Books & Ephemera: Including Chapman Family Historical Documents

A set of two large size fold-out engraved elevations of the Louvre Palace, from L'Architecture francoise (Paris: 1738). From Jean-Francois ...

The black needlework on pink fabric, in a marquetry frame. The back of the frame is sealed with pages from a French antiquarian work. Needlework: 6in.

Four large illuminated Tafsir al-Qur'an manuscript paper leaves, c. 18th-19th century. Each white/cream thin paper leaf has text on both sides a...

Frame: 12 ¾ inches high x 9.  Paper size: 6 ¼ inches high x 3 ¼.  Image: 5 ¼ i

Frame: 10 inches high x 7 ¾.  Paper size: 8 ¾ inches high x 6 ½.  Image: 4 ¼ i

"Ambassadeurs, Aristide Bruant." Date: original printed in 1892; reprint from c. 1945. Medium: Color lithograph. Dimensions: 35½ x 23...

Les Satyres et Autres Oeuvres du Sieur Regnier. Augmentez de diuerses Pieces cy-deuant non imprimees. Paris: Louys Chamhoudry, au Palais, deuant la Sa

The History of Great Britain, Being the Life and Reign of King James The First, Relating to what passed from his first Accesse to the Crown till his D

Vita di Don Pietro Giron, duca D'Assuna, Vicere di Napoli, E di Sicilia, fotto il Regno di Filippo Terzo. Parte Prima. Vol I only (of 3). Amster...

Lettres sur la Decouverte de L'Ancienne Ville, D'Herculane, Et de ses principales Antiquities. Yverdon, 1770. Vol. 1 and 2. 16mo (6 3/4in.)....

1. FLECHIER. Lettres Choisies de Mr. Flechier Eveque de Nismes: avec une Relation des Fanatiques du Vivarez; et des Reflexions sur les Differe

A manuscript volume of medical text concerning the role of hygiene and sanitation on health, written by a number of anonymous authors; possibl

Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire. Basle: De l'Imprimerie de Jean-Jaques Tourneisen, Avec des caracteres de G. Haas, 1784. 8vo. Full speckled calf, ...

A collection of 33 plays (one incomplete), published 1779-1781. Most are indicated As it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane

SERMONS AGAINST POPERY, PREACHED AT SALTERS-HALL, IN THE YEAR 1735. By Several Ministers. In Two Volumes [of which this is Vol. I only]. London: Print

COOK, JAMES. The Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1809. Vols. I-VII. 16mo (6 1/4in.). Half calf and marb

PERRY, WILLIAM. Royal Standard English Dictionary: In Which The Words are not only rationally divided in Syllables, accurately accented, and their Par

The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Extensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood, From Original Paintings and Drawin

The Memoirs of Joseph Fouche, Duke of Otranto, Minister of the General Police of France. In Two Volumes. London: Charles Knight, 1825. Second Edition.

[No Author.] The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or Hocus Pocus Laid Open and Explained, by those Renowned Masters Sena Sama, Hamed Ben-Ali, and all the Cel