Books & Works on Paper

[Decartes (Rene)][Comenius (John Amos) or Komensky Jan Amos)CartesiusCum sua naturali Philosophia à Mechanicis eversus.first edition, 22pp., titl...

Civil Law.-Troplong (M.) Le droit civil expliqué suivant l'ordre du code..., light age yellowing, quarter brown calf, rubbed, Adolphe Wahlen, Brux...

Sabellico (Marco Antonio)Summa Diversorum Tractatuum, 6 vol. of 8 only (lacking vol. 6 & 8), half titles, titles in black and red, woodcut device,...

Literature & LanguageA collection of 9 works on language and literature, including Amenta (Niccoló) Vita di Lionardo di Capoa, second edition, hal...

Lunelli (Italo)Pagine della Nostra Fede, signed and inscribed by Mussolini on front free endpaper, creasing, wear and splitting to cover, age-rela...

Maupassant (Guy de) Works, set of 13 volumes in French, edited by Albin Michel with the works: La Vie Errante, Pierre et Jean, Les Soeurs Rondoli,...

Medicine.-A collection of 11 volumes on medicine, including Bagno (Francesco) Universae Medicinae Theoreticae, a little dampstaining and foxing, v...

[Mirabeau (Victor Riquetti, marquis de)]Theorie de l’import, second edition (published the same year as the original edition in 4to.), i-viii, p.5...

Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) Ouvres, 6 vol., first edition, half titles, engraved portrait frontispiece by Cathelin after Mignaud in vol.1, 32...

Platina (Bartolomeo)Le Vite De' Pontefici, 2 vol., half title, woodcut in text popes’ portraits with correspondent coat of arms, free endpapers a ...

Science.- Della Torre (Giovanni Maria)Scienza della Natura Generale, 2 vol. parts 1 & 2 only (of 3), vol. 3 bearing the title ‘Scienza della natur...

Traite de Paix Traite de Paix entre sa Majeste l'Imperatrice Reine Apostolique de Hongrie et de Boheme,... et sa Majeste le Roi de Prusse,... fait...

Geneva or ‘Breeches Bible’The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Olde and Newe Testament / translated according to the Ebrew and...

Art & Antiquities.-Spilsbury (John) A collection of Fifty Prints from Antique Gems, 50 engraved plates, intermittent spotting, contemporary half m...

British School.- The Valley of the Tomb [Napoleon’s first tomb, on St. Helena]Watercolour on wove paper, some surface abrasions at extremities, 23...

Embossed British revenue stamps.-An album of embossed British revenue stamp samples, 95 leaves, escutcheon designs with various values in shilling...

[Daniel, Samuel].S.D.The Collection of the History of England, licence leaf, title within woodcut border, printed for Simon Waterson, 1626, bound ...

Wood (Anthony) Athene Oxonienses. An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most antient and famous Univ...

World War I.-Berne-Bellecour (Jean) Dans Les Lignes Anglaises… Texte par Madame de Pratz, Limited edition number 223 of 325 copies, with an origin...

British topography.-Lysons (Daniel) The Environs of London, 5 vol., First Edition, frontispieces, vignette titles, all plates as called for, bookp...

Cary (John)Cary's New and Correct English Atlas, engraved title page, 47 engraved maps hand-coloured in outline, tissue guards, occasional light f...

Hakewill (James) The History of Windsor and its Neighbourhood, pp xvili, 359, 21 fine copper engraved plates and plans, 14 engraved vignettes in t...

Jones (Theophilus) History of BrecknockshireLimited edition 47/600, reprint of 1898, 2 vols in 1; 2 foldout maps, 1 colour plate of armorials and ...

Taunt (Henry W.) Photographer.Thames Scenery,title-page printed in sepia, and collection of 80 images of views following the Thames from Cricklade...

Thornton (Colonel Thomas) A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France in the year 1802, 2 vol., First edition, large paper copy, half-titles, ...

Africa.- D'anville (Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon)Afrique, engraved map on two sheets, handcoloured in outline, relief shown pictorially, includes ins...

Baedeker Travel Guides.-A collection of 83 volumes, the majority in original gilt cloth bindings, mixed condition, various sizes.***Baedeker guide...

Murray Travel Guides.-A collection of 72 volumes, the majority in original gilt cloth bindings, mixed condition, various sizes.***The Murray style...

Travel Guides.-A collection of 85 volumes, including:Thorough Guides, 20 volumes; Black's, 14 volumes; Meyers Reisebuecher, 5 volumes; Griebens Re...

Blaeu (Johannes) Three county maps, including: Somersettensis Comitatus, Somersetshire; Cornubia sive Cornwallia; Comitatus Salopiensis Anglice Sh...

British maps.-A collection of 33, including:The British Channel, from Thomson’s New General Atlas, hand-coloured, browning, some short tears, n.d....

Europe.- MapsA collection of 75, including:Homann Heirs (pub.) Repraesentatio Geographica Circuli Egerani… [Czech Republic], hand-coloured, trimme...

France.- MapsA collection of 44, including:Faden (William) France, Divided into Provinces, hand-coloured, vignette title, from the General Atlas, ...

Ptolemaeus (Claudius)Geographia Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini, 64 double-page maps with descriptions on verso, small light stain on map pages 20 -64 i...

Greece & Turkey.- MapsA collection of 48, including:De L'isle (Guillelmo) Graeciae pars Septentrionalis, outline colour, stain to upper quarter of...

Greenwood (C. & J.) Map of London, from an Actual Survey Made in the Years 1824, 1825, & 1826, large reproduction map after the original, republis...

Hakewill (James)A Picturesque Tour of Italy from Drawings Made in 1816. 1817,large paper copy with plates on india paper, half-title, engraved add...

India.- Mannevillette (Jean-Baptiste)4 uncoloured engraved folding nautical charts of India, from ‘Le Neptune Oriental ou routier general des Cote...

Indonesia.- Mannevillette (Jean-Baptiste)4 uncoloured engraved folding nautical charts of Indonesia, from ‘Le Neptune Oriental ou routier general ...

Italy.- Five maps and plansRizzi-Zannoni (Giovanni Antonio) & Guerra (Giuseppe, engraver) Pianta della Città di Napoli some esiste nel presente An...

Laurie (Richard Holmes, publisher),Laurie's New Plan of London and its Environs, with an Improved Scale for Ascertaining Distances...,engraved fol...

Lewis (S. & Co., publisher) A Map of England and Wales… Showing the Principal Roads, Railways…, 1839, very large fully hand-coloured engraved map ...

Maps.-A collection of 49, including: Braun (Georg) & Hogenberg (Franz) Fondi, engraved map from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, hand colouring, draw...

North America.- D'anville (Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon)Amérique Septentrionale, engraved map of North America with inset maps of Hudson's bay and La...

Photo Albums.-A group of 5 printed photo albums of India, Ceylon & Burma, including: The Hundred Best Views of Ceylon, unpaginated 76 pages, ribbo...

Russia.- MapsA collection of 57, including:De L’Isle (Guillaume) Seconde partie de la Crimee la Mer Noire… [and] Carte de Moscovie…, two maps from...

Suslov (S.P.)Physical Geography CCCP Pt II [in Russian]8 coloured folding maps, original printed paper chemise, worn with a little loss, Uhpedgiz,...

South America.- D'anville (Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon)Amérique Méridionale, engraved map on 3 unjoind sheets, handcoloured in outline, relief shown...

Switzerland.-Bartlett (W. H.) & Beattie (Dr. William) Switzerland Illustrated, 2 volumes, 2 engraved title-pages folding map, 106 steel plates, 4t...

Taiwan.- Mannevillette (Jean-Baptiste)Carte de la coste orientale de la Chine depuis Amoy, jusqu'a Chusan avec une partie de l'Isle Formose, uncol...

Travel.- A mixed collection of books on travel in Middle East, China & India, including Barthélemy (Jean-Jacques) Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr...

Turkey.- Fellows (Charles)An Account of Discoveries in Lycia, being a Journal Kept during a Second Excursion in Asia Minor, 1840, lithograph front...

Ukraine.-Mercator (Gerard) & Hondius (Hendrik, pub.) Taurica Chersonesus. Nostra aetate Przecopsca et Gazara dicitur., the first edition with the ...

Davis (John King)With the "Aurora" in the Antarctic 1911-1914,first edition, plates, maps and diagrams, original cloth, gilt, rubbed, gilt faded, ...

Ross (Sir John) Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the years 1829 - 1...

Armenia.- Lynch (H. F. B.)Armenia: Travels and Studies, 2 vol., First Edition, frontispieces, 1 folding in vol. 1, plates and illustrations, maps,...

Burton (Sir Richard F.)[Works], 7 vol., Memorial Edition, 36 plates (9 chromolithographed plates, 8 tinted plates), 3 maps (1 coloured) and 3 fold...

(John) Antes) Observations on the Manners and Customs of the Egyptians, the Overflowing of the Nile and its Effects,first edition, folding engrave...

Egyptology A collection of papers containing the original handwritten and typed reports of the 1929-1939 archaeological excavations at Hermopolis,...

Townson (Robert) Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793, First Edition, [ESTC T138576], half-title, 16 engraved plate...