Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Architects' Standard Catalogues 1911-1914. Volumes 1-2, 4, 5-6, 7-8, in 4 volumes, Architects' Standard Catalogues 1914-1917 (Second edition). Vo...

Architecture, metalwork & landscape gardening, including Conder, Josiah Landscape gardening in Japan. Tokyo, 1912. Folio, [without the Suppleme...

Baldwin Brown, G. - Annan, J. Craig The Glasgow school of painters. Glasgow: J. Maclehose & Sons, 1908. Folio, title-page in red and black, 54 fu...

Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore - Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano - Valentini, Agostino La patriarcale Basilica Liberiana. Rome: A. Valenti...

Drummond, James Ancient Scottish weapons. Edinburgh & London: G. Waterston, 1881. Folio, number 194 of 500 copies, 54 chromolithographed plates, ...

Pearls - Kunz, G.F. and C.H. Stevenson The book of the pearl. New York: Century Co., 1908. First edition, 4to, plates, some coloured, original pi...

Petit, Victor Chateaux de la vallée de la Loire des XV, XVI et XVII siècles. Paris: C. Boivin, 1861. Large folio, 2 volumes, 100 lithographed pla...

Walpole, Horace Anecdotes of painting in England. Strawberry-Hill, 1762-1771. 4 volumes, 4to, 98 engraved plates [? of 100], contemporary diced c...

Barrozzio, Jacques, de Vignole - Michelinot, J. Regle des cinq ordres d'architecture. Paris: Chez Jean, 1828. Folio, 14 (of 15?) plates (lacking ...

Bridgens, Richard Furniture with candelabra and interior decoration. London: W. Pickering, 1838. First edition, 4to, complete with hand-coloured ...

Brown, Richard The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture. London: J. Taylor, 1822. Second edition, 2 parts in one volume, 4to, 32...

Cabinet Making, 8 volumes, including Hepplewhite, A. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide. Reprinted by B.T. Batsford, 1898. Folio, illustra...

Caricature Annual The looking glass or caricature annual... drawn & etched by William Heath. London: Thomas McLean, 1831. Folio, volume 1 only, h...

Cast iron pattern books, a collection of 12 volumes, including Carron Company [New catalogue of manufacturers], 3 volumes, oblong folio, [c.1880-...

Chippendale, Thomas Chippendale's one hundred and thirty three designs of interior decorations in the old French & antique styles, for carvers, c...

Chippendale, Thomas The gentleman and cabinet-maker's Director. London: by J. Haberkorn, for the author, 1755. Second edition, folio, title print...

Chippendale, Thomas The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director. London: for the Author, 1762. Third edition, folio, engraved dedication leaf, 200...

Crofton, John Saville The London upholsterer's companion. London: John Williams, 1824. First edition, 4to, [xvi], 89, 4pp. adverts; 13 lithograph...

Furniture designs 2 watercolours, 15 hand-coloured lithographed plates of sideboards, chairs, bedroom suites, [c.1910-20], 24 x 36cm., mounted on...

Glasgow cabinet makers The cabinet-maker's assistant: a series of original designs for modern furniture, with descriptions and details of constru...

Hampton & Sons, Furniture designers Illustrated designs of cabinet furniture engraved from photographs of stock. London, [c.1875]. 4to, frontispi...

Hepplewhite, Alice The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide. London: I. & J. Taylor, 1794. Third edition, folio, 126 engraved plates (including ...

Hope, Thomas Costume of the ancients. London: William Miller, 1809. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, presentation copy, inscribed in volume 1 from ...

Hope, Thomas - Regency Style Household furniture and interior decoration, executed from designs by Thomas Hope. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Or...

Hope, Thomas - Regency Style Household furniture and interior decoration, executed from designs by Thomas Hope. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Or...

Ince, William & John Mayhew [The universal system of household furniture. Consisting of above 300 designs]. - London, [R. Sayer, 1762?]. Folio, e...

Jacob, S.S. and T.H. Hendley Jeypore enamels. London: W. Griggs, 1886. Folio, 28 chromolithographed plates, original pictorial boards, [16pp.], w...

Johnson, Thomas One hundred & fifty new designs by Thos. Johnson, carver. Consisting of ceilings, chimney pieces, slab, glass & picture frames, s...

[Lady Hamilton] - Rehberg, Frederick Lady Hamilton's attitudes. Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples. [London, c. 1850]. Folio, engra...

Langley, Batty The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs: or the art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of archit...

London Cabinet-Makers' Union Book of Prices. 4to, engraved frontispiece, half calf, lacks all plates and text after p. 40; [Taylor, L. & J., publ...

Majolica and Enamelled Tiles - Mintons (Limited) China Works Minton Tiles. Selected patterns of enamelled tiles for walls, hearths, fire places, ...

Palladio, Andrea The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture. London: Isaac Ware, 1738. Folio, 4 engraved titles and 212 engraved plates [nu...

Percier, Charles and Pierre F.L. Fontaine Recueil de décorations intérieures, comprenant tout ce qui a rapport a l'ameublement. Paris: chez les a...

Richards, S., antique dealer of Nottingham, illustrated catalogues, 1890-1915 Antiques, curiosities and objects of art, on sale by J. Richards, 7...

Shaw, Henry Specimens of ancient furniture. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1866. 4to, additional hand-coloured lithographed title and 73 lithographed pla...

Shaw, Henry Specimens of ancient furniture. [London: W. Pickering, 1836]. 4to, 63 (of 73) plates, 11 hand-coloured, contemporary calf, neatly reb...

Shearer, Thomas The cabinet-makers' London book of prices, and designs of cabinet work. London: for the London Society of Cabinet Makers, 1793. S...

Siddons, G.A. The cabinet-maker's guide, or rules and instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining, Japanning, polishing, lackering and...

Smith, George Smith's cabinet-maker's & upholsterer's guide, drawing book and repository of new and original designs for household, furniture and...

Smith, George A collection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration. London: J. Taylor, 1808. First edition, 4to, 148 [of 158] ...

Stokes, J., of Philadelphia The complete cabinet maker and upholsterer's guide. London: Dean & Munday, [1829]. 12mo, 15 engraved plates (of 16), ...

Thomson, P. The cabinet maker's sketch book. Glasgow: William Mackenzie, [1851?] Folio, engraved title-page, engraved dedication, 5pp. illustrati...

Wallis, N. The complete modern joiner, or a collection of original designs in the present taste, for chimney-pieces and door-cases. London: I. Ta...

Wood, Henry A useful and modern work on chairs, in twelve plates, containing forty-two designs. By Henry Wood, Decorative Draughtsman. London: Ac...

Wood, Henry [Designs for furniture by Henry Wood]. [N.p., mid-nineteenth century.] Folio. 116 (of 118) lithographed plates (lacks plates 7 & 16),...

"Operation Husky", amphibious invasion of Sicily by the British Eighth Army & General Montgomery - annotated Second World War Allied Invasion maps...

Ascension Island Manuscript chart and view of Ascension island by an unknown hand, drawn after 1840, 410 x 320mm.; and a water colour profile of ...

Ayrshire - Robert Aitken Map of the parish of Kilbirnie. Surveyed 1827. Edinburgh: W. Ballantine, 1828. Engraved map, 555 x 435mm., Aitken, Rober...

China - Rare British Intelligence Maps of China, c. 1895 A collection of 31 maps of cities, routes and forts of China, produced by The Intelligen...

Clyde, Glasgow: London & North-Western & Caledonian Railways, 2 travel posters Lord of the Isles Poster, advertising the famous Clyde Tourist Ste...

Collection of maps, including Green, John Chart containing the greater part of the South Sea to the South of the Line. London: T. Jefferys, 1753,...

Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria Impero del gran Mogol. Venice, c.1696, c.47 x 55cm, later hand-colouring ...[more]

Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria Scotia parte meridionale, [Venice, c.1690], rolled map, c.49 x 73cm, hand-coloured, Italian text on verso ...[more]

Cutler, Nathaniel; Halley, Edmund, and John Senex A correct sea chart of the whole world, according to Wright's, commonly called Mercator's proje...

Dunn, Samuel A general map of the world or terraqueous globe. London: Robert Sayer, 1787. Twin hemispherical map, surrounded by detailed descript...

Dutch views - Hoeye, Rombout van den Flissinga. [Amsterdam, c. 1650], 430 x 570mm., double-page engraved view; Allard, Hugo Diepe, 435 x 560mm., ...

East Coast of Scotland, 1647 - Sir Robert Dudley Carta Particolare della costa di Scozia che comincia con il C: di S tabs e finisce con il c: d C...

Edinburgh - Armstrong, Capt. Andrew & Mostyn John Plan of the city, castle and suburbs of Edinburgh, 1773 [being the bottom right sheet of a set ...

Edinburgh - Kip, Johannes The north prospect of the city of Edenburgh. London: printed by John Bowles, [n.d], image approx 46 x 111cm., tear at e...