Books & Works on Paper

London: mapsCruchley’s Picture of London…, ninth edition, including the map: ‘Cruchley’s New Plan of London’, detached, splitting along folds, som...

Moscow and neighbouring cities, Late 20th CenturyIncluding: Moscow Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labor V.I. Lenin Metro, a collect...

OxfordWilliams (William) Nova & Accuratissima celeberrimae Universitatis Civitatisque Oxoniensis Ichnographia MDCCXXXIII, uncoloured city plan, en...

Seutter (Matthäus) Londinum celeberrima Metropolis, plan of London with large panorama, title panel in Latin and German, royal arms upper left, ha...

Stow (John) A collection of 16 ward maps from ‘A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster’, including: ‘Spittle Fields and places adjacent’;...

Stow (John) A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster..., Corrected, Improved, and very much Enlarged ...by John Strype, 6 books in 2 vols....

UK mapsSpeed (John) Hartfordshire Described, first edition, hand-coloured engraving, after Jodocus Hondius, from The Theatre of Empire of Great Br...

van den Wyngaerde (Anton) after,View of London (circa 1550), "A facsimile of the original drawing in the Sutherland Collection”, 7 sheets, first s...

Ortelius (Abraham)Indiae Orientalis Insularumque Adiacientium Typus, hand-coloured map of Southeast Asia, Japan, and the Philippines, etc., includ...

Smith (John Calvin) Map of the United States of America. Including Canada and a large portion of Texas: Showing the Base Meridian and Township Lin...

Joseph Cartwright, View of the Town and Harbour of Vathi in Ithaca, hand-coloured aquatint, plate no. 8 from Cartwright’s Views in the Ionian Isla...

Skjöldebrand (Anders Fredrik)Description des cataractes et du le canal de Trollhatta en Suede…, first edition, aquatint additional title, 12 aquat...

Middle EastLéon de Laborde,Voyage en Orient, first edition, 77 lithographic plates, bound together from two simultaneously-published works: Voyage...

Middle EastSir David Wilkie, Sketches in Turkey, Syria & Egypt, 1840 & 1841, first edition, dedication leaf detached and loosely inserted, lithogr...

MiscellanyKhan (Gazanfar Ali) & Sparroy (Wilfrid) With the Pilgrims to Mecca. The Great Pilgrimage of A.H. 1319; A.D. 1902, first edition, frontis...

TurkeyAmedeo Preziosi, Stamboul: Souvenir d'Orient, second edition, tinted lithograph title, 28 chromolithographs mounted on thick paper, as issue...

Anglo IndiansW. Taylor & J. Bouvier (lithographer), Three plates from 'Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians and Anglo Indian...

Bengal: Ricketts familyAn album of 78 watercolours and drawings, including circa 23 relating to Chittagong [Chattogram] and Bengal, the majority b...

Edward Woodville RickettsAn album of 302 landscapes and scenes in Europe and North Africa, including a view of Wapping Tunnel dated to the opening...

Robert Hyde Colebrooke (after) & John William Edy (engraver)The Lake of Mooty Tallaow, near Seringapatam, hand-coloured aquatint, from the series:...

Thomas Daniell, R.A.Ramnugur, near Benares, on the River Ganges, hand-coloured aquatint, with 1794 watermark, from part 1 of the series 'Oriental ...

Indian viewsCapt. Francis Swain Ward (after) & Edward Orme, Fortress of Gwallior, taken by General Popham, in 1780, hand-coloured aquatint, formed...

Indian viewsJames Baillie Fraser & Robert Havell (engraver) 'A view of the Scotch Church from the gate of Tank Square', hand-coloured aquatint, pl...

Wathen (James)Collection of 6 original watercolours by Wathen from Journal of a Voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China; Returning by the Ca...

Captain Thomas Williamson (after) & Samuel Howitt, 14 hand-coloured aquatint plates from Oriental Field Sports, engraved by H. Merke, J. Hamble, a...

[ Pechell (George Mendes)]Chinese Junks moored before Peiho Fort [1858]original water colour, showing junks mored befoer one of the Peiho Forts on...

Bredon (Juliet)Peking. A Historical and Intimate Description of its chief places of interest.With maps, plans and illustrations, original cloth, s...

Wieger (L.)Chinese Characters, Their origin, etymology, history, classification and signification. A thorough study from Chinese documents. Trans...

Posters: Chinese Cultural RevolutionA collection of 9 posters, including: “Chairman Mao’s poem ‘Seven Rhymes, the People’s LiberationArmy Occupies...

Staunton (Sir George)An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China,3 vol., first octavo edition, 3 la...

Wan Wing-Sum,Reproduction of Writings by Wan Wing-Sum; The Lynx-Eyed Calligraphist, produced following an exhibition of his work at the Chinese Ch...

Batak Pustaha, Sumatra, 24 pages in Batak script and diagrams in red and black ink, for use by spiritual leaders (datu) and their disciples, on pa...

Korean WarA collection of 28 airborne ‘psywar’ propaganda leaves,including 3 items of propaganda from the communist side: ‘Mr. Moneybags is in Flo...

Blondel (Jacques-François, after) Four plates from ‘Fêtes publiques données par la ville de Paris, à l'occasion du mariage de Monseigneur le Dauph...

Boydell (John and Josiah)An History of the River Thames,2 vol., first edition, 2 folding engraved maps, 76 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, 3 f...

Hollar (Wenceslaus)The Prospect of London and Westminster Taken from Lambeth Etching on four sheets conjoined, good but later impressions of the ...

LondonMaitland (William) The History of London, first edition, folding frontispiece view of London, trimmed at foredges with circa 1cm loss to bor...

LondonPennant (Thomas) Some Account of London, second edition, engraved title, map, and 13 plates, some folding, intermittent spotting and stainin...

Rev. Peter Whalley, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire. Compiled from the Manuscript Collections of the Late Learned Antiquary John B...

(Roupell (Arabella)][Cape Flowers by a Lady] Specimens of the flora of South Africa. first edition, one of 103 copies, list of subscribers, d...

William (Aiton) Hortus Kewensis; or, a catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew...the second edition enlarged. Lon...

Andrews (Henry C.)Geraniums: or a Monograph of the Genus Geranium: Containing Coloured Figures of All the Known Species and Numerous Beautiful Var...

Audubon (John James)The Birds of America, 2 vols., English edition, limited to 250 copies numbered 501-750 from an edition of 1000 (this no. 502),...

Bauer (Franz)Collection of plates.[Delineations of Exotick Plants, Cultivated in the Royal Gardens at Kew] First edition, 20 of 30 hand-coloured ...

Bergius, (Peter Jonas)Descriptiones plantarum ex Capite Bone Spe,First edition, half-title, 5 folding engraved plates, later half calf over buckra...

Boerhaave (Herman)Index Alter Plantarum quae in Horto Academico Lugduno Batavo AlunturSecond edition, 2 parts in one vol, titles printed in red an...

Harrison (Joseph)The Horticultural Cabinet,Volumes 7 & 9 only with 34 hand coloured plates, 1839 & 1841 § Paxton (Joseph) Paxton’s Magazine of Bot...

Breyne (Jakob) Exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarum plantarum centuria prima. Danzig,First edition, engraved additional title, printed title ...

Breyne, Jakob Prodromi fasciculi rariorum plantarum primus et secundus... accedunt icones rariorum et exoticarum plantarum. 2 parts in one, engrav...

Burmann (Johannes)Rariorum Africanarum Plantarum,First edition, title printed in red and black, engraved vignette, 100 engraved plates, near conte...

[Darwin]Tremaux (Pierre)Origine et Transformation de L’Homme….First edition, , engraved sepia plate as called for, contemp[orary half dark green M...

Darwin (Charles)On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,first American edition, third issue. "Revised Edition" to title-page and th...

Darwin (Charles)On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,first American edition , second issue, (three quotations facing the title-p...

Darwin (Charles)The Origin of the Species….. Sixth edition, Twelfth thousand, with additions and corrections, half-title, folding diagram at p. 91...

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Estienne) & Cuvier (Fréderic) Ten hand-coloured lithographs from ‘Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères avec les figures origi...

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Estienne) & Cuvier (Fréderic) Ten hand-coloured lithographs from ‘Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères avec les figures origi...

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Estienne) & Cuvier (Fréderic) Ten hand-coloured lithographs from ‘Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères avec les figures origi...

Gerard (John)The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes,engraved pictorial title, laid-down, cropped close to engraving edge, numerous woodcuts...

Gilpin (William)Collection of mixed titles.-Observations on the Western Parts of England, 18 plates, contemporary half calf, worn, pages uncut, 17...

Gould (John) A collection of 27 hand-coloured lithographs from ‘The Birds of Europe’ (1837) and ‘The Birds of Asia’ (1850 - 1883), many after Eliz...