Books & Works on Paper

Heresbach (Conrad)Foure Bookes of Husbandrie, mostly printed in black letter, woodcut device on title, full-page woodcut arms woodcut arms of Barn...

Herman (Paul)Paradisus Batavus, Innumeris Exoticic Curiosis Herbis, & Rarioribus Plantis, Magno Sumptu….. Second issue, 2 parts in one volume, en...

Flora capensis. 20pp., extensive early ink annotations, disbound, blind library stamp to title, Uppsala, 1759 § Plantae rariores africanae. 28pp.,...

Mason (Francis)Stapeliae Novae: a collection of several new species of that genus discovered in the interior parts of Africa,First edition, parts ...

Steuart (Sir Henry. The Planter’s Guide; 5 engraved plates, lightkly foxed, contemporary half calf, worn, inner front hinge broken, 1828 § Burbidg...

Paxton (Sir Joseph)Paxton’s Magazine of Botany,16 vol., 723 hand-coloured lithographs, contemporary half green Morocco, gilt, red leather letterin...

Probable correction in the author’s hand[Evelyn (John)] & Rose (John), The English Vineyard Vindicated…, First edition, double-page engraved plate...

Sweet (Robert)The British Flower Garden,First edition, first and second series in 7 volumes, 712 hand-coloured engraved plates, near contemporary ...

Sweet (Robert)Geraniaceae. The Natural Order of Gerania,First edition, 5 vols, to include supplement, 501 hand-coloured engraved plates, contempor...

Trattinick (Leopold) Neue Arten von Pelargonien deutschen Ursprunges,First edition, 6 volumes, 264 hand-coloured engraved plates on 203 leaves a...

VegetarianismThomas Tryon, The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness, or, a discourse of Temperance and the particular nature of all things requi...

Volckamer,( Johann Georg)Flora Noribergensis sive Catalogus Plantarum in Agro Noribergensis. First edition, 25 engraved plates, contemporary vell...

Wright (Lewis)The Illustrated Book of Poultry, 50 chromolithograph plates, and woodcut illustrations, some slight foxing in places, contemporary h...

(Harry MacElhone) “Harry” of Ciro’s A B C OF Mixing Cocktails 100pp., illustrated throughout with adverts for the wine and spirit industry, numer...

Manuscript Notebook of ‘List of Plants’ & [Development of grapes for Wine]An Alphabetical Table of English Plants with the Latin Names against the...

Manuscript Recipe Note Book a collection of approximately 120 receipes in various hands, to include recipes for various dishes and 2 for chapped h...

Rösslin (Eucharius).De Partu Hominis, et quae circa ipsum accidunt, adeoq[ue] de parturientum & infantium morbis atq[ue] cura, Libellus D. Euchari...

BindingsA collection of 5 volumes, including: Gautier (Theophile) & Dore (Gustave, illustrator) Le Capitaine Fracasse, 60 wood engravings, Paris, ...

BindingsA collection of 52 volumes, including:Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens Of England, 12 vols., each volume with engraved title and port...

Bindings: SetsA collection of 84 volumes, including: Plutarque, Les Vies des Hommes Illustres de Plutarque, 13 vols., new edition, translated by ...

Finishing tools.3 brass roll tools with handles, 2 decorative and one single line.

[Crull (Jodocus)] Denmark vindicated: being an answer to a late treatise called, An account of Denmark, as it was in the year 1692, first edition,...

[Allestree (Richard)] The Whole Duty of Mourning and the Great Concern of Preparing ourselves for Death... published upon the sad occasion of the ...

Hilaire Belloc & G. K. Chesterton (illustrator) The Great Inquiry, first issue, satirical booklet on contemporary politics, original printed wrapp...

Victorian Broadside – Suicide.Just Published!The authentic particulars of the most determined and frightful suicide of Miss Moyes, by throwing her...

Burney (Frances)Camilla: Or a Picture of Youth,5 vol., first edition, vol.1 with list of subscribers occasional slight foxing, contemporary half c...

Charles Dickens, A collection of 8 volumes, including: Pictures from Italy, first edition, first issue, title with engraved vignette, adverts leav...

English Literature A collection of 30 volumes, including: [Tobias Smollett] The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, In which are included, memoirs of ...

English Literature, miscellaneousA collection of 69 volumes, including: D. H. Lawrence, Three titles: Women in Love, 1921; Aaron’s Rod, 1922; St M...

English LiteratureHenry Fielding, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, first edition, first issue, half-title, pp. 193-228 repeated as issued, leave...

Horizon. A Review of Literature & Art, edited by Cyril Connolly. London, January 1940 - January 1946. Volume I, No. 1 - 5; Volume VII, no. 38 - Vo...

Keats (John)Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems,first edition, half-title, verso with imprint, 8pp publisher’s catalogue at rea...

Lord ByronThe Works…, 2 vols., general title page dated 1815, including: The Giaour, 14th ed., 1815; Bride of Abydos, 11th ed., 1815; The Corsair,...

Marx (Karl) and Friedrich Engels Manifesto of the Communist Party. fifth edition, first authorized English translation of the Communist Manife...

Peter Pindar [John Wolcot]The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq., 2 vols., mezzotint portrait frontispiece, trimmed, 5 engraved plates, contemporary sign...

Poetry, miscellaneousA collection of 40 titles, including:Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, later edition, one plate, decorative half morocco gilt, L...

Poetry, miscellaneous and bindingsA collection of 49 volumes, including: Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Poetical Works…, 3 vols., engraved portrait fro...

Sassoon (Siegfried) –[The Sherston Trilogy],3 vol., comprising Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Limited to 1 of 260 numbered copies, 1928; Memoirs of...

William Makepeace Thackeray, A collection of 38 volumes, including: The Irish Sketch Book, 2 vols., first edition, half-titles, engraved frontispi...

Music Interest.- From the Library of Gordon GrovesA rare group of music scores and ephemera from the library of Gordon Groves, comprising: Rubinst...

Joseph ConradA collection of 17 titles, including:The Nigger of the "Narcissus", first UK edition, first issue, ‘Presentation Copy’ blindstamp to ...

James CorbettA collection of 23 titles, 21 first editions, 3 with dust jackets, including:The White Angel, the author’s first novel, title and fir...

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Modern FirstsErnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, first UK edition, first printing, modern bookplate tipped-in to front pastedown, original ...

Modern FirstsEvelyn Waugh, Ninety-Two Days, first edition, first state, 24 photographic plates and folding map, minor browning and spotting, origi...

Waugh (Evelyn)Sword of Honour Trilogy; Men at Arms, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, spined slightly sunned, 1952; Officers and Gentl...

Peters (Ellis) [Pargeter (Edith)]A Morbid Taste for Bones,first edition, inscribed by the author on her personalised bookplate attached to front e...

Powell (Anthony) ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’, Collection of 10 vols.-The Acceptance World, 1955; At Lady Molly's, 1957; Casanova's Chinese Rest...

H. G. WellsA collection of 38 volumes, including:The World of William Clissold: A Novel at a New Angle, 3 vols., first edition, original cloth, du...

BalletMayo (Eileen, illustrator) Serge Lifar, Number 289 of 500 copies, 16 monochrome plates, translated by Sacheverell Sitwell, original cloth-ba...

Mateo HernándezÉsope. Fables choisies, limited edition, one of 15 copies reserved ‘aux collaborateurs’, aside from the edition of 99, title page p...

Private PressA collection of 22 prospectuses for private press publications, including:Eric Ravilious, Three Vignettes From Thrice Welcome, number...

The Letterpress Shakespeare: King Lear,one of 3750 copies, edited by Stanley Wells, original half morocco, accompanying annotated text volume in c...

Vatican Secret Archives, Knights TemplarProcessus Contra Templarios, 2 vol., Number 209 of 799 Copies, limitation certificate, text volume in Lati...

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe,Drawings In the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, intro by Ludwig Glaeser, 31 plates, original spiral-bou...

Krahl (R.)The Anthony de Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics.2 vols., number 172 of 750 numbered sets, half title, title printed in blue and...

The Folio SocietyA large collection of c.215 volumes, including:Alan Bennett, The Lady in the Van and Three Stories, illustrated by Helen Smithson...

A Chinese Shunga book,eight single-page illustrations of erotic scenes, including bestiality, and eight pages of text, soft cover, 4to, early 20th...

Collection of Victorian Scrap Albums, Photograph Album,4 album with numerous Christmas Cards and Forget-Me-Not cards together with other coloured ...

French illustratedA collection of 37 volumes, including:Guitry (Sacha) [Works] Second series: L'Amour, 12 vols., one of 2870 numbered sets on Anno...