Rare Books and Works on Paper

ELEANOR VERE BOYLE (E.V.B). 'Child's Play, Seventeen Drawings,' scarce copy, quarter leather with pebbled boards, rubbed with worn hinges, toning ...

JAMES PUCKLE. 'The Club: In a Dialogue Between Father and Son,' full vellum, splinting joints, gilt edge to textblock, vignette engravings, some s...

ILLUSTRATED WORKS. 'Fortunio,' illustrated by J. W, red cloth with pictorial gilt decoration to front board, tide mark throughout, loosening textb...

ILLUMINATIONs Interest (Colour Printing). 'The Better Land,' by Mrs Hemans, illuminated by Helen Baker, sun bleached original cloth, split cloth t...

THOMAS J. WATSON. 'An Illustrated Vocabulary for the use of the Deaf and Dumb,' rebound in olive cloth, toning to title page, profusely illustrate...

C. S. FORESTER. 'The Commodore,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Michael Joseph, 1945; 'Lord Hornblower,' first edition, lacks dj, or...

C. S. FORESTER. 'The African Queen,' first edition, rebound, some spotting, William Heinemann, London, 1935; 'The Ship,' first edition, original c...

EDINBURGH Interest. 'The Traveller's Companion Through the City of Edinburgh and Suburbs,' full leather with chips and loss, three fold-out maps o...

Lady HELENA SARAH DOMVILE. 'Eighteen Designs for Glebe Houses and Rural Cottages,' original cloth, 4to, binding loosening, plates, John Mitchell, ...

WILLIAM COWPER. 'Illustrations of the Poems of Cowper,' designs by Craig, twelve engravings and engraved titlepage, sporadic spotting, soiling to ...

ILLUSTRATION INTEREST. 'Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural Phenomena, Etc. With a Short Description Annexed to Each Plate,' original cloth, 30 ...

WILLIAM BLAKE. 'America, A Prophecy,' facsimile, publishers boards, woodblock title, tipped in frontis, United Book Guild, USA, 1947; 'Book of Job...

HUNTING Interest. 'Notitia Venatica: A Treatise on Fox-Hunting Embracing The General Management of Hounds,' two volumes, new edition, original gre...

WILLIAM BLAKE. 'Blakes's Vision of the Book of Job With Reproductions of the Illustrations: A Study,' inscribed by the author Joseph H. Wickstead ...

PHILLIP LARKIN. 'Phoenix. a poetry magazine,' scarce Nos. 11/12 Philip Larkin issue, card wrap with b+w photograph of poet, graphite price to titl...

POETRY INTEREST. 'The London Magazine,' vol 3 no 5, card wraps, featuring Kingsley Amis, Charles Causley, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip La...

W. M. THACKERAY. 'Roundabout Papers,' original cloth, rubbed and bumped, illustrations, frontis, Smith, Elder and Co, London, 1863; JOHN STEINBECK...

SHELL COUNTY GUIDES. Twenty-four mixed editions, including early ring bound 'Hampshire' (1937) and 'Derbyshire' (1935), Cornwall (1964), Dorset (1...

JAMES POPE-HENNESSY. 'London Fabric,' first edition, original cloth, nibbles and loss to Eric Ravilious illustrated dj, spotting to edge of texblo...

WORLD WAR I. 'Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark!,' a serio-comique map of Europe at war, each nation represented by various breeds of dog, including th...

GILES. 'Express Cartoon Annuals,' complete run 1-10, oblong, original pictorial car wraps, 1946-1956; With thirty-six other editions. (46)1st. Sma...

JOHN LE CARRE. 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,' first edition, original cloth, small tears to top and sun bleaching to unclipped dj, spotting to edge ...

BIBLE INTEREST. 'The Bible in Englyshe of The Largest and greatest volume..,' a defective copy housed in a glazed bible cabinet, mostly debound wi...

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. 'London from the South Side of the Thames,' by Robert Loudan, large uncoloured wood-engraved prospect backed onto linen, ...

BOOKLETS and PAMPHLETS. 'Douglas. A Tragedy in Five Acts,' bt Rev John Home, No 453, thin paper wraps with advertisements, Thomas Hailes Lacy, Lon...

A Dryad of Leicester ash and cast iron book press, mid-20th century, of rectangular outline, the press plate on a threaded spindle with cast iron ...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Fox caricature with cubs riding a dog,' original water colour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turv...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Fox caricature with hunter offering broken broom,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the ...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Fox caricature of hunters riding through a field,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the ...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Fox caricature of hornblower jumping a fence,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Tops...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Fox caricature of a skulk of foxes riding out of the woods,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Caricature of a carriage of foxes laughing at racing cubs,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day ...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Fox caricature of followers of the hunt walking down the road,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A ...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Morning breakfast,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' framed and g...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Foxes travelling in a car,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' fram...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Morning wake up call,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' framed an...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Hanging from a tree,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' framed and...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'A raging bull,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' framed and glaze...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'A meeting in a field,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' framed an...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'A hunter calling out,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' framed an...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Two riders jumping a hedge,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' fra...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Crossing the river,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' framed and ...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'A gentleman hunter,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' framed and ...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Chasing a feline,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' framed and gl...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'A cat up a tree,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' framed and gla...

HARRY B. NEILSON Illustrations. 'Chased home,' original watercolour from 'The Fox's Frolic or A Day With the Topsy Turvy Hunt,' framed and glazed,...

CORNWALL INTEREST. Five bookplates of various ancient Cornish crosses, mounted on card. (5) ...[more]

JOHN BARTHOLOMEW. 'The Advanced Atlas, Consisting of Thirty-two maps, Embracing All the Latest Discoveries and Changes in Boundaries,' original cl...

after HOLBEIN. Eight plates depicting 'a dance of death' of various German states people, tears and nibbles to edges of leaves, early 19th century...

GEORGE VERTUE. Nine mounted copper engraved plates from 'The Heads of the Kings of England, for Rapin's History,' large tear to King William II, m...

Illuminated Family Tree, four page booklet, Armorial genealogy of the Leerse family, The Hague, 1785, 325 x 230mm ...[more]

'An Act for Vesting part of the settled Estates of Thomas John Phillipps, of Newport House in the county of Cornwall,' thirty-seven leaves, Royal ...

BOOK PLATES. Sixteen miscellaneous plates including Cornish Manors, a Vanity fair and a mounted 'Illustrated London News' of Exeter Cathedral. (16...

ROBERT MORDEN. 'Comitatus Rotelandiae Tabula Nova & Aucta,' hand-coloured copper engraved map, spotting, center fold, framed and glazed, 1695. 29c...

GERARD MERCATOR. 'Angliae IIII Tabula,' hand-coloured copper engraved map, from the 'Atlas Minor' by Mercator and Hondius, depicting the Southwest...

CATHERINE ST AUBYN (1760-1836). 'St Michaels Mount in Cornwall. a Seat of Sir John St Aubyn,' after John Opie, etching with aquatint, some small r...

WILLIAM JOHNSON (1806-1840) and JOHN THOMSON (1777-1840). 'Skye Island & c,' hand-coloured copper engraved map, printed for 'Atlas of Scotland', J...

JOHN HARRISON. 'A Map of Oxfordshire Engraved from an Actual Survey With Improvements,' hand-coloured copper engraved map, framed and glazed, John...

KEW GARDENS Interest. 'A View of the Menageries & its Pavilion in the Royal Gardens at Kew,' and 'A Perspective View of the Lake & Island, with th...

HEBRIDEAN INTEREST. Six copper engravings of Dunstaffage Castle, Duntuilm Castle (2), Dunvegan Castle (2), and A Danish Fort, all framed and glaze...