Books and Works on Paper

France.- Henry III (as Duke of Anjou, later King of France, 1551-89) ?Order to Seigneur de ?Crusol, D.s. "Henry", manuscript in French, on vellum,...

Scotland.- Mure [Muir] (Sir John) Order to Jas. Loch Treasurer to pay Two Hundred Marks for the repair of North Berwick Harbour, manuscript, 1p., ...

Juxon (William, Archbishop of Canterbury, bap. 1582, d. 1663) Order to Sir Robert Pye to pay one hundred and fifty pounds to Richard Erwyne as "th...

NO RESERVE Virginia.- Lloyd (Abraham, maritime merchant, of Bristol) Autograph note signed to John Bearpacker, 1p., 110 x 180mm., 11th June 1715, ...

18th century commonplace book, manuscript in metalpoint and ink, 11pp., on paper and thick card prepared for metal point, later signature of John...

Devon.- Holdsworth family (merchants of Dartmouth, Devon) Papers relating to Arthur Holdsworth, Arthur Howe Holdsworth, the Holdsworth family and ...

Royal Hospital Chelsea,.- Instructions to Mr James Hopson Sculleryman of Chelsea Hospital, D.s. "H Fox", "C Townshend", "Ilchester", "James Cresse...

Manuscript documents etc.- Collection, including: Receipt signed by Anthony Elcock for £3 on £50 lent to His Majesty, 1667; cut Treasury document ...

NO RESERVE Calligraphic manuscript.- [Examples of calligraphic writing], manuscript in Italic, cut down from a larger sheet, removed from an album...

George IV (as Prince Regent, later King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and King of Hanover, 1762-1830) Copy Letter from the P...

Naval Surgeon.- Prideaux (Robert, naval surgeon, fl. 1798-1817) 8 Autograph Letters signed to members of his family, 19pp. with address panels, Fa...

Common Place Book Formed Generally Upon the Principles Recommended and Practised by John Locke, Esq., manuscript of prose and poetry, 99pp. exclud...

Artillery Officer.- Harvey (William) 8 Autograph Letters signed to Richard Lambert of Princes Street, Bristol, together 14pp., sm. 4to, Dublin and...

Spain & Italy.- Libro de las Cositas q:e emos Visto y pasado des de la llegada de Valencia, manuscript in Spanish, 45pp. excluding blanks, 1f. wit...

Congregational Sermons.- Melvill (Elizabeth) Sermon book, manuscript, 147pp., original vellum, yellowed and soiled, lettered direct on upper cover...

Pope (Alexander, poet, 1688-1744) Messiah and Other Poems, manuscript in a minuscule hand, elaborate pen and ink decorated title and 11pp., writte...

NO RESERVE Satirical poem.- Retaliation imitated from Goldsmith, manuscript, 3pp., monochrome watercolour of friends sitting around a fireplace, t...

Sung Requiem.- Mainati (Joseph, vicar) Collectio Omnium que canuntur in Missa Officio et Exequiis Defunctorum, manuscript music, red ink title and...

Canada.- Hill (Samuel) Autograph Letter signed to Julia Hill, Throgmorton Street, London, 9pp. & address panel, red wax seal, sm. 4to, Quebec, 12t...

Phillipps (Sir Thomas, Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts, 1792-1872) Autograph Letter signed to Thomas Bond, 2pp. & conjugate blank, Mid...

SS Great Western Steamship.- Bill of loading, printed form, slightly browned, framed and glazed, 130 x 250mm., Bristol, n.d. [c. 1840].

Australia.- Anderson (Alex, sheep farmer) Autograph Letter signed to his brother David in Dundee, 3pp. & address panel, sm. 4to, Portland Bay Dist...

America.- Knowles (Ann, Quaker, of Carlisle and Philadelphia) Autograph Letter signed to Beeby Saul, 4pp. & address panel, folio, Salem, Henry Cou...

Letters.- Collection, including: Sir Jacob Epstein ("... sending you a photograph taken from the clay bust; it is not yet in bronze..."), Samuel R...

Trafalgar Square statue.- Napier (Sir Charles, army officer, conqueror of Sind, 1782-1853).- On the Inauguration in Trafalgar Square... of the Sta...

Scrap book, watercolours and manuscript poems, together 49pp. excluding blanks, original morocco-backed laquer floral and gilt boards decorated wi...

NO RESERVE Medicine.- Simpson (Sir James Young, first Baronet, physician and obstetrician, popularised the use of chloroform, 1811-70) [?Page of n...

Westminster School.- Captain's Book, manuscript entries, including E.J. Webb, R.W.S. Vidal, H.S. Rawson, H.P. Robinson, accounts of tickets sold f...

Australia.- Photographs of an Aborigine, Port Albert Coach changing station and Bullock Teams South Gippsland [Victoria], together 3 albumen print...

Zola (Émile, novelist, playwright, journalist, 1840-1902) Autograph card signed, 1 side, 56 x 96mm., [?1887], admission ticket signed by Zola to t...

Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, 1819-1901) Appointment of Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson of...

NO RESERVE Herefordshire.- Lucton School (near Leominster).- Lucton Review, manuscript, 92pp., pen and ink illustrations throughout, slightly brow...

George V (as Prince George, later King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British dominions beyond the seas, and Emperor of India, 1865-1936) Auto...

NO RESERVE Africa.- Thomson (Joseph, explorer in Africa, 1858-95) Autograph Letter signed to J Heath Joyce, 1p., 8vo, 21a York Place, Edinburgh, 2...

Siege of Mafeking.- Powell (Robert Baden-, first Baron Baden-Powell, army officer and founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, 1857-1941) After ...

Greco-Turkish war of 1897.- Harris (Clement, English pianist and composer, died fighting in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, 1871-97).- Harris (Walt...

Irish Nationalist.- Davitt (Michael, Irish nationalist, 1846-1906) Autograph Letter signed to The Authors Syndicate London, 4pp., 8vo, St. Justin'...

NO RESERVE Lucas (Edward Verrall, essayist and biographer, 1868-1938) 3 Typed Letters signed to C.H. Whitby of Yeovil, 3pp., sm. 4to et infra, Met...

Gielgud (Sir John, actor and theatre director, 1904-2000).- Ouspensky (A.V., Russian playwright).- Form in Russian relating to the production of t...

NO RESERVE Sudan.- Fairbairn (P.E.) & Tarrant Dickie Guernsey, geologist. Report of a Reconnaisance in the Sudan, manuscript, 41pp. excluding blan...

Journalism.- Vernon (Virginia, journalist, fl. 1940-68) Correspondence to Virginia Vernon and typed articles on World Peace, including: 2 from Joh...

Crime.- Coppy (A) of the Prisoners Judgment Condemned to Dy [sic] from Nugate on Mundaie the 13. of Decemb: 1641, 8pp., variant with "Officers or ...

Civil War.- [Peirce (Sir Edmund)] The Petition of the Gentry, Ministers, and Commonalty of the County of Kent..., spine reinforced, n.p., 1642 § K...

Civil War.- Ireland.- Jones (Lt. Gen. M.) Lieut: General Jones's Letter to the Councel of State, of a Great Victory...in the City of Dublin...agai...

NO RESERVE Plague.- Certain Necessary Directions as well for the Cure of the Plague, as for Preventing the Infection, initial leaf with woodcut ro...

Law.- Phillpott (Nicholas) Reasons & Proposalls for a Registry or Remembrancer of all Deeds and Incumbrances of Real Estates..., title with contem...

NO RESERVE Selden (John) De Dis Syris syntagmata II, edited by A.Beyer, engraved portrait and additional pictorial title, title with faint early i...

Randolph (Bernard) The Present State of the Morea, called Anciently Peloponnesus, ?first edition, lacking engraved map, stained, title detached, [...

Marlborough (Duke of).- Exact Journal (An) of the Actions of the Allies this last Summers Campaign in Flanders: under the Command of His Excellen...

NO RESERVE Economics.- [Addison (Joseph)] The Late Tryal and Conviction of Count Tariff, half-title, with final blank, lightly soiled, disbound, [...

NO RESERVE Henley (John) A Course of Academical Lectures on Various Subjects..., Lecture I: On University Learning, 4pp. advertisements at end, di...

NO RESERVE Bristol.- Education.- [Bristol Grammar School] Some Thoughts on the Common Method of Education in Publick Schools, S. & F.Farley, 1750 ...

Gambling & Card Games.- [?Hawkins (William)], "Gyles Smith". Serious Reflections on the Dangerous Tendency Of the Common Practice of Card-Playing;...

[Goldsmith (Oliver)] An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe, first edition, title with engraved vignette, with dropped "9"...

[Garrick (David)] The Farmer's Return from London. An Interlude, first Dublin edition, half-title, etched frontispiece by Hogarth, stitched, rathe...

Ode to the Legislator Elect of Russia, on his being prevented from entering on his high Office of Civilzation, by a Fit of the Gout, first edition...

NO RESERVE Wiltshire.- [Sale Catalogue]. A Particular of the Manor of Trowbridge... To Be Sold, Together, or in Parcels, 3pp., docket on verso of ...

America.- Slavery.- Benezet (Anthony) A Caution to Great Britain and her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslav...

NO RESERVE Bristol.- Quakers.- Young (S[arah]) Some Particulars, relating to the Life and Death, of Rebecca Scudamore..., first edition, with exte...

[Burney (Frances)] Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy: Earnestly Submitted to the Humane Consideration of the Ladies of Grea...