Books & Works on Paper

Turkey & Syria.-Allom (Thomas) Fisher's Illustrations of Constantinople and its Environs, 2 vol. in 1, engraved frontispieces, additional engraved...

TutankhamunManchester Guardian editor correspondence with Campbell Cowan Edgar, Director General of the dep. Antiquities in Cairo, regarding permi...

Asia.- Maps and printsA collection of 47, including:Magini (Giovanni Antonio) Tavola Ottava Dell'Asiae. Tabula Asiae VIII., published in ‘Geografi...

Helman (Isidore Stanislas Henri)Faits Memorables des Empereurs de la Chine,engraved title, dedication with head-piece and 24 engraved plates, tiss...

Chinese LanguageA collection of 82 dictionaries and linguistics volumes, the majority relating to Chinese, with a small quantity on Malay, Hindi, ...

Chinese Language Flashcards.-An extensive collection of c. 5,500 Chinese language flashcards, ink and pencil on card, within 3 wooden trays, [mid-...

Craft (Percy Robert) An Indian Bison Shoot, signed lower right, watercolour and gouache on board, titled and inscribed ‘Note the “Bison” of Indian...

Hondius (Jodocus) China, English-text edition, one of the new maps added to the 1606 Hondius printing of Gerard Mercator's Atlas, hand-coloured, b...

Ortelius (Abraham) Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis nova descriptio, First State, [Van den Broecke, no.164, 1584L93], from the Theatrum Orbis Terraru...

Pointie Talkie in Chinese, US Air Force phrasebook to be used by downed American airmen with phrases in Chinese, printed on silk, ink markings to ...

Roberts (Lord…of Kandahar)Forty-One Years in India,first edition, presentation copy ‘Miss Nellie Samuel, with kindest regards and best wishes, fro...

Symes (Michael)An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava sent by the Governor-General of India, in the Year 1795,first edition, lacking half-...

Zedong (Mao) Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu, or Quotations of Chairman Mao (Mao's "Little Red Book").first edition, 250pp., text in Chinese, half-title printed...

Zedong (Mao) Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu, or Quotations of Chairman Mao (Mao's "Little Red Book").A collection of 38 translations, the majority First Editio...

Coello (Francisco) Isla de CubaLithograph folding map, including several plans and descriptions, consisting of 32 leaves, 210x135 mm each, in clot...

Blaeu (Willem)Venezuela cum parte australi Novae Andalusiae,engraved map, contemporary colouring, French text on the verso, browned, image 380 x 4...

Ortelius (Abraham) Peruviae Auriferae Regionis Typus , [Van den Broecke, 15a.2], Spanish-text edition, hand-coloured, trimmed (therefore lacking t...

The Americas.- MapsA collection of 34, including:Covens & Mortier (Publishers) Carte du Paraguay, du Chili, du Detroit de Magellan &c, outline col...

The Americas.- MapsA large collection of 96, including:Wyld (James) Colombia Prima or South America Drawn from the Large Map in Eight Sheets By Lo...

Hancock (C. M.) North America, manuscript map, ink, hand-coloured, signed and dated lower right, 245 x 195mm, 1831.

Hodgson (James) A System of the MathematicsFirst edition; 2 vols, 16 engraved foldout plates, numerous in-text diagrams (ESTC T111825); calf, doub...

Jones (William)The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery……,Sixth edition, with additions, 4 folding engraved plates, 2pp. Price list of Orb...

Wormald (Thomas)A Series of Anatomical Sketches and Diagrams,26 engraved diagrams, contemporary calf, crudely rebacked and cornered, masking tape ...

‘W.F.R.’, Album of Flowers, title in gilt within embossed floral border, 28 embossed leaves, each with flower above printed verses, one loose, som...

Darwin (Charles)The Origin of Species,sixth edition, with additions and corrections, folding table, original green cloth, upper joint split, inner...

Henderson (P. H., after) & Stadler (J. C.) The Maggot-bearing Stapelia, from Dr. Thornton's 'Temple of Flora', second state, aquatint with stipple...

Thornton (Robert John) Large Flowering Sensitive Plant, mixed-method engraving with aquatint, from ‘The Temple of Flora’, first state with the sky...

[Pope (Alexander)]Serle (John)A Plan of Mr. Pope’s Garden, As it was taken at his death: with a Plan and Perspective View of the Grotto,First edit...

Tunnicliffe (Charles Frederick) Eagle-Owls, pencil and watercolour on wove paper, image 72 x 41 cm.Provenance: Royal Academy Exhibition 1974 (Larg...

Walker (J)Exotic ButterfliesDrawn and Coloured from Books and Specimens in own collection.collection of 63pp of numerous original pencil, pen, in...

Folio Society.-A group of 75 volumes, authors including: Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, John Betjeman, Kenneth Clark, Henry...

Lytton (Edward Bulwer, Lord) Lord Lytton’s Novels, 27 vols. only (of 28) [with] 11 further vols., including the dramatic works, Knebworth Edition,...

Lytton (Lord Edward George Bulwer)[The Works], 32 vol., Edition Deluxe, number 104 of 500, half-titles, lithographed frontispieces, vignette title...

Austen (Jane)The Works,12 vol. Winchester Edition, original blue cloth gilt, spines lightly rubbed 8vo, John Grant, Edinburgh, 1911-1912.

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina.; A Poem.first edition, half-title, publisher's 4pp advertisements at end, ...

Chaucer (Geoffrey)[The Workes of Geoffray Chaucer] Extract 57pp., fo.277-297, 311-323, 365-377 & 379-382 to include [The dreame of Chaucer]16pp.,...

Churchill (Winston Spencer)Marlborough His Life and Times,4 vol., first editions, illustrations, plates, original purple cloth, gilt, t.e.g., fade...

Hughson (D.) [pseud. David Pugh]The New Family Receipt-Book, or Universal Repository of Domestic Economy,engraved frontispiece, damage to lower gu...

Cruikshank (George, Isaac & Robert).-Egan (Pierce)Life in London...,first edition, second issue with a footnote on p.9 and first sheet of music un...

Dickens (Charles) [The Christmas books]together A Christmas Carol, first edition, first issue with the ‘Stave 1’ at the head of the first chapter,...

Dickens (Charles)The Chimes, first edition, advertisement preceding half-title, frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 11 illustrations by M...

Dickens (Charles)Master Humphrey's Clock. By "Boz."3 volumes, first edition in cloth, frontispieces to each volume and numerous wood-engravings in...

Dickens (Charles) Pictures from Italy. London:first edition, half-title, woodcut illustrations by Samuel Palmer, advertisement leaf at beginning...

Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, First Edition, bound from the parts, half-title, etched title page (“Veller”), front...

Egan (Pierce) The Fancy's Togs' Man versus Young Sadboy, the Milling Quaker. A trial in the Court of Common Pleas on Thursday, April 24, 1823…, 32...

Eliot (T.S.)Murder in the Cathedral,signed and dated by the author ‘T.S.Eliot 3.vi.47’, laid-in an early image of the author, original black cloth...

Fielding (Henry)The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling,6 vol., first edition, with the errata leaf in vol.I and with the errata uncorrected, decor...

Galsworthy (John) The Works, 29 vols. only (lacking final vol.), Manaton Edition, Number 423 of 530 Sets, Signed by the author to the limitation p...

Keynes (John Maynard)The Economic Consequences of the Peace,First edition, original blue cloth, slightly faded, bookplate to front paste-down of A...

Lawrence (D.H.) & Wordsworth (Dorothy)A collection of 20 volumes by the author, including Apocalypse, First edition, number 488 of 750 copies, por...

Otway (Thomas)Otway Venice Preserv'd , or, A Plot Discovered. A Tragedy.First edition., 58pp., later Morocco over cloth boards, 4to., R.Bentley an...

Oxford & Cambridge.- [Warton (Thomas, Editor)] The Oxford Sausage; or, Select Poetical Pieces Written in the Most Celebrated Wits of the Universit...

Poetry.-A collection of 57 volumes, including:Saroyan (Aram) O My Generation and Other Poems, Blackberry Books, 1976;Finch (Peter, ed.) Typewriter...

Poetry.- Warton (Thomas) The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century, 2 vol., seco...

Turner (William) A Compleat History Of the Most Remarkable Providences, Both of Judgment and Mercy, Which have Hapned in this Present Age…..includ...

Ballard (J. G.) The Unlimited Dream Company, First Edition, Signed by the author on the title page, Jonathan Cape, 1979;Hello America, First Editi...

Christie (Agatha)Passenger to Frankfurt,first edition, signed by the author on front endpaper, original cloth, dust jacket, spine to jacket, and p...

Conrad (Joseph) The Inheritors, First UK edition, first state, without dedication leaf, 32pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear, original cloth, some ...

Durrell (Lawrence) [The Alexandria Quartet], 4 vol., comprising Justine, First Edition/4th Impression, owner’s name to front free endpaper, jacket...

Fermor (Patrick Leigh)George Psychoundakis: A Letter to C.A.Trypanisinscribed by the author ‘ For Anthony Smith with greetings from Paddy - Kardam...