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Nineteen French satirical hand coloured cartoons, mostly etchings by Martinet, early 19th century, subjects include army costumes, English tourist...

Collection of loose satirical prints, by or after Bunbury, Gillray, Nixon, Rowlandson and others; many trimmed or cut from album leaves, generally...

Circle of James Gillray, Napoleonic Cartoon entitled 'The Contrast', depicting John Bull arguing with a Frenchman, watercolour and pen on paper, 1...

Sir William Hamilton, group of four tinted engravings, late 18th century, of designs of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities, plates 77, 84, 90 a...

Three satirical cartoons by Thomas Rowlandson and George and Robert CruikshankThe Gemman vot pays the Man vot drives the Sovereign; After Sweet Me...

Robert Sargent Austin, RA, RE, RWS (British, 1895-1973)A Roman Madonna, etching, signed to lower margin in pencil, 18.5 x 15.5cm; Cathedral, Palma...

The Carrying of the Cross, from Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi (1926)wood engraving on japan paper, Cleverdon ed. 1929; 11 x 11.5cm (image);The...

A bird's eye view of Westminster, with Waterloo Bridge and the City beyond, drypoint etching, signed 'W L Wyllie' (lower left)P. 17 x 42.5cmCondit...

Hong Kong. After Lieutenant L G Heath, three panoramic engravings of Hong Kong from the anchorage, originally published by the Hydrographic Office...

Thomas Maltontwenty-nine loose hand coloured aquatint plates taken from 'A Picturesque Tour through London', published 1799-1801; most trimmed, sp...

Giovanni Ottaviani (1735-1808) and Giovanni Volpato (1740-1803) after drawings by Pietro Camporesi (1726-81) and Gaetano Savorelli (d. 1791), a bo...

Maps. 11 various maps in modern frames, most with hand colouring.France, late 18th century, 15 x 20cm; with another, 19 x 23cm; Dept. de la Vendee...

Saxton and HoleUniversi Derbiensis, hand coloured engraved map of Derbyshire, cica 1610, 28.5 x 32cm;Robert MordenSuffolk; Derbyshire; engraved ma...

A silkwork map of England and Wales, 19th century, 36.5 x 37cm, rather browned; Herman Moll, The County Palatine of Chester, hand coloured engrave...

Four engraved maps. Bowles's New Travellers Guide... England and Wales, 1777, 49 x 37cm; J. Cary, Lincolnshire, 53 x 40cm; Van Den Keere, Bedfords...

Collection of maps and prints, including three hand coloured county maps by Thomas Moule of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, and vario...

John Arrowsmith, Discoveries in the Arctic Sea, between Baffin Bay, Melville Island and Cape Bathurst, hand coloured engraving 1852, with fold cre...

County maps, mainly of Bedfordshire, including a coloured engraving by Saxton and Kip, 27 x 33cm, and H. Moll, with others, 19th century, of small...

Robert Morden, Kent, hand coloured engraved map, circa 1700, 35 x 63cm (image), with two panoramic views of Malvern from the South and East, colou...

John Speed, Somersetshire, hand coloured engraved map for Sudbury and Humble, circa 1610, English text verso, 38 x 51cmsome browning in places. On...

John Ogilby, three road maps, including London to Norwich, hand coloured engravings, late 17th century, 35 x 45cmAll three are rather uniformly ag...

Braun & HogenbergA late 16th Century coloured engraving of Windsor after J.Hoefnagel, Latin text to verso, 17.5 x 48cm, framed ...[more]

Bryan Edwards, A Map of the Island of Jamaica, hand coloured engraving, 1794, 32 x 62cm; together with a small watercolour view of 'Port Royal fro...

CARTARI (Vincenzo) Le Imagini Con La Spositione de i Dei de gli Antchi. Venice: Francesco Rampazetto 1566, 12mo, 2nd (?) edition, woodcut device t...

PETRARCA (Francesco) Il Petrarca con L'Espositione D'Alessandro Vellutello. Venice: Nicolo Bevilacqua 1568, small 4to, in Roman letter and italics...

Sacerdotale Secundum Usum S. R. Ecclesiae, Aliarumque Ecclesiarum, ex Apostolicae bibliothecae, Concilii Tridentini... In Computo autem Ecclesiast...

[MALTA]. BOSIO (GIACOMO) Gli Statuti della Sacra Religione di S. Giovanni: Gierosolomitano. Tradotti di Latino in Volgare di Iacomo Bosio Agente d...

PANTALEON (Heinrich) Militaris Ordinis Iohannitarum, Rhodiorum, aut Melitensium Equitum, rerum memorabilium terra Marique. Basel 1581, folio, wood...

CHIFLETIO (Julio) Breviarum Historicum Inclyti Ordinis Velleris Aurei. Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti 1652, small 4to, 36pp.,...

SEGAR (Sir William) Honor, Military and Civill contained in Foure Bookes. London: Robert Barker, 1602, small folio, 8 engraved portraits, some add...

GIUSTINIANI (Bernardo) Historie cronologiche della vera origine di tutti gl’ordini equestri, e religioni cavalleresche, consagrate alla sacra maes...

[LINDSAY, COLIN], EARL OF B[ALCARRES] An Account of the Affairs of Scotland... relating to the Revolution in 1688. London: J. Baker, 1714. 8vo, da...

SYDENHAM (Thomas) Opera Universa, in quibus non solummodo Morborum Acutorum Historiae & Curationes Nova.., Editio Altera, London: R.N. for William...

EQUICOLA (Mario) Dell'Istoria di Mantova libri cinque. Mantua: Francesco Osanna, 1610 [colophon dated 1608), 8vo, woodcut arms to title, few minor...

SAMMES (Aylett) Britannia Antiqua Illustrata: or, the Antiquities of Ancient Britain, vol.1 (all published), London: by Thomas Roycroft, for the A...

The Lawes and Statutes of Geneva, as well concerning ecclesiasticall discipline, as civill government..., London 1643, 4to, slight staining to tit...

MENNENIUS (F) Militarium Ordinum Origines Statuta, Symbola, et Insignia. Coloniae Agrippinae 1623, 8vo, 120pp., double column, woodcut illustratio...

CLUVER (Philip) Introductionis in Universam Geographiam, Amsterdam 1686, 12mo, engraved title, 38 folding engraved maps, one with tear, (M5 and M6...

ONGARO (Antonio) L'Alceo, Favola Pescatoria... Fatta recitare in Ferrara dall'ill. mo S. Enzo Bentivogli... Ferrara: V. Baldini 1614, small 4to, w...

[BOSIO (G)] Histoire des Chevaliers de l'Ordre de S. Jean de Hierusalem. Translated by Jean Baudoin, Paris: Jacques D’Allin 1658-59, folio, three ...

ASHMOLE (Elias) The Institutional Laws and Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter. London: J. Macock for Nathaniel Brooke 1672, folio, t...

MARULLI (Geronimo) Vite de' gran maestri della sacra religione di S. Giovanni Gierosolimitano. In Napoli: appresso Ottavio Beltrano, 1636, small f...

CHIVALRY - SPAIN, ORDER OF SANTIAGO. Regla y establecimientos delia Orden y Cavalleria del glorioso Apostol Santiago, Patron de las Spanas con la ...

FAVYN (Andre) ‘Andrew Favine’. The Theater of Honour and Knight-Hood. Or, A Compendious Chronicle and Historie of the whole Christian World, 2 vol...

PETAVIUS (Dionysius) The History of the World: Or, an Account of Time. London: John Streater 1659, small folio, folding world map (loose with crea...

TYSON (Edward) Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris; or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie..., A Philogical Essay Concerning Pygmies.. 2 parts in one, 1st edi...

GUILLIM (John) A Display of Heraldry, sixth edition 1724, folio, lacking frontispiece, 64 plates of engraved portraits and armorial shields, worn ...

DUELLIUS (Raymundus) Historia Ordinis Equitum Teutonicorum Hospitalis S. Mariae V. Hierosolymitani. Vienna 1727, folio, library stamp to foot of t...

[HELYOT (Pierre)] Histoire des Ordres Monastiques, Religieux et Militaires, et des Congrégations Séculières de l'un & de l'autre sexe, 8 vols., Pa...

QUESNAY (Francois) Traité de la Suppuration. Paris: D'Houry Père 1749, 12mo, ownership stamp of [Benedict] 'Chastanier Chirugien' to paste down of...

Vulgate Bible, Venice: apud Nicolaum Pezzana 1748, 8vo, double column Latin text, title trimmed at head, slightly frayed edges, full page engravin...

HALFPENNY (William) Practical Architecture, or a Sure Guide to the True Working According to the Rules of that Science: Representing the Five Orde...

Astrology. LILLY (William) Anima Astrologie A Guide for Astrologers, 1st edition, 1676, lacking title and frontispiece; Choice Aphorisms of Cardan...

BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Edinburgh: James Watson 1715, small 8vo, double column, engraved title, red ruled throughout, final leaf chipped, all rathe...

[POTE (Joseph)] The History and Antiquities of Windsor Castle, Eton: Joseph Pote, 1749, 4to, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and blac...

BOYER (A) The Great Theater of Honour and Nobility, 1729, small 4to, engraved frontispiece and 30 plates, including folding, plates rather browned...

SELDEN (John) An Historical and Political Discourse On The Laws and Government Of England..., 4th edition corrected, 1739, folio, large paper, con...

A Compleat Collection of State Tryals, 5 vols., 1719-1730, folio, ex. library stamps, some soiling to titles, recent quarter morocco (5) ...[more]

JOSEPHUS (Flavius) The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus. , the Jewish Historian. London: Printed by W. Bowyer for the Author, 1737, folio, with f...

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