Books, Maps, Prints & Manuscripts

Art Leitch, R.P. A Course of Sepia Painting (1880). Oblong 8vo, org. cloth: plates; Cooke, E.W. Leaves from my Sketch Book (1876). Oblong 4to, ful...

Prout, Samuel Rudiments of Landscape: in progressive studies. L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh for Ackermann, 1814. Oblong 4to, recent full red morocco,...

Phillips, Ghiles Firman Principles of Effect and Colour as Applicable to Landscape Painting. F.G. Harding, 1833. Oblong 4to, red half leather over...

Colvin, Sydney Selected Drawings from Old Masters in the University Galleries and in the Library at Christ Church Oxford Part III. Oxford: Clarend...

Constable, John; Lucas, David; Mezzotints A new printing from eleven recently discovered steel plates. With an Introduction by Leslie Parris, a No...

Moore, Henry The Shelter Sketch-Book. Marlborough Fine Art, 1967. Folio, collotypes bound in leather backed boards, spine lettered in black with f...

Rembrandt Burnet, John. Rembrandt and his Works. David Bogue, 1849. 4to, org. cloth; illus. with reproductions of Rembrandt's etchings. Michel, Em...

Photography A large and varied collection of 19th and 20th century photographs and prints. The collection includes travel pictures from Rome, Guat...

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

Fairbairns, Arnold Portfolio of English Cathedrals. The Photochrom Company [individual titles Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., [c.190...

Jackson, C.J. An Illustrated History of English Plate. Country Life and B.T. Batsford, 1911. 4to (2 vols). Finely bound in blue crushed morocco by...

Metalwork Vorlagen fur Metallplastik. Dressins pour le Metal repousse. Designs for Metal repousse. Germany, c.1900. Folio, 20 sheets of designs fo...

Sample Book A collection of examples of stationery, writing pads, paper types and others, c.1930s-50s, folio, c.130 pages. A colourful look at pap...

Greetings Cards Four 19th century paper-lace cards, with ink MSS messages. One bears an engineered-paper, pull-tab novelty of a lady reading overl...

Aldin, Cecil An Artist's Models. H.F. & G. Witherby, [1930]. 4to, org. vellum, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, in slipcase; 20 full-page p...

Boccaccio, Giovanni; Lucchesi, Edmondo (illus) Ten Tales from the Decameron. Privately Printed for the Mandrake Press, 1930. 4to, full green coars...

Dante; Dore, Gustave (illus.) The Vision of Hell and Purgatory and Paradise. Cassell, c.1900. 4to (2 vols). Half leather, spines lettered in gilt;...

Milton, John; Martin, John (illus.) Paradise Lost. Printed for Henry Washbourne, 1853. 4to, full coarse-grain plum leather gilt; 24 mezzotints by ...

Steers, H. (versifier); Aesop Aesop's Fables, New Versified from the Best English editions. Hull: Printed for the Author, by Robert Peck, 1803. 8v...

Baumer, Lewis RBA Portrait study of a lady with red hat and red flowers, signed, pen, ink and watercolour, framed. Baumer was a noted British cari...

Payne, Roger Carmen. Look & Learn, 1982. Gouache on card, 138% enlargement with scale, signed in pencil. Look & Learn was a British educational ma...

Mackenzie, Thomas Scene from the 'Arabian Nights' Sheherazade dancing, signed, pen, watercolour and gouache, framed and glazed. Mackenzie illustra...

CAM [Barbara Campbell] ''The Girls'' or ''Three of Us'' or ''Tuppence and Co.'' eighteen original watercolours, unsigned, mounted with a light cre...

Barrie, J.M.; Rackham, Arthur (illus) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. 4to, full vellum gilt, ties lost with remnants,...

Carroll, Lewis; Van Sandwyk, Charles (illus.) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Folio Society, 2016. Folio, quarter vellum with vellum tips over p...

Crompton, Richmal William the Superman. George Newnes, 1968. 8vo, org. cloth in unclipped jacket (priced 10/6). First ed. idem William the Bold. G...

Omar Khayyam Dulac, Edmund (illus.) Rubaiyat. Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. 4to, cream buckram gilt; full colour plates tipped in. First trade ed. T...

Peake, Mervyn The Gormenghast Trilogy, comprising: Titus Groan. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. 8vo, org. red cloth in heavily-clipped second state dj ...

Peake, Mervyn Ephemera relating to Peake and his works and contributions by him to periodicals. The collection includes the work of various Peake ...

Peake, Mervyn Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswode, 1945. Square 8vo, org. oatmeal cloth lettered in green, in unclipped jacket...

Carroll, Lewis; Peake, Mervyn (illus.) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Stockholm/London: Zephyr Books The Continen...

Austin, Paul Britten; Peake Mervyn (illus.) The Wonderful Life & Adventures of Tom Thumb and The Second Part. Stockholm: Radiotjanst, 1954-5. 12mo...

Peake, Mervyn A collection of books illustrated by Peake and of his drawings. Illustrated works include: Collins, Maurice, Quest for Sita (1946, l...

Peake, Mervyn A collection of his poetry and writing including: Shapes and Sounds. Chatto & Windus, 1941; The Glassblowers. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1...

Peake, Mervyn Letters from a Lost Uncle. Eyre & Spottiswode, 1948. 8vo, org. yellow cloth blocked and lettered in scarlet, in unclipped jacket (se...

Baden, Powell, Lord Robert The Scout Vols XI, XIII, XV. C. Arthur Pearson, 1916-1920. 4to (3 vols). Org. red pictorial cloth; illus with drawings ...

Wodehouse, P.G. et al The Public School Magazine. Vol. VIII July to December 1901. A. & C. Black, 1901. 8vo, org. blue decorative cloth. The Publ...

Society of Antiquaries Pettingal, John, A Dissertation upon the Tascia or Legend, on the British Coins of Cunobelin and others (1763, one plate) b...

Ephemera A collection of broadsides, pamphlets and poetry publications, principally 18th and 19th century. The selection includes published open l...

Politics A collection of broadsheets, pamphlets and similar material relating to British politics of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Including:...

Anon The Benefits and Privileges of Cuckolds Shewing the Little Disgrace There is in Being One, and the Obligations Men Sometimes have to Their Wi...

Trials, Courts-Martial and Grand Juries A collection of nine broadsides and trial transcripts, variously dated 1679-1809 (principally 18th century...

Astle, Thomas The Origin and Progress of Writing. Printed for the Author, 1784. 4to, cloth, sometime rebacked retaining spine; 31 plates.

Various The Secret Court Memoirs. Printed for the Grolier Society, [1904]. 8vo (20 vols). Org. green cloth, paper labels to spines; illus. Limited...

Tuer, Andrew W. The Follies & Fashions of our Grandfathers. Field & Tuer, 1886-7. 8vo, half grey leather over boards, upper board and spine with e...

Charles I Legal document issued to William Weedon, merchant tailor of London, granting the use of a property for his life-time, signed by Julius C...

A Noble Hand Cabala: Sive Scrinia Sacra. Mysteries of State & Government in Letters bound with A Supplement of the Cabala. Printed for G. Bedell a...

Strafford, William, 2nd Earl MSS accounts for ?1647, written under the direction of (and likely by) the Earl for the management of his estates, 6t...

Lover of Peace and Truth [P.A. (attrib.)] The Character of An Honest Man; Whether Styled Whig or Tory, And his opposite, the Knave. Printed for Ra...

Olgiati, Girolamo Quinquaginta illustrium philosophorum et sapientum effigies ab eorum numismatibus extractae. Venice: Ambrogio Dei, 1607. 4to, le...

Grotius, Hugo De Jure Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1650. 8vo, archival binding, paper label on spine; pp. [24], 618, [45]; ti...

Varchi, Benedetto Storia Fiorentina. Colonia: Pietro Martello, 1721. Folio, full calf, speckled edges; pp. [28], 677, [3]; add. eng tit., port. fr...

Ackermann, Rudolph; Rowlandson, Thomas; Pugin, Augustus Eight plates from The Microcosm of London. Ackermann, c.1810. Comprising: Doctor's Commons...

Bishop of Cloyne [Berkeley, George] A Miscellany, containing several Tracts on various Subjects. Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752....

[Burke, Edmund]. Broken run of The Annual Register or a View of the History, Politics and Literature for the Years 1762, 1763, 1767 [all later], ...

Slave Trade The Debate on a Motion for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade in the House of Commons on Monday and Tuesday, April 18 and 19, 1791. Prin...

Walker, Capt. Charles Authentick Memoirs of the Life Intrigues and Adventures of the Celebrated Sally Salisbury. London: Printed in the Year, 1723...

Mayall, John Jabez Edwin Series of Photographs of Eminent Men. Messrs Marion & Co., 152 Regent St., 1862. Seven albumen prints after photographs b...

Churchill, Winston Marlborough. His Life and Times. George Harrap & Co., 1947. 8vo (2 vols). Quarter blue morocco over linen, t.e.g. in slipcase; ...

Churchill, Winston Typed letter signed 'Winston S. Churchill'' to T.H. Moore, 2 Sussex Square, 14th December 1923, folded for posting, sending gen...