Important Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper

Acerbi (Joseph) - Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland to the North Cape..., 2 vol., engraved frontispiece portrait, large folding engra...

Gunpowder Incident.- Proceedings of the House of Burgesses of Virginia Gunpowder Incident.- Proceedings (The) of the House of Burgesses of Vir...

Babington (John) - Pyrotechnia, or, A Discourse of Artificiall Fire-Works [- A Short Treatise of Geometries], 2 parts in one, first edition , ...

Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie , additional engraved title dated 1631 ( Sir Francis) Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie , ...

Bankes (Thomas) - A Modern, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, 2 vol., engraved allegorical frontispiece, 83 engraved plates ...

Baretti (Joseph) - A Journey from London to Genoa, &c, 2 vol., first edition , half-titles, typographic decorations, half-titles and titles s...

Barrow (John) - A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793 To which is Annexed an Account of a Journey, Made in the Years 1801 and 1802, ...

Barrow (John) - Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, second edition, vol.II half-title only (as issued), 8 hand-coloured aquatint portra...

Barrow (John) - Travels in China, second edition , hand-coloured aquatint portrait frontispiece and 4 hand-coloured aquatint or stipple-engrav...

Baudier (Michel) - Histoire generalle du Serrail, et de la cour Du Grand Seigneur Empereur des Turcs [- Histoire de la Cour du Roy de la Chine], 2...

Bavaria.- - Album, comprising 64 hand-coloured aquatints and engraved plates culled from printed books, 36 costume plates, 25 landscapes, and 4 f...

[Beauchamp (Alphone de)] - Campagne des Austro-Russes en Italie en 1799, Deuxième et Troisième cahier, engraved frontispiece portrait, 6 hand-co...

Bell (John) - Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia... containing a journey to Ispahan in Persia Part of a journey to Pe...

engraver & map-maker ) [ A collection of German town views, plans & maps ] engraver & map-maker ) [ A collection of German town views, plan...

Bougainville (Louis Antoine de) - Voyage autour du Monde..., first edition , half-title, 20 engraved maps and charts, 18 folding, 3 engraved p...

Brown (Pierre) - Nouvelles Illustrations de Zoologie, French & English, 50 fine hand-coloured engraved plates (42 of birds, 5 quadrupeds, 1 tur...

Bruce (James) - Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 5 vol., first edition , half-titles, engraved title-vignettes and 59 plates (1 co...

Buchanan (Francis) - A Journey from Madras, first edition , 3 vol., half-title in vol.I only (as issued), engraved frontispiece, large hand-co...

Buchanan (George) - Rerum Scoticarum Historia, first edition, title within woodcut typographic border and with large woodcut printer's device...

Histoire Naturelle, 54 vol., engraved plates and maps, some folding (Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de ) Histoire Naturelle , 54 vol., engra...

Observations on the Principles which Regulate the Course of Exchange; and on... Observations on the Principles which Regulate the Course of Excha...

Burchett (Josiah) - A Complete History Of the most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, title printed in red & black, engraved allegorical frontispi...

Burton (William) - The Description of Leicester Shire Containing Matters of Antiquitye, Historye, Armorye, and Genealogy, portrait frontispiece,...

Byfield (Nathaniel) - An Account of the Late Revolution in New-England, caption title, 7pp., first 2 ff. with closed tears slightly affecting a f...

Caesar (Gaius Julius) - Rerum gestarum commentarii XIV., woodcut device to title and colophon, large woodcut arms of dedicatee, numerous woodcut ...

Chardin (Jean) - Voyages...en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient...nouvelle edition, 4 vol. in two, first collected edition , half-titles, 2 ...

.- Hawkesworth [ First Voyage ] An Account of the Voyages Undertaken…for... ( Captain James).- Hawkesworth (John) [ First Voyage ] An Acc...

and Captain James King . [Third Voyage] A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean… for... ( Captain James) and Captain James King . [Third Voyage] A ...

.- Kippis The Life of Captain James Cook, first edition , half-title ( Captain James).- Kippis (Andrew) The Life of Captain James Cook, fir...

A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, large folding engraved map ( Lady Elizabeth) A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople ,...

The Poor Man's Friend: An Address to the Industrious and Manufacturing Part... The Poor Man's Friend: An Address to the Industrious and Manufactu...

de Azara (Félix) - Voyages dans l'Amerique Meridionale, plate vol. only, engraved frontispiece, 5 large folding maps (1 partly hand-coloured), 19...

Defoe (Daniel) - Jure Divino: A Satyr, first edition , engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut device to title, errata on h1 verso, offsetting...

Drake (Edward Cavendish) - A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels, second edition, engraved frontispiece, f...

Dugdale (William) - [Works], 13 vol., comprising Monasticon Anglicanum [- Monastici Anglicani], 3 vol., Latin, mixed editions, vol.I half-ti...

Traité des Arbres Fruitiers, 2 vol., first edition , half-titles Traité des Arbres Fruitiers, 2 vol., first edition , half-titles, engrave...

Duhamel du Monceau (Henri-Louis) - Description des Arts et Metiers, 21 vol., an incomplete set, but with plates in excellent condition , c.17...

Ellis (John) - An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Corallines, and other Marine Productions Commonly Found on the Coasts of Great Britain an...

A Selection of the Native Plants of Forfarshire … (William) A Selection of the Native Plants of Forfarshire , album of 41 leaves of pressed...

Gibbon (Edward) - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., first edition , first variant , one of 500 copies , ...

Haslam (John) - Illustrations of Madness..., half-title, advertisement leaf, large folding engraved plate, short closed tear to D1 and to plate, ...

Herodotus. - Historiarum libri IX, Greek & Latin, half-title, engraved allegorical frontispiece incorporating map of Ancient Greece, title prin...

Homer. - [Works], 4 vol. in 2, edited by Jacob Moor and George Muirhead, Greek with Latin dedication, preface and index, half-titles, minor spot...

Hunter (John) - Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy, 18 engraved plates, some minor spotting and light offsetting, contemporary ...

The Evidence at Large, as Laid Before the Committee of the House of Commons ( Rev . G. C.) The Evidence at Large, as Laid Before the Committ...

Johnson (Samuel) - Letters..., 2 vol., 1788 § Piozzi (Hester Lynch) Observations and Reflections made in the course of a Journey through France, I...

Jonson (Ben) - The Workes, vol.1 only (of 3), lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, title with engraved allegorical border, woodcut devices to ...

[Knight (Cornelia)] - A Description of Latium, or La Campagna d Roma, engraved map frontispiece, 20 tinted etched plates after the author, tipped...

[Lemaistre (John Gustavus)] - Frederic Latimer, first edition , 3 vol. , a little faint spotting mostly to endpapers and fore-edges, contempora...

Loudon (John Claudius) - A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences... in Constructing or Improving Mansions and Other Rura...

Ludolf (Hiob) - A New History of Ethiopia, second English edition, 9 engraved plates including alphabet, most folding, folding engraved map (...

Lyde (Robert) - A True and Exact Account of the Retaking a Ship..., publisher's advertisement on E4 verso, text shaved on A1, A2, and E4, catchwo...

Mackenzie (George Steuart) - Travels in the Island of Iceland, first edition , half-title, 2 engraved maps, one folding and with partial colou...

Mandelslo (Johann Albrecht von) - Voyages Celebres & remarquables, Faits de Perse Aux Indes Orientales, 2 vol. in one, half-titles, titles print...

Mawe (John) - Travels in the Interior of Brazil, first edition , engraved frontispiece, 7 plates (1 hand-coloured) and 1 map, plates spotted, ...

Moleville (Antoine Francois Bertrand de) - The Costume of the Hereditary States of The House of Austria, first edition, title and descriptive...

[O'Brien (John)] - Focaloir Gaoidhilge-sur-Bhéarla, or An Irish-English Dictionary , first edition , half-title, 6pp. errata & privilege ...

Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions …, first edition Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions , first edition ,...

Asia, The First Part, Being an Accurate Description of Persia …, first edition Asia, The First Part, Being an Accurate Description of Persia , ...

Voyages Très-curieux & très-renommez faits en Moscovie Voyages Très-curieux & très-renommez faits en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse Nouvelle Edi...