GRAY (Thomas).
Thomas Gray's Naturalist's Journal 1767-1771 With a Preface…
£170
OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Guilderoy
"He had created in imagination a thousand qualities from women which he had never found in them... he had desired innumerable utterly opposed and contradictory instincts and characteristics"
£250
OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Under Two Flags
One of Ouida's most popular works of the 1860s
£150
PETERS (Heather) & SOCIETY OF HERMITS
Bruises
Books as bandages
£500
BURNE-JONES (Sir Edward Coley).
The Little Holland House Album. With an introduction…
£75
![A prophet pointing to his eyes, historiated initial 'D' on a leaf from an illuminated choirbook on vellum.
[Veneto, second quarter 15th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/3e99f8b4-ae67-41de-8751-694049d31dc4/616x770.webp)
CORTESE (Cristoforo)
A prophet pointing to his eyes, historiated initial…
£5,000
MACLEAN (Alistair).
H.M.S. Ulysses.
£100
![Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin with rubrics in French and a prayer in Middle English, illuminated manuscript on vellum.
[France, Rouen, c. 1440]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f8c1fcf1-55f3-44e3-b5fb-7c0c530ff244/616x770.webp)
BOOK OF HOURS
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin…
THE FITZ-RALPH HOURS
£75,000
![The Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, with the commentary of Bernard of Parma, in Latin, illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum [France (Paris), c.1300 or early 14th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/8e9a2ec6-c111-4a7a-826b-e5c9bc5915b8/616x770.webp)
RAYMOND OF PENAFORT
The Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, with the…
ILLUMINATED OPENING LEAF OF THE DECRETALS
£15,000
![Thomas Gray's Commonplace Book [With] Thomas Gray's Naturalist's Journal 1767-1771. Edited by Ruth Abbott](https://api.maggs.com/image/2dcb11e0-bed1-4251-aa1c-774b417ae1d5/616x770.webp)
GRAY (Thomas).
Thomas Gray's Commonplace Book [With] Thomas Gray's Naturalist's…
£400
GRAY (Thomas).
Thomas Gray's Commonplace Book Edited by Ruth Abbott.
£260
OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Tricotrin. The Story of a Waif & Stray.
"How the sun shines on you, as if you were a princess ... Ah, Nature is a terrible socialist!"
£200
![Calendar, apparently from a Breviary of the Use of Cologne, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum.
[Germany (doubtless Cologne), 14th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/0f9095d2-1996-4c2b-8833-d069b81001bc/616x770.webp)
[CALENDAR]
Calendar, apparently from a Breviary of the Use…
C14th MANUSCRIPT CALENDAR, IN USE A CENTURY LATER
£2,750
TENNANT (Emma).
Binding Work on Regulations for the Cavalry.
£550
[WYNDHAM (Capt. the Hon. E. H.)]
War Diary of The 1st Life Guards.
THE LIFE GUARDS
£60
![Pseudo-Chrysostom Fragment from Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum in Latin, manuscript on vellum.
[Italy, 12th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/0da19e88-bedd-44f8-9c26-f88dedfaa2a2/616x770.webp)
PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM
Pseudo-Chrysostom Fragment from Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum in…
£1,800
![Paschal Vigil for SS. Rufina e Seconda in Trastevere. Fragment of a leaf of the Paschal Vigil from a Liturgical book in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum.
[Italy, probably Rome, 12th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/e32b6153-da0d-4b44-925c-7d079767f237/616x770.webp)
ROMAN SCRIBE
Paschal Vigil for SS. Rufina e Seconda in…
£2,500
![A leaf from Aurora in the first redaction by Aegidius of Paris, in Latin, manuscript on vellum.
[England, second half or late 14th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/9fc7da30-de50-483e-8edb-85597f32f15b/616x770.webp)
PETRUS RIGA
A leaf from Aurora in the first redaction by Aegidius…
£2,250
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso…
SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS
£9,500
[mrs. melville]
Sierra Leone
£240
PARDOE
Beauties of the Bosphorus
£1,250
OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Folle-Farine
"only the dust from the corn ... the impalpable cloud which goes forth to gleam golden in the sun a moment, and then is scattered; on the wind; into the water; up in the sunlight; down in the mud..."
£125
[ALBUM]
Album of whimsical drawings, late 19th century,
£450
BRENT (Isabelle) & [CRICKET]
The MCC at Home
£85
![Pentecost, an historiated initial on a vellum leaf from an Antiphonal, in Latin.
[Italy (Emilia-Romagna, perhaps Bologna), c. 1260-70]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f8e06b91-7478-4ef7-ab73-930c589cc220/616x770.webp)
ITALIAN ARTIST
Pentecost, an historiated initial on a vellum leaf…
£9,500
![Two historiated initials depicting St Mark and Two Men on a leaf from the Mailhac-Faber Bible, illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum. [Southern France, late 13th or early 14th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/d4923212-a6aa-416c-ba31-7916749d1a60/616x770.webp)
SOUTHERN FRENCH ARTIST
Two historiated initials depicting St Mark and Two…
TWO SUPERB LARGE INITIALS, ONE OF ST. MARK
£7,500
[JAMAICA.] & STEVENS (Augusta).
Three charming, naive, watercolours of the town of…
£950
GREGYNOG PRESS. & MAYNARD (R.A.)
Llandinum Church.
£100
THOMAS (Capt. B. S.).
Short History of Shatrah Tribes during the last…
Bertram Thomas's first publication
£950
SHAKESPEARE (William)
A Midsummer Night's Dream.
£350
DISCH (Thomas M.)
The Man Who Had No Idea.
£80
[FRANKLIN (Benjamin) & & HALL (David), printers.]
I do promise to pay ... Treasurer of…
A PROMISSORY NOTE FOR AMERICA'S FIRST HOSPITAL, FROM BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S PRESS
£3,500
HUGHES, Thomas (1822-1896). Lawyer, Judge, Politician and Author.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Thos. Hughes") to "Dear Sir"…
Hughes writes regarding his Emancipation speech at Exeter Hall
£175
OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Chandos
"Few in town that night looked up at the shooting star as it flashed its fiery passage above the dull, leaden, noxious, gas-lit streets."
£125
OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Idalia
"It can concern you in no way ... but since you ask it, know that I cherish freedom too well to be wedded"
£150
![Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a Book of Hours on vellum. [France (eastern?), 15th century (c.1470s/80s)]](https://api.maggs.com/image/4d5692d3-a655-4a90-9b0a-a62004453af7/616x770.webp)
FRENCH ARTIST
Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a…
FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM
£6,500
MULDOON (Paul).
Hay.
£40
ELIOT, T. S.
Typed Letter Signed ("T. S. Eliot") to "Dear…
£700
ELIOT , T. S. (1888-1965). Poet.
Typed Letter Signed ("T. S. Eliot") to "Dear…
T. S. Eliot shortly before embarking for his trip to America to give his Norton lectures at Harvard
£800
POTTER, (Beatrix)
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
"This is a Tale about a tail..."
£1,000
OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Santa Barbara
"Veronica stood there as in a dream, listening to the soft plash of the gondolier's oar as he descended the narrow side-canal, now tinted with all colours and glowing with the crimson reflections from the western skies."
£75
OUIDA, [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Ruffino &c
"Ruffino was a little Pomeranian dog with a small black nose, and large black eyes, and a ruff as wide and imposing as Queen Elizabeth's"
£100
