Printed Books, Maps, Prints and Related Items

BEATTIE, WILLIAM. The Castles and Abbeys of England, 2 vol., engraved plates, original cloth gilt, 4to, [n.d.]; POST OFFICE London Directory, 3 vol.,

SHAW, HENRY. The Encyclopaedia of Ornament, coloured frontispiece and title, [circa 1898]; Details of Elizabethan Architecture, 2 copies, plates, 3 co

COLOUR PRINTING: LILLIE, H. The Alphabet of Monograms, engraved title & 26 colour printed plates, slight spotting, detached, original cloth-back...

NICOLSON, W. The English Historical Library, 2 parts in one volume, FIRST EDITION, rust-hole in A1, contemporary panelled calf, head of spine chipped,

SELKIRK, JAMES. Recollections of Ceylon, map, 9 lithographed plates, original cloth, spine faded and soiled, 8vo, 1844 £150-200

STANLEY, H.M. In Darkest Africa, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 3 folding maps (2 loose), plates, original pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, 1890 £150-200

MILITARY: [BELL, GEORGE] Rough Notes by an Old Soldier, 2 vol., original cloth, rubbed, lightly soiled, 8vo, 1867; HUTTON, W. The Battle of Bosworth-F

[COLLINS, A.] The English Baronetage, 4 volumes in 5, 116 numbered engraved plates, some damp-staining, contemporary calf, worn, 2 covers detached, 8v

OVIDIUS NASO, P. Metamorphoseon libri XV... opera & studio Thomae Farnabii, additional engraved title and frontispiece from an English edition [...

BUCELINUS, GABRIEL. Nuclei insigni lectionis variae fructu locuples, additional engraved title ('Historiae universalis'), 16pp. engraved cal...

WALSINGHAM, Sir FRANCIS: CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. De philosophia, 2 volumes presentation copy inscribed [Greek & Latin inscriptions] "1559 e...

TASSO, TORQUATO. Gierusalemme liberata, woodcut coat-of-arms on title, inscribed by Seigneur du Bartas 1584 with poem on endpaper, 12mo, Ferrara, G.C.

BINDINGS, circa 60 volumes, contemporary calf or half calf, some rubbed or slightly so, most 12mo £200-300

SONGS, BALLADS, POETRY: DORAN, Dr. The Bentley Ballads, original cloth gilt, 1858; The Illustrated Book of English Songs, original cloth, [circa 1870]

HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION, a large collection of calendars of manuscripts and reports, green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, bindings sound,

PRATT, ANNE. The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 242 coloured plates, 1 uncoloured plate, [n.d.]; The Ferns of Great Britain

BARTON, B.H. & T. CASTLE. The British Flora Medica, 2 volumes, engraved portrait & 192 hand-coloured engraved illustrations on 48 plates, or...

BIBLIA SACRA sive libri canonici.. libri Apocryphi.. novi Testamenti libros, edited by E. Tremellius and F. Junius, 6 parts in one volume, woodcut dev

UBALDINI, PETRUCCIO. Le vite delle donne illustri del regno d'Inghilterra, & del regno di Scotia, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials ...

HOLY BIBLE. The Bible, translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, Old and New Testament titles within woodcut borders, bound with Concordances, O.T

VENICE: Le glorie de gli incogniti overo gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de signori incogniti di Venetia, engraved frontispiece, 1 allegoric...

ANGELO, DOMENICO. The School of Fencing, 47 engraved plates on 44 leaves, near contemporary calf, oblong 8vo, 1787 £700-900

DERING, EDWARD. XXVII Lectures or readings, upon part of the Epistle written to the Hebrues, title within woodcut architectural border, with blank lea

[TRAVERS, WALTER] A full and plaine declaration of Ecclesiasticall Discipline owt off the word off God and off the declininge off the churche off Engl

LEWIS, M.G. Tales of Wonder, 2 volumes in one, FIRST EDITION, ink note and deletion to first title, advertisement leaf at end of volume 2, some spotti

[SETTLE, ELKANAH] Fears and Dangers, Fairly Display'd: being a New Memorial of the Church of England, FIRST EDITION, contemporary black morocco ...

HOLY BIBLE: A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible, fifth edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, contemporary tree calf, spi

VENICE. Discorsi Academici de' Signori incogniti havviti in Venetia... del G.G. Loredano all G. Thuillerio, woodcut device on title, half-title,...

CULVERWEL, NATHANAEL. An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature, inscribed on endpaper 'ex dono Gabrel Dillingam 1652', contem...

PARLIAMENT: Speeches and Passages of This Great and Happy Parliament, from the third of November 1640, to this instant June, 1641, contemporary calf,

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, a quantity, in 6 boxes £150-200

GARDENS: BLOMFIELD, R. The Formal Garden in England, 1892; JEKYLL, G. Home & Garden, 1900; Wood & Garden, 1899; AMHERST, A. A History of Gar...

PUBLIC RECORDS: Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, volumes 28-49, black half morocco, rubbed, 8vo, 1862-87 £50-100

ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY, a collection of volumes, mostly nineteenth-century, original cloth, in five boxes £100-150

PLATINA, B. De vitis pontificum Romanorum, woodcut on title, numerous woodcut portraits in text, some gatherings rather browned, contemporary calf, he

COTTON, PIERRE, S.J. Lettera declaratoria de la Dottrina de Padri Giesuiti, conforme a i decreti del Concilio di Costanza, woodcut device on title, sl

FASHION PLATES: GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE OF FASHIONS, Fancy Costumes, and the Regimentals of the Army, volume 1 (1828), vol.2 (1829) & vol.3 (18...

DONATUS, ALEXANDER. Roma vetus ac recens, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, 3 folding engraved plates, engraved illustrations in text, contemporar

BEETON, ISABELLA. The Book of Household Management, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved title & 12 coloured plates, bound in 2 volumes, frontispiece an...

CLARENDON, E., Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, 6 vol., plates, some spotting, contemporary calf, slightly worn, Oxfor

DOMESDAY BOOK, seu liber censualis Willelmi Primi, 4 volumes, engraved plates, two titles laid down, later half morocco, worn, some boards detached, l

SILVESTRE, JOSEPH BALTHASAR. Palaeographical Album of Facsimiles of Writings of all Nations and Periods, 79 chromolithographed plates (as called for),

TROLLOPE, ANTHONY. The Chronicles of Barsetshire, 8 volumes, contemporary half calf, spines gilt, 8vo, 1879; Travelling Sketches, 1st collected editio

RAYNER, S. The History and Antiquities of Haddon Hall, 2 volumes, large paper copy, 32 lithographed plates, most on india paper, rather spotted, origi

CALENDARIUM Rotulorum Chartarum et inquisitionum ad quod damnum, half calf, rubbed, 1803; Calendarium Rotulorum patentium in Turri Londin

JOHNSON, SAMUEL. A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 volumes, fourth edition, title of vol.1 creased & with portion of lower margin torn awa...

DUGDALE, Sir WILLIAM. A Perfect Copy of all Summons of the Nobility to the Great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm, eighteenth-century russia, so

SANDERS, W.B. Half-Timbered Houses and Carved Oak Furniture of the 16th & 17th Centuries, plates, some spotting, original cloth, folio, 1894; NE...

DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, first edition in book form, engraved portrait, additional title and 12 plates, 2 pp. advertisements at e

DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, 22 vol., original cloth, 8vo, 1908; and Index & Epitome (1903) and Concise DNB 1900-1950 (24) £100-200