Printed Books, Maps & Playing Cards, Charles Darwin & Natural History

* [Bickham (George). The Musical Entertainer, 2 volumes (bound in 1), [1737], lacking the title and preliminaries to volume 1, but retaining the t...

* Smith (Pamela Colman). Widdicombe Fair, New York and London: Doubleday & McClure Co, signed, 1899, original watercolour and ink illustration to ...

Creswell (R. A. C.). The Mosques of Egypt from 21 H. (641) to 1365 H. (1946), 2 volumes, London: Hazar, 1992, full-page plates throughout (some in...

Johnston (Alexander Keith). The Physical Atlas, A Series of Maps & Notes Illustrating the Geographical Distribution of Natural Phenomena..., 1st e...

Philip (George & Son, publisher). Philips' Atlas of Classical, Historical & Scriptural Geography...., 1856, additional calligraphic title page, bo...

Allen (Thomas). A New and Complete History of the County of York, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: I. T. Hinton, 1828-31, 143 engraved plates, spot...

Bacon (G. W. publisher). Bacon's Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburb (revised Edition) with an Alphabetical Index..., circa 1920s, title and co...

Buck (Samuel & Nathaniel). [Views of the Principality of Wales], London: Sam & Nath Buck, 1742, 36 engraved plates (each with later tissue-guard),...

Morant (Philip). The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: T. Osborne, J. Whiston, S. Baker, L. Davis, C...

Stukeley (William). Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, 1st edition, London: W. Innys and R. Manby, 1740, engraved portrait front...

Wilkinson (Robert). Londina Illustrata. Graphic and Historic Memorials of Monasteries, Churches, Chapels, Schools, Charitable Foundations, Palaces...

Appianus. Des Guerres des Romains livres XI traduiets en Francois par Claude de Seyssel, 2 parts in one, Paris: Pierre du Pré, 1569, lacks title (...

Plutarch. Ethica, sive Moralia, Opera quae extant, omnia: Interprete Hermanno Cruserio..., Basel: Thomam Guarinum, 1573, woodcut device to title (...

Holinshed (Raphael). The Firste [- Laste] Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, 2 volumes, first edition, London: for John...

Raleigh (Walter). The Historie of the World..., [London: Printed [by Robert Young] for G. Lathum, and R. Young, 1634], additional engraved title (...

Hobbes (Thomas). Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Printed [...

Bible (English). The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testament. Newly translated out of the originall tongues and with former translations ...

Italian heraldry manuscript. Regole di Blasone compendiate per il Nobilissimo Colleggio di Parma da Allessandro Lampugnani, late 17th century, 99 ...

Parker (Thomas, Earl of Macclesfield). The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Macclesfield, in the House of Peers, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors; upon an ...

Ralegh (Walter). The History of the World, in five books, 2 volumes, 11th edition, London: G. Conyers, 1736, titles printed in red and black, port...

Doré (Gustave, illustrator). Milton's Paradise Lost. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Edited, with notes and a life of Milton by Robert Vaughan, Londo...

Shakespeare (William). The Works of Shakespere, Imperial Edition, edited by Charles Knight, 2 volumes, London: J. S. Virtue & Co, [1876], engraved...

Das Buch der Jagd. Le Livre de Chasse, Lucerne: Verlag Luzern, 2005, 128 leaves on fine thick paper, heightened in gilt, all edges gilt, original ...

Fotopouloulos (Dionissis & Angelos Delivorrias). Greece at the Benaki Museum, 1st edition, Athens, Benaki Museum, 1997, numerous colour illustrati...

Pain (William). The Builder's Companion, and Workman's General Assistant; Demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the Princip...

Rathbone (Frederick). Old Wedgwood. The decorative or artistic ceramic work, in colour and relief invented and produced by Josiah Wedgwood, F. R. ...

Essex House Press. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments ... [London: for Eyre and Spottiswoode by C.R. Ashbee at Essex H...

Folio Society. The Complete Tales of the Unexpected and Other Stories. An Omnibus Volume Containing Kiss Kiss, Over to You, Switch Bitch, Someone ...

Folio Society. His Dark Materials, 3 volumes, by Philip Pulman, 2008, 8vo Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, 2 volumes,...

Fashion. Le Style Parisien, Directeur-Gerant Lucien Vogel, Paris, numbers 1-7, 1915, numerous colour pochoir fashion plates, mostly single-page, i...

Potter (Beatrix). The Pie and the Patty-Pan, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne & Co., colour illustrations, decorative endpapers (some toning),...

Sotheby (Samuel Leigh). Ramblings in the Elucidation of the Autograph of Milton, London: printed for the author by Thomas Richards, 1861, monochro...

Colman (George). The Comedies of Terence, translated into familiar blank verse, London: printed for T. Becket & P. A. De Hondt, 1765, 8 engraved c...

Roethlisberger (Marcel). Claude Lorrain, The Drawings, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Berkely: University of California Press, 1968, numerous monochrome ...

Robinson (William, editor). Flora and Sylva, 3 volumes, London, 1903-05, numerous colour plates, letter from the editor dated '1st Dec 03' on head...

Beaglehole ( J. C., editor). The Journals of Captain James Cook, 3 volumes in 4, Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1968, colour & monochrome illustratio...

Serres (John de). A General Inventorie of the History of France, from the beginning of the Monarchie, unto the Treatie of Vervins, in the yeare 15...

D'Hulst (R.-A.). Jordaens Drawings, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: Phaidon, 1974, numerous monochrome illustrations, original uniform cloth in du...

Lillich (Meredith Parsons). Rainbow Like an Emerald, stained glass in Lorraine in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries, 1st edition, Univ...

History. A large collection of modern history reference & university publications, Sylva, or a A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of...

Kubler (George, editor). Filarete's Treatise on Architecture, Being the treatise by Antonio di Piero Averlino, known as Filarete, [Yale Publicatio...

Tricot (Xavier). James Ensor, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Philip Wilson, 1992, numerous colour & monochro...

Art. A collection of art reference & related, including Georges de la Tour, and his world, by Philip Conisbee, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale Univer...

Speke (John Hanning). Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863, numerous engra...

Grendler (Paul F., editor). Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, 6 volumes,1st edition, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999, colour & monochrome ...

Calvi (Donato). Scena Letteraria de gli Scrittori Bergamaschi aperta alla curiosità de suoi concittadini..., 2 volumes bound in 1, Bergamo: Marc'A...

[Gerard, John]. [The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes..., 1st edition, Imprinted at London by John Norton, 1597], 1392, [66] pp., lacking t...

[Bonnefons, Nicolas de]. The French Gardiner: Instructing how to Cultivate all sorts of Fruit-Trees, and Herbs for the Garden: Together with dire...

La Quintinie (Jean de). The Compleat Gard'ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen-Gardens; with divers...

Parkinson (John). Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris..., facsimile reprint of 1629 edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1904, pictorial title page a...

Badham (Charles David). A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England, 1st edition, London: Reeve, Brothers, 1847, hand-coloured lithograph front...

Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, Adelaide: Griffin Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1963, wood-engrav...

Evelyn (John). Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions, 5th edition, London: Printed for ...

Hill (John). The British Herbal: An History of the Plants and Trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for beauty, 1st edition, Lo...

Hill (John). A General Natural History: or, new and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals of the different parts of the w...

Moore (David). Concise Notices of British Grasses, best suited for agriculture with preserved specimens of each kind, 2nd edition, Dublin: James M...

Moore (Thomas). Nature-Printed British Ferns: being figures and descriptions of the species and varieties of ferns found in the United Kingdom, 2 ...

Parkinson (John). Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, an herball of a large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history a...

Plot (Robert). The Natural History of Oxford-Shire, being an essay towards the natural history of England, 2nd edition, Oxford: Leon Lichfield for...

Plot (Robert). The Natural History of Oxford-Shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England, 1st edition, Oxford: printed at the Thea...