Horned beetles and other insects
Horned Beetles is the first édition de luxe from the Gehenna Press.
Horned Beetles is the first édition de luxe from the Gehenna Press.
The single most important book on clocks, by the inventor of the pendulum clock.
Records approximately 50 courts, especially interesting during the Common wealth period.
Only known Book of Hours to have been manufactured in Wales. May have been made for Issabella Godynogh at Caernarvon. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR
First edition, hitherto unlisted in ESTC. Contains 60 copper plate engravings incorporating 180 designs.
The author was born and died in Chester. On the accession of Queen Mary he joined the exiles in Strasburg. This work argues in favour of Wyatts rebellion and was secretly circulated in England
3 vols, presented by Lord Kenyon
Presented with 15 other miscellaneous 19th century childrens books by Miss FE Brancker. Listed in AR
This set of an extremely rare botanical monograph contains 1,187 hand-coloured engraved plates and is bound in a contemporary half-leather binding.
Presented with Sir Thomas Overburys True and Perfect Account of the ...Tryal ... and Execution of Joan Perry and her two sons ... 1676 and Joseph Harrisons The Lamentable cry of oppression ...
Baldassare Castiglione’s Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier), is the prototype of the 'courtesy book 'and the classic picture of the ideal renaissance courtier, prince,
This early 13th century manuscript Bible in one volume is one of about 250 medieval books lost from Durham Priory Library. Four inscriptions link the manuscript with named monks at Durham.