Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Linguistics.- Gil (Alexander) Logonomia Anglica, second edition, woodcut of Royal arms on title, woodcut head-pieces and initials, title soiled an...

Alabaster (William) Roxana tragaedia, additional engraved title, woodcut device on title, head-pieces and initial, with final errata leaf, browned...

Hairdressing.- Stewart (James) Plocacosmos: or The Whole Art of Hair Dressing..., first edition, lacking half-title, with engraved frontispiece pr...

Birds.- Olina (Giovanni Pietro) Uccelliera Overo Discorso della Natura, e Proprieta di Diversi Uccelli, conoscergli, alleuargli, e mantenergli, fi...

Botany.- Commelin (Caspar) Horti medici Amstelaedamensis plantae rariores et exoticae, first edition, title with woodcut of bowl of flowers & frui...

Gardening.- Hot-Houses.- Tod (George) Plans, Elevations and Sections, of Hot-Houses, Green-Houses, an Aquarium, Conservatories &c., half-title, 27...

Americas.- California.- Shelvocke (Capt. George) A Voyage round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea, first edition, engraved title-vignett...

Americas.- Central America.- Cockburn (John) Journey over Land, from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South-Sea, first edition, folding engraved ...

Turkey.- Nicolay (Nicolas de) The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, first edition in English, collation: ¶4 A-X8 Y2, prin...

Canon law.- Gregorius IX, Pope. Decretalium copiosum argumentum, collation [*]1 a-z A-S8 T10 aa8 bb6 cc-dd10, double column, printed in red and bl...

Virgilius Maro (Publius) Opera cum decem commentis, 2 parts in 1, collation: a6 b-q8 r6 aa-ff8; A6 B-Z8 AA-OO8 PP6 †8, double column commentary su...

Bucer (Martin) Du Royaume de Jesus Christ nostre sauvevr, collation: a-z A-O8, woodcut decorative initials, final f. with woodcut printer's device...

Emblemata.- Hugo (Herman) Pia Desideria Emblematis illustrata, woodcut pictorial title, coat of arms of Pope Urban VIII, 46 full-page emblems by C...

Corneille (Pierre, translator).- Kempis (Thomas à) L'Imitation de Iesus Christ, engraved pictorial title, printed title with woodcut Jesuit device...

Bible, German.- Biblia, das is die gantze heilige Schrift, 2 parts in 1, double column, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title within...

Herodotus. Historiarum libri IX, parallel text in Latin and Greek, half-title, engraved additional pictorial title with a map of the Aegean seas r...

Satire on monks.- Renversement de la Morale Chretienne par les Desordres du Monachisme, engraved folding frontispiece and 50 plates, some spotting...

Erotica.- Batacchi (Domenico Luigi) Opere Complete. Volume Unico, 36 engraved plates by Dorvin, Dancourt, Curvin, Darcour, and others, some spotti...

Chess.- Barbeyrac (Jean) Traité du Jeu, où l'on examine les principales questions de droit naturel et de morale qui ont rapport à cette matiere, 2...

Chess.- Verci (Giambatista) Lettere...alla Nob. Sig. Contessa Francesca Roberti Franco sopra il Guioco degli Scacchi, title and woodcut ornament w...

Chess.- Zuylen van Nyevelt (Philip Julius van) La Supériorité aux Echecs mise à la portée de tout le monde, et particulièrement des dames qui aime...

Extra-illustrated.- The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to th...

Battle of Toulon.- Toms (William Henry) The Situation of the English, French and Spanish Fleets, when they Begun the Engagement in the Mediterrane...

Battle of the Nile.- Laurie & Whittle (publishers) An Exact Representation of the English & French Fleets under the command of Rear Admiral Sr. Ho...

Battle of Trafalgar.- Dodd (Robert, London marine painter and publisher, 1748-1815) Plan of the Attack by Lord Nelson, on the Combined Fleet, Octo...

Battle of Trafalgar.- Laurie & Whittle (publishers) Sr. Richd. J. Strachan's Action with the French, off Rochefort: Novr. 2. 1805, in which the fo...

Crawhall (Joseph) Chorographia, or a Survey of Newcastle Upon Tyne: 1649, large paper copy with illustrations hand-coloured, woodcut plates, coats...

Crawhall (Joseph) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of a Selected Portion of the Collection of Prints, Drawings, China, Arms, Armour, etc. of Joseph Craw...

Martin (John) Illustrations to Paradise Lost, the set of 24, a composite set without any text, one plate etched 'Proof', the other 23 either parti...

Rackham (Arthur).- Wagner (Richard) The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, 34 tipped-in colour plates by Rackham, 1910; Siegfried & the Twilight of the God...

Birds.- Gould (John and H.C. Richter & J. Wolf) Six plates from 'The Birds of Great Britain', including 'Falco Subbuteo', 'Syrnium Aluco', 'Circus...

δ Detmold (Edward Julius, 1883-1957) Angelfish, watercolour over pencil on cream wove paper, heightened with white, oval 295 x 340 mm. (11 1/2 x 1...

δ Detmold (Edward Julius, 1883-1957) Jewels of the Deep, etching printed in colours on thin japon, an excellent impression printed by the artist à...

δ Detmold (Edward Julius, 1883-1957) Summer Solstice, etching and aquatint printed in colours on thin chine, signed in pencil and numbered from an...

δ Detmold (Edward Julius, 1883-1957) Parrots, etching printed in colours with plate tone, a delicate impression on thin japon, signed in pencil an...

δ Detmold (Edward Julius, 1883-1957) Butterflies, etching and aquatint printed in colours, a good impression on thin chine, signed in pencil and n...

Gautier d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien, 1716-1785) Muscles of the head, neck and shoulders, from 'Essai d'Anatomie', mezzotint with engraving printed in ...

Mathematics.- Euclid. Elementos Geometricos de Euclides...Con Algunos Selectos Teoremas de Archimedes, Spanish translation and notes by Jakob Kres...

Mathematics.- Euclid. Euclidis quæ supersunt omnia [graece], edited by David Gregory, one of 250 large paper copies, parallel Greek and Latin tex...

Drawing manual.- Jombert (Charles-Antoine, publisher) Nouvelle methode pour apprendre à dessiner sans maître, title with engraved vignette, introd...

Ireland.- Nicholl (Andrew) This Series of Twelve Drawings of the Northern Coast of Ireland, 12 tinted lithographed plates and lithographed dedicat...

Wales.- [Compton (Thomas)] The Northern Cambrian Mountains; or, A Tour Through North Wales..., second edition, frontispiece and 38 hand-coloured a...

Catlin (After George, 1796-1872) Osceola, mezzotint with etching and stipple on wove paper by John Sartain, with dedication note in pencil affixed...

Australia.- Japan.- Mishima (Kazuo) Goshu Oyobi Indon, title within woodcut typographic border, wood-engraved map, tape marks to title and final f...

Australia.- Welsh in Australia.- Gwlad yr Aur; neu, Gydymaith yr Ymfudwr Cymreig i Australia, folding lithographed map, with a little hand-colouri...

Egypt.- c.100 photographs and prints, views of the Nile, The Pyramids and Sphinx at Gizeh, other temples and ancient sites in Aswan, Abu Simbel, E...

France.- Vernet (After Joseph, 1714-1789) [Vues des ports de France], sixteen plates (of 18) after the series of paintings commissioned to Vernet ...

Holy Land.- Roberts (David), After. [The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia ...], 41 plates only, from the Royal Subscriber's Edition...

Middle East.- Dapper (Olfert) Naukeurige Beschryving van Asie: behelsende de Gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie...

Russian manufacturing in Transcaspia.- Trans-Caspian Society (circa 1860) Two sheets of plans for a Russian glass factory in 'Surhanet', [?]Northe...

Switzerland.- Lake Zurich.- Escher (Hans Erhard) Beschreibung des Zurich-Sees: wie auch Von Erbauung, Zunemmen, Stand und Wesen loblicher Statt Zu...