Printed Books, Maps & Documents

Bentley (Nicolas Clerihew, 1907-1978). Original pen and ink cartoon with three layers, circa 1932, depicting the verse 'Romance' from the book All...

Children's Illustrators. A large collection of approximately 940 illustrations, mostly early 20th century, colour prints, including examples by Ar...

[Conan-Doyle, Arthur]. Original cover design for "The Lost World" by Conan-Doyle. The Strand Magazine, an illustrated monthly, May 1912, pen and b...

Morrow (George, 1870-1955). Entertainments at which we have never assisted: Fanciful Picture of the Annual Dinner of the Omar Khayyam Society, cir...

Prints & engravings. A large mixed collection of prints and engravings, mostly 20th century, containing magazines and illustrations, numerous colo...

Anderson (Johann). Histoire naturelle de l'Islande, du Groenland, du détroit de Davis et d'autre pays situés sous le nord, traduite de l'allemand ...

Baker (Samuel White). The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Macmillan and Co....

Bateman (Charles Somerville Latrobe). The First Ascent of the Kasai: Being some records of service under the Lone Star, 1st edition, 1889, chromol...

China. [Five Chinese picture books, circa 1950], comprising: Picture Story of Chinese Farming, Picture Story of Silkworm and Raw Silk, Picture Sto...

Distant (William Lucas). A Naturalist in the Transvaal, first edition, R.H. Porter, 1892, black & white plates and illustrations to text, four col...

Hedin (Sven). Central Asia and Tibet, Towards the Holy City of Lassa, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1903, portrait frontispiece to each, numerous black ...

Heylyn (Peter). Cosmographie, 1673, engraved title-page dated 1669 (chipped, trimmed and mounted), 1 engraved folding map only (of 4: only Asia pr...

Landscape Annual. The Tourist in Spain, by Thomas Roscoe, illustrated by Drawings by David Roberts, 1835, additional engraved title, 20 engraved p...

Pollen (François P. L., & D. C. van Dam). [Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar, Relation du voyage, part 1 of 5 only, 1st edition, Leiden: J. K....

Sailing. There and Back 1934, a Limited Edition for Private Circulation, [c.1934], title-page + 68 pp., linen-backed colour map, 25 mounted photog...

St. John ( Spenser ). Life in the Forests of the Far East, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1862, twelve tinted lithographed plates (one replaced in facsim...

Werner (E. T. C.). Myths & Legends of China, London, Calcutta & Sydney: Harrap, 1st edition, 1922, With Thirty-Two Illustrations in Colours by Chi...

Baker (George). The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton , 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1822-1841, thirty-nine engraved plates, two pla...

Caradoc of Llancarfan (Saint). The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales: A Part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine, Written in the Brytish Lang...

Gilpin (Wiliam). Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, made in the Year 1772, on several parts of England; particularly the Mounta...

Pevsner (Nikolaus) . The Buildings of England, Wales & Scotland, 64 volumes, Penguin/Yale, circa 1972-2012, numerous colour and black & white illu...

Pole (Sir William). Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, 1st edition, 1791, half-title with ink ownership signatures, slight ...

Sheldon (Gilbert). From Trackway to Turnpike. An Illustration from East Devon, OUP, 1928, three maps, original cloth (two bumps to edges), dust ja...

Algae. Treasures of the Deep; or, Specimens of Scottish Sea-Weeds. Natural Order Algae, David Bryce, Glasgow, 1847, 46 specimens mounted singularl...

Bewick (Thomas). Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others, in Three Parts, Edinburgh, 1879, numerous illustrations, some spotting and light toni...

Butler (Arthur G. & Frohawk F. W. ), British Birds with their Nests and Eggs, 6 volumes, Brumby & Clarke, 1896 - 1899, numerous black and white il...

Couvier (Georges et al). Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux... , 20 volume...

Frohawk (Frederick William, illustrator), British Birds with their Nests and Eggs, 6 volumes, 1st edition, Hull & London: Brumby & Clarke, Limited...

Hansen (H. J.). Studies on Arthropoda, 3 volumes in two, 1st edition, Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1921-1930, 28 engraved plates, those in ...

Harting (James Edmund). Hints on the Management of Hawks, 1st edition, 1884, black and white illustrations to text, 32 pages publisher's catalogue...

Houghton (William). British Fresh-Water Fishes, volume II only, [1879], 21 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, a little minor spotting, all edges ...

Houghton (William). [British Fresh-Water Fishes, 1st edition, Groombridge & Sons, 1879], 40 colour-printed wood-engraved plates (of 41), lacking a...

Hunt (P. Francis and Grierson, Mary A.). Orchidaceae, Bourton Press, 1973, 40 colour plates after drawings by Mary A. Grierson, all edges gilt, or...

Miles (William J.). Modern Practical Farriery, William Mackenzie, c.1880, chromolithographic title-page, wood-engraved plates after Herring (many ...

Morris (F.O.) A History of British Birds, 6 volumes, 5th edition, 1903, 400 hand-coloured plates, a little light spotting, original green cloth gi...

Morris (F.O.) A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 volumes, 1864, 223 colour plates, occasional light spotting and a few sm...

New Naturalist Series. Numbers 84 (Ireland), 99 (Gower), 110 (Wildfowl), 114 (Badger), 115 (Climate and Weather), 118 (Marches), 1999-2011, colour...

[Auction catalogue]. Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill, collected by Horace Walpole, 1st edition, Smith and Robins, 1842, mount...

Baldwin, Thomas. Airopaidia: containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made ...

Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management, 1st edition, S. O. Beeton, 1861, 1 volume bound in 2, colour-printed wood-engraved frontispie...

[Bernard, Catherine]. Ines de Cordoue, nouvelle espagnole, suivant la copie à Paris, [Paris?: no publisher], 1697, woodcut armillary sphere to tit...

Bible [Greek]. Tes kaines diafthekes apanta. Novum testamentum, 2 volumes, Jacob Tonson and John Watts, 1714, all leaves (12mo format, 15.5 x 8.5 ...

Bindings. Lettres du Roy Louis XII, et du Cardinal George D'Amboise. Avec plusieurs autres lettres, Memoires & Instructions ecrites depuis 1504 ju...

Bindings. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History by John Lothrop Motley, 3 volumes, new edition, Bickers & Son, 1875, contemporary tan calf, gi...

Boethius. Five Bookes of Philosophical Comfort, full of Christian Consolation, written a 1000. yeeres since, newly translated out of Latine, 1st e...

Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments ... Together with the Psalter, Oxford: T. Wright and W. Gil...

Bunyan (John). The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come ... printed for Nath. Ponder, 1678 [i.e. c.1890], without initial a...

Ciscar (Gabriel). Poema Fisico-Astronomico, en siete cantos... de la comision de pesos y medidas del Instituto Nacional de Francia, por S.M.C. en ...

Cooper (Astley). Illustrations of Diseases of the Breast, in Two Parts, Part I [all published], 1st edition, 1829, 8 hand-coloured lithographic pl...

Cunaeus (Petrus). De republica Hebraeorum libri III, editio novissima, Leiden: Elzevir, 1632, engraved title-page, bound without the 2 blanks, con...

[Defoe, Daniel]. The History of the Union of Great Britain, Edinburgh: Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1709, title with co...

Dickens (Charles). Bleak House, 1st edition, Bradbury and Evans, 1853, bound from the parts, half-title discarded, 40 etched plates (spotted) by H...

Dickens (Charles). The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, with illustrations by Phiz, first edition in book form, Chapman and Hall, 1839, h...

Doré (Gustave, illustrator). The Vision of Hell, by Dante Alighieri, New Edition, 1866, 75 black and white full page illustrations, some spotting,...

Dugdale (William). Monasticon Anglicanum, 6 volumes in 8, new edition, James Bohn, 1846, numerous engraved plates and plans, toning, occasional sp...

[Gentillet, Innocent]. Discours sur les moyens de bien gouverner & maintenir en bonne paix un Royaume, ou autre principaute... contre Nicolas Mach...

Gilpin (William). Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales, &c. relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the summer ...

Great Exhibition. The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue. The Industry of all Nations, 1851, numerous illustrations, some spotting, all edges gilt,...

Jacob (Giles). The Student's Companion: or, the Reason of the Laws of England, 1st edition, by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for T. Corbett, 172...

House of Commons. Journals of the House of Commons, from November the 8th 1547, in the First Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth, to March ...