Collectables

PENANG - MANUSCRIPT TESTIMONIAL FOR THE RECORDER, 1866 A striking testimonial addressed to 'The Honorable [sic] Sir Peter Benson Maxwell, Knight, ...

WATSON (THOMAS BOSWELL) Manuscript journal, written in Macau, including approximately 12 entries relating to George Chinnery, snippets of news rec...

NATIVE CHIEFS AND ROYAL VISITS The Native Chiefs and their States in 1877, FIRST EDITION, half-title, toning, bookplate of the Sitaram Narayan P...

DIAMOND MINING 'An Account of a journey to the Diamond Fields in South Africa in 1872', manuscript notebook written by American Frederick W. Smith...

WILSON (EDWARD A.) 'The Barrier Silence', TYPESCRIPT ANNOTATED BY THOMAS GRIFFITH TAYLOR, typescript in blue (title and 18 lines of poem), typed...

CHATTERTON (THOMAS) Autograph fragment, the lower right portion from a lost letter to his sister Mary, comprising nine lines on recto and eight o...

COMPUTING – DEUCE Manuscript programming guide for the DEUCE computer, titled 'DEUCE/ (Basic)' and dated '28.8.1961 to 28.11.1961' on upper cover,...

CAMPBELL (ROY) Archive of autograph and printed material relating to South African poet, Roy Campbell (1901-1957), much relating to the 1950 editi...

ALBUM – LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE & POLITICS An extensive collection of nearly 300 autograph letters, cut signatures & free fronts, held in an albu...

COMPUTERS, CODING, TURING AND MANCHESTER MARK I - ALICK E. GLENNIE An important archive of printed pamphlets, reports, annotated lecture notes and...

IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE MACMURTIN (HUGH) [AODH BUI MAC CRUITIN] The Elements of the Irish Language, Grammatically Explained in English, 2 parts i...

BUTLER (CHARLES) The Feminine Monarchie: or The Historie of Bees, second edition, variant with 6 leaves in signature A and no blanks, woodcut f...

HARLEQUINADE - MANUSCRIPT FLAP-BOOK A seventeenth century manuscript pictorial flap-book 'Painted By Sal. Court, Price 2s.', on paper, ink and w...

NAVAL HISTORY - JAMES RALFE A small archive of manuscript materials relating to James Ralfe's The Naval Biography of Great Britain, consisting of...

PARADIN (CLAUDE) Devises heroiques, title within historiated woodcut border, 182 woodcut devices attributed to Bernard Salomon, each with Latin ...

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - NINETEENTH CENTURY The Ballad of Chevy Chase, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT, on vellum, 20 pages, comprising pictorial title-p...

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - REYNOLDS STONE SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) Lucretia Borgia: The Chronicle of Tebaldeo Tebaldei... Engravings by Reynolds ...

AUSONIUS (DECIMUS MAGNUS) [Opera], Aldine device on title and final leaf, capital spaces with guide-letters, 10-line manuscript epigram in Greek...

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAVES A group of 8 illuminated leaves from a Book of Hours, ink on vellum, 15 lines of text (recto and verso), Gothic te...