Printed Books, Maps & Autographs

Birmingham. Price (W. H.), The City of Birmingham, 1949, large pictorial city plan, slight creasing, two small repaired marginal closed tears, 705...

Cary (John). Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys..., 1st edition, printed for John Cary, Engr...

Harvey (William Henry 'Aleph'). Geographical Fun: being Humourous Outlines of various Countries..., Hodder and Stoughton, circa 1868, additional h...

Prussia. Henneberger (Caspar), Prussiae das ist des L andes zu Preussen, Welches das herrlichste Theil ist Sarmatiae Europeae..., Konigsberg, Lore...

[Africa]. Group of approximately 36 manuscript maps, town plans and geological sections, c.1860, all in pen and ink on laid paper, many folding, 1...

[America]. Two pamphlet volumes, 1806-13, containing: 1. Sullivan (James & Pickering, Timothy). Interesting Correspondence between His Excellency ...

Barthe?lemy (Jean Jacques). Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, during the Middle of the Fourth Century before the Christian Aera..., Tra...

Berghaus (Dr. Heinrich). Physikalischer Atlas oder Sammlung von Karten, 8 parts in 2 volumes, Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1845-8, 90 maps and tables (c...

Burton (Richard F.). Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland, 2 volumes , 1st edition, London: William P. Nimmo, 1875, half-titles, 6 tinted lithogr...

Capriolo (Aliprando). Ritratti di cento capitani illustri, 1st edition, 2nd issue, Rome: Filippo Thomassino and Giovanni Turpino, 1600 [colophon 1...

China. Personal Recollections of the T'ai-P'ing Rebellion, 1861-63. By the Ven. Archdeacon Moule, Shanghai: printed at the "Shanghai Mercury" Offi...

Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965). Ian Hamilton's March, 1st edition, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900, portrait frontispiece, folding ma...

Churchill (Winston Spencer). My African Journey, 1st edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908, monochrome plates after photographs, 3 single-page maps,...

* Clarke (Sir Alured, 1744-1832). Manuscript document signed as commander of British forces in Georgia during the American War of Independence, Sa...

* Dalhousie (James Broun Ramsay, 1st Marquess of, 1812-60). Autograph letter signed as governor-general of India to Sir William Hooker (1785-1865)...

East India Company. A Brief State of the East India Trade, as it relates to the other Branches of the British Commerce: In Order to judge, whether...

* Franklin (John, 1786-1847). Autograph Letter Signed, 'John Franklin', 55 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, [London], Monday 7 July, no year, ci...

Goddard (T., & J. Booth, publishers). The Military Costume of Europe; Exhibited in a Series of Highly-Finished Military Figures, in the Uniform of...

Gold (Charles). Oriental Drawings: Sketched between the Years 1791 and 1798, London: G. and W. Nicoll, 1806, 48 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates...

Hulbert (C., publisher). The Parlour Book of Foreign Scenery, Architecture and Antiquities: being a series of select descriptions of public buildi...

* [India]. Group of 12 autograph letters signed from governors-general or viceroys of India, 19th century, including : 1. Ellenborough (Edward Law...

[Italy]. [Album of architectural studies and designs], c.1812-27, 18 wove-paper leaves each with architectural sketch recto in pen and ink, pencil...

Langsdorff (Georg Heinrich von). Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bid 1807, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Frankfurt: Friedrich...

Levant Company. Five broadsides, 1718-19, comprising: 1. The case of several members of the Levant Company, complaining of the restraint of their ...

Mahbubi (Sadr al-Shari'ah al-Asghar al-, d.1346/7 CE). Tanqih al-usul, probably Iran or Central Asia, c.17/18th century, Arabic manuscript in blac...

Malleson (G. B.) , History of the French in India from the founding of Pondichery in 1674 to the capture of that place in 1761, London: Longmans, ...

Merian (Maria Sibylla ) . The Surinam Album, 2006, Folio Society, 91 colour facsimile watercolour plates, publishers original green quarter morocc...

* Minto (Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of, 1751-1814). Manuscript memorandum to Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) concerning his mission t...

* Napier (Sir Charles James, 1782-1853). Autograph letter signed as governor of Sind to Sir Henry Bunbury (1778-1860), 7th Baronet, Hyderabad, Sin...

Polar Exploration. The Geographical Journal, vol. 3, Jan-Jun, 1894, London: Royal Geographical Society, 1894, 8 folding lithograph maps (some in c...

Rossini (Pietro). Il Mercurio errante delle Grandezze di Roma, 2 parts in one, Rome: Fausto Amidei al Corso, 1771, 18 engraved folding plates (inc...

Shackleton (Ernest). South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1919, colour frontispiece...

[Slave Narrative]. The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive from Slavery, 1st edition, New Bedford, [MA]: Press of Benjamin Lindsey, 1...

Staunton (George). [An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, atlas volume only], 1st edition, [L...

Swedish West India Company. His Majesties of Sweden Ordinance and Edict about fees for Awards, Decrees and other Writtings, Contracts and Attestat...

Thesiger (Wilfred). Desert, Marsh and Mountain. The World of a Nomad, Motivate Publishing, 1993, numerous monochrome illustrations, slight spottin...

USSR in Construction. [Set of 15 issues], January-November 1930, and January-October 1931, numerous sepia and other monochrome toned photographic ...

Villani (Giovanni). Croniche ... nelle quali si tratta dell' origine di Firenze, 1st edition, Venice: Bartholomeo Zanetti, 1537, large printer's p...

Washington (John). Eskimaux and English Vocabulary, for the Use of the Arctic Expedition, Published by Order of the Lords Commissioners of the Adm...

Archaeologia: or Miscellaneous Tracts, relating to Antiquity . A broken run, volume 1,2,7,10,14-35, 46,53,60,61,65-107 plus 2 Index volumes, mixed...

Bacon (G. W. publisher). Bacon's Atlas of London and Suburbs with Supplementary Maps, Letterpress Descriptions and Alphabetical Index, circa 1910,...

Cotman (John Sell). Engravings of the most remarkable of the sepulchral brasses in Norfolk; tending to illustrate the ecclesiastical, military, an...

Crosthwaite (Peter). [Series of 7 maps of the Lake District, reprinted, London, 1800], comprising 6 engraved folding maps of the Lakes, and one do...

Dugdale (William). Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with t...

Manship (Henry). The History of Great Yarmouth, edited by Charles John Palmer, Great Yarmouth: Louis Alfred Meall and London: J. Russell Smith, 18...

Stanfield (Clarkson). Stanfield's Coast Scenery. A Series of Views in the British Channel, from Original Drawings taken Expressly for the Work, 18...

Wilson (John Marius). The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland; or dictionary of Scottish topography ..., 2 volumes, Edinburgh: Fullarton, [1854], addit...

Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Fifth th...

Darwin (Charles). The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 volumes, London: John Murray, 1868, wood-engravings throughout, adver...

* Darwin (Charles, 1809-1882). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Ch. Darwin’, Down, Beckenham, Kent, 27 March 1879, to his cousin [identified in a note at...

* Emberson (Colin, 20th century). Cockatoo, gouache on board, showing a cockatoo on a perch with flowers, butterflies and house, artist's monogram...

Finaughty (William). The Recollections of William Finaughty Elephant Hunter 1864-1875, 1st edition, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1916], two sma...

Aflalo (F. G.) . A Book of Fishing Stories, 1913, 4 colour & 13 monochrome illustrations, some minor spotting & marginal toning, publishers origin...

Frohawk (Frederick William). Natural History of British Butterflies, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson and Co., [1925], preface dated 191...

Harte (Walter). Essays on Husbandry. Essay I. A General Introduction, shewing, that Agriculture is the basis and support of all flourishing commun...

Landseer (Thomas). Twenty Engravings of Lions, Tigers, Panthers and Leopards from Originals by Stubbs, Rubens, Spilsbury, Rembrant [sic], Reydinge...

Loureiro (João de). Flora Cochinchinensis: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes. Quibus accedunt aliae observatae in Sinensi imperio, Af...

Millais (John Guille). The Natural History of British Game Birds, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909, half-title, 35 chromolithogr...

Pennant (Thomas). History of Quadrupeds, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: B. White, 1781, engraved title-pages, 52 engraved plates, advertisement l...

Rea (John). Flora: seu De Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege, furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist. In III Books, 1st editio...