Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs

ALBUM – NELSON, NIGHTINGALE AND OWEN'S ORANGUTANAlbum containing a series of clipped signatures of RN captains, including Horatio Nelson (with rig...

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - ULYSSES S. GRANTOfficial portrait, signed below the image ('U.S. Grant'), steel-engraved by the US Bureau of Engraving & Prin...

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - ROBERT E. LEEAutograph letter signed ('RE Lee'), to Miss Caroline M. Campbell, happily subscribing to The Little Gleaner in o...

AMERICAN WAR OF 1812 – CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNONJournal with a companion volume of watercolour illustrations, kept by Edward Pritchard, recording his...

AMERICAN WAR OF 1812 – CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNONPrinted document with manuscript insertions, signed by Captain Broke of the Shannon and others, certi...

ANGLO-ZULU WAR, RORKE'S DRIFT & CETAWAYODiary of Major Henry Sparke Stabb, deputy assistant quartermaster-general of the 2nd Division, 32nd (Duke ...

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,...

ARCHITECTURESOANE (JOHN) Sketches in Architecture. Containing Plans and Elevations of Cottages, Villas, and Other Useful Buildings with Characteri...

ARCHITECTURESOANE (JOHN) Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of Sir John Soane, second ed...

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...

COSTUMEA large collection of nineteenth century pen, coloured ink and wash drawings of historical costumes, approximately 500 illustrations (most...

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...

MUSICPUCCINI (GIACOMO) Autograph musical quotation signed ('Giacomo Puccini'), of the phrase 'Mi chiamano Mimi', three bars on a single stave, dat...

MUSICROSSINI (GIOACHINO) Autograph manuscript signed ('G. Rossini') of his song 'Mi lagnerò tacendo', the upper stave marked 'Canto' and the lower...

MUSICVERDI (GIUSEPPE) Autograph letter signed ('G. Verdi'), to the opera manager Benjamin Lumley ('Caro Lumley'), telling him that he will be with...

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)]A collection of reports and other works on the Crimea, the Army and Sanitation, comprising: Report of the Commission of En...

[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 Captain Frederic Brine of the Royal Engineers, thanking him for his 'ki...

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

PANORAMA - SOUTH COASTHAVELL (ROBERT, Junior) Costa Scena or a Cruise along the Southern Coast of Kent, hand-coloured aquatint panorama after 'a ...

PHOTOGRAPHY - MEN AND FIGHTING COCKTwo elderly gentlemen in breeches and embroidered waistcoats, one in a top hat standing holding a large cockere...

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

SMITH (GEORGE)A Collection for Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the Most Approved and Elegant Taste, FIRST EDITION, 15...

VICTORIA & PRINCE CHRISTIAN VICTORCollection of letters and photographs assembled by George Wise of the 4th Kings Royal Rifles, manservant to Prin...

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

YOUNG (BRIGHAM)Photograph signed and subscribed ('Yours truly/ Brigham Young'), showing him head-and-shoulders turning to his right, red studio im...

ASTRONOMY - B.A.S., ECLIPSE 1900, AND THE YERKES TELESCOPEPhotograph album containing views relating to the British Astronomical Society expeditio...

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

BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURSSMITH (EDWARD DALTON) A watercolour of a pink Camellia, on paper, mounted, framed and glazed, image to view 260 x 200mm., s...

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)CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET) Portrait photograph of Charles Darwin, near half-length, facing left, albumen print, signed by the photo...

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

DARWIN (CHARLES)HAIG (AXEL HERMAN) 'Darwin's study a week after his death', etching, signed 'Axel H. Haig', with addition of title and note 'The ...

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...