Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Pamphlets.[Thompson (Thomas Perronet).]. The Article on the Instrument of Exchange. Republished from the Westminster Review, Nº1...By the Author o...

Public Notice - Lifting of Dead Bodies.A printed public notice/broadside outling the arrest of two men accused of removing bodies from a grave in ...

Antiquarian.A selection of antiquarian books, including Rhys (Udal ap), An Account of the Most Remarkable Places and Curiosities in Spain and Port...

Boomer (Percy).On Learning Golf.London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1942, limited edition of 500 copies, signed presentation inscription by the au...

Auction Catalogues. Dresses from the Collection of Diana, Princess of Wales. Christie's, 1997, folio, original boards, dust jacket, with original ...

Illumination.An elaborately illuminated testimonial presented to Richard Jervis to mark his fifty years of service in the Ormskirk Police Division...

Wisden (John).Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for the Year 1946-2018.An unbroken run of seventy-three volumes, 83rd-155th editions, with duplicates fo...

Pontey (William). The Rural Improver; Or, A practical treatise, on the nature and management of such rural scenes and objects, as are necessary to...

Egypt and the Middle East Watercolours.A good collection of twenty-seven watercolour views of the Nile produced during a winter cruise in 1864-65....

Jones (Owen).The Grammar of Ornament.London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868, additional chromolithograph title and 111 plates, paper guards, foxing to tex...

The Vernon Manuscript.A Facsimile of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Eng. Poet. A. 1. With an introdcution by A.I. Doyle.Cambridge: D.S. Brewer,...

Abbeville Press.Caracciolo (Maria Teresa) & Ayala (Roselyne de) editors. The History of Rome in Painting. Abbeville Press, 2011, folio, original c...

Prison Drawings.A collection of thirty-three drawings/sketches and two small sketchbooks depicting prison and courtroom scenes with amusing captio...

Grasset (Eugène).Plants and their Application to Ornament.London: Chapman & Hall, [1897-97], folio, seventy-two colour plates, a few marked, one w...

Pevsner (Sir Nikolaus) and Others.The Buildings of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.A collection of 105 volumes from the Pevsner Architectural...

Jugendstil.Ornamentik der Gegenwart.Plauen: Christian Stoll, no date, twenty-seven colour plates of Jugendstil designs and title-page for Serie IV...

Dresser (Christopher). Studies in Design.London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, no date [1874-76], folio, lithograph title, sixty plates, captioned t...

James (M.R.).The Canterbury Psalter.London: Printed and Published for the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral by Percy Lund, Humphries, 1935, one of 4...

Sewell (Anna) and Kemp-Welch (Lucy, illustrator).Black Beauty.London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1915, numbered limited edition of 600 copies signed ...

Mackesy (Charlie).The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.London: Ebury Press, 2020, a 2020 printing of the 2019 first edition, signed 'Charlie M...

Young (Edward).The Complaint: or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality.The Folio Society, no date [c.2005], numbered limited edition of 10...

Chaucer (Geoffrey).Troilus & Criseyde.The Folio Society, 2011, numbered limited edition of 1250 copies (plus 25 lettered copies, hors commerce), f...

Gill (Eric) illus.The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ.The Folio Society, 2007, numbered limited edition of 2750 copies (plus 25 lettered cop...

Rossetti (Christina) and Harrison (Florence, illustrator).Poems.London: Blackie and Son, 1910, number 108 of 350 copies signed by the artist, thir...

Lindisfarne Gospels.Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Lindisfarnensis.Olten & Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1956-60, two folio volumes, comprising a facsimile of ...

Chaucer (Geoffrey).The Canterbury Tales.The Folio Society, 2010, numbered limited edition of 1980 copies (plus 25 lettered copies, hors commerce),...

Milne (A.A.).Now We Are Six.London: Methuen, 1927, first edition, original cloth gilt, dust jacket, torn with partial loss.idem, The House at Pooh...

Milne (A. A.).Now We Are Six.London: Methuen, 1927, first edition, illustrations by Ernest H. Shephard, bookplate to front pastedown, browning to ...

Tolkien (J.R.R.).The Hobbit or There and Back Again - Deluxe edition.London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979, de luxe edition, second impression, map e...

Blyton (Enid).Child Whispers.London: J. Saville, no date [1922], first edition (no issue stated), oblong octavo, 24 pp., pencil ownership inscript...

Outhwaite (Ida Rentoul).'The heart of the wood'. An original pen and ink illustration showing a woodland scene with fairies, elves and rabbits. Si...

Manuscript Exercise Book.Guliolmi (P. Fran). Rudimentorum Philosophiae Scholasticae. Leodii [Liège], 1667-1668, ink manuscript in a single hand, [...

Religious Commonplace Book.Commonplace Book of Alethea Langdale. Ink manuscript in several hands, early 18th century, 311 pp. (including 5 blanks ...

Religious Manuscripts.A Charitable Caveat for the over confident, Being also A plaine, full and modest answere to a manuscript sett abroad in Engl...

Religious Manuscripts.Peryn (William). A Spiritual Exercise and Ghostly Meditations... Ink manuscript, no place, no date [c. 18th century], 360pp....

Manuscript Sermons.Sermons Upon the Most Important Points of Christian Morality.No place, no date [early 18th century], two volumes, ink manuscrip...

Spiritual Instruction Manuscript.A Friends First, and Last New Year's Gift or Some Reviews of Perfecte Friendshipe, by S.G. E.C...To My Only Frien...

Hebrew Manuscript.Esther Scroll (Megillah Esther). Ink manuscript on five conjoined parchment membranes, rolled into a scroll on turned wooden han...

Royal Society.The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, from their Commencement, in 1665, to the year 1800; Abridged, with No...

Lancaster (William T.).Abstracts of the Charters and Other Documents Contained in the Chartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of Fountains in the West ...

Brewster (David).A Treatise on the Kaleidoscope.Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., 1819, octavo, [2], vii, 166 pp., seven engraved plates, foxi...

Oaks Colliery Bible. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments.London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1873, octavo, contempo...

Low (Charles Rathbone).Her Majesty's Navy. London: J. S. Virtue & Co., [1890-1893], three volumes, chromolithograph frontispieces, additional titl...

Drummond de Melfort (Louis Hector, comte de). Twenty-nine engraved plates from the atlas volume of Traité sur la Cavalerie, most after Van Blarenb...

Ancell (S.).A Circumstantial Journal Of the Long and Tedious Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar, from the Twelfth of September, 1779, to the Third Da...

Battle of Waterloo.A panoramic view of the Battle of Waterloo, details include cavalry, foot soldiers, a band, buildings, canons, etc., within a r...

[Manning (Frederick)].The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme & Ancre 1916.The Piazza Press, 1929, two volumes, number 76 of 520 copies, marbled endpap...

SAS War Diary 1941-1945. The Originals Edition.London: Extraordinary Editions, 2011, numbered limited edition of 100 copies signed by Jimmy Storie...

The Waterloo Commemorative Anthology.London: Extraordinary Editions, 2015, numbered limited edition of 1815 copies, folio, plates, maps and illust...

Warner (Richard).A Walk through some Western Counties of England.Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1800, frontispiece, [bound with:], idem. Excursions from Bath...

Herdman (William) and Marples (James Orr).Views in Modern Liverpool... with an Introduction, and Descriptive Letter-Press, by J. A. Picton.Liverpo...

Gilpin (William).Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, on Several Parts of England; Particularly the Mounta...

The Westmorland Advertiser, and Kendal Chronicle.Thirteen issues of The Westmorland Advertiser and Kendal Chronicle - New Series, comprising: volu...

[Hutton (John)].A Tour to the Caves, in the Environs of Ingleborough and Settle, in the West-Riding of Yorkshire. With some Philosophical Conjectu...

Sea Charts. Collins (Capt. Greenville). Fowey & Mounts Bay... Hand-coloured engraved sea chart with inset map of Mount's Bay and title cartouche, ...

Speed (John).The Invasions of England and Ireland with al their Civill Wars since the Conquest.George Humble, [circa 1627], hand-coloured engraved...

Speed (John).The Kingdome of Scotland.Bassett and Chiswell, [1676], hand-coloured engraved map of Scotland with inset map of Orkney and costumed f...

Blaeu (Johannes).Scotia Regnum cum insulis adjacentibus Robertus Gordonius a Straloch descripsit. Amsterdam, [circa 1654], hand-coloured engraved ...

The Isle of Skye.Blaeu (Johannes) and Pont (Timothy). Skia vel Skiana, The Yle of Skie. [Amsterdam: J. Blaeu, 1654], hand-coloured engraved map of...

Jansson (Jan).Scotia Regnum.Amsterdam: [1646 or later], hand-coloured engraved map of Scotland with inset plan of the Orkney Islands and title car...