Books and Works on Paper

Chapbooks.- Woody Choristers (The), [c.1770] § A Garland of New Songs, [c.1800] § The Marybone Concert Being a Choice Collection of Songs, [c.1760...

[Clark (A.)] Paddy Hew: A Poem, From the Brain of Timothy Tarpaulin. Whistled by a Sea Lark,, first edition, hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispi...

Sold to the devil.- Reprobate Rewarded! (The) Or a looking Glass to Disobedient Children... Wherein is a full and true Account of on Mr. J. Wood S...

Jones (Jos.) Lorin: or, the Wanderer in Wales, 1821 bound with Saint Clair (Henry) Miscellaneous Poems, Birmingham, 1818 and Sawyer (Anna) Poems o...

Herbert (Hon. Rev. William) The Weird Wanderer of Jutland, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, 1821 § Pollok (Robert)The Course of Time, a Poe...

Lighthouses.- Rough (Michael) The Eddystone Light-House, a Poem, engraved folding frontispiece, lightly offset, old wrappers, stitched, spine worn...

Australia.- Praed (Winthrop Mackworth) Australasia. A Poem, first edition, some light scattered spotting, old wrappers, stitched, some light chipp...

Chapbooks.- Legh (Richard) History of a Poor Black Widow, [c.1825] § The History of the Earl of Derwentwater, Newcastle, [c.1840] § The Toper's Ta...

Montgomery (Robert) Poetical Trifles, half-title,some light scattered foxing, bookplate, contemporary cloth-backed boards, Bath, 1825; The Omnipre...

MacDonogh (Capt. Felix) Gratitude, a Poetical Essay; with other Poems and Translations, contemporary green straight-grain morocco, gilt, spine fad...

Provincial imprints.- Cordingly (John) Poems..., signed presentation inscription from the author with two autograph poems to front and rear, half ...

Regional interest.- Poetic Sketch (A)... of the Beautiful Sea-Bathing Town, the town of Worthing, half-title, engraved frontispiece, contemporary ...

Edmeston (James) The Woman of Shunem, original boards, spine chipped and worn, 1829 § Glasse (Francis) Belgic Pastorals, and Other Poems, half-tit...

West Indies.- Osler (Edward) The Voyage: a Poem: written at sea, and in the West Indies, some light scattered spotting, small portion of title rep...

Unrecorded.- India.- [Carpenter (Mary)] On the Interment of the Rajah Rammohun Roy, at Stapleton Grove. Friday the 18th of October, 1833, ink pres...

Lyte (Henry Francis) Poems, Chiefly Religious, original cloth, joints cracked, spine chipped and browned, 1833 § Watkins (Rev. Charles Frederick) ...

NO RESERVE Ghosts.- Spectres and Apparitions with the Best Cure for Imaginary Terrors; Including an Account of an Abyssinian Ghost, 8pp., woodcut ...

Catharinus (Ambrosius, Bishop of Gonza) Annotationes in excerpta quaedem de commentariis, collation: a-b8 A-Z8 &4, title with woodcut printer's de...

Meursius (Joannes) Rerum Belgicarum libri quatuor, first edition, title in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative ini...

Macclesfield copy.- Rymer (Thomas) Foedera Conventiones, Literae, et cujuscunque generis Acta Publica, Inter Reges Angliae, et alios quosuis Imper...

Watchmaker on globes.- Machado (Cristobal) Recreaciones geographicas, y nuevo compendio de Geographia moderna, first edition, 2 folding engraved p...

Encyclopaedias.- Diderot (Denis) and Jean d'Alembert. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connoissances humaines, 56 vol. only (...

Diderot (Denis) and Jean d'Alembert. Encyclopedie ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, 39 vol. including 3 plate vol., ...

Food & drink.- Contour (Alfred) Le Cuisinier Bourguignon: Nouveau Livre de Cuisine Pratique, half-title, original printed wrappers, split to spine...

NO RESERVE Baudelaire (Charles) Les Fleurs du Mal, one of 15 lettered copies, colour plates by Manuel Orazi, contemporary crushed morocco, spine s...

Western Caribbean, Mosquito Coast.- [An account of the Miskito Kingdom (Mosquito Coast)], manuscript, 13pp., part only, incomplete at beginning an...

Lake District.- Letter in verse to Walter Cowperthwaite, parish-clerk of Cartmel, 1p., folio, n.p., n.d. [c. 1760s], complaining that the new prie...

France.- Student's exercise books, manuscripts in French, 43 exercise books, numerous pp., browned, some ink marks, some edges chipped, sm. 4to, 1...

Queen Victoria's Dessert Wafer Makers.- Scriven (W.H., Dessert Wafer Maker to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, fl. 1841-90) 5 Autograph Letters signed ...

Ireland.- Kavanagh (Arthur Macmorrough, politician, 1831-89) [Speech against the Irish Nationalist League], lithographed duplicated speech signed,...

Letters & Cut signatures.- Collection, Letters, including: Philip Guedella, on the whereabouts of Louis Napoleon after exile, "there is no room at...

Cricket.- Lord's Ground - Eton v. Harrow, printed score card, filled out, in pencil, slightly browned and creased, 205 x 125mm., Friday, 8th July ...

Brasses.- Morgan (Conwy Lloyd, comparative psychologist and philosopher, 1852-1936) Album of photographic reproductions of brasses, most laid down...

Ireland.- Bruce (J.M., editor, of Ballyscullion Park, Bellaghy, Ireland) The Rambler or The Racer edited by J.M. Bruce, [family magazine], manuscr...

Jewish girl in the Weimar Republic.- Leinkranz (Eugenie) Diary, manuscript in German, 66pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original blind-sta...

Calligraphy.- Tagliente (Giovanni Antonio, calligrapher, Venetian author, printer and publisher, c. 1460s - c. 1528).- Potter (Esther, writer on c...

Evelyn (John).- Barlow (Thomas) A letter concerning invocation of saints, and adoration of the cross, writ ten years since, to John Evelyn of Dept...

[Bulteel (John)] Apophthegmes of the Ancients; taken out of Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, Elian, Atheneus, Stobeus, Macrobins, and others, occasion...

Irish Parliament. Acts and Statutes..., black letter, foxed and browned, some edges frayed and chipped, some damp-staining affecting margins, some...

[Busby (Richard)] Græcæ Grammatices Rudimenta: In Usum Scholæ Regiæ Westmonasteriensis, heavily annotated and underlined throughout, front free en...

[Gildon (Charles)] The Golden Spy: or, a Political Journal of the British Nights Entertainments of War and Peace ..., half-title, occasional brown...

Travers (H.) Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, occasional spotting, bookplates, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, York, C. Ward and R. Chand...

NO RESERVE Hildrop (John) Free Thoughts upon the Brute-Creation, first edition, engraved frontispiece, half-title, small marginal tear (B4), loss ...

NO RESERVE Manchester imprint.- Böhme (Jakob) The way to Christ discovered, 4 parts in 1, initial advertisement f., woodcut head-pieces, general t...

Spence (Joseph) Polymetis: or, an Enquiry Concerning the Agreement Between the Works of the Roman Poets, second edition, engraved portrait frontis...

NO RESERVE Montaigne (Michel de) The Essays..., 3 vol., seventh edition, occasional foxing, bookplates, contemporary calf, spines gilt, spine labe...

Fabrice (Friedrich Ernst von) The Genuine Letters of Baron Fabricius ... to Charles XII. of Sweden, first English edition, pp.xxv-xxviii misbound,...

Herodotus. Historia, 9 vol., previous owner's ink signature to title of vol. 1, occasional faint spotting, bookplates, contemporary calf, gilt, ru...

Fielding (Henry) The Works... with the Life of the Author, 4 vol., first collected edition, engraved portrait, very light offsetting, contemporary...

Belfast Imprint.- Hull (James) Religion, founded upon Knowledge, and productive of Forbearance, Moderation, and Peace, slightly browned, new endpa...

Gray (Thomas) The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason, second edition, half-title, engraved port...

NO RESERVE Bunyan (John) The Holy War, title soiled and creased, edges with small tear repaired, browned throughout, new endpapers, modern boards,...

Dictionaries.- Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, seventh edition, engraved frontispiece portrait (some minor fraying and ligh...

[Stone (John Hurford)] Copies of Original Letters Recently Written by Persons in Paris to Dr. Priestley in America, lightly browned, lacking half ...

[Hales (William)] The Inspector, or Select Literary Intelligence for The Vulgar A.D. 1798 ..., occasional spotting, ink number to title, ex-librar...

Franklin (Benjamin).- , Literary Miscellany (The): or, Selections & Extracts, 11 parts in 3 vol., additional engraved titles for each part, illust...

Roscoe (William) The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, 4 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces, illustrations, occasional browning and ...

NO RESERVE Encyclopaedias.- Rees (Abraham) The Cyclopaedia, 19 vol. only, comprising text vol.8-23 and 28-39 and plate vol.2-6, numerous engraved...

Virgilius Maro (Publius) Georgica Publii Virgilii Maronis Hexaglotta, presentation copy from the English translator, ink inscription to half title...

Thackeray (Rev. Francis) A History of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding tables,...