Books and Manuscripts

Verdi 2001; Atti del Convegno internazionale; Proceedings of the International Conference; Parma, New York, New Haven, 24 January - 1 February 2001...

Roma – Souvenir Album of Photographic Views Rome, c.1900. Landscape format (165 × 253 × 30 mm), publisher’s decorative red cloth, upper cover block...

A wide-ranging handbook of the crowned heads of Europe and their dominions at the opening of the 18th century, including heraldry, mottoes, titles,...

A revised and expanded second edition of Roderick Beaton’s influential study of late Byzantine literature, The Medieval Greek Romance examines the ...

A striking visual record of early 20th-century Greece, This is Greece (1941) presents a curated selection of black-and-white photographs captured b...

A beautifully illustrated limited edition retelling of classical Greek myths, Helden von Hellas (Heroes of Hellas) presents Ernst Roenau’s evocativ...

First edition of Thomas Deletanville’s A New French Dictionary (London: J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1771), a substantial bilingual work combining Fr...

A handsome late 18th-century pocket edition of The Poems of Ossian, presented here as Volume II of Cameron and Murdoch’s embellished Glasgow editio...

A compact and elegantly produced India Paper edition of one of the most important and entertaining historical diaries in the English language. The ...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

A well-illustrated and engaging biography of the great American naturalist and painter, Audubon by Constance Rourke offers a vivid account of the l...

A visually stunning and warmly written travelogue by the celebrated broadcaster, writer, and former Monty Python member, Brazil follows Michael Pal...

A visually striking facsimile edition of one of the great artistic triumphs of the German Renaissance. The Triumph of Maximilian I reproduces the c...

A Collection of Jessie M. King Ephemera; Posters, leaflets, cuttings, articles, cards etc., 1980s-2000s. A substantial and varied collection of mod...

Tales from Inverbothrie, by Frances Ryhnd Brightman. Described as "Written as a historical novel, Tales from Inverbothrie charts the fortunes of a ...

First published in 1934, Reginald F. Johnston's Twilight in the Forbidden City is the classic insider’s account of life in the Chinese imperial cou...

This six volume set of The Plays of Shakespere, with notes by Charles Knight and published by Virtue & Co. c. 1890 (undated), presents the Bard...

Master Humphrey’s Clock began in 1840 as Dickens’s weekly miscellany of tales and sketches narrated by “Master Humphrey,” but soon became the seria...

The Merchistonian was the long-running magazine of Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, published for the school community, alumni, and supporters....

The Merchistonian was the long-running magazine of Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, published for the school community, alumni, and supporters....

Vintage Accounts Ledger, Cash Book, Very Large size 42cm 'Town Cash' No. 19. Good original old accounts ledger. Vertical format. Very large and hea...

Vintage Accounts Ledger, Cash Book, Very Large size 42cm 'Town Cash' No. 18. Good original old accounts ledger. Vertical format. Very large and hea...

Records of Experiments on Living Animals, Bacteriology Department, University of Aberdeen, 1967-1980. A substantial large-format institutional ledg...

This is a handsome set of four large-format 19th‑century bound volumes of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, originally launched in 1832 by the enterpri...

This is a handsome 19th‑century bound volume of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal – New Series, Volume II, comprising issues 27–52 from July to December...

Gazette Anecdotique; Littéraire, Artistique et Bibliographique was a 19th‑century French periodical aimed at bibliophiles and lovers of art, litera...

Allan Ramsay’s The Gentle Shepherd is a cornerstone of 18th‑century Scottish literature, widely celebrated as the nation’s first major pastoral dra...

A charming illustrated edition of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton’s classic The Compleat Angler, edited by Richard Le Gallienne and adorned with il...

This is Volume II of Andrew Mackay’s The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea or Land (1801, second edition, improved and enlarged),...

A delightful modern epistolary novel, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008) was the debut work of American author Mary Ann Shaff...

This is a very unusual and rather charming volume - on the face of it it has the appearance of a typical Victorian binding - black leather spine an...

A charming pocket‑sized 1828 edition of Paul and Virginia, the enduring pastoral romance by Jacques‑Henri Bernardin de Saint‑Pierre, here translate...

A handsome late‑Victorian edition of The Works of Alfred Tennyson, attractively bound in green leather with raised bands and gilt titling, compleme...

A smart 1829 volume of The Gem; A Literary Annual, edited by the poet and humorist Thomas Hood, featuring contributions from some of the era’s most...

A late‑18th‑century Edinburgh periodical, The Lounger (1785–1787) was a literary and moral weekly published by the authors of The Mirror, a promine...

A finely bound mid‑19th‑century edition of Robert Leighton’s enduring devotional classic, A Practical Commentary Upon the First Epistle General of ...