Fine Books and Manuscripts

ASIAN ARTYAMANAKA & CO. [Sale catalogues] Oriental Art. The Entire Stock of the New York Store with Additions from the Chicago Store... By order o...

DANTE ALIGHIERI[Divina Commedia], commentary by Christoforo Landino and Alessandro Vellutello, edited by Francesco Sansovino, title with large wo...

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCEIn Congress, July 4, 1776. The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America. When in the Course of Hu...

DREYFUS AFFAIRLENEPVEU (VICTOR), pseudonym. Musée des Horreurs [Gallery of Horrors], 52 colour-printed lithographic posters (numbered 1-51, and '...

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE - DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCEThe Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 1-246 bound in 247 volumes, engraved plates and maps (many foldi...

HARRIS (JOHN)Lexicon Technicum: or, an Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining Not Only the Terms of Art but the Arts Themse...

KIRCHER (ATHANASIUS)Polygraphia nova et universalis ex combinatoria arte detecta, woodcut on title-page, 3 folding tables (one engraved, 2 letter...

MEDICINEMAURICEAU (FRANCIS) The Diseases of Women with Child, and in Child-bed... translated by Hugh Chamberlen... by whom this second edition is ...

MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE)Livre des essais... Divise en deux parties. Derniere edition augmentee de deux tables, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut ornament o...

MUSIC - YORKSHIRE FESTIVAL 1823-1825A bound volume of printed programmes (approx. 13), tickets (3, one issued J.L. Raper, Chairman of the Festival...

MUSICBEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) [Symphonies 1-4 in 3 vol.], FIRST GERMAN EDITIONS, engraved throughout, comprising: Ire. Grande simphonie en ut majeu...

NAPOLEON BONAPARTEDocument signed ('Bonaparte'), being an order authorizing the payment of 240 francs to be sent by courier; engraved Republique F...

PALMER (SAMUEL) AND OTHERSEtchings for the Art-Union of London by the Etching Club, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 29 etched plat...

PHOTOGRAPHY - FOX TALBOTTALBOT (WILLIAM HENRY FOX) Coley Avenue, Reading, salt print from calotype negative, mounted on card, verso with unrelate...

PHOTOGRAPHY - GEORGE DAVISONDAVISON (GEORGE) A group of 11 vintage photogravures, EACH SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER, including views of Harlech Cast...

PHOTOGRAPHY - MOUNTAINEERING AND ALPSA fine series of 27 panoramic views of the Alps and mountaineers, mostly women, gelatin silver prints, one s...

PHOTOGRAPHY - PANORAMASA large collection of upwards of 450 'panoramic' views of North Africa, India, Middle East, Mexico, North and South Europe,...

PHOTOGRAPHY - WORLD WAR I AND MILITARYA large collection of panoramas, including: '13th Div. Ammn. Park 178 Co... Mobilized for European War, May ...

SLAVERYSANCHO (IGNATIUS) Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, hHalf-title, stipple-engraved portrait of Sancho by Francesco Bartolozz...

BRADFORD (WILLIAM)Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain [-Sketches of Military Costume in Portugal and Spain], 2 ...

COLLINS (GREENVILLE)[Cartes et plans de côtes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande, copiées sur celles du Pilote côtier de la Grande-Bretagn de Gre...

COLLINS (GREENVILLE)Great Britain's Coasting Pilot... Being a New and Exact Survey of the Sea-Coast of England and Scotland, from the River of Tha...

COMIC MAPROSE (FREDERICK W.) Angling in Troubled Waters - A Serio-Comic Map of Europe, chromolithographed pictorial map, tears to folds some fold...

GREECE - CHIOSARGENTI (PHILIP P.) Istoria tou Chiakou oikou Argenti [The History of the Argenti of Chios], FIRST EDITION, text in Greek, engraved...

GREECE - CHIOSARGENTI (PHILIP P.) AND STILPONOS P. KURIAKIDOU. E Chios para tois geografois kai periegetais, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-title in...

GREECE - LANGUAGEAtakta, 5 vol. bound in 7 (as published), FIRST EDITION, text in Greek (excepting final index volume in Greek and French), damps...

HALL (SIDNEY)A New General Atlas, with the Divisions and Boundaries Carefully Coloured; Constructed Entirely from New Drawings, engraved title an...

MALTON (JAMES)A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin, Described in a Series of the Most Interesting Scenes Taken in the Year 179...

POLAR - FRENCH ANTARCTIC EXPLORATIONCHARCOT (JEAN-BAPTISTE) Journal de l'Expédition Antarctique Française: Le 'Français' au Pôle Sud, FIRST EDITIO...

POLAR - JAPANESE EXPLORATIONSHIRASE (NOBU) Chisima Tanken-Roku [Records of Chisima], second edition, text in Japanese, 3 full-page, blue-tinted i...

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912[SHIRASE (NOBU)] Nankyoku-ki, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, text in Japanese, 4 coloured plates, ...

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912[SHIRASE (NOBU)] Nankyoku-ki, third expanded Memorial edition, text in Japanese, 6 coloured plate...

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912[SHIRASE (NOBU] Nankyoku-Tanken, FIRST EDITION, text in Japanese, 4 leaves of photographic illustr...

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912[SHIRASE (NOBU)] Map of the Antarctic Pole, colour printed map centred on the South Pole, text in ...

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912Nankyoku Tanken Hikoki Sugoruku [Antarctic Expedition Airplane Sugoroku], Japanese 'board game' pr...

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912TADA (KEIICHI) Nankyoku Tanken Shiroku, 8 photographic plates, one colour plate after a watercolou...

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912Journal des Voyages, No. 875 [including a report on the Japanese Expedition], illustrations (inclu...

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912TADA (KEIICHI) [Diary of Antarctic Expedition Team], issued as a magazine supplement, text in Japa...

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912[Antarctic Expeditions Now and Past], text in Japanese, 74 pages (plus advertisements), with pp.3...

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912TADA (KEIICHI) Nankyoku Tanken Nikki, text in Japanese, one photographic plate only, 15 pages of a...

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912YASUNASUKE (YAMABE) Ainu Monogatari [The Ainu Story], text in Japanese, 4 photographic plates, 9 p...

POLARHAYES (J. GORDON) The Conquest of the South Pole. Antarctic Exploration 1906-1931, photographic plates, maps, spotting (quite heavy to title...

POLARMOSS (EDWARD L.) Shore of the Polar Sea. A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6, FIRST EDITION, half-title, title printed in red and...

SCOTLANDHILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature and on Stone, FIRST EDITION, 30 uncoloured lithographed plates ...

SCOTLANDROBERTSON (JAMES) Topographical and Military Map of the Counties of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincardine; with parts of those of Forfar, Perth,...

SPANISH ARMADAClassis Hispanica 30 Maii Anno 1588. Lisbona Angliam contra emissa..., engraving probably after Frans Hogenberg, hand-coloured, bro...

STOW (JOHN)A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster... Corrected, Improved, and Very Much Enlarged... to the Present Time; by John Strype,...

BEWICK (THOMAS)History of British Birds, 2 vol., 445 numerous woodcut illustrations, some spotting (heavier to endpapers, small light dampstain i...

HOOLA VAN NOOTEN (BERTHE)Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisies de l'Ile de Java peints d'après nature, FIRST EDITION, parallel text in French and...

[MERIAN (MATTHIAS)][LUDWIG I, PRINCE OF ANHALT-KOTHEN] Der fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft nahmen, vorhaben Gemälde und Wörter, 4 parts in 1, FIRST ...

MERIAN (MARIA SIBYLLA)Erucarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, engraved allegorical frontispiece by and after Simon Schijnovoet, port...

REICHENBACH (HEINRICH GOTTLIEB LUDWIG)Two studies of parrots, ink, watercolour, and gum Arabic, ink caption in lower margin, mounted, framed and ...

[ROUPELL (ARABELLA E.)]Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady, FIRST EDITION, list of subscribers (103 names subscribing for 111 copies...

THORBURN (ARCHIBALD)British Birds, 4 vol. (without Supplement), NUMBER 2 OF 105 LARGE PAPER COPIES, 80 tipped-in colour plates, some light spotti...

VALLET (PIERRE)Le jardin du roy tres chrestien Loys XIII, etched architectural title, portrait of Vallet, 93 etched plates (numbered 1-30, 32-57,...

VALLET (PIERRE)Le jardin du roy tres chrestien Henry IV, hand-coloured etched pictorial title-page and 15 etched plates only, all hand-coloured i...

BOSWELL (JAMES)Autograph letter signed ('James Boswell') to Alexander Burnett ('Dear Sir'), British Chargé d'Affaires in Berlin, thanking him in ...

BOSWELL (JAMES)Autograph letter signed ('adieu Dear Sir/ James Boswell') to Alexander Burnett. Provenance: Alexander Burnett, 4th of Kemnay (1735-...

LEIBNIZ (GOTTFRIED WILHELM)Autograph letter signed ('Leibniz') to Thomas Burnett ('Monsieur'), in French, explaining that he is intending to write...

LEIBNIZ (GOTTFRIED WILHELM)Autograph letter signed ('Leibniz') to Thomas Burnett ('Monsieur'), in French, pleased and surprised to hear that he is...