Books and Manuscripts - including Property of the

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-t...

[COMBE (WILLIAM)] The Tour of Doctor Syntax In Search of the Picturesque... Seventh Edition with New Plates, 1817; The Second Tour of Doctor Synta...

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

MADDOX (GEORGE, ARCHITECT) 'Prints from the Etchings Made by George Maddox, Professor of Architecture under whom I studied in 1834 at Furnival's I...

PEEPSHOW - THAMES TUNNEL View of the River Thames, over the Tunnel. A Perspective View of the Thames Tunnel, double-decker peepshow, with four ha...

REYNOLDS (JOSHUA) Commonplace book compiled by Mary Gwatkin, including four draft notes in the handwriting of Sir Joshua Reynolds stuck in, three...

SLAVERY - ABOLITION The Woman of Colour, vol. 1 (of 2), FIRST EDITION, light soiling, brown ink ownership inscription, amateur pencil sketches of...

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

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

BROCKEDON (WILLIAM) Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps, by Which Italy Communicates with France, Switzerland, and Germany, 2 vol., FIRST EDIT...

COOK (JAMES) A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure... In which is in...

HAKLUYT (RICHARD) Hakluyt's Collection of the Early Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries of the English Nation, 5 vol., ONE OF 250 COPIES, lacks 5 l...

LEAR (EDWARD) Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 2 vol. [First-Second series], FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 2 hand-coloured maps, 55 tinted lithogra...

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...

ROBERTS (DAVID) The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia, 6 vol. in 3, 250 tinted lithographed plates (including titles, portrait an...

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-...

CAMDEN (WILIAM) Britannia; or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland... translated... with ad...

CAMDEN (WILLIAM) Britannia; or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjace...

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

GARDNER (THOMAS) Pocket-guide to the English Traveller: Being a Compleat Survey and Admeasurement of all the Principal Roads and Most Considerable...

GEOLOGICAL MAP KNIPE (JAMES A.) Geological Map of the British Isles and Part of France showing also the Inland Navigation by Rivers and Canals. Th...

KENT ANDREWS (JOHN), ANDREW DURY AND WILLIAM HERBERT. A Topographical Map of the County of Kent, in Twenty Five Sheets, on a Scale of Two Inches t...

CHARSLEY (FANNY ANNE) The Wild Flowers around Melbourne, FIRST EDITION, lithographed pictorial title-page, 13 hand-coloured lithographed plates, ...

DONOVAN (EDWARD) The Natural History of British Quadrupeds, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, 72 hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional light spotting, o...

FUCH (REMACLUS) Nomenclaturae plantarum omnium quarum hodie apud pharmacopolas usus est magis frequens iuxta Graecorum, Latinorum, Gallo, Italoru...

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

MAUND (BENJAMIN) The Botanic Garden, 13 vol. expanded to 26 vol., approximately 1250 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates (each cut down from ...

MILLER (JOHN) An Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, 2 vol., engraved allegorical frontispiece in volume 1, engraved titles, 190 hand-...

OWEN (CHARLES) An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents: In Two Parts, FIRST EDITION, 15-page list of subscribers, 7 engraved plates, some ...

PAXTON (JOSEPH) Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants, vol. 1-7 (of 16), 318 hand-coloured lithographed plates (some folding), tiss...

PAXTON (JOSEPH) Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants, vol. 1-6 (of 16), 261 hand-coloured lithographed botanical plates (some fold...

ALCHEMY FABRE (PIERRE-JEAN) Propugnaculum alchymiae: adversus quosdam misochymicos, phisophos umbratiles, naturae humanae laruas..., woodcut titl...

BIBLE, IN LATIN ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS) Bibliorum opus integrum, 374 leaves (of 770, containing the Old Testament up to Psalms), title within woodcu...

CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS), MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO AND JUNIUS MODERATUS COLUMELLA [Scriptores rei rusticae] Enarrationes; De re rustica, 238 (of 244) ...

CLEMENT I, POPE Recognitionum libri X, 2 parts in 1 vol., title within wide woodcut border and 3 woodcut text borders after Hans Holbein by Hans ...

DUNS SCOTUS (JOHN) Scriptum primum [-quartum] Oxoniense subtilissimi theologi Ioannis Duns Scoti Ord. minorum super primo [-quarto] Sententiarum, ...

MOLIERE (JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN DE) Les oeuvres de monsieur de Molière, 6 vol. (of 8), engraved frontispiece with portrait of the author in volum...

PLINIUS SECUNDUS (GAIUS) Naturalis historiae libri XXXVII e castigationibus Hermolai Barbari, 2 parts in 1 vol., titles within elaborate woodcut ...

REISCH (GREGOR) Margarita philosophica; Appendix matheseos in Margaritam philosophicam, 2 parts in 1 vol., numerous woodcut illustrations through...

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

BACON (FRANCIS) Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie, FIRST EDITION, second issue (with printed title dated 1627), edited by William Rawley, en...

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION The Bible: That is, the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and New Testament: Translated According to the Ebr...

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER The Book of Common Prayer, together with the Psalter of David and the Form or Manner of making and consecrating of Bishops, ...

BROOKE (RALPH) A Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of this Realme of England, Since the Nor...

CHAPBOOK The Paths of Learning Strewed with Flowers or English Grammar Illustrated, FIRST EDITION, 16pp., engraved and hand-coloured throughout, ...

CHARLES I The Works of King Charles the Martyr: with a collection of Declarations, Treaties, and other papers concerning the differences betwixt h...

COBBETT (WILLIAM) Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goa...

DICKENS (CHARLES) Autograph cheque signed ('Charles Dickens'), in favour of Messrs Sparks and Son, for four pounds, four shillings, drawn on Messr...

DICKENS (CHARLES) Little Dorrit, FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, FIRST ISSUE, with 'Rigaud' on pp. 469, 470 and 473 in part XV, half-title...

EUCLID - MOVEABLE PARTS COWLEY (JOHN LODGE) An Appendix to Euclid's Elements. In Seven Books. Containing Forty-Two Copper-Plates. In which the Doc...

[GASKELL (ELIZABETH)] North and South, 2 vol., half-titles, bookplate of John Sheepshanks, contemporary calf gilt, red morocco spine labels, join...

HOLINSHED (RAPHAEL) The firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irlande, vol. 1 only, FIRST EDITION, titles within elaborate ...

HOWELL (JAMES) An Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and Chief Emporium of Great Britain, FIRST E...

LASSO DE LA VEGA (GARCIA) The Royal Commentaries of Peru, in Two Parts, translated by Paul Rycaut, title printed in red and black, section title ...

SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE) Posthumous Poems, without errata leaf (pp.xiii-xiv as often), light toning, edges untrimmed, modern blue quarter morocco, ...

AMIS (KINGSLEY) Bright November, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED TO HIS PARENTS on front free endpaper ('To Mum and Dad/ their...

AMIS (KINGSLEY) Lucky Jim, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL, publisher's green cloth (spine ends very slightly bumped), yellow printed d...

AMIS (KINGSLEY) A Case of Samples. Poems 1946-1956, FIRST EDITION, THE DEDICATION COPY, inscribed 'To my dear Mum & Dad/ from their affectionate ...

BALDWIN (JAMES) Go Tell it on the Mountain, FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE REVIEW COPY, with typed review slip dated 2 February 1953 from William Cole at...

BALDWIN (JAMES) Go Tell it on the Mountain, FIRST EDITION, publisher's brick red cloth, titled in gilt on spine, dust-jacket designed by John O'H...