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[Sammelband of Leyes i decretos espedidos por el Congreso constitucional.]

[Sammelband of Leyes i decretos espedidos por el… 1839.

[Sale of offices in the Spanish Empire]: Paraque de acqui en adelante se puedan renunciar en las Indias los oficios bendibles como se haze en esios Reynaos en la forma q[ue] aqui se contiene. Signed at the end by Gregorio Perez de Andrade.

PHILIP III OF SPAIN

[Sale of offices in the Spanish Empire]: Paraque… 1606.

[Reward of Merit. Engraving featuring a game of wicket in Connecticut.]

[PROTO-BASEBALL] & [CHENEY (John).]

[Reward of Merit. Engraving featuring a game of… 1821.

THE PRECURSOR TO BASEBALL

[Prospectus:] Choix des plus Belles Fleurs et des plus Beaux Fruits.

REDOUTE (Pierre-Joseph).

[Prospectus:] Choix des plus Belles Fleurs et des… 1835.

"THE RAPHAEL OF FLOWERS"

[Program] Gaiety Theatre. Frankenstein. Manager George Edwardes.

[SHELLEY (Mary)].

[Program] Gaiety Theatre. Frankenstein. Manager George Edwardes, 1887.

[Portraite of Charlotte Cushman.]

[CUSHMAN (Charlotte).] & MAGUIRE (T.H.), printer.

[Portraite of Charlotte Cushman.], 1846.

THE CONTROVERSIAL ACTRESS

[Portrait photograph.]

[HENSON (Matthew).] & BROWN BROTHERS.

[Portrait photograph.], 1909.

THE SPECTACULAR MATTHEW HENSON

[Portrait of Captain Richard Francis Burton.]

[BURTON (Captain Richard Francis).]

[Portrait of Captain Richard Francis Burton.], 1876.

[Plans for Plymouth Docks. Drophead title on p. 1:] Notes on the First & Second Draughts. [- Notes on the Eighth Draught.]

PLYMOUTH DOCKS . & [DUMMER (Edmund)].

[Plans for Plymouth Docks. Drophead title on p.… 1698.

VERY RARE ILLUSTRATED PLANS FOR A NEW DOCK AT PLYMOUTH

[Photographs of the Dutch Polar expeditions of William Barents.]

GRANT (William J.A.), photographer.

[Photographs of the Dutch Polar expeditions of William… 1883.

PHOTOGRAPHING FOUR ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS

[Photographs of Afghanistan and the North West Frontier during the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919 and the Waziristan Campaign in 1919-1920].

[AFGHANISTAN & WAZIRISTAN]. & HOLMES (Randolph Bezzant).

[Photographs of Afghanistan and the North West Frontier… 1919.

[Photograph album of Bermuda].

[Photograph album of Bermuda], 1880.

[Petites Républiques]

[Petites Républiques], 1627.

AN APPEALING LITTLE COLLECTION PERFECT FOR ARMCHAIR TRAVEL

[Passport allowing an enslaved man to travel to Saint-Domingue.]

[Passport allowing an enslaved man to travel to… 1771.

A RARE PASSPORT GRANTING AN ENSLAVED MAN PASSAGE TO HAITI

[PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro]L'Hortensio, comedia. Venice: heirs of B. Rubini, 1586 ff. 82[2(blank)]. [Bound with]: COSMIO (Filotero). Clarice comedia . . . novamente stampata, e posta in luce. Venice: Domenico Imberti, 1600 ff. 75 [=96], erratic foliation [W

[ITALIAN THEATRE

[PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro]L'Hortensio, comedia. Venice: heirs of B. Rubini,… 1587.

[Original secret despatch signed by the Governor of Puerto Cabello in Venezuela.]

GUILLELMO (Antonio).

[Original secret despatch signed by the Governor of… 1793.

HARBOURING A SPANISH SQUADRON IN AMERICAN WATERS

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV.

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID

[On the Origin of the Species] O proiskhozhdenii vidov v tsarstvakh zhivotnom i rastitel'nom putem estestvennago podbora rodichei.

DARWIN (Charles). & RACHINSKII (Sergei Aleksandrovich), trans.

[On the Origin of the Species] O proiskhozhdenii… 1864.

THE FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION

[Oeuvres].

MAROT (Clement)

[Oeuvres], 1573.

WITH SPINE LINED WITH MANUSCRIPT WASTE

[Mémoires pour Servir à l'Art et l'Histoire de la Guerre de 1756, jusqu'à 1763, avec les Plans et Cartes Requises, 1re Partie.]

TIELKE (Johann Gottlieb)

[Mémoires pour Servir à l'Art et l'Histoire de… 1777.

[Myanmar album.]

BEATO (Felice).

[Myanmar album.], 1889.

[Ms. documents concerning the financing of a ship and preparing for an expedition.]

MONLUC (Blaise de).

[Ms. documents concerning the financing of a ship… 1568.

EARLY VOYAGE DOCUMENTS

[Miscellany of medical notes on blood flow and circulation]

[Miscellany of medical notes on blood flow and…

[Marriage Certificate.]

[CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE]

[Marriage Certificate.], 1739.

MARRIED IN JAIL

[Maps, manuscripts, and printed ephemera from Trollope's time as British Commander in Quebec.]

TROLLOPE (Charles).

[Maps, manuscripts, and printed ephemera from Trollope's time… 1858.

WITH AN IMPORTANT MS. MAP OF QUEBEC

[Maps of the Gallipoli Peninsula.]

[LAWRENCE (T.E.)] & INTELLIGENCE OFFICE, ARAB BUREAU.

[Maps of the Gallipoli Peninsula.], 1915.

SECRET MAPS OF THE GALLIPOLI PENINSULA

[Manuscript military treatise.]

[Manuscript military treatise.], 1700.

[Manuscript document concerning the sale of a house in Blois-Vienne, France.]

[NOTARY DOCUMENT.]

[Manuscript document concerning the sale of a house… 1647.

[Los Cuartro Continentes. The Four Continents.]

SADELER (Jan) & BARENDSZ (Dirk)

[Los Cuartro Continentes. The Four Continents.], 1581.

[Log of

MALLESON (Hugh St. A.).

[Log of "King George V" and "Seraph."], 1920.

[Loan of 314 Livres 2 Sols 8 Deniers to be Repaid in Good Beaver at the Price and Weight of the Bureau.]

TONTY (Henri de),, DAUPHIN LA FOREST (François) & & JUCHEREAU DE SAINT-DENYS (Charles).

[Loan of 314 Livres 2 Sols 8 Deniers… 1693.

A 17th-CENTURY CONTRACT PRICED IN BEAVER FUR

[Letters on the American War].

HARTLEY (David).

[Letters on the American War], 1779.

“A MOST PARTIAL & UNJUST CONCLUSION WITHOUT ANY PREMISES"

[Letter rejoicing that he had arrived in Liberia:

[LIBERIA] & ROBERTS (Joseph Jenkins).

[Letter rejoicing that he had arrived in Liberia:… 1839.

"IN THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE OPPRESSED"

[Leaf from the Polychronicon mentioning Muhammad.]

CAXTON (William), printer, & HIDGEN (Ranulf), author.

[Leaf from the Polychronicon mentioning Muhammad.], 1482.

AN EARLY PRINTED ACCOUNT OF MUHAMMAD IN ENGLISH

[Large cabinet card.]

HOLMES SR. (Oliver Wendell).

[Large cabinet card.], 1886.

SIGNED & INSCRIBED

[King Penguin Books]

[King Penguin Books], 1939.

[Japanese funeral customs].

UNKNOWN JAPANESE ARTIST.

[Japanese funeral customs], 1860.

JAPANESE EXPORT PAINTINGS

[Historia Captae a Turca Constantinopolis]
[Italy?, third quarter of 15th century]

LEONARD OF CHIOS (Archbishop of Mytilene)

[Historia Captae a Turca Constantinopolis] [Italy?, third quarter of… 1450.

THE "MOST AUTHORITATIVE" EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE

[HMS Phoenix and the Breadalbane at the moment when the latter was crushed and sunk. The field of ice, easing off from the Phoenix passed astern to the Breadalbane, and entering her bow, she filled and sank in less than 15 minutes, in 30 fathoms of water.

INGLEFIELD (Edward Augustus), Lieutenant R.N.

[HMS Phoenix and the Breadalbane at the moment when… 1855.

PROOF BEFORE LETTERS

[Greek] MEtaphtrasis tou Psalteros... Interpretatio psalmorum versibus heroicis.

APOLLINARIS, Bp. of Laodicaea,

[Greek] MEtaphtrasis tou Psalteros... Interpretatio psalmorum versibus heroicis, 1580.

A HERETIC'S WRITINGS

[Funeral of President McKinley] The Hearse leaving the White House under Military Escort.

[Funeral of President McKinley] The Hearse leaving the… 1901.

[Four convict disciplinary reports: Mary Murray, Mary Ann North, James Woolf and William White.]

[VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.]

[Four convict disciplinary reports: Mary Murray, Mary Ann… 1845.

RARE RECORDS OF CONVICTS AND THEIR PUNISHMENTS

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