes, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, R.H. Porter, 1894-1900

£2,000 - £4,000

32 —
WHITE (GILBERT)
Autograph letter signed to William Richardson, Selborne, 7 September 1778

£1,000 - £1,500

33^• —
WHITE (GILBERT)
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, FIRST EDITION, B. White, 1789

£600 - £800

34^• —
WILLUGHBY (FRANCIS) AND JOHN RAY
The Ornithology of Francis Willughby, A[ndrew] C[larke] for John Martyn, 1678

£600 - £800

35^• —
ALDINE PRESS
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, 8vo, 1558-9; and 2 others, Aldine (3)

£500 - £700

36^• —
AMBROSIUS, SAINT
Opera [ed. J. Amerbach, additions by J. de Lapide], vol. 1 (of 3), EDITIO PRINCEPS, [Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1492]

£800 - £1,200

37^• —
AMBROSIUS, SAINT
Opera [edited by Johann Amerbach], vol.1 (of 3), [Basel, Johannes Petri, 12 September 1506]

£600 - £800

38^• —
BIBLE, IN LATIN
Biblia cum concordantiis..., [Lyon], [Joh. Moylin alias de Cambray for Etienne Gueynard alias Pinet], [24 March 1522]

£800 - £1,200

39^• —
BIBLE, IN LATIN
Biblia cum pleno apparatu summariorum concordantiarum, Paris, 1507; and 5 others, continental theology (6)

£500 - £700

40^• —
BINDING - FRENCH
L'Office de la Semaine Sainte, Paris, G. Desprez, 1758

£600 - £800

BOETHIUS [De consolatione] Duplex commentatio ex integro reposita atque recognita in Boetium, [Lyon, Claude Davost impenisis Simon Vincent, 1506]

41^• —
BOETHIUS
[De consolatione] Duplex commentatio ex integro reposita atque recognita in Boetium, [Lyon, Claude Davost impenisis Simon Vincent, 1506]

£600 - £800

42^• —
BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF PARIS
Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Paris, [Paris], Thielman Kerver, 1549

£400 - £600

43^• —
BREVIARY AND BIBLE PSALTER, USE OF SARUM
Portiforium seu breviarum ad insignis Salisburiensis ecclesie usum, [Antwerp], 1525 (2)

£1,000 - £2,000

44^• —
BREVIARY, USE OF PASSAU
Breviarum pars hyemalis [estevalis], 2 vol., Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 10 July 1503

£1,000 - £1,500

45^• —
CLEMENS V, POPE
Constitutiones [with commentary by Johannes Andreae], Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 15 March 1486

£1,500 - £2,500

46^• —
DURAND (GUILLAUME)
Rationale divinorum, [Strasbourg, Georg Husner, 1501], and another edition, Lyon, 1568 (2)

£600 - £800

47^• —
GELLIUS (AULUS)
Noctium atticarum libri vindeuigniti [edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius], March 1530

£1,000 - £1,500

48^• —
GRATIANUS
Decretum with apparatus, Basel, Johann Froben and Johann Amerbach, 1 July 1500

£2,000 - £3,000

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1• — ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH) A History of the University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, R. Ackermann, 1815

2• — CHESS EZRA (ABRAHAM IBN) Neu-Eröffnete Kunststück des Schach-Spiels, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1743; and three others (4)

3• — CHESS HYDE (THOMAS) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii... De ludis Orientalium, FIRST EDITION, Oxford, 1694

4• — CHESS PHILIDOR (FRANCOIS DANICAN) L'Analyse des echecs, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, London, 1749

5• — CHESS SALVIO (ALESSANDRO) Il Puttino, FIRST EDITION, Naples, Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634

6• — COOKERY Manuscript receipt book containing over 200 culinary and household recipes, [eighteenth century]

7• — COOKERY & MEDICINE - IRELAND Manuscript notebook containing c.300 culinary and medicinal receipts, ownership inscription of Dorcas Price of Hollymount, [late seventeenth/early eighteenth century]

8• — ROLEX VADE MECUM WILSDORF (HAN), ALFRED CHAPUIS and EUGÈNE JACQUET. Rolex Jubilee Vade Mecum, 4 vol., 802 OF 1,000, Geneva, Rolex Watch Company, 1946

9 — INDIAN MUTINY & CRIMEA Series of letters from Private James Pedder, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, 1853-1860

10• — MALTON (THOMAS) A Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 1792[-1801]

11• — MOTORING MONTAUT (ERNEST) 10 ans courses, FIRST EDITION, Paris, Montaut-Mabileau et Cie, 1907

12• — NATTES (JOHN CLAUDE) AND JAMES FITTLER Scotia Depicta, 1804; and 2 others, by Westall/Harding on Kent, and Cooke/Rennie on London Bridges (3)

13 — PHOTOGRAPHY - FENTON (ROGER) Volunteer Class at the Hythe, Right Wing, February 1860, [1860]

14 — PSYCHIC AND SPIRITUAL MEDIUM PHOTOGRAPHY 16 glass plate negatives, and 5 rolls of film negatives [c.1938-1940]; and 5 books

15• — PYNE (WILLIAM HENRY) The History of the Royal Residences, 3 vol., A. Dry, 1819

16• — STOW (JOHN) A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster..., 2 vol, 1720

17• — WALES WOOD (JOHN GEORGE) The Principal Rivers of Wales Illustrated,T. Bensley, 1813

18• — ALBIN (ELEAZAR) A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, FIRST EDITION, for the Author, 1720

19• — ANATOMY ALBINUS (BERNARD SIEGFRIED) Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, 1749; Explanation, 1754 (2)

20• — BECKETT (WILLIAM) A Free and Impartial Enquiry into the Antiquity of Touching for the Cure of King's Evil, J. Peele, 1722

21• — BULLER (WALTER LAWRY) A History of the Birds of New Zealand, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], John Van Voorst, 1873

22• — COOK (JAMES) and JOSEPH BANKS Banks' Florilegium, 35 parts in 11 vol., NUMBER 42 OF 100 COPIES, Alecto Historical Editions, 1980-1990

23• — CURTIS (WILLIAM) Flora Londinensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of Such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vol. bound in 3, Printed for and Sold by the Author, 1777

24• — DARWIN (CHARLES) On the Origin of Species, FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1859

25• — [HAYES (SAMUEL)] A Practical Treatise on Planting, FIRST EDITION, [London, 1799]; and 5 others, forestry and cultivation (6)

26• — PAXTON (JOSEPH) Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, 16 vol., Orr and Smith, 1834-1849

27• — RASHLEIGH (PHILIP) Specimens of British Minerals Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh, FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY THE RASHLEIGH FAMILY, 2 vol. bound in 1, W. Bulmer & Co. for G. & W. Nicol and J. White, 1797-1802

28• — REDOUTÉ (PIERRE JOSEPH) Les roses...., 40 parts bound in 4 vol., C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1824-1826]

29• — RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford) [SINCLAIR (GEORGE)] Hortus Ericaeus Woburnensis, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 50 COPIES], 1825

30• — RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford) [FORBES (JAMES)] Salictum Woburnense, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED, 1829

31• — SCLATER (PHILIP LUTLEY) AND OLDFIELD THOMAS The Book of the Antelopes, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, R.H. Porter, 1894-1900

32 — WHITE (GILBERT) Autograph letter signed to William Richardson, Selborne, 7 September 1778

33• — WHITE (GILBERT) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, FIRST EDITION, B. White, 1789

34• — WILLUGHBY (FRANCIS) AND JOHN RAY The Ornithology of Francis Willughby, A[ndrew] C[larke] for John Martyn, 1678

35• — ALDINE PRESS CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, 8vo, 1558-9; and 2 others, Aldine (3)

36• — AMBROSIUS, SAINT Opera [ed. J. Amerbach, additions by J. de Lapide], vol. 1 (of 3), EDITIO PRINCEPS, [Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1492]

37• — AMBROSIUS, SAINT Opera [edited by Johann Amerbach], vol.1 (of 3), [Basel, Johannes Petri, 12 September 1506]

38• — BIBLE, IN LATIN Biblia cum concordantiis..., [Lyon], [Joh. Moylin alias de Cambray for Etienne Gueynard alias Pinet], [24 March 1522]

39• — BIBLE, IN LATIN Biblia cum pleno apparatu summariorum concordantiarum, Paris, 1507; and 5 others, continental theology (6)

40• — BINDING - FRENCH L'Office de la Semaine Sainte, Paris, G. Desprez, 1758

41• — BOETHIUS [De consolatione] Duplex commentatio ex integro reposita atque recognita in Boetium, [Lyon, Claude Davost impenisis Simon Vincent, 1506]

42• — BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF PARIS Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Paris, [Paris], Thielman Kerver, 1549

43• — BREVIARY AND BIBLE PSALTER, USE OF SARUM Portiforium seu breviarum ad insignis Salisburiensis ecclesie usum, [Antwerp], 1525 (2)

44• — BREVIARY, USE OF PASSAU Breviarum pars hyemalis [estevalis], 2 vol., Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 10 July 1503

45• — CLEMENS V, POPE Constitutiones [with commentary by Johannes Andreae], Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 15 March 1486

46• — DURAND (GUILLAUME) Rationale divinorum, [Strasbourg, Georg Husner, 1501], and another edition, Lyon, 1568 (2)

47• — GELLIUS (AULUS) Noctium atticarum libri vindeuigniti [edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius], March 1530

48• — GRATIANUS Decretum with apparatus, Basel, Johann Froben and Johann Amerbach, 1 July 1500

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1^• —
ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH)
A History of the University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, R. Ackermann, 1815

2^• —
CHESS
EZRA (ABRAHAM IBN) Neu-Eröffnete Kunststück des Schach-Spiels, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1743; and three others (4)

3^• —
CHESS
HYDE (THOMAS) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii... De ludis Orientalium, FIRST EDITION, Oxford, 1694

4^• —
CHESS
PHILIDOR (FRANCOIS DANICAN) L'Analyse des echecs, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, London, 1749

5^• —
CHESS
SALVIO (ALESSANDRO) Il Puttino, FIRST EDITION, Naples, Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634

6^• —
COOKERY
Manuscript receipt book containing over 200 culinary and household recipes, [eighteenth century]

7^• —
COOKERY & MEDICINE - IRELAND
Manuscript notebook containing c.300 culinary and medicinal receipts, ownership inscription of Dorcas Price of Hollymount, [late seventeenth/early eighteenth century]

8^• —
ROLEX VADE MECUM
WILSDORF (HAN), ALFRED CHAPUIS and EUGÈNE JACQUET. Rolex Jubilee Vade Mecum, 4 vol., 802 OF 1,000, Geneva, Rolex Watch Company, 1946

9 —
INDIAN MUTINY & CRIMEA
Series of letters from Private James Pedder, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, 1853-1860

10^• —
MALTON (THOMAS)
A Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 1792[-1801]

11^• —
MOTORING
MONTAUT (ERNEST) 10 ans courses, FIRST EDITION, Paris, Montaut-Mabileau et Cie, 1907

12^• —
NATTES (JOHN CLAUDE) AND JAMES FITTLER
Scotia Depicta, 1804; and 2 others, by Westall/Harding on Kent, and Cooke/Rennie on London Bridges (3)

13 —
PHOTOGRAPHY - FENTON (ROGER)
Volunteer Class at the Hythe, Right Wing, February 1860, [1860]

14 —
PSYCHIC AND SPIRITUAL MEDIUM PHOTOGRAPHY
16 glass plate negatives, and 5 rolls of film negatives [c.1938-1940]; and 5 books

15^• —
PYNE (WILLIAM HENRY)
The History of the Royal Residences, 3 vol., A. Dry, 1819

16^• —
STOW (JOHN)
A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster..., 2 vol, 1720

17^• —
WALES
WOOD (JOHN GEORGE) The Principal Rivers of Wales Illustrated,T. Bensley, 1813

18^• —
ALBIN (ELEAZAR)
A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, FIRST EDITION, for the Author, 1720

19^• —
ANATOMY
ALBINUS (BERNARD SIEGFRIED) Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, 1749; Explanation, 1754 (2)

20^• —
BECKETT (WILLIAM)
A Free and Impartial Enquiry into the Antiquity of Touching for the Cure of King's Evil, J. Peele, 1722

21^• —
BULLER (WALTER LAWRY)
A History of the Birds of New Zealand, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], John Van Voorst, 1873

22^• —
COOK (JAMES) and JOSEPH BANKS
Banks' Florilegium, 35 parts in 11 vol., NUMBER 42 OF 100 COPIES, Alecto Historical Editions, 1980-1990

23^• —
CURTIS (WILLIAM)
Flora Londinensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of Such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vol. bound in 3, Printed for and Sold by the Author, 1777

24^• —
DARWIN (CHARLES)
On the Origin of Species, FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1859

25^• —
[HAYES (SAMUEL)]
A Practical Treatise on Planting, FIRST EDITION, [London, 1799]; and 5 others, forestry and cultivation (6)

26^• —
PAXTON (JOSEPH)
Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, 16 vol., Orr and Smith, 1834-1849

27^• —
RASHLEIGH (PHILIP)
Specimens of British Minerals Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh, FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY THE RASHLEIGH FAMILY, 2 vol. bound in 1, W. Bulmer & Co. for G. & W. Nicol and J. White, 1797-1802

28^• —
REDOUTÉ (PIERRE JOSEPH)
Les roses...., 40 parts bound in 4 vol., C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1824-1826]

29^• —
RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)
[SINCLAIR (GEORGE)] Hortus Ericaeus Woburnensis, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 50 COPIES], 1825

30^• —
RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)
[FORBES (JAMES)] Salictum Woburnense, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED, 1829

31^• —
SCLATER (PHILIP LUTLEY) AND OLDFIELD THOMAS
The Book of the Antelopes, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, R.H. Porter, 1894-1900

32 —
WHITE (GILBERT)
Autograph letter signed to William Richardson, Selborne, 7 September 1778

33^• —
WHITE (GILBERT)
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, FIRST EDITION, B. White, 1789

34^• —
WILLUGHBY (FRANCIS) AND JOHN RAY
The Ornithology of Francis Willughby, A[ndrew] C[larke] for John Martyn, 1678

35^• —
ALDINE PRESS
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, 8vo, 1558-9; and 2 others, Aldine (3)

36^• —
AMBROSIUS, SAINT
Opera [ed. J. Amerbach, additions by J. de Lapide], vol. 1 (of 3), EDITIO PRINCEPS, [Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1492]

37^• —
AMBROSIUS, SAINT
Opera [edited by Johann Amerbach], vol.1 (of 3), [Basel, Johannes Petri, 12 September 1506]

38^• —
BIBLE, IN LATIN
Biblia cum concordantiis..., [Lyon], [Joh. Moylin alias de Cambray for Etienne Gueynard alias Pinet], [24 March 1522]

39^• —
BIBLE, IN LATIN
Biblia cum pleno apparatu summariorum concordantiarum, Paris, 1507; and 5 others, continental theology (6)

40^• —
BINDING - FRENCH
L'Office de la Semaine Sainte, Paris, G. Desprez, 1758

41^• —
BOETHIUS
[De consolatione] Duplex commentatio ex integro reposita atque recognita in Boetium, [Lyon, Claude Davost impenisis Simon Vincent, 1506]

42^• —
BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF PARIS
Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Paris, [Paris], Thielman Kerver, 1549

43^• —
BREVIARY AND BIBLE PSALTER, USE OF SARUM
Portiforium seu breviarum ad insignis Salisburiensis ecclesie usum, [Antwerp], 1525 (2)

44^• —
BREVIARY, USE OF PASSAU
Breviarum pars hyemalis [estevalis], 2 vol., Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 10 July 1503

45^• —
CLEMENS V, POPE
Constitutiones [with commentary by Johannes Andreae], Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 15 March 1486

46^• —
DURAND (GUILLAUME)
Rationale divinorum, [Strasbourg, Georg Husner, 1501], and another edition, Lyon, 1568 (2)

47^• —
GELLIUS (AULUS)
Noctium atticarum libri vindeuigniti [edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius], March 1530

48^• —
GRATIANUS
Decretum with apparatus, Basel, Johann Froben and Johann Amerbach, 1 July 1500