Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Library of Dawson Turner (1775-1858), John Lawson Reference Library

* [Barbados]. Grant of arms to Thomas Yard 'of the Parish of St George in the Island of Barbadoes', 22 October 1810, illuminated manuscript on sin...

Bode (Clement Augustus de). Travels in Luristan and Arabistan, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, London: J. Madden and Co., 1845, 12 wood-engraved or...

Bosman (Willem). A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts, 1st edition in Eng...

Brodrick (Thomas). A Compleat History of the Late War in the Netherlands. Together with an Abstract of the Treaty of Utrecht, 2 volumes, 1st editi...

Carter (Howard & Mace, A.C .). The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, 2 volumes , 1st edition , 3rd...

[Court, Pieter de la]. The True Interest and Political Maxims of the Republick of Holland and West-Friesland ... written by John De Witt and other...

[Eden, William]. The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time. With a particular account of its produce and i...

Egypt Exploration Society. The Mural Painting of El-'Amarneh. Edited by H. Frankfort, 1st edition, London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1929, mounte...

Fransham (John). The World in Miniature: or, the Entertaining Traveller, 2 volumes, 2nd edition much enlarg'd, London: John Torbuck [et al], 1741,...

[Grand Tour]. Grand Tour diary, 2 volumes, 1785-95, manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, [125] + [137] leaves, unfoliated, mainly 30 lines to th...

Hanway (Jonas). Reasons for an Augmentation of at least Twelve Thousand Mariners, to be employed in the Merchants-Service, and Coasting-Trade; wit...

Harrison (Ada). A Majorca Holiday, 1st edition, [1927], folding map, illustrations by Robert Austin, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth g...

Heber (Reginald). Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825 (with notes upon Ceylon), an Acc...

Holberg (Ludwig). An Introduction to Universal History. Translated from the Latin of Baron Holberg. With notes historical, chronological and criti...

Ides (Evert Ysbrants). Three Years Travels from Moscow Over-Land to China, thro' Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary, &c...

* India; North-West Frontier. Choto Bolan, Balochistan, by J. M. Boyd, 1880, watercolour on paper, signed lower right, 17.5 x 23cm (7 x 9ins), fra...

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Karim, A[bdul]. Camera Studies in Iraq [cover-title], 1st edition, Baghdad: Hasso Bros., [c.1925], 73 photogravures printed rectos only on 50 leav...

Keane (John F.). My Journey to Medinah: describing a Pilgrimage to Medinah, performed by the Author described as a Mohammedan, 1st edition, London...

Lambert (John). Travels through Canada, and the United States of North America, in the Years 1806, 1807, & 1808, 2 volumes, 3rd edition ('correcte...

[Lind, John]. Remarks on the Principal Acts of the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain. By the Author of Letters concerning the Present State o...

Lockman (John, editor). Travels of the Jesuits, into Various Parts of the World: compiled from their Letters, now first attempted in English, 2 vo...

Lopez de Gomara (Francisco). Histoire generalle des Indes occidentales et terres neuves, qui jusques à present ont esté descouvertes, traduite en ...

[Melkite Greek Catholic Church] . [Two broadsides commemorating the consecration of Giuseppe (Yusuf) Ageluni as archbishop of Durazzo], Rome: col ...

Naval Flags. A Display of the Naval Flags of all Nations. Collected from the best authorities, London: Henry Fisher, Son & P. Jackson, 1832, engra...

* New Zealand. Akaroa, Canterbury, circa 1850, watercolour, with traces of pencil, depicting a harbour scene, with a few homesteads and vegetation...

* New Zealand. New Zealand landscape with Maori children bathing, by Herbert Ivan Babbage (1875-1916), oil on canvas board, signed lower left, 19....

Ouseley (Sir William, translator). The Bakhtyar Nama: a Persian Romance. Translated from a Manuscript Text. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, b...

Second Sino-Japanese War. A 'souvenir' album, [Tokyo, 1938], folding colour map, numerous photographic illustrations, some colour and tinted, orig...

"Sino-Japanese Disturbances". Souvenir Album, Shanghai, 1932, two maps, numerous photographic illustrations of the Japanese army in action in Shan...

Stanley (Henry M.) Through the Dark Continent or the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone Rive...

Stark (Freya). The Southern Gates of Arabia. A Journey in the Hadhramaut, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1936, all halftone photographic plates...

Beeverell (James). Les Delices de la Grand Bretagne, & de l'Irlande, 10 volumes, new edition, Leiden: Pierre Vander, 1727, comprising volumes 1-3 ...

Bowen (Emanuel, & John Owen). Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd; Being an actual survey of all the direct and cross roads of England and Wales....

Bowles (Carington). Bowles's Pocket Atlas of the Counties of South Britain or England and Wales..., printed and sold Carington Bowles, [1785], dou...

Busby (Thomas Lord). Costume of the Lower Orders of London, 1st edition, London: for T. L. Busby by Baldwin and Co., [1820], iv + [24] pp., 24 han...

English Place-Name Society . 69 volumes, circa 1925 - 2016, Cambridge, including The Place-Names of Lincolnshire, 7 volumes, by Kenneth Cameron, 1...

Harrison (John). Maps of the English Counties, with the subdivisions of Hundreds, Wapontakes, Lathes, Wards, Divisions &c. to which are added two ...

Hutchins (John). The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, compiled from the best and most ancient Historians , 2 volumes, 1st edition,...

Morris (F. O.). A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 6 volumes, circa 1880, addition...

Simmons (Jack, editor) . Classical County Histories, 33 volumes, circa 1970s, including The History and Antiquities of Leicester, by John Nichols,...

Speed (John). England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged with ye Historic Relation of things Worthy memory from a farr larger Vou...

Stewart (Donald William). Old and Rare Scottish Tartans, Edinburgh: George P. Johnston, 1893, title printed in red and black with vignette, 45 col...

The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine . 76 volumes, Volumes 1-98 (1854-2004), Devizes, numerous black & white illustrations & ...

Walker (John). The Itinerant; a Select Collection of Interesting and Picturesque Views in Great Britain and Ireland: engraved from Original Painti...

Walpoole (George Augustus). The New British Traveller; or, a Complete Modern Universal Display of Great Britain and Ireland: being a new, complete...

Acade?mie des Sciences. Me?moires de l'Institut National des Sciences et Arts: Sciences Mathe?matiques et Physique, 14 volumes, Paris, 1798-1818, ...

Buckland (William). Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology, 2 volumes, London: William Pickering, 1836, half-titles ...

Buller (Fred, & Hugh Falkus). Falkus & Buller's Freshwater Fishing, deluxe edition, London: Stanley Paul, 1988, all edges gilt, original dark blue...

* Chinese Export School. Studies of butterflies, insects and flowers, 19th century, 3 watercolours on pith paper, separately mounted, framed and g...

* Continental School. Two botanical watercolours, possibly Italy, late 16th/early 17th century watercolour and bodycolour on laid paper, each sepa...

Costa (Emanuel Mendes da). A Natural History of Fossils, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: L. Davis & C. Reymers, 1757, engraved plate as frontispie...

Daniel (W. B.). Rural Sports, 4 volumes (including supplement), 1807-13, calligraphic title to volume 1 and the supplement, additional half titles...

Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of some other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, etc....

Faujas de Saint Fond ( Barthelemy ). Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides; undertaken for the purpose of examining the state of the arts...

Hill (Thomas). [The Profitable Arte of Gardening: to which is added much necessarie matter, and a number of secrets, with the phisicke helps belon...

Morris (F. O.). A History of British Birds, 6 volumes, 2nd edition, 1870, titles and dedication, 365 coloured plates (complete), occasional scatte...

Paxton (Joseph, editor). Paxton's Magazine of Botany, volumes 1-15 (of 16), 1st edition, London: Orr and Smith [-William S. Orr & Co.], 1834-49, a...

[Reay, Henry Utrick] . A Short Treatise on that Useful Invention called the Sportsman's Friend; or, the Farmer's Footman. By a Gentleman Farmer, o...

Sander (Henry Frederick Conrad). Reichenbachia. Orchids Illustrated and Described, 2 series in 4 volumes, 1st edition, St Albans: F. Sander & Co.,...