Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts

The Abu Album, 1895-96. Mhow, India: Herzog & Higgins, [1895-96], oblong 4to, 43 mounted photographs, with 2 additional photographs at the end inc...

ALBUM - An album of crests, monograms and other decorative armorial devices laid down on c.80 vellum leaves, elaborate painted borders, [mid-late ...

ALDIN, Cecil (1870-1935, illustrator). Old Inns, London, 1921, 4to, 16 mounted coloured plates by Cecil Aldin, illustrations, original vellum-back...

ALEXANDER III (1845-94) - Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de leur Majeste's Impériales l' Empereur de Toutes les Russies, St. Petersburg, ...

AMUCHASTEGUI, Axel (1921-2002, illustrator). Some Birds and Mammals of North America, London, 1971, folio, 16 coloured plates, original quarter mo...

ANGAS, George French (1822-86). Portraits of the New Zealand Maori, Wellington, 1972, folio, 49 coloured plates, original old-style half morocco g...

ARTISTS - A collection of 12 letters by artists, mainly British and French, 1816-1923, including Ruskin, Whistler, Lucien Pissarro and others. (12...

ARTISTS - A collection of c.24 letters by artists, mainly French and Italian, 1795-1870 and [n.d.], including Canova, David, Delacroix, Corot, Mil...

ARTISTS - A collection of c.50 letters by predominantly French artists, mainly France, 1878-95, and [n.d.], several addressed to the art dealers A...

AYRES, Ralph (fl.early-mid-18th-century). A fine manuscript recipe book on paper containing 69 recipes on 38 leaves, inscribed, "Radolphus Ayres, ...

BAKST, Léon (1866-1924, illustrator). The Designs of Léon Bakst for The Sleeping Princess, London, 1923, 4to, portrait of Bakst by Picasso, 54 col...

BAWDEN, Edward (1903-89, illustrator). Life in an English Village, London, "The King Penguin Books" [No. 51], 1949, 8vo, 16 full-page coloured lit...

[BELL, Vanessa (1879-1961)] - Manet and the Post-Impressionists. Nov. 8th to Jan 15th 1910-11, London, Grafton Gallery, [1910], 8vo, 38-page exhib...

BENTHAM, Jeremy (1748-1832). Defence of Usury; Shewing the Impolicy of the Present Legal Restraints on the Terms of Pecuniary Bargains. ... To whi...

BIBLE, in English - The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New, London, Robert Barker, 1613 [New Testament dated 1614], 4to, genealo...

BIBLE, in English - The Most Superb Folio and Self-Interpreting Bible, Bungay, 1812, folio, engraved plates, contemporary calf, the spine elaborat...

BINDING - A fine illuminated manuscript in German on two vellum leaves, with wide painted decorative borders, folio (420 x 310mm), VERY FINELY BOU...

BINDING - Archibald ALISON (1792-1867). History of Europe, London, 1870-76, 2 works bound in 21 volumes, 8vo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary polishe...

BINDING - Biblia, dat is de Gantsche Heylige Schrifture. Amsterdam, 1837, 12mo, attractively bound in full 19th-century Dutch tortoiseshell, highl...

BINDING - Charles DICKENS (1812-70). A Christmas Carol, London, 1915, small 4to, 12 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, FINELY BOUND by Bayntun in ...

BINDING - Charles WELCH (1848-1924). History of the Tower Bridge and of other Bridges over the Thames, London, 1894. 4to, plates, VERY FINELY BOUN...

BINDING - Chris SCARRE (b.1954, editor). Past Worlds. The Times Atlas of Archaeology, London, 1989, folio, FINELY BOUND BY SALLY LOU SMITH in cont...

BINDING - Henry B. WHEATLEY (1838-1917). London Past and Present, London, 1891, 3 volumes extended to 9, 8vo, COPIOUSLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, attract...

BINDING - Henry B. WHEATLEY (1838-1917). London Past and Present, London, 1891, 3 volumes, large 8vo, FINELY BOUND by Bickers & Son in full crushe...

BINDING - J. H. JESSE (1809-74). London: Its Celebrated Characters & Remarkable Places, London, 1871, 6 volumes, 8vo, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.480...

BINDING - Jane AUSTEN (1775-1817). Pride and Prejudice, London, 1894, 8vo, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, FINELY BOUND in original elaborate cloth...

BINDING - "Lewis CARROLL" (1832-98). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, 1974, 4to, 13 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, FINELY BOUND in bu...

BINDING - London Interiors, London, [c.1841-44], 2 volumes bound in one, 4to, engraved frontispiece, title and 74 plates, attractively bound in co...

BINDING - Soren SORENSEN (dates unknown). Diderich Buxtehudes Vokale Kirkemusik, Copenhagen, 1958, large 8vo, FINELY BOUND in an abstract modernis...

BINDING - William Bond CAVENDISH [?but William Bengo COLLYER] (1782-1854). Lectures on Scripture Comparison, London, 1826, 8vo, FINELY BOUND BY TH...

BINDING WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS - E. V. LUCAS (1868-1938). A Wanderer in London, London, 1926, 2 volumes, 8vo, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, FINELY BOUND b...

BINDING, ETON - Christopher STONE (1882-1965). Eton, London, 1909, large 8vo, 20 coloured plates by E. D. Brinton, FINELY BOUND in dark blue half ...

BINDING, THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS' COPY - The Royal Kalendar, London, 1848, large 12mo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary straight-grained a...

BINDING, WITH A DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING - William SOMERVILLE (1675-1742). The Chace, London,1796, 8vo, 6 plates, contemporary scarlet straight-g...

BLAKE, William (1757-1827). The Inferno from La Divina Commedia, New York, "Presented by Richard W. Ellis for Cheshire House," 1931, folio, 7 plat...

BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea ... in his Majesty's Ship The Bounty ... Including an Account of the Mutiny, London, 1792, 4...

BLOCH, Ernest (1880-1959). An important correspondence comprising c.120 autograph and typed letters, signed ("Ernest Bloch"), to Ernest Chapman, m...

[BOLTON, Edmund ([?]1575-[?]1633)]. Nero Cæsar, or Monarchie Depraved, London, 1624, small folio, additional engraved allegorical title, engraved ...

BOSWELL, James (1740-95). The Life of Samuel Johnson, London, 1885, 5 vols., large 8vo, 23 engraved portraits on 20 plates by Joshua Reynolds, con...

BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret (1904-71, photographer) & Erskine CALDWELL (1903-87). Say, is this the U.S.A., New York, 1941, 4to, monochrome photographed...

BOYLE, Robert (1627-91). A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things ... To which are Subjoyn'd ... some Uncommon Observations about V...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) - Michael MONTFORT (1940-2008, photographer). 24 Photographs 1977-1987, Santa Barbara, 1987, 4to, boards. FIRST EDITIO...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) - Sanford DORBIN (1932-2014). A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski, Los Angeles, 1969, 8vo, the title with an original p...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94), and others - Seamus COONEY (b.1933). A Checklist of the First One Hundred Publications of the Black Sparrow Press, Lo...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). A visitor complains of my disenfranchise ... Los Angeles, Illuminati, 1987, tall 8vo, 20-pages, stitched into origina...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). All the Assholes in the World and Mine, Bensenville, Illinois, Open Skull Press, 1966, 8vo, original tan pictorial wr...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Bring Me Your Love, Santa Barbara, 1983, 4to, illustrations by R. Crumb, original cloth-backed pictorial boards. FIRS...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Cold Dogs in the Courtyard, Chicago, "Published Jointly by the Literary Times and Cyfoeth Publications," 1965, 8vo, o...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, Bensenville, Illinois, Mimeo Press, 1965, 8vo, mimeographed t...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Dangling in the Tournefortia, Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1981, 8vo, original pictorial boards, acetate wrapp...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Epos. A Quarterly of Poetry. Poems and Drawings by Charles Bukowski, Crescent City, Florida, 1962, 8vo, illustrations...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Factotum. A Novel. Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1975, large 8vo, original boards, acetate wrapper. A FINE COPY...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Hollywood. A Novel, Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1989, 8vo, original boards. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. NU...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Hot Water Music, Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1983, large 8vo, original boards. FIRST EDITION of this collecti...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). In the Shadow of the Rose, Santa Barbara, 1991, 4to, original coloured decorated boards, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. ...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). It Catches my Heart in its Hands, New Orleans, Loujon Press, 1963, 8vo, printed on multi-coloured paper, original boa...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window, Glendale, California, Poetry X/Change, [1968], square 8vo, ill...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Run with the Hunted, Chicago, Midwest Poetry Chapbooks, 1962, 8vo, original red wrappers. FIRST EDITION of the author...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have Taken Over the Ship, Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1998, large 8v...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). The Movie "Barfly", Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1987, large 8vo, photographed illustrations, original boards. FI...