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MORLEY (George, Lord Bishop of Worcester) Charles II Coronation Sermon. A Sermon preached at the Magnificent Coronation of the most high and migh...

[FRIEDRICH II]. Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Brandebourg. Nouvelle Edition, revue, corrigées et augmentée, Berlin and the Hague chez Jean ...

DONNE (John) Poems, &c., fifth edition, London: by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1669, 8vo, with final blank, some foxing and toning, close cropped a...

ZANTANI (Antonio) Le imagini con tutti i reverse trovati et le vite de gli imperatori. Libro primo. Enea Vico 1548, small 4to, decorative engraved...

HALFPENNY (William & John) Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste. London: for Robert Sayer 1755, third edition, 8vo, engraved title & 62 (of 64)...

VICO (Enea) Augustarum Imagines...., Venice 1558, small 4to, with engraved title and 63 plates, some soiling, 2 or 3 marginal worm holes, worn cal...

French literature, illustrated. BAOUR-LORMIAN (L P M F) La Jerusalem Delivree, 1796, 4to, vol. I only, boards, uncut; DOUCET (G) Peintres et Grave...

JUVENALIS. Satires. Oxford 1673, folio, translated by Barten Holyday, with small folding map and 3 plates, lacks half title, slight foxing and dus...

LACLOS (Pierre A. F. Choderlos de) Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Londres [Paris], 1796, 2 vols. 8vo, 15 plates (one with lower corner torn way), half ...

HOWARD (Howard Eliot) The British Warblers, a History with Problems of Their Lives, in 2 vols., London: R H Porter 1907-14, small 4to, coloured pl...

Fine binding. DULAC (Edmund; Illustrator) The Arabian Nights, Hodder & Stoughton (no date), 4to, plates, text paper tending to grey, full red moro...

MACQUOID (Percy) A History of English Furniture. London 1904-08, in 4 vols. folio, illustrations, original half morocco by R H Porter (4) ...[m...

Literature and bindings. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1904, 8vo, vellum back; GALLSWORTHY (J) In Chancery, 1920, half morocco; others - Grote, Thacke...

Fine binding. HOUX (Jean Le) The Vaux-De-Vire, edited and translated by James Muirhead. London: John Murray 1875, 8vo, in full brown morocco gilt ...

Fine binding. CHAMPFLEURY. Chien-Caillou, illustrated by Guignebault. Paris: Edition de l'Atelier d'Art c.1900, 8vo, one of 150 copies on Holland ...

Fine binding. The Book of the Omar Khayyam Club 1892-1910. London: printed for the members for private circulation 1910, no. 23 of 185 copies, sma...

Bindings, 8vo. ADDISON, STEELE and others. The Tatler, 4 vols. 1710-13; The Spectator, 8 vols. 1747; The Guardian, 2 vols. 1747; The Englishman, 1...

TWEDDELL (Rev. R) Remains of the late John Tweddle. London: for J. Mawman 1815, 4to, with double fore-edge painting of Eton College and King's Col...

Victorian decorative cloth bindings. STEPHENS (F G) Normandy its Gothic Architecture and History, 1865, with 25 mounted photographic plates as cal...

TASSO (Torquato) La Gerusalemme Liberata, 2 vols., Paris 1771, 8vo, with two engraved frontispieces, engraved dedication and 19 (of 20) plates aft...

Binding. SWINBURNE (A C) Atalanta in Calydon. Riccardi Press 1923, 8vo, full coloured morocco gilt binding, with 'Notes on the Binding..' tipped i...

Fine binding. HOWELL (F) The Characters of Theophrastus. London 1824, 8vo, hand coloured illustrations, some light foxing, later full brown morocc...

[PEAKE (Richard Brinsley)]. The Characteristic Costume of France; from Drawings Made on the Spot, with Appropriate Descriptions. By an Artist rece...

Literature and poetry, leather bound. A New and General Biographical Dictionary, in 12 vols. 1784, 8vo, tree calf, one vol. damaged at head, anoth...

Fine binding. SHAKESPEARE. Tragedies, Comedies and Histories, in 3 vols, Oxford University Press 1924, 8vo, India paper edition with plates by Edm...

GASKELL (Elizabeth) The Life of Charlotte Bronte, first edition in 2 vols., London 1857, large 12mo, 2 frontispieces and a plate, half titles, occ...

MAFFEI (Giovanni P.) L'Historie des Indes Orientales et Occidentales, 2 parts in one, Paris: chez Robert de Niaville 1665, 4to, first edition of M...

COWARD (Noel) Quadrille, first edition, Heinemann 1952, 8vo, signed and inscribed by the author to Binkie Beaumont [theatre manager and producer],...

BIRD (Charles) and John TAYLOR. Picturesque Old Bristol, a Series of 52 Etchings, in 2 vols, Bristol: Frost and Reed 1885, folio, no. 11/125 unle...

CAULFIELD (James) Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, in 4 vols, 1819-20, 8vo, portrait plates, recased in diced calf gilt (4...

LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Tales Imitated in English Verse, 2 vols, London: privately printed 1814, 8vo, extra illustrated, full red morocco gilt by R...

WAKEFIELD (Edward) An Account of Ireland, 2 vols., 1812, 4to, folding map and plate, rebacked half calf (rubbed); [EGAN (Pierce)] Real Life in Ire...

Bindings, sporting literature etc. HUISH (Robert) Memoirs of her late Royal Highness Charlotte Augusta, 1818, 8vo, plates, half red calf; Badminto...

GIBBON (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire, 12 vols., 1838-39, large 8vo, folding maps; together with The Life of Gib...

Fore-edge painting. TENNYSON (Alfred) The Works, 1904, 8vo, two fore-edge paintings, one depicting the Death of Arthur, the other of Jousting Knig...

POWELL (Roger) signed binding. AUSTIN (O L) Birds of the World, London: Hamlyn 1961, folio, illustrated, full cream leather gilt with patterns of ...

SHERER (John) Rural Life Described and Illustrated, no date, c.1870, thick 4to, numerous plates, modern half morocco gilt; YOUATT (W) Cattle their...

DICKENS (Charles) Works, 21 parts bound in 7 vols., Chapman and Hall 1890-92, 8vo, contemporary half red morocco, some wear and repairs to spines ...

BEWICK (T) A General History of Quadrupeds, 3rd edition Newcastle 1792, 8vo, illustrations, title slightly toned but text generally clean, rebacke...

SHAKESPEARE. Works and Index, edited by J. Payne Collier, in 9 vols., 1842-53, 8vo, rubbed grained morocco gilt bindings ...[more]

FORSTER (Rev. Edward; translator). The Arabian Nights, in 5 vols. 1802, large 8vo, illustrated by Smirke, contemporary red morocco, (vol. V with p...

WILLIS (N P) Canadian Scenery, 2 vols., G. Virtue 1842, 4to, illustrated by Bartlett, added engraved titles, map and 117 plates, occasional foxing...

USSHER (John), A Journey From London To Persepolis : Including Wanderings In Daghestan, Georgia, Armenia, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, and Persia, firs...

OLIPHANT (L). Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan...., in 2 vols. 1859, first edition, 8vo, with 20 coloured lithograph pl...

RUSKIN (John) The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849, first edition, tall 8vo, etched plates, half calf with good modern reback ...[more]

BEATTIE (W) Scotland Illustrated, 2 vols., London: Virtue 1838, 4to, added engraved title, folding map and plates, light sporadic foxing or spotti...

BONOTTO (Michael Angelus) Existentia Dei eiusque Attributa Metaphysice Asserta.., 2 vols. Venice: C. Palese 1770, 4to, title in red and black, ful...

Binding. Serie De' Podesta di Chioggua. Venice: Carlo Palese 1767, 4to, 3 plates, thick paper, some staining, full dark red morocco gilt binding ...

GRONOW (Captain) The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow. London, 1900, 2 vols. 8vo, extra-illustrated with over 200 portraits and v...

GASKELL (E. C.) The Life of Charlotte Bronte, first edition in two vols. London 1857, large 12mo, three tipped-in cuttings to first leaves of vol....

The Royal Kalender for the year 1800, 4 parts in one thick 12mo vol., with heraldic engraved plates, New Companion section, The East India Kalend...

HANSON (John)of Osmanthorp near Leeds and latterly of Great Bromley Hall, Essex, and Russell Square, London). A typescript family history journal ...

DUGDALE (William) Monasticon Anglicanum, six vols. in 8, new edition London 1817-30, folio, half titles, plates and plans including double page, s...

SHERWOOD (Mary M.) The History of George Desmond. First edition, Wellington 1821, 8vo, frontispiece, later half binding rebacked preserving spine ...

Bindings, literature. BAKER (G) The History of Rome, by Livy, in 6 vols., 8vo, 1814, 2nd edition, calf; HUNTER (H) Studies of Nature, in 4 vols., ...

LILFORD (Lord) Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, vols. II to VII only, 2nd edition, 1891-97, 8vo, colour plates, some light sp...

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