Books and Works on Paper

Mercenaries.- Francis I (King of France, 1494-1547).- Agreement signed by Philip Tretefleur, Captain-General of 1500 mercenaries to serve the Comt...

NO RESERVE Bacon (Sir Francis) Opera Omnia, edited by Schonwetter, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black with large e...

NO RESERVE Hippocrates. Aphorismi, edited by A.Vorst, additional engraved pictorial title, Greek & Latin title and text, woodcut ornaments and ini...

Mauger (Claude) Le Tableau du Jugement Universel, ?first edition, woodcut initials and typographic ornaments, small correction in ink to H2, cropp...

Defoe (Daniel) La Vie et les Avantures surprenantes de Robinson Crusoe, vol.1 only (of 3), first French edition, engraved frontispiece, title in r...

Batteux (Charles, editor) Les Quatre Poëtiques: d.Aristotle, d'Horace, de Vida, de Despréaux, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved frontispiece by St.Aub...

NO RESERVE Erotica.- Louys (Pierre) Histoire du Roi Gonzalve et des Douze Princesses, one of 110 copies, from an edition limited to 171, hand-colo...

Law.- Skene (John) De verborum significatione. The Exposition of the Termes and Difficill Wordes, conteined in the Foure Buikes of Regiam Majestat...

NO RESERVE [Wither (George)] [Wither's Motto. Nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo], first edition, issue with Postscript beginning on F2v & "For, it is...

Wither (George) Juvenilia. A Collection of those Poemes..., first edition, second issue, engraved pictorial title, lacking blank A1 & A8, title so...

NO RESERVE Title and dedicatory leaves.- Wood (William) Nevv Englands prospect· A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of Amer...

NO RESERVE Standfast (Richard) Clero-laicum condimentum. Or, a Sermon preached at a Visitation in Saint Nicholas Church in Bristol, Aprill 16. An....

[Bayly (Thomas)] Witty Apophthegms..., additional engraved title, with final blank, browned, H11 lacking lower outer corner with loss to catchword...

Capel (Arthur, Lord Capel of Hadham) Excellent Contemplations, Divine and Moral, first edition, lacking initial blank, with engraved portrait befo...

NO RESERVE Trade.- Act of Tonnage and Poundage (The), and Book of Rates, partly printed in black letter, with the final blank, light water-staini...

Stepney (George) An Epistle to Charles Montague Esq; on His Majesty's Voyage to Holland, [2], 10pp., first edition, lightly water-stained, later m...

NO RESERVE Coinage.- [Lowndes (William)] A Report Containing an Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coins, only edition, short tear to upper mar...

NO RESERVE Blackmore (Richard) King Arthur. An Heroick Poem. In Twelve Books, first edition, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red moroc...

[Waterman (Hugh)] A Sermon preached before the Court of Guardians of the Poor in the City of Bristol...April the 13th 1699, title soiled, some bro...

Juvenal & Persius. The Satires, translated by Dryden, fifth edition, several contemporary ink signatures of Herbert Bowen and John Swift to title,...

[Brathwait (Richard)] Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England...to which is added Bessy Bell, second edition, engraved frontispiec...

Fielding (Henry) The Modern Husband. A Comedy, first edition, first issue with "obedient" at end of last line p.6 and 5pp. advertisements at end, ...

New History (The) of the Trojan Wars and Tory's Destruction, 4 books in 1 vol., 4 full-page woodcut illustrations, contemporary sheep, rubbed, spi...

NO RESERVE Calligraphy.- Nicholas (Abraham) The Pen-man's Assistant & Youth's Instructor. A New Copy-Book, engraved throughout, title and 15 plate...

[Victor (Benjamin)] The Widow of the Wood, first edition, issue with woodcut squirrel device on title, "St." in italics in imprint and woodcut bus...

Wycherley (William) The Dramatic Works, engraved plate, light spotting towards end, attractive contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with ...

NO RESERVE Sheridan (Richard Brinsley) The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed, engraved title, lacking half-title and final advertisement leaf, modern ...

Sterne (Laurence) The Works, 7 vol., engraved portrait and frontispieces in vol.2 & 3, engraved decorative titles, vol.1 with 2 marbled paper samp...

[Broome (Ralph)] Letters from Simkin the Second to his dear brother in Wales, first edition in book form, half-title, 4pp. advertisements at end, ...

[Knight (Ellis Cornelia)] Dinarbas; a Tale: being a continuation of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, first edition, marginal water-staining to a few...

NO RESERVE Law.- Boscawen (William) A Treatise on Convictions on Penal Statutes, first edition, old engraved book-label of Lady Evelyn, contempora...

NO RESERVE Murder & Child-Abuse.- Elizabeth Brownrigg.- Cries of the Afflicted (The); being a true account of the sufferings of Mary Mitchell, Mar...

English (Harriet) Conversations and Amusing Tales. Offered to the Publick for the Youth of Great Britain, first edition, half-title, engraved fron...

Cheap Repository Tracts.- The Black Prince, a True Story Being an Account of the Life and Death of Naimbanna, an African King's Son, who arrived i...

[?Landor (Robert Eyres)] Guy's Porridge Pot: a Poem, in Twenty-Four Books. The First Part, [all published], 64pp. [2], first edition, with corrige...

[Reynolds (John Hamilton)] The Naiad: a Tale, with other poems, first edition, signed and inscribed by the author "To George Mitchell from his sin...

NO RESERVE Small & Miniature Books.- Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) [Opera], engraved frontispiece by Stothard, original red ribbed cloth, paper label...

Fraud.- South Sea Bubble (The), and the Numerous Fraudulent Projects to which it gave rise in 1720, historically detailed as a Beacon to the Unwar...

19th century poetry.- Esther A Poem In Three Parts, manuscript, title and 51pp., slightly browned, original half calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, sm. ...

NO RESERVE Catnach (J., printer).- The Dance of Death, or, a Representation of Death in the act of leading all ranks and conditions of men to the ...

Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, first edition in book form, later issue, half-title, etched frontispiece, additional...

[Dickens (Charles)] Sketches by Boz...New Edition, Complete, half-title, etched frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 plates by George C...

NO RESERVE Sumner (Charles).- Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Faust: a Dramatic Poem, translated by A.Hayward, first American edition, inscribed "A.H...

NO RESERVE Wordsworth (William) The Prelude, first edition, 8pp. catalogue dated July 1850 at beginning, half-title, advertisement leaf at end, or...

Dickens (Charles, novelist, 1812-70) Autograph Letter signed to George Holsworth, 1p. with conjugate blank, 8vo, on mourning paper, Gad's Hill Pla...

NO RESERVE Army Drill.- [Brown (Colour Sergeant)] Extracts on Light Infantry Drill, manuscript, 12 pen and ink illustrations of drill, slightly br...

Stevenson (Robert Louis) Kidnapped, first edition, second issue with 'pleasure' to p.40, line 11, folding map frontispiece, contemporary ink owne...

NO RESERVE Boer War.- Siege of Mafeking.- Woolnough (?Albert, soldier at Mafeking) Autograph Letter signed to his brother Robert Woolnough, on Bec...

O'Flaherty (Liam) The Child of God, out-of-series copy signed by the author and marked "Presentation", from an edition limited to only 25 copies, ...

NO RESERVE Symons (A.J.A.) The Quest for Corvo, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author "Inscribed for Mrs. Kate Turner in admirat...

Watts (Isaac) Divine songs attempted in easy language for the use of children, title within woodcut border, woodcut decorations, ink ownership ins...

Adventures of Musul: or the Three Gifts: with Other Tales, engraved frontispiece, light offsetting, occasional browning, original cloth-backed boa...

NO RESERVE American Juvenilia.- The Adventures of the Industrious Cobler, his Scolding Wife, and their Affectionate Daughter, 8 hand-coloured engr...

Children's.- Perrault (Charles) Contes des Fées, engraved title vignette title and 12 plates printed in colours and finished by hand, lacking fron...

NO RESERVE Games.- New Game of the Monkey (The), engraved sheet mounted on linen with a spiral track around panel of rules, 23 illustrated spaces ...

Cruikshank (George) Illustrations of Time, first edition, first issue with tissue water-marked "SO 1823", etched throughout with pictorial title a...

Hemans (Felicia) Hymns for Childhood, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, original cloth, soiled, wear to...

NO RESERVE Punch's Pocket Book for 1851, folding hand-coloured etched frontispiece and additional pictorial title by John Leech, illustrations, or...

Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, first edition, first issue with "L'Envoi" poem, frontispiece and plate, occasio...

NO RESERVE Caldecott (Randolph) Picture Books, 12 vol. only (of 16), numerous illustrations, original wrappers, occasional creasing or chipping, [...