Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs

Architectural designs for the Houses of Parliament - Hopper, Thomas Designs for the Houses of Parliament. London: for the Author, [1842]. First ed...

Art & architecture reference, comprising Blomfield, Reginald A history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800, 1897. 2 volumes, 4to, cl...

Bashford, Dean Catalogue of European court swords and hunting swords. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929. 4to, one of 900 copies, colo...

Derrière le Miroir - 13 art books, 12 signed by the artists, comprising: Ubac Ardoises taillées. Paris: Maeght, 1961. No.113 of 150 copies [series...

Dodgson, Campbell A complete catalogue of the etchings and dry-points of Edmund Blampied. London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1926. 4to, number 116 o...

Dutch Art Jan Steen ungefähr 1626 in Leyden geboren und 3. Februar 1679 dort begraben. Haarlem, [c.1900]. Folio, 4 volumes in 1, plates, contempor...

Flint, Sir William Russell Drawings. London, 1950. Folio, number 68 of 500 copies, plates, quarter cloth, slipcase rubbed ...[more]

Jackson, John A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical. London: Charles Knight and Co., 1839. Large 8vo, double page map and 6 plate...

Levin, Gail Edward Hooper, a catalogue raisonné. New York/ London: Whitney Museum of Art/ W.W. Norton & Company, 1995. 4 volumes, including CD ROM...

Nash, Joseph The mansions of England in the olden time. [London], 1839-1849. 4 portfolios containing 4 tinted lithographic titles (finished by han...

Ruskin, John, 16 blue calf volumes, including: Fors Clavigera. Orpington: G. Allen, 1871-77. 7 volumes, First edition, 8vo; The works. 1871-78. Vo...

Viollet le Duc, E.E. Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XI au XVI siècle. Paris: V.A. Morel, 1873-71. 10 volumes, 8vo, frontispi...

Walpole, Horace Anecdotes of painting in England. Strawberry-Hill: 1762-63. Volumes 1-3, 4to, 78 engraved plates; Walpole, Horace A catalogue of e...

Broadside - Jamaica - Anti-Slavery Society - Gordon and Eyre The Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society have received the follo...

Hull, Edward, - Charles William Deacon & Co., publisher Deacon's synchronological chart of universal history with maps of the world's greatest emp...

Red Cross interest - Battle of Solferino - Caledonian Mercury Advertisement for the Caledonian Mercury, dated Saturday 2nd July 1859, printed on a...

Scottish topographical prints, a large collection, comprising 1033 mainly 8vo/12mo-sized prints of locations around Scotland, and small maps, incl...

Dulac, Edmund Fairy-book, fairy tales of the allied nations. London, [no date]. 4to, 15 tipped in colour plates, original decorative cloth, some s...

Dulac, Edmund - Arthur Rackham, illustrators Andersen, Hans Christian Stories..., with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. New York/London: Hodder & St...

Milne, A.A. When we were very young. London: Methuen & Co., 1924. First edition, second issue with Roman numerals ix on contents page, original bl...

Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1926. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt; [Idem] The house at Pooh Corner. Lo...

Milne, A.A. - H. Fraser-Simson, composer - E.H. Shepard, illustrator More "very young" songs. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1928. Small folio, numb...

Rackham, Arthur - J.M. Barrie Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. 4to, 50 coloured mounted plates, original pictori...

Watkins, Dudley D. Oor Wullie annual. London, Manchester & Dundee: D.C. Thomson & Co., [1940]. First annual produced, 4to, 96 pages, original prin...

Baif, Lazare - Lazarus Bayfius Annotationes in legem II... de re navali... annotationes in tractatum de auro & argento legato. Basel: Froben, 1541...

Berger de la Grand Montaigne Le grand calendrier & compost des bergers. Paris: Nicholas Bonfons, [c.1589]. 4to, some pages in red and black, woodc...

4 Sixteenth century volumes, comprising Dionysius Halicarnassis Antiquitatum. Lyons: I. Frellonius, 1561. 16mo, 18th century green morocco, gilt, ...

French history and literature, including Martin, Henri Histoire de France. Paris, 1855-1860. 16 volumes, 4th edition, 8vo, volumes 1-9 in quarter ...

La Bruyère, Jean de Les caractères de Theophraste. Paris: E. Michallet, 1690. Fifth edition, 12mo, engraved portrait; La Bruyère, Jean de Les cara...

Lairesse, Gerard de Groot Schilderboek, waar in de Schilderkonst in al haar deelen grondig werd onderweezen. Amsterdam: D. Mortier, 1714. First ed...

Mander, Karel van Het schilderboeck waerin voor eerst de leerlustige-jeught den gront der edele vrye schilderkonst in verscheyden deelen wort voor...

Pascal, Blaise Les provinciales ou les lettres escrites... a un provincial de ses amis. Cologne: Pierre de la Vallée [i.e., Amsterdam: Louis and ...

Racine, Jean - Derome le Jeune, bookbinder Oeuvres. Paris: Didot l'ainé, 1784. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green morocco by Derome le Jeune with ...

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 22 volumes, comprising Memoires. "Londres", 1782-90. 10 vol.; Emile. "Londres" [Pierre Cazin], 1780-81; 4 vol., 8 plates a...

Rémusat, Paul de Mémoires. Paris, 1880. 3 volumes, 11th edition, later red half morocco gilt; Taine, H. Les origines de la France contemporaine. P...

Saint Simon Mémoires complets et authentiques du Duc Saint-Simon sur le siècle de Louis XIV et la Régence. Paris: Libraire de L. Hachette et Gie.,...

Saussure, Ferdinand de Cours de linguistique générale. Lausanne; Paris: Librairie Payot & Cie., 1916. First edition, 8vo, half-title, original pri...

Trithemius, Dozol, Bernard of Clairvaux and St Bonaventure A volume of uncommon tracts, printed in Paris, c.1501-1506, comprising: Dozol, Laurent ...

Argyll & the Campbells, and Ireland, including Campbell, Archibald, Lord Records of Argyll... Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1885. 4to, morocco? gilt, c...

Heraldry - Balfour Paul, Sir James The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-14. 9 volumes, 8vo, plates, original blue cloth gilt ...[more]

Bannatyne Club - A collection of publications, including [Pitcairn, Robert] Chronicon coenobii sanctae crucis Edinburgensis, 1828. 4to, boards, We...

Belleforest, Francoise de Harangues militaires, et concions de princes, capitaines, ambassadeurs, et autres, manians tant la guerre que les affair...

Breadalbane, the Marquis of The black book of Taymouth, with other papers from the Breadalbane charter-room. Edinburgh: T. Constable, 1855. 4to, 2...

Brown, William Wells Three years in Europe: or, places I have seen and people I have met. London: Charles Gilpin/Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1852. 8...

Buchanan, George Rerum Scoticarum historia. Edinburgh: Alexander Arbuthnot, 1583. Folio, modern paper covered boards, final leaf torn with some lo...

Forbes, Alexander Penrose Kalendars of Scottish Saints. Edinburgh, 1872. 4to, plates, black morocco-backed vellum, raised bands, t.e.g., slipcase;...

Heraldry - Douglas, Sir Robert The baronage of Scotland. Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1798. Folio, volume 1 (all published), contemporary calf, joi...

Heraldry - Guillim, John A display of heraldrie... London: Jacob Blome, 1638. Third edition, folio, contemporary calf rebacked, a few tears, mostl...

Heraldry - Lyndsay, David Facsimile of an ancient heraldic manuscript emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Armes 1542. Edinb...

Heraldry - Stevenson, J.H. Heraldry in Scotland. Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1914. 2 volumes, 4to, number 126 of 210 copies on hand-made paper, etched ...

Heraldry - Stevenson, J.H. Heraldry in Scotland. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1914. 2 volumes, 4to, number 55 of 210 copies on hand-made pap...

Heraldry - Woodward, John A treatise on heraldry, British and Foreign. Edinburgh and London, 1896. 2 volumes, 8vo, 56 plates plates in gold, silve...

Mutiny Acts, 1696-1875 89 Parliamentary Acts (comprising 65 individual Mutiny Acts with 15 duplicates, 2 Regulation of Marine Forces Acts and 7 Qu...

Naval and maritime history, including Norway, Arthur H. History of the post-office packet service..., 1895. 8vo, blue cloth gilt; Atton, Henry and...

Naval architecture and engineering, including Rankine, William John Macquorn Shipbuilding, theoretical and practical, 1866. Folio, blue half-calf;...

[Nestor the Chronicler] Biblioteka Rossiskaya istoricheskaya. Soderzhashchaya drevniya letopisi, i vsyakiya zapiski, sposobstvuyushchiyak k obyasn...

Paris, Edmond Essai sur la construction navale des peuples extra-européens, ou collection des navares et pirogues... Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [n.d....

Paton, Noël Genealogy of the Celtic Earls of Atholl...with chart of the descendants of Conan... Privately printed, 1873. Small oblong folio, inscr...

Russell, J. Scott The modern system of naval architecture. London: Day and Son, [1864-5?] 3 volumes, elephant folio, blue cloth gilt, Cruising Ass...

Scottish and Gaelic interest, comprising [MacPherson, James] Dána Oisein Mhic Fhinn... Dun-Eidin, 1818. 8vo, morocco gilt, slipcase; Logan, James ...