Books and Manuscripts

A Truly Outstanding Burmese Kammavaca Buddhist manuscript. This richly decorated Burmese Kammavaca manuscript is an outstanding example of late 19t...

An attractive Folio Society production of a classic D.H. Lawrence travel book, exploring the culture of the Etruscans in Italy. Etruscan Places, by...

An attractive Folio Society production, which is well illustrated throughout, exploring 'the culmination of the rich young eighteenth-century Engli...

An impressive, and imposing, large folio volume of the engravings from the classic work by David Hume - almost 'elephant folio' in size. This large...

19th Century Japanese photo album 日本のビンテージ写真集 A photo album of original albumen prints, hand coloured, of Japanese subjects. The album is presented...

A very attractive book of pressed flower designs mounted in an album covered with olive tree boards, with the printed title ''Jerusalem' and craved...

A delightful copy of the first printing of Worzel Gummidge, the much loved living scarecrow, familiar to many in the UK from the later 1970s BBC te...

Lyra Celtica; An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry. Edited by E.A. Sharp and J. Matthay. With Introduction and Notes by William Sharp. Anci...

A historic novel from English novelist Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923) about Mary Queen of Scots. The 'Quair' in the title is a small book. The Queen's...

A nicely inscribed Rebus first edition by Ian Rankin, reading "To Hugh, The Old Devil is Back, Ian Rankin", and doodled with a Gallows illustration...

An interesting exploration of the world of books and reading in Ancient Greece and Rome by Frederic G. Kenyon, Late director and Principal Libraria...

A fascinating book of Sufi teachings told in a collection of stories and fables. Sufism is a mystical branch of Islam characterized by a focus on I...

2023 saw the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected works of Shakespeare. Copies of that surviving book are now so precious th...

A volume of literary criticism by Virginia Woolf, some articles previously published in The Times Literary Supplement, Life and Letters, The Nation...

A charming volume published by The Medici Society on the world of cats - the Introductory 'Category' features an essay form the author/compiler exp...

A charming collection of children's stories, written by Mrs Lang, and edited by Andrew Lang, her husband, who died the year prior to publication. H...

A very smart copy of this excellent 'Culture' science fiction novel by Scottish author Iain M. Banks. Published by Orbit, a Division of Little, Bro...

A very smart and stylish large format edition of this much respected atlas from The Times. The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, Folio Societ...

A fascinating late nineteenth century photo album of albumen prints from Robert Welch. Undated, but c. 1870s-1890s. The album contains views taken ...

A monumental photo album of large folio size (46cm x 43cm) carrying the gilt initialed monogram 'M.G.'. Undated, but c. 1880-1890. The album is tit...

A leather bound photographic album from 1884 by 'Photographic Artist' J. Dryburgh, of St Andrews and Dalkeith, in Scotland. A truly remarkable albu...

A very smart set of 7 volumes from the classic series 'The Oxford History of England', which have been attractively and uniformly rebound in navy b...

An entertaining collection of short stories from Irish writer Maurice Walsh (1879-1964), one of Ireland's most successful writers in the 1930s and ...

From the creator of the beloved Moomins, this was her first novel for adults, first published as Bildhuggarens Dotter in 1968, a semi-autobiographi...

One of her most acclaimed novels, this is a very good vintage copy of this work featuring Lord Peter Wimsey in this classic crime mystery. The Nine...

A smart boxed set containing 4 issues of The Wine Society List from February 2018 to February 2019 Housed in The Wine Society's branded red slipcas...

An interesting and well produced book from Consolidated Gold Fields, an international mining finance company, marking their centenary. The book exa...

An interesting and well produced book from the Shell Transport and Trading Company, Limited, marking their Diamond Jubilee. Based on their famous s...

Classic humour with a medical theme from Richard Gordon (1921-2017), formerly a ship's surgeon and anaesthetist. His 'Doctor' work was adapted for ...

A very smart, still sealed, limited edition, of this James Bond novel by Jeffrey Deaver. Carte Blanche, The New James Bond Novel, by Jeffrey Deaver...

An attractively presented book featuring 50 tipped in water-colour view of Oxford, each mounted on coloured textured paper, with facing descriptive...

Complete set of original hardbacks with their dustjackets; Born Free, Living Free, & Forever Free, by Joy Adamson: Born Free; A Lioness of Two ...

Classic humour with a medical theme from Richard Gordon (1921-2017), formerly a ship's surgeon and anaesthetist. His 'Doctor' work was adapted for ...

A beautiful copy of this work by American artist, Emelene Abbey Dunn (1859-1929), who founded the New York Normal Art School, after studying art in...

 A very smart book indeed, of the author's attempt to make sense of society in evolutionary terms. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, this pre...

A very smart book indeed, of this work by Charles Darwin. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, this presents as a handsome volume. We have recen...