Specialist Books, Maps & Prints

Bindings - classics. A large collection of leather bound classical works, many in Latin or Greek including Ovid and Pliny, most first half 19th ce...

Bindings - classics. A large collection of leather bound classical works, many in Latin or Greek, most first half 19th century, ex. college librar...

[GENLIS (Madame de)] Theatre pour servir a l’Education, 4 volumes Paris 1780, 12mo, with - Theatre de de Societe, 2 volumes 1781, 12mo, together 6...

MITFORD (William) The History of Greece, in 8 volumes, London 1814, 8vo, some typical staining to first and last leaves of each volume, half calf ...

BINGLEY (Rev. W) North Wales including its Scenery, Antiquities, Customs..., Natural History, in 2 volumes London 1804, 8vo, folding hand coloured...

PALEY (Rev E) The Works, new edition in 7 volumes 1825, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, full calf gilt spines (slightly rubbed) ...[more]

HAMILTON (G) The English School a Series of the Most Approved Productions in Painting and Sculpture, London and Paris 1831-32, 4 volumes, small 8v...

The Oeconomy of Human Life translated from an old Indian Manuscript, London: T.Rickaby for S & E Harding 1795, 8vo, stipple engraved vignettes, sl...

ROSCOE (Thomas) The History of Painting in Italy, new edition in 3 volumes London: Henry G. Bohn 1847, 8vo, full sprinkled calf gilt ...[more]

LODGE (Edmund) Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, in 10 volumes 1840, large 8vo, occasional staining and spotting as usual, hal...

MOORE (George) The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe, London: Heinemann 1924, signed numbered edition 627 of 1280 copies, some damp staining mai...

GIBBON (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Notes by Rev. H.Milman, 2nd edition in 6 volumes, 1846, 8vo, folding...

WROTTESLEY (Captain G) The Military Opinions of General Sir John Fox Burgoyne, London 1859, 8vo, first edition, full polished calf gilt by Zaehnsd...

ALISON (A) The Military Life of John Duke of Marlborough, 1848, 8vo, first edition, hand coloured map and battle plans at end, full polished calf ...

CAMPBELL (Thomas) Life of Mrs Siddons, 2 vols London 1834, half morocco gilt by Stikeman & Co, armorial bookplate of Park Benjamin, t.e.g. (2) ....

JESSE (John H) Memoirs of the Pretenders and their Adherents, in 2 volumes first edition, London: Richard Bentley 1845, 8vo, portraits and folding...

BLACKWELL (Thomas) Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, 3rd edition, London 1764/3, 4to, polished calf gilt spines (vol. III joints cracked) ...[mo...

STEVENSON (R L) Works, 12 volumes, London: Chatto & Windus circa 1898-99, 8vo, half green morocco gilt, t.e.g. (12) ...[more]

WARREN (Samuel) The Works in 5 volumes, including ‘Ten Thousand a-Year’, 1854-55, 8vo, half calf (5) ...[more]

STEVENSON (R L) Works, 8vo, including: Island Nights’ Entertainments, 1st edition 1893; In the South Seas, 1st edition 1900; Vailima Letters, 1895...

STANHOPE (Philip Dormer; Earl of Chesterfield) Letters Written to his Son, in 2 volumes London 1774, 4to; Miscellaneous Works, 2 volumes 1777, 4to...

THIERS (Louis) and F.BODIN. The History of the French Revolution, in 3 volumes, first edition thus, London 1825, 8vo, edges uncut, some spotting, ...

STRICKLAND (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, new edition in 6 volumes 1880, 8vo, slight staining to first leaves, half calf gilt ...[more]

Bindings. IRVING (Washington) Bracebridge Hall; Sketch Book; Tales of a Traveller; 2 volume editions 1821-25, 8vo, green calf gilt; Life of George...

MILTON (John) The Works Historical, Political and Miscellaneous, in 2 volumes, 1753, 4to, portrait frontispiece; Paradise Regained, new edition 17...

Literature - bindings. HEINE (H) Collected works in German, 20 volumes in 10, 1861; THIERS. Historie de la Revolution, 10 volumes in 5, 1880, half...

Cornhill Magazine, volumes 1-9, 1860 to June 1864, 8vo, illustrations, half calf ...[more]

Bindings. The Treatyse of Fisshynge Wyth an Angle, London: William Loring Andrews 1903, 8vo, one of 150 copies, printed in black and red, full vel...

Literature, various. BUTLER (A G) and F.W.FROHAWK (illustrator). British Birds with their Nests and Eggs, in 6 volumes no date, 4to, plates, margi...

The Costumes of the Members of the University of Cambridge, London: H.Hyde (no date), circa 1840, 12mo, with 24 foldout coloured plates (title age...

~ H ~ KING, Jr (Martin Luther) Why We Can’t Wait, 1st American Signet paperback edition 1964, inscribed by the author overleaf of title ‘To Peter ...

China - Manuscript. Chinese Military Formation. [Su Zhan Chen Diao Dui Heng Di Qi Su Hao Ling Tu Shuo], with 10 manuscript ink and colour drawings...

St. Ives (Huntindonshire) interest. OCKLEY (Simon) An Anniversary Sermon preached on Whitsun Tuesday (May 26, 1713), at St. Ives, Huntingtonshire ...

STOKER (Bram) Dracula, first edition, London, Archibald Constable & Co, 1897, 8vo, 8pp adverts at end without ‘Shoulder of Shasta’ (but mentioned ...

POTTER (Beatrix) The Roly-Poly Pudding, first edition, first issue, with ‘[All rights reserved]’ at foot of title, Frederick Warne & Co 1908, smal...

Peepshow. Lane’s Telescopic View of the Great Exhibition 1851, coloured lithographic front cover and 9 views, linen or cotton side folding mounts,...

POTTER (Beatrix) The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck, 1908, grey boards; The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1909, green boards, both first editions, colour...

POTTER (Beatrix) The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1907, green boards; The Tale of Mr Tod, 1912, pale grey/green boards, both first editions, colour illustr...

TAYLOR (Isaac) Polar Scenes exhibited in the Voyages of Heemskirk and Barenz to the Northern Regions, London 1823, 12mo, half title, 36 engravings...

TAYLOR (Isaac) Scenes in Asia, 2nd edition 1821, 12mo, half title, folding hand coloured map frontispiece and 84 engravings, advert leaf at end, s...

WADDEL (Moses) Memoirs of the Life of Miss Caroline E Smelt, Bristol: no date (circa 1818), 12mo, boards (rubbed); with 5 others, 19th century, co...

FENELON (Abbe) On the Education of Daughters, London: W.Darton Jnr. 1812, 8vo, folding frontispiece, slight age staining, rubbed tree calf; A Visi...

MILNE (A A) Now We Are Six, first edition 1927, cloth gilt; Winnie-The-Pooh, first edition 1926, covers damaged and in need of rebinding (2) ......

[HEPWORTH (Barbara)] TOFT (Albert) Modelling and Sculpture, Seeley Service & Co [no date], inscribed in ink to first free end paper ‘Barbara Hepwo...

POTTER (Beatrix) The Tale of Peter Rabbit, no date., [1902], first trade edition, Peter ‘wept big tears’ on p.51, grey leaf pattern end papers, ha...

SHORT (Bob) The Country Squire…, Pocket Companion for Children of all Ages, London: for H.Turpin 1781, 16mo, vignette title, frontispiece and 4 pl...

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New Testament in German. Das Ganz Nuw Testament unsers Hern Jesu Christi recht grundlich vertutschet, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1737, 8vo, some age st...

LaTrobe (Christian Ignatius) Hymn-Tunes sung in the Church of the United Brethren, London: printed for the Author by J.Bland, no date [circa 1800]...

BIBLE, Bohemia. Manualnjik. Aneb Gadro cele Biblj Swate, Amsterdam: Gabriel a Roy, 1658, 12mo, 912pp, slightly age toned, later worn calf ...[mo...

Prayer Book in French. L’Ange Conducteur dans la Devotion Chretienne, Liege: chez J.F.Bassompierre, frontispiece and title loose, final page dated...

Japanese Photograph album circa 1900. A large red lacquer album with 48 tinted picturesque views and few figure subjects, most with English captio...

Photographs - Italy. Two vellum gilt albums, the larger dated 1883, with a total of 176 images, typical Rome views and works of art, mostly 20 x 2...

SHEPHERD and ROBERTSON. Group of army officers from the 48th, Crimea period, mounted photograph ex. Gernsheim Collection, 19 x 27.5cm (image; slig...

CAMERON (Julia Margaret) Portrait of Charles Darwin, Photographic print, label to reverse ‘..published for the Subscribers to Appleton’s Scientifi...

Photography - a rare album of Cyanotypes, oblong folio, with 30 large cyanotype prints of lace, and 17 various other prints, (47) ...[more]

Two Daguerrotypes and an Ambrotype. A leather cased oval portrait miniature of a gentleman in spectacles, marked to reverse ‘R.Lowe, Cheltenham’, ...

Microphotos. PIAT (Robert) Microscopic gelatin prints, 69 mounted images, each 5.5cm diameter, in a folder with French text to each leaf, 22 x 9.5...

Photographs. Album of 7 albumen contact prints of eminent personalities of the day, circa 1890, scattered spotting, in a worn cloth gilt binding ...

Photographs. A Victorian album of Denman, Cropper and Holland family interest, many sitters named below to the mounts, few naval, etc. Note: Rear ...