Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Qur'an, Arabic manuscript on paper, c. 600pp., 15 lines to a page written in naskhi script in black ink, illuminated title and occasional medallio...

Taylor (Alfred Swaine, medical jurist and toxicologist, 1806-80) Archive, including: 4 commonplace books, printed article on silkworm presented to...

Fairy Tale.- [Hauffman (Wilhelm, German poet and novelist, 1802-27)] Calista [Swanhilde], manuscript in English, 103pp., ink inscription before te...

Royal Navy.- Malcolm (George John, Rear-Admiral, 1830-84) Log of the Proceedings of H... M... S... Curacoa... [&] A Log of the proceedings of H......

Cartes Porcelaines.- A group of 56 trade and visiting cards printed on glazed card, many in gold and iridescent colours , average 7 x 10 cm (2 ¾ x...

Royal Navy engineer.- Steel (W. St. John Steel, engineer) 2 Log book diaries of service on HMS Duke of Wellington and other vessels, 2 vol., autog...

West Indies, South America, Spain and Portugal.- [?Forwood (George Peploe, of Forwood Brothers & Co., City of London Merchants and Commission Agen...

South Africa & India.- 3 diaries kept by a doctor on board SS Warrior, SS Bladworth & SS Good Hope on voyages to South Africa and India, 3 vol., m...

Keats, Byron, Joseph Severn etc.- Severn (Walter, watercolour painter, 1830-1904) [Walter Severn's notes on the history of his family, memoirs of ...

Suppression of the slave trade & Iceland.- Malcolm (George John, Rear-Admiral, 1830-84) [Journal of suppression of the slave trade and a voyage to...

Royal Navy.- Field (John George Mostyn, Vice-Admiral, 1849-1912) [An account of the bombardment of Alexandria in the Egyptian War of 1882], facsim...

Burne-Jones (Sir Edward, first baronet, painter, 1833-98) 34 Autograph Letters signed E Burne Jones but mostly initialled "EBJ" to Mrs Bankes Toml...

Munby (Arthur Joseph, poet, diarist and civil servant, 1828-1910) 22 Autograph manuscript poems addressed to his wife Hannah Cullwick, 2 incomplet...

First World War Photograph Album, 97 sepia photographs on 48pp., each 100 x 120mm. captioned by hand below, original green cloth, a little rubbed ...

Lawrence (D.H., writer, 1885-1930) Autograph Letter signed to "Mr Rickards", 1p., 4to, Oaxaca, [Mexico], 16th January [1925], expressing thanks f...

Second World War.- Pike (J. G., Royal Naval Reserve Commando and Midshipman on board HMS Newcastle and HMS Gambia) Midshipman's Journal, 186pp., w...

Coronation of Elizabeth II.- Gardner (Anthony, bookbinder, calligrapher and engraver, 1887-1973) Sketch Map of the Route to be taken by The Royal ...

Bible, English. [The Holie Bible, Bishop's version], 2 vol., black letter, double column, woodcut illustrations, maps and initials, divisional tit...

Heraldry.- Bossewell (John) Workes of Armories devided into three bookes, entitled the concordes of Armorie, the Armorie of Honor, and of cotes an...

Military.- Mendoza (Bernardino de) Theorique and practise of warre. Written to Don Philip Prince of Castil, translated by Sir Edward Hoby, title w...

Episcopal Church in Scotland.- Booke (The) of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments. And other parts of divine service for the use o...

Courtesy books.- Women.- Braithwait (Richard) The English gentlevvoman, drawne out to the full body: expressing, what habilliments doe best attire...

Military.- The Svvedish discipline, religious, civile, and military, 3 parts in 1, 3 folding letterpress / woodcut plates, 1 large engraved plate...

Zarain (Aga) A Relation of the Late Seidge and taking of the City of Babylon by the Turke ... Englished by W[illiam] H[olloway], first English edi...

Bible, English.- The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the originall tongues: and with the former tran...

Crime.- Execution.- Newgate prison.- Coppy (A) of the Prisoners Judgment Condemned to Dy [sic] from Nugate on Mundaie the 13. of Decemb: 1641, ful...

Towards a national archive.- An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the Preservation and keeping together for publique...

Quakers.- Fox (George) Here is declared the manner of the naming of children in the old time. without a priest sprinkling them with water, which n...

[Rochester (John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of)] A Satyr against Mankind. Written by a person of Honour, first edition, bifolium, drop-head title, some worm...

Huth copy.- Marvell (Andrew) Miscellaneous Poems, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut printer's device to title, without, as us...

More (Sir Thomas) Utopia, translated by Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, with initial & final blanks, a clean bright copy in contemporary spri...

University Life at Oxford.- [Penton (Stephen)] The Guardian's Instruction, or, The Gentleman's Romance: written for the Diversion and Service of t...

Letters of Religion and Vertue, to several Gentlemen and Ladies. With some Short Reflections on Divers Subjects, only edition, initial imprimatur ...

Locke (John) Two Treatises of Government: in the Former, False Principles and Foundations of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected an...

Fortification.- Boyer (Abel) The draughts of the most remarkable fortified towns of Europe...With a geographical description of the said places. A...

Dugdale (Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals...in England and Wales... , 3 parts in ...

Military history.- Low Countries.- Flanders delineated: or, a view of the Austrian and French Netherlands...A brief Description of all the strong ...

Thames Frost Fair.- "Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40" for "Mrs [sic] Ann Hellier of Queen-Hith, Aged 6 the 1st of September last", engraved and...

London crime.- The proceedings at the sessions of peace, oyer and terminer, for the city of London, and county of Middlesex, on Wednesday 25t, Th...

Gray (Thomas) Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems..., first edition, first issue with "Drawings, &c." on half-title, printed on rectos only, ...

Foulis Press.- Homer. Iliados [&] Odysseais [graece], edited by Jacob Moor and George Muirhead, 4 vol., Greek text with Latin dedication, preface ...

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) Candid: or, All for the Best, translated from the French..., second edition, half-title, for J.Nourse, 1759 bo...

Stamp Act.- Wilson (Benjamin), After. The Repeal, or the Funeral Procession, of Miss Americ-Stamp, etching, on laid paper with indistinct three le...

NO RESERVE Johnson (Samuel) The Lives of the most eminent English Poets, with critical observations of their Works, 4 vol., second edition, lackin...

B[rundish] (J[ohn] J[elliland]) An Elegy on a Family-Tomb, first edition, presentation copy from the author, lightly browned, modern boards, small...

Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 2 vol., first edition, first issue with "gve" on p.135 line 10 of vol.1, stipple-engraved portr...

Byron.- Romanticism.- Sanders (George, 1774-1846), After. Portrait Of George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, Lord Byron, point of the brush, waterco...

Evelyn (John) Memoirs, illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, edited by William Bray, 2 vol., 10 engraved portraits and plates (1 d...

Edgeworth (Maria).- Scott (Sir Walter) The Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. 1 and 3-6 only, vol.1 with presentation inscription from the author to ...

Trollope (Anthony) The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vol., first edition in book form, wood-engraved plates and illustrations by George H.Thomas, li...

Greville (Charles C.F.) The Greville Memoirs, 8 vol., extra-illustrated with over 500 engraved or lithographed portraits and plates, 53 hand-colou...

Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Buried Alive or Ten Years Penal Servitude in Siberia, translated by Marie von Thilo, first edition in English, oc...

Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) The Friend of the Family; and The Gambler, first edition in English, half-title with advertisement to verso, 2pp....

Nietzsche (Friedrich) Thus Spake Zarathustra a Book for all and none, translated by Alexander Tille, first English edition, half-title, publisher'...

Winsten (Clare) George Bernard Shaw, oil on board, 300 x 250mm., signed lower left corner C. Wisten, [c.1940].⁂ The artist Clare Winsten (1894--...

Berkeley (Anthony) Not to be Taken, first edition, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, very light fading to spine, dust-jacket, spine ends and corn...

Burgess (Anthony) A Clockwork Orange, first edition, typed sheet signed by the author at foot loosely inserted, original boards, small dent to hea...

Dreyer (Carl Theodore) Jesus of Nazareth screenplay, signed presentation inscription from Dreyer to title "To my very dear friends Mr and Mrs ?Gau...

Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale, first edition, original boards, small dent to head of upper cover, minor bumping to spine ends, first issue dust-jack...

Fleming (Ian) Live and Let Die, first edition, original boards, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, first state dust-jacket without credit to...