First edition in French. The first edition in French of Leon Battista Alberti's (1404-1472) monumental treatise on the art of building, De re aedif...

Heinrich Wölfflin's copy with large margins. The first quarto edition of Sebastiano Serlio's (1475-1554) Five Books of Architecture, one of the fir...

An exceptionally fine copy. The 'South Seas' issue of Thomas Martyn's (d.1811) richly illustrated The Universal Conchologist, comprising 80 hand-co...

Strawberry Hill Press. An attractive, contemporarily bound example of this the first printed edition of the Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury...

A curious and rare anonymous English Civil War pamphlet published in Paris by Michel Mettaier (sometimes spelt Mettayer) in 1648 following the cap...

Frederic Prokosch's copy. One of Prokosch's 'Butterfly Books'. Poem was first printed in the Spectator on 23 November 1934, and reprinted in The St...

Frederic Prokosch's copy. One of Prokosch's 'Butterfly Books'. An inscription by Prokosch refers to a 'letter from the author enclosed', which is n...

Frederic Prokosch's copy. The Singing Head by W.B. Yeats, privately printed and signed by the author Frederic Prokosch. Prokosch has written 'This ...

Frederic Prokosch's copy. Leda and the Swan by W.B. Yeats, privately printed and signed by the author Frederic Prokosch. Prokosch has written 'This...

A handsome set of Adam Smith's (d.1790) pivotal work of economic theory and political philosophy. The Wealth of Nations 'begins with the thought t...

Founder of the welfare state's copy. The first edition of Wheatley's historical survey of London, providing short informative profiles of London's ...

Frederic Prokosch's copy. One of Prokosch's 'Butterfly Books'. At Night was first printed in the London Mercury in May 1935, and not subsequently r...

A very good example of this uncommon title, decorated, engraved, printed, and bound by H.D & H.G. Webb at the Caradoc Press. The play first ap...

John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (1835-95), English poet, numismatist, botanist and an authority on bookplates (notably reflected ...

Lord Raglan's copy. Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788-1855) commanded the British expeditionary forces sent to the Crimea following Britain'...