Fine Books and Manuscripts

AGRICOLA (GIORGIUS)Opera... de l'arte de metalli partita in xii. libri, first Italian edition, translated by Michelangelo Florio, title with woo...

ALBUM – NAPOLEONIC ERA & NOBILITYAlbum titled 'Lady/ Emily/ Bathurst's/ Scrap/ Book/ 1818', comprising some 20 watercolours and 70 drawings in...

AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES)The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories, 7 vol., fourth octavo edition, 500 hand-...

AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES) AND JOHN BACHMANThe Quadrupeds of North America, 3 vol., FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, half-title in volume 1 and 3, 155 hand-colour...

BOECKLER (GEORG ANDREAS)Theatrum machinarum novum, exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, manuarias, pedibus ac ponderibus versatiles, plures, et...

CANADA – GEORGE IIIManuscript declaration headed 'The Humble Address of the Lieutenant Governor, Council and House of Assembly of Your Majesty's P...

[CHIPPENDALE (THOMAS)The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director. Being a Large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Household Furn...

COOKERYManuscript culinary and medicinal recipe book, containing some 320 receipts written in several hands, many with donor identified, including...

GEOGRAPHY - MANUSCRIPT TREATISEManuscript treatise on world geography, 320 pages, ink on paper, in Italian (a few pages of French verses at end i...

IRELAND - IRISH DEFENCE FORCES, CIVIL WAR AND EMIGRATIONAlbum of approximately 200 private photographs, photo postcards, pictorial cards, and asso...

MARINONI (GIOVANNI GIACOMO)De astronomica specula domestica et organico apparatu astronomico libri duo, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece by J...

MATTIOLI (PIETRO ANDREA)De i discorsi di... nelli sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo, della materia medicinale, 2 vol., third Italian edit...

MUSIC - HAYDNHAYDN (JOSEPH) Dr Haydn's VI Original Canzonettas, for the Voice with an Accompaniment for the Piano-Forte [Hob XXVIa:25], FIRST EDIT...

PLUTARCHVitae... novissime post Jodocum Badius Ascensium longe diligentissime responsae... cum figuris, title printed in red and black with large...

POMPONAZZI (PIETRO)Opera, without 2 blanks, title page repaired at gutter and lower edge, first and last few leaves browned and slightly chipped ...

RAPHAEL[OTTAVIANI (GIOVANNI, engraver) Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, a series of 17 engraved plates, comprising: 2 plates of doors lettered A a...

SCHEDEL (HARTMANN)Liber chronicarum, FIRST EDITION, 325 leaves (of 326, without final blank), 65 lines plus headline, gothic letter, woodcut titl...

SOUTH SEA BUBBLEHet Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, FIRST EDITION,...

TOBACCO - VIRGINIAThe Case of the Planters of Tobacco in Virginia, as Represented by Themselves, priced 1.s. on title-page, light dampstaining a...

TRAVEL DIARY - YORKSHIRE FAMILY IN EUROPEA Hand-book for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide through Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Northern...

WALL STREET[GREENE (ASA)] The Perils of Pearl Street, including a Taste of the Dangers of Wall Street. By a late Merchant, FIRST EDITION, first a...

ANGLINGRONALDS (ALFRED) The Fly-fisher's Entomology... Sixth Edition, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates, ownership inscription on half-title, Long...

ANGLINGVENABLES (ROBERT) The Experienc'd Angler: or, Angling Improv'd. Being A General Discourse of Angling, fifth edition, additional engraved p...

BRYDEN (HENRY ANDERSON)Great and Small Game of Africa. An Account of the Distribution, Habits, and Natural History of the Sporting Mammals, with P...

DEMIDOFF (ELIM, PRINCE SAN DONATO)Hunting Trips in the Caucasus, 1898; After Wild Sheep in the Altai and Mongolia, 1900, FIRST EDITIONS, half-tit...

DREW (FREDERIC)The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories. A Geographical Account, frontispiece, 4 mounted woodburytype plates of group types, 7 folding ...

LYDEKKER (RICHARD)The Deer of All Lands. A History of the Family Cervidae Living and Extinct, NUMBER 190 OF 500 COPIES, signed by the publisher, ...

LYDEKKER (RICHARD)Wild Oxen, Sheep and Goats of All Lands Living and Extinct, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 237 OF 500 COPIES, signed by the publisher, 2...

MARKHAM (FREDERICK)Shooting in the Himalayas. A Journal of Sporting Adventures and Travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, &c., wood-...

MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE)Game Birds and Shooting-sketches; Illustrating the Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage, and the Hybrids and Varieties...

PEASE (ALFRED E.)Travel & Sport in Africa, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, numerous coloured and photogravure plates, photographic illustrati...

PEEL (CHARLES VICTOR ALEXANDER)Somaliland Being an Account of Two Expeditions into the Far Interior, one corner bumped [Czech p.127], Robinson, 1...

POLLOCK (A.J.O.)Sporting Days in Southern India: Being Reminiscences of Twenty Trips in Pursuit of Big Game, Chiefly in the Madras Presidency, fr...

POTOCKI (JOSEPH)Sport in Somaliland, Being an Account of a Hunting Trip in that Region, NUMBER 186 OF 200 COPIES signed by the publisher, transla...

ROOSEVELT (THEODORE)The Wilderness Hunter. An Account of the Big Game of the United States and its Chase with Horse, Hound, and Rifle, NUMBER 84 O...

ROOSEVELT (THEODORE)Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains, covers stained (heavier on lower cover), Kegan ...

TWEEDIE (WILLIAM)The Arabian Horse. His Country and People with Portraits of Typical or Famous Arabians, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 26 OF 100 LARGE PAP...

WARD (ROWLAND)Horn Measurements and Weights of the Great Game of the World, 1892; Records of Big Game, third edition, 1899, Rowland Ward--GRIMBLE...

CORNWALLMARTYN (JOHN) A New and Accurate Map of the County of Cornwall, from an actual Survey, FIRST EDITION, very large engraved folding map in ...

DE WIT (FREDERICK)Atlas, engraved title-page depicting Atlas on top of the World and 103 double-page engraved maps COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAN...

IRELANDSPEED (JOHN) The Kingdome of Irland, with six costumed figures, Thomas Baskett and Richard Chiswell, [1676, or later]; The Province of Conn...

LONDON - 'WONDERGROUND MAP'[GILL (MACDONALD) The Wonderground Map of London], lithographed pictorial map printed in colours, the border with text...

LONDON - EAST END, 1703GASCOYNE (JOEL) An Actuall Survey of the Parish of St Dunstan Stepney, alias Stebunheath, Being One of the Ten Parishes in ...

MIDDLESEXSPEED (JOHN) Midle-Sex Described with the Most Famous Cities of London and Westminster, hand-coloured double-page engraved map, inset ma...

ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM)Theatrum orbis terrarum, 2 parts in 1 vol. (including Synonymia), fourth Latin edition, engraved architectural title and 70 dou...

PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS)Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, woodcut printer's device on title-page, double-column text with woodcut initials, wood...

SEUTTER (GEORG MATTHAUS)Atlas novus sive tabulae geographicae totius orbis faciem, partes, imperia, regna et provincias exhibentes..., engraved a...

SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGEMaps of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 2 vol., 218 engraved maps (including 51 ci...

WALKER (JOHN & CHARLES)The British Atlas Comprising Separate Maps of Every County in England, each Riding in Yorkshire and North and South Wales, ...

HENRY VIIILetter signed and subscribed ('Vester bonus amicus Henry R') to Antoniotto Adorno, Duke of Genoa, in Latin, noting that he has heard of...

HENRY VIII – MINISTERS OF STATELetter signed by Henry VIII's ministers of state, Charles Brandon, first Duke of Suffolk, Sir Thomas Lord Wriothes...

EDWARD VIDocument bearing the King's stamped signature ['Edward'] at head and headed 'By the King', addressed to the Mayor and Sheriffs of the Cou...

PHILIP II OF SPAINLetter signed ('El Rey') as King of England ('Rey de Ingleterra') to Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva in his capacity as...

MARY ILetters Patent signed ('Marye the quene') at head and headed ('By the Queene'), to George Bredyman '...one of the gromes of our privie cham...

ELIZABETH IWarrant signed ('Elizabeth R') at head and headed 'By the Queene', to Valentyne Browne, Treasurer of Berwick, appointing William Drury...

ELIZABETH I - PRIVY COUNCIL & WALSINGHAMDocument signed by eight members of Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council, Sir Nicholas Bacon (Lord Chancellor)...

ELIZABETH I - PRIVY COUNCIL – LOW COUNTRIESLetter signed by five members of Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council, William Cecil, Lord Burghley (Lord H...

HENRI IV OF FRANCEOrder signed ('Henry'), to the treasurer of the exchequer M. Estienne, in French, paying Seigneur de la Fontaine '...resident f...

CHARLES I - PRIVY COUNCILDocument signed by William Laud (Archbishop of Canterbury), John Montague, Earl of Manchester (Lord Privy Seal), Francis...

CROMWELL (OLIVER)Document in his name 'inrolled at Westminster before Oliver St. John & his associated Justices of the Comon Bench', being a plea...