Books, Maps, Prints & Manuscripts

Macquoid (Percy) A History of English Furniture. The Medici Society, 1925-8. Folio (4 vols). Org. red cloth in worn jackets; lavishly illustrated ...

De Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo Vita di Angelica Kauffmann. Frirenze/; Molini, Landi e Comp., 1810 [1811]. 8vo, paper wrappers; pp. viii, 116, [2]; po...

The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings; or Biographical Review. Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1807. 4to (7 vols). Green cloth, paper labels o...

Page, Camille La Coutellerie. Laffitte Reprints, 1994. 4to (6 vols). Faux-crushed morocco, spines and upper boards lettered in gilt; numerous plat...

Trade catalogues, mainly late-19th and early-20th century, for metal work, cutlery and similar trades, mainly English, French and German with some...

Rackham, Bernard Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain. Cambridge: CUP, 1935. Folio (2 vols). Org. cloth and djs; full colou...

Westwood, Kenneth Thomas Sidney Cooper, C.V.O., R.A. His Life and Work. David Leathers Publishing, 2011. Folio (2 vols). Org. cloth in djs, in sli...

Palladio, Andrea; Richards, Godfrey (trans) The First Book of Architecture...Translated out of Italian: With an Appendix Touching Doors and Window...

Howgrave, Francis An Essay of the Ancient and Present State of Stamford. Stamford: Printed for John Clarke at the Bible in Cornhil, London; and Wi...

Bailey, David & Evans, Peter Goodbye Baby & Amen. Coward-McCann, 1969. Folio, org. cloth in unclipped jacket. First American edition. The thick bl...

Onwhyn, Thomas Glass of Grog. Read & Co., 1853. 12mo, 10-leaves, concertina-folded between boards, upper board with paper label duplicating first ...

Richards, Frank [Hamilton, Charles] Billy Bunter and related books. A selection of various editions of Bunter books, including 16 first editions a...

Cottingley Fairies Interest Wright (Elsie) Two watercolours, one signed Elsie Wright 1918 and one Elsie Hill 1948 (Elsie's married name), both fra...

Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Singapore: Lotus Library Publications, [c.1911]. 4to, org. cloth-backed boards; 17 black and white illu...

Benson, A.C. & Weaver, Sir Lawrence (ed.) The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House Vol. 1. Methuen & Co., 1924. 4to, org. linen-backed boards, spine w...

Hartley, Marie The Yorkshire Dales and The Yorkshire Dales - A Further Selection. Otley: Smith Settle, 1989-91. 4to (2 vols). Buckram-backed patte...

Catherine of Wickham [Catherine Gladstone Stewart] Two unpublished manuscript fairy tales. The Fairy Tale of the Ugly King, 1863, pp. 225 and Prin...

BB [Watkin-Pitchford, D.J.] The Little Grey Men; The Idle Countryman; Brendon Chase; The Wayfaring Tree; The Fisherman's Bedside Book. Eyre and Sp...

Early 19th-century Children's Literature Lives of Learned and Eminent Men, taken from Authentic Sources, Adapted to the Use of Children of Four Ye...

Roberts, Victoria ''Your Waterloo! Your Waterloo! What about my Waterloo?''. Watercolour on paper, signed Victoria Roberts, framed and glazed. Rob...

Lithgow, John The Retreat from Moscow, 2003. Cartoon, framed and glazed. Produced by actor John Lithgow for Dame Eileen Atkins to commemorate thei...

Ramsey, Remak Pencil Drawing of Roses, 1990, framed and glazed. Dedicated from Remak to 'darlin' Eileen [Dame Eileen Atkins] - a real English rose...

Milne, A.A. When We Were Very Young, Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, House at Pooh Corner. Methuen & Co., 1928. 8vo (4 vols). Uniformly bound in ...

Andersen (Hans) Stories from Hans Andersen with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911, quarto, 28 mounted colour plates after ...

Potter (Beatrix) Ginger and Pickles, 1909, first edition, original cloth; idem, The Roly Poly Pudding, 1908, first edition, second issue (1908 dat...

Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1910]. 8vo, org. green cloth, upper board with central gilt image, spine lett...

Milne, A.A. When We Were Very Young. Methuen & Co., 1925. 8vo, org. publisher's limp calf gilt, a.e.g., pictorial endpapers, red silk marker (deta...

Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Methuen & Co., 'First published in 1926'. 8vo, org. publisher's limp blue leather gilt, a.e.g., map endpapers, blue s...

Riley, Harold Street Dogs. Riley, 1985. 8vo, org. wrappers; illus by Riley. Signed by Riley on the title page and ffep with an original drawing of...

Thompson, Geoff Two cartoons: ''Royal Ascot'' and ''Just a pile of old bricks posing as an art gallery'', original pen and ink with slight correct...

Spectator Four cartoons by Spectator contributors Dish, Rob Murray, RGJ, and McClachlan, original pen and ink, framed and glazed ...[more]

Cartoons Four newspaper cartoons, original pen and ink, framed and glazed ...[more]

Cartoons Four newspaper cartoons, original pen and ink, framed and glazed ...[more]

Prince PhilipRoyal Household Mail. One ALS and two TLS ('Philip') with a Christmass card (signed 'Philip' and in Greek at the bottom) to Revd. H.M...

Prince Philip Royal Household Mail. Seven ALS ('Philip') to Revd and Mrs Taylor sent during the Duke's naval career, dated 1933-1950. The first fo...

Prince Philip Royal Household Mail. Nine Christmass cards signed 'Philip' to Revd and Mrs Taylor, and one signed 'Elizabeth' as well, with photogr...

Prince Philip Royal Household Mail. A collection of letters signed 'Philip' (mainly typed) to Jimmy Taylor relating to Taylor's time with RAF 16 S...

Prince Philip A collection of 22 letters, mainly typed, with envelopes and most signed 'Philip' (though some are fully typed) to Jimmy Taylor, WWI...

Smith, F.E., Earl of Birkenhead The World in 2030. Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. Org. black cloth, lettered in red; 8 plates after E. McKnight Kauffer...

Thackeray (W M) Vanity Fair. Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. 4to, org. decorative cloth in glassine wrapper, in org. box; illus. by Lewis Baumer.. Bo...

Queen Alexandra Autograph letters signed 'Alexandra' to 'Leila' [Evelyn, Countess Blucher], together with envelopes, addressed to 'Countess Bluche...

Epictetus Manuale di Epitteto Filosofo. Roma: Angelo Bernabo, 1655. 12mo, full vellum, spine lettered in ink; one eng. plate.. Binding a little d...

Granger, James A Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution. T. Davies, 1769. 4to (4 vols). Full calf, spines with co...

Commonplace and autograph book 1930s-40s commonplace book, some pages with quotations and signatures (likely mostly of classmates at St James' but...

Schickard, Wilhelm Horologium Hebræum bound with Rota Hebræa. Typis Thomæ Paine: Venit apud Philemonem Stephanum, & Christophorum Meredith sub leo...

Five 18th-Century Italian books from the library of Francesco Berio, marchese di Salza Comprising Porco, Filippo Storia Dell'Illustrisima Archicon...

Legal Documents An impressive collection of legal instruments (c.100) dating from the 16th to the 19th century, many from the 17th and 18th, princ...

Epicurus Morals. Printed for H. Herringman at the Blew Anchor in the Lower-Walk of the New-Exchange, 1670. Full calf; port. frontis.. Binding wor...

Baron and Feme A Treatise of the Common Law concerning Husbands and Wives. Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (Assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq., 1...

Louis XIV Document signed 'Louis' in a possibly childish hand, granting tolls to the Comte de a Rocheguyon as Governor of Montreuil, 26th Dec 1645...

Bridges, Charles Poems in Five Phases, Simpkin, Marshall, 1914 and Verse Voluntaries, Simpkin, Marshall, 1912 with Stuart, Muriel Christ at Carniv...

Milton, John Paradise Lost. Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1752. 8vo, full calf; frontis., 12 plates. with Paradise Regained. Edinburgh: Alexander Donaldso...

19th-Century Literature Anon Literary Diary, n.d. 8vo, half leather; pp. 378. A handwritten selection of quotations and similar recorded as an aid...

Theroux, Paul Murder in Mount Holly. Alan Ross, 1969. 8vo, org. red boards in unclipped dj (25s). First edition. A curiously scarce work, only pub...

Herriot, James If Only They Could Talk. Michael Joseph, 1970. 8vo, org. cloth in unclipped dj (30s/£1.50). First edition.. Jacket edges creased ...

MacKay, Charles Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. Richard Bentley, 1841. 8vo (3 vols). Half leather over marbled boards by Charles Thurn...

Du Choul, Guilielmo Veterum Romanorum religio, castrametatio, disciplina militaris ut & balneae. Ex antiquis numismatibus & lapidibus demonstrata....

Aikin, Anna Laetitia Poems. Printed by Joseph Johnson, 1773. 4to, calf-backed marbled boards, spine with contrasting morocco lettering-piece, red ...

[Pezron, Paul] L'Antiquité des Tems Rétablie et Défenduë Contre Les Juifs & les Nouveaux Chronologistes. Paris: Chez la veuve d'Edme Martin, Jean ...

Hume, David An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. Printed for A. Millar, over-against Catherine Street in the Strand, 1751. First editio...