The Bibliophile Sale: Books & Works on Paper

Edkins (J.) - Description of Peking, ?lacking a preliminary leaf, original upper wrapper laid down and bound in, modern cloth, Shanghai, printed...

Mennie (Donald) - The Pageant of Peking, third edition, mounted Vandyk photogravure plates, some staining to endpapers, original blue silk, lett...

White (Herbert C.) - Peking the Beautiful, first edition, mounted plates, some colour, some light offsetting onto facing text leaves, marginal...

Dreyfus Affair.- - Psst…! edited and illustrated by Caran d Ache and Forain, 85 weekly issues (all published), caricature plates, contemporary ...

Edwards (Lieut. William) - Sketches in Scinde, limited facsimile edition, number 253 of 300 copies, signed by the Secretary, Department of Cultur...

Browne (Edward G.) - A Year Amongst the Persians, folding colour map, 2pp. advertisements, ink name on title and front free endpaper, bookplate,...

Oceania.- Brassey - Tahiti : A Series of Photographs taken by Colonel Stuart-Wortley ( Lady [Anne]) Tahiti : A Series of Photographs tak...

Polar.- Shackleton (Ernest) - South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, first edition , photographic plates including colo...

Benard - A Group of Charts and Views From Cook's Voyage (Robert, engraver ) A Group of Charts and Views From Cook's Voyage, for the 1st ...

Cornwall.- Barnicoat (John Wallace) - A group of 3 manuscript maps of Cornish tin mining, all with inset key tables showing the holdings of a Mr W...

Dart - The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury ( Rev. John) The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church...

Shepherd (Thomas Hosmer) and James Elmes. - Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the nineteenth century, first edition , 2 engraved title...

[Pennant (Thomas)] - A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, Part I only, second edition, 44 engraved plates including folding, 1 f. an...

Curtis (Winifred) - The Endemic Flora of Tasmania, 6 vol., 155 full-page colour plates, indices, prospectuses with coloured sample plate loosel...

Darwin (Charles) - The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 vol., first edition , without advertisements or errata, some s...

Lydekker (Richard) - Wild Life of the World, 3 vol., 120 colour plates and 600 vignette illustrations, small ownership label on front pastedowns...

Maxwell - Chronicles of the Houghton Fishing Club 1822-1908, one of 350 copies ( Sir Herbert, editor ) Chronicles of the Houghton Fishing...

Morris (Francis Orpen) - A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vol., 225 chromolithographed plates, paper guards, chromol...

Pennant (Thomas) - History of Quadrupeds, 2 vol., third edition, engraved vignette titles, 111 plates, some foxing, staining towards end of vol...

Bacon (J.M.) - The Dominion of the Air the Story of Aerial Navigation, foxed, spine dulled, covers soiled, [c.1902] and a quantity of others...

Darwin (Charles) - The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, first American editions, 7 heliotype plates (3 folding), illustrations, o...

Mining.- Hair (T.H.) and Metcalf Ross. - A Series of Views of the Collieries in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham, first edition , ad...

Thomas Aquinas - Opuscula, edited, with a life of St Thomas, by Antonius Pizamanus ( Saint ) Opuscula , edited, with a life of St Thom...

Suetonius Tranquillus (Gaius) - Commentationes conditae a Philippo Beroaldo in Suetonium Tranquillum, commentary by Philippus Beroaldus, title ...

Baptista Mantuanus. - Secundus Operu[m] B. Mantuani Tomus, vol. 2 only, of 3, 2 parts in 1 vol., second part lacks all after EE5 (13 ff), title...

Diogenes Laertius. - Historici de vitis ac moribus priscorum philosophorum, some minor staining and ink inscription to title, small stain to low...

Panvinius (Onuphrius) - Reipublicae Romanae Commentariorum libri tres, 3 parts in 1, without final blank f., device on titles, lower corners of...

Aretius (Benedictus) - Commentarii in Quatuor Evangelistas, second edition, blank ff. F4 and X6 at end present, woodcut devcice on title, portra...

Piccolomini (Alessandro) - La Sfera del Mondo di nuovo da lui rinovata & riformata, lower corner of first 5 ff torn & holed, title with sm...

John Chrysostom - Operum Tomus Quintus, - Index , i.e., vol 5 & 6 only, of 6, in 1 ( Saint, Archbishop of Constantinople ) Operum Tomus ...

Petrarca (Francesco) - Das Erste [Ander] Buch dess Trostspiegels Francisci Petrarche, profusely illustrated with woodcut illustrations, a few fu...

Mathesius (Johannes) - Syrach Mathesii, das ist Christliche Lehrhaffte Trostreiche und lustige Erklerung und Ausslegung dess schönen Hausbuchs, ...

Appian of Alexandria. - Romanarum Historiarum..., 2 vol., Latin & Greek, additional engraved titles, contemporary vellum, yapp fore-edges, 8v...

REFL - Reflexions Generales, sur des sujets differens, ou Essais, woodcut device on title, later ink inscription on front free endpaper, later b...

French Almanac.- - Almanach pour quarante-huit ans, printed broadsheet alamanac for... Almanach pour quarante-huit ans, printed broadsheet ala...

Saxe (Maurice, - Comte de ) Mes Réveries. Ouvrage Posthume…, edited by Abbé Pérau Comte de ) Mes Réveries. Ouvrage Posthume , edited by Ab...

Jewish conversion - to Christianity in Austria.- Circular notifying a decree of the... to Christianity in Austria.- Circular notifying a decr...

Miniature books.- - Petit Bijou des Dames (Le), original gilt-stamped green morocco, binding detached, 28 x 20mm., Paris, chez Marcilly, n.d.;...

Goncourt (Edmond & Jules de) - La Femme au Dix-Huitième Siècle, Nouvelle Édition, Revue et Augmentée, signed and inscribed by the author to É...

Scolar Press.- Pickford (C.E. - introductions ). Les Prophecies de Merlin, 1498 , 3 vol introductions ). Les Prophecies de Merlin, 1498 , 3 ...

Facsimiles & editions of early cookery books.- - [ [(Schellhammer (Maria S.)] Das Brandenburgische Kochbuch , title printed in red and b...

Medieval France.- - Charter of Stephan Glabern, of property in Jouvudan [ Charter of Stephan Glabern, of property in Jouvudan [?Gévaudan], Langu...

Hawkins - .- Letters Patent to Robert Peterson , a renewal of a Crown lease (Sir John, merchant and naval commander, 1532-95).- Letters Pat...

Lincolnshire.- - A verdicte made and agreed upon bye Richard Erlam… his fellow... A verdicte made and agreed upon bye Richard Erlam his fellow ...

Civil War in Lancashire, - Amounderness Hundred.- The Accompte of George Duddell & George... Amounderness Hundred.- The Accompte of George D...

Micklegate, York.- - Cooper Petition by Humphrey Simpson to Lord Shaftesbury to be... Cooper (Anthony Ashley, first earl of Shaftesbury, politi...

Arnold (Georg) - Der Durchleuchtigsten Fürsten und Herrns Herr Moriitsens Herzogen zu Sachsen, manuscript in German, c. 350 pp., title torn and ...

Honour of Richmond's lands in Cambridgeshire.- - The Rentall of the honno of Richmond for the year… 1693 The Rentall of the honno of Richmond for...

17th century Islington girls.- - Harrison Legal affadavit signed relating to a journey to Islington, D Harrison (John, Hackney carriage driver,...

Swiftian allusions.- - Maclaine Autograph Letter signed to ?General Granville Elliott, 3pp Maclaine (Archibald, Presbyterian minister and histo...

French miscellany.- - Instruction après la Communion des Enfans, manuscript in French, 10pp Instruction après la Communion des Enfans, manuscri...

Isleworth Turnpike.- - Indenture between James Clitherow, Rev John Taylour, William Drake Indenture between James Clitherow, Rev John Taylour, W...

18th century Canterbury.- - Le Grand Juvenile Autograph Letter signed to his brother Le Grand (William , son of George Le Grand, surgeon, of Can...

Burglary at a Stepney slop shop.- - Statement of James Brown, Slop Seller, of Cocke Hill, Ratcliff Statement of James Brown, Slop Seller, of Coc...

Fox - Autograph Letter signed to William Eden, first Lord Auckland, 1p (Charles James, politician, 1749-1806) Autograph Letter signed to W...

Mugging of a Petticoat Lane Pedlar.- - Dillon Statement by Richard Dillon attacked in Wapping, D.s Dillon (Richard, pedlar, of Gun Yard, Pettic...

Bath.- - 3 indentures relating to property in Bath, Ds.s 3 indentures relating to property in Bath, Ds.s., "James Goodridge", "James Sharples"...

Philadelphia Quakers & Lisbon Merchants.- - Bulkeley [Commonplace book of prose and poetry with some... Bulkeley (Sarah , née Waln, of Germant...

London.- - Writ issued to the sheriff of Middlesex, ordering him to distrain... Writ issued to the sheriff of Middlesex, ordering him to distr...

Cultivating rice from Nepal in Europe.- - Aikin Autograph Letter signed to The Trustees of the Botanic Garden Aikin (Arthur, natural scientist an...