Books and Works on Paper

Anacreon. Odae, collation: *4 A-O4, Greek and Latin text, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and initial, with final blank a...

Garzoni (Thomaso) La Piazza Universale di Tutte le Professioni del Mondo, ?fourth edition, printer's woodcut device on title, woodcut head-pieces ...

Vulson de la Colombière (Marc de) La Science Heroique, traitant de la Noblesse de l'Origine des Armes, first edition, title in red and black with ...

Emblems.- Baudoin (Jean) Emblemes divers, 2 vol., additional engraved titles, 139 full-page engraved emblems, some signed by Isaac Briot and his d...

Gaffarel (Jacques) Curiositez Inouyes. Hoc est Curiositates inauditae de figuris Persarum talismannicis, 2 parts in 1 vol., folding engraved emble...

Emblems.- Weigel (Christoph) Ethica naturalis seu documenta moralia..., engraved title and 100 emblems by Jan and Caspar Luyken, printed on rectos...

Emblems.- Cats (Jacob) Zinne- en Minne-Beelden..., additional engraved pictorial title by J.Wandelaar, title in red & black, lacking portrait but ...

Agriculture.- Chomel (Noel) Dictionnaire Oeconomique...., edited by J.Marret, 4 vol. including 2 vol. Supplement bound in 2, third edition, titles...

Maritime.- Aubin (Nicolas) Dictionnaire de Marine contenant les Termes de la Navigation et de L'Architecture Navale, second edition, engraved fron...

Utopian fiction.- [Holberg (Ludvig, Baron)], "Nicolas Klimius". Iter subterraneum novam telluris theoriam ac historiam quintae monarchiae..., thir...

Food and Drink.- [Menon.] La Cuisiniere Bourgeoise..., half-title, old ink signature at head of title, lightly soiled and stained, modern half cal...

Economics.- Mirabeau (Victor Riqueti de) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population, Parts I-III bound in 1 vol., first edition, browned, title ...

Helvétius (Claude Adrien) De l'Esprit, first edition, early issue, half-title, title with large woodcut ornament of cornucopia, woodcut head- and ...

Dorat (Claude Joseph) Les Baiser, précédés du Mois de Mai, Poëme, large paper copy on Hollande, printed in red and black, engraved title-vignette,...

Bernard (Pierre-Joseph) Oeuvres, general title with details of printer on verso but no imprint on recto, engraved decorative title to 'L'Art d'Aim...

Longus. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, translated by Jacques Amyot, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 28 plates, all with decorati...

Bodoni.- La Rochefoucauld (Francois, Duc de) Maximes et Reflexions Morales, [one of 125 copies], half-title, very light foxing to a few leaves but...

Grimm (Friedrich Melchior) & Denis Diderot. Correspondance Littéraire, Philosophique et Critique, 26 vol., foxed and browned, contemporary half ca...

Streetsellers.- Nisard (Charles) Histoire des Livres Populaires ou de la Litterature du Colportage, 2 vol., first edition, plates, some folding, a...

Mirbeau (Octave) Oeuvres Illustrées, 10 vol., limited edition, plates and illustrations by Edy Legrand, Berthold Mahn, Dignimont, Jean Launois an...

Magritte (René).- Mandiargues (A.Pieyre) Marbre, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author to René Magritte with long ink inscriptio...

Browne (Thomas) Pseudodoxia Epidemica..., second edition, woodcut head-pieces and initials, title spotted, some browning, cropped, modern half cal...

Beveridge (William) Institutionum chronologicarum libri II...arithmetices chronologicae libellis, second edition, contemporary ink signature of Jo...

Emblems.- Ripa (Cesare) Iconologia: or, Moral Emblems, edited by P.Tempest, first English edition, engraved additional pictorial title, title in r...

[Pope (Alexander)] The Dunciad. With Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus, first 8vo edition, engraved frontispiece of ass and engrav...

Aristotle's Book of Problems, with other Astronomers, Astrologers, Physicians, and Philosophers, twenty fifth edition, by J.W. J.K. G.C. D.M. A.B....

Food & Drink.- [Rolleston (Samuel)] Oinos Krithinos [graece]. A Dissertation Concerning the Origin and Antiquity of Barley Wine, first edition, va...

Strawberry Hill Press.- Whitworth (Charles, Lord) An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710, first edition, [one of 700 copies], engraved ti...

Leland (Thomas) The History of the Life and Reign of Philip King of Macedon, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, half-titles, engraved frontispieces, tit...

Baskerville (John, printer).- Addison (Joseph) The Works..., 4 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece after Kneller, 3 engraved plates after Hayman,...

Linguistics.- Parsons (James) Remains of Japhet: being Historical Enquiries into the Affinity and Origin of European Languages, first edition, 2 f...

Bellamy (Daniel) Ethic Amusements, 2 parts in 1, engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved pictorial part-titles, 41 plates by G.Bickham & others after Wa...

Shakespeare vs. Bacon.- [Lawrence (Herbert)] The Life and Adventures of Common Sense: An Historical Allegory, first edition, author's name supplie...

Herbert of Cherbury (Edward, Lord) The Life...Written by Himself, folding engraved portrait frontispiece, J.Dodsley, 1770; A Dialogue between a Tu...

Baskerville (John, printer).- Lucretius Carus (Titus) De rerum natura libri sex, light spotting at beginning and end, contemporary sheep-backed bo...

Bruce (Peter Henry) Memoirs of...a Military Officer in the Services of Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain, first edition in English, marginal brow...

[Almon (John, editor)] The New Foundling Hospital for Wit, A new edition, corrected and considerably enlarged, 6 vol., a few contemporary manuscri...

Binding.- [Ritson (Joseph)] Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved illustrations by John and Thomas Bewick, oc...

Clothing.- Vaughan (Walter) An Essay, Philosophical and Medical, concerning Modern Clothing, first edition, lacking half-title but with errata lea...

Gay (John) Fables, 2 vol., engraved vignette titles and 68 plates, 12 by William Blake, tissue guards, list of subscribers at end, foxing and offs...

Agriculture.- Young (Arthur) Travels...with a view of ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of F...

Sotheby (William) A Tour through Parts of Wales, Sonnets, Odes, and other Poems, first edition, half-title, 13 aquatint plates by S.Alken, most af...

Walpole (Horace) A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland...enlarged and continued...by Thomas Park, F.S.A., 5...

Somervile (William) Hobbinol, Field Sports, and the Bowling Green, half-title, 15 wood-engraved vignettes by Nesbit and Thurston, occasional brown...

[Triphook (Robert, editor)] Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana; or, a Select Collection of Curious Tracts...of the English Nation, 8 parts bound in 1 v...

Lee Priory Press.- Petrarch. A Few Sonnets, attempted from Petrarch in Early Life, [translated by Francis Wrangham], [one of 100 copies], half-tit...

Southey (Robert).- Oceania.- Martin (John, editor) An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands...with an Original Grammar and Vocabulary...comp...

Food and Drink.- Poole (Watkin, editor) The Female's Best Friend; or, the Young Woman's Guide to Virtue, Economy, and Happiness, containing a Comp...

[Cooper (James Fenimore)] The Red Rover, a Tale, 3 vol., second English edition, half-titles, advertisement leaf at end of vol.2, original cloth-b...

[Barham (Richard)], "Thomas Ingoldsby". Some Account of My Cousin Nicholas, 3 vol., first edition in book form, with half-titles for vol.2 & 3 as ...

Chodzko (Alexander) Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia, subscriber's copy with decorative leaf printed in purple, this copy for Rt.Hon.Earl...

Burne-Jones (Edward).- [MacLaren (Archibald)] The Fairy Family, first edition, engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and wood-engraved...

Angling.- Crawhall (Joseph) Chaplets from Coquet-side, one of 100 copies, presentation copy from the author inscribed "John Grey Esq. with the aut...

Smith (William, Rouge Dragon) The Particular Description of England 1588, one of 250 copies, folding chromolithographed map, additional pictorial ...

Gomme (G.L., editor) The Gentleman's Magazine Library, 30 vol., one of 250 copies on hand-made paper, original Roxburghe-style roan-backed cloth, ...

Linguistics.- Wright (Joseph) The English Dialect Dictionary, 6 vol., including Supplement, Bibliography & Grammar, some spotting, later half calf...

NO RESERVE Beaux & Belles of England, 28 vol. (2 Series), one of 1000 "Edition de Luxe" sets, hand-coloured frontispieces, plates, tissue guards, ...

Eragny Press.- Rossetti (Christina) Verses, reprinted from G.Polidori's edition of 1847, edited by J.D.Symon, one of 175 copies on paper, printed ...

Cruikshank (George).- Scourge (The); or Monthly Expositor of Literary, Dramatic, Medical, Political, Mercantile, and Religious Imposture and Folly...

Cruikshank (George).- Barker (Matthew Henry) Greenwich Hospital, A Series of Naval Sketches, Descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War's Man. By an ...