Day 1 : PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS & DOCUMENTS / Day 2 : CHILDREN'S AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, ORIGINAL ART, RUBAIYATS, AUTOGRAPHS

[Vernon, Edward]. Original Letters to an Honest Sailor, 1st edition, printed for R. Thomas, [1746], lacks initial blank, some marginal pencil not...

Verstegan (Richard). A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In Antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation, John Bill, 1628...

Watson (J., publisher). Great-Britain's Memorial. Containing a Collection of the INstructions, Representations, etc. etc. Of the Freeholders and o...

White (John). The Way to the True Church: wherein the principall Motives perswading to Romanisme, and Questions touching the nature and authoritie...

Woolley (Hannah). The Gentlewomans Companion: Or, a Guide to the Female Sex: Containing Directions of Behaviour, in all Place, Companies, Relation...

Zenger (John Peter ). The Trial of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, Printer, who was Tried and Acquitted, for Printing and Publishing a Libel Again...

Aul¡ (Joan). 'Libro De Musica', mid-19th century, title page + 46 leaves of manuscript music score, comprising Auli's autograph transcripts of a ...

Dance (William). Preludes for the Piano Forte ... composed and respectfully inscribed to Miss Ellin Devis, 1st edition, for the author by L. Laven...

Magdalen Hospital for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes. The Hymns, Anthems and Tunes with the Ode used at the Magdalen Chapel. Set for the Or...

Mazzinghi (Joseph ). Sapho et Phaon, The Grand Ballet, as performed at the King's Theatre Haymarket, composed by Monr: Didelot, The Music Arranged...

Rooke, J[ohn]. Sacred Music. Or a Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Chants for the Organ, 111 New Lowther Street, Whitehaven, 1851, title page in ...

Sale (John). A collection of new Glees, composed by John Sale, Gentlemen of His Majesty's Chapels Royal ... To which are added Four Others (never ...

Walmisley (Thomas Forbes). Six Glees, composed and respectfully dedicated with permission to the Noblemen and Gentlemen Members of the Catch Club,...

Amira (Georgius Michaelis). Grammatica Syriaca, sive Chaldaica, 1st edition, Rome: Giacomo Luna, 1596, Syriac and occasional Arabic and Hebrew ty...

Arabic printing. Ghazali (Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-, 1058-1111 CE). Kitab Ihya' 'ulum al-din, 4 volumes, [Bulaq, Cairo: Matba'at Bulaq],...

Ge'ez manuscript. Religious manuscript on parchment, Ethiopia, early 20th century, 37 leaves, collates i6 ii8 iii10 iv8 v5, mainly 20-22 lines to...

Indian mica paintings. Album of 52 gouache paintings on mica, India, circa 1830-50, mostly medium-size (14 x 17 cm), a few smaller (14 x 10.5 cm ...

Khaqani (Afdal al-Din al-Shirwani al-, 1127-1187/7 or 1195 CE). Tuhfat al-'Iraqayn ['The Gift of the Two Iraqs'], Safavid Iran: colophon signed Mu...

Martelotto (Francisco ). Institutiones linguae arabicae, 1st edition, Rome: Stephanus Paulinus, 1620, woodcut title device, Arabic, Hebrew and Syr...

Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahim ibn Ibrahim. Al-Fawatih al-wafiyah li'l-Manzumah al-'Amritiyah ['The Ample Preamble to the Manzumah of al-'Amriti'], Ne...

Nawawi (Abu Zakariya' Yahya ibn Sharaf al-, 1233-1277 CE). Fatawa, Kirkuk: colophon signed Sayyid Ahmad al-Rushni al-Khalidi, for his righteous br...

Ottoman Turkish manuscript. Insha'-i marghub [i.e. 'Desired Composition'], Ottoman Territories: colophon signed al-Sayyid Hafiz Ibrahim Rushdi, 12...

Sarakshi (Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-, circa 1009-1090 CE). Tarjumat Sharh al-siyar al-kabir, 2 volumes in 1, 1st edition in Ottoman Turkish, Istanbul:...

Starcke (Sebastian Gottfried, editor). Specimen sapientiae Indorum veterum. Id est, liber ethico-politicus pervetustus, dictus Arabice Kalilah wa-...

Tasker (Sohrabji Kuvarji). A Persian Poem in Commemoration of the Jubilee Year of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Empress of India, 1st editi...

Tusi (Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-, 995-1067 CE). Talkhis al-Kitab al-Shafi [i.e. 'Abridgment of the Salutory Book'], Ottoman territories,...

Album Amicorum. A friendship album, Continental, 1839-1840, forty-eight loose leaves filled with manuscript contributions (epithets, poems, etc.)...

Banknote. Dumbell's Banking Company Limited. One-pound note, Douglas, Isle of Man: printed by Waterlow & Sons, Limited, dated 18- [i.e. circa 1895...

*Banknote. J Bradbury, One Pound, August 1914, D7 No 014732 (TR12a), folded and creased, some spotting (1) ...[more]

*Bright (John, 1811-1889). Autograph letter signed to Edward Ponsonby, House of Commons, dated July 26, '87, handwritten letter in brown ink on o...

Charge of the Light Brigade. Fˆte in Commemoration of the Balaclava Charge. Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill. Monday, October 25th, 1875, 1st editio...

Colvile (Frederick Leigh). Manuscript notebook for The Worthies of Warwickshire, circa 1857-68, approximately 165 leaves, including several tipped...

Grenadier Guards. Granville Egerton's personal scrapbook of the Lieutenant H. C. Woods inquiry, 1907-8, containing: 19 pp. printed report titled ...

Knauer (Mauritius). Almenach perpetuel, imprim‚ … Francfort, 1700, traduit de l'allemand en fran‡ois pour Madame la Comtesse d'Hunolstein et Hombo...

*Letter of Marque. A rare manuscript letter of marque issued by the Admiralty to Captain David Browning, commander of the ship The Viper, dated 6t...

Manuscript illumination. Collection of 16 illuminated antiphonary initials on vellum, 14th century and later, various dimensions (4.5 x 4.5 to 14...

Scrap album. Victorian scrap album, 1840-1868, approximately 50 leaves + 30 blanks (several leaves tipped in or excised), containing: some 25 pap...

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Barbier (George). La Guirlande des Mois, premiŠre ann‚e, 1st edition, Paris: Jules Meynial, 1917, vignette title, 6 coloured pochoir plates, inner...

Chambers (William). Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils, 1st edition, published for the author, 1757, text in...

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Hoffmann (Josef, and Moser, Koloman, designers). Viribus Unitis, Das Buch vom Kaiser, mit einer Einleitung von Dr. Josef Alexander Freiherrn von H...

Jubinal (Achille). La Armeria Real, ou collection des principales piŠces de la galerie d'armes anciennes de Madrid, dessins de Gaspard Sensi, 2 vo...

Krafft (Johann Carl). Plans des Plus Beaux Jardins Pittoresques de France, d'Angleterre et d'Allemagne..., 1st edition 1809-10, 96 uncoloured engr...

Luce (Gordon H.). Old Burma-Early Pagan, 3 volumes, New York: J.J. Augustin, 1969, colour frontispiece, black & white plates, folding colour map, ...

Morris (Robert). An Essay in Defence of Ancient Architecture, 1st edition, for. D. Browne, W. Bickerton, K. Pote, and J. Walthoe, 1728, engraved f...

Morris (William & Co., Ruskin House). Metal Casements, Stained Glass, Decorative Ironwork [cover-title], July 1922, 200pps., b & w illustrations t...

Morrison (Stanley and Day, Kenneth). The Typographic Book, 1450-1935, together with Muinell (Francis), The Typography of Newspaper Advertisements...

Papworth (John Buonarotti). Rural Residences, Consisting of a Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas, and other Ornament...

Propert (W.A.). The Russian Ballet in Western Europe, 1909-1920, with a Chapter on the Music by Eugene Goossens..., John Lane, The Bodley Head, 19...

Boswell (James). Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763, Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764, On the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1764, & Italy, Cori...

Chelsea F.C. Chelsea Football Club. Official Handbook and List of Fixtures for Season 1908-9, portrait illustrations of players, advertisements, ...

Churchill (Winston S.). The Major Works of Sir Winston Churchill, 25 volumes, Centenary First Edition, 1974, monochrome frontispiece and illustra...

Churchill (Winston S.). The World Crisis, 5 volumes in 6, 1st editions, 1st impressions, Thornton Butterworth, 1923-31, 46 maps, charts and tables...

Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Hodder & Stoughton, [1927], 15 tipped...

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Folio Society. The Folio Society Edition of the novels of Anthony Trollope, 48 volumes, circa 1980s, all original cloth in slipcases, 8vo (48) ...

Folio Society. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, Illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk, centenary edition, 2008, original mounted copper e...

Folio Society. The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the Authorised Version of King James I, with Decorations by Eric Gill, 2007,...

Folio Society. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts..., by Lemuel Gulliver, [by Jonathan Swift], Newly Illustrated by P...