Fine Books, Maps & Manuscripts

AERONAUTICA - TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR RACE 1919 Luncheon menu signed in pencil ('J. Alcock') and in ink ('A.W. Brown') celebrating the winners of the D...

BLUME (KARL LUDWIG) Rumphia, sive commentationes botanicae imprimis de plantis Indiae Orientalis, vol. 2-4 (of 4), FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 3 ...

CHESS PHILIDOR (FRANCOIS DANICAN) Chess Analysed: or Instructions by Which a Perfect Knowledge of this Noble Game May in a Short Time be Acquir'd,...

CONCHOLOGY PERRY (GEORGE) Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells, FIRST EDITION, 61 hand-coloured engraved plates, lacks half-title, occasi...

MANUSCRIPT - COOKERY & HOUSEHOLD Three nineteenth century manuscript receipt books, written in several hands, the first including some 180 recipes...

COOKERY FAIRFAX (ARABELLA) The Family's Best Friend: Or the Whole Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy; In a Method Intirely New and Suited to Every...

DESPATCH BOX – JOHN PRESCOTT M.P. Ministerial despatch box, stamped in gilt '2 Deputy Prime Minister' below the crowned cypher of Queen Elizabeth ...

[GERARD (JOHN) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes], FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations throughou...

INDIA – THE FOUNDATION OF NEW DELHI Manuscript speech, titled 'Draft of the King Emperor's Announcement:- Delhi and Bengal.', announcing the trans...

JAPAN - KIMONO PATTERN BOOKS Moyō hinagata Naniwa no ume [Kimono Patterns: Plums of Naniwa], 3 vol., edited by Y. Kichirobei, pictorial title in ...

LORD'S PRAYER - LANGUAGES [MULLER (ANDREAS, editor)] Oratio Orationum: SS. Orationis Dominicae Versiones praeter Authenticam fere Centum, half-ti...

MANUSCRIPT - MEDICINE Two manuscript volumes, the first containing closely-written physician's notes beginning with 'Christy McDonald, Age 21. Unm...

NEW TESTAMENT, IN CHINESE The New Testament, light toning, bound in Western style with yellow velvet spine and carved wooden boards, in wooden ca...

RUMPF (GEORG EBERHARD) Herbarium Amboinense.plurimas conplectens arbores, frutices, herbas, plantas terrestres & aquaticas, quae in Amboina, et ad...

TOBACCO - VIRGINIA The Case of the Planters of Tobacco in Virginia, as represented by Themselves... To Which is Added, a Vindication of the Said R...

[WOOD (ROBERT)] The Ruins of Balbec, Otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria, FIRST EDITION, 46 engraved plates (some folding) by P. Foudrinier and T....

AMERICAS Carte Particuliere de l'Amerique Septentrionale...A Map of the British Empire in America with the French, Spanish and the Dutch Settlemen...

AMERICAS MERCATOR (MICHAEL) America sive India Nova, ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui Universalis imitationem in compenium redacta, double-page h...

AMERICAS MUNSTER (SEBASTIAN) Die neuwen Inseln so hinder Hispanien gegen Oriente bey dem land Indie liegen, woodcut double-page map, German text ...

AMERICAS OGILBY (JOHN) America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, ...

AMERICAS ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM) Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio, hand-coloured double-page engraved map, ornamental cartouche, numerous ship...

ATLANTIC OCEAN AND THE CARIBBEAN KEULEN (GERARD VAN) Nieuwe Wassende Graade Zee Kaart over de Spaanse Zee Vant Kanaal tot 't Eyland Cuba In Westin...

BERMUDA BLAEU (WILLEM and JAN) Mappa Aestivarum insularum alias Barmudas, double-page engraved hand-coloured map, tribal names with list below ma...

FLORIDA AND CARIBBEAN COVENS (JOHANNES) AND CORNELIUS MORTIER. Teatre de la Guerre en Amerique Telle Qu'elle est a Present Possedee par les Espagn...

FLORIDA AND THE CARIBBEAN KEULEN (GERARD VAN) Nouvelle Carte Marine de Toute les Cotes de l'Amerique Montrant Toutes les Isles Bayes et Rivieres.....

HOMANN (JOHANN BAPTIST) Accurater Prospect und Grundris der Konigl: Gros-Britanisch: Haupt und Residentz Stadt London, hand-coloured double-page ...

MONTGOMERY (ROBERT, editor) Tallis's Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, engraved frontispiece of the Great Exhibition, additional...

MUNSTER (SEBASTIAN) Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae scilicet extremas complectens terrs & regna, double-page woodcut map, Latin text on verso, ...

NETHERLANDS COVENS (JEAN) AND CORNEILLE MORTIER. Les Provinces Confederees du Pais-Bas avec les Terres adjacentes..., large hand-coloured engrave...

SERIO-COMIC MAP, IN ARABIC Caricature comic 'octopus' map of Europe, colour-printed lithographed map caricaturing Russia as a grasping octopus, o...

SURREY ROCQUE (JOHN) A Topographical Map of the County of Surrey... Completed and Engraved by Peter Andrews, FIRST STATE, without Battersea and R...

WORLD MAP DE WIT (FREDERICK) Terra nova, ac Maris Tractus circa Novam Franciam, Angliam, Belgium, Venezuelam Novam Andalusiam, Guianam et Brasilia...

APIANUS (PETRUS) Libro de la Cosmographia... el qual trata description del Mundo y sus partes, por muy claro y lindo artificio, first edition in ...

ELZEVIER PRESS - PETITES RÉPUBLIQUES Complete series of Elzeviers' Petites Républiques, 37 works in 41 vol., engraved title-pages, woodcut initia...

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT Psalter, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, in Latin, 314 leaves (lacking one quire), Gothic textualis in brown ink, 14 lin...

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF Coronation of the Virgin, manuscript on vellum, in Latin, half-page illumination of the Coronation of the Virgin abov...

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF Illuminated manuscript leaf, from a Missal, on vellum, in Latin, 25 lines in 2 columns, Gothic letter, rubrics in red...

TERENTIUS AFER (PUBLIUS) Comoediae [Commentaries by Aelius Donatus and Guido Juvenalis. Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius], 319 leaves (of 320, ...

AESOP Fables with His Life: in English, French and Latin. Newly Translated, the captions by Aphra Behn, additional engraved pictorial title, full...

AESOP Aesop's Fables, with His Life: in English, French & Latin, the English by Thomas Philipott, the French/Latin by Robert Codrington, addition...

ART, LITERATURE, POLITICS & ENGINEERING Collection of over 100 autograph letters and autograph free fronts addressed primarily to members of the S...

AUSTEN (JANE) Two pages of an autograph letter to her niece Caroline Austen ('My dear Caroline'), with the author's cut signature ('Yours affect:/...

[AUSTEN (JANE)] Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the Author of 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Mansfield-Park,' &c. With a Biographical Notice of the ...

AUSTEN (JANE) Pride and Prejudice... Illustrations by Hugh Thompson, ONE OF 250 LARGE PAPER COPIES, half-title, plates and illustrations on China...

AUSTEN (JANE) Pride and Prejudice... with Illustrations by Hugh Thomson, first 'Peacock' edition, ink name 'Edie' on half-title, publisher's blue...

BOSWELL (JAMES) The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D., 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with 'gve' reading on p.135 in volume 1, engraved portrai...

BOSWELL (JAMES) The Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, FIRST EDITION, modern calf, gi...

BRAITHWAITE (RICHARD) The English Gentlewoman, drawne out to the full Body: expressing, What Habilliments doe best attire her, What Ornaments doe ...

BROWNING (ROBERT) Two autograph letters signed ('Robert Browning') to Lady Belper ('Dear Lady Belper') and Lord Belper ('Dear Lord Belper'), the f...

BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD) Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, Original and Translated, FIRST EDITION, half-title, D3 a cancel as usual, conte...

BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD) Autograph manuscript of his poem 'Farewell to Malta', signed with initial ('B') and dated ('May 26th/ 1811') at f...

[BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD)] A Sketch from Private Life. March 30, 1816, FIRST EDITION, 4pp. on bifolium, dropped-head title, paper waterma...

DARWIN (ERASMUS) & DARWIN FAMILY Group of correspondence from members of the Darwin family, to cotton spinner, engineer and inventor William Strut...

DICKENS, 'PHIZ' AND PICKWICK BROWNE (HABLOT K.) 'Phiz'. Original drawing for 'The Ghostly Passengers in the Ghost of a Mail', plate 37 in The Post...

DICKENS (CHARLES) Autograph letter signed ('Charles Dickens') to Joseph Paxton ('My dear Sir'), replying in haste to his note, asking him to assur...

DONNE (JOHN) Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece by Pieter Lombart, with opening and final blank...

DONNE (JOHN) Paradoxes, Problemes, Essayes, Characters... to Which is Added a Book of Epigrams... as also Ignatius his Conclave, a Satyr, FIRST ED...

DONNE (JOHN) Biathanatos. A Declaration of that Paradodoxe, or Thesis, that Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwi...

FARADAY (MICHAEL) Five autograph letters signed ('M Faraday') to his nephew William Gray, the first congratulating him on his engagement ('...May ...

FIELDING (HENRY) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 6 vol., second edition, with the 'Contents' in volume 1 extended to c8 recto replacing th...