Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs

Larkin, Philip The Fantasy Poets. Philip Larkin. Number Twenty One. 1954, wrappers Note: "Between 150 to 300 copies of each pamphlet were produced...

Lever, Charles Our mess, volume 1: Jack Hinton, the guardsman. Dublin, 1843; [Idem] Tom Burke of "ours". Dublin, 1844. 2 volumes, 8vo, half calf g...

MacDiarmid, Hugh [and Douglas Sealy] Sangschaw. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1925. 8vo, inscribed to Douglas Sealy from Hugh Ma...

[Mackenzie, Henry] The lounger. A periodical paper. Edinburgh: for William Creech, 1785-86. Folio, a complete set of numbers 1-101, original issue...

Mathers, E. Powys Black marigolds. Oxford, [1919]. First edition, presentation copy to Rudolph Schwabe, with Mathers's card paper-clipped in, orig...

Milne, A.A. Going abroad? [London: Council for the Education in World Citizenship, 1947]. 8vo, 8pp, original paper wrappers [loose], rustmarks fro...

Miscellaneous books, 26 volumes, including Shakespeare, William The Royal Shakespeare Theatre edition of the sonnets. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1...

Poetry, 17 volumes, including Churchill, C. Gotham. A poem. London, 1764. 3 parts, folio; Shelley, Percy Bysshe The poetical works. London, 1839. ...

Poetry, including Tennyson, Alfred, Lord In memoriam. Nonesuch Press, 1933. 4to, number 1559 of 2000 copies; Henryson, Robert The moral fables. Ed...

Poets of Great Britain. London: Cadell and Davies, 1807. Volumes 1-8 and 10-61, 12mo, green morocco, spotting, spines discoloured ...[more]

Quincey, Thomas de Confessions of an English opium-eater. London: Taylor & Hessey, 1823. Third edition, 12mo, contemporary half calf gilt, bound w...

Russell, George William (1867-1935) - "A.E." Vale & other poems. New York, 1931. Presentation copy with original coloured pencil drawing on title ...

Pencil portrait of Walter Scott, from life, unsigned, by Robert Scott-Moncrieff, [c.1816-20], 9 x 8.1cm., with worn inscription on reverse of fram...

Scottish poetry, a collection, including Morgan, Edwin The Cape of Good Hope. Uckfield: The Pound Press, 1955. 8vo, one of 195 copies, original co...

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper Characteristiks of men, manners, opinions, times. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1773. 3 volumes, 'fifth' editio...

Shakespeare, William The plays., edited by Alexander Chalmers. London: J. Nichols [&c.], 1811. 9 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait, con...

Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Campbells of Melfort, Charles Lamb &c., including Shakespeare, W. The works. Stratford-on-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Pr...

St John, Henry, first Viscount Bolingbroke Works. Dublin: David Mallet, printed by P. Byrne, 1793. 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, red and...

Stevenson, Robert Louis The letters, edited by B.A. Booth & E. Mehew. London: Yale University Press, 1994-95. 8 volumes, 8vo, dustwrappers; Steven...

Storey, David This Sporting Life. London: Longmans, 1960. First edition, dustwrapper ...[more]

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord - Gustave Doré Idylls of the king. London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1868. Folio, frontispiece and 36 engraved plates by Doré, ...

Thomas, R.S. The stones of the field. Carmarthen: the Druid Press Limited, [1946]. 8vo, original quarter cloth over blue boards, dust-jacket desig...

Trollope, Anthony Orley Farm. 1862. 2 volumes in one, plates, scrape to upper board; The last chronicle of Barset. 1867. 2 volumes in one, plates;...

Tsvetayeva, Marina - a collection of 4 works, comprising Versty [Mileposts]. Moscow, 1922. 8vo, original printed wrappers, disbound, library stamp...

Utopian novel - Mercier, Louis Sébastien Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred. Dublin: W. Wilson, 1772. 2 volumes, 12mo, translated by W...

Whistler, Laurence 3 A.L.S. (10 pp.) to Siegfried Sassoon, enclosed with a copy of his biography of Rex Whistler (1948), signed presentation copy ...

Whistler, Laurence - glass engraving Scenes and signs on glass. The Cupid Press, 1985. 4to, number 1028 of 1200 copies signed by Laurence Whistler...

Whistler, Rex - 3 bookplates Bookplates designed by Rex Whistler for Osbert Sitwell (4 3/4 x 3 1/8"), Adelaide Livingstone and Kenneth Rae, no 3, ...

Whistler, Rex - Original artwork in the form of a card with picture of man asleep in a hammock and lettering "You may/You may not sleep in the gar...

Whistler, Rex and Laurence, 15 volumes, including: Oho! London: John Lane, 1946. 4to, original pictorial boards, dustwrapper, a couple of small ma...

Woolf, Virginia Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, 1924. 8vo, original paper covers, stamp; Orlando, 1928. 8vo, orange cloth gilt, stamp; The waves, 1931...

Wordsworth, Christopher Greece: pictorial, descriptive, and historical. London, 1868. Fifth edition, large 8vo, frontispiece, engraved title, 19 p...

Wordsworth, William Poems... including lyrial ballads. London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1815. 2 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispieces, contemporary di...

1837 Anonymous manuscript novel - Andrew Blennerhasset Esq. "Annesley a Tale of the West, edited by Andrew Blennerhasset Esq. Barrister at Law, Lo...

Autograph album, and other items of ephemera An album of clipped signatures, c. 1870's, to include David Brewster, T. Carlyle, Gustav Freytag, Gar...

Dey, William Duthie, Lance Corporal - 92nd Gordon Highlanders [2nd Batallion] Manuscript book of poems dated 14th April 1897-c.1930?, 8vo, 161 han...

Edinburgh University - The Jabberwock - Hugh MacDiarmid - [i.e Grieve, Christopher Murray] An interesting archive of The Edinburgh University lite...

George I, King of Great Britain, Sir Luke Schaub, the Comtesse de Platen, Robert Walpole A large collection of letters, largely relating to Sir Lu...

George III, King, attributed to Watercolour of a bouquet of roses intertwined with scroll lettered "La Couronne de Salency", inscribed on verso "P...

Grants of Arms - John French, Viscount French, later 1st Earl of Ypres Illuminated manuscript grant of arms, 1918, assigning and ratifying the pre...

[James Hogg] - Commonplace book of Leonora Dirom of Mount Annan, Dumffrieshire with manuscript verses [including The Green Pears of the Yair], rid...

Leslie, Charles Robert (1794-1859) - Buckingham Palace A.L.S. [to Ludwig Grüner], objecting to the reproduction without his permission of his fres...

Lock, George A small collection of letters including A.L.S. to William Lock, passing on news from Lady Sheffield regarding the September massacres...

Maritime & Naval scrapbooks - Admiral Richard Bowles Farquhar Scrapbook. H.M.S. Intrepid Mediterranean. 1902 to [?]. Oblong folio scrapbook with 2...

Murray II, John (1778-1843), publisher A.L.S. to unknown correspondent inviting him to bring "your friend ... Braaksma... I have written to Dr. S...

Napoleonic Campaign in Russia, & Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia Autograph letter signed from General Nicolas Sabloukoff, to John Anger...

Nightingale, Florence A.L.S. to Edward F Griffiths, asking him to visit her on a different date, and signing herself "your ... hero", one page, 10...

Orkney - Brown, George Mackay - "The Orcadian" 7 autograph essays entitled Under Brinkies Brae, contributed by George Mackay Brown, to The Orcadia...

Orkney - Brown, George Mackay - "The Orcadian" - "Letter from Hamnavoe" 17 autograph essays by George Mackay Brown, entitled Letter from Hamnavoe,...

Stanislas Leszczynski (1677-1766), King of Poland Autograph letter signed [? to Sir Luke Schaub (d.1758)], "Mon chere Amy", saying that he is retu...

Westmacott, Sir Richard Part letter referring to the statue of Achilles in Hyde Park dedicated to the Duke of Wellington "I have followed a mode f...

A collection of works, comprising Robinson, Stanford F.H. Celtic illuminative art. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1908. Folio, original green cloth...

Anderson, James A collection of over 20 monographs, pamphlets and prospecti., covering the American War of Independence, agricultural laws, land m...

Brown, John An estimate of the manners and principles of the times. London: L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1757. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf ...

Burney, Charles An account of the musical performances in Westminster-Abbey... in commemoration of Handel. London, 1785. 4to, engraved frontispiec...

Burrell, Mary Richard Wagner, his life and works from 1813-1834. [London: engraved and printed by Allan Wyon,] 1898. Elephant folio, number 87 of ...

Carmichael, Alexander Carmina Gadelica, hymns and incantations... Edinburgh: printed for the author by T. and A. Constable, 1900. 2 volumes, first...

Craddock, Harry The Savoy Cocktail Book. London: Constable, 1930. First edition, 8vo, coloured illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial silv...

Fore-edge paintings - Cowper, William Poems. London: W.H. Reid, 1820. 2 volumes, 8vo, 2 engraved frontispieces, 2 additional engraved titles, 10 p...

Gardner, Anthony, OBE, bookbinder - William Salmon The country builder's estimator: or the architect's companion. London: James Hodges, 1737. Seco...