Rare Books & Works on Paper

'Culpeper's Complete Herbal,' Profuse with hand coloured engravings, boards debound, lacks back strip, some spotting and toning to edges of leave...

Mining Interest Five publications Edmund Vale. 'The Harveys of Hayle. Engine Builders, Shipwrights and Merchants of Cornwall,' 1966, first editio...

SIMPSON, Harold The 7 Stages of Golf Illustrated with 20 colour plates by G. E. Shepheard, original pictorial boards, first edition,two illustrat...

Publications including Latin and Greek Interest H.B. Cotterill (transl.) 'Homer`s Odyssey', illustrated by Patten Wilson, George G, Harrap & Co, ...

Pink Floyd Pulse Four Vinyl Box Set (4LP's) Together with 'Pink Floyd - 50 Years on the Dark Side', four DVD book set collectors limited edition,...

BOSWELL, James. 'The Life of Samuel Johnson,' Five volumes, new edition, half calf with marbled boards, rubbed to top edge, speckled edge, fronti...

REDI, Francesco (1626-1697/98). Esperienze intorno a diverse cose naturali e particholarmente a quelle, che ci son portate dall'Indie .e scritte i...

(Natural History) GOLDSMITH, Oliver 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature,' Two vols, half red morocco with marbled boards, rubbed and bump...

FISHER, George. 'The Instructor: Or young Man's Best Companion,' Full calf with loss, frontis engraving, some wormholes, toning, W. Osborne and T...

Captain William Dampier 'A New Voyage Round the World,' Vol I (only), later full polished calf with compartmentalised spines, rubbed and bumped, ...

(Baskerville binding) 'The Book of Common Prayer,' 'And Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According ...

'Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Capitals of the World,' 'and Overland Guide to India, Persia, and the Far East. A Handbook of Indian, Colonial, ...

Kelly's Directory of Essex Four works 'Kelly's Directory of Essex,' 1926, complete with map, good; 'Kelly's Directory of Essex,' 1886, complete w...

LEWIS, Samuel. 'A Topographical Dictionary of England,' Seventh edition, four volumes, original embossed cloth, chips to ends of back strips, vg,...

Greek and Latin Poetry Interest F.J.E. Raby, 'A History of Christian-Latin Poetry', second edition, 1953; I.D. McFarlane, 'Renaissance Latin Poet...

James Taylor The Pictorial History of Scotland, Vol. I Half Morocco, gilt lettering on compartmentalised spine, illustrated with engravings on st...

LAWRENCE, T. E. 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' Fifth impression, original cloth, plates and fold out map, a very good copy, Jonathan Cape, London, 193...

Four Life and Work publications of various artists Armstrong, Walter Sir (1850-1918); Briton Riviere: Royal Academician: His life and work; with ...

Italian Art Interest Luigi Conconi, Annigoni and Tranquillo Cremona Luigi Conconi, Architetto e Pittore; Raffaello Gioilli; Alfieri & Lacroix - R...

STARK, Flora - An Italian Diary First edition, 1945 In the original qtr cloth over decorated boards; Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 --Prisoners a...

BRANFIELD, John 'The Poison Factory' and other fiction novels by the author 'The Poison Factory', first edition, written inscription from the aut...

F. HAMILTON DAVEY 'Flora of Cornwall Being an Account of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Found in the County of Cornwall Including The Scilly Isles...

EMPEROR SCHOLAR ARTISAN MONK The creative personality in Chinese Works of Art Slipcase (damaged) containing book as above, 1984, together with Be...

Architecture interest. Two works 'Clare College 1326-1926,' two volumes, folio, quarter cloth with coat of arms gilt tooled to front board, extre...

J. M. Graadt Van Roggen Schip van de Stoomvaartmaatschappij 'Zeeland' Etching, signed in graphite by the artist, framed and glazed measuring 64cm...

Ecclesiastical Interest 'The Greek Testament,' 'With Brief English Notes, sixth edition, 1850, together with other works related to the epistles ...

Art Interest Nine publications H. L. Mallalieu, 'The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Up To 1920', two volumes, Antique Collectors Club,...

PARRY, Joseph & ROWLANDS, David Cambrian Minstrelsie - A National Collection of Welsh Songs Six volumes '', T. C. & E. C. Jack, Grange Publishing...

Booklets and Ephemera 'Heywood's Comic Recitations and Readings, in Prose and Verse,' original printed thin paper wraps, some finger soiling, sma...

Illustrated Works Thirteen good works. Robert Louis Stevenson. 'Prayers Written At Vailma,' illuminated and chromolithographed by Alberto Sangors...

KELBER, Magda 'Heute Abend - An Elementary German Course for Older Students' Four editions of Book One, two being first editions, 1938, map of 'D...

(Cornwall) Twenty four works J. B. Cornish. 'Mate's Illustrated Penzance,' second edition, original wraps, staple bound, b+w photographic illustr...

(Cornwall) Thirteen works [REDDING, Cyrus]. 'An Illustrated Itinerary of the County of Cornwall,' half leather rubbed and bumped, marbled endpape...

Penguin Modern Painters To include Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Matthew Smith (2), Edward Bawden, Duncan Grant, Ben Shahn, William Nicholson, Paul ...

Celtic Interest Thirteen Works J.A MacCulloch, 'The Religion Of The Ancient Celts', Morrison and Gibb Ltd for T & T Clarke, Edinburgh, 1911; toge...

Laura KNIGHT Two Publications Elizabeth Knowles, 'Laura Knight - In The Open Air', Sansom & Company, 2012; Caroline Fox, 'Dame Laura Knight', Pha...

Cornish Art Interest Six publications Cecily Langdale, 'Gwen John', Yale University Press, second printing, 1988; Julian Machin, 'Adrian Ryan - R...

Gypsy Interest Seven publications David Cressy, 'Gypsies - An English History', Oxford University Press, 2018; Donald Kendrick (ed and translated...

CONRAD, Joseph. Eleven works G. Jean-Aubry. 'Joseph Conrad. Life and Letters,' US first edition, two vols, original clith, frontis lithograph, vg...

SPRATT, Thomas Abel Brimage (Captain, Royal Navy) 'An Invesigation of the Movements of Teignmouth Bar,' First edition, original publishers emboss...

SMILES, Samuel. six works 'Lives of The Engineers,' fifth thousand, three volumes, original embossed cloth with some staining and rubbing, small ...

WOOD, Nicholas. 'A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads, and Interior Communication in General,' Third edition, full polished calf prize binding, gil...

Chess Interest Ten Works Walter Korn (ed), 'Modern Chess Openings', ninth edition, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, London, 1957; together with nine othe...

An Early 20th Century Alpine Etching Indistinctly signed in graphite to the marginPlate size 30cm x 23.5cm, 52cm x 39cm framed

Sutton Nichols, hand-coloured Map of Cambridgeshire Circa 1700 Sold by Abel Swale and John Churchill44cm x 37cm

STP Briani Waltoni 'In Biblia Polyglotta Prolegomena Specialia Recognovit Dathianisque Et Variorum Notis Suas Immiscuit Franciscus Wrangham' 1828...

Carol and Hymn Interest Egon Wellesz, 'A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnology', second edition, Clarendon Press, 1998; together with other bo...

J Paxton 'Illustrations of Paley's Natural Theology: With Descriptive Letter Press' Profusely illustrated with plates throughout, first edition, ...

JMW Turner 'Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England' From drawings made principally by JMW Turner, R.A and engraved by WB Cooke, Georg...

W Harrison 'A New and Universal History, Description and Survey of The Cities of London and Westminster, The Borough of Southwark, and their Adjac...

BERRIMAN, Hazel  Crysede, the unique textile designs of Alec Walker Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1993 ...[more]

(Arctic exploration) Fridjof Nansen Five works. 'Nansen Hunting and Adventure in the Arctic,' first edition, original clth with gilt lettering an...

(Devon) BRACKEN, C. W. Bracken 'A History of Plymouth and Her Neighbours,' Second edition, original cloth, plates, vg, Underhill, Plymouth, 1934;...

(Arctic exploration) The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Three volumes. Greely, Adolphus. 'Three Years of Arctic Service: An Account of the Lady Fr...

Captain Scot and the Discovery. Two works. Skelton, Judy. 'The Antarctic Journals of Reginald Skelton,' 2004, First edition, Reardon Publishing, ...

(Heraldry) PLAYFAIR, William. 'Playfar's Families. Ireland,' 'British Family Antiquity: Illustrative of the Origin and Progress of the Rank, Hono...

Charles Walter SIMPSON(1885-1971) A Sketchbook containing ten illustrations Mostly Pen and ink, with one in graphite. Most titled: Young Carrion...

FLOYER, John and BAYNARD, Edward. '...The History of Cold-Bathing, Both Ancient and Modern,' Fifth edition, in two parts bound in one volume, ful...

An early 20th Century sketchbook of watercolours with a botanical interest Together with another sketchbook of watercolours by a different hand A...

Illustrated French Children's books BARET, Charles - (JOB, illustrator); 'This is my tour, the story of a year'. Preface by A. Capus. Illustratio...