Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Napoleon.- Vernet (Carle) Tableaux historiques des campagnes d'Italie, depuis l'an IV jusqu'à la bataille de Marengo, suivis du Précis des opérati...

Napoleon exiled to Saint Helena.- Planat De La Faye (Nicolas Louis, Lieutenant Colonel and Napoleon's private secretary, 1784-1864), Attributed to...

Jewelled Binding.- Journée du Chrétien (La), sanctifiée par la prière et la méditation, inserted into a 17th century silver-gilt jewelled binding,...

Subscriber's copy.- Valéry (Paul) Lettre sur Mallarmé Adressé A Jean Royère, one of 30 special subscriber's copies with the recipients name printe...

Manuscript facsimile.- The Parma Pslater, 2 vol. including companion vol., facsimile edition, number 199 of 500 copies, illustrations heightened i...

Maritime.- Naval tactics.- Mathematics.- Hoste (Paul) L'Art des armees navales, ou Traite des Evolutions navales, qui contient des regles utiles a...

Maritime. Naval tactics.- Morogues (Sebastien-Francois Bigot, Vicomte de) Tactique navale ou Traité des volutions et des signaux, first edition, h...

Maritime.- Shipbuilding.- Forfait (Pierre Alexandre Laurent) Traité Élémentaire de la Mature des Vaisseaux à l'usage des eleves de la marine, firs...

Maritime.- Rigging.- Lescalier (Daniel) Traité pratique du Gréement des Vaisseaux et autres batimens de mer, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 3...

Maritime.- Brierly (Sir Oswald Walters) The English and French fleets in the Baltic, 1854 ... made during the year on board H.M.S. St. Jean d'Acre...

London, Cannon Street.- Richard de Tholosane son and heir of Stephen de Tholosane have granted and conceded a lease to John Osekin Carpenter of Lo...

Medieval Marriage Contract.- Marriage contract agreed between Thomas de Nevill kt and John de Chaumont that Sir Thomas's eldest son shall marry Jo...

Founder of All Souls College, Oxford.- Chichele (Henry, Archbishop of Canterbury and administrator, c. 1362-1443) Grant of 40 day indulgence to th...

NO RESERVE Majorca.- Release of the estate of Gabriel Pardo merchant of Majorca, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 37 lines, ink notarial device at ...

Aliotti (Girolamo) Gratulatio ad Pium II pro foelici, ac secundo ex Mantuana peregrinatione reditu. Dialogus de optimo vitae genere deligendo. De ...

Commedia dell' Arte.- Album of 22 fine miniatures depicting Italian, mainly Venetian, costumes and characters, on vellum, 22 single vellum leaves ...

Digby (Sir Kenelm, natural philosopher and courtier, 1603-65) Autograph Letter signed to Robert Sidney, second Earl of Leicester, 1p. with address...

17th century Horoscopes.- [Volume of horoscopes], manuscript in Latin and Italian, with later annotations in Italian in another hand, 238pp., 9pp....

Semitic Languages.- [Lingua Hebrai], manuscript in Latin and Portugese, 28pp., in an Italic hand, browned, disbound, folio, [Portugal], [17th cent...

Sermons.- Bristow (Samuel, son of Simon Bristow, from later inscription dated 1703 in another hand, fl. 1680) Volume of sermons and religious note...

NO RESERVE George II (King of Great Britain and Ireland, and Elector of Hanover, 1683-1760) Letters Patent appointing Sir John Strange as solicito...

NO RESERVE Herbarium.- I. (E.) Album containing dried and pressed specimens of British plants, 222 specimens on 44 pages, all with ink manuscript ...

Ireland.- Account book, manuscript, 28pp. excluding blanks, reverse entries, a few ff. with remains of newspaper cuttings, browned, original vellu...

Italian librarian.- Besozzi (Cherubino, Olivetan Abbot of San Vittore al Corpo, Milan) Letter addressed to the librarian Giovanni Battista Castigl...

Cornwall.- Eliot (Edward Craggs-, first Baron Eliot, politician, of Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall, 1727-1804).- Maxwell (George, agriculturali...

[Pestel (Frederik Willem, German Lawyer, University Professor, 1724-1805)] [Dictata...] Politica [&] Magna Brittania, manuscript in Latin, on thic...

Office of Ordnance. Rules Order's [sic.] and Instuctions [sic.] for the future Government of the Office of the Ordnance Anno Regni Car.2d. Regis. ...

18th century Navigation.- Navigation, manuscript, 174pp., partially ruled in red, 2 folding pen and ink maps hand-coloured in outline, numerous pe...

Richmond Solicitor's diary.- Chapman (Thomas, Richmond solicitor, father of Edward Chapman, bookseller and publisher, 1804-80, co-founder of the p...

NO RESERVE George III (KIng of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and King of Hanover, 1738-1820) Letter of Marque issued to Francis...

West Yorkshire.- [Mitchell (John, of Royd House, Wadsworth, Calderdale, 1783-1835)] Journal, autograph manuscript, 49pp. excluding blanks, slightl...

Darwin (Charles, naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection, 1809-82).- Rowlett (George, Royal Navy, purser on board...

NO RESERVE Austen (Jane).- Chawton House, watercolour of Chawton House amidst trees, small stain, mounted, 155 x 200mm., n.d. [c. 1830].⁂ The home...

Commonplace Book.- B (J.T.L.) Commonplace Book of watercolours, drawings and poetry, manuscript in several hands, 22p. excluding blanks, 28pp. of ...

Shorthorn Cattle.- Cottrell (Henry, of Rhodyate Lodge, Congresbury, Bristol) Improved Short-Horns, manuscript, title and 110pp., ink presentation ...

Newcastle Upon Tyne.- debating.- The Nelson Debating Club: Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Rules, 2 sheets, 700 x 400mm. and 730 x 400mm., rules in a calligr...

Dickens (Charles, novelist, 1812-70) Autograph Letter signed to Dr Bowring, 8vo, 2pp., Osnaburgh Terrace, Saturday, 15th June 1844, referring to f...

Denham (Sir John, poet and courtier, 1614/15-69) Cooper's Hill, manuscript copy in the hand of Peter Cunningham, editor of the 1854 edition of Sam...

NO RESERVE Sunqua (Chinese painter during the Qing dynasty, active 1830-70) Album of Chinese export watercolours of butterflies, beetles and other...

Tichborne Claimant.- [Orton (Arthur, perjuror, sentenced to prison, claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, of Tichborne Park, Alresford, Hampshire, 18...

Meredith (George, novelist and poet, 1828-1909) Autograph Postcard initialled "GM" to Sir Frederick Pollock, 1 side, 122 x 75mm., 25th October 188...

Victorian Travel Letters.- Murray (Cecil, of The Grange, Old Windsor, son of Sir Charles Augustus Murray, Sir Charles Augustus, diplomatist and au...

Autograph Album.- Album assembled by Beatrice Capel, later Lady Michelham, c. 90pp. excluding blanks, including letters, photographs, drawings and...

Arabic ms.- Qur'an, manuscript on paper in Sudani script, 355ff. (?only), in red and brown ink, all leaves loose, in blind-stamped leather wallet ...

Kipling (Rudyard, writer and poet, 1865-1936) Autograph Letter signed to J.H. Grieve, in Kassala, Sudan, 3pp. & envelope, sm. 8vo, The Woolsack, C...

Nile River.- Hurst (Harold Edwin, hydrologist, 1880-1978) Notes. 1929. Experiments etc. [notebook recording Nile experiments], autograph manuscrip...

Roosevelt (Franklin D., President of the United States, 1882-1945) Portrait photograph signed, very small patch of surface marking, 254 x 202mm., ...

Whistler (Rex, artist, 1905-1944).- Whistler (Sir Laurence, glass engraver, writer, and architectural historian, 1912-2000) 15 Autograph Letters s...

Shaw (George Bernard, playwright and polemicist, 1856-1950) Corrected proofs of three plays as part of a collected edition, "Geneva"; "Cymbeline R...

Lewis (Cecil Day) Good group of autograph material from when he was a Director at Chatto & Windus, comprising: Readers' Reports, draft letters, bl...

Eliot (Valerie, literary executor and editor, wife of T.S. Eliot, 1926-2012) 6 Autograph Letters signed Valerie to Christopher Fry, 8pp., 8vo, 3 K...

Jewel (John, Bishop of Salisbury) A replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare: by perusinge whereof the discrete, and diligent reader may easily see, the...

Law.- Stanford (Sir William) Les plees del coron: diuisees in plusiours titles & common lieux, some black letter, title within ornate woodcut bord...

Bible, English. [The Bible...,], Geneva Version, black letter, double column, New Testament title within woodcut pictorial border dated 1583 (soil...

[Parsons (Robert)] A Christian directorie guiding men to their saluation, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative or historiated initials, tr...

France.- [La Popelinière (Lancelot-Voisin, sieur de)] The historie of France: the foure first bookes, title within ornate metalcut border with ro...

Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, Compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke of Chaero...

[Moffett (Peter)] A commentarie vpon the whole booke of the Prouerbs of Salomon. The second time perused, much enlarged, and newly published for t...

Walsingham (Francis) A Search made into Matters of Religion, by Francis Walsingham Deacon of the Protestants Church, before his Change to the Cath...

Law.- Doddridge (Sir John) The English Lawyer, first & only edition, woodcut initials and ornaments, a few contemporary ink underlinings and margi...