Books and Works on Paper

Agriculture.- John Dovaston's copy.- [Worlidge (John)] A Compleat system of husbandry and gardening; or, the gentleman’s companion, in the busines...

America.- Barnum (H.L.) Family Receipts, or Practical Guide for the Husbandman and Housewife, first edition, woodcut frontispiece depicting garden...

Anchovies.- Young (Thomas) The Epicure: or, A treatise on The Essence of Anchovies, The Age and Quality Of Foreign Wines, British Wines and Brandy...

Bread.- Acton (Eliza) The English Bread-Book for Domestic Use, Adapted to Families of Every Grade, first edition, wood-engraved additional pictori...

Cider & perry.- Knight (Thomas Andrew) A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear, and the manufacture of Cider & Perry, second, enlarged, edit...

Collingwood (Francis) and John Woollams. The Universal cook, and city and country housekeeper. Containing all the various branches of cookery, fir...

Confectionery.- Jarrin (William [Guglielmo] Alexis) The Italian Confectioner, or complete economy of desserts, first edition, engraved portrait fr...

Confectionery.- [Nutt (Frederick)] The Complete confectioner; or, the whole art of confectionary, second edition, half-title, 10 engraved plates (...

Cooke (John Conrade) Cookery and Confectionery, first and only edition, engraved additional pictorial title depicting cherubs cooking and making a...

Everard Digby's copy.- [Ruscelli (Girolamo)] The Secretes of the Reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont. Containing excellent remedies against divers ...

Food & drink quality.- Lemery (Louis) A Treatise of all sorts of foods, both animal and vegetable: also of drinkables, initial imprimatur f., titl...

Fruit.- Abercrombie (John) The Hot-House Gardener on the general Culture of the Pine-Apple, and methods of forcing Early Grapes, Peaches, Nectarin...

Grey (Elizabeth, Countess of Kent) A Choice manual, or, Rare and select secrets in physick and chirurgery...Whereto are added several experiments ...

Jenks (James) The Complete cook: teaching the art of cookery in all its branches...With an appendix teaching the art of making wine, Mead; Cyder, ...

Kettilby (Mary) A Collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery; For the use of all Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and C...

Kitchen garden.- Evelyn (John, translator).- [Bonnefons (Nicolas de)] The French gardiner: instructing how to cultivate all sorts of fruit-trees, ...

Kitchiner (William) The Housekeeper's oracle; or, art of domestic management, first and only edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of Kitchiner ...

Milk & dairy products.- Martin (Barthélemy) Traité du lait, du choix qu’on en doit faire, & de la manière d’en user, second edition, title with wo...

Moore (Sir Jonas) England’s interest: or, the Gentleman and Farmer’s friend, title within double filet border, woodcut decorative initial and head...

Northern cookery.- Thacker (John) The Art of Cookery. Containing above Six Hundred and Fifty of the most approv'd Receipts, first edition, a few w...

Patisserie.- Carême (Marie-Antoine) The Royal Parisian Pastrycook and Confectioner, edited by John Porter, first edition in English, half-title, l...

Robertson (Hannah) The Young Ladies School of Arts. Containing a great variety of practical receipts, in Gum-Flowers, Filligree, Japanning, Shell-...

Servants.- Haywood (Eliza) A New Present for a Servant-Maid...The Whole Art of Cookery, Pickling, Preserving &c., first edition, engraved frontisp...

Sherry.- Vizetelly (Henry) Facts About Sherry, gleaned in the Vineyards and Bodegas of the Jerez, Seville, Moguer, & Montilla Districts during the...

S[mith] (E[liza]) The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplished Gentlewoman’s companion: being a Collection of upwards of Five Hundred of the most appr...

[Thynne (Isabella Elizabeth, Marchioness of Bath, compiler)] Cottage Domestic Economy. Extracts From Cobbett and other Writers, first and only edi...

Wine.- Barron (Archibald F.) Vines & Vine-Culture: being a treatise on the cultivation of the grape vine, first edition, 30 wood-engraved plates o...

Wine.- Nicolas.- Montorgueil (Georges) & Louis Forest. Monseigneur le vin & L’Art de boire, 5 parts in 2 vol., colour plates and illustrations by ...

Wine.- Simon (André L.) Notes on the late J. Pierpont Morgan's Cellar book 1906, [one of 200 copies], lightly browned, original grey printed wrapp...

Wine & tobacco.- [Walpole (Robert, Earl of Orford)] A Letter from a Member of Parliament to his Friends in the Country, concerning the Duties on W...

Woolley (Hannah) The Queen-like closet: or, Rich cabinet, stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery, 3 parts in...

Agriculture.- [Arbuthnot (John)] An Inquiry into the Connection between the present price of Provisions, and the size of Farms. With remarks on Po...

Agriculture.- America & West Indies.- [Mitchell (John) or Arthur Young, attributed to]. American husbandry, containing an account of the soil, cli...

Agriculture & Botany.- Virgilius Maro (Publius) The Georgicks of Virgil, translated and edited by John Martyn, 6 engraved botanical plates, of whi...

Bees.- Charlton (George) The Bee-keeper's guide, first edition, wood-engraved illustration of a hive to title (the upper wrapper), minor stain to ...

Bees.- Mills (John) An Essay on the Management of Bees. Wherein is shewn the Method of rearing those useful Insects, first edition, engraved front...

Cookery.- Burgis (Madeleine, of Charles Street, Grosvenor Square, [London]) John Simpsons Cookery Book [Collection of recipes], manuscript in seve...

Cookery.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 35pp. excluding blanks, original roan-backed boards, slightly rubbed, sm. 4to, [19th century].*** R...

Cookery.- Bawden (Edward).- Heath (Ambrose) Good Soups, first edition, original pictorial boards and dust-jacket designed by Edward Bawden, dust-j...

Corn & Corn Laws.- Malthus (Rev. Thomas Robert) The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn; intended a...

Drinking.- Temperance.- British Temperance League. The Greatest of all murderers. Great open-air meeting in favour of Sunday closing of public-hou...

Food & drink.- Children.- Etiquette for the table, for children, printed on card, recto only, text within decorative border, some staining, lightl...

Food & Drink.- Marshall (Mrs. A.B.) Larger Cookery Book of Extra Recipes, "sixth thousand", illustrations, foxing, original cloth, rubbed, few nic...

Herbal.- Culpeper (Nicholas) The English Physitian Enlarged; With Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines, made of English Herbs that were not in ...

Tree plantations.- Langley (Batty) A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by Plantations of Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech, and Other Timber-trees, Coppice-Woo...

Medicine & Distillation.- Ruscelli (Girolamo) The Secretes of the reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount contayning excellent remedies agaynste dive...

Medicine.- Le Clerc (Charles Gabriel) A Description of Bandages and Dressings, seemingly part 2 of The Compleat Surgeon, fifth edition, 37 engrave...

Medicine.- Tuson (Edward William) A Supplement to Myology; containing the Arteries, Veins, Nerves, and Lymphatics of the Human Body, first edition...

Birds.- Bewick (Thomas) History of British Birds, 2 vol., first edition, with advertisement on last f. of vol.1, ink inscriptions to title heads, ...

Birds.- Butler (Arthur G.) Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vol., 115 chromolithographs, one becoming loose, tissue-guards, one or two faint ...

Shaw (Vero) The Illustrated Book of the Dog, 28 fine chromolithograph plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, occasional light foxing, later...

Babbage (Charles) Observations on the Notation Employed in the Calculus of Functions, offprint from' the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophic...

Babbage (Charles) The Influence of Signs in Mathematical Reasoning, extract from 'the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society', presen...

Boulton (M. P. W.) On Aerial Locomotion, first edition, postscript loosely inserted as issued, scattered faint spotting, original paper wrapper, 8...

Mathematics.- Lawson (John) A Synopsis of all the data for the construction of triangles, from which geometrical solutions have hitherto been in p...

Metallurgy & Engineering.- Fowler (Sir Henry) Metallurgy in relation to Mechanical Engineering, typescript for a lecture, autograph additions and ...

Mining.- Butterley (The) Co., Ltd. Price list for Kirkby Colliery, to come into operation on the 2nd May, 1899, bifolium, printed on card and laid...

Physics.- Einstein (Albert) Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption [and] Das Prinzip von der Erhaltung der Schwerpunktsbewegung und di...

Physics.- Planck (Max) Ueber die Natur des Weissen Lichtes, in Annalen der Physik, fourth series, vol.7, pp.390-400, 1902; Über die Grundlage der ...

Physics.- Planck (Max) Treatise on Thermodynamics, first English edition, errata slip, ex-library with bookplate and ink-stamp to title and final ...