Fine, Rare Books and Library Furnishings

China hand-painted map of; dated 1817 in a foliate cartouche with the words "China by Dickenson 1817 W D dec 5".Approx 12x10" and laid down on lin...

Black Minstrels, original watercolour of striking if politically highly incorrect design c1920s. Approx 6x10.5".

Signed Ltd edition 124/172, 1932 Cape, lg 8vo. Bound in quarter vellum boards a little dusted.

Signed ltd edition 13/110. Harrap 1944. Bound in full crushed blue morocco, spine dulled.

Bound 4to volume of mid eighteenth century tracts on INDIA. Includes Holwell, J Z: An Address to The Proprietors of east India Stock London 1764 a...

Two 4to Edwardian Albums of pressed botanical specimens/Herbarium, by Anthony Rich from Streatham Common. Beautifully displayed with a family CDV ...

Nine loose sheets of original paintings and drawings by artist Ivo Scarff (1929-2016) a scenic artist at Glyndebourne in the 1950s

Robert Owen and A Cambell, Groombridge, 1839 pp545. library binding lacks front board.

Newcome; Saint Albans Abbey, 4to, two vols bound as one,1793-95, two folding plans (pp547). Full 18th century leather nicely re-backed.

A fine and unusual BINDING: Skurray, F: Bidcombe Hill,1824, 2nd ed. pp220. Full Regency, imitation of rosewood and elaborate gilt, calf binding.

Babbage, Charles: The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. A fragment, Murray 1837 pp244. Ex library; full leather; upper board detached.

Heylyn, P. The History of The Presbyterians, Oxford 1670, pp482, folio. Ex library, contemporary full calf, distressed together with two other boo...

The copy of a significant FEMALE ARTIST of the 19th century, Violet Brunton, painter and book illustrator with her signature and photograph on the...

From the library of LOUIS X1V; in full 17th century red calf with the arms of the king on the front and rear boards. Spine decorated with a crown ...

India and Moorish Spain: Taylor: The Orientalist, T Arnold 1842 16/17 engravings of India, original cloth, worn. WITH: Calvert.A.F: the Alhambra, ...

Milne and Shepard: Now we Are Six, Methuen 2nd edition, bright clean copy WITH :When we were very Young, 1959, bright copy in clean jacket.WITH: A...

PRESENTATION copy; work on the Nestorians etc; Cutts E L; Christians Under the Crescent In Asia. SPCK. No date but c1878. Green original cloth pp3...

IL Petrarca Con L'espositione di M. Alessndro Velutello. Venice G Antonio Bertano 1573. Lg 8vo . Architectural Title with a few decorative woodcut...

LIBERTY and Co: "Curios" x 2. Curio Catalogue for the month of March 1903. oblong small 8vo pp10 WITH "Curio catalogue for the month of June 1903 ...

Finden's Views of the Ports Harbours and Watering Places of Great Britain. Virtue c 1840s, 2 vols 4to. 125 steel engraved plates. Publishers cloth...

DEVONSHIRE Illustrated In A Series of Views, 4to Fisher 1832. Half lthr rubbed ex lib; multiple engravings WITH Wales illustrated in A Series of V...

J M W TURNER The River Senery of France. Bohn 1857, 4to, ex lib but a clean bright copy,original blue cloth. 61 plates WITH Beattie W: Switzerland...

JERUSALEM. Bartlett : Walks About The City and Environs Of Jerusalem. A. Hall Virtue. 2nd edition c 1860. maps and plates. Ex lib. Contemporary cl...

The little Oxford Dictionary; Clarendon Press 1992. Approx 8x4". Full black leather bound with a hallmarked Sheffield panel set into the upper boa...

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey: With Three Illustrations (To Lysistrata). Privately printed, 1904. 4to crudely patterned boards, 3 photographic plates from Ly...

ROBERTS, D: Travels In The Holy Land . Oblong folio in cloth slipcase. Modern Facsimile; Gabriel Naughton. This copy unopened and in plastic wrap...

James Joyce: Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1928. Lg 8vo pp735. Some foxing. Bound in three quarters blue morocco. Light rubbing and hinges sp...

Signed ltd edition. 6/25 copies, signed in pen on the half-title. Sadlier; Forlorn Sunset,constable 1947. pp501. Coloured litho frontispiecs by Jo...

Lillywhite, B: london Coffee Houses; A reference Book of Coffee Houses of the Seventeenth , 18th and 19th centuries.. Allen and Unwin, 1963. pp858...

Moffat and Matabele.; Moffat, R and M: Apprenticeship At Kuruman. Chatto 1951 pp308, Royal 8vo , uncut with folding map. WITH: The Matabele Missio...

WW1 Fighter Planes Photo Album. 4to lth r album with approx 120 photographs of WW1 fighter planes; a mix of real postcards, cuttings and original ...

4to leather-bound late 19th century photograph album mostly of actresses including Ellen Terry and Sarah Bernhardt. Also includes cabinet portrait...

2 large (circa 1880s) and significant photograph albums with images of Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, San Francisco and ethnographic s...

A set of 6 miniature books in a rexine wallet; includes Maupassant and Milton. Published by the Miniature Dictionary Publishers Inc c 1930s. Rubb...

Detmold/Maeterlinck: Hours of Gladness. G Allen. 1912 1st edition. 4to pp181. 20 colour plates. Original cream cloth, dusted and rubbed. Uncut cop...

Aldin,C: Zoo Babies. Frowde and Stoughton. 4to ,pictorial cloth. Apparently the 1st edition (undated). "4 charming colour -printed images of baby ...

Wessels: Early Jesuit Travellers. M nijhoff, The Hague 1924. lg 8vo pp344 with map and illustrtaions. Publishers cloth, light rubbing but nice and...

White, Gilbert: The Natural History of Selborne. N Cooke, 1853. pp342. A pretty and unusual stamped and moulded magenta morocco with elabortaely g...

Bartlett/ Pardoe; The Beauties of the Bosphorus, G Virtue 1838. 151 steel-engraved plates, slightly dusted. 19th century quarter maroon leather, ...

Lodge,Edmund: Illustrations of British History etc. 3 vols 4to, "illustrated with portraits". G Nicol 1791. bound in early 19th century half vellu...

Innet,John: Origines Anglicanae: Or a history of the English Church. London 1704, 2 vols folio..Full 18th century leather, rubbed. Ex library with...

Sigonii, C: De Antiquo Jure Italiae Libri Tres Ad Senatum, etc. Venice Jordanum Ziletum, 1560. Woodcut Titles, old vellum binding, mostly margina...

Juvenalia; Unrecorded: The Youths Book of natural History, Glasgow, W.R McPhun, 1836 2nd edition.4to original paper wrappers. Striking (litho?) pl...

Twitchett :The cambridge History of China, vol 2. WITH: Dillon: Dictionary of Chinese history : WITH: Nagels Guide to China (1978).All in wrappe...

CHINA: Naval Intelligence Division:China Proper, 3 vols 1944 Illustrated throughout. Folding map in pocket at rear. Ex lib, spines sunned, clean a...

Ackermann/Rowlandson: Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, illustrated by 21 engravings of humorous subjects ,etc. Ackermann 1813, lg 8vo. Tree calf,...

Daumus,E: The Horses of The Sahara. Translated by J. Hutton, W H Allen 1863. Full dark blue calf, gilt, with arms of Blackheath Proprietary School...

Bunyan,J: The Pilgrims Progress. D. Hitchen 1770.pp293, portrait frontispiece and plates.Black gilt calf, gilt, some rubbing.AF.WITH; Hervey J; Me...

Lewis, J: the History of the life and Sufferings of….John Wycliffe, etc. London R. Knaplock 1720. calf, repaired with linen and backed with transp...

Palliser Mrs B: History of Lace, C. Scribners 1902, 4to, illustrated throughout. WITH : Huish M. B: Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries, longmans 1...

Large Postcard Album dated 1905. Approx 450 postcards all theatrical. Includes a signed card of William Gillette the early Sherlock Holmes interp...

Israel interest: Keesings Research Report: The Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1967 campaign. Pp55.WITH: Hadawi, S: Land Ownership In Palestine, The Pales...

Small archive of printed material from the library of Gabriel "Bill" Carritt, relating mostly to the Spanish Civil War. Carritt was an intimate of...

London material: Lewis, S: Islington as It Was And As It Is, 1854 12mo pp86. Paper covers, 10 plates, some fritting. WITH (Presentation Copy) Long...

Dowson, Mrs A: The Womens Suffrage Cookery book. Womens Printing Society Ltd.No date ;presumed 1st (and only?) edition.pp77 small 4to. Paper cover...

Globe on Stand, c 1925-35. Columbus Erdoglobus, Model 200,Berlin, Paul Oestergaard. Approx 51cm tall on turned wooden base incorporating a compass...

Marine Aviation and Airships etc. Thetford,O: British Naval Aircraft Since 1912. Putnam, 1971. In d/w. WITH: Killen, J: A History of Marine Aviati...

Civil Aircraft and Helicopters. Jackson,A J: British Civil Aircraft 1919-59, 3 vols, Putnam 1959 in d/w's. WITH: Lambermont,P: Helicopters and Au...

Thetford,O: Aircraft of the Royal Airforce since 1918, putnam, 1979, in d/w. WITH: Janes all the World's Aircraft, David and Charles Reprints 196...

IRISH INTEREST:Chavasse,C: The Story of Baltinglass, Kilkenny journal 1970, pp75, paper covers. WITH: de Vere: The Legends of St Patrick,, Cassell...