Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Abbey, Major J.R. Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, volume one only, new edition, coloured plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, 4to, L...

[Anon.] Ornamens d'Architectura, d'apres les Edifices de Rome Antique, 2 engraved titles, engraved portrait, 45 engraved plates, a few with margin...

Bertozzi, Antonella and Alessandro Todeschini. 12 pages printed recto only from an unknown work of penmanship, each leaf of script engraved within...

Brockett, Paul. Bibliography of Aeronautics, first edition, original cloth, spine gouged, 8vo, Washington: Smithsonian Institute, 1910; Brett, R. ...

Canepari, Pietro Maria. De Atramentis Cujuscunque Generis, first edition, occasional rust-marks, small hole on A3 affecting text verso, lightly br...

Clouzot, Henri. La ferronnerie moderne, 1st and 2nd series only, 72 plates, loose as issued, original cloth-backed decorative folio boards, some w...

Cresci, Giovanni Francesco. [Essemplar di piu sorti lettre di M. Gio Francesco Cresci Milanese Scrittore della Libraria Apostolica], 36 [of 56] le...

Exhibition Catalogues. A group of exhibition and gallery catalogues, mostly late 20th century, including the Tate, National Gallery, Arts Council,...

Foley, Edwin. The Book of Decorative Furniture, 2 volumes, first edition, tipped-in coloured plates, illustrations, original cloth gilt, 4to, Lond...

Gardner, J. Starkie. English Ironwork of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries, first edition, plates, original cloth, 4to, London: B.T. Batsford, [n.d...

Hassall, William Owen. The Holkham Bible Picture Book, second edition, plates, original half morocco, uncut, folio, London: Dropmore Press, 1954

Henrey, Blanche. British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, 3 volumes, first edition, plates, some coloured, original cloth, slip...

Hobson, Robert Lockhart. Catalogue of the Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain, first edition, number 229 of 300 copies only, signed by Leo...

Humphreys, Henry Noel. Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart, Selected from the MS. in the Bibliotheque Royale, Paris, and from Other Sources, 2 ...

Loudon, J.H. James Scott and William Scott Bookbinders, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, London: Scolar Press, 1980; Rohde, E. S. ...

Macquiod, Percy. A History of English Furniture, 3 [of 4] volumes, mixed edition, coloured plates after Shirley Slocombe, illustrations, original ...

McMullan, Joseph V. Islamic Carpets, plates, original cloth, 4to, New York: Near Eastern Art Research Centre, 1965; Azadi, Siawosch. Turkoman Carp...

Nicholson, Peter. Practical Carpentry, Joinery, and Cabinet-Making, engraved additional title, 90 engraved plates, tissue-guards, some browning an...

Osborne, Edgar. The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, 2 volumes, first edition, coloured plates, original cloth, 4to, Toronto: Toronto...

Rosove, Michael H. Antarctica, 1772-1922, number 108 of 500 copies, coloured frontispiece, original cloth, 4to, Santa Monica: Adelie Books, 2001; ...

Smith, H. Clifford. Buckingham Palace, Its Furniture, Decoration and History, first edition, plates, many coloured, original buckram, dust-jacket,...

The Studio Magazine, a broken run from vol.1 to vol.29, bound in 17 volumes, plates, illustrations, contemporary half morocco, somewhat worn, 4to,...

Ugo da Carpi, Thesauro de Scrittori (after 1535) early edition, 36 leaves only, lacks all before A7, waterstained throughout, A7 and A15 repaired,...

Walsh, Grahame L. Bradshaws Ancient Rock Paintings of North-West Australia, first edition, limited to 1000 copies, coloured plates, original cloth...

Watson, George, editor. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 5 volumes, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo, Cambridge: University ...

Aldin, Cecil. Handley Cross... by R.S. Surtees, 2 volumes, number 7 of 250 copies, signed by Cecil Aldin, coloured plates, illustrations, original...

Aldin, Cecil. The Romance of the Road, first edition, coloured plates, illustrations folding map in pocket at end, original cloth, folio, London: ...

Aldin, Cecil. An Artist's Models, first edition, number 109 of 310 copies signed by the artist, 20 coloured plates, tissue guards, some slight bro...

[Anon] The Norwood Gipsey; or, Universal Dream-Book; containing a Full and Clear Interpretation of All Manner of Dreams, 30pp., hand-coloured wood...

Beardsley, Aubrey. A Portfolio of Aubrey Beardsley's Drawings Illustrating Salome by Oscar Wilde, first edition,15 [of 17] plates only, loose as i...

Beardsley, Aubrey. Drawings to Illustrate the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, [?one of 250 sets], 4 mounted plates, lacking portrait and introductory le...

Beardsley, Aubrey. A print of Mother and Child, possibly a Christmas Card, printed recto only, on heavy stock, 156mm x 235mm, [n.d.]; Ross, Robert...

[Bewick, Thomas.] A Natural History of Reptiles, Serpents, and Insects... Thirty-Five Engravings on Wood, first edition, engraved illustrations, o...

Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark, An Agony in Eight Fits, first edition, plates and illustrations by Henry Halliday, some spotting, origin...

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales, 2 volumes, decorated initials, original vellum-backed boards, top edge gilt, slipcase, extremities worn, ...

Cuala Press. A Broadside... published monthly by E.C.Yeats, a group of 15 numbers, comprising; first year, no.2, 5-8, 10 and 11, second year, no.3...

Daumer, G. Fr, translator. Hafis Eine Sammlung Persischer Gedichte, number 38 of 50 copies, 2 leaves comprising additional title illuminated with ...

Dean and Son's, publishers. The Young Mice and What Became of them All, 6 hand-coloured wood-engraved illustrations, mounted on cloth, original pi...

Disney, Walt. 'Sketch-Book' of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, first edition, 12 tipped-in coloured plates, tissue guards, illustrations, some li...

Dore, Gustave and Blanchard Jerrold. London, A Pilgrimage, first edition, additional title, frontispiece and 52 plates, frontispiece loose, some l...

Doyle, Richard. In Fairy Land, A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, second edition, half-title, 16 coloured plates, some water-staining, origi...

Doyle, Richard. In Fairyland, A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, second edition, 15 [of 16] coloured plates, some water-staining, original c...

Dudovich, Marcello. Corso, first edition, 30 coloured plates, original pictorial cloth, extremities rubbed, upper hinge broken, folio, Munich: Alb...

Dulac, Edmund, illustrator. The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales... retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, number 487 of 1000 copies, signed by ...

Dulac, Edmund, illustrator. The Bells and Other Poems... by Edgar Allen Poe, first edition, 28 coloured plates, illustrations in text, some occasi...

Engelmann, Gruel. Paroissien Romain d'apres les imprimes Francais du XVme Siecle, first edition, wood-engraved borders, coloured plates, contempor...

The World of Fashion, Monthly Magazine of the Courts of London and Paris [later The Ladies' Monthly Magazine], volumes 27-30 only, 191 hand-colour...

[Fenn, Eleanor] Rational Sports. In Dialogues Passing Among the Children of the Family, fourth edition, a few leaves loose, contemporary calf-back...

Freud, Lucien, illustrator. The Glass Tower by Nicholas Moore, first edition, plates and illustrations, some coloured, original cloth-backed picto...

Gardiner, Rena. A group of works published by the Workshop Press, Tarrant Monkton, Dorset, including; Dorset: The East Winterbourne Valley, 1968; ...

Gardiner, Rena. Portrait of Dorset, The South-East, number 2 of 30 copies only, signed by the artist and inscribed 'To Jean with love from Rena', ...

Gardiner, Rena. We Went to Wien (and wished we hadn't) Summer 1962, a bound volume of original drawings illustrating a holiday across Europe, each...

Gardiner, Rena. Ricordo di Roma (and other places) Summer 1961, a bound volume of original drawings illustrating a holiday across Europe, each sta...

Gardiner, Rena. Souvenir of Holland. Some of the places you saw or ought to have seen in 1960, a portfolio of original drawings illustrating a hol...

Gardiner, Rena. Four large aerial views depicting imagined reconstructions of Delphi, Olympia, Corinth and Epidaurus, each titled, one sub-titled ...

Gardiner, Rena. A collection of her printed works, 43 volumes, including History at Salisbury Cathedral, 1964; History in St George's Chapel Winds...

Gardiner, Rena. Dorset: The East Winterborne Valley, 1968; Dorset: The Isle of Purbeck, 1969; another copy, 1969; Dorset: Tarrant to Blandford, 19...

Gardiner, Rena. A group of 11 lithographed colour prints depicting landscapes, probably of Dorset, including: Cotehele Quay, signed and numbered 1...

Great Exhibition, 1851. The Interior of the Crystal Palace in London. A View into the Life and Doings of London during the Great Industrial Exhibi...

Greenaway, Kate. Almanack for 1884, coloured illustrations, original white wrappers, decorated gilt, 12mo, London: George Routledge, [1883]