LEO AFRICANUS. A Geographical Historie of Africa, 1600. WILFRED THESIGER'S COPY: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. £30,000
AUSTEN (Ralph). Observations upon some part of Sr Francis Bacon's… 1658. EXPERIMENTS WITH ENGLISH FRUIT £1,500
LAUDER (William). A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Douglas, 1751. "TOO FRANTIC TO BE FRAUDULENT": LAUDER'S "APOLOGY" (DEMANDED BY JOHNSON) FOR ACCUSING MILTON OF PLAGIARISM £2,200
[MINIATURE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT]. Novum Iesu Christi Domini Nostri Testamentum, ex Regiis… 1628. MINIATURE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT IN AN ENGLISH BINDING FOR THOMAS CLERKE £3,800
STOWE (Harriet Beecher) The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1896. MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE IS NOT INSANE £5,600
LA SERRE (Jean Puget de). The Secretary in Fashion:, 1658. BOUGHT BY AN ITALIAN VISITOR IN LONDON IN 1661 AND ANNOTATED WITH ITALIAN EQUIVALENTS FOR MANY OF THE ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES £2,800
[POPULAR SONGS]. The Odd Fellows Song-Book and Rum Casket of… 1804. EARLIEST SURVIVING ISSUE OF THIS “ODD” SONGBOOK £850
MORTON (Charles). An Essay towards the Probable Solution of this… 1703. "PROBABLY THE MOST REMARKABLE THEORY THAT HAS BEEN ADVANCED TO ACCOUNT FOR MIGRATION" £3,000
[MUSCOVY COMPANY]. Two unpublished reports to King James I, complaining… 1620. CULMINATING WITH THE TRANSFER OF MANHATTAN TO THE ENGLAND £12,000
[GIBBES (Phebe)]. Hartly House, Calcutta. In Three Volumes, 1789. "THE GRAVE OF THOUSANDS": A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF ANGLO-INDIAN LIFE IN THE GUISE OF A NOVEL £10,000
[CHILDREN'S BIBLE]. The Holy Bible Abridged, 1778. ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S MINIATURE BIBLE NOT IN ESTC £1,800
[ERSKINE (Thomas)]. Reflections on Gaming Annuities, and Usurious Contracts, 1777. ANNOTATED BY FRANCIS MASERES £1,650
[PRISONS, SCOTLAND]. An Account of all the Gaols, Houses of… 1819. "CRIMINALS UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH ARE ALLOWED A WARM DINNER" £950
STAMPE (William). A Treatise of Spiritual Infatuation, 1650. "THE IMPRISONED, PLUNDERED, EXILED MINSTER OF GODS WORD": A BITTER ANALYSIS OF THE CIVIL WAR BY CHARLES II'S PERSONAL CHAPLAIN £1,500
[TEA ACT]. An Act to allow a Drawback of the… 1773. THE INFAMOUS TEA ACT: A KEY DOCUMENT IN THE STORY OF AMERICA'S INDEPENDENCE - THE CATALYST FOR THE BOSTON TEA PARTY £25,000
BOSWELL (James). The Essence of the Douglas Cause, 1767. "A CHEAP AND HURRIED PIRACY GOT OUT TO UNDERSELL THE GENUINE EDITION" £1,250
ROBINSON (Robert). The great sin and danger of oppression: Two… 1757. TWO ANGRY DISSENTING SERMONS ON "WITHHOLDING CORN IN A TIME OF SCARCITY" £950
ESTLIN (John Prior) The Nature and Causes of Atheism, 1797. WITH AN EARLY QUOTATION FROM COLERIDGE £2,500
[HOWARD (Frederick, fifth earl of Carlisle)]. Verses on the Death of Lord Nelson, 1806. BY BYRON'S "PARALYTIC PULING" GUARDIAN - A PRESENTATION COPY TO LORD HOLLAND, WHO ATTEMPTED TO RECONCILE THE AUTHOR WITH HIS WAYWARD CHARGE £1,250
[TAYLOR (Thomas William)] attributed to, The Lay of Corneelis:, 1812. PRESENTATION COPY (WITH ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL) OF A CALCUTTA-PRINTED POETICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE TAKING OF FORT CORNELIS IN JAVA £4,500
BOYLE (Francis, Viscount Shannon). Several Discourses and Characters address'd to the Ladies… 1689. “THIRTY IS THE STALE YEAR OF A MAID, AND THE WORST AGE OF A WIFE…BECAUSE A WIFE AT THIRTY IS OLD ENOUGH TO BE UGLY AND YOUNG ENOUGH TO LIVE LONG” £3,750
SNAGG (Thomas) artist. To the friends of freedom and to the… 1802. ENGLISH PRISONERS OF WAR DURING THE TERROR £3,500
[ELECTIONEERING NOVEL]. Flagel: or a Ramble of Fancy through the… 1768. "IF SHORT CHAPTERS, ABRUPT DIGRESSIONS, ZIGZAG WRITING, LOW PHRASES, AND A LOOSE INNUENDO POINTED OUT BY TWO OR THREE ASTERISKS, BE ALL THAT ARE REQUIRED TO CONSTITUTE A TRISTRAM SHANDY, FLAGEL MAY BE THAT MAN" £2,500
WALWYN (William). Englands Lamentable Slaverie, 1645. “LIBERTIE AND PRIVILEDGE…IS, AS DUE UNTO YOU, AS THE AYRE YOU BREATH IN” £5,000
COLLUTHUS OF LYCOPOLIS. The Rape of Helen, 1731. “THIS POEM MIGHT HAVE RECEIVED A GREAT ADVANTAGE FROM THE MASTERLY HAND OF MR. POPE” A VERSE TRANSLATION OF THE STORY OF THE ABDUCTION OF HELEN OF TROY FROM THE ORIGINAL BY COLLUTHUS – “ONE OF THE WORST POETS TO COME DOWN TO US” £2,500
VICARS (John). Babylons Beautie: or the Romish-Catholicks Sweet-Heart, 1644. THE "WHOREISH" CATHOLIC FAITH £1,500
SKIRVING (William). The Husbandman's Assistant;, 1792. RADICAL HUSBANDRY: UNFINISHED AS THE AUTHOR WAS TRANSPORTED TO AUSTRALIA £2,500
O'DONOGHUE (Ann Stewart Power, née Lambert). The Common Sense of Riding. Riding for Ladies… 1887. £250
[MEDICAL AND COOKERY RECIPES]. Manuscript book containing culinary and medical recipes from… 1800. MANUSCRIPT COOKERY AND MEDICAL RECIPES £4,000
RANDALL (John). The Semi-Virgilian Husbandry, Deduced from Various Experiments: or,… 1764. WITH MANUSCRIPT ANNOTATIONS £850
[NEWTON (John)]. An Authentic Narrative of some Remarkable and Interesting… 1764. THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF NEWTON'S REMARKABLE CONVERSION £17,500