Rare Books & Works on Paper- Polperro: The works of Arthur Wragg & Frederick Roberts Johnson

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J. M. Barrie Peter and Wendy First book edition, first impression, original green cloth with ornate pictorial gilt tooling, lightly soiled but a g...

(Australian Horse Racing) Victoria Racing Club 1900. Spring Meeting Official Programme. Steeplechase Day Full soft leather on thin card, pictorial...

Owen Simmons Book of Bread First edition, 4to, original green cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover, staining to rear cover, 2 tipped-in silver bro...

H. C. Elphinstone & Harry D. Jones, W. Edmund M. Reilly Siege of Sebastopol, 1854-5, Journal of the Operations Conducted by the Corps of Royal Eng...

(Le Morte d'Arthur) [Sir Thomas Malory] The History of the Renowned Prince Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table Two volumes, 12mo full calf, ...

(London Wonderground Map) MacDonald Gill London The Heart of Britain's Empire Here Is Spread Out For Your View Lithographic poster, third state ...

(The Great Exhibition) Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue First edition, fo...

(Botany) Josephus Gaertner De fructibus et seminibus plantarum Three volumes, two hundred and fifteen uncoloured copper plates in the virtuoso ma...

(Economics) David Davies The Case of Labourers in Husbandry Stated and Considered..... First edition, original publishers boards, spine nearly per...

(Signed and Inscribed) Bernard Leach Kenzan's Edo Densho (1964 facsimile edition), string bound with a paper label on the front wrap bearing Bern...

(Signed) Bernard Leach Drawings, Verse & Belief Signed by the author,, 210/500, light spotting to original cloth, card slip, vg, Jupiter Books, Lo...

John Speed (1551/2–1629) Nine maps, seven of which are rare copies published by Roger Rea 'Worcestershire Described,' later hand coloured, pasted...

(Early Printed Leaf) Antiphonal A leaf of printed music including both score and Latin lyrics, wood engraved cardinal with small wormhole to his f...

(Devon) Benjamin Donn A Map of the County of Devon, with the City of Exeter Large format engraved colour map, backed onto linen in four folding p...

Emile Boilvin after Edward Coley BURNE-JONES (1833-1898) Vespertina Quies Etching on vellum, signed by Burne-Jones and Boilvin in pencilPublished...

(Early Prague Printing) Jiří Melantrich of Aventino Thirteen woodcut illustrations by the German Florian Abel and the Italian Francesco Terzio All...

(Bindings) Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Twelve volumes, uniform full diced calf with gilt decorations to ...

Samuel Clarke Generall Martyrologie, Containing a Collection Of All the greatest Persecutions which have befallen the Church of Christ from the Cr...

(Signed) Ian Rankin Knots and Crosses First US Crime Club edition, unclipped dj, pp.182, vg to fine, Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & ...

(Signed) Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Robert Graves, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender &c. &c, Christopher Hampton (ed). 'Poems For Shakespeare,' vol...

(Canals, Pottery and the Industrial Revolution) An important archive concerning the expansion of Canals, circa 1790 John Ward. 'Observations on t...

Sun Fire Office Three ephemeral items A George III Sun Fire Office "insurance from loss or damage by fire" document, for John Bill of Manchester, ...

(United States of America) MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of...

Suetonius Tranquillus (Caius) The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, The First Emperors Of Rome Full brown leather boards with gilt lettering to spine,...

G. L. Faber The Fisheries of the Adriatic and the Fish thereof. A Report of the Austro-Hungarian Sea-Fisheries..... Publishers ice blue cloth wit...

After Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771) Two proofs or spare prints made for the 1967 publication, (the misnamed) “Captain Cook’s Florilegium” by The Li...

(Māori Language) Edward Shortland How to Learn Maori. A Short Treatise on the Structure and Idiom of the Language First edition, printed card wra...

Thomas Andrew Knight A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple and Pear and on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry Second edition, enlarged, original pu...

The Bronte Sisters Seven uniformly bound works. 'The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters,' seven volumes, The Haworth Edition, unif...

(Signed ) John le Carre Seventeen fine works, mostly first editions and many signed 'The Constant Gardener,' signed to title, third impression, fi...

John Le Carre The Constant Gardener Trust Edition Signed by Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Valerie Le Carre, Sir Edward Clay, Fernando Meirelles, Si...

John le Carre Single & Single An original pre-publication manuscript of the novel, printed on A4 sheets to rectos only, 'Fax Cover Sheets' from La...

(Signed ALS) John le Carre 'The Constant Gardener,' Slipped in ALS on 9 Gainsborough Gardens, London headed paper; 'Dear Carol & Geoffrey, We are ...

(Signed) John le Carre A fine collection of twenty works. 'The Pidgeon Tunnel', 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold' reprint, 'Single & Single', 'A...

(Occult) Seven scarce works W. Shaw Caldecott. 'Soloman's Temple. Its History and its Structure,' facsimile, printed card wraps, ring bound, book...

(Occult) John Dee a True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Years Between Dr. John Dee....and Some Spirits: Second edition being a facsim...

(Occult) Henry Cornelius Agrippa His Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy. Of Geomancy. Magical Elements of Peter de Abano. Astronomical Geomancy. the...

Religious Tract Society (Publishers) Four works from the 'By-paths of Bible Knowledge' series A.H. Sayce. 'Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments,...

(Nonesuch Press) Andrew Marvell Miscellaneous Poems Limited edition, number 427 of 850 copies on Italian handmade paper with the Nonesuch watermar...

(Homer and Nonesuch Press) Alexander Pope (trans) The Illiad and Odyssey with Pope's translations from 1715 Two volumes, limited edition 951 of 14...

(Nonesuch Press) The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Cha...

(Mining) Fifteen very good works 'South African School of Mines and Technology. Calendar for the Year 1912,' first and only edition, original clot...

(Mining) John Richardson A Treatise on Sinking and Mining Engines Original thin cloth debound, sun bleached &c. &c., presentation card from Capt A...

(Presentation Copy) Robert Were Fox Observations on Mineral Veins MS 'from the author' to the title page, first edition, rebound in a full calf, ...

(South African Diamond Mining) John Angove In the Early Days: The Reminiscences of Pioneer Life on the South African Diamond Fields Original oran...

(Mining) Forty eight works. A diverse collection Prof David Penman and J. S. Penman. 'The Principles and Practice of Mine Ventilation,' original c...

Benito Pardo di Figueroa; S.C. Croze-Magna An Analysis of the Picture of the Transfiguration of Raffaello Sanzio d'Urbino Large elephant folio, h...

Hamzeh Carr Illustrations The Rubaiyat of Umar Khaiyam translated from the French of J. B. Nicolas by Frederic Baron Corvo First trade edition, or...

(Parliament) Robert Lemon (compiler) and John Caley (ed) Calendarium Rotulorum Chartarum et Inquisitionum ad Quod Damnum: printed by command of Hi...

(Switzerland) Sebastian Munster Valesiae Altera et VII Nova Tabula Ptolemaic-style woodcut map of southern Switzerland with mountains prominently ...

Greynog Press Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke and Una Ellis-Fermor (ed). 'Caelica' Limited edition, No.112/225, diagonal patterned cloth with tooled c...

Charles Darwin The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Eighth thousand, vol I only, original green cloth rubbed to extremities, bookse...

Charles Darwin Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection Sixth edition, Original green cloth, rubbed with some fading, internally vg wi...

Savage Sword of Conan comics weekly A complete run of the first 18 Marvel UK comic magazines (Marvel UK, 1975) No.1 to No. 18, UK pence copies, n...

(Signed) Margaret Thatcher Statecraft. Strategies for a Changing World Signed to the title page, unclipped dj, vg to fine, HarperCollins, 2002.

Dr Edmond Halley (1656–1742) A New and Correct Chart of the Channel between England & France 'with considerable Improvement not extant in any Drau...

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