A collection of letters primarily by Augustus John,all written to Viva King from John's time living at Alderney Manor, 28 Mallord Street, Chelsea ...

A group of eight agate beads,possibly 2nd-3rd century BC, with a handwritten label inscribed in pen and ink: 'A(?) bead from an Emir's necklace fr...

A bronze henna seal,18th century, with an old handwritten collection label,the matrix 5 x 2cm, anda bronze West African trade ring,with an attache...

Two unused cartons of Bryant & May match books,c.1908, each depicting the marriage of the Maharajah and Maharani of Kapurthala and their Jagatjit ...

A Ladakh drum,North West India, with metal body, vellum skin and knotted sinew binding,39cm diameter, on a brass tripod stand ...[more]

Thorburn, A: British Birds; 4 volumes Plus Supplementary volume (5 volumes in all). Longmans.., 1915-18, first editions. 82 fine colour plates (in...

Bewick, Thomas: A History of British Birds, in 2 volumes. Newcastle, Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1805, second and best edition, Large...

CARNE, John: Syria, the Holy Land & Asia Minor illustrated. In a series of views drawn from nature by W. H. Bartlett, William Purser, etc. 3 volum...

Martin, John: An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean with an Original Grammar and Vocabulary of their Language;...

Caldcleugh, Alexander: Travels in South America, During the Years 1819-20-21, containing an Account of the Present State of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, ...

INDIA: McClelland, John: Some inquiries in the province of Kemaon, relative to geology, and other branches of natural science. Calcutta, Baptist m...

Parry, William Edward: (Two works): 1- Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed i...

Kinloch, Alexander A A: Large Game Shooting in Thibet and the North West; 2 series/volumes. Harrison, 1869 & 1876, first editions. Both volumes wi...

SHIPWRECK: Riley, James: Loss of the American Brig Commerce, wrecked on the western Coast of Africa, in the month of August 1815, With an account ...

Waddington, George & Rev. Barnard Hanbury: Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia. J Murray, 1822, first edition. Complete With 16 lithograp...

CHINA: Aubry, Lecomte, Dévéria, Grevedon, Vidal, etc: Album Chinois. Paris, no date, c.1849; with 19 colour plates (possibly out of 20(?)), title-...

Keating, William Hypolitus: Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. Performed in the...

LYON, Captain G F: The Private Journal of Captain G F Lyon of HMS Hecla; Being recent voyage of discovery under captain Parry L, J Murray, 1824, 1...

BORNEO: St John, Spenser: Life in the Forests of the Far East or Travels in Northern Borneo; in 2 vols. L, Smith, Elder & Co. 1863, 2nd. edn. revi...

FALKLAND ISLANDS: Dom Pernetty: Histoire d'un voyage aux isles Malouines, fait en 1763 & 1764; Avec des observations sur le détroit de Magellan, e...

Sandys, George: Sandys Travels, containing an History of the Original and present State of the Turkish Empire…The Mahometan religion and ceremonie...

TUCCI, Giuseppe: Tibetan Painted Scrolls; 3 volumes (2 of text, plus Portfolio with 256 plates in phototype). Rome: La Libreria dello Stato, 1949....

1- Sturlason, Snorre: The Heimskringlas. A History of The Norse King; in 3 vols. L, Norroena Society, 1906, Numbered Limited Imperial edition, # 2...

'The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova... Vol. II', privately printed limited edition of 1000, 1894, nude sketches in oil to the inner covers and over 3...

1- JUVENALIS (D Junii): D. Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis Satyrae, scholiis veterum, fere ommnium eruditorum, qui ex professo in eas scripferunt, comme...

1- Aurelii Prudentii Clementis: Opera. Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit Stephanus Chamillard, E Soc. Jesu. Jussu Christianissimi Regis, ad Usu...

1- Sallustii, C Crispi: Opera Omnia Quae Exstant, Cum Commentariis Integris Joh. Rivii, Aldi Manutii,.. Amsterdam, H & V Theodori Boom, 1690. PP: ...

1- Michael ab Isselt: Paradisus Precum, ex R P F Ludovici Granatensis Spiritualibus Opusculis, Aliorumque sanctorum Patrum, et illustrium cum vete...

1- NEWMAN, J H & Charles Kingsley: Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a Rely to a Pamphlet entitled, 'What, then, does Dr Newman mean?' Longman, Green.,...

(RINCK, E G): Ludewig des XIV. Königes in Franckreich, wunderwürdiges Leben, oder Steigen und Fall. Two volumes. Frankfurt u. Leipzig, Riegel, 17...

1- HORACE: Les poësies d'Horace, traduites en François par le R P Sanadon de la Compagnie de Jésus avec des remarques et des dissertations critiqu...

ASTRONOMICAL CHART; ETC: 1- Eduardi Bernardi ... Orbis erudito literatura à charactere samaritico deducta,: & ab ipso edit. A.D. 1689 ... Tabulam ...

Meinertzhagen, Colonel R: Birds of Arabia. Deluxe edition limited to # 26/250 copies. Folio; Cased in half green morocco with raised bands, gilt d...

AYRES, William P & Thomas Moore: The florists' Guide and gardeners' and naturalists' Calendar. William S Orr, 1850, 1st. edn. 12 hand coloured pla...

Paris, Matthew: Historia Maior: Juxta Exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatim recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque Maiori...

HERALDRY: GUILLIM, John: A Display of Heraldrie… Jacob Blome, 1638. With 10 full page engravings and many others in the text. 4to. PP: (xvi), 433....

SWITZERLAND: PLANTA, J: The History of the Helvetic Confederacy; 2 volumes bound in 1. Printed for John Stockdale by W. Bulmer, 1800, 1st. edn. wi...

FORTIFICATION: MULLER, John: A Treatise Containing the Elementary Part of Fortification, Regular and Irregular…. For J Nourse, 1746, 1st. edn. PP:...

BOER WAR: St. Leger, Captain S.E: War Sketches in Colour. A&C Black, 1903, Signed Numbered deluxe Limited edn, 211/250. 4to. 274pp. Colour plates...

FINE BINDING: JONES, Owen: The Preacher, illuminated by Owen Jones. Longman, 1849, 1st. edn. With 32 Chromolithographic illuminated pages in vibra...

FINE BINDING: JONES, Owen (ill): 1- Thomas Moore: Paradise and the Peri. Day & Son, nd (1860) Gift inscription dated 1861. 52 richly illuminated p...

ASTRONOMY, MATHEMATICS, ETC: 13 ALMANACS, ALL FOR 1763, bound in one volume. List of Almanacs bound in this volume: Remarkable News from the Sta...

CHRISTMAS Books: 1- SHOBERL, Frederic (Edited By): Forget Me Not; a Christmas Present and New Year's Present for the Years: 1825 to 1831; 7 volume...

1- [GODWIN, William]: The History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. G. Robinson, 1784, 2nd. edn. Full contemporary calf with raised ba...

GREEK & LATIN: 1- Sprotti, Thomae: Chronica. E Codic Antiquo MS; In Bibliotheca praenobilis Adolescentis Dni. Edvardi Dering, De Surrenden Dering ...

NORFOLK: BLOMEFIELD/PARKIN: An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, containing A Description of the Towns, Villages, an...

ARABIA, EGYPT, ETC (Extra Illustrated copy): RWIN, EYLES: A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage Up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia...

ILLUMINATED: Rubaiyat of OMAR KHAYYAM, Translated By Edward Fitzgerald. Siegle, Hill & Co, 1910, 1st. edn. thus. From a manuscript written and ill...

NOBLE, Thomas: Blackheath; A poem in five cantos. Lumena: or the ancient British Battle: and various other Poems; including a Translation of the f...

GIBSON, Edmund: Chronicon Saxonicum Ex MSS Codicibus. Oxford, Theatro Sheldoniano, 1692, 1st. edn. With Engraved vignette title & folding frontis...

CONYBEARE, J J & W D: Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. Harding and Lepard, 1826, 1st. edn. pp: Title page: Introductory Essay on the 'Meter o...

1- LINGARD, John: The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church; in 2 Volumes. Keating, Brown and Keating, 1806, 1st. edn. With Folding frontis map an...

ART AND ILLUSTRATED: 1- KAUFFER, E McKnight (Arranged and Edited): The Art of the Poster Its Origin, Evolution & Purpose. Cecil Palmer, 1924, 1st...

ATLASES: 1- BLACKIE, W G: Descriptive Atlas of the World and General Geography. ND, c.1890 (Population charts refer to 1891 census and no later). ...

BINDING: 1- ROUSSEAU, J J: Julie, Ou La Nouvelle Heloyse Lettres De Deux Amants, Habitants D'une Petite Ville Au Pied Des Alpes. 6 Parts in 3 Vols...

BINDING: 1- HEARNE, T: Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. One volume bound in two. Oxford, The Theater, 1724. Cont. full calf; spines repaired; dam...

VELLUM BINDING: 20 Volumes, to include: Tennyson's Idylls of the King. 1904; St Leger's Stories from Froissart in 3 vols. 1832; Stevenson, R L: Po...

MORRIS, F O: A History of British Birds. Revised, Corrected and Enlarged 6 Volumes. John C Nimmo, 1895-97, 4th. edn. 394 hand coloured plates, PP...

BINDING: FROUDE, J A: History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada 12 Volumes. Longmans Green, 1870. Full crushe...

BINDING: The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Collated with All the Former Editions and Corrected; with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, ...