Books and Works on Paper

Aberdeen.- Fordyce (Capt. Alexander Dingwall of Culsh and Brucklay, R.N., M.P., naval officer and whig politician, 1800-1864) List of Household Fu...

Rag and Bone merchant.- The Paper Mill, hand-coloured woodcut and letterpress poster, 640 x 510 mm (25 x 20 in), horizontal centre fold, short tea...

European Travel Diaries.- Diary of a Tour to Italy and Germany, 2 vol., manuscript in ink and pencil, 32pp., 21pp. of drawings (1 watercolour of C...

NO RESERVE Arabic manuscript.- [Illuminated manuscript in Arabic], text in red and black, single leaf, 35.5 x 8.5 cm, mounted and framed, 55 x 40...

Aldous Huxley & Anaïs Nin.- Miller (Henry, writer and artist, 1891-1980) Autograph Letter signed to Stefan Schimanski, editor of Leaves in the sto...

Chagall (Marc, artist, 1887-1985) Typed Letter signed to "Monsieur le Professeur" [probably the art historian Professor Joseph Gantner], in French...

Naogeorgus (Thomas Kirchmeyer) The Popish Kingdome, or reigne of Antichrist... englyshed by Barnabe Googe, black letter, title supplied in facsimi...

Popish Plot .- A letter to Mr. Settle, occasioned by his late famous recanting and Plot-ridiculing Narrative, woodcut ornament to title, stiched a...

NO RESERVE Drayton (Michael) England's heroical epistles, written in imitation of the stile and manner of Ovid's Epistles: with annotations of the...

Dell (William) The Tryal of Spirits both in Teachers and Hearers, third edition, a little foxed, cropped shaving a few side-notes, modern calf, sp...

[Anderson (John)] A Dialogue between a Curat and a Countrey-Man. Concerning the English-Service or, Common-Prayer-Book of England, [?Edinburgh, 17...

Pope (Alexander) The Works, first edition, first issue of the quarto edition, half-titles, folding portrait frontispiece of Pope, titles in red an...

Castiglione (Baldassare) Il Cortegiano, or The Courtier, edited by A.P.Castiglione, issue with 'To the Reader' at end of dedication and 5pp. list ...

NO RESERVE Shakespeare (William) The Works...in Ten Volumes. Publish'd by Mr.Pope and Dr.Sewell, 10 vol., engraved frontispiece and plates, contem...

Popeiana.- Bramston (James) The man of taste. Occasion'd by an epistle of Mr. Pope's on that subject. By the author of the Art of politicks, half-...

Satire.- Tailors.- Bickham (George) A Taylor, engraving, 388 x 242mm., stained, little chipped at edges, a few short marginal tears, lightly brow...

Congreve (William) The Works, 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece and 5 plates, cracked hinges, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked wit...

NO RESERVE Walker (Anthony) Physick; Law, after Adriaen van Ostade, two works, etchings and engravings, each platemark approx. 405 x 290 mm (16 x ...

NO RESERVE Temple (Sir William) The Works, 4 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, previous owner's ink signature to front free-endpapers, contemp...

Broadside.- Transport.- Sharp (James) Rolling carts and waggons. To ascertain the advantages of these waggons, a few journies [sic] have been made...

Smith (Adam) The Theory of moral sentiments, or, An essay towards an analysis of the principles by which men naturally judge concerning the conduc...

NO RESERVE Massinger (Philip) The Dramatick Works ..., 4 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, half-titles, previous owner's ink signature, one or...

Bookplates.- Collection of c.1500 bookplates and book-labels including duplicates, engraved, etched or lithographed, most removed from books with...

NO RESERVE Yorkshire Association.- A Report of the proceedings of the Committee of Association, appointed at the adjourned general meeting of the ...

NO RESERVE Paley (William) The principles of moral and political philosophy, first edition, lacking half-title, occasional spotting, contemporary ...

NO RESERVE Erskine (John) The Principles of the Law of Scotland, new edition, frontispiece portrait, armorial bookplate, contemporary tree calf, u...

NO RESERVE Bluestockings.- Carter (Elizabeth ) A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot from the Year 1741 to 1...

Education.- Edgeworth (Richard Lovell) Essays on Professional Education, first edition, occasional spotting, contemporary ink manuscript list of b...

NO RESERVE Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vol., some light foxing or browning, slight worming to l...

[Scott (Sir Walter)] Ivanhoe, 3 vol., first edition, with pp.159-306 in vol. 1 misnumbered 151-298, half-titles, bookplates to pastedown, contempo...

NO RESERVE Poetry.- Praed (Winthrop Mackworth) Lillian: a fairy tale, advertisement f. after title explaining how the work came to be composed, ti...

Defoe (Daniel) The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 2 vol., engraved frontispieces and illustrations by George Cruikshan...

NO RESERVE Miniature books.- Pickering Diamond Classics.- Homer. Ilias & Odyssea, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood-engrav...

Miniature book.- Small Rain upon the Tender Herb, second edition, contemporary roan, gilt borders and spine ornaments, g.e., a nice copy, [Bondy 1...

Godwin (William) Lives of the Necromancers, first edition, half-title, occasional spotting, publisher's advertisements at end, A2-7 becoming loose...

NO RESERVE Hoyois (H.-J.) Musée bibliographique: collection d'ouvrages imprimés et manuscrits, dont le moindre prix est de 1000 francs, half-title...

NO RESERVE Economics.- Carey (Henry Charles) The Past, the Present and the Future, half-title, rebacked, retaining original backstrip, spine darke...

NO RESERVE Bindings.- Grote (George) A History of Greece, 8 vol., engraved portrait and folding maps, 1862 § Carlyle (Thomas) Critical and Miscell...

NO RESERVE Koran (The)... to Which is Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse by George Sale, engraved folding frontispiece, original cloth, near-fine, 1...

NO RESERVE Browning (Robert) The Ring and the Book, 4 vol., first edition, first issue, vol. 3 with light spotting to title, but very clean genera...

NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles) The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 5 parts only (of 6, lacking part 2), first edition, 10 plates, occasional spotting, origi...

NO RESERVE [Chesney (George Tomkyns)] The Battle of Dorking. Reminiscences of a Volunteer, first edition in book form, previous owner's ink signat...

Theatre.- The Merchant of Venice ... as presented at the Lyceum Theatre under the management of Mr. Henry Irving ... One Hundredth Performance, ...

NO RESERVE Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Works..., 26 vol., plates and illustrations, spines gilt in compartments with red and black morocco l...

NO RESERVE Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Poetical Works, 6 vol., 1883 § Dryden (John) The Poetical Works, 5 vol., 1875, Aldine Editions, frontispieces, s...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan, contributor) The Strand Magazine, 42 vol. comprising vols. 1-16; 19-21; 24-46, plates and illustrations, occasional faint...

NO RESERVE Mahan (Capt. A. T.) The Life of Nelson, 2 vol., first edition, engraved plates, prize bookplate, contemporary tree calf, gilt, spines g...

NO RESERVE Patmore (Coventry) Poems, 2 vol., half-titles, bookplate, previous owner's ink signature, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, small 8vo...

Clowes (W. Laird) The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present, 7 vol., plates, maps and illustrations, some photogravure, tis...

NO RESERVE Arnold-Forster (Frances) Studies in Church Dedications; or, England's Patron Saints, 3 vol., first edition, A. L. s. from the author wi...

Pollard (A. F.) Henry VIII, limited edition, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, captioned tissue-guards, abrasion mark where bookplate...

Valentine Cards.- Collection of 20 American Valentine cards, chromolithographed printed cards (some postcards), v.s., v.d., 1903-14 & n.d. ...[mo...

NO RESERVE Esoterica.- Ahmad (Sheikh Habeeb) The Mysteries of Sound and Number, first edition, frontispiece, printed publisher's slip pasted over ...

NO RESERVE Bailey (Alice A.) A Treatise on White Magic, first edition, inscribed and signed by author, tape marks to hinges (front endpapers, titl...

NO RESERVE Sherlock Holmes.- Campbell (Dr Maurice) Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Medical Digression, first printing in pamphlet form, presenta...

NO RESERVE Montgomery (Bernard Law, Viscount ) Normandy to the Baltic, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped and creased, Germany, 1946 § [S...

NO RESERVE Military.- Hart (Capt. B.H. Liddell) The Tanks: The History of the Royal Tank Regiment...1914-1945, 2 vol., first edition, illustration...

Music.- Williamson (Malcolm) and Ursula Vaughan Williams. Ode to Music, one of only 5 specially printed and bound copies for presentation, signed ...

NO RESERVE Titanic.- Shipping Casualties (Loss of the Steamship "Titanic"): Report of a formal investigation into the circumstances ..., limited ...

NO RESERVE Americas.- Mitford (Mary Russell) Light and Shadows of American Life, 3 vol., some light foxing, without half-titles, contemporary half...