Collectables

[L’Affaire du Collier – The Diamond Necklace Scandal] 28eme. Pieces au Sujet du Cardinal de Rohan MSS document in various parts, c.1786, compris...

India Records of the Survey of India [A broken run]. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing [-Dehra Dun: Office of the Trigonometrical Sur...

Scottish and Jacobite history Collection of works [Scottish herringbone binding]. The Holy Bible. [Old Testament only]. Edinburgh: Alexander Kin...

Jacobite history Collection of works Home, John. The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1745. London: by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, Jun. and W...

Wyld, James Set of maps - Middle East, Greece and Turkey Map of the Ottoman Dominions in Asia, with the Adjacent Frontiers of the Russian and Pe...

Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) Letter signed, to Colonel Cox, regarding the dissolution of Parliament 2pp. folio, dated 4th February 1658, 23.5 x ...

Dentistry, 3 volumes 19th century Meredith, L.P. The Teeth and How to Save Them. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1871. 8vo, original red cl...

Speed, John The Invasions of England and Ireland with al [sic] their Civill Wars since the Conquest Performed by John Speed and are to be solde ...

Dickens, Charles [Works] London: Chapman and Hall, [n.d.] 26 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red half calf gilt, a little soiling to the covers of th...

Martin, Martin A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland London: Andrew Bell, 1703. First edition, 8vo, folding map, folding plate, conte...

Blaeu, Johannes Britannia prout divisa fuit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum praesertim durante illorum Heptarchia Amsterdam, 1646, engraved map, hand-c...

D'Anville A Map of South-America London: Laurrie & Whittle, 12th May 1794. Large folding map on two sheets, each 55 x 124cm, hand-coloured in ou...

Alexander, William Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians... London: Thomas McLean, [n.d.] 8vo, hand-coloured fro...

Ellis, William Polynesian Researches, during a residence of nearly six years in the South Sea Islands London: Fisher, Son & Jackson, 1829. 2 vol...

Lothian, P. The Edinburgh New General Atlas London: A.K. Newman & Co., 1846. Folio, plate, 46 maps hand-coloured in outline, original cloth, som...

Sanson, Nicolas L'Ecosse Royaume Paris: Pierre Mariette, 1665. 45 x 59cm, hand-coloured, some soiling to lower margin; Coronelli, Vincenzo. Scot...

McGillivray, William The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History Edinburgh: Published for the Proprietor, 13, Hill Street, 1839-40. volumes 1-2, fo...

Münster, Sebastian Africae Tabula Nova / Africa Lybia Morenland mit allen Königreichen so jetziger zeit darumb gefunden werden [Basel, 1598] 36 ...

[India] Rennell, James, Major A New Map of Hindoostan London: Laurie & Whittle, 12th May 1794, folded ap on two sheets, each 63.5 x 145.5cm, ha...

Stevenson, Alan Report to the Committee of the Commissioners of Northern Lights Appointed to take into consideration the subject of Illuminating...

Burns, Robert Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh: William Creech, 1787. Second (first Edinburgh) edition with ‘Boxburgh’ for ‘Roxb...

Moll, Herman A Set of Thirty Six New and Correct Maps of Scotland London: H. Moll…, [1725] 8vo, 36 double-page maps, contemporary quarter calf o...

Münster, Sebastian Das Engelland mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt [Basel, 1579?] 34 x 40cm

Kip, William - and Christopher Saxton Cornwall Olim pars Danmoniorum [N.p., 1637] 31.5 x 40cm, hand-coloured, trimmed

Münster, Sebastian Engellande Mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt... [Basel, 1598] 33 x 36cm, mounted

Jansson, Jan Scotia Regnum Amsterdam, c.1640, French text to the reverse, 47 x 60cm, small dampstain to right margin

Münster, Sebastian Engellande mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt... [Basel, 1598] 37 x 45cm, hand-coloured, some browning

[Martyrdom of King Charles I] Pamphlet volume of sermons preached before the House of Commons on the feast of King Charles the Martyr London: va...

Antiquarian literature Collection of works, English and continental, 16th-19th century Petrarch. [Opera]. Con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellute...

O'Brian, Patrick (1914-2000) Collection of signed letters to Edwin Moore, 1992-1999 16 autograph letters signed and one typed letter signed, all...

Wain, Louis A collection of illustrated books To Nursery Land. London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., [n.d.] Original pictorial boards;Cats and Dogs....

Antiquarian English and Scottish books Collection of works, 17th-18th century Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. The History of Scotland … The S...

Scottish Enlightenment Collection of works Hume, David. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. Containing Essays, Moral, Political, and Liter...

India General Report on the Operations of the Survey of India Administered under the Government of India during 1908-9 [-1923-24]. Calcutta: Sup...

Ecole spéciale militaire de St-Cyr Portfolio of sketches and manuscript exercises by officer cadet Camille de Caix, Baron de Chaulieu, 1876-1877 ...

Boyle, Robert Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours First occasionally written, among some other Essays, to a Friend; and now suffer'd...

Poe, Edgar Allan Tales of Mystery, Imagination, & Humour; and Poems London: Henry Vizetelly, 1852. [Bound with:] Tales of Mystery, Imagination, ...

Gall, Richard and others An archive of manuscript poetry, many by Richard Gall Epistle to Mr. Robert Burns, 9 x 15cm, comprising 7 manuscript pp...

Scottish binding The Holy Bible Edinburgh: Adrian Watkins, 1754. 8vo (19 x 11.5cm), A-3R8, contemporary red-brown morocco, spine gilt with dotte...

Mazzini, Giuseppe (1805-1872) Autograph letter signed 2 pp., with conjugate blank, 11.1 x 8.8cm, to an unidentified recipient, in English, conce...

[First Australian novelist] Grimstone, Mary Leman The Beauty of the British Alps Or, Love at First Sight. London: G. Virtue, 1825. 8vo in half-s...

Continental books Collection of works including Elzevir press titles, 17th-18th century Laet, Johannes de. Gallia, sive de Francorum regis domin...

Popper, Karl Conjectures and Refutations The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963. First edition, first impres...

Babbage, Charles On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures London: Charles Knight, 1832. First edition, 8vo, xvi 320 pp., original diagonal-f...

Blackwood, Adam Opera Omnia Paris: Sébastien Cramoisy et Gabriel Cramoisy, 1644. 4to, [40] 735 [19] pp., contemporary limp vellum French manuscr...

Philosophy manuscript 'Theses Logicae ... Ontologicae ... Pneumatologicae', Scotland, early 18th century 4to (20 x 15cm), contemporary calf, [50...

Bindings On historical, military and other subjects Clarke, Hewson. The History of the War, from the Commencement of the French Revolution to th...

Maxwell, James Clerk A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1873. First edition, first issue, 2 volumes, 8vo, xxix [3]...

Poetry Collection of works including limited editions and inscribed copies, late 19th and early-20th century Yeats, W. B. The Secret Rose. With ...

Scotland 26 volumes Wodrow, Robert. The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restauration to the Revolution. Edinburgh: ...

Peacock, Francis Sketches relative to the History and Theory, but more especially to the Practice of Dancing … intended as Young Teachers of the...

Marconi, Guglielmo (1874-1937) Inscribed photograph of St Peter's Basilica, Rome, c.1930 Gelatin silver print, 9.5 x 20.5cm, inscribed ‘Al Sig. ...

Bindings Collection of works, English literature, 18th-19th century Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of. Letters to his Son. London: J...

Nobel physicists Three signed letters Thomson, J. J. (1856-1940), discoverer of the electron. Autograph letter signed, Cambridge, 19 March 1912....

Kent The Kentish Post; or Canterbury News-Letter Canterbury: printed and sold by J. Abree [- and William Aylett] in St. Margaret's, 1727. 104 se...

Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies...

[John Newton interest] Halyburton, Thomas Memoirs of the Life of the Reverend, Learned and Pious Mr. Halyburton London: R. Cruttenden, 1718. Sec...

Maxwell, James Clerk On a Method of Making a Direct Comparison of Electrostatic with Electromagnetic Force With a Note on the Electromagnetic Th...

Victoriana Photocollage album, c.1880 Folio dark blue half morocco album with compiler's name (Con Pilcher) gilt to front board, 37 thick card l...

East and West Lothian Fencible Cavalry Regimental victualling book, 1798-99 Manuscript, in ink on laid paper 46 ff. + blanks, 19.9 x 15.6cm, con...