Important Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper

Panvinio (Onofrio) - XXVII Pontificum Maximorum Elogia et Imagines Accuratissime, first edition , engraved title and 27 fine full-page por...

Peri (Giovanni Domenico) - Fiesole Distrutta, second edition, fine etched pictorial title and portrait of the author by Jacques Callot, some sta...

Historia di Ferdinando Terzo Imperatore, additional engraved title ( Conte Galeazzo) Historia di Ferdinando Terzo Imperatore , additional...

Locke (John) - [An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding], Extrait d`un Livre Anglois qui n`est pas encore publié, intitulé Essai Philosophique ...

Hebrew manuscript.- - Megillah Esther, on 6 sewn membranes, text columns of 21 lines in Hebrew square script in brown ink with tagin, with initi...

Longus. - Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé..., title printed in red & black with engraved device, text within decorative border o...

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) - Candide, ou l`Optimisme, first edition , woodcut ornament to title and tail-pieces, as often bound withou...

Hoogvliet (Arnold) - Abraham, de Aartsvader. In XII Boeken, hand-coloured additional engraved title by J. Wandelaar with facing page of descript...

Griboyedov (Aleksandr Sergeyevich) - Gore ot uma [Woe from Wit], first edition , half-title, device on title, light foxing throughout, old, s...

Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich) - Detstvo i otrochestvo [Childhood and Adolescence], first edition thus , title browned with light stain to fore-e...

Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) - Zapiski iz mertvago doma [Memoirs from the House of the Dead], 2 vol. in one, first complete edition , ha...

Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) - Dnevnik pisatelia [A Writer`s Diary], first edition , marginal age-toning and spotting, contemporary sheep...

Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich) - Anna Karenina, 3 vol. in two, sixth edition, Russian booksellers` stamp on titles, Russian gift inscription on ver...

artist ).- Gogol Sto chetyre risunka k poema N.V artist ).- Gogol (Nikolai Vasil evich) Sto chetyre risunka k poema N.V. Gogolia ""Mertvye ...

Chekhov (Anton Pavlovich) - Povesti i razskazy [Stories and tales], first edition , age-toning to margins, small Russian ownership and ?expor...

Kieffer (René).- Samain (Albert) - Hyalis: Le petit Faune aux yeux bleus, number 52 of 100 de grand luxe copies with the plates in three states...

Kafka (Franz) - Das Schloss, first edition, original cloth, spine slightly faded, fading along top and bottom edges, dust-jacket, spine browned...

Neruda (Pablo) - Canto General, number 205 of 500 copies signed by the author and contributing artists Diego Rivera and David A.Siqueiros , pri...

Khrushchev (Nikita Sergeyevich) - O Kulcie Jednostki I Jego Nastepstwach, [On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences], 96pp., first Pol...

], ""Andrzej Jawien"". Przed Sklepem Jubilera [The Jeweller`s Shop], 46pp (Karol, later Pope John Paul II)], ""Andrzej Jawien"". Przed Sk...

Bulgakov (Mikhail) - Master i Margarita [The Master and Margarita], first published edition , in the Moskva magazine, no.11 1966 & no.1...

Erasmus (Desiderius) - The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase...upon the Newe Testamente, second edition (with continuous pagination), lacki...

English. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe... English. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Ne...

English. The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and... English. The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the...

English. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New English. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, titles i...

English. The Holy Bible, [Authorised version], 2 parts in 1, double column English. The Holy Bible , [Authorised version], 2 parts in 1, do...

Mather (Increase) - Kometographia. Or a Discourse Concerning Comets ; wherein the Nature of Blazing Stars is Enquired into As also two sermons ...

Shakespeare (William) - Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, [ fourth folio edition ] , lacking first unsigned leaf with portrait (substituted w...

Cock-fighting.- Hallam (Isaac) - The Cocker: A Poem. In Imitation of Virgil`s Third Georgic. Humbly Inscrib`d to the Honourable Society of Sport...

Thompson & William Thornton, of Cootehill, County Cavan, fl Thompson (James, of Dublin, fl. c. 1790) & William Thornton, of Cootehill, Cou...

The State of the Poor: or, an History of the Labouring Classes in England ( Sir Frederic Morton) The State of the Poor: or, an History of th...

Austen (Jane) - Pride and Prejudice: A Novel, 3 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles, occasional spotting and foxing throughout, lightl...

Swift (Jonathan) - The Works, with Notes and a Life of the Author, by Sir Walter Scott, Bart., 19 vol., second Scott edition, Anthony Trollop...

Dickens (Charles) - A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, first edition , Gimbel`s second state, title printed in red...

Wordsworth (William) - Select Pieces, from the poems of Wordsworth, signed presentation copy from the author to Mary S.H.Escott to half-titl...

Brown (William Wells), ""A Fugitive Slave"". - Three Years in Europe; or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met, first edition, half-title, ...

Hardy (Thomas) - The Woodlanders, 3 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, without advertisements as issued, bookplate on front pas...

Wilde (Oscar) - The Ballad of Reading Gaol, number 9 of 10 copies printed on vellum and signed by the publisher , printed in red and black, a f...

Boswell (James).- - Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle, In the Collection of Lt-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, 20 vol. includin...

Keynes (John Maynard) - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, first editio...

Lawrence (D.H.) - Lady Chatterley`s Lover, first authorised expurgated edition , partly unopened, spotting to extreme edges of some ff., orig...

Pynchon (Thomas) - Vineland, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, accompanying letters of provenance ...

[Rowling (J.K.)], ?Kennilworthy Whisp?. - Quidditch Through the Ages, 2001; ""Newt Scamander . Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, 2001, f...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) - The Devil`s Coach-Horses, in The Review of English Studies, Vol.1, No.3, first appearance, original printed wrappers, spi...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) - The Hobbit, tenth impression, signed presentation inscription from the author to front endpaper, colour frontispiece, illu...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) - The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., vol.1 twelfth impression, vol.2 eighth impression, vol.3 ninth impression, signed presentat...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) - The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, second impression, signed by the author on half-title, original pictorial boards, dust-jac...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) - Smith of Wootton Major, first edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, origina...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) - The Road Goes Ever On, a Song Cycle, music by Donald Swann, first edition, signed by the author on front endpaper, spotting...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) - Tree and Leaf, paperback edition, fourth impression, signed presentation inscription from the author with additional signat...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) - Autograph Note signed to Fay Darrington, 1p., 8vo, n.p, 16th November, 1971, thanking her for her letter, returning two boo...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) - Autograph Letter signed to Fay Darrington, 1p. & envelope, 8vo, Hotel Miramar, Bournemouth, 16th February, 1972, thanking...