4 December | Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts

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

Atlante dell' America Contenente le Migliori Carte Geografiche, e Topografiche delle Principali Città, Laghi, Fiumi, e Fortezze del Nuovo Mondo, L...

[BARRIE, J. M. (1860-1937)] - R. L. STEVENSON (1850-94). Memories, London, [1912], 25 plates, original wrappers by JESSIE M. KING. ASSOCIATION COP...

BERLESE, Abbé Laurent (1784-1863). Iconographie du Genre Caméllia, Paris, 1843, vol. III only (of 3), folio, 74 hand-coloured plates only (of 100,...

BINDING - A. A. MILNE (1882-1956). Winnie-the-Pooh, London, 1967, 8vo, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, attractively bound in full green pictorial ...

BINDING - André FRÉNAUD (1907-93). Soleil Irréductible, Neuchatel, 1946. 4to, FINELY BOUND BY DANIEL KNODERER in abstract multi-coloured free-form...

BINDING - Liturgia, London, 1670, 8vo, engraved portrait of Charles II and 47 engraved illustrations, rubricated throughout, attractively bound in...

BINDING - Petites Fleurs de Saint François d' Assise, Paris, 1920, 4to, printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations, initials and ornaments by...

BINDING - Willi KURTH (b.1881, editor). The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, New York, 1963, 4to, illustrations, FINELY BOUND BY DON ETHERINGT...

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

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) & Al PURDY (1918-2000). The Bukowski Purdy Letters. 1964-1974. The Paget Press, 1983, 8vo, boards. FIRST EDITION. COPY...

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

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). "Old". The original file copy of the poem in the form of a computer print-out, 47 lines on 2 sheets of A4, SIGNED "Ch...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). 2 poems, Los Angeles, Philip Klein for the Black Sparrow Press, April 1967, 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. FIRST...

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). Crucifix in a Deathhand, New York, 1965, 4to, 4 etched plates by Noel Rockmore, original wrappers with fold-ins. FIRS...

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). Hot Water Music, Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1983, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 9...

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). Run with the Hunted, Chicago, Midwest Poetry Chapbooks, 1962, 8vo, original red wrappers. FIRST EDITION of the author...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Santa Rosa, 1992, large 8vo, original boards. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 251 COPIES (LE...

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense, Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1986, 8vo, boards. FIRST EDITION...

CHEVREUL, M. E. (1786-1889). The Laws of Contrast of Colour, London, 1859, 8vo, 17 plates, all but one printed in colours by Edmund Evans (some sp...

CHINA - Picture Story of Preparing Tea, [no place, but printed in China: no publisher, n.d.], small 4to, 10 hand-coloured plates printed on silk o...

CHINESE AND JAPANESE ART, MISCELLANY - Chinese Porcelain. The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, 2 volumes, 4to, coloured plates, or...

CHINESE CERAMICS - D. HOWARD & J. AYRES. China for the West. Chinese Porcelain & other Decorative Arts ... illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collect...

CHINESE CERAMICS - Edgar GORER (1872-1915) & J. F. BLACKER ([dates unknown]). Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, 1911, 2 volumes, 4to, 254...

CHINESE CERAMICS - H. MOSS (b.1943). By Imperial Command. An Introduction to Ch'ing Imperial Painted Enamels, Hong Kong, 1976, 2 volumes, folio, 8...

CHINESE CERAMICS - Liu LIANG-YU. A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, Taiwan, 1991, 5 volumes, folio, coloured illustrations, original brown buckram, dus...

CHINESE CERAMICS - Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1976-77, 12 volumes, large 4to, text in English and Japanese, mounted ...

CHINESE CERAMICS - R. KRAHL (and others). Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, [London], 1986, 3 volumes, folio, coloured and mo...

CHINESE CERAMICS - R. L. HOBSON (1872-1941). Catalogue of the Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain, London, 1931, 4to, 85 plates, some colo...

CHINESE IVORIES - S. E. LUCAS. The Catalogue of Sassoon Chinese Ivories, London, 1950, 3 volumes, 4to, coloured frontispiece, 224 plates, FINELY B...

CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976). A Pocket Full of Rye, London, 1853, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. With 2 other...

CLARKE, Graham (b.1941, illustrator). Balyn and Balan, Ebenezer Press, [1969], folio, coloured linocut text and plates by Graham Clarke printed on...

COLOUR PRINTING - James E. DOYLE (1824-83). A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485, London, 1864, 4to, 81 coloured illustrations by Edmund Eva...

CONDE José Antonio (1766-1820). Historia de la Dominacion de los Arabes en España, Madrid, 1820-21, 3 volumes bound in 2, small 4to, 6 engraved pl...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Mirror of the Sea, London, 1906, 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Arrow of Gold, London, 1919, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket (stained, dust-jacket in fragments). FIRST ENGLISH E...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Rover, London, 1927, 8vo, (the half title and title torn with severe loss), original cloth. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTA...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) & Ford M. HUEFFER (1873-1939). The Inheritors. London, 1901, 8vo, original yellow pictorial cloth (some light staining)...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Almayer's Folly, London, 1895, 8vo, title printed in red and black (some spotting), original green cloth gilt (bumped)...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). An Outcast of the Islands, London, 1896, 8vo, title printed in red and black (some light spotting to a few leaves), or...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Chance, London, 1913, 8vo, original green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. Please see the extensive notes regarding the edit...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Lord Jim, New York, 1900, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second issue, with the copyrig...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Nostromo, London, 1904, 8vo, (some staining and spotting), original blue cloth lettered and decorated in white, spine ...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Some Remiscences, London, 1912, large 8vo, half title, 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end, fine original...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Tales of Unrest, London, 1898, 8vo, title printed in red and black, original green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION of this c...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Mirror of the Sea, London, 1906, 8vo, half title, 40-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end dated August 1...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Rescue, London, 1920, 8vo, original blue cloth, dust-jacket (frayed with slight loss, the backstrip darkened). FIR...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Secret Agent, London, 1907, 8vo, half title, 40-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end dated September 190...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Typhoon and Other Stories, London, 1903, 8vo, (some spotting), original grey cloth gilt, uncut (a few scuff marks, edg...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Under Western Eyes, London, 1911, 8vo, half title, 32-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end dated August 1911...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Youth, London, 1902, 8vo, original cloth gilt (spine darkened and spotted). FIRST EDITION of this collection of three ...

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) - T. J. WISE (1859-1937). A Bibliography of the Writings of Joseph Conrad, London, "For Private Circulation," 1920, 4to...