Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Aesop - John OgilbyThe Fables of Aesop paraphras'd in Verse, by John Ogilby. London: Andrew Crook, 1651. 4to., [16], engraved frontispiece & 74 pl...

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich CorneliusHis Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy. London: J.C. for John Harrison, 1655. 4to, engraved frontispiece p...

Albertus MagnusSuper Matthei Evangeliare postilla [Bound with:] Super Marci Evangeliare postilla. Hagenau: expensis Joannis Rynman de Oringaw, ind...

[Anonymous]L'Astrologue Amoureux. Paris: Louys Chamhourdy, 1657. 12mo, engraved frontispiece by L. Spirinx, modern half calf, frontispiece slightl...

Arabian Nights - Powys Mathers, E.The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. Privately Printed for the Subscribers, The Casanova Society, 1923...

Architecture - Freart, RolandThe Whole Body of Antient and Modern Architecture. London: C. Wilkinson, T. Dring [&c.], 1680. First edition in Engli...

AristotleAd Nicomachum filium de Moribus, quae Ethica nominantur, libri decem. Paris: Gabriel Buon, 1574. 4to., woodcut device on title, extensive...

Arnauld, Antoine and Pierre NicoleLogic; or, the Art of Thinking. London: H. Sawbridge, 1685. 2 parts in one, 8vo, first edition in English, title...

Ascham, RogerThe English Works. London: T. Davies & J. Dodsley, [1767]. First edition, second issue, with undated title, contemporary half calf, n...

Bacon, Sir FrancisThe Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Moral... newly written. London: John Haviland for Hanna Barret, 1625. Second issue, title pa...

Barham, Rev. R.HThe Ingoldsby Legends. London: R. Bentley, 1840-47. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved titles, 2 portraits and fine impressio...

Baskerville Press - Congreve, William The Works. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1761. 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait after Kneller and 5 plates...

Bayley, JohnThe History and Antiquities of the Tower of London. London: T. Cadell, 1821-25. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to., 31 engraved plates, (1...

Beaumont, Francis & John FletcherThe Dramatic Works, collated with all the former editions and corrected. London: for T. Evan [&c.], 1778. 10 volu...

Bell's British PoetsThe Poets of Great Britain. London: Cadell and Davies... and Samuel Bagster, 1807. 124 vol. in 61 (complete), edited by John B...

Bell, John, publisher[Bell's British Theatre]. London: Printed for the Proprietors, 1791-97. 46 volumes, 12mo, engraved frontispieces and titles, ...

Bindings - Two sets, comprising Butler, AlbanThe Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and other Principal Saints. Dublin, [c.1880]. 12 volumes, 8vo, blac...

Blake, WilliamJerusalem. London: Trianon Press, [1974]. Folio, limited to 558 copies, number 172 of 500 copies bound in quarter morocco with marbl...

Blount, Thomas - Charles IIBoscobel: or the compleat history of His Sacred Majesties most Miraculous Preservation after the Battle of Worcester. L...

Blount, Thomas - Charles IIBoscobel: or the History of His Sacred Majesties Most Miraculous Preservation after the Battle of Worcester. London: He...

Boswell, JamesThe Life of Samuel Johnson, edited by Clement Shorter. New York: G. Wells, 1922. 10 volumes, 8vo, number 268 of 785 copies, Temple B...

Brontë, CharlotteLife and Works of Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters. London: Smith, Elder, 1872-73. 7 volumes, 8vo, plates, red half morocco gilt,...

Browning, RobertThe Poetical Works. London: Smith, Elder, 1888-89. Limited edition of 250 copies on hand-made paper, 17 volumes, 8vo, engraved fro...

Bruyant, Jacques - Das Buch vom Erfüllten Leben, Le Livre du Chastel de LabourLucerne, Faksimile Verlag Luzern, 2005. 8vo, number 430 of 980 facsi...

Burnet, GilbertThe History of the Reformation. Oxford, 1829. 6 volumes, uniform contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt, red and green morocco la...

Burns, RobertThe Works, with His Life by Allen Cunningham. London: J. Cochrane, 1834. 8 volumes, 8vo, engraved titles and portrait, full 19th cent...

Caesar, Caius JuliusThe Commentaries... of his Wars in Gallia, translated by Clement Edmonds. Savoy: J. Edwin, 1677. Folio, title printed in red a...

Calpurnius Siculus, Titus - Nemesianus, Marcus Aurelius OlympiusBucolica. Florence: Giunta, 1590. 4to., woodcut device on title and verso of final...

Cambridgeshire & Cornwall - Lysons, D. and S.Magna Britannia.... vol. II, part 1: Cambridgeshire. London: Cadell, 1808, 4to, large paper copy, 41 ...

Camden, WilliamBritannia. London: Edward Gibson, 1695. Folio, portrait, 50 double-page maps, 8 (of 9?) plates showing coins [one full-page engravi...

Camden, WilliamThe History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England. London: C. Harper & J. Amery, 1675. Foli...

Casaubon, MericA Treatise proving Spirits, Witches, and Supernatural Operations, by pregnant instances and evidences... London: for Brabazon Aylme...

Casaubon, MericA Treatise concerning Enthusiasme, as it is an Effect of Nature. London: Roger Daniel, 1656. Second edition, 8vo, modern calf-backe...

Cervantes, Homer and Samuel Pepys, 13 volumesThe History of ... Don Quixote of La Mancha. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1856. 4 volumes, 8vo, conte...

Chaucer, Geoffrey - Basilisk Press facsimile of the Kelmscott Press ChaucerLondon: Basilisk Press, 1974. 2 volumes, folio, Facsimile of Kelmscott ...

Churchill, Sir WinstonThe Collected Works. London: Library of Imperial History, 1973-76. Centenary Limited Edition, 8vo, 38 volumes, number 850 of...

Churchill, Sir WinstonMarlborough, his Life and Times. London: G.G. Harrap, 1933. First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, plates & maps, full red crushed m...

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl ofThe History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1826. 8 volumes; The Life of Clare...

Cohausen, Johann HeinrichHermippus Redivivius: or the Sage's Triumph over Old Age and the Grave. London: J. Nourse, 1749. Second edition, 8vo, con...

Collection of 10 maps, including Saxton, C.Barkshyre. [c.1637] and Huntingdon [c.1637], foot of map trimmed; Blome, Richard A Mapp of Hartfordshir...

Conrad, JosephThe Works. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920-1928, 33 vol. in 24 (including the 2 volumes of Life and Letters b...

Cudworth, RalphThe True Intellectual System of the Universe. London, 1743. Second edition, 2 volumes, 4to., folding frontispiece in volume 1, cont...

Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, maps, including Saxton, C.Cumbria sive Cumberlandia. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, 280 x 320mm.,...

Dee, JohnA True & Faithful Relation of what Passed for Many Yeers [sic.] between Dr. John Dee... and some spirits... London: T. Garthwait, 1659. F...

Defoe, DanielThe Novels, and Miscellaneous Works. London: G. Bell, 1887. 7 volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait, full green morocco gilt, Law Society a...

Dickens, CharlesThe Works... with the Original Illustrations. London: Chapman & Hall, 1899. The Gadshill edition, 34 volumes, 8vo, red half morocc...

Dryden, JohnThe Works. London: W. Millar, 1808. 17 volumes (1-14, 16-18), 8vo, with notes by Walter Scott, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, spi...

Durham, 4 maps, comprising: Greenwood, C. & J.Map of the County Palatine of Durham. Jan. 26 1831. Hand-coloured engraved map, 586 x 695mm., Cary, ...

Eliot, George [pseud. of Mary Anne Evans]The Works. Edinburgh & London: W. Blackwood, [1895]. 21 volumes, 8vo, Standard Edition, contemporary ligh...

Emerson, Ralph WaldoThe Works. London: Macmillan, 1896. 6 volumes, 8vo, red half morocco, spines gilt, top edges giltProvenance: Appleby Castle Li...

Fielding, HenryThe Works. London: Bickers & Son, 1903. 11 volumes, 8vo, edited by J.P. Browne, plates, contemporary half calf, spines gilt, top ed...

Foxe, JohnActs and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable, Happening in the Church... London: the Company of Stationers, 1684. 3 volumes,...

Foxe, JohnActs and Monuments... London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1641. 3 volumes, folio, titles within large woodcut borders, foldin...

Frankland, ThomasThe Annals of King James and King Charles the First. London: Robert Clavel, 1681. Folio, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, corn...

Froude, James AnthonyHistory of England. London: Longman, 1862-70. 12 volumes, comprising 2 sets uniformly bound, 8vo, red half morocco gilt by Ri...

Galsworthy, JohnThe Works. London: William Heinemann, 1923-26. 30 volumes, 8vo, Manaton edition, number 185 of 500 sets signed by the author, orig...

Gibbon, EdwardThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London, 1838. 8 volumes, 8vo, portrait & 3 folding maps, contemporary polis...

Glastonbury, Somerset - Warner, Rev. RichardAn History of the Abbey of Glaston and of the Town of Glastonbury. Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1826. First edi...

Golden Cockerel Press - Mabinogiontranslated by Gwyn Jones & Thomas Jones. Golden Cockerel Pres, 1948. Folio, limited to 550 copies, number 7 of 7...

Golden Cockerel Press - Somerset de Chair - Clifford WebbThe First Crusade. Golden Cockerel Press, 1945. 4to, limited to 500 copies, copy number 3...