Rare Books & Works on Paper

'Catalogue of Fish and Birds Preserved at St. Michael's Mount,' By E. S. St. A. 1906 Full red leather with gilt tooled title to front board, some...

(Mining and Dowsing) FIDDICK, Thomas. 'Dowsing. With an account of some Original Experiments,' First edition, thin printed card wraps, staple bou...

THURTON, William (assisted by his daughter). 'A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands,' First edition, original publishers boards, corn...

ROBERTSON, William. 'The Works of.....,' Nine volumes, uniform half brown calf with marbled boards, gilt title and vol to spines, frontis engrave...

(Binding) GIBRAN, Kahlil. 'The Prophet,' Twenty fourth printing, full dark blue polished calf with gilt border to boards, some sun bleaching to c...

(Baskerville binding) 'The Book of Common Prayer,' 'And Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According ...

P. Henrico Scherer (1628-1704) 'Atlas Marianus' 'Sive Praecipuae Totus Orbis Habitati Imagines Magnae Dei Matris Beneficiis ac Prodigiis Inclytae...

RITSON, Joseph. 'A Select Collection of English Songs, With Their Original Airs: And a Historical Essay on the Origin and Progress of National Son...

HAWES, Barbara. 'Tales of the North American Indians, and Adventures of the Early Settlers in America,' Second edition, scarce publishers printed...

(Prose, poetry and early 20th century decorative printing) Ten works. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 'Nature,' Roycrofters binding, full brown suede with bl...

GRIFFIN, Gregory. 'The Microcosm, A Periodical Work.....Of the College of Eton,' Full leather rebacked with gilt tooling to spine, ex libris labe...

(Book binding) COCKERELL, Douglas. 'Bookbinding as a School Subject....Stage IV, Lettering and Simple Tooling' Full calf with gilt tooled dots an...

TILDEN, Philip (architect) A historic architectural sketchbook. Fifty two graphite drawings and four watercolours, a well-travelled sketchbook de...

DU MAURIER, Daphne. 'Frenchman's Creek,' First edition, first issue with Langley Lane January-June 1941 to dedication page, original cloth, unclip...

(Botanic illustrations) George Cook. 'The Botanical Cabinet Consisting of Coloured Delineations of Plants, from all Countries, with a short Accoun...

Two Meiji period, Japanese pattern guides. Profuse in designs, one showing Arabesque designs and the other naturalistic, with original orange wrap...

Polar Exploration. Five works. Capt McClintock. 'A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions,' original blue ...

BAXTER, Richard. 'The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their enjoyment of God and Glory,' The second ...

COLERIDGE, S. T. 'The Poetical and Dramatic Works of.....,' Three volumes, full purple leather, raised bands to spine rubbed, gilt edge, fine text...

BORLASE, William. 'Observations on the Antiquities Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall,' First edition, rebacked with original fu...

(Fine binding and noted provenance) SOUTHEY, Robert. 'Madoc,' Third edition, two volumes, full polished calf with an attractive geometric design ...

(Fine binding and noted provenance) The Earl of Carlisle. 'The Father's Revenge. A Tragedy,' First edition, ornate Etruscan binding, some slight ...

(Victorian calligraphy) Contemporary half leather with marbled boards, a charming Victorian example, signed by a Caroline Shipton, some colour pai...

KALM, Pieter. 'Reis Door Noord Amerika, geddan door den Heer Pieter Kalm, Professor in de Huishoudingskonst op de Hoge School to Aobo, en Medelid ...

T. Hasegawa (publishers) 'The Rats Plaint,' Second edition, translated by Archibald Little, landscape crepe paper softback, colour illustrations t...

(Signed) RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrations) and EVANS, C. S. 'The Sleeping Beauty,' Limited edition 454/625, flat signed by Rackham, vellum backed bo...

DULAC, Edmund (illustrations) 'Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights Retold by Laurence Housman,' Early trade edition, cream pictorial ...

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrations) 'The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie,' 'The Ring of Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner,' new impression,...

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrations) 'Gulliver's Travels,' by Jonathan Swift First edition thus, rebound in a burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spi...

WENMAN, Joseph (publisher). Sammelband of 91 plays in two volumes, 1777-1781. Half leather with marbled boards, rubbed and bumped to extremities,...

FLEMING, Ian. 'Goldfinger,' First edition, fine original black cloth with skull design in gilt and blind, spine lettered in gilt, some finger soil...

FLEMING, Ian. 'From Russia With Love,' First edition, original black cloth boards with embossed silver gun and red rose to cover, some small nibbl...

(Penmanship and French songs) An early 20th century exercise of ornate fonts, titles and boarders. Twenty seven leaves of handwritten music scores...

(Sketchbook and Poem) SMITH, Cyril. 'Poems. an anthology 1929,' A frustratingly incomplete work considering the skill on offer, five acrylic pain...

MOSELY, Martin E. 'The Dry-Fly Fisherman's Entomology,' Full green cloth, a working copy with copious notes and small intricate 'flys' added to p...

HASSALL, John (illustrations) and CLARKE, Cumberland. 'The Humours of Bridge,' Signed presentation copy from Clarke, handsome faux green leather ...

Jagdish Mittal and Kamala Mittal 'Indian Tapestry. An Introduction to Indian Tapestry and its Examples,' First edition, Devanagari script through...

(Persian, Arabian and Islamic Interest) Twelve books on various topics. Kennedy, Pringle; Arabian Society At The Time of Muhammad Parts I & II, 1...

Late 19th/early 20th century recipe book. One hundred and thirty two recipes indexed to the rear, all written in ink cursive, with a few later add...

LANG, Andrew (ed). 'The Orange Fairy Book,' New impression, illustrated by H. J. Ford, original orange embossed cloth rubbed and bumped, half titl...

(Ptolemy) 'La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino' A deficient third edition of Ruscelli's translation of Ptolemy, revised and corrected by ...

SCHOMBERG, Isaac. 'Naval Chronology; Or, An Historical Summary of Naval Maritime Events, from the Time of The Romans, to the Treaty of Peace 1802,...

DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (contributor). 'The Strand Magazine,' A near complete run from vol I 1891 to vol XXXIV 1907, lacking both from 1905 and Ja...

HARVEY, F. J. 'The Fighting Gladiators or the Games and Combats of the Greeks and Romans With Which is Incorporated A Short History of Physical Cu...

'Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow,' 'Lieutenant General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, One of the Council of State, and a Memb...

JONES, Owen (illuminations), GRAY, Thomas. 'Gray's Elegy,' Original relievo binding by Remnant and Edmonds, lacks title page, 22 chromolithograph...

COLOQUHOUN, Ithell. 'The Living Stones,' First edition, originall cloth, clipped dj with glassine cover, graphite inscription to front free endpap...

MICHELL, John. 'The Old Stones of Land's End,' First edition, original cloth, some small tears to unclipped dj, illustrations and plates throughou...

CROSSING, William. 'Ancient Stone Crosses of Dartmoor,' Revised, special edition with additional plates limited to 250 copies, original cloth, ill...

Ancient Crosses, and Other Antiquities in the East of Cornwall J. T. Blight William Cornish, Penzance; second edition; loose title-page and three ...

William Lake A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall Vol. 1-4 Illustrated, Ancient Inscribed Stones of Cornwall illustration to fr...

(Natural History and Botany) Seven 19th century illustrated works. Rev W. Bingley. 'Animal Biography, Or, Popular Zoology; Illustrated by Authent...

A mid 19th century ledger book. Full embossed leather with the remnants of brass clasp, mostly divided between receipts and payments to verso and ...

(Bindings and odd volumes) Late 18th and early 19th century. Thirty works 'Buffon's Natural History, Abridged,' New edition, two vols, full calf b...

Five scarce tour guides. George F. Munford. 'Munford's Old-Fashioned Visitors' Guide and Companion. Bright and Bracing Seaton and Beer ...,' 22nd ...

McCABE, James 'Directions for Drinking the Chelenham Waters; with a Selection of Cases, Illustrating their Effects in a Great Variety of Diseases,...