Fine Books and Manuscripts

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BALLADSA collection of 103 American Civil War broadside ballads, on paper, each within a decorative or pictorial border (28 ha...

BIRMINGHAM & LIVERPOOL CANALCUBITT (WILLIAM) A Report on the Financial State of the Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal... With an Appendix of C...

CAMPBELL (COLEN)Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect, vol. 1 only, FIRST EDITION, engraved title and dedication leaf, 98 engraved plat...

DARWIN (CHARLES)The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 'sixth editi...

DECORATIVE ARTSMACQUOID (PERCY) A History of English Furniture, 4 vol. (Oak; Walut; Mahogany; Satinwood), DUST-JACKETS, Medici Society, 1925-1928...

HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) AND ROBERT ADAMSONA collection of seven salt prints from calotype negatives, comprising; James Linton, a Newhaven fisherman...

MAGIC - CHUNG LING SOOPhotographic portrait postcard, signed in ink 'Chung Ling Soo', with Chinese characters adjacent, depicting the magician hea...

MUSIC - CLAUDE DEBUSSYAutograph sketch-leaf for his unfinished opera 'La chute de la maison Usher', comprising a passage of some thirteen bars, in...

MUSIC - ROBERT SCHUMANNAutograph fragmentary sketches of three duets from the 'Mädchenlieder'' Op.103, for two sopranos and piano, comprising the ...

MUSIC – BEATRICE HARRISONArchive of material relating to cellist Beatrice Harrison, comprising: i) Manuscript notebooks: including her reminiscenc...

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE & HIS MARSHALSCollection of some eighty letters, orders, notes, certificates and other documents pertaining to Napoleon Bonapar...

NAVAL - DRAWING MANUALSERRES (DOMINIC AND JOHN THOMAS) Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing. Part First [only, of 2], FIRST...

NAVAL - MANUSCRIPT EXERCISE BOOKManuscript exercise book, written in a fine italic hand, embellished with elaborate calligraphic headings and appr...

NAVALA Collection of Signals for the Use of the Ships in the Service of the United East India Company, title and 30pp., hand-coloured engraved pl...

NAVALBLANCKLEY (THOMAS RILEY) A Naval Expositor, Shewing and Explaining the Words and Terms of Art Belonging to the Parts, Qualities, and Proporti...

NAVALMOROGUES (SEBASTIAN-FRANCOIS BIGOT DE) Tactique navale, ou traité des Evolutions et des Signaux, FIRST EDITION, half-title, title printed in...

NAVAL – LOG BOOKSi) Two Naval Log Books from the General Elliott, the first titled 'Captain Drummond's Journal in a Voyage to Bombay & China comme...

ORENTAL ARTYAMANAKA & CO. [Sale catalogues] Oriental Art. The Entire Stock of the New York Store with Additions from the Chicago Store... By order...

SCOTLAND - NATIONAL COVENANTGUILD (WILLIAM) To the Nobilitie, Gentrie, Burrowes, Ministers, and Others of this Late Combination in Covenant, a Fri...

ASTLEY (THOMAS, PUBLISHER)[A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels... Comprehending Every Thing Remarkable in the Kind, in Europe, Asia, A...

COLLINS (GREENVILLE)Great Britain's Coasting Pilot... Being a New and Exact Survey of the Sea-Coast of England and Scotland, from the River of Tha...

COLLINS (GREENVILLE)[Cartes et plans de côtes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande, copiées sur celles du Pilote côtier de la Grande-Bretagn de Gre...

COMIC MAPROSE (FREDERICK W.) Angling in Troubled Waters - A Serio-Comic Map of Europe, chromolithographed pictorial map, tears to folds some fold...

COMIC MAPROSE (FREDERICK W.) John Bull and His Friends. A Serio-Comic Map of Europe, chromolithographed pictorial map, inset map of Europe, split...

DIXON (GEORGE)A Voyage Round the World; but More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in The ...

EGYPT - ENGINEERINGAlbum of photographic views in Egypt, in particular relating to the building of the new British barracks at Abbassia in 1910, c...

FRITH (FRANCIS)Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, additional titles with mounted albumen print, each volume with 36...

LONDON[MERIAN (MATTHAEUS)] London, hand-coloured engraved panoramic view with a key noting 43 places within the City, captioned 'London', on 2 sh...

OGILBY (JOHN)Britannia; Or, the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, Actually Survey'd, second edition, 102 engraved road-maps (including du...

ORDNANCE SURVEY - ENGLAND AND WALESAtlas containing thirty-nine Ordnance Survey [First Series] maps, comprising sheets 1-48 (lacking nos. 13-15, 1...

ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM)Théâtre de l'univers, contenant les cartes de tout le monde. Avec une briève déclaration d'icelles, text in French, engraved al...

PALESTINE - BRITISH MANDATE AND INSURGENCYArchive relating to Jewish and Arab resistance to British Mandatory Rule in Palestine, c.1938-1946, inc...

PARISTURGOT (MICHEL ETIENNE) AND LOUIS BRETEZ. Plan de Paris commencé l'année 1734, folding double-page index map, and 20 map sheets by Claude Lu...

PINCKARD (GEORGE)Notes on the West Indies: Written During the Expedition Under the Command of the Late General Sir Ralph Abercromby: Including Obs...

POCOCKE (RICHARD)A Description of the East, and Some Other Countries... Observations on Egypt [-Palestine or the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cy...

WELLS (EDWARD)A New Sett of Maps both of Ancient and Present Geography, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, 39 engraved maps (of 41, lacking 'Modern' Wor...

WORLD MAPHONDIUS (HENRICUS) Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula, hand-coloured double-page engraved twin-hemisphere Wo...

ARISTOTLEEthicorum Nicomachiorum paraphrasis, 2 vol. bound in 1, edited by Daniel Hensio, text in Greek and Latin, engraved pictorial title, and ...

BEMBO (PIETRO)Gli Asolani, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the dedication to Lucrezia Borgia, capital spaces with guide-letters, woodcut printer...

BIBLE, IN HEBREW[BIBLIA HEBRAICA] Quinque libri legis, 12 parts (of 17) bound in 12 vol., comprising: Pentateuch, 5 vol. (Genesis, Exodus, Levitic...

BIBLE, IN HEBREW[BIBLIA HEBRAICA] 7 vol. only, comprising: Ruth, Lamentations, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, & Esther (sig. 1-8); Joshua & Judges ...

BIBLE, in LatinManuscript on vellum, 308 (of 310) leaves, plus one paper flyleaf, text in 2 columns, each of 60 lines, numerous decorative initia...

BOECKLER (GEORG ANDREAS)Theatrum machinarum novum, exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, manuarias, pedibus ac ponderibus versatiles, plures, et...

INCUNABULAHORATIUS FLACCUS (QUINTUS) Opera, 264 leaves, 62 lines, full-page woodcut device on final leaf, scattered single wormholes (quite numer...

LEONARDO DA VINCITrattato della pittura di Lionardo da Vinci. Novamente dato in luce, con la vita dell'istesso autore, scritta da Rafaelle du Fres...

MEDICI (LORENZO)Poesie volgari nuovamente stampate... ... Col commento del medesimo sopra alcuni de' suoi sonetti, FIRST EDITION, Aldine device o...

PETRARCA (FRANCESO)Librorum...impressorum annotatio, 2 parts in 1 vol. (including 'Bucolicum Carmen'), A1r within a woodcut border, woodcut devic...

PINELLI (BARTOLOMEO)[La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri], 3 parts in 1 vol., 3 engraved frontispieces and 141 engraved plates after Pinelli, e...

TASSO (TORQUATO)Il Goffredo, large woodcut device on title, large woodcut historiated initials, woodcut ornaments, nineteenth century red morocco...

ZOCCHI (GIUSEPPE)Scelta di XXIV vedute delle principali Contrade, Piazze, Chiese e Palazzi della citta di Firenze, double-page engraved allegoric...

BACON (FRANCIS)Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning or the Partitions of Sciences IX Bookes, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved a...

BACON (FRANCIS)Sylva Sylvarum; or, A Naturall Historie, engraved frontispiece portrait, additional engraved allegorical title (dated 1631), with ...

BEWICK (THOMAS)A Selection of Wood Engravings. Being Impressions from Original Wood-blocks, NUMBER 21 OF 25 COPIES BOUND IN FULL MOROCCO, from an...

BINDINGSEVELYN (JOHN) Memoirs, 5 vol., edited by William Bray, Henry Colburn, 1827--COCKBURN (HENRY) Memorial of His Time, 3 vol., Edinburgh, A. ...

BOSWELL (JAMES)An Account of Corsica. The Journal of a Tour to that Island, FIRST EDITION, engraved vignette on title, folding engraved map (old ...

BURNS (ROBERT)COMBE (GEORGE) Four Views of the Skull of Robert Burns, Taken from a Cast Moulded at Dumfries, the 31st Day of March 1834, engraved...

COELSON (LANCELOT)The Poor-mans Physician and Chyrurgion Inlarged. Wherein Neer Four Hundred Rare and Choice Receipts for the Cure of All Distempe...

[ELIZABETH I] - DERBYSHIRELease to Richard and Lucy Belton and their son Richard of lands in Weston, Derbyshire, with scribal signature 'Smyth', w...

JOHNSON (SAMUEL)A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., fifth edition, one section (4T-M2) misbound in volume 1, titles printed in red & bl...

KEATS (JOHN)Endymion: A Poetic Romance, FIRST EDITION, issue with 'T. Miller, Printer, Noble street, Cheapside' on verso of half-title, with 5 li...