Books, Documents & Manuscripts

[Hughes (John, editor)], A Complete History of England: with the Lives of all the Kings and Queens thereof [...], two volumes only (of 3), London:...

[Scott (Sir Walter, Bt., FRSE, FSAScot)], Waverley Novels, forty-eight volume set, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1861-65, engraved additional...

[Walpole (Horace)], A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, With Lists of their Works, two-volume set, second edition, London: Prin...

Abolitionism and Quakers. Buxton (Thomas Fowell), The African Slave and and its Remedy, signed and inscribed presentation copy from the author, Lo...

Americana, Quakers. Some Account of the Conduct of the Religious Society of Friends Towards the Indian Tribes in the Settlement of the Colonies of...

Americana, Quakers. Some Account of the Conduct of the Religious Society of Friends Towards the Indian Tribes in the Settlement of the Colonies of...

Americana. Baldwin (James), Go Tell it on the Mountain, first UK edition, first impression, London: Michael Joseph, 1954, half-title, original pub...

Americana. Herrera (Antonio de) & Stevens (Captain John, translator), The General History of the Vase Continent and Islands of America, Commonly c...

Anon, The Historian's Guide, or, Britain's Remembrancer [...], London: Printed for W. Crook, at the Green-Dragon without Temple Bar, 1690, black-r...

Art. Hayley (William, Esq.), The Life of George Romney, Esq., first edition, Chichester: Printed by W. Mason, for T. Payne, 1809, illustrated with...

Arabian Nights. Burton (Sir Richard Francis, editor), [Alf Laylah wa-Laylah]/A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainment, ...

Aristaenetus, [Halhed (Nathaniel Brassey, translator)], & [Sheridan (Richard Brinsley, translator)], The Love Epistles of Aristænetus: Translated ...

Art & Design. Schmidt (Georg), Klee, Basle: Holbein Publishing Company Co. Ltd., 1946, tipped-in colour plates, loose gathering in original boards...

Art. Specimens of the Old Masters, n.d. [c. 1865], an album of 60 numbered albumen prints, two MS contents leaves to verso, contemporary cloth gil...

Association Copy. Berendt (John), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, first edition, signed and dedicated by the American musician Emma Kelly...

Australia. [Garran (Hon. Andrew, editor)], Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, volumes I & II only (of 3), Melbourne & London: The Picturesque Atlas...

Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, and Turf Guide, miscellaneous runs, part-runs, and numbers, 1861-1901, prelims with advertising, ...

Baker (Sir Richard, Knight), A Chronicle of the Kings of England, From the time of the Romans (sic) Government Unto the Death of King James. Londo...

Baudelaire (Charles), Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, n.d., half-title, portrait frontispiece, later 19th/early 20th c three-quarter brown...

Beckmann (John) & Johnston (William, translator), A History of Inventions and Discoveries, four-volume set, second edition, volume II's inner-gutt...

Bible, Geneva Version. The Holy Bible,  London: Robert Barker, 1615, roman type, double-column, lacking general title-page, only woodcut NT title ...

Bible. [The Holy Bible in Arabic], [Beirut: c. 1920-30], vowelled text, 4 maps, contemporary calf, panelled and blocked in blind, gilt-lettered sp...

Bible. Alford (Henry, Late Dean of Canterbury, editor), The Greek Testament, four-volume set, mixed editions, London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivin...

Bible. The Holy Bible, [issued and bound with] The Book of Common Prayer, [&] The Whole Book of Psalms, three parts in one, first Oxford edition, ...

Bible. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New [...], [&] The Whole Book of Psalmes (sic) [...], London: Printed by Roger Daniel,...

Bible. The Holy Bible, Containing The Old Testament and The New [...], Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham Printer to the University, by whom the...

Bibles, Theology & Thought. [KJV, 1611] The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha, fourteen-volume set, Boston: R.H....

Bibliography and Private Presses. Franklin (Colin, editor), Gordon Craig's Paris Diary, 1932-33, copy no. 251/350, North Hills, P.A.: Bird & Bull ...

Binding. [Latin Vulgate Bible] Biblia Sacra [...], Tornaci Nerviorum [Tournai]: typis Societatis Sancti Joannis Evangelistae, Descleïe, Lefebvre e...

Binding. Godeau (Antoine), Paraphrase sur l'épistre de Saint Paul aux Romains, Paris: Jean Camusat, 1641, engraved title-page, chipped upper-left ...

Binding. Sallust, Caii Sallustii Crispi quæ extant. Londini: Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts, 1713, red and black title-page, portrait frontispiec...

Binding; William & Mary Prayer Book. The Book of Common Prayer [...], London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, Deceas...

Bindings, 'Miniature' Books. [Bible, New Testament] Novum Testamentum [...], Polymicrian edition, Londini: Sumptibus Samuelis Bagster, 1829, polyg...

Bindings. [Kempis (Thomas à)], L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ, traduction inédite du XVIIₑ siècle [...], first edition thus, ?large paper copy, Paris...

Bindings. Bossuet [(Jacques-Bénigne)], Oraisons funèbres, almost certainly a large paper copy, Paris: Chez Lefèvre, Librarire, 1825, frontispiece ...

Bindings. Lever (Charles), Works, thirty-four volumes, London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. [c. 1880], illustrated by Cruikshank, Phiz, et al.,...

Bindings. The Book of Common Prayer, [...] Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, London: Printed by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Hen...

Black Britain & Nigerian Immigration. Emecheta (Buchi), In the Ditch, first collected edition in book form, London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1972, origin...

Bonaparte (Lucien), Butler (The Rev. Samuel, DD, translator), & Hodgson (The Rev. Francis, AM, translator), Charlemagne; or the Church Delivered. ...

Botany. [Medical] Hill (Sir John), The Family Herbal, or an account of all the English Plants, Bungay: Printed and Published by C. Brightly and Co...

Botany. Hulme (F.E., FLS, FSA), Familiar Wild Flowers, with Coloured Plates, 75 numbers only, being part-runs between nos. 1-87, but lacking 35, 4...

Bunyan (John), The Pilgrim's Progress [...], twenty-second edition, London: Printed by A.W. for J. Clarke, at the Golden-Ball in Duck-Lane, 1727, ...

Burma/Myanmar. Swinhoe (Robert), Jones (T. Martin, illustrator) & Edge (Winifred, illustrator), Rhymes from Roundabout, The Rangoon Times Press, 1...

Byron. Sardanapalus, A Tragedy, first edition, London: John Murray, 1821, Sardanapalus only, though the title calls for The Two Foscari and Cain, ...

Caricatures. Kapp (Edmond X., illustrator), Personalities, association copy belonging to one of those portrayed, numbered copy 108/500, London: Ma...

Children's and Illustrated Books. Dearmer (Mabel), The Cockyolly Bird, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914, frontispiece and plates, original publi...

Children's and Juvenile Books. [Natural history, ornithology] Tommy Trip's Museum; or, A Peep at the Feathered Creation. Part I, London: J. Harris...

Children's and Juvenile Books. Anon, The Family Tutor, three volumes, London: Houlston and Stoneman, n.d. [c.1860], double-column, in-text illustr...

Children's and Juvenile Books. Crane (Walter, illustrator), How Jessie Was Lost, London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [1868], chromolithographic ...

Children's and Juvenile Books. Defoe [(Daniel)], The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner [...], London: Henry G. B...

Children's Books. Grahame (Kenneth), The Wind in the Willows, sixth edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1911, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, o...

Children's Books. Uttley (Alison), a collection of twenty-eight works, including Townsend (William, illustrator), Moonshine and Magic, first editi...

China, Chinese Taoism. Laozi & Heysinger (I.W., editor), The Light of China/[The Tao Te Ching], inscribed presentation copy from the author, Phila...

China. Picture Story of Preparing Tea, n.d. [mid-20th c], parallel English and Mandarin printing, [21]pp concertina picture book, 10 hand-coloured...

China. Breton de la Martinière (Jean-Baptiste Joseph), China: its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. &c. Edited Principally from the Originals in th...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer, et al.) & Wolff (Michael, editor), The Collected Essays, three volumes only (of 4), being volumes II, Churchill an...

Clarke (Hewson), The History of the War, from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Present Time, four-volume set, London: Published by...

Classics. [Aeschylus], [...] Aeschyli Tragoediae [...], two-volume set, Glasguæ: In Aedibus Academicis, excudebant Robertus Foulis, 1746, parallel...

Classics. Horace & Francis (Revd. Philip, translator), The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare, with Critical Notes collected from the best Latin an...

Collins (Wilkins), After Dark, two-volume set, first edition thus, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1856, half-titles, volume II title defective, pub...