Books and Works on Paper

Ballooning.- Anonymous (probably late 18th century) Original drawing of a "lost" print, showing an [imagined] flight in Barcelona 1678 with a pilo...

Ballooning.- Artists (Various, 18th century) Collection of seven portraits of ballooning and aeronautical pioneers, including a profile portrait o...

Ballooning.- Various (Artists, late 18th century) Collection of six views of ballooning from the late 18th century, including four depicting or sa...

Ballooning.- Montgolfiér-style hot air balloon.- Wallis (John, publisher) Representation of the Air Baloon of Mr. Montgolfier, in the field of Mar...

Ballooning.- Montgolfiér-style hot air balloon.- Experiénce de la Machine Aréostatique de Mrs. de Montgolfier, etching and engraving, the balloon ...

Ballooning.- Joly de Saint-Valier (Lt.-Col.) Lettre...a Madame la Princess de⁂, a Petersbourg, sur les Balons appellés Globes Aëro-statiques, 56pp...

Ballooning.- Darchery (Elizabeth, publisher) The Montgolsier, a First Rate of the French Aerial Navy, satirical print, inscribed in the plate "Obs...

Ballooning.- First balloon flight with animals.- Expérience aërostatique faite à Versailles le 19 septembre 1783 en présence de leurs Majestés, de...

Ballooning.- Desrais (Claude Louis), After. Globe Aërostatique, engraving on thick laid paper with watermark of house with pitched roof surmounted...

Ballooning.- First gas balloon to carry people.- Lenoir (Paris-based printseller, active 1775-1820) A L'Honneur de Mrs. Charles et Robert, etching...

Ballooning.- 3 scrapbooks of pamphlets, periodicals, extracts and newspaper cuttings relating to ballooning compiled by Hatton Turnor, presumably ...

Ballooning.- Fores & Co. (Samuel William, publisher) Montgolfier in the clouds/ Constructing of air balloons for the grand monarque, satirical pri...

Ballooning.- Bowles & Carver (publishers) Count Zambeccari's Balloon, broadside showing the balloon's departure from Tottenham Court Road, and due...

Ballooning.- Echard (Charles) Tour de Calais, etching, on thick laid paper with late 18th century text-based watermark, platemark 325 x 235 mm (12...

Ballooning.- Blanchard, François.- Küstner (A.W.) Blanchard 28te farth zu nurnberg den 12te November 1787, engraving, a good impression on laid pa...

Ballooning.- First crossing of the English Channel by air.- Rowlandson (Thomas) Departure of Blanchard and Jeffries' Balloon from Dover, January 7...

Ballooning.- London.- Murray (John, publisher) The Ascent of Mr Sadler and Captn. Paget from Hackney, 12th Augst. 1811, etching with pale wash, on...

Ballooning.- Sadler, Windham.- Pitts (J[ohn]) Jubilee in St James's Park. The Chinese Bridge and Pagoda with the Tents in St James Park, soft-grou...

Ballooning.- Creswell (J., publisher) The Ascension of Queen Caroline, showing a balloon filled with cherubs and a single crown in the centre, wit...

Ballooning.- McLean (Thomas) New Principles or the March of Invention, etching and aquatint, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 235 x 365 mm (...

Ballooning.- Royal Gardens Vauxhall. For the Benefit of Mr.Green. Positively the Last Balloon Race this season, Tuesday, August 30, 1836, c.100 x ...

Ballooning.- Remarks on the Ellipsoidal Balloon, propelled by the Archimedean Screw, described as the New Aerial Machine, now exhibiting at the Ro...

Ballooning and aeronautics.- Shepherd (T. H. active mid 19th century) The "Aerial" steam carriage flying over London, possibly a study for an unre...

Ballooning.- Hampton (John) Disclosures relating to the loss of Mr.Hampton's Albion Balloon, together with the particulars of a New & Splendid Bal...

Ballooning.- St. Petersburg.- Anonymous (mid 19th century) Original drawing of a plan for a balloon flight by a Russian Prince above the port city...

Ballooning.- Turnor (Hatton) Astra Castra: Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere, first edition, the author's son Christopher H.Turnor's co...

Aeronautics.- [Pocock (George)] A Treatise on the Aeropleustic Art, or Navigation in the Air, by means of Kites, or Buoyant Sails; with a descript...

Astor (Nancy).- Butler (Samuel) Hudibras, a Poem, 2 vol., 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J.Clark, Nancy Astor's copy with her Cliveden Librar...

Binding.- Butterfly (The), New Series Nos.1-12 [complete set], 2 vol. in 1, plates, illustrations and decorations, bound in russet calf in Art Nou...

[Combe (William)] The English Dance of Death, 2 vol., first edition, bound from the original parts, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, additiona...

NO RESERVE Cruikshank (George).- [Hone (William)] Kilts and Philibegs!! The Northern Excursion of Geordie, Emperor of Gotham: and Sir Willie Curt-...

Cruikshank (George) The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Repartees, Witty Sayings, Epigrams..., 4 vol., first edition, re...

Cruikshank (George) The Comic Almanack for 1835 [-1853], 19 vol. [ a complete set ] in 9, first editions, 195 etched plates by George Cruikshank, ...

Cruikshank (Robert).- [?Taylor (John)] Monsieur Nongtongpaw, wood-engraved frontispiece, title-vignette and 5 plates by Robert Cruikshank, with pl...

NO RESERVE Erotica.- Anonymous (early 20th century) Collection of 7 prints and drawings of erotic scenes, including a pen and ink gouache study of...

NO RESERVE Mayhew (Ralph) & Burges Johnson. The Bubble Book, Nos.1-12 (of 14), each with 3 gramophone records loose in pictorial sleeves, one or t...

Miniature Book.- Tuer (Andrew W., editor) Quads for Authors, Editors, & Devils, illustrations, original vellum with long silk ties (all but one in...

NO RESERVE Tuer (Andrew W.) The Follies & Fashions of Grandfathers (1807), first edition, plates, some hand-coloured, some folding, later blue cal...

NO RESERVE Erotica.- Burns (Robert) The Merry Muses, a few spots, later half red morocco, by Root & Son, spine gilt with floral motifs, t.e.g., ot...

[Disraeli (Benjamin)] The Young Duke, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles in vol.2 & 3 (not called for in vol.1), with 2 leaves of Notes at end of ...

NO RESERVE Dickens.- Two ornaments showing scenes from Nicholas Nickleby, wooden bases with figures under removable glass domes, one with a few ch...

NO RESERVE Kingsley (Charles) The Saint's Tragedy, [the author's first book], first edition, half-title, ink signature to head of title, bookplate...

Games.- Hoyle (Edmund) A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist, fourth edition, with preliminary leaf 'To the Reader' signed by Hoyle (trimmed at he...

NO RESERVE Hair.- Truefitt (H.P.) New Views on Baldness; being a Treatise on the Hair and Skin, first edition, illustrations, light spotting to ti...

NO RESERVE Nicholls (George J.) Bacon and Hams, first edition, chromolithographed frontispiece of a pig with 14 ever-diminishing fold-out flaps sh...

Bawden (Edward).- Yorke (Malcolm) The Inward Laugh: Edward Bawden and his circle, one of 675 copies, original cloth backed patterned-paper boards,...

Cruikshank (George).- Cruikshankiana, an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank, letterpress title, 83 etched plates, on wov...

NO RESERVE Gerlach (Martin, editor) Allegorien und Embleme/Allegories and Emblems, 2 vol., mixed set (vol.1 'Allegorien' in German, vol.2 'Emblems...

NO RESERVE Nicholson (William).- Henley (W. E.) London Types, 12 colour plates by William Nicholson, original cloth-backed boards with the Bus Dri...

NO RESERVE Nicholson (William).- Kipling (Rudyard) An Almanac of Twelve Sports, 12 colour plates by Nicholson, pictorial advertisement for 'An Alp...

Scrap albums.- Collection of three scrap albums and 15 small late 19th century sketchbooks, some of the sketchbooks with travel drawings and studi...

Barrie (J.M.) Peter and Wendy, first American edition, first printing with "Published October, 1911" and publisher's seal to title verso, frontisp...

Devastation of War.- Harrison (Percival Neale) Tyrtaeus and other stories..., 91pp., typescript, manuscript title in black ink with vignette of da...

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)] "Lewis Carroll". Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, first edition, first issue, with 'wade' for '...

Nesbit (E.) The Railway Children, first edition, frontispiece, pictorial title and 18 plates by Brock, 10pp. advertisements, lacking front free en...

Nielsen (Kay).- [Asbjornsen (Peter Christen) and Jørgen Moe]. East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North, early reprint, illus...

Pogany (Willy).- Rolleston (T. W.) The Tale of Lohengrin, first trade edition, colour tipped in plates, decorations and profuse illustrations by W...

Allier (Paul) Les Quatres Saisons: Estampes, number 329 of 1000 copies signed by the artist in pencil on inside rear wrapper, suite of 4 charming ...

Batchelor (Joy Ethel) A small archive of material, including 5 original pen and ink and watercolour drawings (1 a cover for a manuscript of The Pi...

Chivers Bindery.- Chivers (Cedric, developer of the "vellucent" binding, 1853-1929), Workshop of. Four original book cover illustrations for novel...