Printed Books & Maps, Manuscripts, Incunabula, English & Continental Literature

[De Lolme, Jean-Louis]. The History of the Flagellants, or the Advantages of Discipline; Being a Paraphrase and Commentary on the Historia Flagell...

Bernard (of Clairvaux, Saint). Sancti Bernardi Abbatis Primi Claræ-Vallensis Opera..., Asdjecta Appendice Edmundi Martene, ex Veterum Scriptorum.....

Faujas de Saint-Fond (Barthelemy). Description des Experiences de la Machine Aerostatique de MM. de Montgolfier, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: ch...

Chambers (Ephraim). Cyclopaedia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Containing an Explanation of the Terms, and an Account of the S...

Fore-edge Painting. A Dictionary of the English Language. With an alphabetical account of the heathen deities; and a list of the Cities, Towns, Bo...

Empress Marie Louise Bindings. Charles Millevoye. Charlemagne, ou la défaite des Lombards, poème heroique en dix chants, & Charlemagne à Pavie, po...

Ottley (William Young). St Christopher, circa 1816, hand-coloured woodcut on laid paper, with caption at foot 'Christofori faciem die quacumque tu...

Bindings. Laurence Sterne. The Works..., with a Life of the Author, written by himself, 4 volumes, London: Sharpe and Son, 1819, engraved portrait...

Binding. Johann Nepomuk Schneid. Der Christ in der Andacht mit der heiligen Kirche. Oder: Die heiligen Zeiten und Feste des Jahres. Ein Gebet- und...

Smith (John Thomas). A Book for a Rainy Day: or Recollections of the Events of the last sixty-six years..., 3 volumes, London: Richard Bentley, 18...

* Shakespeare (William). An English treen snuff box made by John Marshall, mid-19th century, small circular box made of mulberry wood, the lid bea...

Fergusson (James). The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture, 2 volumes, London: John Murray, 1855, engraved illustrations throughout (a few full-p...

Glaisher (James, 1809-1903) [and Glaisher, Cecilia Louisa, 1828-1892]. Snow Crystals, Observed by James Glaisher, Esq., F.R.S., from February 8th ...

Shakespere (William). The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere, edited by Charles Knight, 8 volumes, London: Charles Knight and Co, circa 1...

Scott (Walter). The Novels, 25 volumes, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862-63, engraved additional titles, lightly spotted, contemporary red ...

Ruskin (John). The Works, 20 volumes, London: Chatto & Windus, 1871-82, armorial bookplate of John W. Lucas to front free endpaper versos, with co...

Eliot (George). Works, 10 volumes, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, circa 1880s, photogravure frontispieces, occasional light dam...

Harleian Society. Publications of the Harleian Society, 19 volumes in 18, London: Harleian Society, 1886-1955, some volumes with a presentation bo...

Booth (Charles, editor). Life and Labour of the People in London. [First Series]. Volume II. Streets and Population Classified, London: Macmillan,...

Verien (Nicolas). Livre curieux et utile pour les Scavans, et Artistes. Composé de trois Alphabets de Chiffres Simples, doubles & triples, fleuron...

[Baldi, Bernardino, and Francesco Bianchini]. Memorie concernenti la citta di Urbino, dedicate alla sagra real maesta di Giacomo III, re della Gra...

Ware (Isaac). Designs of Inigo Jones and Others, published by I. Ware, [London]: Printed for J. Millan opposite to the Admiralty Office White Hall...

Wrighte (William). Grotesque Architecture, or Rural Amusement; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winte...

Palladio (Andrea). The Architecture of A. Palladio; in Four Books. Containing a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observat...

[Peacock, James], 'Jose Mac Packe'. Oikidia, or, Nutshells: Being Ichnographic Distributions for Small Villas; chiefly upon oeconomical principles...

Letarouilly (Pl.). Édifices de Rome Moderne ou Recueil des palais, maisons, églises, couvents..., 2 volumes,Liege, D. Avanzo, 1843, numerous engra...

Da Vinci (Leonardo). Quaderni d'Anatomia, 6 volumes, published by C. L. Vangensten, A. Fonahn, H. Hopstock, copyright by Jacob Dybwad for the repr...

Le Capilartiste. Journal Professionnel des Coiffeurs Posticheurs, 2 volumes, Paris, 1909, 1935, numerous monochrome illustrations, some loose leav...

* Blossfeldt (Karl). La Plante, Introduction by Charles Nierendorf, 1st edition, Paris: Librarie des Arts Decoratifs, [1928], 120 heliogravure pla...

Iskusstvo, publisher. Novgorodian Icon-Painting, by V. N. Lazarev, Moscow, 1981, Early Tver Painting, by L. M. Yevseyeva, et al , 1983, both with ...

* Papermaking. Handmade Papers of the World, together 5 volumes and folders, 1st edition, Tokyo: Takeo Co., 1979, English and Japanese text volume...

Bennett (Terry). History of Photography in China 1842-1860 [and] Western Photographers 1861-1879, London: Quaritch, 2009-2010, illustrations throu...

Beckwith (Carol & Angela Fisher). Faces of Africa, 1st edition, Washington: National Geographic, 2004, signed & inscribed by Carol Beckwith to the...

Barry (Tom). Guerilla Days in Ireland, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Press Limited, 1949, signed by the author (with others presumably affiliated wit...

Bindings. Sculpture. Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman..., Illustrated Hand-books of Art History, by George Redford, 1888, wood engraved frontis...

Dickens (Charles). The Works, 10 volumes, New York: Pollard & Moss, 1887, frontispieces, black and white illustrations, bookplate of Dr Kenda to f...

Eliot (T. S.). Poetry and Drama / The Confidential Clerk / The Elder Statesman, all 1st editions, London: Faber & Faber, 1950, 1954 & 1958, review...

Ferdowsi (Hakim Abu’l-Qasem). An Album of Miniatures and Illuminations from the Ba?ysonghori manuscript of the S?h?a?hna?meh of Ferdowsi, Complete...

Folio Society. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 2 parts in one, 2nd printing, London, 2006, colour plates, original morocco-backed cloth, in s...

Folio Society. The Holkham Bible, facsimile reproduced from British Library Additional MS 47682, London, 2007, colour facsimile leaves throughout,...

Greenaway (Kate). Almanack for 1885, colour illustrations (a little light offsetting), all edges gilt, original cloth gilt in bright condition, 24...

Guillier (Henry). Les Vins de la Gironde, Bordeaux: J. Calvert, circa 1909, black and white full-page illustrations throughout of wine chateaux, p...

Hendry (Hamish). A Child's London, 1st edition, London: Sands & Co., 1900, 14 monochrome illustrations by Carton Moorepark, gutter cracked, some s...

James (Grace). Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales, Edition de Luxe, London: Macmillan and Co., 1910, 40 tipped-in colour plates illustrat...

Kingsley (Charles). The Life and Works of Charles Kingsley, 19 volumes, London: Macmillan and Co., New York: The Macmillan Company, 1901-03, half-...

Kipling (Rudyard). Poems 1886-1929, 3 volumes, London: Macmillan & Co, 1929, signed by the author to the limitation page in volume 1, etched front...

Laclos (Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de). Les Liaison Dangereuses, Illustrations en Couleurs de George Barbier, 2 volumes, Le Vasseur et Cie...

Lamb (Charles). The Works of Charles Lamb, 12 volumes, London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1903, colour and monochrome photogr...

Bindings. Lang (Andrew, translator). Aucassin & Nicolette, Old World Edition, Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1897, etched frontispiece on Japan...

Leighton (Clare). The Farmer's Year, A Calendar of English Husbandry, 1st edition, London: Collins, 1933, wood-engraved vignette to title, 12 wood...

Lewis (C. S.). Broadcast Talks, reprinted with some alterations from two series of Broadcast Talks given in 194 and 1942, 1st edition, London: Geo...

Pear Tree Press. Gutherie (James). Root and Branch, number 1, volume 3, Bognor Regis: Pear Tree Press, 1919, 14 intaglio engraved leaves of text, ...

Sherrington (Charles S.) The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, 1st UK edition, London: Archibald Constable, 1906, monochrome illustrations...

Spender (Stephen). Letters to Christopher, edited by Lee Bartlett, 1st edition, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980, signed to front blank by...

Whistler (Laurence). Scenes and Signs on Glass, signed limited edition, Woodbridge: The Cupid Press, 1985, signed by the author to limitation page...

Wisden. John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanacks, a run, 1920-2021, comprising 1920-35 rebound in contemporary cloth with original wrappers bound-in, e...

Art. A collection of art reference, including The Royal Danish Kustkammer 1737, 3 volumes, by Bente Gundestrup, Haderslev: Nationalmuseet, 1991, o...

Interior Décor. A collection of late 19th & early 20th century interior décor reference, including L'Ornement Russe, by N. Simakoff, Moscow, 1882,...

Political satires. The Blot on the Queen's Head; or how little Ben, the Head Waiter, changed the sign of the "Queen's Inn" to "Empress Hotel, Limi...

Vogue. A collection of approximately 160 UK issues of Vogue magazine, 1990-2015, colour illustrations throughout, including complete years for 199...