Books and Works on Paper

Guarini (Battista) Il Pastor Fido, Tragicommedia Pastorale, engraved title, engraved portrait (fore-edge strengthened verso), 6 full-page illustra...

Mexia (Pedro) The Historie of All the Romane Emperors, first edition in English, title within woodcut border, woodcut initials and headpieces, ill...

Meteren (Emanuel van) Commentarien ofte Memorien Van-den Nederlandtschen Staet, Handel, Oorloghen ende Gheschiedenissen van onsen tyden, etc., bla...

Du Bartas (Guillaume de Salluste) His Divine Weekes and Workes, additional engraved title, lacking frontispiece, engraved initials, head- and tail...

Featley (Daniel) Katabaptistai kataptüstoi [graece]. The Dippers dipt. Or, the Anabaptists Duck'd and Plung'd Over Head and Eares, at a Disputatio...

Hall (Joseph) The Devout Soul, or, Rules of heavenly devotion, engraved portrait frontispiece, title within woodcut border, scattered light spotti...

Bacon (Sir Francis) Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall History, sixth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, woodcut init...

Talon (Nicolas) The Holy History, engraved frontispiece (trimmed affecting imprint), title in red and black, woodcut initials, occasional staining...

Britain.- Sammes (Aylett) Britannia Antiqua Illustrata: or, The Antiquities of Ancient Britain, vol. 1 only (all published), title in red and blac...

Oliver Cromwell.- [Perrinchief (Richard)] The Sicilian Tyrant: or, the Life of Agathocles, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title vi...

Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing The Old Testament and the New, additional engraved title, by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas N...

Switzerland.- Spon (Isaac) The History of the City and State of Geneva, first edition in English, additional engraved title, 4 engraved plates (2 ...

Speed (John) and others. Archival collection of over 55 maps, plans and estate plans of Nottingham and its environs, including two impressions of ...

[Prior (Matthew)] Poems on Several Occasions, subscriber's copy with ink signature to front free endpaper and title, engraved frontispiece, engrav...

Asia.- Chatelain (Henri Abraham) Eleven sheets of views and costume studies from China, Japan, and South East Asia, including a single page with v...

Cobb (T., of Bow Church Yard, London) King Charles ye First, Majesty in Misery, an Imploration to the King of Kings..., engraved portrait of Charl...

De Castelnau (Michael) Memoirs of the Reign of Francis II and Charles IX of France, engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces, near contemporary in...

Celestial.- Doppelmayr (Johann Gabriel) Theoria Lunae, engraving with outline hand-colouring, platemark 515 x 580 mm (20 1/4 x 22 3/4 in), central...

Thuillier (Vincent) Histoire de Polybe, 6 vol. in 3, half-titles, 123 engraved plates only (of 125), 3 folding engraved maps, previous owner's ink...

Warwickshire.- Dugdale (Sir William) The Antiquities of Warwickshire, 2 vol., second edition, subscribers copy inscribed "Honorabolis Edwardi Stra...

Herbert (Thomas, 8th Earl of Pembroke) Numismata Antiqua in tres partes divisa, 3 parts only (of 4) in 1 vol., engraved titles and 265 plates, occ...

Urban (Sylvanus) The Gentleman's Magazine, 13 vol., a broken run comprising vol. 24; 29; 31; 37; 39-40; 44-45; 47-49; 57, engraved plates and maps...

Early form of Guillotine.- [Bentley (William)] Halifax, and its Gibbet-Law Placed in a true light, engraved frontispiece, additional plate trimmed...

Mosheim (Archibald) An Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, 5 vol., occasional light spotting, marginal ink markings, contemporary calf, a ...

Collection of Poems (A) ... by Several Hands, 6 vol., half-titles, vignette title, engraved illustrations, one engraved musical score, previous ow...

Aitken (John) Principles of Midwifery, or Puerperal Medicine, second edition, 10 engraved folding plates only (of 12), one or two marginal pencil ...

[Hereford (Rev. Charles)] The History of Spain, 3 vol., first English edition, occasional light spotting, paper defect through text (Q6 vol 1), sh...

Henry (Matthew) An Exposition on the Old and New Testament, 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece (vol. 1), plates, water-staining at gutter (vol...

Botany.- Martyn (Thomas) Thirty-Eight Plates with Explanations, 38 hand-coloured plates, 1799 § Rousseau (J. J.) Letters on the Elements of Botany...

Britain.- Gilpin (William) Observations on the River Wye, 1800; An Essay on Prints, half-title, 1802; Observations on the Western Parts of England...

Dentistry.- Fox (Joseph) The Natural History of the Human Teeth, first edition, 13 engraved plates, 1803, bound before, The History and Treatment ...

Europe.- Costume.- De Moleville (Bertrand) The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria, text in English and French, 50 hand-colou...

Smith (Rev. Thomas) The Naturalist's Cabinet: containing Interesting Sketches of Animal History, 6 vol., engraved frontispieces, additional engrav...

Wales.- Pennant (Thomas) Tours in Wales, 3 vol., half-titles, frontispieces, plates (some folding), occasional light spotting, faint off-setting, ...

France.- Thiébault (Jean-Baptiste) Napoléon. Les Souvenirs du peuple..., colour wood engraving, with hand-colouring, sheet 610 x 390 mm (24 x 15 1...

Europe.- Costume.- Afbeeldingen van de Kleedingen, Zeden en Gewooten in Holland, text in Dutch and French, hand-coloured frontispiece (misbound) a...

Britton (John) The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church ..., 9 vol., additional engraved titles, plates and illustrations, occasional l...

Bindings.- Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved folding map,...

Genealogy & Heraldry.- Mitchell (R.) A Genealogy of the Kings of England and their Issue from William the Conqueror to the Present Time, 2nd editi...

Italy.- Hakewill (James) A Picturesque Tour of Italy, additional engraved title, 63 engraved plates and plans, scattered spotting, modern morocco ...

London.- [Combe (William)] The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London, third edition, hand-coloured frontispiece, hand-coloured title, 16 hand-colou...

Rowlandson (Thomas).- [Combe (William)] The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis, first edition, ...

Rousseau (Jean Jacques) Histoire de la Vie et des Ouvrages, 2 vol., occasional light spotting, contemporary calf, richly gilt spines, Paris, 1821 ...

Walpole (Horace) Memoirs of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second, 2 vol., engraved frontispieces, 8 engraved plates only (of 9), o...

Maritime.- Lyon (Capt. George Francis) A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay, folding map frontispiece, 7 engraved pla...

North (The Hon. Roger) The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford ... and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North, 3 vol., engraved fronti...

Montaigne (Michel de) Essais, 6 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece, scattered spotting, contemporary calf-backed boards, a little r...

Britain.- Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain, 3 vol., engraved frontispieces, title vignettes, engraved plates, scattered spotting, bookplates ...

Alison (Archibald) History of Europe during the French Revolution, 10 vol., half-titles, occasional light spotting, bookplate of John Buxton Phili...

Fish.- Yarrell (William) A History of British Fishes, 2 vol., illustrations, bookplates of F. Humble and Perth Cathedral Library, contemporary hal...

Beaumont (Francis) & John Fletcher. The Works, 11 vol., engraved portrait frontispieces, faint spotting at beginning and end each vol., occasional...

Lancashire.- Redding (Cyrus) The Pictorial History of the County of Lancaster, extra illustrated, one original watercolour, 33 plates (3 double-pa...

Small Books on Great Subjects, 22 vol. bound as 13, one or two very faint spots, contemporary calf by Leighton, small 8vo, William Pickering, 1845...

Goldsmith (Oliver) A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispieces, additional hand-coloured engraved titles, ...

Bindings.- Mogador (Céleste) Mémoires, 4 vol., contemporary half blue morocco, Paris, 1858 § Feydeau (Ernest) Daniel, 2 vol., Paris, 1859; Catheri...

Bossuet (Jacques-Bénigne) Les Saints Évangiles, 2 vol., number 24 of ?250 copies, titles in red and black, 128 plates by Alexandre Bida, vol. 1 wi...

Birds.- Morris (Rev. F.O.) A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vol., third edition, 248 chromolithographs, contemporary ha...

London.- Anonymous. Opening of the Tower Bridge by the Prince & Princess of Wales. Official Programme, printed napkin, 390 x 380 mm (15 1/4 x 15 i...

Military.- Sloane (William Milligan) Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, 4 vol., frontispieces, plates, half red morocco by Bickers & Son, lightly sunned ...

Birds.- Butler (Arthur G.) British Birds with their Nests and Eggs, 6 vol., chromolithographs, plates, occasional faint spotting, previous owner's...