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...

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...

Catherine of Wickham [Catherine Gladstone Stewart] Two unpublished manuscript fairy tales.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...

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...

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...

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...

The Author of Satyrs upon the Jesuits [Oldham, John] Poems and Translations. Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh, 1683. 8vo, full panelled calf, red and ...

Eliot, Thomas Stearns Typed letter signed ('T.S. Eliot') to Father Hawker in relation to a seeming confusion between them, The Institute for Advan...

Southey, Robert Wat Tyler A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts. Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1817. 8vo, full calf; pp. [i-v (seemingly lacking...

Goulart, I.; Grimeston, Ed. (trans.) Admirable and Memorable Histories Containing the wonders of our time. George Eld, 1607. 8vo, full calf, board...

H.R.A[spinwall] Commonplace book, c.1816-1836. 4to, org. green cloth; 30 MSS leaves, some written on both sides, 13 leaves of illus, two ink drawi...

19th-century Scrapbook 4to, red straight-grain morocco gilt; c.45 pages of MSS poetry and similar, c.35 pages of mounted drawings, sketches, paint...

Heathfield, Richard Elements of a Plan for the Liquidation of the Public Debt bound with Further Observations on the Practicability and Expediency...

Cartoons Scrap album, n.d. likely 19th c., containing four series of hand-drawn uncoloured ink pen cartoons of 14, 12, 12, and 15 panels each laid...

Wilson, Mary Selected Poems. Hutchinson of London, 1970. 8vo, org. green boards in unclipped dj (12s). First edition. At one time Baroness Wilson...

Vergil, Polydore Urbinatis de rerum inventoribus libri octo bound with Urbinatis Dialogorum. Basel: Mich. Isingriniu[m], 1550. 8vo, handsomely bou...

Swift, Jonathan Works. Edinburgh: Eben. Wilson, 1768. 8vo (13 vols). Sometime rebound in half calf over marbled boards, spines with contrasting mo...

Voltaire The Age of Lewis XIV. Dublin: George Faulkner, 1752. 8vo (2 vols) Full calf, spines gilt in compartments with morocco lettering-pieces in...