Books and Manuscripts

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien remains one of the most beloved classics of modern literature, introducing readers to Middle-earth and the adventures ...

The Book of Lost Tales, Part I is the opening volume in The History of Middle-earth series, edited by Christopher Tolkien from his father J.R.R. To...

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited and published after the author's death by his son Christopher Tolkien, presents the mythic prehistory of...

First published between 1954 and 1955, The Lord of the Rings is Tolkien's epic high-fantasy masterpiece and one of the most influential works of mo...

Texas by James A. Michener, illustrated by Charles Shaw, was published by the University of Texas Press in 1986 to mark the Texas Sesquicentennial....

The Portable Handbook of Texas, edited by Roy Barkley and Mark F. Odintz and published by the Texas State Historical Association in 2000, is a sing...

The New Handbook of Texas (1996) is a comprehensive six-volume encyclopedia covering the history, geography, culture, and people of Texas from its ...

Borough of Nottingham; The Meteorology of Nottingham for the Past 12 Years, (1867 to 1878 inclusive), from Diurnal Observations by M. Ogle Tarbotto...

A handsome early continental printing of Manzoni’s landmark historical novel. This Brussels edition – made from the author’s latest Milan text and ...

Marci Antonini Imperatoris, Libri XII (Marcus Aurelius – The Meditations / Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν) One of the great works of Stoic philosophy, preserved in ...

La Décoration et le Mobilier à l’époque romantique et sous le le Second Empire, by Albert Keim. Preface by Léon Bérard. Paris: Editions Nilsson, c....

An impressive, large folio-sized volume which features 50 scaled, detailed line-drawing plates of Italian Renaissance architectural details. Orname...

The Forth Railway Bridge – completed in 1890 – is one of the greatest feats of late-Victorian engineering and remains a defining symbol of Scotland...

Kokushi Daijiten [國史大辭典] – The Great Historical Dictionary of Japan Published Tokyo, Meiji 41 (1908)Publisher: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan [吉川弘文館]Printed by...

Title: 九六會南畫展出品畫 (Kyuroku-kai Nanga-ten Shuppinga)Translation: Catalogue of Paintings Exhibited at the Kyuroku Society Nanga ExhibitionOrganizer / ...

A Japanese orihon (accordion-style) painting album, bound in patterned green silk with title slip reading Gachō Ichi (画帳一 - “Picture Album No. 1”)....

A remarkable group of nine official NASA Manned Spacecraft Center letters sent to Ed Conifray of Irvington, New Jersey, between 1963 and 1966, toge...

A substantial and scholarly late-Victorian study of Scottish ecclesiastical silver. Rev. Thomas Burns’s Old Scottish Communion Plate (1892) remains...

A rare and fascinating polyglot devotional volume, Preces S. Niersis Clajensis presents the prayers of Saint Nerses IV the Gracious (Nerses of Lamb...

A mid-19th century German-language Bible in Martin Luther’s celebrated translation, printed in London in 1855 by W. Watts for the Gesellschaft zur ...

Goethe's Egmont (written 1775-1787, first published 1788) is one of his most celebrated tragedies, dramatising the life and execution of the Flemis...

First published in the 16th century, Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel remains one of the great comic masterpieces of Renaissance literature - an...

This undated Chapman & Hall edition of Dickens’s Christmas Books (with twenty-eight illustrations by Fred Barnard, printed by Virtue & Co.)...

This attractive 1907 first edition brings together essays by noted literary figures—including Andrew Lang, J. Churton Collins, W.J. Loftie, E. Hart...

W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911), famed as the librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas, was also a sharp-witted comic poet and illustrator. The Bab...

A finely bound late-Victorian edition of Thomas Hood’s Humorous Poems, richly illustrated by Charles E. Brock and introduced by Alfred Ainger. Publ...

We've recently acquired a small collection of works on the French artist, Jean-Pierre Cassignneul. Please see other listings for alternative titles...

We've recently acquired a small collection of works on the French artist, Jean-Pierre Cassignneul. Please see other listings for alternative titles...

We've recently acquired a small collection of works on the French artist, Jean-Pierre Cassignneul. Please see other listings for alternative titles...

We've recently acquired a small collection of works on the French artist, Jean-Pierre Cassignneul. Please see other listings for alternative titles...

We've recently acquired a small collection of works on the French artist, Jean-Pierre Cassignneul. Please see other listings for alternative titles...

Anacreontis et Sapphonis Carmina, Foulis Press 1744 Greek title: Ανακρεοντος και Σαπφους τα Σωζομενα. Βιος Ανακρεοντος υπο Τανακιλλου Φαβρου. Αλκαι...

Liturgia Graeca – Biblos tēs dēmosias euchēs tēs Ekklēsias Anglikanēs kai tōn Psalmon tou Dauiḏ (The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England...

Spherical Astronomy by Friedrich Brunnow (1811–1891) was one of the most important mid-19th century textbooks on positional astronomy, providing a ...

Animal Biography or Popular Zoology by the Rev. W. Bingley, F.L.S., Fourth Edition (London, 1813), is a detailed early 19th-century study of the ha...

A distinguished Centenary Edition, first published in 1934 by the Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, and edited by G.D.H. Cole. This volume brings...

A distinguished Centenary Edition, first published in 1934 by the Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, and edited by G.D.H. Cole. This volume brings...

A popular picaresque classic of European literature, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane was originally written in French by Alain-René Lesage...

Synonymorum Sylva, by Simon Pelegromius (Pelgrom). London: Ioyce Norton & Richardum Whittaker (Joyce Norton & Richard Whitaker), 1632. A s...

Alfred Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam is one of the defining elegies of the Victorian era, written in memory of his closest friend, Arthur Henry Halla...

The Phanseys of William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle, addressed to Margaret Lucas and her Letters in Reply was issued by the Nonesuch Press in 1...

Hilaire Belloc’s The Old Road (1904) is his celebrated account of the ancient Pilgrims’ Way from Winchester to Canterbury, tracing both the physica...

A full leather prize presentation copy of this work. William Whewell's Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology ...

An attractive Victorian prize binding, presented by The College School, Huyton. The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Reade...

The Radcliffe Catalogue of 6317 Stars (Oxford, 1860) is a landmark nineteenth-century astronomical reference, recording the precise positions of ci...

A very rare sammelband of two scarce nineteenth-century astronomical works. Robert Goodacre, A Brief Explanation of the Principal Terms made use of...

This volume brings together two uncommon contemporary accounts of the Napoleonic wars. The first, The Campaigns of Paris in 1814 & 1815, is the...

Irene Iddesleigh is the infamous debut novel of Mrs. Amanda McKittrick Ros (Anna Margaret Ross, 1860–1939), celebrated for its extravagantly ornate...