Books & Manuscripts

Miscellaneous antiquarian books and fine bindings Collection of works Hutton, William. The Battle of Bosworth-Field, between Richard the Third an...

Cundall, Joseph (publisher) A Series of Sixty Etchings Illustrative of the History of Reynard the Fox Fixty-Six by Aldert van Everdingen (A. D. 1...

Thou, Jacques de Historiarum sui temporis libri CXXXVIII Geneva: heirs of Pierre de la Rovière, 1626-30. 5 volumes in 4, folio, contemporary vell...

Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, a Satire London: James Cawthorne, '1810' [but paper watermarked 1817], "Third...

[Erotic Novel] "Madame de Vilfranc" - [Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Nougaret] Les Foiblesses d'une Jolie Femme Ou Mémoires de Madame de Vilfranc, écrits ...

Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft Posthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman [volume 1 only] London: J. Johnson, 1798. Volu...

Quincey, Thomas de Confessions of an English Opium-Eater London: Taylor & Hessey, 1823. Third edition, 12mo, contemporary half calf gilt, with th...

Johnson, Samuel, and others Bindings: Literary and Historical Johnson, Samuel. Works. London: Thomas Tegg, and others, 1824. 12 volumes, 8vo, con...

[Music] Croft, William - Joseph Trapp Musicus Apparatus Academicus. Being a Composition of Two Odes with Vocal & Instrumental Musick Performed in...

Plato Omnia opera tralatione Marsilii Ficini emendatione, et ad Graecum codicem collatione Simonis Grynaei, summa diligentia repurgata. Lyon: apu...

Antiquarian literature Collection of works, 17th-19th century Hobbes, Thomas. Elements of Philosophy. The First Section, Concerning Body … To whi...

Bewick, John, illustrator Emblems of Old Mortality; representing in Upwards of Fifty Cuts, Death seizing all Ranks and Degrees of People London: ...

Continental books Collection of works, 17th-18th century All in contemporary vellum, and including: Livy. Historiarum libri ex recensione J. F. G...

Virgil - John Ogilby, translator The Works of Publius Virgilius London: Thomas Roycroft, 1668. Second edition, folio, frontispiece, portrait, 100...

Bindings Gibbon, Pope, Johnson, Chesterfield and de la Fontaine Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: ...

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice A Novel. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First Bentley edition, 8vo (16.4 x 10.5cm), [2] 340 pp., contemporary ta...

Caxton, William (printer) Original leaf from his edition of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon [Westminster: William Caxton, 1482]. Folio 193, 25.5 x ...

La Fontaine, Jean de; Jean-Baptiste Oudry Fables Choisies, mises en vers par J. de la Fontaine Paris: Desaint & Saillant [and] Durand, 1755-1759....

Bell, John, editor Bell's Edition [of] The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill Edinburgh: Apollo Press, 1782-1803. 109 volu...

Fine bindings and library sets A collection Including: Hope, Sir Anthony. [Works]. London: A.D. Innes & Co., 1896-1901. 17 volumes, comprising: M...

Cruikshank, George and R. Seymour 3 illustrated works Comprising: Cruikshank, George. Phrenological Illustrations. London: published by George Cr...

Shakespeare, William - J. Collier, editor The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare London: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1875-78. 45 origi...

[Boyle, Robert] Of the High Veneration Man's Intellect owes to God Peculiarly for his Wisedom and Power. By a Fellow of the Royal Society. London...

Ramsay, [Andrew Michael], 'Chevalier' The Philosophical Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion Unfolded in a Geometrical Order. Glasgow: Rob...

Row, [John] Hebraeae Linguae Institutiones compendiosissmae & facillimae Glasgow: George Anderson, 1644. 12mo, contemporary speckled calf, joints...

Bible; English; Geneva Version The Bible Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in divers Languag...

Bible; English; Psalms The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, Joh. Hopkins, and others. London: for the Co...

[Bible in English, Geneva version] Christopher Barker, 1579 [London: Christopher Barker, 1579, date taken from New Testament colophon] 8vo, lacki...

Smith, Adam An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations London: A. Strahan; and T. Cadell jun., 1796. Eighth edition, 3 volume...

Smith, Adam An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Glasgow: J. & J. Scrymgeour, 1805. 3 volumes, ‘New Edition’, 8vo, cont...

[Mental Health - Quakerism] - Tuke, Samuel Description of the Retreat, an Institution near York, for Insane Persons of the Society of Friends Con...

Young, Thomas A syllabus of a course of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy London: Press of the Royal Institution, 1802. First editi...

[Ophthalmics] Taylor, John An Account of the Mechanism of the Eye Norwich: Henry Cross-grove, 1727. 8vo, contemporary paneled calf, neatly reback...

[Ophthalmics] Brissau, Michel Pierre Traite de la Cataracte et du Glaucome Paris: Laurent d'Houry, 1709. First edition, 12mo, with the four foldi...

Medicine and Surgery - 18th century Justamond, J.O., and others Justamond, J.O. An Account of the Methods Pursued in the Treatment of Cancerous a...

Einstein, Albert The Origins of the General Theory of Relativity Being the first Lecture on the George A. Gibson Foundation in the University of ...

Darwin, Charles The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection London: John Murray, 1882. Sixth edition (twenty-fourth thousand), 8vo, origi...

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, (1921-2021) Presidential Address by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh to the British ...

Gordon, W. An Account of the Tournament at Eglinton Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1839. 4to, frontispiece, 4 hand-coloured double-pag...

Navy Records Society Publications of the Navy Records Society The Navy Records Society, 1894-1913. 44 (of 45 volumes produced between these dates...

[Skene, Sir John, editor] - Golfing interest The Lawes and Actes of Parliament... Maid be King James the First, and his Successours Kinges of Sco...

Jacobite Interest: thirteen Acts of Parliament 1714-1751 comprising: Act to Prevent the Listing of Her Majesties Subjects without Her Majesties L...

Scottish antiquarianism Group of works in fine bindings [Laing, David, editor]. Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland. Edinbur...

[Vellum printing - Aberdeen] The Aberdeen Printers Edward Raban to James Nicol 1620-1736. By J. P. Edmond. Aberdeen: J. & J. P. Edmond & Spark, 1...

Bannatyne Club Complete set of the Bannatyne Club Garlands Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, [1823-48]. 11 works in 1 volume, 8vo, contemporary (possibl...

Bannatyne Club Collection of early works 4to, original half or quarter olive-green morocco, titles comprise: Vitae Dunkeldensis Ecclesiae Episcop...

Bannatyne Club Collection of editions of medieval and early modern chronicles, histories, muniments books and similar works all 4to, titles inclu...

Bannatyne Club Collection of works All 4to, original cloth, titles including: The Darien Papers: being a Selection of Original letters and Offici...

Bannatyne Club Collection of works including editions of medieval literature, cartularies and similar all 4to, original cloth or boards, titles i...

Maitland Club Extensive collection of works Edinburgh or Glasgow: [for the Maitland Club], 19th century. All 4to, most in contemporary red quarte...

Scotland Collection of works in fine bindings, 18th-19th century [Auld Alliance]. Memoirs concerning the Ancient Alliance between the French and ...

Galt, John Works First edition, each in 3 volumes, 8vo, uniform contemporary half-calf, titles grouped by publisher:Edinburgh: William Blackwood,...

Scott, Sir Walter Waverley; or, 'tis Sixty Years Since Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1814. First edition, 8vo, lacking half-titles, with W...

Burns, Robert Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh: printed for the Author and sold by William Creech, 1787. Second (first Edinburgh) ...

Brown, George Mackay Poems and Novels, a collection Comprising: Magnus. London: The Hogarth Press, 1974. Signed by the author; Idem. Hawkfall and...

McGonagall, William Topaz (1825-1902) Inscribed poetry broadside and original cabinet card portrait photograph Broadside: New Poems. Beautiful Ab...

Mary I (1516-1558), Queen of England and Ireland Letter signed 'Mary the quene' to William, Lord Paget, on the outbreak of Wyatt's Rebellion, 28t...

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of (1532/3-1588) Autograph letter signed to Elizabeth I Harden [Hawarden] Castle, 1st June [1584]. Single bifolium...

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, (1921-2021) Letters sent from Gordonstoun regarding cricket fixtures, 1938 Autog...

House of Windsor Collection of books including inscribed presentation copies from the royal family Buxton, John. A Marriage Song for Princess Eli...