Books and Manuscripts

This is a rather splendid collection of 3 artists's studio books, from Scottish artist, James O'Dea, known better as Jamie O'Dea. who was born in G...

Dialogues on the Acropolis; Scholars and Experts Talk on the History, Restoration and the Acropolis Museum. This is a book based on the transcripti...

Lord Byron, Early Travellers, and the Monastery at Delphi, C.W.J. Eliot. Presentation copy from the author to William St Clair. A journal offprint;...

Minerva Numismatic Handbooks Number Two; Coins of Ancient Athens. By C.M. Kraay (Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford). Provenance; from th...

A Complete Guide to Heraldry, by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. Illustrated by Nine Plates in Colour and Nearly 800...

The Scottish School of Painting, by William D. McKay, R.S.A., Librarian to the Royal Scottish Academy. Published by Duckworth and Co., London, and ...

A very attractive exhibition catalogue, profusely illustrated in colour. Showcasing over 30 ancient bronzes from the Shanghai Museum's collection, ...

The Elephant and the Lotus; Vietnamese Ceramics in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. By Philippe Truong. Introduction by John Stevenson. Published b...

A German publication on the work of Tōshūsai Sharaku, Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, particularly known for his portraits of kabuki actors. He is...

Copiously illustrated guide to the Robert P. Youngman collection of Chinese jades, presenting some 200 carvings. The catalogue is split into 3 sect...

A very first volume of this monthly magazine which was the leading journal for the furniture and decorating trade of Victorian Britain. It carries ...

Wallis & Wallis; Catalogues of Antique Arms and Armour, Militaria, Etc, including Coins and Military Medals; 10 bound Auction Catalogues, 1979....

The Megalithic European; The 21st century Traveller in Prehistoric Europe, by Julian Cope. A very personal journey across Europe by Julian Cope, fo...

The Modern Antiquarian; A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain, including a Gazetteer to over 300 prehistoric Sites, by Julian Cope. S...

Miniature Painters British and Foreign, With Some Account of Those Who Practised in America in the Eighteenth Century. Illustrated by Numerous Exam...

Inscriptions from the Shields or Panels of the Incorporated Trades in the Trinity Hall, Aberdeen, Including Notices of the Antique Carved Oak Chair...

Provincial Poetry 1789-1839; British Verse Printed in the Provinces: The Romantic Background. By C.R. Johnson. With an introduction by Dr. Robert W...

Literary Annuals and Gift Books, A Bibliography, 1823-1903. Reprinted with supplementary essays by Eleanore Jamieson & Iain Bain. By Frederick ...

An Index to the Annuals, Vol I: The Authors (1820-1850), by the Late Andrew Boyle. A study of the era of illustrated literary annuals produced in t...

American Literary Annuals & Gift Books 1825-1865, by Ralph Thompson. A study of the era of gift books and annuals produced in the USA in the 19...

The Royal Scottish Academy 1826-1916; A Complete List of the exhibited Works by Raeburn and by Academicians, Associates and Hon. Members, giving de...

Men of Mark; A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits of Men Distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in Science, Literature and Art, the Army, Navy, La...

Souvenir Album of the Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry, Glasgow, 1911. Published by T. & R. Annan & Sons, 1911, Gl...

English Poetry; An Illustrated Catalogue of First and Early Editions Exhibited in 1947 at 7 Aldemarle Street, London. Compiled and Revised by John ...

A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art, held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March 193...

Expositions Internationales; Paris 1937, New-York, 1939. Articles by Maurice Barret, André Beucler, Gisèle Freund, Jean Selz, Georges-Henri Rivière...

A Short Guide to the Sculptures of the Parthenon in the British Museum (Elgin Collection). Preface by Bernard Ashmole. SOLD Provenance; from the li...

The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period. Edited by Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener, (both Yale University). Provenance; from ...

Aberdeen University; Some Account of the Last Bajans of King's and Marischal Colleges M DCCC LIX - LX, and of those who joined their Class in the U...

Aberdeen University; The Fusion of 1860; A Record of the Centenary Celebrations and a History of the United University of Aberdeen 1860-1960, by W....

Aberdeen University; King's College Chapel Aberdeen; Its Fittings, Ornaments and Ceremonial in the Sixteenth Century, by Francis C. Eeles, O.B.E., ...

Aberdeen University; Life at a Northern University, by Neil N. Maclean, M.A. Edited, with Biographical Memoir, by W. Keith Leask, M.A. Quatercenten...

Aberdeen University; Interamna Borealis; being Memories and Portraits from an old University Town between the Don and the Dee, by W. Keith Leask, M...

Aberdeen University; Interamna Borealis; being Memories and Portraits from an old University Town between the Don and the Dee, by W. Keith Leask, M...

Aberdeen University; Record of the Celebration of the Quatercentenary of the University of Aberdeen, from 25th to 28th September, 1906. Edited by P...