Printed Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Prints and Related Items

Burton, Sir R.F. The Lake Regions of Central Africa, 2 volumes, lacks all plates and map, contemporary calf, 8vo, 1860 £150-250

Prescott, W.H. The Conquest of Mexico, 2 volumes, engraved plates, folding maps, contemporary calf gilt, 8vo, 1878 £100-200

Gay, John. Fables, 2 volumes, engraved titles, frontispiece and 66 plates, some engraved by William Blake, fine later mottled calf gilt by Riviere, g.

Medicine. Kitchiner, William. The Economy of the Eyes... Spectacles... Observations on Opera Glasses and Theatres, folding engraved frontispiece and o

Morrice, Alexander. A Practical Treatise on Brewing the various sorts of Malt Liquor, seventh edition, engraved frontispiece, recent brown morocco-bac

Pratt, Anne. Wild Flowers, 2 volumes, First and Second Series, 194 plates printed in colour, original cloth gilt, 12mo, £50-70

Awdry, W. The Little Old Engine, dust-jacket, 1959; Branch Line Engines, scribbles to endpapers, 1961; Ransome, A. Peter Duck, dust-jacket (worn), 194

Beresford, C. Nelson and His Times, original cloth, 4to, [circa 1890]; Galignani, A. Galignani's New Paris Guide for 1854, engraved plates and m...

Sandford, C. Primeval Gods, number 60 of 150 copies signed by the author, wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, original cloth, very slightly disco

Campbell, Roy. The Georgiad, number 44 of 170 copies signed by the author, original cloth-backed decorative boards, t.e.g., corners lightly rubbed, 8v

Turnbull, A. A Treatise on Painful and Nervous Diseases, third edition, 1837; Treatment of the Diseases of the Eye, 1843, frontispieces, contemporary

Shakespeare, William. Works, Miniature Edition, 39 volumes, cloth, 5 x 3cm, Allied Newspapers, in original wooden bookcase £50-70

Carlyle, Thomas. Collected Works, 34 volumes including index, Library edition, engraved frontispieces, contemporary red half calf, spines gilt, 8vo, C

Pennington, I. The Works of the Long-Mournful and Sorely-Distressed Isaac Pennington whom the Lord relieved by the Ministry of that despised People ca

Dickens, C. Nicholas Nickleby, illustrations by C.E. Brock, blue half morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, g.e., spine lightly faded, 8vo, 1931; a

Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Queens of England, 6 volumes, frontispieces, red calf gilt, short tear to lower joint of volume 2, 8vo, 1883 £7...

Fleming, Ian. Thunderball, dust-jacket price clipped, tear at lower spine fold, slight wear at extremities, 1961; For Your Eyes Only, dust-jacket with

Scrapbooks. One with pen and wash illustrations, the other with chromolithograph press-outs of animals, fruit, children etc. £40-60

Bickley, F. The Adventures of Harlequin, number 53 of 250 copies signed by John Austen, decorations by John Austen, original cloth-backed boards, corn

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam. Designs by Frank Brangwyn, original cloth, spine lightly soiled, t.e.g., uncut, 1906; Bayly, T. Herba Parietis, or the Wallfl

Dulac, Edmund. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, coloured plates by Dulac, original white buckram gilt, slipcase, 4to, circa 1922; another edition, illustrated

Giles, Sunday Express, Cartoons. Second Series, original wrappers, very slight wear at head and tail of spine £40-60

Bunyan, J. The Whole Works, 3 volumes, plates, contemporary half calf, 4to, 1862; Wolcott, C. Wolcott Genealogy. The Family of Henry Wolcott, one of t

Dahl, R. Switch Bitch, first edition, dust-jacket, 1974 £30-50

Fowles, J. The Ebony Tower, first edition, dust-jacket (worn), 1974; and other first editions by G. Heyer, E. Blyton, J. Herriot, D. Yates etc. (27)...

Russell, William ("Waters"). Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer, first edition, frontispiece, lacks half-title, early owner's...

Walpole, H. The Letters, edited by P. Cunningham, 9 volumes, Edinburgh, 1906 £50-70

Thompson, R. The Gardener's Assistant, 2 volumes, chromolithograph frontispieces, green morocco-backed cloth, 4to, 1907 £30-40

Wright, T. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary, 15 (of 24) volumes only, 43 double-page engraved maps hand-coloured in outline, engraved plates, occasion

Nicholson, G. The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, 8 volumes, chromolithograph plates, original cloth gilt, 4to, [n.d.] £70-100

Puckle, J. The Club, etched title and plates, contemporary calf, 8vo, 1817; Harvey, W. Proof Illustrations to Northcote's Fables, illustrations,...

Morris, W. The Roots of the Mountains, 1901; The Aeneids of Virgil, 1902, original cloth-backed boards, rubbed & soiled, reprinted at Chiswick P...

Homer. Odyssey, 5 volumes, contemporary calf, spines gilt, lightly rubbed, 12mo, 1758 £50-70

The Tatler, 4 volumes, contemporary calf, one cover detached, 1789; La Fontaine, J. de, Oeuvres, 2 volumes, engraved plates, some after Moreau le Jeun

Kent. Stockdale, F.W.L. A Concise Historical & Topographical Sketch of Hastings, Winchelsea and Rye, engraved plates, wood-engravings, half moro...

Northcote, J. One Hundred Fables, wood-engravings, calf gilt, 1828; Somerville, W. The Chase, wood-engravings, diced russia gilt, upper joint cracked,

Bewick, T. A History of British Birds, 2 volumes, calf, rebacked, lightly rubbed, 1826; The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated

[Wyss, J.S.] The Swiss Family Robinson, seventh edition, frontispiece and plates, contemporary quarter calf, 12mo, 1828; Johnson, C. Lives and Exploit

Thomson, J. The Seasons, engraved title and plates, some spotting, contemporary green morocco gilt, g.e., 8vo,1793 £60-90

Falconer, W. The Shipwreck, wood-engravings, contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., lightly rubbed, 8vo, 1808; Goldsmith, O. and Parnell, T. Poems, wood

A Descriptive Guide of Tunbridge Wells, folding map, wood-engravings, blank margin at head of title torn away, original printed boards, 12mo, Tunbridg

Bindings, circa seventy-four volumes, most contemporary calf gilt, most 12mo, 16mo or 32mo, on one shelf £150-250

Tyerman, D. An Essay on Baptism, some early scoring, original boards, uncut, 12mo, Isle of Wight, for the Author, 1806 £40-60

Cruikshank, George & Robert, illustrators. The Diverting History of John Gilpin, original wrappers, C. Tilt, 1828; [Akerman, J.Y.] The Gentleman...

Hill, Sir John. The Family Herbal, 52 (of 54) hand-coloured engraved plates, modern calf gilt, 8vo, Bungay, [circa 1800] £70-100

Swedenborg, E. A Treatise concerning Heaven and Hell, second edition, modern half calf, 8vo, 1784 £40-60

Locke, John. An Essay concerning Human Understanding, 2 volumes, ninth edition, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, rubbed, one cover detached,

Kent. Pilkington, Mrs. Margate!!! or Sketches amply descriptive of that celebrated place of Resort, frontispiece, contemporary calf, rubbed, hinge wea

Walpole, H. Anecdotes of Painting in England, 5 volumes, 1826; Ritchie, L. Windsor Castle and its Environs, light damp-staining, 1840; Butler, S. The

British Library Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955, 27 volumes, original blue cloth gilt, 4to, Readex, 1967 £100-200