Books, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs

ART REFERENCE DELTEIL (LOYS) Honoré Daumier [Le Peintre-Graveur illustré (XIXe et XXe siècles], 11 vol., frontispiece portrait, approximately 400...

BESSON (JACQUES) Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum, title within wide woodcut architectural border, 60 engraved plates, title-page soiled wit...

BINDING - SHELLEY SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE) Poems... Selected and Arranged by Stopford A. Brooke, ONE OF 500 LARGE PAPER COPIES, engraved vignette o...

DOYLE (RICHARD) - ORIGINAL ARTWORK Three ink and watercolour illustrations depicting scenes from Victor Hugo's legend of Bold Pecopin, including ...

HEISTER (LORENZ) Beschreibung eines neuen Geschlechts von einer sehr raren und überaus schönen afrikanischen Pflanze aus der Familie der Zwiebelge...

JUVENILIA - COSTUME Modes de Paris. Costumes d'enfans, 4 parts in 1, 24 hand-coloured engraved plates, 3 (of 4) part-titles on pink paper, lackin...

LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE) Fables, 4 vol., half-titles, engraved frontispiece in volume 1, 284 engraved plates after Simon and Croiny, some spotting, ...

LEONARDO DA VINCI A Treatise of Painting... Translated from the Original Italian... to Which is Prefix'd, the Author's Life, first edition in Eng...

LONDON - EAST END, 1703 GASCOYNE (JOEL) An Actuall Survey of the Parish of St Dunstan Stepney, alias Stebunheath, Being One of the Ten Parishes in...

MIDWIFERY, IN URDU RAHEEM KHAN. The Principles and Practice of Midwifery, in Urdu, second edition ('Thoroughly Revised'), 2 titles in English and...

MUSIC [ROBERTS (HENRY)] Calliope or English Harmony. A Collection of the most Celebrated English and Scots Songs Neatly Engrav'd and Embellish'd ...

MUSIC SCHUBERT (FRANZ) [Unfinished Symphony] Zwei Satze der Unvollendeten Sinfonie in H moll, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF THE FULL ORCHESTRAL SCORE,...

PHOTOGRAPHY - AFRICA AND ROYALTY The Progress of His Royal Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert through the Cape Colony, British Kaffraria, the Or...

PHOTOGRAPHY - EMERSON EMERSON (PETER HENRY) Pictures of East Anglian Life... with General and Descriptive Text and Three Appendices, FIRST EDITION...

PHOTOGRAPHY - EMERSON EMERSON (PETER HENRY) Wild Life on a Tidal Water. The Adventures of a House-boat and her Crew. Illustrated with Thirty Photo...

PHOTOGRAPHY - EMERSON EMERSON (PETER HENRY) Marsh Leaves... with Sixteen Photo-etchings from Plates Taken by the Author, FIRST EDITION, half-titl...

PHOTOGRAPHY - FARQUHAR FAMILY Six albums of photographs (carte-de-visite portraits; groups, Crystal Palace, country house scenes) compiled by, and...

PHOTOGRAPHY - LONDON JUDGE (FRED) Camera Pictures of London at Night, FIRST EDITION, 24 photogravure plates, title and 2 leaves of introductory t...

QU'RAN, ISLAM AND THE ARAB WORLD The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed... to which is Prefixed, a Preliminary Discourse by George Sal...

[ROUPELL (ARABELLA E.)] Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady, FIRST EDITION, 9 hand-coloured plates by Roupell (including decorative ...

TATTING, 'WOMAN'S WORK' - LADY HOARE AND THE QUEEN OF ROMANIA An archive of manuscripts, photographs, ephemera and original samples of tatting mad...

VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE) Oeuvres complètes, 30 vol., engraved allegorical frontispiece by J.J. Flipart after H. Gravelot, 42 plates by...

AMSTERDAM AND LEIDEN COMMELIN (CASPAR) Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, 2 vol., second edition, half-title, engraved allegorical frontispiece and titl...

BOWYER (ROBERT) An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe, During the Last Five Years; Comprising a Series of Views of the...

BOWYER (ROBERT) The Triumphs of Europe in the Campaigns of the Years 1812, 1813, 1814... A Series of Twelve Views of Moscow, the Kremlin, Leipsic,...

CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE) [COMBE (WILLIAM)] The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, FIRST EDITION, hand-coloured ...

CRUIKSHANK (ROBERT) [WESTMACOTT (CHARLES MOLLOY)] The English Spy: The Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes a...

DAUMIER (HONORE) Types parisiens, suite of 49 lithographed plates 'sur papier vergé blanc'(of 50, number 46 supplied from the periodical 'Chariva...

EGAN (PIERCE) Life in London, or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic...

FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes &c... from Drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. wi...

GILLRAY (JAMES) The Works... from the Original Plates, with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, large woodcut vignette on title, ...

JENKINS (JAMES) The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies; from 1799 to 1815, engraved title vignette, hand-coloured dedication to...

JENKINS (JAMES) The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies; from 1799 to 1815, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, engraved title ...

LOUTHERBOURG (PHILIPPE JACQUES DE) The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales, from Drawings Made Expressly for this Undertaking, F...

LYSONS (SAMUEL) A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities, FIRST EDITION, with 3 ORIGINAL PENCIL AND WASH DRAWINGS, mounted on card and loosely...

SMITH (CHARLES HAMILTON) Selections of the Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, FIRST EDITION, additional hand-coloured aquatint title, ...

SWITZERLAND [ZURLAUBEN (BEAT FIDEL ANTOINE) AND JEAN-BENJAMIN DE LABORDE] Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, p...

VITRUVIUS BRITANNICUS WOOLFE (JOHN) AND JAMES GANDON. Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect; Containing Plans, Elevations, and Sections ...

ALMANACK [SAUNDERS (RICHARD)] Rider's British Merlin: for the Year... 1742, title and calendar printed in red and black, half-page 'anatomical ma...

ARTISTS & WRITERS – ROSSETTI, RUSKIN, FORSTER & PRE-RAPHAELITES Collection of autograph letters, signed, from various nineteenth-century artists a...

BASKERVILLE PRESS ADDISON (JOSEPH) The Works, 4 vol., engraved portrait of the author by J. Miller after G. Kneller, 3 engraved plates after Fran...

BENTIVOGLIO (GUIDO) The Compleat History of the Warrs of Flanders, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, folding engrav...

BIBLES, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION [The Holy Bible], black letter, separate Psalter, NT, and Concordance titles (the first 2 within wide historia...

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, BISHOP'S VERSION The Holy Byble, Conteining the Olde Testament and the Newe, black letter, general title printed in red and bl...

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, BISHOPS' VERSION [The Holy Byble], black letter, New Testament (dated 1585), Psalter, Apocrypha with separate titles within wi...

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, Old Testament and New Testament titles within woodcut ...

BIBLES, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION [The Bible], NT title within woodcut border, woodcut ornament on parts title, lacks title and final leaf of OT...

BIBLES, IN ENGLISH - BINDINGS The Holy Bible, double column, bound with book of Psalms and Common Prayer (both 1679), small piece torn away but ...

BIBLE, FOR THE BLIND GALL (JAMES) The Gospel by St John for the Blind: with an Introduction, Containing Six Historical Notices Regarding the Origi...

BIBLE, IN LATIN Testamenti Veteris Biblia sacra, woodcut vignette on title (dated 1580), and separate parts titles 2-4, and Apocrypha title (all ...

BOSWELL (JAMES) The Life of Samuel Johnson, 5 vol., 5 engraved frontispiece portraits, one engraved folding map, one folding engraved facsimile d...

COWPER (WILLIAM, translator) The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer. Translated into Blank Verse, 2 vol., THE ESTELLE DOHENY COPY, light spotting, uncut,...

DICKENS (CHARLES) Autograph note signed ('Charles Dickens') to Ary Scheffer, '...This set of my books with admiration of his noble genius...', on...

DICKENS (CHARLES) Autograph cheque signed ('Charles Dickens'), in favour of 'Home', for sixty pounds, eleven shillings, drawn on Messrs Coutts & ...

DURHAM - MANUSCRIPT DEEDS Collection of c.20 manuscript deeds and grants, sixteen dating from the fourteenth- to sixteenth-centuries, relating to...

FROISSART (JEAN) [CHRONICLES] [Here Begynneth the Fyrst Volum [the thirde and fourthe boke] of Syr Johan Froyssart: of the Cronycles of Englande, ...

GERARD (JOHN) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes... Very Much Amended by Thomas Johnson, second edition, engraved pictorial title incorp...

GODWIN (WILLIAM) An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, ...

GORDON (CHARLES GEORGE) Collection of material relating to General Gordon of Khartoum (1822-1885), retained by Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscoun...

HUGHES (ARTHUR) The remaining archive relating to the Pre-Raphaelite artist, Arthur Hughes (1832-1915), assembled by art historian, Dr Leslie Cowa...