Fine Books, Atlases, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs

ALBUM - SIGNATURESNineteenth century album of over 150 cut signatures, and some autograph letters, from British and European artists, musicians, w...

CHALON (ALFRED EDWARD AND JOHN JAMES)'Sketches by A.E.C. & J.J.C. The Etchings by F[rancis] S[tevens] from Mr. Standerts' [sic] Poem of the Winter...

COOKERY MANUSCRIPTCulinary recipe book, written in several hands, with over 100 receipts including 'Sauce for wild Ducks', 'For a goos and greats'...

COOKERYManuscript recipe book of Richard Scarborough, brown ink on paper, 23 pages including recipes for 'Ginger Wine', 'Brandy Toast', and 'Lemo...

CRAWHALL (JOSEPH)Border Notes & Mixty-Maxty, [ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES], AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Mrs. Geo. Armstrong with the author's...

CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE)THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE) An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank. With Numerous Illustrations of His Works, EXTRA-ILLU...

ENGINEERING & MINING - DERBYSHIRESeries of over 120 autograph letters from the engineer and General Manager of the Midland Iron Company, Rotherham...

EXPLORATION & SCIENCEAutograph letter signed ('Fridjof Nansen') to mountaineer and Arctic explorer Edward Whymper ('My dear Whymper'), asking his ...

FOWLER (WILLIAM)Engravings of the Principal Mosaic Pavements..., Also Engravings of Several Subjects in Stained Glass, engraved dedication to Jos...

GILLRAY (JAMES)The Works... from the Original Plates, with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, bound in 2 vol. (including the 'Sup...

IRELAND - 4TH ROYAL IRISH DRAGOON GUARDS'Lieutenant General The Earl of Ross's Report on the First Regiment of Horse Reviewed by Him in Dublin on ...

IRELAND - ECONOMICSSTACPOOLE (GEORGE) Historical Anecdotes with Remarks, Relative to Ireland... Part I (all published), FIRST EDITION, title page...

IRELAND – COUNTESS MARKIEVICZAutograph letter signed ('your affectionate unknown cousin Constance de Markievicz') to her Australian cousin, Eva Cu...

JAPAN - KIMONO PATTERN AND WOODBLOCK BOOKSUENO SEIKO. Hana no kage [Shadows of Flowers], 30 colour woodblock designs of kimonos, plain wrappers, ...

JAPANBIGOT (GEORGES) Album [Diner Japonais], 2 parts in 1 vol., 43 plates (including 2 pictorial titles), captions in French, thin worm trail in ...

JUVENILE GAMESJuvenile Games, for the Four Seasons, woodcut frontispiece, title vignette and 14 illustrations, some partly hand-coloured, blue st...

LEONARDO DA VINCIA Treatise of Painting... Translated from the Original Italian... to Which is Prefix'd, the Author's Life, engraved portrait fro...

LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTSCollection, contained in three albums and loose, comprising a large quantity of autograph letters, cut signatures ...

LUTYENS (EDWIN)BUTLER (ARTHUR STANLEY GEORGE) The Lutyens Memorial. The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 3 vol., LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES, folio,...

MILLAIS (JOHN)'Woodcuts from Drawings by J.E. Millais', album of 62 woodcut plates by Millais (45 proof plates, others cut to size and mounted), ...

MINIATURE BOOKSGALILEI (GALILEO) Galileo a Madame Cristina di Lorena (1615), wood-engraved portrait of Galileo, printed in 'fly's eye' type, orig...

MUTEFERRIKA PRESSSUBHI (MEHMED) [In Arabic:] Ta'rih-i Sami ve akir ve Subhi, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, title with ink inscriptions erased...

MUTEFERRIKA PRESSİZZÎ (SÜLEYMAN) Ta'rih-i-Izzi, tape repairs to title, lacking fols. 85-86, mark erased from blank area of fols. 1 and 288, light...

NAPOLEON BONAPARTESpecial Licence signed ('Np'), allowing an unnamed ship to make one voyage from Caen to England, for the payment of 40 Napoleons...

NAVAL LOG - H.M.S. KENT and NELSON'A Journal of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Kent Commencing the 1st May 1800 and Ending the 7th October ...

SCOTLAND - BANKING[LAW (JOHN, attributed to)] Two Overtures Humbly Offered to His Grace John Duke of Argyll, Her Majesties High Commissioner, and ...

SCOTLAND - CATHARINE DOWMANAlbum of coloured pencil views, titled 'Sketches [of Scotland] from the 'Lamorna' 1925 & 1926', possibly by Catharine D...

SCOTLAND - MURRAY FAMILY OF OCHTERTYREPapers and correspondence relating to the Murray family of Ochtertyre, including: ten letters from Wellingt...

WHITTOCK (NATHANIEL)The Art of Drawing and Colouring from Nature, Flowers, Fruit and Shells... Also, the New Method of Oriental Tinting, 24 litho...

WINCHESTER COLLEGE - MANUSCRIPT 'NOTIONS BOOK''Compendium quorundam verborum quae in his et priscis temporibus Collegii Wykhamici commensalibus pr...

AESOPFables with His Life: in English, French and Latin... by Francis Barlow, additional engraved title, full-page engraved arms of the Earl of D...

AUSTEN (JANE)[Bentley's Standard Novels] Sense and Sensibility; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey [-Persuasion], engraved frontispiece and a...

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, RHEIMSThe New Testament of Jesus Christ Faithfully Translated into English... Annotations, and Other Helps, for the Better Unde...

BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)Fine autograph letter signed ('EB Barrett'), the second and concluding bifolium, to John Kenyon, her intimate friend a...

BROWNING (ROBERT)Autograph letter signed ('Robert Browning') to Sir Henry Thompson, enclosing a ticket to an exhibition of a work by his son, ('.....

CHARLES I AND II - STONEYWOOD BIBLEThe Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New, OT and NT titles within typographical border, lacks ...

CHARLES IILetter signed and subscribed ('Bonus frater consanguineus et amicus/ Carolus R'), to his nephew Charles II of Spain, recalling the Briti...

COLLINS (WILKIE)Autograph letter signed ('Wilkie Collins') to Mark Lemon, editor of Punch, marked 'Private', recommending he consider the work of ...

DICKENS (CHARLES)Autograph letter signed ('Charles Dickens'), to the actor and theatre manager Samuel Phelps, expressing his pleasure at receiving...

DICKENS (CHARLES)MAYALL (JOHN JABEZ EDWIN) Profile portrait of Charles Dickens, quarter-plate daguerreotype, mounted as oval within gilt mount, p...

DICKENS (CATHERINE)MAYALL (JOHN JABEZ EDWIN) Profile portrait of Catherine Dickens, quarter-plate daguerreotype, hint of pink colouring to face, ...

DICKENS (CHARLES)ROCKWOOD (GEORGE GARDNER) Three quarter length cabinet portrait of Charles Dickens, albumen print, mounted, photographer's print...

DICKENS (CHARLES)Two conjoint indentures, both signed ('Charles Dickens'), regarding no. 30 Grove Road, Wanstead ('...being on the south side of a...

[ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS)Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentencious Sayinges], FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Ni...

[HEYWOOD (THOMAS)]A Curtaine Lecture: As it is Read by a Countrey Farmers Wife to Her Good Man. By a Countrey Gentlewoman or Lady to her Esquire.....

MARCELLINUS (AMMIANUS)The Roman Historie... Translated Newly into English... by Philemon Holland, first edition in English, 2F2-3 probably from a...

MEXIA (PEDRO)The Historie of All the Romane Emperors, Beginning with Caius Julius Caesar, and Successively Ending with Rodulph the Second Now Raig...

MORE (THOMAS)A Frutefull Pleasaunt, & Wittie Worke, of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the Newe Yle, called Utopia... translated into ...

[NERI (MARY ANNE)]The Eve of San-Pietro. A Tale, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, without advertisement at end of volume 3, no half-titles, light spotting,...

PLINIUS SECUNDUS (GAIUS)The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie, 2 vol. in one, second edition, without final blank, a f...

PLOT (ROBERT)The Natural History of Stafford-Shire, FIRST EDITION, title with engraved vignette, 37 engraved plates (25 double-page), one large f...

PLOT (ROBERT)The Natural History of Oxford-Shire, being an Essay towards the Natural History of England, second edition, folding engraved map, 16...

PLUTARCHThe Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, 2 parts in 1 vol., translated by Thomas North, woodcut device on title, woodcut portraits w...

REYNARD THE FOXThe Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox. Newly Corrected and Purged, from all grossness in Phrase and Matter [-The Second Pa...

RUSKIN (JOHN)Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life [-Dilecta_ Correspondence, Diary Notes, and Extr...

SCOTT (WALTER)Poetical Works, 12 vol., PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, inscribed by the recipient on front free endpaper 'A Highly Valued Pres...

SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS (CAIUS)The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperours of Rome, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, 12 smal...

TACITUS (PUBLIUS CORNELIUS)The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie [-The Ende of Nero and Beginning of Galba... The Life of ...

VERTOT (RÉNÉ AUBERT DE)The History of the Knights of Malta, 2 vol., 5 engraved maps (4 double-page or folding), 70 engraved portraits by J.F. Car...

WESLEY (JOHN) - IRELANDDocument signed ('John Wesley'), a Letter of Attorney with reference to a deed of assignment dated 3 November 1747 with And...