Rare Books and Works on Paper

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J. CARY. 'A Map of Cornwall from the Best Authorities,' engraved map, published for Camden's Britannia, foxing, folds, framed and glazed, John Sto...

SAMUEL and NATHANIEL BUCK (1696-1779). 'The South East Prospect of St Michaels Mount in Cornwall,' hand-coloured engraved panorama, some foxing, m...

RICHARD BLOME. 'A Mapp of the Parishes of St. Clements Danes, St. Mary Savoy; with the Rolls Liberty and Lincolns Inn, taken from the last survey ...

THOMAS KITCHIN. 'New and Improved map of Cornwall,' hand col engraved map, middle fold, tear and tide marks, formed and glaze, Carrington Bowles a...

JAN JANSSON. 'Cornubia sive Cornwallia,' hand col engraved map, slight tear to middle fold, small amount of foxing, latin text to verso, framed an...

CHRISTOPHER SAXTON and PHILIP LEA. 'Oxford, Buckingham & Bark-Shire,' hand-coloured copper engraved map, from 'The Shires of England and Wales', t...

MARC ISAMBARD BRUNEL. 'The Thames Tunnel linking Wapping and Rotherhithe,' hand-coloured engraving by J. Pinchback, showing a birdseye view and a ...

CORNWALL INTEREST. Twenty-nine mounted engravings mostly depicting Cornwall, including Thomas Allom ad J. P. Neale. (29) ...[more]

WILLIAM HENRY CAPONE after THOMAS ALLOM. 'Chinese Scenes,' seven hand-coloured engravings, from 'China, in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scene...

Two Victorian mounted illustrations in pen and ink, studies of Hans Christian Andersen's The Travelling Companion, the paper blind stamped by Wind...

Constance Anne PARKER (1921-2016)Five early pastel/graphite life drawings, two signed and dated to the verso, with one of the labels being from Th...

CORNWALL INTEREST: 'The East View of St Maws Castle in the County of Cornwall,' by Samuel and Nathanial Buck, hand-coloured copper engraving, fram...

F GHEYS?Cowsliplimited edition etching No'd 40/45 together with another limited edition etching by the same hand titled Loch Dutch, 23.5cm x 30cm.

CHARLES BIRD illustrations. 'Historic Bristol,' No 64/104, six original etchings signed by artist, loose in original portfolio, pictorial cloth-ba...

Two sheets of graphite architectural drawings and notes, including Senlis Cathedral, France, and a cathedral in Florence.Largest 31.6cm x 20cm

Frederick Pepys COCKERELL (1833-1878)Palazzo - BartoliniArchitectural study in graphiteThe Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni is a High Renaissance-style...

John Sell COTMAN (1782-1842).A collection of twenty-four engravings, many titled. (24)Largest 36cm x 47cmFrom the Joe Graffy Print Collection. Joe...

'Plan for Laying Out in Building Plots for First Rate Villas, Part of, Castle Lescudjack Estate in the Parish of Madron and Township of Penzance,'...

Anthony WALKER and Samuel WALEMurdering the Druids and Burning their GrovesEngraved for The Complete English Traveller25cm x 17cmTogether with ano...

Guido RENI (1575-1642)The Holy Family with Two Angels (1600-1604)EngravingMounted on card with graphite inscriptions22.2 x 15 cmTidemark to the mo...

William Blake (1757-1827)Thou hast fulfilled the Judgement of the Wicked, 1825Engraved plate, with 'Proof' faintly visible to bottom right corner2...

Franklin WHITE (1920-2011)Beach sceneWatercolour19cm x 28cmTogether with a pen sketch of a lady in a ballgown initialled I. F. and other ephemera.

A 'Dylan Thomas - 25 Years on' poster signed by the artist, Mervyn Levy, 42cm x 30cm, together with a pencil sketch of a Welsh landscape possibly ...

A humorous early twentieth century pen and ink sketch, inscribed 'Come along! Adolphus - we will be late for dinner.' 26.5cm x 20cm ...[more]

EDWARD KING. 'St Paul's Cathedral,' etching by H. Goffey, signed by both in graphite, original tissue guard with label, The Museum Galleries, Lond...

MAPS. 'Bacon's Large Scale Plan for the City of London,' folding plan of the City, on a scale of 12 inches to the mile, showing blitzed areas, cri...

JOHANNES BLAEU and TIMOTHY PONT. 'Leogus et Haraia insulae ex Aebudarum numero quae quamquam isthmo cohaereant pro diversis habentur. Lewis and Ha...

DIEGO RIVERA. '10 Reproductions in Color of Mexican Frescoes,' folio, cloth back card, rubbed and bumped, colour lithograph illustrations complete...

DISNEY INTEREST. A graphite animation still of 'Pluto' the dog, drawn in the corner of paper in mid-walk, numbered 356, on 5-peghole animation pap...

DAVID WILKIE (1785-1841). 'A Domestic Scene,' a signed artist proof engraving, sporadic spotting, 1819-1824(?),15cm x 11cm; DAVID LAW. 'A Castle a...

WILLIAM HOGARTH. 'Beggar's Opera, Act II,' large folio engraving by William Blake, strong impression with heavy foxing to margins, J. & J. Boydell...

THOMAS RYDER I (1746-1810). 'The Genius of Modesty preventing Love unveiling Beauty,' by Laurence J. Cosse after Giovanni Battista Cipriani, good ...

R. T. PENTREATH (artist). Handwritten letter from Pentreath to his uncle, in regards to shipping oil paints to Penzance, (amongst domestic affairs...

OWEN & BOWEN. 'The Road from Exeter to Truro showing Map of Cornwall.' Partially hand coloured, toning, framed and glazed, 1720, 18.5cm x 12.5cm. ...

CHRISTOPHER SAXTON and WILLIAM KIP. 'Cornwall olim pars Danmoniorum.' Engraved map, inset view of Launceston, framed and glazed, circa 1610, appro...

JOHN NORDEN. 'Speculi Brittanniae pars,' four framed and glazed 'Hundred's' engraved maps, Trig, Lesnewth, Pyder and Stratton, light foxing to all...

T. SUTHERLAND after W. J. HUGGINS. 'Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope,' hand coloured aquatint, framed and glazed, Pall Mall 1824. 53.5cm x 77cm ...[m...

MAPS. 'Carte Michelin de la France,' numbers 12, 16, 20, 21 and a publications catalogue, 1925; With twenty-two later publications and a collectio...

J. K. ROWLING. (b.1965 -). A Full Set of First Deluxe Edition Harry Potter Novels. Bloomsbury, 1999-2007.Seven volumes, four within original cello...

J. K. ROWLING. 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard', first edition, London: Children's High Level Group, December, 2008, full crushed morocco with metal...

J. K. ROWLING. Fifteen books related to Harry Potter, including Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, signed by Robert Hardy (1925-2017) the or...

J. K ROWLING. The Casual Vacancy, first edition, second impression, London: Little, Brown, 2012, hardback, complete with dust-jacket and paper rib...

COMIC BOOK Interest: Marvel 'Web of Spiderman #117' signed by artist Steven Butler from a limited edition, numbered 210 of 2500, complete with cer...

MARCEL PROUST. 'The Guermantes Way,' C.K. Scott Moncrieff, two vols, first English edition, original cloth, slight spotting to fore edge of textbl...

OCCULT and PLAYING CARD Interest. 'The History of Playing Cards, with Anecdotes of their use in Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card-Sharping,' by...

DANIEL DEFOE. 'A System of Magick; Or, A History of the Black Art,' first edition, rebacked spine with original leather boards, engraved frontispi...

GEOFFREY T. MAYSON. 'Mechanical Singing-bird Tabatieres,' first edition, unclipped dj, illustrated, Robert Hale, London, 2000; SHARON & CHRISTIAN ...

JOHN EDENSOR LITTLEWOOD Interest. Twenty-five prize books from Trinity College, Cambridge, awarded to the renowned mathematician, works include fu...

ARAVIND ADIGA. 'The White Tiger,' first UK edition, original cloth, unclipped, slight spotting to top edge of textblock, Atlantic Books, 2008; 'Be...

FOLIO SOCIETY SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. 'Illustrations of Birds Drawn for John Gould by Edward Lear,' signed by David Attenborough, elephant folio, ...

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