Fine Books and Manuscripts including a Nobel Prize for Penicillin

ALBUM – COLLECTIONTwo albums containing autograph letters, cut signatures, free fronts, and other material collected by the Hathaway family, some ...

ALBUM – NINETEENTH CENTURYAlbum containing some 80 autograph letters and cut signatures, assembled by the Rev. Frederic Daustini Cremer, including...

AMERICA - ABOLITION OF SLAVERY LINCOLN (ABRAHAM) Proclamation of Emancipation. By the President of the United States of America, wood-engraved br...

AMERICA - BLACK HISTORY DU BOIS (WILLIAM EDGAR BURGHARDT) The Philadelphia Negro. A Social Study... Together with a Special Report on Domestic Ser...

AMERICA - BLACK VOTING RIGHTS The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th 1870, hand-coloured lithograph after James C. Beard, comprising a larg...

AMERICA - SLAVERY Plan of the slave ship 'Brooks', large double-page engraving, some light foxing, 300 x 485mm., Philadelphia, J.P. Parke, 1808; ...

AMERICA - TREATY OF WASHINGTON 1871Group of material pertaining to the Treaty of Washington, 1871, collected by Frederic Daustini Cremer, accompan...

AMERICAN REVOLUTION[KORN (CHRISTOPH HEINRICH)] Geschichte der Kriege in und ausser Europa vom Anfange des Ausstandes der brittischen Kolonien in N...

ANGLINGALDHAM (W.H.) A Quaint Treatise on 'Flees and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making', FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, PORTRAIT PHOTO...

BUTTERFLIES BARRETT (CHARLES G.) The Lepidoptera of the British Islands, 11 vol., 504 hand-coloured lithographed plates by R. Morgan, publisher's...

FORESTRY - WOOD SAMPLESTHIL (ANDRE) Sections transversales de 120 espèces de bois indigènes et exotiques, FIRST EDITION, text (with folding table...

MAURY (MATTHEW FONTAINE)Explanations and Sailing Directions: to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts, 20 illustrated plates, with appendix, damp...

PHOTOGRAPHY - COLLECTIONA collection of upwards of 200 miscellaneous photographs including views, portraits and genre studies, mostly albumen and...

POPE (ARTHUR UPHAM) AND PHYLLIS ACKERMANNA Survey of Persian Art, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, 1482 plates (195 coloured), mostly photographic, publish...

SCHUBERT (FRANZ)TELTSCHER (JOSEF) Portrait drawing of Schubert, Anselm Hüttenbrenner and Johann Baptist Jenger, black and red chalk on paper, tip...

TRADE - NINETEENTH CENTURY BILLS AND EPHEMERA Album of approximately 195 nineteenth century business trade invoices, mostly pictorial, others call...

WOOD TURNINGBERGERON (LOUIS-ELOY) [i.e. LOUIS-GEORGES-ISAAC SALIVET] Manuel du tourneur, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, errata in volume 1, ...

ANANIA (GIOVANNI LORENZO D')La universal fabrica del mondo, 4 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, woodcut title, 4 folding engraved maps (neatly laid...

BELIZE AND MEXICOTratado de limites entre los Estados-Unidos Mexicanos y Honduras Britanica. Edicion Oficial, FIRST EDITION, vignette on title, o...

BERMUDA - RICHARD HAWKINSKort Berigt van Mr. Ellis, een der Kapiteynen van d'Heer Richard Hawkins, aangaande fijn Reys door de Straat van Magellan...

BERMUDA[WHITTINGTON (FERDINAND)] Bermuda. A Colony, a Fortress, and a Prison; or, Eighteen Months in the Somers' Islands. By a Field Officer, FIRS...

BERMUDANarrative of the Voyage of H.M. Floating Dock 'Bermuda,' from England to Bermuda. Written in the Form of a Diary, by One of Those On Board,...

DOBBS (ARTHUR)An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-West Part of America, FIRST EDITION, one folding engraved map o...

HECKFORD (NATHANIEL)Practical Sailing Directions and Coasting Guide, from the Sadheads to Rangoon, Maulmain, Akyab, and Vice Versa... Eighth Editi...

MOUNTAINEERINGLORRIA (AUGUST) AND E.A. MARTEL. Les Grandes Alpes. Le Massif de la Bernina, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 50 heliogravure plates repr...

MOUNTAINEERINGALMER (CHRISTIAN) A Facsimile of Christian Almer's Führerbuch 1856-1894, Reproduced under the Superintendence of C.D. Cunningham and...

[MOXON (JOSEPH)]Einer Kurtzer Discours von Der Schiff von der Schiff- Fahrt bey dem Nord-Pol nach Japan, China und so weiter, engraved map (by Wi...

NORWAY AND ICELANDPONTOPPIDAN (ERICH) The Natural History of Norway, 2 parts in one vol., hand-coloured folding engraved map (tear to inner margi...

ORDONEZ DE CEVALLOS (PEDRO)Viage del Mundo, FIRST EDITION, woodcut coat-of-arms on title, full-page woodcut portrait of the author, final leaf su...

PLESHCHEYEV (SERGEI IVANOVICH) Tagebuch einer Reise des Russische-kanserlichen Lieutenants von der flotte herren Sergiei Pleschtschjeew von der In...

SAINT-NON (JEAN CLAUDE RICHARD DE)Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, FIRST EDITION, 5 vol., with SIGNED CONTRA...

SAUDI ARABIA - HIJAZ, MECCA AND MEDINAHicaz Rehberi [Light of Islam]. Haccin, Faydalari, Yollari..., text in Turkish, illustrations in the text, ...

SMITH (JOHN)The True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captaine John Smith in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America [- A Generall Historie of V...

AMERICA - NEW YORKBROMLEY (GEORGE W., AND CO.) Atlas of the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. Desk and Library Edition, title, 4pp. street ...

BEIRUT, PALESTINE AND MIDDLE EASTBaghdad to Beirut 1944 [The Leave Convoy], collates: [2], 18, 2 photographic illustrations, large folding map 'B...

BERKSHIRE, BASILDON - MANUSCRIPT ESTATE PLAN 'A Survey of Upper House Farm, Lying in the Parish of Basseldon, in the County of Berkes, the Estate ...

BERTIUS (PETRUS)Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quinque, second edition, additional engraved title, 171 (of 175) engraved full-page m...

BLAEU (JOAN) AND MARTINUS MARTINI Novus Atlas Sinensis. Seste Deel van de Nieuwe Atlas, engraved hand-coloured allegorical title, 17 double-page ...

CAMDEN (WILLIAM)Britannia, Newly Translated into English: With Large Additions and Improvements...by Edmund Gibson, engraved portrait frontispiec...

CORONELLI (VINCENZO MARIA)Morea, Negroponte, & Adiacenze, engraved title, half-title, 70 engraved leaves comprising portraits, royal arms, views ...

CORONELLI (VINCENZO MARIA)[Isole Britanniche: Inghilterra, Scozia, Irlanda], 3 parts in 1 vol., engraved title, 3 half-titles, 85 engraved leaves...

DUNN (SAMUEL)The Description and Use of the Universal Planispheres, or Terrestrial and Celestial Globes in Plano. Being Compleat Substitutes for a...

JAPAN - TOKYOOHASHI (MITSUYOSHI) Tokyo Shisei Zuhyo [Graphic Illustration of Tokyo City], text in Japanese, 44 colour-printed maps, charts and ch...

MANUSCRIPT ATLASManuscript atlas, by Elizabeth and Isabella Tudor, 20 pen, ink and watercolour maps (4 double-page, including 2 World) on thick p...

MOLL (HERMAN)A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales, letterpress title (with list of contents), 50 hand-coloured double-page or...

[MOLL (HERMAN)Atlas Minor], 62 engraved maps (of 65,mostly double-page including twin-hemisphere world), all with contemporary hand-colour in out...

MUNSTER (SEBASTIAN)[Sea Monsters] Meerwunder und Seltzame Their, hand-coloured double-page woodcut by Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, with text and ...

PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS)Geographicae enarrationis libri octo [edited by Michael Villanovanus Servetus], text with 4 large woodcut diagrams and 2 ful...

[ROUX (JOSEPH) Recueil des principaux plans des ports et rades de la Mer Méditerranée], 124 engraved maps of ports and harbours (including Corfu,...

[SELLER (JOHN)English Pilot the First Book [-and Third Book], 2 works bound in 1 vol., together 48 mostly double-page engraved chart maps (Scotla...

SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGEThe Atlas of India; Revised by J. Walker... Compiled from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources, Incl...

WILLARD (EMMA)A Series of Maps to Willard's History of the United States, or Republic of America. Designed for Schools and Private Education, 12 ...

WORLD ATLAS[Unrecorded German Atlas of the World], 42 engraved maps (one double-page twin-hemisphere World), all but the World with integral key,...

ZATTA (ANTONIO) AND GUILLAUME THOMAS FRANCOIS RAYNALStoria dell' America Settentrionale del Signor Abate Raynal, continuata fino al presente, con ...

[ZIEGLER (JACOB)][Quae intus continentur. Syria... Palestina... Arabia... Aegyptus... Schondia... Holmiae... Regionum superiorum, singulae tabulae...

[ATKINSON (JOHN AUGUSTUS)][A Picturesque Representation of the Naval, Military and Miscellaneous Costumes of Great Britain], FIRST EDITION, text ...

[KIP (JOHANNES)][Britannia Illustrata, or Views of Several of the Queen's Palaces as also the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great ...

OXFORDLOGGAN (DAVID) Oxonia illustrata, sive omnium celeberrimæ istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, scholarum publi...

OXFORDWILLIAMS (WILLIAM) Oxonia Depicta sive Collegiorum et Aularum in Inclyta Academia Oxoniensi, engraved throughout comprising: title within ...

OXFORD MALTON (THOMAS) Views of Oxford, engraved title, mezzotint portrait of Thomas Malton by W. Barney after W. Stuart, 24 aquatint plates, 6 e...