PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

BARBIER, George (1882-1932, illustrator). Vingt-Cinq Costumes pour le Théatre. Préface par Edmond Jaloux. Paris: chez Camille Bloch & Jules Meyni...

BONET, Paul (1889-1971, binder) - Sidonie-Gabrielle COLETTE (1873-1934). La Vagabonde [and:] L'Entrave. Paris: chez A. & G. Mornay, 1926-29. 2 w...

DE MUSSET, Alfred (1810-57). Poésies. Paris: L' Edition d' Art H. Piazza, 1925. 4to (238 x 175mm). Half title, limitation statement within colour...

DE VILMORIN, André (1907-87). Essai sur Louise de Vilmorin ... Avant-propos de Jean Cocteau. Bibliographie, portraits, fac-similés. [Vienne:] Poè...

DE VILMORIN, Louise Lévêque (1902-69). Fiançailles pour Rire. Paris: Gallimard, 1939. 8vo (184 x 118mm). Half title. Contemporary green crushed m...

DOLLIAN, Guy (1887-1967, illustrator) - Raymond RADIGUET (1903-23). Le Bal du Comte d' Orgel. Paris: Aux Dépens de la Société les Exemplaires, 19...

FRASER, James Baillie (1783-1856). A Winter's Journey (Tatar,) from Constantinople to Tehran; with Travels through Various Parts of Persia, &c. L...

GIRAUDOUX, Jean (1882-1944). Hélène & Touglas ou les Joies de Paris. Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1925. Small 4to (183 x 138mm). Half title, etched fro...

LEGRAIN, Pierre (1888-1929, binder & designer) - Sidonie-Gabrielle COLETTE (1873-1954). La Naissance du Jour. Roman. Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 19...

RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator) - Paul FORT (1872-1960, translator). Le Livre de Ballades. Paris: L' Edition d' Art H. Piazza, 1920 4to ...

TOUDOUZE, Edouard (1848-1907, illustrator) - Honoré de BALZAC (1799-1850). Le Lys dans la Vallée. Paris: Société d' Editions Littéraires et Artis...

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. Rendered from the literal and complete versions by Dr. J. Mardrus; and collated with other sources;...

BINDINGS - Thomas REID (1710-65). Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind. London: Printed for Ogle, Duncan & Co. (and others), 1822. 3 volumes, 1...

D' ANANIA, Giovanni Lorenzo (1545-1609). De natura daemonum ... Libri quatuor. Quorum I. Agit de origine & differentia daemonum. II. De eorundem ...

DUGUAY-TROUIN, René (1673-1736). Memoires de M. du Gue-Trouin, chef d' Escadre des Armées de S. M. T. C. & Grand-Croix de l' Ordre Militaire de S...

DUMAS, Alexandre (1802-70). Le Comte de Monte-Christo [sic, ie. Cristo]. Brussels: Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1845-46. 8 volumes bound in 4, smal...

FRASER, George Macdonald (1925-2008). Royal Flash. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1970. 8vo (207 x 135mm). Half title. Original cloth, dust-jacket (a ...

[JONES, Owen (1809-74)]. The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony. [London: Longman, c. 1849]. 12mo (125 x 90mm). 20 leaves of thick paper "illumin...

MUSIC - A New Edition of Six Concertos For the Harpsicord[sic] or Organ, Compos'd by Mr. Handel. Price 5s. N.B. These Concertos were Originally Pu...

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [?September] 1885. 8vo (188 x 130mm). Half title, fol...

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). She. A History of Adventure. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title, double colo...

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). Cleopatra. Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis, the Royal Egyptian, as Set Forth by His Own...

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). Smith and the Pharaohs. And Other Tales. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., 1920. 8vo (182 x 122mm). Half title (l...

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). When the World Shook. Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot. London: Cassell...

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925) - A collection of 22 novels by Henry Rider Haggard, comprising: Cetywayo and his White Neighbours (London, 1891, ...

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925) - A collection of 24 novels including: Lysbeth. A Tale of the Dutch (London, 1901), Pearl-Maiden (London, 1903), ...

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925) - A collection of 10 works of non-fiction in 12 volumes including: The Last Boer War (London, 1899, original pict...

A Series of the Kings and Queens of England, from Egbert to George III. With Other Distinguished Characters, Illustrative of Hume and Smollet's, G...

SPARE, Austin Osman (1886-1956, illustrator). Earth Inferno. London: Co-Operative Printing Society Limited, February 1905 [but dated 1904 on illus...

SPARE, Austin Osman (1886-1956, illustrator). A Book of Satyrs. London: John Lane, [n.d. but plates dated 1906/1907]. Folio (436 x 325mm). Introd...

[TATTERSALL, George (1817-49)]. The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses ... by Wildrake. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844. Large 8vo (249 x 155mm...

DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). An autograph letter, signed, to Hugh Falconer, three-pages, on paper with printed heading "Down, Bromley, Kent, S.E.",...

GEOLOGISTS - A collection of 21 autograph letters to Hugh Falconer, Joseph Prestwick and others, by distinguished geologists and others, comprisin...

GLADSTONE, William Ewart (1809-98). An important autograph letter to Joseph Prestwich, signed, three-pages, dated "[S.S.] Tantallon Castle, Off Ki...

OWEN, Richard (1804-92). An autograph letter, with signature excised, to an un-named academic recipient, one-page, on paper with heading printed ...

SOMERVILLE, Mary (1780-1872). Three autograph letters comprising: 1) An important autograph letter to Hugh Falconer, signed, three-pages (on mourn...

ANIVITTI, G. "Saggi di Anotomia[sic] Pittorica. Per G. Anivitti." [No place:] Small 4to (196 x 135mm). [Undated but [?]early/mid 19th-century]. E...

Audubon's Birds of America, edited by Roger Tory Peterson & Virginia Marie Peterson. New York & London: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1990. Folio (3...

AVIATION - Report of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for the Year 1909-10. London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910. Large...

BEDDARD, Frank Evers (1858-1925). Contributions to the Anatomy of the Anthropoid Apes ... Received February 15th, 1892, read February 16th, 1892....

BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-88). The Natural History of Birds ...and a Preface, Notes, and Additions, by the Translator, edited...

BROWN, Thomas. A Manual of Modern Farriery; embracing the Cure of Diseases Incidental to Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, and Dogs; with Instruction...

The Charlton Hunt - Simon REES (editor). Notes on the Gentlemen of Charlton. The Hunt Servants. Visitors and Other Persons including Minutes of t...

CHRONOMETERS - Bernard CALLIER (1820-1908). Pen, ink and watercolour drawing of a new watch mechanism by Bernard Callier, inscribed "Nouveau balan...

COOLIDGE, Harold Jefferson (1904-85). A Revision of the Genus Gorilla. Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed at the Museum, August 1929. 4to (299 x 250mm). ...

DANIELL, Samuel (1775-1811). African Scenery and Animals. A facsimile reprint of the aquatint plates originally published in 1804-5. With an intr...

ELEPHANTS - Hugh FALCONER (1808-65). On the American Fossil Elephant of the Regions Bordering the Gulf of Mexico ... with Observations on the Liv...

GEOLOGY & PALEONTOLOGY - James BRYCE (1838-1922). Geology of Clydesdale and Arran; embracing also the Marine Zoology and the Flora of Arran. Lond...

Illustrations of Birds drawn for John Gould by Edward Lear. Collected and Introduced by David Attenborough. London: The Folio Society, 2012. Folio...

[MARKHAM, Gervase ([?]1568-1637)]. The Young Sportsman's Instructor. In Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, Ordering Singing Birds, Hawks, Poultr...

MARTIN, Brian Philip (b. 1947) & Richard ROBJENT (b. 1937, illustrator). Sporting WIldfowl of the British Isles. Studies in Words and Pictures. H...

MEDICINE, miscellaneous - Edward LUND (1823-98). The Present Aspect of the Antiseptic Question; being the Substance of the Oration for the Year 1...

MEDICINE, miscellaneous - James MORRIS. Irritability: Popular and Practical Sketches of Common Morbid States, and Conditions Bordering on Disease...

MEDICINE, ophthalmology - Hermann SCHEFFLER (1820-1903). The Theory of Ocular Defects and of Spectacles ... translated by Robert Brudenell Carter...

MUGGLETONIAN "CELESTIAL CHARTS". A set of 6 "celestial charts", unbound, printed in oil colours by G. Baxter after Isaac Frost, engraved by W. P. ...

NATURAL HISTORY, mostly ornithology - William Homan THORPE (1902-86). Duetting and Antiphonal Song in Birds. Its Extent and Significance. Leiden:...

OWEN, Richard (1804-92). On the Osteology of the Chimpanzee and Orang Utan ... Communicated March 10, 1835. [London: Transactions of the Zoologic...

SITWELL, Sacheverell (1897-1988), Handasyde BUCHANAN & James FISHER. Fine Bird Books 1700-1900. London: Collins & Van Nostrand, 1953. Folio (491 ...

SOWERBY, John Edward (1825-70). English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. Third Edition. London: George Bell & Sons, 1887-92. 13 vo...

SPORT - Edward William Dirom CUMING (1862-1941). British Sport Past and Present. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. 4to (296 x 230mm). Half titl...