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Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the north west coast of America
With a list of subscribers.
Typographical antiquities
Memoirs of Mr. Joseph Ames, by Mr. Gough' (volume 1, pages xiii-xxxv).
Frontispiece portrait of Ames in v.1. -- Sotheby misprinted Soleby in volume 1 imprint and additional printers involved in later volumes.
Imprint varies: volume 3: Printed…
Frontispiece portrait of Ames in v.1. -- Sotheby misprinted Soleby in volume 1 imprint and additional printers involved in later volumes.
Imprint varies: volume 3: Printed…
Titles of honor
Numerous errors in paging, including: 68-97 omitted, 101-102 repeated in the numbering.
Title-page printed in red and black.
Wood-cut decorated head-piece and decorated initials, numerous engraved images of coins, crown designs, and medals of…
Title-page printed in red and black.
Wood-cut decorated head-piece and decorated initials, numerous engraved images of coins, crown designs, and medals of…
Tientsin-Pukow Railway
Part Transcription: "Bond 100. No. [blank]. Imperial Chinese Government, 5% Tientsin-Pukow Railway Supplementary Loan for £4,800,000 Sterling. ... Countersigned for identification: for Chinese Central Railways Limited, [blank] Director. London, 1st…
Tientsin-Pukow Railway
Part Transcription: "Bond £100. No. [blank]. Imperial Chinese Government, 5% Tientsin-Pukow Railway Loan for £5,000,000 Sterling. ... Countersigned for identification: for Chinese Central Railways Limited, [blank] Director. London, 1st September,…
Tientsin-Pukow Railway
Part Transcription: "Bond £100. No. [blank]. Imperial Chinese Government, 5% Tientsin-Pukow Railway Loan for £5,000,000 Sterling. ... Countersigned for identification: for Chinese Central Railways Limited, [blank] Director. London, 1st September,…
The secret history of White-hall
The first leaf and the last leaf are blank; "Published (or rather written) by D.J." Brit. mus. Catalogue.
The peerage of England
Compiled by Arthur Collins.
Volume I. Of the Royal Family -- Dukes -- Marquisses -- Earls -- Volume II. Viscounts -- Barons.
Volume I. Of the Royal Family -- Dukes -- Marquisses -- Earls -- Volume II. Viscounts -- Barons.
The naval history of England, in all its branches;
Frontispiece engraved title page, with author's portrait.
Paged continuously.
Head- and tail-pieces, historiated, factotum, decorative initials.
Errata, volume 1, prelimary leaf [12]
With sideglosses.
Paged continuously.
Head- and tail-pieces, historiated, factotum, decorative initials.
Errata, volume 1, prelimary leaf [12]
With sideglosses.
The Memoirs of Robert Carey
Engraved frontispiece of Elizabeth I in procession, Includes index, and Errata--page [5] at end
The medallic history of England.
Illustrated by forty plates. Originally published in 1790 under title: The medallic history of England to the revolution.
The life and raigne of King Henry the Eighth
The portrait of Henry VIII is engraved by Thomas Cecil.
The Imperial Chinese Government
Part Transcription: "The Imperial Chinese Government, 5% Hukuang Railways Sinking Fund Gold Loan of 1911. ... Countersigned for identification on behalf of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank. [blank]."
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Liber chronicarum
Hand-coloured by Johann Kruyshaar c. 1521, his and other early marginal notes (some shaved) intermittently throughout, including his catalogue of the…