Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

South East Asia.- [Collection of 29 vintage photographic prints], mounted on 27 stiff card leaves, 3 tinted, some captioned in the negative, all c...

Sri Lanka.- Waakyapota [The Book of Sentences], manuscript in Sinhala, Pali and Tamil, on 76 palm leaves, plus 2 blank palm leaves to front and re...

Thailand.- Verse romance, manuscript in Thai, on white khoi paper, 14 leaves, text in black ink to recto and verso in a folksy hand, first leaf lo...

Thailand.- Folding Horoscope, manuscript in Thai, on white khoi paper, 54 leaves, Cambodian (Kham) script, with a few sentences in Pali, text in b...

Thailand.- Phra Malai [Buddhist Visions of Heaven and Hell], samut knoi (concertina) manuscript in Thai, on paper, with some Pali words cited in f...

Tibet.- Sutra of Properly Arranged Establishment in Buddhahood or Confession Sutra, manuscript in Tibetan, on paper, 97 leaves, stained black and ...

Tibet.- Perfection of Wisdom in a Hundred Thousand Lines, manuscript in Tibetan, on paper, c.209 leaves, lacks 7 leaves (1-3, 84-87), text in silv...

Tibet.- Charm scroll with an apocryphal Buddhist text, manuscript in Tibetan, on paper scroll, text in red and black ink, coloured illustrations, ...

Tibet.- Ritual of the Fierce Aspect of Buddhahood, manuscript in Tibetan, on simple native paper, complete in 42 numbered leaves, black ink on 5 r...

Tibet.- Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Verses, manuscript in Tibetan, on white paper, over 400 leaves in 32 chapters, text in black ink to...

Tibet.- Confession sutra manuscript, title with overlay flap that covers two illustrations of  Buddhist deities, another leaf with two illustratio...

America.- Singh of Kapurthala (H. H. Maharaja Jagatjit) My Tour in South, Central, and North America, first edition, presentation copy inscribed b...

Native American language.- Nantes (Bernardo de) Katecismo Indico da lingua Kariris, first edition, with blank leaf Z7 but lacking final blank Z8, ...

d'Anville (Jean Baptiste Bourguignon) [Untitled Composite Atlas with 102 map sheets], comprising 20 double-page maps, 9 two-sheet double-page maps...

Robert de Vaugondy (Gilles) Atlas Universel, engraved title, 108 double-page maps, including a double-hemisphere map of the world, others of the E...

Ireland.- Mares (F.H., photographer) Photographs of the Giant's Causeway with Descriptive Letterpress, 12 mounted albumen prints by F.H. Mares, fi...

Barbault (Jean) Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne, first edition, half-title, title with engraved vignette, 9 culs-de-lampe and 118 engrav...

Ferrerio (Pietro) Palazzi di Roma de piu Celebri Architetti, [&] Nuovi Disegni dell'Architetture, e Piante de Palazzi di Roma, 2 vol. in 1, 44 and...

Italy.- Rizzi-Zannoni (Giovanni Antonio) [Atlante Geografico del Regno di Napoli], engraved double-page key map and 29 double-page maps only (of 3...

Zuccagni-Orlandini (Attillio) Atlante Geografico degli stati Italiani...[&] Atlante illustrativo, together 5 vol., first with 125 engraved maps on...

Arabic manuscript.- Illuminated manuscript Qur'an, 312ff., in Arabic on paper, single column, 15 lines, each page framed in gold, black, and red (...

Middle East.-Sandys (George) Sandys Travailes: Containing a History of the Originall and present State of the Turkish Empire, engraved additional ...

Islamic Incunabula.- Kitab-I Ligat-I Vankuli [The Crown of Language and the Correct Arabic], translated by Mehmed ibn-i Mustafa el-Vani [or Vankul...

Middle East.- IPC-BD Study: Development of Oil Facilities in central Libya: A Preliminary Report Prepared for the Oasis Oil Company September 1959...

Middle East.- [Abu Dhabi: On the Sixth Anniversary of His Highness the Ruler of the Emirate Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan], text in Arabic, pr...

Mountaineering.- Fellows (Charles) A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, first edition,  presentation copy from the author to a la...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***  South America.- Bertonio (Ludovico) Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, first edition, ...

St. Helena.- Beatson (Maj.-Gen. Alexander) Tracts Relative to the Island of St. Helena, engraved map and 6 aquatint plates by William Daniell afte...

St Helena.- Wathen (James) A Series of Views Illustrative of the Island of St Helena, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of Wathen afte...

Voyages.- Mutiny on the Bounty.- Christian (Fletcher) Letters from Mr. Fletcher Christian, containing a Narrative of the Transactions on board His...

Dubreuil (Jean) La Perspective Pratique, necessaire a tours peintres, 2 vol. only (of 3), second edition, additional engraved titles, full-page e...

Gardens.- Switzer (Stephen) An Introduction to a General System of Hydrostaticks and Hydraulicks, Philosophical and Practical, 2 vol. bound as 1, ...

Repton (Humphry).- Malins (Edward) The Red Books of Humphry Repton, 4 vol., number 243 of 515 sets, plates, some colour and with overlays, a few m...

Computing.- Operating and maintenance manual for the BINAC binary automatic computer built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation 1949, some light brow...

Geology.- Smith (William) Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils, with Reference to the Specimens of the Original Geological Collection in th...

Hawking (Stephen) A Brief History of Time, reprint, signed with author's right thumb-print and with ink stamp reading "Right thumb-print of S.W. H...

Hawking (Stephen) A Brief History of Time, signed with author's thumb-print and with ink inscription reading "Thumb-print of S.W. Hawking witnesse...

Mathematics.- Euclid. [Opera], first collected edition, translated by Bartolommeo Zamberti, collation: [10], A-Z AA-EE8 FF6 lacking final blank, f...

Moore (Sir Jonas) A New Systeme of the Mathematicks, vol.1 (only, of 2), comprising 7 sections of those listed on title, first edition, title prin...

Schoener (Johann) Opera Mathematica, 3 parts in 1, first edition, collation: ?6, ?4, A-Z6, Aa-Cc6, Dd-Ee8, Ff-Mm6, Nn8; a-h6, i8, including errata...

Mathematics.- Stewart (Matthew) Some general theorems of considerable use in the higher parts of mathematics, first edition, 4 folding engraved pl...

Mining.- Christy (Prof. Samuel Benedict) Quicksilver-reduction at New Almaden, California : a paper read before the American Institute of Mining E...

Mineralogy.- Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus) Ettliche tractatus. I. Von natürlichen dingen. II. Beschreibung etlicher kreütter. III von metall...

Pharmacopoeia .- [Dubois (Jacques)], "Jacques Silvius". La Pharmacopee. Qui est la maniere de bien choisir & preparer les simples, & de bien faire...

Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)"Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, second (first published) edition, half-title, frontispiece with ...

Potter (Beatrix) Complete set of four original illustrations for the nursery rhyme, 'This pig went to market', four illustrations on three sheets,...

Potter (Beatrix).- Weatherly (Frederic E.) A Happy Pair, first and only edition, 6 chromolithographed illustrations, each monogrammed H.B.P., orig...

Potter (Beatrix).- Lustiges Treiben, plain and chromolithographed illustrations featuring a rare early illustration by Beatrix Potter, illustratio...

Potter (Beatrix) Autograph Letter signed with drawing of Hunca-Munca, 4pp., replying to a young fan "it is the first that I have had from an Ameri...

Rackham (Arthur).- Poe (Edgar Allan) Tales of Mystery & Imagination, first Rackham-illustrated edition, number 345 of 460 copies signed by Rackham...

Robinson (William Heath).- Hunter (Norman) The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, first edition, with original captioned pen and ink i...

Holbein (Hans) Imitations of Original Drawings ... in the Collection of His Majesty, 84 engraved plates on 83 sheets, all printed in colours by Ba...

Nayler (Sir George) The Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth, 42 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates after Stephanoff, Chal...

Ovidius Naso (Publius) Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide gravées sur les desseins des meilleurs Peintres Français. Par les soins des Srs. le Mire et Basan...

Wouvermans (Philip), After. Oeuvres de Ph. Wouvermens Hollandois gravees d'apres ses Meilleurs Tableaux..., engraved title, with 93 plates only (o...

Czeschka (Carl).- Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote, 3 vol., 1908; Die Novellen, 2 vol., 1907, each set one of 100 copies, double-page de...

Dali (Salvador).- Sandoz (Maurice) The Maze, first edition, signed by Dali and dated 1945 on front free endpaper, plates by Dali, original cloth, ...

Fashion.- Styl. Blätter für Mode und die angenehmen Dinge des Lebens, Erster Jahrg. Heft 1-10 in 7 issues bound in 1 vol., 90 plates by Emil Orlic...

Szyk (Arthur) Statut de Kaliski, one of 500 copies, 48 leaves, including 47 colour plates, and 1 blank, loose as issued, housed within presentatio...

Szyk (Arthur) The Haggadah, one of 125 copies, this out-of-series, edited by Cecil Roth, text in English and Hebrew printed in russet and black on...