Books and Works on Paper

Ballooning.- Arnout (Jules) Brighton, View taken in balloon, lithograph with hand-colouring, lettered in English and French, image 295 x 450 mm (1...

Bibliography.- Carter (John) & Percy H. Muir. Printing and the Mind of Man, first edition, illustrations, original cloth, fractional bumping to co...

Bibliography.- Henrey (Blanche) British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, 3vol., plates and illustrations, original cloth, sligh...

Bibliography.- Picot (Émile) Catalogues des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M. Le Baron James de Rothschild, 5 vol., half-titles, illustrations, ...

Bibliography.- Rothschild Library (The): a Catalogue of the Collection of Eighteenth-Century Printed Books and Manuscripts formed by Lord Rothschi...

Collection of vintage Marvel comics, c.115 vol., illustrations, original paper wrappers, chipping and small loss to extremities, many housed in pl...

[Collection of Penguin Classics], c.115 vol. including duplicates, one or two with previous owner's ink signatures, original paper wrappers, a lit...

Conrad (Joseph) The Works, 18 vol. only (of 20), one of 750 copies from a total edition of 780 signed by author, half-titles, titles in red and bl...

Counter Culture.- Rolling Stone, 22 issues, a broken run, illustrations, original paper wrappers, chipping and small loss to edges, foldlines, 197...

England.- Pevsner (Sir Nikolaus) & others. The Buildings of England, 35 vol., mixed editions, illustrations, original rexine or cloth, slight bump...

van Dyck (Anthony), After. Prints. King Charles I. and the Heads of The Noble Earls, Lords, and others, who suffered for their Loyalty in the Rebe...

Germany.- Delarochette (Louis Stanislas d'Arcy) Map of the Empire of Germany, Including All the States Comprehended Under That Name: With the King...

Holy Land.- Roberts (David) Seven large tinted lithographs from 'The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia', including 'Shrine of Holy S...

Italy.- Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) Veduta del Mausoleo d'Elio Adriano, etching, a good impression of Hind's first state (of four), on laid paper...

Italy.- Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) Veduta di Campo Vaccino, etching, a good impression of Hind's third state (of six), on laid paper with encirc...

Italy.- Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) Veduta del Tempio di Cibele a Piazza della Bocca della Verità, etching, a good impression of Hind's second st...

Italy.- Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) Veduta interna della Villa di Mecenate, etching, a good impression of Hind's second state (of four), on laid ...

Japan & Korea.- Pinkerton (John) Japan, detailed map of Japan and Korea, from Pinkerton's "Modern Atlas", engraving with original hand-colouring o...

Johnes (Thomas, translator) The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, 5 vol. in 4, engraved title vignette, 51 plates (one double-page), scatter...

Listener (The), 26 vol., a broken run comprising Jul-Dec 1949; Jan-Jun 1951; Jan 1952 - Dec 1953; July 1955 - Dec 1958; Jan-Jun 1959; Jan 1960 - D...

London.- Gardner (J.) ...Geometrical Landscape, with Tables of the Relative Altitudes, calculated from the Trinity High Water Mark of the River Th...

London.- Illustrated London News (The) Postal District Map of London issued with the Illustrated Times, wood-engraving and lithograph, 760 x 1050 ...

London.- Kitchin (Thomas) A Map of the Country Thirty Miles Round London, engraved map with hand-colouring, 500 x 560 mm (19 3/4 x 22 in), laid on...

London.- Pennant (Thomas) Some Account of London, 3 vol., extra illustrated, engraved title and c.390 plates window-mounted or pasted down, most e...

London.- Roberts (William) The Book-Hunter in London: historical and other studies of collections and collecting, first edition, half-title, front...

London.- Strype (John) A New Plan of the City of London, Westminster and Southwark, from Hyde Park to Stepney Green, three large cartouche, engra...

Nicolson (Benedict) Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, 2 vol., first edition,  tipped-in colour frontispieces, illustrations, original clot...

Noguchi (Yone) Lafcadio Hearn in Japan, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, original wrappers, housed in original card chemise, rubbed and worn,...

Pfeffel the Younger (Johann Andreas) [The 12 months of the year, 1746], engravings, title and set of 12 plates, each image approx. 280 x 170 mm (1...

Portugal.- Robert de Vaugondy (Gilles) Partie Septentrionale du Royaume de Portugal [and] Partie Meridionale du Royaume de Portugal, two maps, eng...

Powell (Anthony) [A Dance to the Music of Time], all but 4 vol. first editions, half-titles, original cloth, lightly mottled, slight bumping to co...

Pyne (James Baker, English landscape painter, 1800-1870) Collection of 32 original sketches and drawings, both from tours in England and Wales, as...

Resolutions of the Associated Architects: with the Report of a Committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent Fires, and the b...

Rhine River.- Wit (Frederik de) Totius Fluminis Rheni Novissima Descriptio, two maps on one sheet, engraving with hand-colouring, sheet 470 x 535 ...

Scott (Sir Walter) Waverley Novels, 48 vol., engraved frontispieces, engraved titles, bookplate, occasional faint spotting, later half-calf by Mor...

Spain.- Blaeu (Johannes) Catalonia, engraving with hand-colouring, platemark 385 x 500 mm (15 1/8 x 19 3/4 in), small margins, central vertical fo...

Spender (Stephen, founder) Encounter, 200 vol., numbered 1-200, plates and illustrations, original paper wrappers, some with previous owner's ink ...

Theatre.- Wilkin (Francis William) Miss Kelly in the character of Mac Credit; Miss Kelly in the character of Mrs Parthian, two lithographs marked ...

Ukraine.- Blaeu (Willem Jansz.) Hunc Borysthenis tractum..., map showing the course of the Dnieper River from Cherkasy to the estuary on the Black...

Walker (William) Lions at Play, In the gallery of Houghton [after Rubens], etching and engraving, on thick wove paper without watermark, platemark...

Wiltshire.- Hoare (Sir Richard Colt) The History of Modern Wiltshire, 11 vol. bound as 4, large paper copy, 75 engraved plates, 10 maps (4 double-...

Gregory I (Pope, the Great) Homelie quadraginta de diversis lectionibus evangelii, collation: a-o8 p4, very small hole to outer margin of title an...

Luther (Martin) Operationes in duas psalmorum decades. Iam secundo recognitæ, collation: a-c6 A-Z6 Aa Bb6 Cc8 Dd-Nn6 Oo8, title within woodcut fol...

Leo I (Pope) Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, edited by Petrus Canisius, first Canisius edition, collation: *6 **4 A-N6 O P4 Q-Z6 AA-DD6 EE FF4 G...

Courtesy Book.- Castiglione (Baldassare) Il Libro del Cortegiano, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of colophon f., small holes to colop...

Justin Martyr (Saint) Opera [graece], collation: (*)4 a-t8 v6, Greek type, title with woodcut printer’s basilisk device, attractive woodcut head-p...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) De Philosophia, prima pars, vol. 1 only (of 2), woodcut printer's device to title and verso of colophon f., ex-library wit...

Calvin (Jean) Harmonia ex tribus evangelistis composita, Matthæo, Marco & Luca : adiuncto seorsum Iohanne, 2 parts in 1, collation: *8 a-z8 Aa Bb8...

Catholic Church. Obsequiale sive Benedictionale, quod Agendam appellant secundum ritum, collation: ):(4 A-Z Aa-Rr4, printed in red and black, titl...

Bible, Latin.- Biblia sacra vulgatæ editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. iussu recognita atque edita, collation: A-Z8 a-n8 o-p4 q-z8 AA-FF8 GG HH4 II...

Knights.- Histoire des Ordres Militaires ou des Chevaliers, des Milices Séculières & Régulières, 4 vol., frontispiece and 186 engraved plates, vol...

Ovid. Opera Omnia, 4 vol., edited by Peter Burmann, half-title to vol. 1 only, 3 engraved frontispieces (vol. 4 without), titles in red and black,...

[Argens (Jean Baptiste Boyer, Marquis d)] Memoires Historiques, et Secrets concernant les Amours des rois de France, first edition, title in red a...

First bibliography of the Aldine press.- [Burgassi (Antonio Cesare)] Serie dell’ Edizioni Aldine per Ordine Cronologico ed Alfabetico, second edit...

Binding.- Baudot (J.F) Traite Methodique sur L'Accomplissement des Formalities Hypothecaires..., signed by publisher to half-title verso, attracti...

Arab scholar.- Ibn-Khaldun.- Autobiographie d'Ibn-Khaldoun, first French edition, translated by William Mac Guckin de Slane, signed presentation i...

Broadside.- Napoleon III & Franco-Prussian War.- Gill (André, attributed to) La Complainte de Badinguet, hand-coloured wood-engraved illustration,...

Duruy (Victor) Histoire des Romains, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'a l'invasion des barbares, 7 vol., half-titles, plates and illustrati...

Uzanne (Octave) Le Miroir de Monde, from a limited edition, an out of series copy labelled '?de presse' on limitation page (manuscript in ink), il...

Tassie (James, modeller and portrait medallionist, 1735-99) [10 master mould medallions for gemstones], metal moulds, loose, housed in a modern wo...