Fine Books and Manuscripts

ARMENIA - DICTIONARYAUCHER (PASCHAL) AND JOHN BRAND. A Dictionary English and Armenian, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, titles in English and...

ARMENIA - JERUSALEM, DEEDS OF BENEDICTIONTwo printed 'Bulls of Benediction', given to benefactors of the Armenian Convent of St. James, Jerusalem,...

ARMENIA - MADRAS PRINTINGBAGHRAMIAN (MOUSES) Nor Terak vor kochi Hordorak [New Book of Exhortation], PRINTED IN ARMENIAN TYPE, FIRST EDITION, tit...

ARMENIAN - BIBLEGospels of Our Lord Jesus Christ, PRINTED IN ARMENIAN TYPE, title within wide woodcut architectural border, text in double column...

BINDING - BIBLEDas gantze Neue Testament unsers Herren und Heilands Jesu Christi; Die CL Psalmen Davids, 2 works in 1 vol., additional engraved p...

BOOK TRADE & BANKINGWarrant signed by George II ('George R'), granting permission to John Baskett ('Our Printer') and Robert Gosling ('...of our C...

BRUNEL – THAMES TUNNELManuscript guidebook to Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames Tunnel, entitled 'Sketches and Memoranda/ of the/ Works/ for the/ Tunn...

CARDIFF - ROYALTYIlluminated grant admitting Prince George, Duke of Kent as an Honorary Freeman of the City of Cardiff, manuscript in coloured in...

COOK (JAMES)GIANETTI (MICHELANGIOLO) Elogy of Captain James Cook Composed and Publickly Recited before the Royal Academy of Florence... Translated...

COOKERY & MEDICINE - LORD MAYOR OF LONDONManuscript receipt book from the household of Sir Edward Clarke, Lord Mayor of London for the year 1696-1...

COOKERY[ATKYNS (ARABELLA, Pseud.)] The Family Magazine. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing Useful Directions in all the Branches of Cookery.... Part...

COOKERYCOOKE (JOHN CONRADE) Cookery and Confectionary, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved title and 14 plates, light spotting and toning, ownersh...

COOKERYManuscript receipt book, written in several hands, opening with 3-page 'Rules to Keep Preserv[ves]' and upwards of 230 recipes, including '...

COOKERYManuscript receipt book, written in several hands with calligraphic flourishes, containing 44 numbered recipes, including 'To make Shrewsb...

CRICKET - JOHN WISDENCricketers' Almanack, a complete run spanning the years 1890-2003, FIRST EDITIONS, with the exception of the volumes for 191...

EAST INDIES LOG BOOK'A Journal of a Voyage to the East Indias and From the East Indias', illustrated manuscript log of the Dolphin and the Medways...

GREECE - CHIOSARGENTI (PHILIP P.) The Costumes of Chios, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, 111 plates (mostly colour), Batsford, [1953]; The Massacres of Ch...

GREECE - CHIOSARGENTI (PHILIP P.) AND STILPONOS P. KURIAKIDOU. E Chios para tois geografois kai periegetais, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-title in...

INDIAN UPRISING[HICKS (C.F.)] A Narrative of Events Which Took Place in one of the Mutinous Regiments at A---d; as given by an Officer of the Corp...

JERSEY – DE CARTERET FAMILYManuscript pedigree of the prominent Jersey family the de Carterets, written in Latin, French (some Patois?) and Englis...

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

PHOTOGRAPHY, CORFU AND CRIMEAAlbum compiled by Lady Emily Ponsonby, née Bathurst (1798-1877), containing a collection of some 45 early photographs...

ROYALTY - QUEEN VICTORIA & PONSONBY FAMILYTwo autograph letters from Queen Victoria, the first written in the third person to Sir Henry Ponsonby, ...

ROYALTY - VICTORIA, PRINCESS ROYALGroup of over sixty autograph letters signed variously ('Victoria Crown Princess and Princess Royal', 'V. Empres...

SOUTH AFRICACLARKE (MRS. FRED) Native Life in Pondoland [South Africa], manuscript title-page with decorative border enclosing a photograph of th...

SUSSEX - LEDGERManuscript accounts ledger of John Pilbeam, bearing ownership inscription and date on first page ('This book beginning September 25...

WALES – SARAH JONES ('THE SWAN-SEA VENUS')Correspondence from Sarah Jones (1768-1849), known as the inspiration for Gilray's Swan-Sea Venus, to he...

ADVEU DE ODET DE BRETAGNEILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT OF HENRY II and DIANE DE POITIERS, on vellum, in French, signed 'Seigneur d'Ingrande', 27 long li...

ALBERTI (LEON BATTISTA)Los diez libros de architectura, FIRST SPANISH EDITION, title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials, light...

AQUINAS (THOMAS)Catena aurea super evangelia dominicalia et ferialia [Arranged by Petrus de Vincentia], 341 leaves (of 342, lacking final leaf, b...

ATHENAEUS OF NAUCRATISDeipnosophistae, in Greek, FIRST EDITION, edited by Marcus Musurus, Greek italic type, capital spaces with guide-letters, d...

BIBLE, IN GREEKNovum Iesu Christi D.N. Testamentum, 2 parts in 1 vol., text in Greek, title-pages in Greek and Latin, woodcut printer's device on...

BINDING - ARMS OF DE THOUARNOBIUS Commentarii, pii iuxta ac eruditi in omnes Psalmos, per Des[iderium] Erasmum Roterodamum proditi & emendati, li...

BINET (ESTIENNE)Abregé des vies des principaux fondateurs des religions de l'eglise, representez dans le choeur de l'Abbaie de S. Lambert de Liess...

CALLIMACHUS[Opera]... Hymni ... cum scholiis nunc primum aeditis. Sententiae..., text printed in Greek, woodcut device on title (repeated on fina...

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE)El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, 4 vol., 2 (of 4) engraved frontispieces, 31 engraved plates by Anton...

DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUSIsaios kai Deinarcos. Vitae Isaei & Dinarchi, magnorum Graeciae oratorum [edited by Petrus Victorious], title in Greek ...

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (HENRI LOUIS)Élémens de l'architecture navale, ou traité pratique de la construction des vaisseaux, second enlarged edition, e...

GALLONIO (ANTONIO)Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro Christiani, descritte et in...

GHEYN (JACOB DE)Die Drillkunst. Das ist Kriegsübliche Waffenhandlung der Musqueten und Pique[n], text in German and French, engraved pictorial ti...

GONZALO (ARGOTE DE MOLINA)Nobleza de Andaluzia, FIRST EDITION, woodcut arms on title, numerous woodcuts of coats of arms throughout, early owners...

HOROLOGYPENNA (NICOLAS DE) Conpendio util, y methodo facil para cuidar, y conservar bien los reloxes, tables in the text, some soiling and staini...

KIRCHER (ATHANASIUS)Turris Babell, sive archontologia qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved pictoria...

LE CLERC (SÉBASTIEN)Vorzeichnungen, 50 engraved illustrations of human faces and forms on 25 leaves, modern purple calf with diagonal pattern dec...

LE CLERC (SÉBASTIEN)Two albums of loose prints, 495 prints (269 and 226 per album respectively) from a variety of published works, trimmed and la...

LE CLERC (SÉBASTIEN) and ANDRÉ FÉLIBIENTapisseries du Roy, ou sont representez les quatre elements et les quatre saisons, second edition, 2 engra...

LE CLERC (SÉBASTIEN)Traité de géométrie theorique et pratique, illustrated frontispiece, engraved vignette on title, 48 folding engraved plates, ...

MILITARY - FORTIFICATIONSLORINI (BUONAIUTO) Le fortificationi... con l'aggiunta del sesto libro, 2 parts in one vol., woodcut illustration on tit...

NUNES DA SYLVA (MANOEL)Arte minima, que com semibreve prolacam trata em tempo breve, second edition, woodcut vignette on title page, one engraved...

PHILIP III OF SPAIN - CARTA EXECUTORIAIlluminated manuscript on vellum, 34 long lines, in brown ink between 35 horizontal and 2 pairs of vertical...

PINDARΟλυμπια. Πυθια. Νεμεα. Ισθμια [Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia], with the 2 blank leaves called for, Greek type, 2 woodcut devices on first...

SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS (GAIUS)Opera [with the commentaries of Laurentius Valla and Joannes Chrysostomus Soldus, edited by Pomponius Laetus and Johanne...

SCHELLHAMMER (MARIE SOPHIE)Das Brandenburgische Koch-Buch...Der wohl-unterwiesenen Köchinn zufälliger Confect-Tisch, 2 vol. in 1, title-pages in ...

[SCRIPTORES REI MILITARIS]VEGETIUS RENATUS (FLAVIUS) De re militari; FRONTINUS (SEXTUS JULIUS) De re militari; AELIANUS. De instruendis aciebus; M...

SPERONI DEGLI ALVAROTTI (SPERONE)Dialoghi, woodcut printer's device on title page and verso of last leaf, light foxing, nineteenth century vellum...

TORRE FARFAN (FERNANDO)Fiestas de la S. Iglesia Metropolitans, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, additional engraved title, engraved portraits of Ferdinand ...

VAN DER VENNE (ADRIAEN)Zeeusche Nachtegael ende des selfs dryderley gesang, FIRST EDITION, 4 parts in 1 vol., engraved vignette on first and fou...

VERGILIUS MARO (PUBLIUS)Opera Virgiliana, cum decem commentis, 2 parts in 1 vol., general title printed in red and black within wide decorative w...

CABEO (NICCOLO)Philosophia magnetica in qua magnetis natura penitus explicatur, et omnium quae hoc lapide cernuntur causae propriae afferuntur, FI...

DARWIN (CHARLES)Three fragments of greenstone from the summit of Cape Horn collected by Captain Robert FitzRoy on 19 April 1830 during the first v...