Printed Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Prints and Related Items

Portraits of the British Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper and Beattie, engraved titles and 137 engraved plates on india paper, crudely bound in cloth-bac

Camden, William. Britannia, facsimile, edited by S. Piggott and G. Walters, maps, original buckram, folio, Times Newspapers, 1971 £30-50

Camden, William. Britannia, edited by E. Gibson, engraved portrait, plates of coins, illustrations, lacking the maps, calf, worn, folio, 1695; Britain

[Heylyn, P. Cosmographie], lacks title and maps, later half calf, worn, cover detached, folio, [n.d.] £50-100

Plato. Opera omnium, volume 2 only, later calf, worn, folio, [no place or date] £100-150

Surtees, R.S. Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, 13 hand-coloured engraved plates by John Leech, original cloth gilt, 8vo, [n.d.]; Cross, Thomas. The Au...

[Surtees, R.S.] The Analysis of the Hunting Field, first edition, first issue, additional hand-coloured engraved title and 6 hand-coloured plates by H

Cruikshank, George and Robert. Points of Humour, Part 1-2, India Proofs Edition, 20 etched plates & 20 illustrations after G. Cruikshank, red ha...

Silvestre, M.J.B. and Sir F. Madden. Universal Paleography: or Fac-Similes of Writings of all Nations and Periods, 2 volumes, text volumes only, red h

Hunt, T.F. Exemplars of Tudor Architecture, 37 engraved plates, contemporary green morocco-backed cloth, rubbed, 4to, 1841 £30-40

Dickens, C. Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 volumes, first edition, frontispieces and illustrations by G. Cattermole and H. Browne, contemporary half...

Dickens, Charles. Sketches by Boz. First and Second Series, second edition of First Series, new preface, 16 engraved illustrations by G. Cruikshank, f

[Du Jon, F. The Painting of the Ancients], lacks title, contemporary calf, worn, one corner defective, 4to, [D. Frere, 1638] £20-40

Cruikshank, G. The Comic Almanack, 4 parts in one volume, 48 etched plates and illustrations, 1841-44; The Comic Almanack, 2 parts in one volume, 24 e

Homespun, Prudentia, Mrs, pseud [i.e. Mrs West], 2 volumes, first edition, contemporary calf, worn, hinges weak, 12mo, 1793 £200-300

King Penguins. Seventy-six volumes bound in 15 volumes, original wrappers bound in, maroon half morocco, spines gilt, 8vo £80-120

[Defoe, Daniel.] The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe... fourth edition, engraved frontispiece, folding twin hemispherical ma

Bede, the Venerable. Homiliae venerabilis Bedae, with final blank Xx8, contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, small library stamp and r

Bindings: Clark, K. Civilisation, 1972; Gombrich, E. The Story of Art, 1958; Birkett, N. The Game of Cricket, 1955; Burgess, A. Shakespeare, 1970; O...

Bindings: Shakespeare, W. The Works, [n.d.]; Wilson, A.N. Tolstoy, 1989; Treasures of Tutankhamun, 1872; Crane, S. The Red Badge of Courage, 1966; Sin

Cruikshank, George and R. Colburns Kalendar of Amusements, 1840; Cruikshank at Home, First Series, 2 copies, n.d.; Second Series, [n.d.]; Mornings at

Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, fourth edition, half-title, later half morocco, soiled, 4to, 1801 £40-60

Knolles, Richard. The Generall Historie of the Turkes, engraved title, engraved illustrations in the text, lacks blank leaf before title, a few leaves

Bindings: Campos, D.R. de. Art Treasures of the Vatican, 1975; Gibbs-Smith, C.H. A History of Flying, 1953; Addison, W. Essex Heyday, 1949; Wright, L.

The Cambridge Tart, original cloth-backed boards, slightly rubbed, 1823; Shoberl, F. Forget me Not, engraved title and plates, original boards, origin

Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, translated by Sir Thomas North, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, ornaments and portrai

Barnes, Julian. Flaubert's Parrot, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket (not price-clipped), 8vo, 1984 £80-120

Ted Joans, Chicago Columbia Yale University Presses. Autumn Books, 1965, signed by Ted Joans on the title-page and upper wrapper, with eight typescrip

Miles, W.J. Modern Practical Farriery, 40 engraved, wood-engraved or lithographed plates, contemporary half calf, 4to, [circa 1874] £80-120

Cowley, Abraham. The Works... ninth edition, engraved portrait, contemporary panelled calf, head of spine worn, strip torn from lower cover, H. Herrin

Polybius. Historiarum libri quinque Nicolao Perotto interprete, woodcut device on title-page, damp-stained, contemporary calf, spine gilt, head of spi

Maggs Bros. A Selection of Books, Manuscripts, Engravings and Autograph Letters... the 500th Catalogue, plates, original wrappers (soiled), 4to, 1928

Guicciardini, Francesco. The Historie of Guicciardin, containing the Warres of Italie and other partes, woodcut device on title, woodcut ornaments, wi

Thucydides. The History of the Grecian War, translated by Thomas Hobbes, additional engraved title (laid down on linen), 2 engraved plates and 3 foldi

Juvenal. Junius Juvenalis. Opus quidem divinu antea impressorum vitio, 17 woodcuts, lacks F1 and F7 (supplied in early manuscript), early annotations,

Photograph album: English churches, abbeys, coastal views, some Frith series, some cut around, Gibraltar (8), three of North Africa, in worn album, ci

Milner, John. A Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England, 10 engraved plates, 1811; Rudiments of Ancient Architecture, 11 engraved plate

Oceanography. Steuber, Johann H. Dissertatio Hydrogaphica. De Oceano ejusque proprietatibus & vario motu, 46 pp., disbound, 4to, Rintelin, G.C. ...

Munro, A.M. Records of Old Aberdeen, 2 volumes, number 36 of 525 copies, frontispieces, original cloth, 4to, Aberdeen, 1895-1909; Maclean, N.N. Life a

Moore, T. Letters & Journal of Lord Byron, 3 volumes, engraved plates (spotted), maroon morocco gilt, g.e., 1833; [Moore, T.] Fables for the Hol...

Apollodore, the Athenian. Bibliotheque, 2 volumes, edited by E. Clavier, corner of one half-title cut out, some spotting, contemporary half calf, worn

Crowley, Aleister. Moonchild, a Prologue, first edition, original cloth, 8vo, Mandrake Press, 1929 £80-120

Voltaire, F.M.A. de. The History of Charles XII of Sweden, first Dublin edition, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, 12mo, Dublin, G. Risk, G. E

Kempis, Thomas a. The Christian's Pattern, or a Treatise of the Imitation of Jesus Christ... to which are added Meditations... by George Stanhop...

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit, fourth impression, frontispiece, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket (frayed, with loss of 3cm at base of spine, he

Edwards, Lionel. Tally-Ho Back!, 1931; Forrard-On!, slightly spotted, bindings slightly rubbed; Bodkin, T. The Noble Science, 1948 (3) £30-40

Voltaire, F.M.A. de. The Age of Lewis XIV, 2 volumes, engraved frontispieces, volume I second edition, volume II first edition, 16 pages advertisement

Voltaire, F.M.A. de. Letters concerning the English Nation, first edition, contemporary calf, spine gilt, head of spine rubbed, 8vo, 1733 £200-...

Cicero. Ciceronis Epistolae Familiares, edited by Paulius Manutius, 2 parts in one volume, woodcut device on title, fore-margin of title cut away and

Ball, John. A Treatise of Faith... third edition corrected and enlarged, title within typographic border, eighteenth-century calf, spines gilt, upper