Fine Books and Manuscripts

ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH)The Microcosm of London, 3 vol., wood-engraved pictorial titles, engraved dedication leaves with vignettes, 104 hand-coloured ...

AMERICAPapers Relating to America. Presented to the House of Commons, 1809, 1810; Correspondence Relating to America, Presented to Parliament in 1...

[BADIA Y LEBLICH (DOMINGO)] 'Ali Bey'Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, between the Years 1803 and ...

BANKES (THOMAS)A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Antient and Modern; All the Late Important Discoveries, Made by...

CAVENDISH (WILLIAM, Duke of Newcastle)A General System of Horsemanship in All it's Branches, 2 vol. bound in 1, first edition in English, half-ti...

CHINABARROW (JOHN) Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence...

CHINAELLIS (HENRY) Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China; Comprising a Correct Narrative of the Public Transactions of the Embas...

HUSSEY (ANNA MARIA)Illustrations of British Mycology, Containing Figures and Descriptions of the Funguses of Interest and Novelty Indigenous to Br...

KOHLMEISTER (BENJAMIN) AND GEORGE KMOCHJournal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh; Undert...

LANGLEY (THOMAS AND BATTY)Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved, by a Great Variety of Grand and Usefull Designs in the Entirley New Gothick ...

MALTACHRISTOPHORO D'AVALOS (FELICE ANTONIO DE) Discorso sopra la riunione definitiva di Malta alla Gran Brettagna, FIRST EDITION, full red straig...

PARRY (WILLIAM EDWARD)Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1819-...

SAINT-NON (JEAN CLAUDE RICHARD DE)Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, 5 parts in 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-t...

SLAVE TRADE - WEST INDIESAbridgment of the Minutes of the Evidence . . . to Consider of the Slave Trade, 1789, Nos. 1-4 bound in 1 vol., one fold...

VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE)Oeuvres complètes, 30 vol., engraved allegorical frontispiece by J.J. Flipart after H. Gravelot, 42 plates by ...

ZURLAUBEN (BEAT FIDEL ANTOINE) AND JEAN-BENJAMIN DE LABORDETableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, litt...

CARTWRIGHT (JOSEPH)Selections of the Costume of Albania and Greece, with Explanatory Quotations from the Poems of Lord Byron and Gally Knight. Inc...

QU'RAN, in Arabic and LatinAlcorani Textus Universus; Refutatio Alcorani [edited and translated by Ludovico Marraccio], 2 vol., text in Arabic an...

ARISTOTLE'S MASTER-PIECEAristoteles Master-piece, or, The Secrets of Generation displayed in all the parts thereof., Containing, 1. The Signes of ...

BOYLE (ROBERT)The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, touching the Spagyrist's Principles commonly call'd Hypostatical, as ...

BURMANN (JAN)Thesaurus Zeylanicus, exhibens plantas in insula Zeylana nascentes; Inter quas plurimae novae species, & genera inveniuntur, FIRST ED...

CALDANI (LEOPOLDO MARCO ANTONIO & FLORIANO)Icones anatomicae, 9 vol. (3 vol. of plates bound in 4, 3 vol. of text bound in 5), FIRST EDITION, atl...

CARDANO (GIROLAMO)De causis, signis, ac locis morborum, liber unus, FIRST EDITION, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 7pp. table and errata at end,...

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)The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with page 297 of volume 1 beginning 'tra...

DARWIN (CHARLES)The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, FIRST EDITION, second issue, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO ARTHUR MOSTYN OWEN, ...

EINSTEIN (ALBERT)Relativity. The Special & The General Theory, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Robert W. Lawson, frontispiece portrait, i...

FERRI (ALFONSO)De ligni sancti multiplici medicina et vini exhibitione, FIRST EDITION, title with large woodcut arms of Pope Paul III, lower marg...

HUNTER (WILLIAM)Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, FIRST EDITION, 34 ...

MESUE DAMASCENUS (JOANNES, 'The Younger')Domini Mesue Vita. Doctorum artis peonie cognomina. Canones universales divi Mesue de consolatione medici...

PARACELSUSChirugia vulnerum, cum recentium, tum veterum, ocultorum & manifestorum ulcerum, &c., woodcut initials, index leaf at end, some minor s...

TURING (ALAN)JAHNKE (EUGENE) AND FRITZ EMDE. Funktionentafeln Mit Formeln Und Kurven, ALAN TURING'S COPY, SIGNED 'A.M. Turing' on front free endpa...

TURING (ALAN) – THE DELILAH PROJECTThe papers of Alan Turing and Donald Bayley relating to the Delilah project, a wartime collaboration seeking to...

TURING (ALAN)Programmers' Handbook for Manchester Electronic Computer Mark II [i.e. Mark I], FIRST EDITION, COMPLIMENTARY COPY, stamped 'with the ...

TURING (ALAN)'The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis', offprint from: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological...

[TURING (ALAN)]GANDY (ROBIN) Two autograph letters signed ('Robin'), to Donald Bayley ('Dear Don'), the first written shortly after Turing's deat...

TURING (ALAN)A group of ten influential mathematical and computing books from the collection of Alan Turing, ALL WITH HIS OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION, ...

ALBUM - ROYALTYCollection of some 120 autograph letters, from George III, Queen Charlotte, the Prince of Wales, various members of the Royal Famil...

ALBUM - STATESMENAlbum of over 130 autograph letters from eighteenth and nineteenth-century, politicians, statesmen and other notables, including ...

ALBUM - THEATREAlbum of over 50 autograph letters relating to the theatre, particularly Drury Lane, from the collection of Lady Maria Theresa Lewi...

ALBUM - WOMEN WRITERS & ARTISTSAlbum of c.100 autograph letters from nineteenth-century women writers and notable artists, from the collection of ...

ALBUM - WRITERS & SCIENTISTSAlbum of over 150 autograph letters from eighteenth and nineteenth-century writers, scientists, and other notables, fr...

BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD)Autograph letter signed ('Brn'), to John Murray ('Dear Sir'), thanking him for sending the sheets of '...the 'Intercept...

CHATTERTON (THOMAS)Series of autograph letters between Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) and Horace Walpole (1717-1797), comprising Chatterton's reque...

HAMILTON (SIR WILLIAM)Three autograph letters signed ('Wm. Hamilton') to Perkin Magra, HM Consul General at Tunis; the first long detailed letter ...

HUME (DAVID)Series of four rediscovered autograph letters to Horace Walpole from Scottish philosopher David Hume (1771-1776), speaking of his infa...

WALPOLE (HORACE)Autograph title page for 'The Castle of Otranto./ a Gothic Story,/ translated/ by/ William Marshal Gent./ from the original Italia...

WALPOLE (HORACE)Autograph draft letter signed ('HorWalpole') to William Pitt, later Lord Chatham ('Sr'), a letter of approbation responding to his...

WALPOLE (HORACE)Autograph draft letter unsigned, to John Stuart, third Earl of Bute ('My Lord'), beginning '...Having heard that his Majesty was c...

AUSTEN (JANE)Pride and Prejudice, second 'Peacock' edition, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, publisher's pictorial blue cloth, g.e., fading to spin...

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, VERY EARLY ISSUE, 43 etched plates (including frontispie...

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Chimes: A Goblin Story, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece and additional title (first state) after Maclise, wood-engraved...

DICKENS (CHARLES)Bleak House, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, additional etched title and 39 plates by H.K. Browne ('Phiz'), with 'The...

FLEMING (IAN)Diamonds Are Forever, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, publisher's black diamond pattern cloth with small silver motif on upper cove...

LEWIS (C.S.)A group of 14 works, including SEVEN INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, a few with manuscript notes, etc., comprising:Out of the Silent Planet,...

LEWIS (C.S.)The Screwtape Letters, FIRST EDITION, third printing, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('C.S. LEWIS') pasted inside upper cover, early owner's...

[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, publisher's light grey wrappers, lettered '(Not for Sale) Uncorrected Pro...

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, UNCORRECTED PROOF OF THE FIRST EDITION, with 'J.A. Rowling' on the title-page and number ...

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, Bloomsbury, 1997, reverse of title-page with the number se...

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, UNCORRECTED PROOF OF THE FIRST EDITION, a few light spots to half-title, title and edges o...