Amsterdam: Etienne Roger, 1716. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece + 6 ff. including two letterpress title-pages (both with inkstain, extending onto frontispiece), followed by pp. numbered 5-378 + 3 ff. Contemporary French marbled calf, five raised bands on spine, compartments gilt, red lettering piece in the second, marbled endpapers, edges stained red..... More

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1781. Together 7 almanacs in one volume, 8vo (165 x 90 mm), each almanac with 48 pp. (see below). Bound by John Baumgarten in London: contemporary red morocco, richly and elaborately gilt with arabesques and floral and foliate motifs on both covers surrounded..... More

Edinburgh: Assigns of Alexander Kincaid, 1787. Two works in two volumes. Large Octavo (211 x 130 mm). Collation: BIBLE: A-4A8, complete. PSALMS: A-E8, complete. Contemporary Scottish bindings: red morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt to a "Chippendale" motif, smooth spines gilt; marbled endpapers, a.e.g. (in vol. 1 the front joint expertly..... More

Bath: S. Hazard for T. Mills, 1775. 8vo. xvii, [3], 445, [1] pp. Modern full calf, red morocco spine label. Displeasing glue residue in gutter margin of first blank and title-page, both of which are a little browned, age-toning throughout (not objectionable); top edge of textblock with stain near the..... More

Ethiopia: 20th (?) century. Small 8vo (binding size: 125 x 93 mm). Manuscript on thick parchment. Collation: A4 B-E10 F12-1 (-F:3) G-H10 J8 = 83 ff., COMPLETE. Contemporary wooden boards covered by leather spine, Coptic sewing structure (see below) with leather endbands, the entire leather binding covered with red fabric..... More

Ethiopia: 20th century. Small wooden amulet (105 x 78 x 23 mm); upper cover lid tied with twine, on its verso a seraph painted directly onto the wood; opposite this is a manuscript prayer painted onto parchment and laid down; top and bottom of amulet with deeply carved ornamental designs..... More

Munich: E. Stahl, 1861. First Edition. 8vo. xiv, 424 pp. Original quarter sheep (leather suffed but the binding is perfectly sound; extremities worn). Contemporary inscription on title-page: "H.D. Tuncker, Ep. Altonensis" (i.e. Altona, outside Hamburg). NOT ex-library! SCARCE TREATISE ON MARRIAGE, "ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF AMERICAN CLERGYMEN," WRITTEN BY..... More

Turin: Heirs of Colonna, 1690. Third edition. 12mo. 1 blank fol. + [6], 424 pp. (some foxing throughout, pp. 135-170 with worming in blank lower margins, rather ugly but touching only four letters). Contemporary Italian vellum, four raised bands on spine, in the second compartment the author's name and title..... More

London: Printed for J. Hindmarsh, 1691. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto: [2], 106 pp. Bound in modern half calf antique over marbled boards, old wrappers bound in at end (upper wrapper with early booksellers description and evidence of previous library shelf-marks). Some dust soiling. ¶ DAVID LAING'S COPY. Laing was..... More

London: Printed by R. Young for John Bartlet, at the signe of the gilt Cup in Cheape-side, 1629. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 165 pp. including full-page woodcut plate bound as frontispiece (intended to be placed between pp. 50/51). COLLATION: A-Y4, without the final blank leaf, otherwise COMPLETE. Provenance: blindstamps..... More

Paris and Mecca: 1783-1799. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Together 6 volumes (collations below). Contemporary French red morocco, smooth spines lettered direct, all edges gilt (some wear to binding extremities, spines a little darkened). ¶ These volumes include all of Savary's accounts of his travels to Egypt and Greece, plus his very..... More

[Edinburgh]: 1703. First Edition. Softcover. Together two volumes, small quarto. 12 pp., COMPLETE. Stitched in old blue paper wrappers at a recent date. Contemporary (or near-contemporary) author attributions in ink on title-pages, faint blind-stamps on first and final leaves of both pamphlets. BOTH editions of Sinclair's pamphlet recommending Scottish parliamentary..... More

[London and Paris]: 1851. Together 2 vols., folio. Vol. I: 127 pp. manuscript written on rectos only, with insertions of the author's Port of Entry, various MS slips, maps, a folding letterpress plan of the British Museum, and a large folding depiction of the Museum of Practical Geology. Vol. II..... More