Printed Books & Manuscripts

ANTRAM, Charles B. (b. 1874).  Butterflies of India … With illustrations of practically every species for easy identification. Calcutta & Simla: T...

BAKER, Edward Charles Stuart (1864-1944). [Title on spine:] The Birds of [North] Cachar. [Bombay:] “Published in the Journal of the Bombay Natural...

BAKER, Edward Charles Stuart (1864-1944).  The Indian Ducks and their Allies. London: Published by the Bombay Natural History Society, 1908. Lar...

BAKER, Edward Charles Stuart (1864-1944).  Indian Pigeons and Doves. London: Witherby & Co., 1913. 4to (267 x 178mm). Half title, chromolithograph...

DRESSER, Henry Eeles (1838-1915). A Monograph of the Coraciidae, or Family of the Rollers. Farnborough [Kent]: Taylor & Francis, 1893. 4to (359 x ...

FAYRER, Joseph, 1st Baronet (1824-1907).  The Thanatophidia of India being a Description of Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula with an Acco...

HACHISUKA, Masauji (1903-53).  The Birds of the Philippine Islands with Notes on the Mammal Fauna. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1931-35. 4 parts...

HACHISUKA, Masauji (1903-53).  The Dodo and Kindred Birds or The Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands. London: H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd., 1953. 4...

HARRISON, John Cyril (1898-1985, illustrator) & David EVANS.  The Birds of Prey of the British Islands. Kingston Deverill: Fine Bird Books, 1980. ...

HENDERSON, George & Allan O. HUME.  Lahore to Yarkand. Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed. London: L. Reeve, 18...

[HENDLEY, Thomas Holbein (1847-1917)]. Asian Carpets. XVI. and XVII. Century Designs from the Jaipur Palaces. London: W. Griggs, 1905. Folio (496 ...

“Jamnagar. Photoes[sic] by Joshi & Vara. By Special Appointment to H. H. The Maharaja Jam Saheb of Jamnagar.” [Title stamped in gilt on upper cove...

JERDON, Thomas Claverhill (1811-72).  Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, containing Fifty Figures of New, Unfigured and Interesting Species of B...

MILLAIS, John Guille (1865-1931).  British Diving Ducks. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913. 2 volumes, large 4to (402 x 305mm). Half titles, 7...

MILLAIS, John Guille (1865-1931).  Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches; illustrating the Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage, and the Hybrids...

MILLAIS, John Guille (1865-1931).  The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. Large 4to (34...

MURRAY, James A. (fl. 1880-90)  The Avifauna of British India and its Dependencies. A Systematic Account, with Descriptions of all the Known Spe...

MURRAY, James A. (fl. 1880-90).  The Edible and Game Birds of British India with its Dependencies and Ceylon. London & Bombay: Trübner & Co., 18...

RICKMAN, Philip (1891-1982, illustrator).  A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches … Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, edited by Richard C...

RICKMAN, Philip (1891-1982, illustrator).  A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches … Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, edited by Richard C...

RICKMAN, Philip (1891-1982, illustrator).  A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches … Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, edited by Richard C...

ROBJENT, Richard (b. 1937, illustrator) & Colin Laurie MCKELVIE. The Grouse. Studies in Words and Pictures. Holt: Fine Sporting Interests Ltd., 19...

ROBJENT, Richard (b. 1937, illustrator) & Brian Philip MARTIN. The Pheasant. Studies in Words and Pictures. Holt: Fine Sporting Interests Ltd., 19...

ROBJENT, Richard (b. 1937, illustrator) & Colin Laurie MCKEVIE. The Partridge. Studies in Words and Pictures. Holt: Fine Sporting Interests Ltd., ...

ROBJENT, Richard (b. 1937, illustrator) & Brian Philip MARTIN. Sporting Wildfowl of the British Isles. Studies in Words and Pictures. Holt: Fine S...

ROBJENT, Richard (b. 1937, illustrator) & Brian Philip MARTIN.  Sporting Wildfowl of the British Isles. Studies in Words and Pictures. Holt: Fine ...

ROBJENT, Richard (b. 1937, illustrator) & Brian Philip MARTIN.  Sporting Wildfowl of the British Isles. Studies in Words and Pictures. Holt: Fine ...

SCOTT, Peter (1909-89, illustrator).  Wild Chorus. London: Country Life, 1938. 4to (315 x 255mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece and 23 coloure...

SEEBOHM, Henry (1832-95).  The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidae, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their Allies. Londo...

SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847-1909). Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower-birds. London: Taylor an...

TAKA-TSUKASA, Nobusuke, Prince.  The Birds of Nippon. London & Yokendo: H. F. & G. Witherby, 15th August 1932 – 1st March 1939. Volume One, Origin...

MISCELLANY – Albrecht DURER.  Samtliche Kupferstiche. Leipzig: R. F. Koehler’s, 1912. Folio. Title printed in red and black, plates after Albrecht...

BOETHIUS (Anicius Manlius Severinus, c. 480-524/52). De institutione arithmetica, [Italy], 1492. 4to. 20 leaves, paper, 26-27 lines per page plus ...

MEDICI, Francesco I de’, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1541-1587). Correspondence. 1569- 1584. 4 autographs letters signed on watermarked paper, in Itali...

MEDICI FAMILY. International Politics (1607-1619). 2 autograph letters signed, in Italian, from Ferdinando I and the Archduchess Maria Maddalena o...

MEDICI FAMILY. Correspondence, 1622-1824. 12 manuscript letters from members of the Medici family, 4to, in Italian, mostly written in Florence, so...

LOW COUNTRIES. MS. FRENCH. ARCHIVE [1535-82]. A legal archive-inventory of 44 double- sided leaves by one or two secretarial hands, listing ordina...

INDIAN MANUSCRIPT. A Sikh manuscript written in Gurmukhi script [first half of the 19th century], probably related to religious matter. Oblong 8vo...

ALAMEIN, Montgomery (1887-1976). ALS. ‘Dear Playdon [,] Ten Chapters was published by me in 1946/5 and the proceeds given to charity. The price ...

WELLESLEY,Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). A SIGNED free-front envelope,signed by the Duke of Wellington to the bottom left hand corner...

LITERARY SIGNATORIES. A printed title page and conjoined bibliographicallimitation and signature page for The Fothergill Omnibus, 1931, one of 250...

MILITARY AUTOGRAPHS. – Including: General Sir Charles Warren (1840-1927). SIGNED POSTCARD. Warren was the Police Chief, head of the Metropolitan P...

BRAINE, John (1922-86). ALS. 8vo. 10pp. Dated 2.4.47 and addressed from Leeds Road in Bradford. Addressed to ‘Dear John’. The letter discusses wri...

HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). TLS. 8vo. 1pp.  ‘Dear John, I have returned from France and found your letters of June 13th and 23rd, together with th...

GEORGE IV. (1762-1830). 'Kings Warrant' in relation to Mary Turner Cabell and a pension of £50, dated July 1820. SIGNED by King George IV at the h...

WILLIAM IV (1765-1837). DOCUMENT -  (1835). Relating to John Gray Slacke Esq. and his appointment as Captain of a Company in the Twenty fifth Regi...

MITFORD, Nancy (1904-73). ALS. Dated ‘19 Dec 67’ ‘Dear Mr Hutchinson Thank you very much indeed for the lovely book- I’m too much flattered to be ...

MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPTS. ALS. Constance Sitwell. Michael Sadleir. TLS. (Addressed to Mr. [T. Lloyd] Humberstone regarding a ‘proposed ...

LITERATURE AUTOGRAPHS/MANUSCRIPTS. Names include: Chiang Yee, Elizabeth Jenkins, Dodie Smith, Charles Causley, Peter Levi, Norman Nic...

ART- EPHEMERA (ALS/TLS).  Including: Bryan Forbes 1973 (painted over printed illustration: ‘ The last of England Ford Maddox Brown’ )...

WAUGH, Evelyn. (1903-66). ALS. ‘Dear [?] Thank you very much indeed for lending me this. It is my elegant….- I should never have… the author. It w...

MORE,Hannah.(1745-1833) ALS. Regarding a meeting at the Cheddar Club and alsodiscussing her ‘new habitation near Wrington’ and also ‘ I am but jus...

LITERARY ALS/TLS’s. Including: J A R Munro, Henry Newbolt, Clifford Bax, Gordon Bottomley, Thomas Macaulay, Theodore Francis Powys, W...

LITERARYAUTOGRAPHS/MSs. Including: Robert Stephenson (clipped signature: small tearwith loss to the ‘s’ of ‘…son’. Matthew Arnold, Andre Gide, Chi...

AUTHORS– ALS. Richard Le Gallienne. (In which Le Gallienne proffers twoquotations which he has stood by: ‘The Worst returns to laughter(Shakespear...

AUTHORS- ALS/TLS’s. Including: H. G. Well’s (Short ALS) addressed to Philip Morrell.  Lovat Dickson (TLS), Jessie Conrad (ALS discuss...

BONAPARTE, Napoleon. (1769 –1821). ALS. ‘Retenez Madame de Noailles dans mon cabinet jusqu’a repres’ SIGNED by Napoleon Bonaparte at the close and...

BADENPOWELL, Robert. Clipped signature from a larger document. Leonard Cheshire(TLS). James Herbert (TLS). With a small collection of sporting sig...

 LITERARY SIGNATORIES- Including: Laurence Meynall, John Masefield (small signed photo), C.W. Beaumont, Clifford Odets, T.G. Rosenthal, G. L. Legm...

BYRON, George Gordon (1788-1824). Cheque/Payment Request, inscribed in Byron's hand for One Hundred Pounds. 'Messrs. Sitwell & Sons  Pay Myself or...