ARCHITECTURE - FRANCEFour fine original architectural designs for the four elevations of a fin-de-siècle brick town house in Rouen, pen, ink and ...

ARMS AND ARMOURMEYRICK (WILLIAM) An Illustrated Catalogue of Weapons and Detached Specimens of Armour, from the Collection of William Meyrick, Esq...

ARMS AND ARMOUR - BACHERAUAn album of photographs of arms and armour, and the lavish interiors of a showroom, relating to the great Parisian deale...

ARMS AND ARMOUR - NAPOLEON IIIPENGUILLY L'HARIDON (OCTAVE) Catalogue des collections du cabinet d'armes des sa Majesté l'Empereur, contemporary c...

ARMS AND ARMOUR - RIGGSThree albums of photographs of armour and weapons formerly in the collection of William H. Riggs, 48 large gelatin silver ...

BANKINGBAGEHOT (WALTER) Lombard Street. A Description of the Money Market, FIRST EDITION, half-title, without advertisements at end, light pencil...

BINDINGSCOLLIER (JEREMY) An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Chiefly in England... new edition, with a life of the author.... by Francis B...

BINDINGSWORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) The Poetical Works, 11 vol. (including 'The Life'), edited by William Knight, 8 engraved frontispieces (as called fo...

BOYDELL (JOHN AND JOSIAH)An History of the River Thames, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, later issue (without engraved titles and dedication), 76 hand-col...

CREALOCK (HENRY HOPE)'Among the Red Deer:' Sketches from Nature in the Forest, 2 vol. (text and portfolio of plates), FIRST EDITION, 80 photograp...

ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS)Moriae encomium nunc postremum ab ipso autore religiose recognitum, una cum aliis aliquot libellis, first three pages within ...

FABRI (ALESSANDRO)Diversarum nationum ornatus [-Diversarum nationum habitus], vol. 1 and 2 (of 3) bound in 1 vol., engraved decorative title-page...

FIRST BOER WAR 1880-1881Group of five autograph letters from Lieutenant Colonel Hardin Burnley-Campbell (1843-1920), signed ('Hardin Burnley') to ...

GARDENS - FRANCEFive original bird's-eye view designs for grand public gardens in the Swiss, German, English styles, for locations near Mantes, Se...

GOULD (JOHN)A group of 13 hand-coloured lithographs of falcons and birds of prey, and 3 others, after J. Gould, J.W. Wolf, H.C. Richter, and W.H...

GRIMBLE (AUGUSTUS)Deer-Stalking, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, 18 plates after the author, errata slip, light spotting to opening and final leaves, mode...

HEATH (HENRY)Characteristics. In Twenty Six Plates, pictorial title, additional pictorial title ('Passing Characteristics', with a scene incorpor...

JUDAICA - GAMEThe New Game of the Jew, engraving on 12 sections mounted on linen, comprising a central hand-coloured representation of a Jewish m...

LILFORD (THOMAS POWYS, FOURTH BARON)Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 vol., FIRST EDITION, photogravure portrait, 421 plate...

LYDEKKER (RICHARD)The Great and Small Game of India, Burma & Tibet, NUMBER 26 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER, 9 hand-coloured lithographed...

MONET (CLAUDE)Autograph letter signed ('Claude Monet') to 'Cher Ami' [Paul Helleu], in French, asking if he is still in Paris and when he will vis...

MUSIC - RACHMANINOVRACHMANINOV (SERGEI) Second concerto pour le piano avec orchestre... Op. 18. Partition parties 2 pianos [titled on upper cover]...

OVID - ANTONIO TEMPESTAMetamorphoseon sive tranformationium Ovidianarum libri... Antonio Tempesta inventor, engraved pictorial title, 149 engrave...

PHOTOGRAPHYCOLE (ALAN SUMMERLY) Ancient Needlepoint and Pillow Lace. With Notes on the History of Lace-making and Descriptions of Thirty Examples,...

PHOTOGRAPHYHILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) AND ROBERT ADAMSON. Collection of 49 portraits, groups and landscapes (2) by Hill and Adamson printed by Jessie B...

PHOTOGRAPHYMUYBRIDGE (EADWEARD) Autograph letter signed ('Eadweard Muybridge'), to W.J. Chadwick Esq., Hon. Secretary of the Manchester Photograph...

PHOTOGRAPHY - SCOTLANDANNAN (THOMAS) Glasgow City Improvement Trust. Old Closes and streets of Glasgow. A Series of Photogravures 1868-1899, LIMIT...

SECOND ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR 1878-1881Papers of Lieutenant Colonel Hardin Burnley-Campbell (1843-1920) of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), relatin...

THORBURN (ARCHIBALD)A Naturalist's Sketch Book, 60 plates (24 in colour) by the author, contemporary red half morocco, some dampstaining to sides...

TURNER (JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM)Liber Studiorum, 71 etched mezzotint and aquatint plates (including frontispiece) by J.M.W. Turner, J.C. Easling, ...

AMERICAHONDIUS (JODOCUS) America noviter delineata, second state, double-page engraved map, inset maps of the polar regions, decorated with ships...

AMERICASEILE (ANNE) Americae nova descriptio, map engraved by Robert Vaughan, with California as an island, decorated with ships and sea creature...

ISLAMThe Rise of Islam and the Caliphate. The Pan-Islamic Movement, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'Confidential' printed in upper right corner ...

LEAR (EDWARD)Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 2 vol. [First-Second series], FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 2 hand-coloured maps, 55 tinted lithograp...

MOUNTAINEERING - EVERESTBRUCE (CHARLES GRANVILLE) The Assault on Mount Everest 1922, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM ARTHUR WAKEFIELD, A MEM...

PERSIAN GULF AND ARABIAPersian Gulf, large colour-printed map of 'Persian Gulf and Adjacent Countries... Additions Feby. 1919' loosely inserted as...

PORTER (DAVID)A Voyage In The South Seas, In The Years 1812, 1813 and 1814. With Particular Details Of The Gallipagos and Washington Islands, 3 e...

SOUTH AFRICABURCHELL (WILLIAM JOHN) Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, large folding engraved map (b...

SOUTH AFRICAHARRIS (WILLIAM CORNWALLIS) Wild Sports of Southern Africa.. From the Cape of Good Hope... to the Tropic of Capricorn, third edition,...

SOUTH AFRICALE VAILLANT (FRANCOIS) New Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa, by the Way of The Cape of Good Hope, in the Years 1783, 84, and ...

SOUTH AFRICASEMPLE (ROBERT) Walks and Sketches at the Cape of Good Hope; to which is Subjoined, a Journey from Cape Town to Blettenberg's Bay, FIR...

SOUTH AFRICAThe Cape of Good Hope Calendar, and Agriculturist's Guide: Containing a Correct Account of All the Public Offices, Military Forces, an...

ALBUMS - LITERATURE, ABOLITION, METHODISM & SCIENCETwo nineteenth century albums, the first containing collection of c.70 autograph letters, envel...

[BARLOW (WILLIAM)]The Navigator's Supply. Conteining many things of Principall Importance Belonging to Navigation, with the Description and Use of...

BIBLE - EMBROIDERED BINDINGThe Whole Book of Psalmes Collected into English Meeter by T. Sternhold, I. Hopkins, and Others, ttitle with large woo...

BIBLE- FRANCIS FRYThe First New Testament Printed in the English Language (1525 or 1526) Translated from the Greek by William Tyndale. Reproduced ...

BRINSLEY (JOHN)Ludus Literarius: or, The Grammar Schoole; Shewing how to Proceede from the First Entrance into Learning, to the Highest Perfection...

CAMDEN (WILLIAM)Britannia, Newly Translated into English: With Large Additions and Improvements... by Edmund Gibson, engraved portrait frontispie...

CARLYLE (JANE WELSH) AND GERALDINE JEWSBURYTwo autograph letters signed ('Jane W Carlyle' or 'Jane Carlyle') to Mrs de Winton ('My dear Mrs de Win...

CHARLES IIWarrant signed ('Charles R' at head), to the Clerk of Our Signet Attending, requiring him to '...prepare a Bill for our Royall Signature...

COMENIUS (JOHANNES AMOS)Orbis sensualium pictus... Visible World: Or, a Nomenclature, and Pictures of all the Chief Things that are in the World, ...

DICKENS (CHARLES)Autograph note in the third person, to Mrs Hawkins of Alresford Hall, Colchester, stating 'Mr Charles Dickens regrets that an en...

DRINKWATER (JOHN)A History of the Late Siege of Gibraltar. With a Description and Account of the Garrison, from the Earliest Periods, second editi...

DRYDEN (JOHN) AND JOHN BLOWAn Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell; Late Servant to His Majesty, and Organist of the Chapel Royal, and of St. Pet...

FERGUSON (ADAM)'Notes on Lectures on Moral Philosophy... Vol. 4th [of 4]. Edinburgh 1782-3', manuscript notebook, 340 pages (title within double ...

IRELAND - ARMY & MILITIAEstablishment book bearing the calligraphic title-page: 'Establishment of the kingdome of Ireland/ or a List containing al...

L. (S.)A Letter from a Gentleman of the Lord Ambassador Howard's Retinue, to his Friend in London: Dated at Fez, Nov. 1. 1669. Wherein he gives a ...

MOUNTAINE (WILLIAM)The Seaman's Vade-Mecum, and Defensive War by Sea, 2 engravings of ship's rigging on single folded sheet, 2 folding plans (one...

PEPYS (SAMUEL)Document signed ('SPepys'), directing Sir Stephen Fox, paymaster of his Majesty's forces to pay a gratuity to Judith Connely, widow ...

PERCY (THOMAS)Autograph note signed with initials ('Th.P') on Alnham Castle in Northumberland ('...One of the old castles belonging to the Earls ...