Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs

ARCHITECTURE - OXFORDWILLIAMS (WILLIAM, of Llandegai) Oxonia Depicta sive Collegiorum et Aularum in Inclyta Academia Oxoniensi, engraved througho...

ARCHITECTUREBUSBY (CHARLES AUGUSTIN) A Collection of Designs for Modern Embellishments Suitable to Parlours, Dining & Drawing Rooms, Folding Doors...

ARCHITECTUREJONES (INIGO) The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, 2 vol. bound in 1, FIR...

ARCHITECTURESMEATON (JOHN) A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone, FIRST EDITION,...

ARCHITECTURESTUART (JAMES) AND NICHOLAS REVETT. The Antiquities of Athens, Measured and Delineated, 4 vol., second ('New') edition, half-titles i...

ARCHITECTURETATHAM (CHARLES HEATHCOTE) Etchings, Representing the Best Examples of Ancient Ornamental Architecture; Drawn from the Originals in Ro...

BANKING AND GOVERNMENT – EDWARD BACKWELLBanking ledger kept in person by Edward Backwell, containing well over six hundred original acquittances f...

CAMPBELL-ORDE FAMILY OF ARGYLLSHIREThe remaining estate and personal papers of the Campbell-Orde family of Kilmory House, Argyllshire, dating from...

EROTICANAFZAWI (UMAR IBN MUHAMMAD). Cheikh Nefzaoui. [The Perfumed Garden] Traduite de l'Arabe par M. le baron R***, capitaine d'etat major, LIMIT...

GORDON (CHARLES GEORGE)Autograph letter signed ('C.G. Gordon'), to Mr Penman of the Gravesend Ragged School, headed 'The day of your School treat'...

GRANDVILLE (J.J.)Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 2 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, frontispieces, numerous plates...

HOPPUS (EDWARD)Practical Measuring Now Made Easy to the Meanest Capacity, FIRST EDITION, author's certification signature (worn) on verso of titl...

IRELANDSMITH (CHARLES) The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 13 engraved maps and plates (most fol...

LONDON, SOCIAL HISTORY AND COOKERYTwo volumes of social history, comprising: (i) Journal of a visit to London, kept, seemingly, by an English lady...

NAPOLEON BONAPARTEDocument signed ('Napoleon'), being a brevet authorizing the pension of 200 francs to be paid to François Bouvier, counter-signe...

NELSON (HORATIO)Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte'), to Emma Hamilton ('My Dear Emma'), headed 'Just Anchored' and opening: 'You are right...

[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)]Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Regulations Affecting the Sanitary Condition of the Army, the Or...

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army, Founded Chiefly on the E...

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, FIRST EDITION, issue with 'The right of Translation is reserved' at foot ...

[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)]HUGHES (AMY) Practical Hints on District Nursing (Burdett Series, No. 1), third edition, half-title with list of books on...

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Autograph letter signed ('Florence Nightingale'), to Dawson W. Turner, DCL, asking for his forgiveness – 'Pray excuse a poor...

SHIPBUILDING - 'EMPRESS OF BRITAIN'Q.S.S. 'Empress of Britain' Built by Messrs. John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank, for the Canadian Pacific Railway...

WATSON (JOHN)Memoirs of the ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey, and their Descendants to the Present Time, 2 vol., first published edition, engra...

BORELLI (GIOVANNI ALFONSO)De motu animalium, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 18 folding engraved plates, occasional light dampstaining to upper margin and...

BRIGGS (HENRY)Logarithmicall Arithmetike. Or Tables of Logarithmes for Absolute Numbers from an Unite to 100000; as Also for Sines, Tangentes and ...

BUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE)Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, vol. 1-24 (comprising: Matériaux généraux & Quadrupèdes, 15 ...

CHESELDEN (WILLIAM)Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones, FIRST EDITION, printed on thick paper, engraved frontispiece, large engraved vignet...

DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDIT...

DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, FIRST EDITION, folding plate, 32pp. p...

DARWIN (CHARLES)Autograph letter signed ('C. Darwin'), to [Joseph Dalton Hooker] ('My dear H.'), telling him that he 'had better not send, if in e...

DARWIN (CHARLES)The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex... Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Nineteenth Thousand, CUT SIGNATURE ...

FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN)Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America, fifth edition, half-title, 7 engraved plates (2 ...

FUCHS (LEONHARD)Primi de stirpium historia commentatiorum tomi vivae imagines, woodcut printer's device on title, 516 full-page woodcut illustrat...

FUCHS (LEONHARD)Plantarum effigies, woodcut device on title and portrait of Fuchs on verso, 516 woodcut illustrations, colophon bound before thes...

GERARD (JOHN)The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes... Very Much Amended by Thomas Johnson, second edition, pictorial engraved title incorpo...

HOOKER (JOSEPH DALTON)Part of the papers of the botanist Sir Joseph Hooker, with some of his uncle, Dawson William Turner, some 100 letters, cut s...

[LUDWIG I, PRINCE OF ANHALT-KOTHEN]Der fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft nahmen, vorhaben Gemälde und Wörter, 4 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, 4 engraved...

MATTIOLI (PIER ANDREA)Opera quae exant omnia, hoc est Commentarii in VI libros Pedacil Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia, edited by Caspar ...

NEW ZEALAND FERNSAlbum of mounted New Zealand ferns, 76 actual mounted samples of ferns (between 1 and 4 to a page, most decoratively arranged), ...

SAY (THOMAS)American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved additional pictorial title in v...

STUBBS (GEORGE)The Anatomy of the Horse, FIRST EDITION, later issue, 24 engraved plates printed on wove paper (one keyplate with several tears re...

VALLET (PIERRE)Le jardin du du tres Chrestien Henry IV, Roy de France et de Navarre, FIRST EDITION, etched architectural title-page (including po...

WEINMANN (JOHANN WILHELM)Phytanthoza iconographia sive conspectus aliquot milium... Plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum, vol. 1 (of 4), FIRST EDI...

[WRIGHT (THOMAS)An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe... and Particularly the Via Lactea], FIRST EDITION, lacking all before p.9, ...

EXQUEMELIN (ALEXANDRE OLIVER)Bucaniers of America: or, a True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of t...

HARRIS (JOHN)Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca: or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved fronti...

HEARNE (SAMUEL)A Journey from Prince of Wales' Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for t...

HENRICY (CASIMIR)Album pittoresque d'un voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du gouvernment francais, half-title, title printed in red and b...

INDIAALLEN (REV. GEORGE LOSCOMB) AND MRS. [SARAH] ALLEN. The Views and Flowers from Gugerat and Rajpootana, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION C...

LE BRUYN (CORNELIUS)A Voyage to the Levant: or, Travels in the Principal Parts of Asia Minor, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of the aut...

MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE)Journal du voyage... en Italie, par la Suisse & l'Allemagne, en 1580 & 1581, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait o...

SHEFIK (AHMED)Notes on a Visit to Sinai Monastery and a Motor Car Tour in Sinai Peninsula, in January 1926, first edition in English, AUTHOR'S PRE...

VERYARD (ELLIS)An Account of Divers Choice Remarks, as Well Geographical, as Historical, Political, Mathematical, Physical and Moral. Taken in a J...

PATERSON (DANIEL)Paterson's British Itinerary. Being a New and Accurate Delineation and Description of the Direct and Principal Cross Roads of Gre...

FUSSELL (L.)A Journey Round the Coast of Kent, folding engraved map, extra-illustrated with a total of 16 engraved plates (some mounted), later c...

[GOLDSMITH (OLIVER)]The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq., Extracted Principally from his Original Papers, FIRST EDITION, C6 a cancel as usual,...

ROWZEE (LODOWICK)The Queenes Welles. That is, a Treatise of the Nature and Vertues of Tunbridge Water. Together, with an Enumeration of the Chiefe...

ROWZEE (LODOWICK)The Queens Wells. That is, a Treatise of the Nature and Vertues of Tunbridge Water..., woodcut head-pieces and initials, some br...

[SPRANGE (JASPER)]The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, FIRST EDITION, dated 1780 on title and...

TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDESCLIFFORD (JOHN) The Tunbridge Wells Guide, 6 plates, disbound, 1817; idem, another edition, 12 plates, lacks map, [1825?]; ...