Books & Works on Paper

Agreement between Isabella, widow of William, son of Herbert, and Richard their son, agreeing the rent of the estate of Norton-iuxta-Twycross (nea...

Grant of Hugh de Almunton (Alkmanton), of two bovates of land in Somersal (in Derbyshire), to Thomas, son of William, son of Herbert de Somersal, ...

Leaf from a Book of Hours with a cockerel, attributed to the circle of William Vrelant, in Latin, manuscript on vellumFlanders (Bruges), second ha...

Leaf from a Book of Hours, most probably for the Use of Paris, with a decorated border, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellumCentral France, ...

Leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellumNorthern France (probably Paris), mid-fifteenth century (c. 1440)Single leaf,...

Leaf from a noted Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellumFrance or adjacent Low Countries, thirteenth centurySingle leaf, with double col...

Leaf from the ‘Reims Psalter’, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchmentNorthern France (Paris or Reims), mid-thirteenth centurySingle leaf, wit...

Aristotle, Operum Aristotelis Stagiritae philosophorum omnium longe principis nova editio, Graece & Latine, 2 vols., presentation inscription from...

c. 18th. - Manuscript notebook in Germanpp. 73 with close hand-written text in German, covering places and dates, lists or recipes (?). calculatio...

Diderot (Denis) & d’Alembert (Jean le Rond) editors, Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des métiers par une société de gens d...

Elbel (Benjamin)Theologiae Moralis Decalogalis […], 4th & 5th editions, woodcut ornamemts, toning throughout, contemporary sheep skin, blind toole...

Graca, Simao daSermam do Patriarcha S. Domingos em o seu Convento de Bacaim, woodcut device on title, double column, 11 leaves, 83-103 [1] pp., ap...

Lancetta (Troilo) La scena tragica d'Adamo e d'Eva, estratta dalli primi tre capi della sacra Genesi…, engraved additional title after Francesco R...

Luxdorph ex-libris: SuetoniusSuetonius, C. Suetonii tranquilli duodecim caesares, ex Erasmi recognitione, signature and extensive bibliographical ...

Piroli (Tommaso) Le Antichità di Ercolano, 7 vols. (of 9, lacking vol. 5 and second Bronzes vol.), 6 frontispiece portraits, 420 engraved plates, ...

Yver (Jacques)Le Printemps d'Yver,Wood engraved headpieces, contemporary calf, joints repaired, small ink stamp to title-page, corners worn, sm. 8...

Bible [English - Dr Blayney's 'Standard' Bible]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the original tongues: an...

BibleThe Holy Bible containing The Old Testament and The New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tin-gues and With the former Translations Dilig...

Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti quinti pont. max. iussu recognita atque edita.Second edition of the Clementine Bible, full contemporary calf...

The Book of Common Prayer as Revised and Settled at the Savoy Conference Anno 1662. 14 Charles II.Facsimile reprint, original vellum, soiled bindi...

Quakerism.Keith (George)An Exact Narrative of the Proceedings at Turners-Hall, The 11th of the Month called June, 1696…..between G.Keith and other...

Coke (Sir Edward) The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England,fourth edition, frontispiece, wood engraved engraved title-page, engrav...

Pufendorf (Samuel) De jure naturæ et gentium libri octo, cum annotatis Joannis Nicolai Hertii…, 2 volumes in 1, engraved portrait frontispiece and...

[Isabey (Jean-Baptiste); Fontaine (P.-F.-L.); Percier (Charles)]Le Sacre de S.M. L'Empereur Napoléon: Dans l'église métropolitaine de Paris, Céléb...

[Raleigh (Sir Walter)] The History of the World, second edition, engraved title laid down and pasted to recto of ‘The Minde of the Front’ leaf, bl...

BroadsideA full and impartial Account of the Life, Trial, and Execution of Mr. John Thurtell, Executed in the County of Hertford, for the Murder o...

De Gaulle (Charles)War Memoirs. The Call to Honour 1940-1942, First English Edition, clipped signature of Charles De Gaulle affixed to title page,...

Royal Navy, 1804Letter written by a E.T. Mitchell to his father Rev. T Mitchell in Langport, Somerset, aboard the troop transport ‘Malabar’. He wr...

[Sleeman (William Henry)] Ramaseeana, or, Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language Used by the Thugs... and of the Measures Which Have Been Adopted by ...

Suffragettes Lucas (E. V.) The Open Road, twelfth edition, inscribed and dated 1908 by Vera L. Holme to flyleaf, with a 2pp. handwritten poem in ...

Hoste (Paul) L'Art des armées navales, ou traité des évolutions navales… [with] Théorie de la Construction des vaisseaux…, 2 vols., First editions...

Davis (Sir Robert H.)Deep Diving and Submarine Operations,2 parts in 1, 6th edition, Presentation copy ‘To Surgeon-Commander S. Miles R.N. With Ro...

Imperial Airways. The Greatest Air Service in the World, colour brochure / poster, with artwork by Rowland Hilder, featuring cut-away details of t...

Rauth (Leo) Six decorative scenes, lithographs with gouache hand colouring and pen highlighting, heightened with gold and silver, with printed tit...

Wylie (William) A collection of seven works on paper, including:Two pen and ink drawings: Carren Wharf [and] Limehouse Church, inscribed with titl...

Gillray (James) ‘Let us Dance & Sing’ [Coalition Dance], hand-coloured etching, earlier state with Charles James Fox with the head of a fox, and w...

Irving (Henry)Two mezzotint portraits of Victorian stage actor and theatre manager Henry Irving, one showing him as Hamlet, signed and inscribed i...

Munnings (Sir Alfred)The Second Burst,First edition, inscribed to Mrs Aubey Hastings on half-title, illustrated throughout, original cloth, faded ...

Sporting interestA collection of 31 volumes, including: Nightingall (Arthur) My Racing Adventures, 5 plates, contemporary ownership signature ‘Wal...

Thorburn (A.)British Mammals,2 vols, first edition, colour plates and pen & ink sketches in text, original cloth, 1920 § Armour (G.Denholm) Illust...

Kiepert, H.Neuer Hand Atlas uber alle Theile der Erde,first edition, double-page lithographic title-page, 40 double-page colour lithograph maps an...

British mapsA collection of 21 maps, including:William Kip, William Hole & John Norden, Cantium Quod nunc Kent, hand-coloured, from the first edit...

County mapsJansson (Jan) Middlesexiae cum Hertfordiae comitatu, Middlesex and Hertfordshire, with London, from Jansson’s atlas of the world “Nieuw...

Hodgson (O.) Publisher. The Pocket Tourist & English Atlas, Being a New and Complete Set of County Maps, engraved title and Explanation leaf, 43 ...

Maps: miscellaneous UK and EuropeVischer (Nicholas) Magnae Britanniae Tabula, Angliam, Scotiam, et Hiberniam continens, from the Atlas Contractus ...

Speed (John)Three maps:The Invasions of England and Ireland with al their Civill Wars Since the Conquest, depicting various invasions and battles ...

Speed (John) The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, engraved map by Jodocus Hondius, hand-coloured, with strapwork title cartouche, inset vie...

The Oarsman’s and Angler’s Map of the River Thames, new edition, hand-coloured, laid onto linen, 2.6 metres, 3pp. text browned, original gilt-lett...

Vrients (Johannes Baptista) Angliae et Hiberniae accurata descriptio, double-page hand-coloured map after Abraham Ortelius, with genealogical tree...

‘Monster Map’ Munster (Sebastian) Tabula Asiae VIII, hand-coloured woodcut, including northern India form the Ganges and western China, verso in L...

Ptolemy (Claudius) Octava Asie Tabula (Scythia / Silk Route Region / Western China), from Ptolemy’s Cosmographia, second Ulm edition, printed by J...

Vaugondy (Robert de) Four maps from the Atlas Universel, including: ‘Antiquor? Imperiorum Tabula…’; ‘Romani Imperii occidentis scilicet et orienti...

Cabrol (Elie)Voyage en Gréce,First edition, limited to 500 copies, half-title, 21 heliogravure plates, 5 lithographed maps, foxed throughout, wrap...

Olearius (Adam) Voyages tres-curieux & tres-renommez faits en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse., two parts in one, first with 2 folding and 10 double-p...

TravelBurnaby (Frederick) A Ride To Khiva: Travels and Adventures In Central Asia…, First edition, folding map frontispiece and two in pockets, th...

Livingstone (David)Missionary Travels in South Africa,First American edition, illustrated throughout, maps, one map split vertically down crease, ...

[Combe (William)]A History of Madeira, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, title vignette and 27 engraved plates, later half brown morocco, gilt,...

Russian interestDobel’ (Petr) Puteshestvija I noveishija nabliudenija v Kitae, vol. 1 only, description of journeys to China, Manila and Indo-Chin...

Russian interestHolderness (Mary) New Russia. Journey from Riga to the Crimea, by way of Kiev…, First edition, 5 lithographic plates (3 hand-colou...