Printed Books, Documents, Maps & Caricatures

Tchirikova (Ludmila, 20th century). The Astrologer, & Young Boyar, circa 1937, two watercolour and pencil on paper costume designs for a productio...

Barbados. Fishing at Barbadoes, by W.P. Cocks, August 1826, pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper (watermarked 'Allee, 1820'), showing a male ...

Baxter prints. A group of 12 Baxter prints, various subjects and sizes, including a large Baxter print of a young woman seated with a small bouque...

Beaton (Cecil, 1904-1980). Costume Design for a Greek or Turkish Trumpeter, circa 1930s-40s, watercolour on paper laid down on card, signed lower ...

Bentley (Nicolas Clerihew , 1907-1978). Guy the gorilla, 1976, pen & ink drawing on paper, a humerous cartoon showing Guy the gorilla being fed ic...

Chinese paintings. Six Chinese paintings circa 1850, watercolours on silk depicting pheasants and butterflies, a couple with repairs, one or two w...

Cummings (Michael, 1919-1997). "Judging by the state of the Nation you might think it has been driven while under the influence of alcohol, for ye...

English School. Christ rising from the tomb, early 19th century, pen brown ink and watercolour on wove paper, 25 x 18.3cm (9.8 x 7.25ins), window ...

Fish. Three watercolours, late 20th century, three unsigned watercolour studies of Bass, Langoustine and John Dory, each approximately 290 x 370 m...

Frith (William Powell, 1819-1909)) , [Derby Day published E.Gambert & Co., 1863], uncoloured engraving on india wove, engraved by by Auguste Blanc...

Gould (John). Panoplites Jardini, Cinnyris Mysorensis & Halcyon Atricapillus, circa 1870, together three hand coloured lithographs, each approxima...

Hadley (Julia). The Kitchen and the Restaurant, circa 1980, two humorous paintings of a commercial kitchen staffed entirely by pigs paired with th...

Indian School. Procession of Elephants, 20th century, gouache on silk, heightened with gold, depicting seven caparisoned elephants within concentr...

Hassall (John, 1868-1948). Sleeping lion, pen and ink with crayon, showing a figure in a tree above a lion sleeping in a camp bed, signed lower ri...

Heywood (Oliver). On Juniper Hill, Painswick Valley, Gloucestershire, 1979, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, handwritten title label t...

Hollar (Wenceslaus). Orientalis partis Eccl. S. Pauli prospectus interior [and] Chori ecclesiae Cathedralis S. Pauli prospectus interior, circa 16...

Hubner (Peter Paul, 1870-1928). Still life of flowers in a vase, 1926, watercolour on laid paper, heightened with gouache, signed and dated July 2...

Indian School. Group of 5 miniatures, 20th century, gouache with pen-and-ink on wove paper, each on a leaf of possibly earlier Arabic or Persian m...

Keating (George, 1762-1842). The Settling Family attacked by Savages, colour mezzotint after Henry Singleton, margins slightly trimmed, sheet size...

Kipling (Rudyard, 1865-1936). Portrait of Rudyard Kipling copied after an original by John Collier of 1891, late 20th century, oil on board, 24 x ...

London. New (Edmund Hort), The City & Port of London from the Borough of Southwark showing the River & the Principal Buildings between the Temple ...

Lynch (C., 20th century). Two English river landscapes, 1967, a pair of oil on canvas board landscapes, each signed and dated lower left, 34 x 44....

Malta. Duncan (Edward), To the Officers of His Majesty's Ships forming the Squadron in the Mediterranean, This Print of His Majesty's Ship Britann...

Merry (Tom). St. Stephens Review. A collection of caricatures, mostly 1880's & 1890's, including approximately sixty-five colour and monotone lith...

Military. A collection of twenty-eight prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, engravings, aquatints and etchings, many with contemporary hand...

Military. Field (Colonel Cyril), Britain's Sea-Soldiers, 1924, additional half title, colour and black and white illustrations throughout, slight ...

Moiseiwitsch (Tanya, 1914-2003). Philostrate, & Starveling the Tailor, from a Midsummer Night's Dream, 1951, watercolour and pencil on cream/pale ...

German Art. A group of 8 pencil drawings by August Wiedmaier, circa 1928-31, including Das Reis aus der Wurzel Jesse, Der hl. Franz von Sales, Der...

Partridge (Bernard, 1861-1945). The Seafarer's Return. Ulysses. "Can that be my dear old home?" 1934, pen and ink drawing for Punch, indistinctly ...

Pascau (Eugene, 1875-1944). Benoit Constant Coquelin (1841-1909), charcoal on cream wove paper, heightened with white bodycolour, laid down on boa...

Persian miniature. Two figures surrounded by birds, 20th century, opaque watercolour with pen and ink on paper, laid on blue card with concentric ...

Pinelli (Bartolomeo). Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi incisi all acqua forte, Rome, Lorenzo Lazari, 1809, engraved title, 50 engraved pl...

Pollard (Robert & Jukes F.), Vauxhall, published J. R. Smith, 1785, etched line and aquatint with contemporary hand colouring, after Thomas Rowlan...

Poster artwork. Pleasure Book for Girls poster, circa 1920s-30s, original poster artwork painted in dark green and orange on linen (folded), depic...

Reed (Edward Tennyson, 1860-1933). Cartoon apparently depicting three American characters taking their hats off to Arthur Balfour, pencil on paper...

Reed (Edward Tennyson, 1860-1933). 'George V and the Kaiser', pencil drawing on paper, a humerous cartoon showing the King picnicking with a weepi...

Reynolds (Frank, 1876-1953). The Batsman, watercolour on paper, inscribed lower right 'To E.C.H. From F.R.', 42 x 21 cm (16.5 x 8.25 ins) mount ap...

Roberto ( Luigi , 1845-1910). S.S. Corisande of Middlesbro in a Gale in the Bay of Biscay 1887, pen and ink and gouache, signed by the artist and ...

Spain. Three watercolours of Spanish costume, 20th century, watercolour on paper, each indistinctly signed M. Tonnelman?, dated '65, 17.5 x 14 cm ...

Stubbs (George, 1724-1806). Shooting, plates 1 - 4 (complete), published Thomas Bradford, [circa 1769 - 1771], four hand coloured engravings by Wi...

Virgin Islands. Portraits of Alberto Frett and Basil Rapsatt, West Indian shoe shine boys, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1920, pencil and crayon on ...

Wolstenholme (Dean, 1798-1882). The Essex Hunt, 1831, the set of four mixed method engravings on laid paper after Dean Wolstenholme Snr., contempo...

Wood (Starr, 1870-1944). The Accused, watercolour on paper, captioned verso 'The accused: "I was NOT going 30 miles an hour, not 20, not even ten,...

Yoshitoshi ( Tsukioka , 1839-1892). Japanese Military figures seated at a meeting, colour woodblock print, possibly part of a diptych or triptych,...

Ballet. A group of 4 autograph letters signed from ballet personnel, including three to the ballet critic Arnold Haskell, from Frederick Ashton, C...

Ceylon. A personal scrap album relating to Cyril George Simpson, 1920s, largely relating to his time in Colombo with his wife Mary, including phot...

Charles II (1630-1685, King of England). Document signed, 'Charles R', Court at Whitehall, 28 July 1669, a manuscript military commission appointi...

Churches. An artist's sketchbook, circa 1860s , containing a variety of pen and ink, watercolour and pencil sketches and details of church organs,...

Cigarette Cards. A part set of 40 Taddy 'V.C. Heroes - Boer War' (41-80) cigarette cards, circa 1902, together with a duplicate part set of nos. 4...

Stewart (Colonel Charles, 1775-1812). An important autograph letter signed, ‘Charles Stewart’, Camp before Badajoz, 25 March 1812, in brown ink in...

Stuart (Sir Charles, 1779-1845) . Three autograph letters from a Lisbon official, Jonathan Jeffery, to his Excellency Sir Charles Stuart, KB, Brit...

Diaries. A group of 32 handwritten pocket diaries kept by Amy Constance Voyle of Penally Cottage, [Tenby, Wales], 1877-1908, all completed with oc...

Elizabeth II (Queen of United Kingdom & Prince Philip). Signed Christmas card, [1948], folded cream card, the upper cover featuring a mounted colo...

Elizabeth II (Queen of United Kingdom & Prince Philip). Signed Christmas card, circa 1950, folded off-white card, the upper cover with a gilt roya...

Ferdinand III (Holy Roman Emperor, 1603-1657). Patent awarding title of Reichsgraf to Ernst Georg von Sparr, 1654 [i.e. 1754], German and French m...

Fonthill Abbey Sale. Entry ticket to the Fonthill Abbey sale of 1823, original engraved entry ticket to the Fonthill Abbey sale of 1823, made out ...

Fox hunting. Manuscript journal for the Whaddon Chase and Bicester Hunts, 1912-39, printed title-page ('Hunting Journal; or Diary. No., 2, for Pri...

Glenn (John, 1921-2016). Blue ink autograph, 'John Glenn', 19 December 1995, signed and dated to Dave on a section of white envelope below a Briti...

Gounod (Charles, 1818-1893). Two autograph letters signed, Ch. Gounod', London, 8 October 1879 and no place, 16 May 1882, both in French, the firs...

Haggard (Henry Rider, 1856-1925). Autograph letter signed, 'H. Rider Haggard', 24 Redcliffe Square, [London], SW, 27 April 1889, to Mrs Elton, 'Al...