Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Kandinsky (Wassily). The Art of Spiritual Harmony. Translated with an Introduction by M.T.H. Sadler. Constable, 1914, first English edition, xxvii...

Movable Book. Painting For Welfare and Efficiency. A report on Colour Application in Buildings with schemes and specifications. Haltwhistle: Smith...

Van Gogh (Vincent) The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition. Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. Thames & Hud...

Art and Architecture Exhibition Posters. A Collection of sixteen large posters, advertising exhibitions of various artists and architects includin...

Nash (Joseph). The Mansions of England in Olden Time. Series 1-4. Henry Sotheran, 1869-72, four quarto volumes bound as two, [4], 16, [2], 17-32, ...

Crunden (John). Convenient and Ornamental Architecture, Consisting of Original Designs for Plans, Elevations, and Sections: Beginning with the Far...

Plaw (John). Sketches for Country Houses, Villas and Rural Dwellings, Calculated for Persons of Modest Income, and for Comfortable Retirement … J....

‘B. L.’ [Batty Langley]. The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs: Or the Art of Drawing and Working The Ornamental Parts ...

Langley (B. & T.). Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions. In many Grand Designs of Columns, Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces …. Joh...

Langley (B.). The Young Builder’s Rudiments …. J. Millan, 1730, quarto, [viii], 130, [2] pages, frontis. and twenty-eight plates (mis-numbered, as...

Wright (Frank Lloyd) Selected Drawings, First and Second Portfolios, New York: Horizon Press, 1977 and 1980, numbered limited editions of 500 an...

Ackermann [Rudolph] publisher. The History of The Abbey Church of St. Peter’s Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments. R. Ackermann, 1812, two ...

Freart (Roland) and Evelyn (John). A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern, In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have Writt...

Jones (Inigo) & Kent (William). The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Public and Private Buildings, First and Second ...

Heslop (R’d Oliver). Northumberland Words. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Northumberland and on Tyneside, Volumes I, II (Pt. 1), II (Pt...

Watson (John). The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, in Yorkshire. T. Lowndes, 1775, quarto, portrait frontis, copper plates as ca...

Blue Coat School, Kendal. A Manuscript Work Book compiled by Christopher P. Shaw of Blue Coat School, commencing August 1864, the subjects covered...

Lake District. Photographs - Francis Frith. Sixteen photographs of the Lake District, nine with ‘Frith’s Series’ blindstamps, one with 'Pettitt’s ...

Williamson (Dr. George C.). Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke & Montgomery, 1590-1676. Her Life, Letters and Work … Kendal: Titus ...

Drake (Francis). Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York… William Bowyer, 1736, folio, [28], 398, [2], 399-627, cx, [34] pag...

Whitaker (Thomas Dunham) An History of Richmondshire in the North Riding of the County of York .... Longman Hurst, Rees ..., 1823, two folio vol...

Drake (Francis). Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York …. Printed by William Bowyer for the author, 1736, folio, sixty plat...

Photographs. An outstanding collection of 19th century photographs, comprising: Windsor and Eton - thirty-five photographs including many views of...

Hodgson (William). The Shepherd’s Guide, or A Delineation of the Wool and Ear Marks of the Different Stocks of Sheep in Lancashire, Cumberland, an...

Wharfedale Estate Plan. Smith and Gotthardt, Surveyors, Plan No. 1 of Freehold Properties Situated at Burley in Wharfedale, in the West Riding of ...

Twentieth Century Pictorial Maps. Taylor (A.E.), Pratt's High Test Plan of Ireland. No date (33 after name), colour map, 760mm x 506mm, framed and...

The Lake District. Peacock (Robert B.), A Key To The Scenery Surrounding Morecambe Bay, Extending from Blackcombe in Cumberland to Howgill Fells i...

Saxton, (Christopher). [Yorkshire] - Eboracensis Comitatus (cuius Incolae olim Brigantes appellabantur) Longitudine Latitudine hominumque numero r...

Armorial Pedigree. The Pedigree and Descent of the Right Honourable, Edward, Earl of Worcester, Lord Herbert, Baron of Chepstow, Ragland, and Gowe...

Illuminated Manuscript. Single Leaf from a Breviary of Benedictine Use. North Italy, later 15th century, latin manuscript on both sides of the lea...

Dickens (Charles). A cheque signed by Charles Dickens, 4th September 1866, drawn on Messrs Coutts & Comp., paying the Rev. William C. Sawyer, fift...

Charles Coote, The Duke of Devonshire and Charles Dickens. An interesting archive of letters and ephemera belonging to the composer Charles Coote,...

Webb (Sidney & Beatrice). A small collection of letters and books, comprising: A.L.S., A series of eight autograph letters, from Sidney Webb to Co...

HM Queen Elizabeth II - Royal Ephemera Comprising: Christmas Card 1959, signed Elizabeth R and Philip, dated, autograph or autopen, photographic ...

HM King George VI and HM Queen Elizabeth [Queen Mother]. Visitors Book for the Ministry of Labour Residential Instructional Centre, Hamsterley, Bi...

Bewick (Thomas and John). [Bell (John Gray)*], A Descriptive and Critical Catalogue of Works, Illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, Wood Engraver...

Ackermann (Rudolph) publisher. Characters in the Grand Fancy Ball, Given by The British Ambassador Sir Henry Wellesley, at Vienna, at the Conclusi...

Ireland (Samuel). Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire Avon … R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1795, iii-xviii, 284 pages (lacks half title, ...

Indian School Miniatures. Nine Mughal style paintings, comprising: Three paintings of similar style comprising: A Fight Scene and a Tiger Hunt (bo...

Cizek (Franz). Weihnacht, Vierzehn Farbige Original Steinzeichnungen. Wien: Burgverlag Richter & Zöllner, 1922, large quarto, 4 pages, fourteen ch...

Dante Alighieri. Inferno. The Folio Society, 2007, folio, colour illustrations by William Blake, quarter morocco binding with silk boards, Fine in...

Rowling (J.K.) - Signed. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Bloomsbury, 2000, first edition, seventh printing, inscribed ‘to Katie, best wishes,...

Mackesy (Charlie). The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Ebury Press (Penguin), 2020, first printing of this limited edition, signed 'Charlie ...

Poe (Edgar Allan). The Bells, and other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Holder and Stoughton, no date [1912], number...

Dahl (Roald). Matilda. Jonathan Cape, 1988, first edition, illustrated by Quentin Blake, dust jacket (obscured price); idem, The BFG. Jonathan Cap...

Original Artwork. An exceptional early nineteenth century scrapbook containing a variety of original artwork and prints. Comprising approximately ...

Fitzgerald (Edward) transl. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1909], numbered limited e...

Martin (John). [Paradise Lost]. Twenty-Four Proof Copies of John Martin’s Illustrations for Paradise Lost. Septimus Prowett, 1825-27, oblong folio...

Panvinio (Onofrio). Onuphrii Panvinii Veronensis, De Ludis Circensibus, Libri II De Triumphis, Liber Unus ….. cum notis Joannis Argoli IVD et Add...

Trials and Law Reports The Tryals and Condemnation of Thomas White, alias Whitebread, Provincial of the Jesuits in England, William Harcourt, Pre...

Stoker (Bram). The Jewel of Seven Stars. William Heinemann, 1903, first edition, tanning to pages, particularly the margins, foxing to endpapers, ...

Bronte (Charlotte). Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters, An Illustrated Edition in Seven Volumes. Smith Elder, 1879, seven volumes,...

King (Edward). Munimenta Antiqua; or, Observations on Antient Castles. Including Remarks on the Whole Progress of Architecture, Ecclesiastical, as...

Classics. The Complete Greek Tragedies. The Folio Society, 2011, five volumes, original cloth, Fine in slipcase; Plato et al., Great Philosophers ...

Fleming (Ian). The Man with the Golden Gun. Jonathan Cape, 1965, first edition, dust jacket (priced 18s.), Jonkers Rare Books presentation box. ...

Le Carre (John). A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, 1968, first edition, signed by the author on the title page, price-clipped dust jacket; idem,...

Folio Society A large collection of books on historical subjects published by the Folio Society. 101 volumes, 98 in slipcases (sets and individual...

Clarendon (Edward, Earl of). The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641 ... Oxford, printed at the Theater, ...

Bindings A large quantity of leather-bound books, literary and historical, including Samuels Johnson's Works of the British Poets, 1779, (58 volum...

Swift (Jonathan). The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen. A. Millar, 1758, xvi, 392 pages, several word corrections, two armorial bookpla...