Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts

ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605). Monstrorum historia. Cum paralipomensis historiae omnium animalium, Bologna, 1642, 2 parts, including supplement, ...

BERTHOUD, Ferdinand (1727-1807). Essai sur l'Horlogerie, Paris, 1763, 2 volumes, 4to, 38 folding plates, tables, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION....

BIBLE, in English - The Bible, Amsterdam, Thomas Stafford, 1644, folio, general title and title to the New Testament, woodcut maps and illustratio...

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965), Clementine CHURCHILL (1885-1977), Clement ATTLEE (1883-1967), Peter Geoffrey OATES (1919-2007), and others...

FONTANA, Domenico (1543-1607). Della Transportatione dell' Obelisco Vaticano, Rome, 1590, folio, engraved title, portrait and 38 plates, contempor...

[HOWITT, Samuel ([?]1765-1822, artist)]. Foreign Field Sports ... With a Supplement of New South Wales, London, 1819, folio, 110 fine hand-coloure...

KENNEDY, John F. (1917-63, 35th President of the United States of America). A monochrome photograph of the President, SIGNED "John Kennedy", in wi...

KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-80). Ars magna lucis et umbrae, Rome, 1646, folio, 38 engraved plates, diagrams and illustrations (lacks one leaf), mode...

LANA DE TERZI, Francesco (1631-87). Prodromo, Brescia, 1670, folio, 20 engraved plates including one of a flying machine, [?]later full vellum. FI...

REGIOMONTANUS, Johaness Müller (1436-76), and others. Scripta ... de torqueto, astrolabio armillari, Nuremberg, 1544, 4to, woodcut illustrations a...

RONDELET, Guillaume (1507-66). Libri de piscibus marinis, Lyon, 1554, [?]volume one only (of 2), folio, woodcut illustrations, initials and orname...

SENDAK, Maurice (1929-2012, illustrator) - William BLAKE (1757-1827). Poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence, London, 1967, tall 12mo, 8 i...

STELLUTI, Francesco (1577-1653, editor and translator). Persio Tradotto in verso, Rome, 1630, 4to, engraved title, portrait and 5 illustrations, c...

VEEN, Otto van (1556-1629). Le Theatre Moral de la Vie Humaine, Brussels, 1672, folio, folding engraved plate and 103 engraved emblematic illustra...

BIBLE, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, probably Paris or northern France, 13th-century, 4to (216 x 155mm), c.480 leaves with 86 FINE H...

[BYRON, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron, i.e. "Lord BYRON" (1788-1824)]. Don Juan, London, 1819, Cantos I - II (only, of 16) bound in one volume, 4t...

[DE QUINCEY, Thomas (1785-1859)]. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, London, 1822, 12mo, half title, original publisher's boards, later book ...

DOUGLAS, Gawin (1474-1522). The xiii. Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgili Translated ... into Scottish metir, London, 1553, 4to, FINELY B...

IBBETSON, John Thomas, later Sir John Thomas SELWIN [or SELWYN], 6th Baronet (1789-1869, artist). "Scotch Scenery" [c. 1824], 2 volumes, 4to, 162 ...

JONSON, Ben (1572-1637). The Workes, London, 1616-40. 3 volumes, folio, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION of the most important collection of drama...

"NUREMBERG CHRONICLE" - Hartmann SCHEDEL (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493, large folio, woodcut illustrations, 19th-century morocc...

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). The Cenci, "Italy" [i.e. Livorno], 1819, 4to, FINELY BOUND in late 19th-century full red crushed morocco gilt....

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Posthumous Poems, London, 1824, large 8vo, preface by Mary Shelley, FINELY BOUND in late 19th-century full red ...

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London, 1819, large 8vo, FINELY BOUND in late 19th-cen...

GOULD, John (1804-81). The Birds of Great Britain, London, [1862-]73, 5 volumes, large folio, 367 EXCEPTIONALLY FINE hand-coloured lithographed pl...