Books and Works on Paper

Ancient world.- Schliemann (Dr. Henry) Mycenae, a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns, plates and maps, some folding, or...

Anthropology.- Thoms (William J.) The Longevity of Man, its Facts and its Fictions, with a Prefatory Letter to Prof. Owen on the Limits and Freque...

Cave paintings.- Cartailhac (Émile) and l'Abbé Henri Breuil. La Caverne d'Altamira a Santillane pres Santander (Espagne), half-title, colour and b...

Dictionaries.- Antiquities.- Danet (Guillaume) A Complete Dictionary of the Greek and Roman Antiquities, first English edition, approbation f. at ...

Dogs.- Edwards (Sydenham Teast) Cynographia Britannica, number 2 of 50 copies of this facsimile edition, 2 vol., including a separate cloth portfo...

Emblemata.- Wither (George) A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne: quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and di...

Good (John Mason) Pantologia. A new Cyclopedia, 12 vol., c.360 engraved plates, of which c.180 hand-coloured (mostly natural history subjects), en...

Language.- Dictionaries.- Cooper (Thomas) Thesaurus linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ, tam accurate congestus, vt nihil penè in eo desyderari possit, dou...

Language.- Dyer (G.) A Restoration of the Ancient Modes of Bestowing Names on the Rivers, hills, vallies, plains, and settlements of Britain, firs...

Language.- [Goadby (Robert), attributed to) The Life and Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the Beggars . . with his...

Language.- Hogarth (Richard) Gazophylacium Anglicanum: containing the derivation of English words, proper and common; each in an alphabet distinct...

Language.- Wachter (J.G.) Glossarium Germanicum continens origines antiquitates linguae Germanicae, double column, engraved head-and tail-pieces a...

Lavater (Johann Caspar) Essays on Physiognomy, 3 vol. in 5, first English edition, half-titles to 2 vol., 173 engraved plates, 363 engraved vignet...

NO RESERVE Malta.- Geology.- Adams (Andrew Leith) Notes of a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta: A Narrative of Exploration and Research in C...

NO RESERVE Military.- Waterloo.- Craan (W.B.) An Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo, translated and edited by Capt. Arthur Gore, half-ti...

Pigott (Charles) The female jockey club, or a sketch of the manners of the age. Amongst other highly distinguished Personages, Male and Female, ti...

Plinius Secundus (Gaius) The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, the naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus, 2 vol. in 1, titles with first...

Primates.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud) A Review of Primates, 3 vol., plates, some colour, text foxed to varying degrees, contemporary half buckram, spi...

NO RESERVE Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Tom Kitten, half-title, colour plates, ink Christmas gift inscription, original pictorial boards, short sp...

Roxburghe Club.- James (Montague Rhodes, editor) The Bestiary, being a reproduction in full of the manuscript Ii. 4.26 in the University Library, ...

NO RESERVE Verlaine (Paul) Freundinnen, number 79 of 120 copies, signed by the editor, 7 etchings in sepia by R.R. Junghanns, some light browning ...

Savonarola (Girolamo, 1452-98) Libro... della Verita della Fede Christiana dimandato Triompho della Croce di Christo, collation A-FF4, woodcut tit...

Suetonius Tranquillus (Caius) Duodecim Caesares ex Erasmi re-cognitione, title with large woodcut printer's device, woodcut criblé initials, E8 bl...

Trade.- Law.- Insurance.- Straccha (Benvenuto) Tractatus de Mercatura, seu Mercatore Omnia, collation: a-e, A-z, Aa-Yy8, woodcut printer's device ...

Callimachus. Hymni (cum suis scholiis Graecis) & Epigrammata, edited by Henri Estienne and Nicodemus Frischlin, Roman, Greek and italic type, titl...

Boemus (Johannes) Mores, leges, et ritus omnium gentium, title within woodcut decorative border, woodcut head-pieces and initials, lightly browned...

NO RESERVE 16 century leaf.- Leaf from Herodotus. Historiarum Libri IX..., second edition, edited by Henri Estienne, text in Greek and Latin, doub...

Judaica.- Emblemata.- Meisner (Daniel) Iusta Simplicitate, engraving, 147 x 103mm., some foxing to margins, a little spotting within image, [Landw...

NO RESERVE Erasmus (Desiderius) Colloquia nunc emendatiora, engraved allegorical title, with a little marginal loss, gummed paper used to strength...

NO RESERVE Bible, German. Biblia..., prefaces by Martin Luther, 2 vol. in 1, double column, engraved frontispiece and plates, frontispiece, title ...

NO RESERVE Erotica.- [Chorier (Nicolas)], "Joannes Meursius". Elegantiae latini sermonis. Petri Aretini Pornodidasculus...., author's name supplie...

Rousseau (Jean Jacques) J. J. Rousseau Citoyen de Genève a Mr. D'Alembert ... sur son Article Genève dans le VIIme. Volume de l'Enyclopédie, bookp...

Dorat (Claude Joseph) Lettre de Zéïla, Jeune Sauvage, Esclave a Constaninople, a Valcour, Officier Francois, Précedée d' une Lettre a Madame de C...

Sainmore (Blin de) Heroides ou Lettres Envers, third edition, half-title, 4 engraved plates and vignettes after Gravelot and Eisen, Paris, 1768 bo...

Lavater (Johann Caspar) Geheim Dagboek, 2 vol., engraved title vignettes and 19 copper engravings in text, occasional foxing, contemporary autogra...

Claviere (Étienne) & J.P Brissot de Warville. De La France et des États-Unis, ou De l'Importance de la Révolution de l'Amerique pour le bonheur de...

Ancient & medieval England.- Strutt (Joseph) Angleterre Ancienne, ou Tableau des Moeurs, Usages, Armes, Habillemens, &c. des anciens Habitans de l...

Anquetil (Jean Pierre) Histoire de France Depuis les Gaulois Jusqu'a la Mort de Louis XVI, 13 vol., half-title, occasional faint spotting, contemp...

Prostitution.- Bretone (NIcolas Edmé Restif de la) Le Pornographe, ou Idées d'un honnête-homme sur un projet de règlement pour les prostituées, nu...

NO RESERVE Erotica.- [Louys (Pierre)] Scènes de Péripatéticiennes, limited edition of 200, half-title, 9 plates only (of 12) loosely inserted, spo...

NO RESERVE Clouzot (Henri) & Chalres Follot, Histoire du Papier Peint en France, 25 tipped-in colour plates only (of 26), illustrations, captioned...

Sartre (Jean-Paul) Œuvre Romanesque, 5 vol., lithographed frontispiece and plates by Walter Spitzer, unopened, original paper wrappers, a little r...

Waterloo, Belgium & the Rhine.- Wright (R.) Journal of a Tour to Belgium & the Rhine with my Father, manuscript, title and 140pp., slightly browne...

Essex Farming.- [Farm & Household Accounts in the Stanway/Colne area], manuscript, c. 149pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, slightly browned, ori...

Yonge (Charlotte Mary, novelist, 1823-1901) Autograph Letter signed to Beatrice Henrietta Heathcote, 2½pp., 8vo, Elderfield, [Otterbourne, Hampshi...

Gordon (Charles George, army officer, killed at the siege of Khartoum, 1833-85) Letter signed "CE Gordon", 1p., 8vo, 27th January 1870, as Royal E...

Smiles (Samuel, biographer and didact, 1812-1904).- Miller (Hugh, geologist, evangelical journalist, and writer, 1802-56) 6 Autograph Letters sign...

Railways.- Victoria (Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 1819-1901) Letters Patent granted to John Collins Russell of Brixton for "Improvements in...

NO RESERVE Royal Society of Arts.- Copy Letter-Book, 749pp., manuscript on India paper, separate index of c. 25pp. of correspondents loosely inser...

NO RESERVE Victorian/Edwardian & later scrapbook, numerous chromolithographs, most laid down, 36pp., original cloth, lge 4to, [c. 1900-1930s]. .....

Kitchener (Horatio Herbert, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, army officer, 1850-1916) 1 Typed Letter signed to "Sir" and 1 Autograph Letter signed to "...

NO RESERVE Balfour (Arthur James, first Earl of Balfour, Prime Minister and philosopher, 1848-1930) Letter signed to Walter Sydney Sichel, 2pp., 8...

Royalty.- Arthur (Prince [Prince Arthur of Connaught] (1883-1938), governor-general of South Africa and grandson of Queen Victoria, 1883-1938).- C...

Flights to and fro Hendon during World War II.- List of passengers on flight R2766, including: Winston Churchill, The Duke of Kent (killed in a pl...

Bible, English. The Bible, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, general title within heart shaped woodcut border, title laid down, title ...

Ussher (James, Bishop of Meath) A Briefe Declaration of the Universalitie of the Church of Christ..., second impression, by Robert Young, [STC 245...

Bible, English. The Bible: That is, The Holy Scriptures, conteined in the Old and New Testament, 3 parts in 1, this issue with "Esther i.1:... seu...

Balzac (Jean Louis Guez de) New Epistles..., 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved additional title, lacking initial and final blanks, light damp staining t...

[Sergeant (John, attributed to)] Schism Dis-Arm'd of the Defensive Weapons Lent it by Doctor Hammond, and the Bishop of Derry, woodcut head-pieces...

Brown (Sir Thomas) Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents and commonly presumed Truths, 2 parts in 1, sixth edition,...