Antiquarian & Collectors' Books

POETRY. - John CLARE. The Rural Muse. London: Whittaker & Co., 1835. First edition, 8vo (171 x 100mm.) Engraved frontispiece of the poet's home, t...

AESOP, Phaedrus, et al. Fabulae Variorum Auctorum. Frankfurt: Apud Christ. Gerlach and Simon Beckenstein, 1660. 8vo (154 x 86mm.) Parallel text in...

SMITH, Samuell. David's Blessed Man. Or, a short Exposition Upon the First Psalme, directing a man to true Happinesse. London: Nicholas Okes, 1617...

MARRAFI, Diamano. Figure del Vecchio Testamento con Versi toscani. Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1554. 8vo (162 x 100mm.) Title with de Tournes woodcut d...

CHARLES I. - [John GAUDEN]. Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings. [London: John Grismond], 164...

HOBBS, Thomas. Hobb's Tripos, in Three Discourses: The First, Humane Nature… the Second de Corpore Politico… the third, of Liberty and Necessity. ...

[TRUSLER, John.] Proverbs in Verse, or Moral Instruction Conveyed in Pictures, for the Use in Schools: On the Plan of Hogarth moralized. London: I...

CHISWICK PRESS (publisher). Aesop's Fables. Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. London: Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham...

[BOREMAN, Thomas.] - Ange Denis MCQUIN. A Description of More than Three Hundred Animals, including Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Insec...

CIVIL WAR. - [H.R.] Remarks on the Life and Death of the Fam'd Mr. Blood. London: by G. Smeeton, 1817. Reprint, 4to (199 x 151mm.) Copper engraved...

BINDING. - James THOMSON. The Seasons. London: James Wallis, 1805. New edition, 8vo (154 x 94mm.) Wood-engraved vignette to title, 9 wood-engraved...

VOLTAIRE, Francois-Marie Arouet de. Letters Concerning the English Nation. London: for C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733. First edition, 8vo (197 x 121mm...

DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall. The Bibliomania; or, Book-Madness; containing some account of the History, Symptoms, and Cure of the Fatal Disease. Londo...

DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Sixth edition, 12mo (163 x 97mm.)...

KEATS, John. The Eve of St. Agnes. London: Sampson Low, 1859. 8vo (194 x 125mm.) Numerous illustrations by Edward H. Wehnert, 1p. of publisher's a...

DA VINCI, Leonardo. A Treatise on Painting. London: for I. and J. Taylor, 1796. New edition, 8vo (217 x 124mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, 29...

STOW, John. The Abridgement or Summarie of the English Chronicle, first collected by master John Stow, and after him augmented with sundry memorab...

BIBLE, In English. The Bible, That is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament, Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke,...

BIBLE, In English. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ… Being the First Translation From the Greek into English, by that Eminen...

ERASMUS, Desiderus. - White KENNET (translator). Wit Against Wisdom: Or, the Praise of Folly. Made English… By an Eminent Hand. London: John Wilfo...

POETRY. - John CLARE. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820. Second edition, 12mo (163 x 90mm.) (Browning t...

QUARLES, Francis. Emblems, Divine and Moral. London: John Bennet, 1839. New edition, 8vo (178 x 102mm.) Portrait frontispiece of Quarles, preface ...

BROWNE, Thomas. Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne, Kt. M.D., Late of Norwich. London: E. Curll, 1712. 8vo (193 x 114mm.) 22 engrav...

[FLETCHER, Henry]. The Perfect Politician: or, A Full View of the Life and Actions (Military and Civil) of O. Cromwel. London: for J. Crumpe, 1681...

CHARLES I. England's black Tribunall. Set forth in the Triall of K. Charles, I. London: for J. Playford, 1660. First edition, 8vo (162 x 98mm.) In...

RITSON, Joseph (editor). Robin Hood: a Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Ou...

HASSELL, John. The Beauties of Antiquity, Remnants of Feudal Splendour and Monastic Times. London: W. Day, 1807. 8vo (234 x 130mm.) In 2 parts, 2 ...

BINDINGS. - William HAZLITT. Table-Talk: or, Original Essays. Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1825. 8vo (168 x 98mm.) (Moderate spotting throughout, s...

POPE, Alexander. An Essay on Man… enlarged and improved… with the Notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester. London: A. Strahan, 1786. 8vo (178 ...

BECKETT, Arthur à and Linley SAMBOURNE. The Modern Arabian Nights, a story of Obstruction and the Emerald Isle. London: Bradbury Agnew & Co., [187...

THORNTON, Robert John. A Family Herbal: or Familiar Account of the Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants. London: B. and R. Crosby, 181...

WALTON, Izaak and Charles COTTON. The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation. London: for Samuel Bagster, 1815. Second Bagster edition...

DOUCE, Francis. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject But ...

BINDING. - George CRUIKSHANK (illustrator) and Henry MAYHEW. 1851: or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, who came up to London t...

[GILPIN, William.] An Essay Upon Prints: Containing Remarks Upon the Principles of Picturesque Beauty. London: G. Scott for J. Robson, 1768. Secon...

BINDINGS. Aphorisms, Opinions, and Reflections of the late Dr. Parr with a Sketch of his Life. London: J. Andrews, 1826. 8vo (160 x 92mm.) Portrai...

BINDINGS. - William WORDSWORTH. The Prelude, or, Growth of a Poet's Mind. London: Edward Moxon, 1851. Second edition, 8vo (164 x 99mm.) (Spotting ...

[BYRON, Gordon George Noel and Percy Bysshe SHELLEY and Leigh HUNT, et al]. The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South. London: John Hunt, 1822-1...

PHAEDRUS. - Daniel BELLAMY (translator). Phaedri Fabulae Selectae, Latinè, Anglicè, Gallicè: Fifty Instructive and Entertaining Fables of Phaedrus...

AFRICA. - Optatus MILEVITANUS and Victor UTICENSUS. Delibatio Africanae Historiae Ecclesiasticae sive, Optati Mileuitani libri VII ad Parmenianum ...

BINDINGS. A Compendious Book of Psalms and Spiritual Songs Commonly Known as 'The Gude and Godlie Ballates'. Edinburgh: [N.p.] 1868. 8vo (168 x 10...

FONTAINE, Jean de la. Oeuvres Complètes de la Fontaine, ornées de cent vingt gravures, d'après les dessins de Desenne, Chaudet, Huet, etc. Paris: ...

[FÉNELON, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-]. The Adventures of Telemaachus, the Son of Ulysses. London: A. and J. Churchill, 1703. Third edition,...

STARK, Freya. The Valley of the Assassins. London: John Murray, 1934. First edition, 8vo (220 x 137mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations, 5 ma...

ATWOOD, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985. First edition, first printing, signed by Margaret Atwood on the titl...

FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First edition, first issue, 8vo (187 x 120mm.) Original black cloth, pictorial dust-jacket...

GRAVES, Robert. Goodbye to All That. London: Cassell, 1957. Reprint, signed by the author on a mounted slip to the front pastedown, 8vo (214 x 133...

MILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition, first impression, 8vo (189 x 118mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H...

POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. First edition, second printing, 16mo (138 x 96mm.) Half-title, c...

[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. First editio...

CROWTHER-SMITH, H.F. (illustrator). A Lawn Tennis Alphabet. London: Slazengers Ltd., [n.d. circa 1913.] 4to (247 x 186mm.) 26 plates, 5pp. publish...

KIPLING, Rudyard. - Maurice and Edward DETMOLD (illustrators). The Jungle Book. London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. 8vo (206 x 132mm.) 16 colour plat...

KAFKA, Franz. The Trial… translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. First edition, 8vo (184 x 123mm.) (Toning.) Original b...

POETRY. - Rainer Maria RILKE. Requiem. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1909. Limited edition, this being number 39 of 500 copies, 8vo (209 x 140mm.) (Tonin...

POETRY. - E.E. CUMMINGS. & [Ampersand]. New York: Privately Printed, 1925. Limited edition, this being number 214 of 333 copies, 8vo (213 x 138mm....

BOCCACCI, Giovanni. Il Decameron di Messer…di nuouo ristampato…alla severalezione ridotto dal Cavalier Lionardo Salviati. Venice: Giunti di Firenx...

BELL, James (translator). - Don Ignacio Lopez DE AYALA. The History of Gibraltar, from the earliest period of its occupation by the Saracens. Lond...

CAREY, David. Life in Paris; comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours, of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian Celebrity. London: John Fairburn, 1822. F...

ANTIQUITIES. - Bernard de MONTFAUCON. The Travels of the Learned Father Montfaucon from Paris thro' Italy. London: by D.L. for E. Curll, 1712. Fir...

CHINA. - George STAUNTON. An Historical Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China, Undertaken by Order of the King of Great Britain; includin...