Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs

Bindings - Art reference, handsomely bound, 24 volumes, including Waagen, Dr. Handbook of painting. 1860. 2 vol., half calf; Alcock, R. Art and a...

Blake, William The works... poetic, symbolic and critical. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893. 3 volumes, 8vo, edited by E.J. Ellis and W.B. Yeats, f...

Campbell, Colin Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British architect. London: sold by the author, J. Nicholson, &c. 1717-25. Volumes 1-3 only, folio, ...

Cochran-Patrick, R.W. Catalogue of the medals of Scotland. Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1884. 4to, number 99 of 350 copies, plates, olive half morocco;...

Filippi, Joseph de Parallèle des principaux théatres modernes de l'Europe et des machines théatres... Paris: A. Lévy Fils, 1860. Elephant folio, ...

Lightoler, T. The gentleman and farmer's architect. A new work. London: Robert Sayer, 1774. 4to, title-page and 25 engraved plates (as specified ...

Moore, Henry Sheep sketchbook, 1980. Oblong 8vo, inscription from Henry Moore to free-endpaper: "For John/ from Henry Moore/ 1985"

Ruskin, John The works, edited by E.T. Cook and A. Wedderburn. London: G. Allen, 1903-12. 39 volumes, 8vo, Library Edition, limited to 2060 copie...

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de Elles. London: The Toulouse-Lautrec Circle, 1969. Large folio, number 775 of 1250 copies produced, additional numbered...

Walpole, Horace Anecdotes of painting in England. Strawberry-Hill: 1762-63. Volumes 1-3, 4to, 78 engraved plates; Walpole, Horace A catalogue of ...

Whistler, Laurence - Zaehnsdorf binding The image on the glass. [n.p.]: John Murray/Cupid Press, [1975]. Small 4to, number 11 of 12 copies finely...

Wright, Frank Lloyd Buildings plans and designs. New York: Horizon Press, 1963. Folio, number 114E of 2600 copies, 100 plates, original portfolio...

Yellow Book, The An illustrated quarterly. London/Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane/Boston: Copeland & Day, April 1894-April 1897. 13 volumes, 8v...

A quantity of maps, over 200, including Thomson, John West India Islands: St. Christopher, St. Lucia, Nevis; Porto Rico and Virgin Isles, Haiti, ...

American yachts - Cozzens, Frederic Schiller American Yachts, their Clubs and Races: Plate 2: Sandy Hook to the Needles, 1866, Henrietta, Fleetwi...

Barker, Thomas J., after Charles Lewis Two large framed prints engraved by Thomas J. Barker after military scenes by Charles Lewis: The allied ge...

British Isles, over 200, including Thomson, John Northern part of Ayrshire. Edinburgh, 1828, 2 maps, hand-coloured, each c.77 x 56cm; [Idem] Engl...

Carrington, F.A. A map of Scotland divided into counties, shewing the principal roads, railways, rivers, canals, etc. London: Samuel Lewis, [c.18...

Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria Isola e'Regno di Sardegna... Venice, after 1689, 69 x 50cm, some marginal soiling and neat marginal repair

Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria Impero del gran Mogol. Venice, c.1696, c.47 x 55cm, later hand-colouring

Fer, Nicolas de L'atlas curieux ou le monde réprésenté dans des cartes générales et particulières du ciel et de la terre divisé tants en ses quat...

Hole, William - Mercator, Gerard Scotia regnum, [Amsterdam?, after 1610], c.26 x 32cm to plate line, hand-coloured, framed and glazed

Luyts, Joannes Introductio ad geographiam novam et veterum. Utrecht: F. Halma, 1692. 4to, hand-coloured engraved title and 64 (of 66) engraved do...

Manuscript estate plan - 'Scots-Tarvet', Fife A plan of the lands of Scots-Tarvet together with the contents thereof in Scots measure, surveyed b...

Martin, R. Montgomery The illustrated atlas. London: J. & F. Tallis, 1851. Folio, additional engraved title, frontispiece and 83 maps hand-colour...

Moll, Herman Atlas manuale: Or, a new sett of maps... London: J. Knapton [and others], 1723. 8vo, folding additional engraved title-page, title i...

Norden, John - Kip, William Cantium quod nunc Kent, [London, 1637?], c.29x39cm to plate line, hand-coloured, framed and glazed

Rowlandson, Thomas, and others A selection of political cartoons and other prints, including Rowlandson, Thomas Cold broth & calamity, 1792; Heat...

Speed, John - Farne and Channel Islands [The Farne Islands & The Channel Islands] - 'Holyiland'; 'Farne'; 'Garnsey' ; 'Jarsey'. [London]: Sudbury...

Thomson, John, publisher East part of Fife-sh., compiled from the surveys of John Ainslie & John Bell... Edinburgh, 1827; [Idem] Western part of ...

Tytler, A.F. Elements of general history. Edinburgh, 1807. Volume 1 only, 8vo, 7 hand-coloured engraved folding maps, contemporary calf, worn, co...

Brunhoff, Jean de Babar en famille. 1950 [date at end]; Le roi Babar. 1950 [date at end]; Histoire de Babar. 1951 [date at end]; Brunhoff, Lauren...

Children's and illustrated works, 8 books including Somerville, E. OE. Slipper's ABC of fox hunting. London: Longman's, Green, & Co., 1903. Folio...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First edition, 8vo, wood-engraved frontispiece an...

Hodgson Burnett, Frances The secret garden. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition, 8vo, illustrated with 8 plates by Charles Robinson, o...

Milne, A.A. Now we are six, 1927. First edition, 8vo, red cloth gilt, a little wear and fading to spine; The house at Pooh Corner, 1928. First ed...

Rackham, Arthur - Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.] 'New edition', 4to, with ALS from Arthur Rackh...

Rackham, Arthur - Kenneth Graham The wind in the willows. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1951. 100th edition, number 269 of 500 copies, illustrated...

Somerville, E. OE. The story of the discontented little elephant. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1912. Small oblong 4to, 7 plates, original picto...

10 volumes, including Pictet, B. La théologie Chretienne. Geneva, 1721. 3 volumes, 4to, portrait, contemporary calf, spines gilt; Calvin, Jean In...

Ariosto, Ludovico Le satire. Venice: Nicolo d'Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1538. 8vo, [64], large woodcut portrait on title, red morocco gilt, green...

Aristotle Opera (edited by Isaac Casaubon). Geneva: printed by Petrus de la Roviere, 1605 (i.e. 8th June 1606). 2 volumes, folio, titles printed ...

Aulus Gellis Noctes atticae. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1651. 12mo, contemporary vellum, engraved title-page, from the collection of Stanley Seeger

Barclay, John Argenis. Venice: Francesco Baba, 1643. 12mo, engraved title, contemporary vellum; Silius Italicus De secundo Bello Punico. Amsterda...

Bible, Paris, 1542 Biblia. Insignium historiarum simulachris... [Paris]: François Gryphe, 1542. 8vo, contemporary calf, lacking several index lea...

Biondo, Michel Angelo De memoria libellus. Venice: I. Antonius & P Fratres de Nicolini de Sabio, 1545. 12mo, [ii], 21, antique style panelled cal...

Diodorus Siculus Bibliothecae historicae libri XVII. Lyon: Gryphius, 1552. 12mo, later vellum, from the collection of Stanley Seeger, erased ink ...

Florus Rerum romanarum libri IV. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1664. 12mo, contemporary vellum, engraved title-page with section clipped away, some annotat...

French history and literature, including Martin, Henri Histoire de France. Paris, 1855-1860. 16 volumes, 4th edition, 8vo, volumes 1-9 in quarter...

Goudelin, Pierre [Gudelinus, Petrus] Commentariorum de jure novissimo libri sex. Arnhem: Jacobus Biesius, 1661. 4to, [24],367,[32], engraved port...

Grammatica Regia Leiden: W. Christianus, 1650. 12mo, title-page in red and black, contemporary vellum, from the collection of Stanley Seeger, C1 ...

Gualteruzzi, Carlo, da Fano. Libro di novelle, et di bel parlar gentile. Florence: Stamperia di i Giunti, 1572. 4to, [8], 153, [20], woodcut devi...

Homer Iliad, id est, de rebus as Troiam gestis. Paris: Adr. Turnebum, 1554. lacking an initial leaf, later calf gilt [USTC 151544]

La Fayette, Marie Madeline Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de La princesse de Monpensier. Paris: Louis Billaine, 1662. 8vo (141 x 79mm.), half-titl...

Lipsius, Justus [Opera omnia]. Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana, 1614. Volumes I and VII only (of VII), 4to, contemporary vellum, from the collectio...

Malaspina, Marcello Saggi di poesie diverse. Florence: Bernado Paperini, 1741. 4to (271 x 200mm.), half-title, title-page printed in red and blac...

Panciroli, Guido Rerum memorabilium...pars prior (- liber secundus). Frankfurt: Godfried Schonwetter, 1660. Two parts in one volume, 4to, contemp...

Pascal, Blaise Les provinciales ou les lettres escrites... a un provincial de ses amis. Cologne: Pierre de la Vallée [i.e., Amsterdam: Louis and ...

Saumaise, Claude Plinianae exercitationes in Caii Iulii Solini poyhistora. Paris: Charles Morel, 1629. Volume 1 only (of 2), folio, title-page in...

Strein von Schwarzenau, Richard Gentium et familiarum Romanarum stemmata. [Geneva]: Estienne, 1559. Folio, collates: *i-iiii, [ff.1], A2-A8, B1-G...