Books and Works on Paper

Adams (Richard, author, 1920-2016) Typed Letter signed to Mrs Lilian Watts, 1p., 4to, Canonbury, London, 5th October 1973, thanking her for her "n...

Binding.- Anglo-Saxon.- Verstegan (Richard) A restitution of decayed intelligence: in antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renovvmed English...

First press at Eton.- Greek printing.- Gregory (Saint, of Nazianzus) Sancti gregorii nazianzeni In julianum invectivae duae. Cum Scholis Graecis n...

Foxe (John) Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the Church, with an vniuersall historie of the same, vol.1 on...

Holland (Henry) Herwologia Anglica hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum. aliqout [sic] Anglorum, 2 vol. in 1, engraved pictorial title, incorpor...

Speed (John) The historie of Great Britaine vnder the conqvests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their originals, manners, habits, warres...

Ireland.- Stafford (Sir Thomas) Pacata Hibernia, Ireland appeased and reduced: or, an historie of the late vvarres of Ireland, especially within t...

Elzevier.- Bible, Greek.- Tēs Kainēs Diathēkēs apanta [graece]. Novi Testamenti libri omnes, recens nunc editi, double column, title with woodcut ...

Bindings.- Bible, English.- [The Holy Bible containing ye old and New Testaments], 2 parts in 1, double column, ruled throughout in red, defective...

NO RESERVE Elzevier.- Roman military.- Salmasius (Claudius) De re militari Romanorum, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, a few di...

Bacon (Sir Francis) Sylva sylvarum: or, A natural history, in ten centuries whereunto is newly added the history naturall and experimentall of lif...

T[hompson] (N[athaniel]) A collection of 86 loyal poems, all of them written upon the two late plots, viz, the horrid Salamanca plot in 1678, titl...

NO RESERVE Fables.- Phaedrus. Phædri Augusti Cæsaris liberti fabularum Æsopiarum libri quinque, water-stained, occasional spotting, contemporary s...

Classics.- Eutropius. Eutropii Historiæ Romanæ breviarium, engraved title vignette of Sheldonian, [Wing E3436], Oxford, At the Sheldonian Theatre,...

Recusant ownership.- Collier (Jeremy) A defence of The short view of the profaneness and immorality of the English stage, &c. Being a reply to Mr....

Kennett (Basil) Romæ antiquæ notitia: or, The antiquities of Rome, 11 engraved plates, some folding, final f. with errata / advertisements, lackin...

Reformation.- Burnet (Gilbert) The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 3 vol., including Supplement, fourth edition of parts 1 an...

Ireland.- The Free-Holder's Address to the Free-Citizens of Dublin, first edition, title with woodcut floral ornament, minor marginal repairs, lig...

Armorial bindings.- An album of 10 ff. of blank paper, bound in 18th century panelled vellum, gilt, covers with Royal Arms of Great Britain, lacki...

NO RESERVE Montesquieu.- Cattaneo (Giovani, Count) The source, the strength, and the true spirit of laws. In three parts. In which the errors of M...

[Johnstone (Charles)], "An Adept". Chrysal: or, the adventures of a Guinea...with curious and interesting anecdotes of the most Noted Persons in e...

Plymouth Theatre.- Theatre Frankfort-Gate... A Concert of Music... Love in a Village...Hawthorn Mr [Samuel] Foote], printed playbill, edges trimme...

NO RESERVE Binding.- The Book of Common Prayer, ink signature of Mary Ann Shirreff to head of title, inner gilt dentelles, contemporary red morocc...

NO RESERVE Kimber (Isaac) Edmund Gibson and others. The life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland, and Ire...

Naval.- White (Thomas Evanson, translator) History of the Rise and Progress of the Naval Power of England, interspersed with various notices relat...

NO RESERVE Jamaica.- Walker (Adam) A System of Familiar Philosophy, new edition, half-title, 48 (of 49, lacking plate 22) folding engraved plates,...

NO RESERVE Gibbon (Edward) The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. with Memoirs of His Life and Writings, composed by himself: Illustrated ...

Trials.- Rex versus Bourne, printer and publisher of the Weymouth, Poole, and Dorchester Gazette, for a Libel, water staining to upper gutter, con...

Scrapbook.- Broadside.- Princess Charlotte of Wales's Birth-Day as Celebrated on the Seventh of January, at St. Julian's Cottage, Cheltenham, Chel...

Economics.- Annotated in Barnstaple.- Smith (Adam) An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, 3 vol., new edition, half-title...

Military.- Badges and belt buckles.- c.25 sheets of pencil rubbings of badges and belt buckles, each with multiple images, each rubbing labelled w...

NO RESERVE Rogers (Samuel) Poems, 2 vol., signed presentation copy from the author, engraved portrait frontispiece and illustrations, some spottin...

Frankenstein & Dracula.- Gaiety Theatre... Frankenstein, 8pp., [1887] § New Theatre, Cambridge... Dracula, 9pp., 1928, printed programmes, 8vo & s...

Bindings.- Browning (Robert) Poetical Works, 16 vol., occasional faint spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, contemporary half-vellum, sligh...

NO RESERVE Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne) Novels of the Sisters Brontë, 11 vol. only (of 12, lacking Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë), Thornt...

NO RESERVE Ruskin (John) The Works, edited by E.T.Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, 39 vol., "Library Edition", limited edition, plates and illustrat...

Yeats (William Butler) The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, 8 vol., 4 photogravure frontispieces, previous owner's ink inscription to each vol....

Morris (William) The Collected Works ..., 24 vol., limited edition of 1050 copies, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, occasional spotting, p...

First World War Photograph Album, 95 sepia photographs only (of 96) on 48pp., each 100 x 120mm. captioned by hand below, original green cloth, a l...

Bindings..- de la Mare (Walter) Poems 1901 to 1918, occasional spotting, contemporary vellum with leather ties, 1920 § Thompson (Francis) Selected...

NO RESERVE Feint (Andrian) Bookplates, number 1 of 125 copies, 21 tipped in bookplates (9 coloured), ink givt inscription "For Richard Smart, the ...

Peake (Mervyn) [Gormenghast trilogy], 3 vol., comprising Titus Groan, ink ownership inscription, upper joint weak, covers mottled and faded, spine...

NO RESERVE Fleming (Ian) Goldfinger, first edition, neat ink inscription to endpaper dated May 1959, original blind-stamped and gilt pictorial bo...

NO RESERVE Kraaz (Gerhart).- Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohe Lied, number 145 of 275 on handmade Hahnemuhle paper, lithographs by Kraaz in text, add...

Mathews (Mrs C.) The West-Indian; or, Anecdotes of the Somerville Family, woodcut frontispiece, some light marginal soiling, ink ownership inscrip...

NO RESERVE Pictorial cloth.- Marryat (Frederick) Japhet in Search of a Father, illustrated by Henry M. Brock, 1895 § Mockler-Freeman (Lt. Col. A. ...

NO RESERVE Thomson (Hugh).- Barrie (J.M.) Quality Street, illustrations and 22 tipped in colour plates by Hugh Thomson, covers and spine rubbed an...

Crystal Palace.- Sala (George Augustus) The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be", satirical sketches of fictional exhibits at the Great Exhibition of 1...

NO RESERVE Folio Society.- Blake (William).- Milton (John) Paradise Lost, illustrated by William Blake, plates, original morocco-backed cloth, pic...

NO RESERVE Illustrated.- Cruikshank (George) George Cruikshank's Omnibus, additional engraved title, engraved portrait, plates and illustrations, ...

NO RESERVE Robinson (Duncan) William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and the Kelmscott Chaucer, Kinteon, The Roundwood Press, 1982 § Hunter (William) S...

Australia.- New South Wales Calendar (The) and General Post Office Directory 1836, title vignette, folding plan frontispiece (creased, repaired te...

Australia.- Tallis (John) & John Rapkin. Seven maps of Australia, including a general map of Australia, the others of New South Wales, Victoria or...

Australia.- Willis (James A. C.) The Harbour of Port Jackson & City of Sydney, New South Wales, panoramic view as seen from the North Shore, showi...

NO RESERVE Europe.- A photographic album of views in Italy, 56 photographs, laid down, most 225 x 275mm., some spotting to margins, contemporary h...

NO RESERVE Language.- Yates (William) Introduction to the Hindustání language in three parts, seventh edition, library stamps, original cloth, l...

Persian poetry.- Mughal School (probably early 20th century) Two miniatures illustrating Saadi Shirazi's 'The Flower Garden', opaque pigments, hei...

Voyages.- Coreal (François) Voyages...aux Indes Occidentales, avec une relation de la Guiane de Walter Raleigh & le Voyage de Narborough a la Mer ...

Britain.- Finden (Edward and William) Views of Ports, Harbours and Watering Places of Great Britain, 2 vol., engraved additional titles, frontispi...

England.- Turner (Joseph Mallord William) and others. An Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour Round the Southern Coast of England, 49 wood-engraved pl...