Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography

Antonini, Carlo Manuale di Vari Ornamenti... Rome: Casaletti, 1777. 4to, volume 1 only, 50 engraved plates, contemporary calf, soiling, dampstain...

Arnold, Sir Thomas W. & Professor Adolf Grohmann The Islamic book. A Contribution to its Art and History from the VII-XVIII century. London: Pega...

Art Reference a quantity of art reference books and auction catalogues, in 8 boxes, hardback and paperback ...[more]

Asian art - Lucas, Sydney Edward - Sassoon, Sir Ellice Victor The Catalogue of the Sassoon Chinese Ivories. London: Country Life, 1950. 3 volumes...

Campanalogy - Ancient bells at Alnwick, Northumberland, a collection of 14 letters & Introduction, discussing the inscription on the "Mary Bell" ...

Decoration & Ornament, 2 works, including Fischbach, Frederick Ornament of Textile Fabrics. London: B. Quaritch, [1882]. Folio, 2 parts (text in ...

Dodgson, Campbell - Edmund Blampied A Complete Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of Edmund Blampied R.E. London: Halton & Truscott Smith, ...

Dresser, Christopher Studies in Design. London: Cassel, Petter and Calpin, [1874?]. Folio, 1 lithographed title, 59 chromolithographed plates out...

Howe, E.R,J. Gambier Franks Bequest. Catalogue of British and American Book Plates... London: British Museum, 1903-1904. 3 volumes, 8vo, original...

Morgan, Edwin Colour Poems. Glasgow: Third Eye Publications, 1978. Comprising 5 prints by Morgan, each 60 x 42cm., with cover sheet, contained in...

Oriental Rugs and Carpets, a collection of 38 volumes, including Kendrick, A.F. & C.E.C. Tattersall Hand-woven Carpets Oriental & European. New Y...

[Rogerson, H. Summerfield] [Modern Ornament. Manchester: The Decorative Art Journal Company Ltd., c.1900?] Folio, 12 plates, original cloth gilt,...

Ruskin, John Works. Boston: Estes & Laurait, 1897. Connoisseur edition, 26 volumes, 8vo, number 34 of 50 copies, half crushed red morocco with el...

Tattersall, George Sporting Architecture. London, 1841. 4to, engraved frontispiece and vignette title and 18 engraved plates, illustrations, orig...

Varley, J. A Treatise on the Principles of Landscape Design... London: J. Varley, [n.d.] Oblong 4to., 10 large and 18 small illustrations, some...

Alnwick, Ordnance Survey Maps Ordnance Survey Office, 1866. 7 double page engraved maps, 69 x 101 cm., some dust-soiling, a couple of splits at f...

Atlas - Martin, R. Montgomery The Illustrated Atlas. London: J. & F. Tallis, [1851]. Folio, engraved title, 15 (of 81) engraved maps, contemporar...

Battle of the Nile An Exact Representation of the English & French Fleets under the Command of Rear Admiral Sr. Horatio Nelson K.B. & Admiral Bru...

Blaeu, Willem Le Theatre du Monde, ou Nouvel Atlas de Jean Blaeu. Cinquieme Partie. Amsterdam: Jan Blaeu, 1654. Folio, hand-coloured engraved tit...

Browne, W.H., artist & Haghe, Charles, engraver Lithographed plate showing Fjord Near Uppernavik & Ravine Near Port Leopold, 33 x 26cm,framed a...

Collection of 10 maps, including Saxton, C. Barkshyre. [c.1637] and Huntingdon [c.1637], foot of map trimmed; Blome, Richard A Mapp of Hartfordsh...

de Wit, Frederick The Plan of Edinburgh. Exactly done from the original of D. Witt. London: J. Smith, 1658, 120 x 56cm, hand-coloured, framed and...

Durham & Oxford Engraved and lithographed views of Durham Cathedral after Bouet & E. Blore, interiors of York Minster, 1 drawing of Durham Cathed...

Durham, 4 maps, comprising: Greenwood, C. & J. Map of the County Palatine of Durham. Jan. 26 1831. Hand-coloured engraved map, 586 x 695mm., Cary...

Gross, Anthony Sussex, 1926, etching, signed in pencil to plate margin, framed and glazed, 16 x 20cm ...[more]

India - Coromandel Coast - Laurie, Robert and James Little The Coast of India between Calymere and Gordeware Points, including the Coast of Corom...

Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf South West quadrant [only] of hand-coloured lithographed map, 'published under the direction of the Hon'ble Co...

Map of Scotland, 1715 - Nicolas Sanson, d'Abville - Henry Overton - Sutton Nicholls A New and Exact Mapp [sic.] of Scotland or North-Britain. Lon...

Ortelius, Abraham Presbiteri Johannis sive Abissinorum Imperii descriptio. Antwerp, [c.1592], Hand-coloured engraved map of E. Africa and Arabia,...

Philippines - Anson, George A Chart of the Channel in the Phillippine Islands through which the Manila Galeon passes together with the adjacent I...

Ptolemy, Claudius Two maps after a series of 12 maps of Asia created from the writings of Claudius Ptolemy, Asiae IIII Shows Cyprus, Syria and Pa...

Railway related maps, manuscript and lithographed, including North British Railway Plan showing Sites of Stations as in 1778 [as in 1804] at Wave...

Scottish manuscript and lithographed plans and maps, a collection, including Manuscript Plan shewing the proposed new Roofs of Shrubhill House, h...

Speed, John The Turkish Empire. London: G. Humble, [1626] Hand-coloured engraved map, English text on verso, 395 x 515mm. ...[more]

Taylor, George and Andrew Skinner Taylor & Skinner's Survey and Maps of the Roads of North Britain or Scotland. London: for the Authors, 1776. En...

Visscher, Nicolaus Indiae Orientalis, nen non Insularum adiacentium Nova Descriptio. Amsterdam, [c.1670]. Engraved map hand-coloured in outline, ...

Warkworth Harbour - Plan of the proposed Dock and of the Improvements at Warkworth Harbour, in the County of Northumberland. London, 29 November ...

"Carrol, Lewis" [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] Le Aventure d'Alice nel Paese Delle Meraviglie. London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. First Italian edition p...

"Carrol, Lewis" [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] Le Avventure D'Alice nel Paese Delle Meraviglie. Turin: Ermanno Loescher, 1872. First edition publishe...

"Carrol, Lewis" [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles. London: Macmillan and Co., 1869. First French edition, origi...

"Carrol, Lewis" [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan & Co., 1868. Thirteenth thousand, 8vo, half-title ...

"Carrol, Lewis" [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] Alice's Adventures Under Ground, being a facsimile of the original ms. book and afterwards developed i...

"Carrol, Lewis" [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] The Hunting of the Snark. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, some in...

Greene, Graham The Little Horse Bus. London: Max Parrish, [1952]. 4to, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket with a few small chips and a couple o...

Milne, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. First edition, 8vo, original pink cloth with gilt Christopher Robin and P...

Milne, A.A. When We Were Very Young. 1925. 12th edition, a few spots; Now we are six. 1927. First edition, dustwrapper with loss to spine, spotti...

Potter, Beatrix The Tailor of Gloucester. [Strangeways]: 1902. First edition, 12mo, one of 500 copies privately printed for Potter, original pink...

Rackham, Arthur Ruskin, John The King of the Golden River. London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1932. 8vo, 4 colour plates by Rackham, original wrap...

Rackham, Arthur - J.M. Barrie Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. First edition, 4to, 50 tipped-in colour plates, ...

Rackham, Arthur - S.J. Adair Fitzgerald The Zankiwank & the Bletherwitch. London: J.M. Dent, 1896. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece & illustratio...

Rackham, Arthur - The Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales. London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1909. First edition, 4to, 40 tipped-in plates, origin...

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, 53rd impression, paperback, 8vo, signed by Rowli...

Farisol, Abraham Id est, Itinera Mundi, sic dicta nempe Cosmographia. Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1691-90. 4to, 2 parts in one volume, Hebrew and...

French literature, a collection of 33 volumes, including La Harpe, J.f. Lycée de Cours de Littérature. Paris, 1834. 2 volumes, large 8vo, red mor...

Rabelais, François Oeuvres. Amsterdam: Henri Bordesius, 1711. 6 volumes bound in 5, small 8vo, engraved title-page, portrait, 3 folding engraved ...

Royal binding of Louis XIV - La Fayette, Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de La Princesse de Monpensier. Paris: Louis Billaine, 1662...

Soto, Pedro de Methodus Confessionis... Dillingen: Sebald Mayer, Christophorus Schick, 1560. 12mo, contemporary stamped pigskin, clasps (upper cl...

Beveridge, Erskine North Uist, its Archaeology and Topography. Edinburgh: William Brown, 1911. 4to, number 129 of 315 copies, inscribed to Dougla...

Beveridge, Erskine Coll and Tiree, their prehistoric forts and ecclesiastical antiquities. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1903. 4to, out-of-seri...

Browne, James A series on the history of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans; with an extensive selection from the hitherto inedited Stuart P...