Rare Books & Works on Paper

Lot 1 - (Egyptology and the Egypt Exploration Fund) Flinders Petrie and Guy Brunton et al Twenty eight reports by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt

Lot 2 - (Antarctic and Natural History) Report on the Collections of Natural History Made in the Antarctic Regions During the Voyage if the "Southern Cross"

Lot 3 - (Geology) David Dale Owen Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota; And Incidentally of A Portion of Nebraska Territory

Lot 4 - (Natural History and the British Museum) Fourteen works

Lot 5 - (Carl Linnaeus) Caroli Linnaei or Caroli a Linne Amoenitates Academicae seu, Dissertationes Variae Physicae, Medicae, Botanicae.....

Lot 6 - (Early Medicine) Twelve works

Lot 7 - A. Pouchkine [Alexander Pushkin] and Vasily Shukhaev (illustrations) La Dame de Pique [The Queen of Spades]

Lot 8 - (Fine Binding) James Sowerby and Sir James Smith English Botany; Or, coloured Figures of British Plants with Their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth

Lot 9 - Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) Vulgar Errors & Hydriotaphia, Urne‑Buriall, Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk

Lot 9A - Simon Wilkin (ed) The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Including His Life and Correspondence

Lot 10 - (Ethiopia) Hiob Ludolf A New History of Ethiopia, being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia...

Lot 11 - (Early Irish Female Poetry and Authors presentation copy with marginalia) Melesina Trench Campaspe, An Historical Tale; and Other Poems

Lot 12 - [Geneva or Breeches Bible in English] Christopher Barker Publisher, 1599 [but printed (?) in Amsterdam, after 1600]

Lot 13 - (Signed) Alfred Munnings Ballads and Poems of Sir Alfred Munnings

Lot 14 - (William Penaluna Publisher) Elhanan Winchester A Course of Lectures on the Prophecies That Remain to be Fulfilled

Lot 15 - (Antiquities) John Nichols editor and publisher The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester

Lot 16 - (Antiquities) John Nichols editor and publisher Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica

Lot 17 - (Diocese of Rochester) John Thorpe Registrum Roffense:

Lot 18 - Edmund Sawyer Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly) fromt the Original Papers....Sir Ralph Winwood

Lot 19 - (Islands of Scilly) Robert Heath A Natural and Historical Account of the Islands of Scilly

Lot 20 - (Islands of Scilly) George Woodley A View of the Present State of the Scilly Islands

Lot 21 - William Borlase Observations on the Antiquities Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall

Lot 22 - (Heraldry and Genealogy) Frederick Arthur Crisp List of Parish Registers and Other Genealogical Works

Lot 23 - (Signed First Edition) Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca

Lot 24 - (British Monarchy) Four works

Lot 25 - (British Monarchy) Eight works

Lot 26 - (Early form of Guillotine) [William Bentley] Halifax, and its Gibbet-Law Placed in a true Light

Lot 27 - (Botany) John Gerard The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes

Lot 28 - Rudyard Kipling (reportedly by) handwritten manuscript poem The Power of the Dog

Lot 29 - Owen (John & Bowen Emanuel) Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd; being a Correct Coppy of Mr Ogilby's Actual Survey of all ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England & Wales....

Lot 30 - (Americana) James Sullivan The History of the District of Maine

Lot 31 - (Americana) David Ramsay The History of the American Revolution

Lot 32 - THEOPHRASTUS. (ca 371-ca 287 B.C.) De Historia Plantarum... [edited by] Joannes Bodaeus á Stapel...

Lot 33 - Samuel Purchas Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in al[l] Ages and Places Discovered, from the Creation unto this Present.

Lot 34 - Robert Plot Two works

Lot 35 - A[lexander] R[oss] Arcana Microcosmi: or, the Hid Secrets of Man's Body Discovered;

Lot 36 - Henry Boswell The Antiquities of England and Wales Displayed

Lot 37 - Samuel Hartlib Samuel Hartlib His Legacy of Husbandry. Wherein are bequeathed to the Common-wealth of England, not onely Braband, and Flanders....

Lot 38 - (Murder of the Earl of Essex) [Robert Ferguson Laurence Braddon, or Hugh Speke] An Enquiry into, and Detection of Barbarous Murther of the late Earl of Essex or, a Vindication of that Noble Person, from the guilt and infamy of having destroyed himself.

Lot 39 - (India) H. H. Wilson A Dictionary in Sanscrit and English; Translated, amended, and enlarged from An Original Compilation.....

Lot 40 - (An Unrecorded Chapbook: An American Protestant Moral Tale, 1842) The Patriarch: An Account of a Family in North Carolina

Lot 41 - (Ornithology) F. O. Morris A History of British Birds

Lot 42 - (Lepidopterology) F. O. Morris A Natural History of British Moths

Lot 43 - (Botany) Thomas Martyn Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations: intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables

Lot 44 - (Arctic) W. Scoresby An Account of the Arctic Regions, With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery

Lot 45 - Nehemiah Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis. A Catalogue of the Natural & Artificial Rarities of the Royal Society… With Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts

Lot 46 - (Horticulture) Philip Miller The Gardeners Dictionary:

Lot 47 - (Devon) Two works