Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Smith (Philip, binder) New Directions in Bookbinding [&] The Book: Art & Object, 2 works in 1, extraordinary binding by Philip Smith of full tan g...

Detmold (Maurice & Edward J.) Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book", 14 mounted colour plates only (of 16, lacking 'Kaa t...

Rackham (Arthur).- Walton (Izaak) The Compleat Angler, half-title, title printed in green and black, colour frontispiece and 11 plates by Arthur R...

Laser die-cut work.- Eliasson (Olafur) Your House, one of 225 copies, signed by the artist, 908 pp. illustrated by Olafur Eliasson using computer-...

Shoe Design.- A collection of shoe designs by the Dunbar Style Service, 320 monochrome printed shoe designs, most with printed collection name, da...

Ashendene Press.- James (Henry) Refugees in Chelsea, one of 50 copies on paper, one initial printed in red, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, o...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Lucian of Samosata. The True Historie of Lucian the Samosatenian, translated by Francis Hickes, number 240 of 275 copies, ...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), according to the Authorized Version of King James I, number 333 of 500 copies...

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Wood beyond the World, [one of 350 copies on Flower paper], printed in red and black in Chaucer type, wood-...

Pissarro (Lucien) Wood Engravings, number 111 of 175 sets, 29 wood-engravings on Japanese Hosho paper tipped into 20 card mounts, with an accompan...

Typography.- Simon (Oliver) and Stanley Morison, editors. The Fleuron: A Journal of Typography, 7 vol. [a complete set], vol.2-6 deluxe limited ed...

Architecture.- Campbell (Colen), Woolfe (John) and James Gandon. Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect..., 5 vol., later editions of vol...

Lake District.- Fielding (Theodore Henry) & J. Walton. A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, first edition, half-title, aquatint title-vignette...

America.- Early travel guide.- Boyle (Robert) General Heads for the Natural History of a Country, Great or Small; Drawn out for the Use of Travell...

America.- Josselyn (John) New Englands Rarities Discovered: in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country, second edition, initia...

Americana.- Lahontan (Louis Armand, Baron de) New Voyages to North-America, 2 vol., second English edition, 4 engraved maps and 16 plates, some fo...

America.- Monardes (Nicolas) Joyfull Newes Out of the New-found Worlde, third English edition, translated by John Frampton, 4 parts in 1, collatio...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***America.- Wafer (Lionel) A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America, first...

America.- Alexander Graham Bell.- Deafness.- Communications received by Committee on the Census, United States Senate, relating to Census Bill H.R...

China.- The Shop Signs of Peking, one of 100 unnumbered copies, preface by H.K. Fung, 101 fine hand-coloured illustrations on 18 leaves, text in E...

India.- Terry (Edward) A Voyage to East-India, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map and 3 plates, M3 headline and pagination...

Italy.- Saint-Non (Jean Claude Richard, l'Abbé de) Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, 4 vol. in 5, first editi...

Middle East.- [La Roque (Jean de)] A Voyage to Arabia Foelix, first English edition, initial approbation leaf, 2 folding engraved plates, slight m...

Middle East.- Raunkiær (Barclay) Gennem Wahhabiternes Land paa Kamelryg, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, tissue-guards, copious illustrat...

Middle East.- Treaty of Peace between the State of Israel and the Arab Republic of Egypt, typescript in English, Arabic, and Hebrew, hole-punch an...

Persia.- Sherley (Sir Antony) Sir Anthony Sherley his Relation of his Travels into Persia, first edition, trimmed close in places, occasionally ju...

Russia.- Peter the Great.- Uystryalov (Nikolai) Karty, Plany I Snimki K Pervym Trem Tomam (-Chetvertomu Tomu) Istorii Tsarstvovaniya Petra Velikag...

South America.- Paraguay.- Mastrilli (Duràn) (Nicola) Litteræ annvæ provinciæ Paraquariæ societatis Jesu, first edition, woodcut Jesuit device to ...

Turkey.- [Alexander (William)] Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, 60 hand-coloured engraved plates, plate 3 misbou...

Voyages.- Anson (George).- Pascoe (Thomas) A True and Impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas, and round the Globe, first edition, present...

Voyages.- [Behrens (Carl Friedrich)] Histoire de l'Expedition de Trois Vaisseaux...aux Terres Australes, 2 vol. in 1, first French edition, half-t...

Australia.- Macgillivray (John) Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 2 vol., first edition, folding map with short tear, 13 plates, all ...

Voyages.- Castanheda (Fernão Lopes de) The first Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Porti...

Voyages.- Fresne's voyage.- Crozet (Julien Marie) Nouveau Voyage a la Mer du Sud, first edition, 6 engraved plates and a folding map, some foxing,...

Voyages.- [Robinson (Sir Tancred), editor] An Account of Several late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North..., first edition, 2 parts in...

Birds.- Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States o...

Botany.- Curtis (William) Flora Londinensis; or, plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London, vol.1-5 (only, of ...

Conchology.- Pulteney (Richard) Catalogues of the Birds, Shells, and some of the Rare Plants, of Dorsetshire, [second edition], engraved portrait ...

Herbal.- Parkinson (John) Theatricum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, or, an Herball of a Large Extent, first edition, hand-coloured engraved tit...

Herbal.- Turner (William) [A New Herball], lacks A1 (title), A2, C2-5, D1 & D2, title and A2 supplied in facsimile, Steven Mierdman, 1551, bound w...

Marine life.- Rumpf (Georg Eberhard) Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum, engraved portrait of the author and elaborate additional title, title...

Babbage (Charles).- Menabrea (Luigi-Federico) 'Notions sur la machine analytique de M. Charles Babbage' in Bibliotehèque Universelle de Genève, no...

Boyle (Robert) A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things, first edition, second issue, errata leaf and 2 advertisement leaves at end...

Dentistry.- Hunter (John) The natural history of the human teeth: explaining their structure, use, formation, growth, and diseases, first edition,...

Hebrew Scientific book.- Delmedigo (Joseph Solomon Qandia) Sepher Eilim - Sepher Ma'ayan Ganim - Sepher Ma'ayan Chathum, 3 parts in 1, first editi...

Biology.- Ingenhousz (John) Experiments upon Vegetables, Discovering their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in the Sun-shine, and of Injuri...

Metallurgy & Engineering.- Fowler (Sir Henry) Metallurgy in relation to Mechanical Engineering, typescript for a lecture, autograph additions and ...

Newton (Sir Isaac) [Seven Papers by or relating to Isaac Newton] in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, nos. 81-85, pp.3999-5026, 2 f...

Newton (Sir Isaac) Optical lectures read in the publick schools of the University of Cambridge, first edition, 13 engraved folding plates, contemp...

Newton (Sir Isaac).- Algarotti (Francesco) Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of the Ladies. In Six Dialogues on Light and Colour...

Torricelli (Evangelista) Lezioni Accademiche, first edition, edited by Tommaso Bonaventuri, half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait after Pietr...