Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Botany.- Smith (James Edward) and James Sowerby. English Botany, vol.1-20 only (of 36), 2619 hand-coloured engraved plates, some foxing and offset...

Botany.- Stone (Elizabeth, active c. 1880s), attributed to. Botanical album with 91 original watercolours, numerous plant species, labelled by the...

Buchoz (Pierre Joseph) Premiere [-seconde] Centurie de Planches . . . representant au naturel ce qui se trouve de plus interessant et de plus curi...

Buffon (G.L.M.L., Comte de) Natural History, General and Particular, 9 vol., second edition, engraved portrait, 2 maps and 305 engraved plates 7 f...

Darwin (Charles), Admiral Robert Fitzroy & Captain Philip Parker King. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Bea...

Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, third edition (seventh thousand), presentation copy to Robert Colgate, ha...

Darwin (Charles) The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, forty-ninth thousand, half-title, folding table, Clifton College prize l...

Herbal.- Dodoens (Rembert) A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes, translated by Henry Lyte, first English edition, black letter, title within o...

Horses.- [Broadhurst (J.)] A Comparative View of the Form and Character of the English Racer and Saddle-Horse during the last and present centurie...

Horses & Horsemanship.- Markham (Gervase) Cavalarice, or The English horseman: contayning all the art of horse-manship, asmuch as is necessary for...

Horses.- Veterinary.- Lafosse (Philippe-Étienne) Cours d'hippiatrique, ou Traité complet de la médecine des chevaux, first edition, half-title, f...

Insects.- Donovan (Edward) The Natural History of British Insects, 16 vol. in 8, first edition, half-titles to vol.1 and 13-16 only, 576 hand-colo...

Insects.- Johnson (Theophilus) British Butterflies, Hawkmoths and Bombyces. (A Companion to the Larvæ), 54 hand-coloured pencil drawings each numb...

Mirvat (St. George) Dogs, Jackals, Wolves, and Foxes: A Monograph of the Canidæ, first edition, 45 hand-coloured lithographed plates after J. G. K...

Spiders.- Martyn (Thomas) Aranei, Or a Natural History of Spiders, including the Principal Parts of ... English Spiders by Eleazar Albin, as also ...

Trees.- Evelyn (John) Sylva, Or A Discourse Of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber, 3 parts in 1, first edition, initial licence leaf, tit...

Alken (Henry) A Collection of Sporting and Humerous Designs, vol. 2 only, general title, 1 engraved pictorial title, 69 fine hand-coloured soft-gr...

Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, 13 vol. (complete set), half-title, 153 engraved plates (aquatints, stipple-engravings, etchings, wood-engra...

Cricket.- Wisden (John) John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1910, edited by Sydney H.Pardon, forty-seventh edition, tipped-in plate with portra...

Cricket.- Wisden (John) John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1911, edited by Sydney H.Pardon, forty-eighth edition, tipped-in plate with portrai...

Cricket.- Wisden (John) John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1912, edited by Sydney H.Pardon, forty-ninth edition, tipped-in plate with portrait...

Hunting debate.- [Barbarian (A)] Hunting Vindicated from Cruelty, in a Letter to the Monthly Reviewers, second edition, half-title, lightly spotte...

Allais (Louis-Jean), Athanase Détournelle & Antoine-Laurent-Thomas Vandoyer, engravers and publishers. Projets d'Architecture et autres production...

Binding.- Raphael. Our Saviour and His Disciples, 17 fine engraved plates by J. Gaubaud and La Caleographie Royale, inner gilt dentelles, foxing, ...

[Ercolani (Giuseppe Maria)], "Neralco (Pastore Arcade)". I tre ordini d'architettura dorico, ionico e corintio presi dalle fabbriche piu celebri d...

Florence.- Ruggieri (Ferdinando) Scelta di Architetture Antiche e Moderne della Citta di Firenze, 4 vol. in 2 (vol.4 in 2 parts), second edition, ...

Gardens.- Laborde (Alexandre de) Description des Nouveaux Jardins de la France et de ses Anciens Chateaux, 2 vol., first edition, text in French, ...

Interiors.- Wood (Henry) A Series of Designs of Furniture & Decoration in the Styles of Louis XIVth, Francis Ist, Elizabeth, and Gothic, first edi...

L[angley] (B[atty]) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, second edition, double column, 200 engraved plates, plate 1 ...

Palladio (Andrea) I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, first edition, 4 parts in 1, collation: A2, B-I4; AA-KK4 (quire HH misbound, in the sequence ...

Theatres.- Saunders (George) A Treatise on Theatres, first edition, half-title, 13 engraved plates, of which 5 folding, plate V trimmed to border ...

Vases.- Antonini (Carlo) Manuale di vari ornamenti componenti la serie de' vasi antichi si di marmo che di bronzo esistenti in Roma e Fuori, 3 vol...

Wood.- Blanchard (Edmé) Traite de la Coupe des Bois, pour le Revetement des Voutes, Arrieres-Voussures, Trompes, Rampes, et Tours Ronde, first edi...

Binding.- Omar Khayyam. The Rubaiyat... Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald... Reproduced from a Manuscript Written and Illuminated...

Dandy Monster Comic (The), [No.2], illustrations, some printed in red and blue, child's pencil ownership inscription to first leaf dated Xmas 1940...

Rackham (Arthur).- Ibsen (Henrik) Peer Gynt, number 389 of 460, signed by the artist, 12 mounted colour plates, captioned paper guards, the odd sp...

Rackham (Arthur).- Shakespeare (William) A Midsummer-Night's Dream, one of 1000 copies signed by the artist, 40 tipped-in colour plates and illust...

Calligraphic Manuscript.- Thomas (Louise) & Lady Strange. The Alphabet of Wild Flowers addressed to her young daughter by Mrs Thomas of Eyhorne Ho...

Jewelled Binding.- Sangorksi (Alberto, calligrapher and illuminator, 1862-32).- Keats (John) La Belle Dame sans Merci and other poems [Ode on a Gr...

Orme (Edward) Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes, 39 hand-coloured aquatint plates only (of 40), the majority after J. A. Atkinson, occasiona...

Cranach Press.- Canticum Canticorum Salomonis..., number 4 of 200 copies on paper, from an edition limited to 268, designed by Count Harry Kessler...

Kelmscott Press.- Meinhold (William) Sidonia the Sorceress, translated by Francesca Speranza, Lady Wilde, one of 300 copies on Flower paper, print...

Trianon Press.- Blake (William) America: A Prophecy, number X of 20 deluxe copies with a set of progressive plates, from an edition limited to 526...

Typography.- Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. 23 Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchee, 2 vol., one of 200 copies, with 23 Pouchee alph...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) The Peep Show, point of the brush and ink with watercolour, signed lower centre, laid paper mounted on suppo...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) The Village Well, pen, brush and ink with watercolour, ?incised for transfer, laid paper mounted on support,...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) A Master Parson with a Good Living, pen, brush and ink with monochrome washes, partial inscription/signature...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) Intelligence on the Change of Ministry, pen, brush and ink with monochrome washes, numbered '477' in the low...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) Youthful Sport, an original drawing for mezzotint, pen, brush and ink with watercolour, signed, inscribed an...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) Three original drawings of half-length caricatures in ovals for mezzotints, including 'I'm ready for you', '...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) A collection of 60 caricatures printed 1802-1812, including many characters from Oxford, international digni...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) Quarrelsome Taylors, or Two of a Trade Seldom Agree, point of the brush, ink and watercolour, signed lower r...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) A collection of 19 early caricatures printed before 1802, including a slightly trimmed impression of Dighton...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) Term time or The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall, pen and black ink with watercolour, on laid paper, s...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) Four original drawings of half-length caricatures in ovals for mezzotints, including 'A Deep One', 'A Lame D...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) The Harmony of Courtship; The Dischord of Matrimony, a pair, original drawings for mezzotints, point of the ...

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) Original design for 'Geography Bewitched! or, a droll Caricature Map of Scotland', point of the brush, ink a...

Dighton the Elder (Robert), attributed to. Family group portrait in an interior, pencil on laid paper, bears signature lower left, mounted on laid...

Dighton the Elder (Robert) Portrait group of parents and a child in a garden, watercolour, signed and dated '1811' in the lower left corner, 295 x...

Dighton (Denis, son of Robert Dighton, military artist, 1791-1827) Napoleon at the Battle of Monteran, February 18th, 1814, watercolour over penci...