Rare Books, Prints & Photographs

First edition of Bartoli's account of the mission of the Jesuit Ridolfo Aquaviva to the Court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great in 1580.

An exceptional recueil of Nicolas Ponce's graphic oeuvre, likely constituted by the artist himself, and an important monument to the history of French engraving in the eighteenth century.

A complete set of the Museo Pio-Clementina with the additional volume Il Museo Chiaramonti.

First edition, an early issue bound from the parts, with two of the original part wrappers.

This beautiful and rare collection of prints after the work of George Morland was collected by Francis Blagdon and published by Edward Orme.

The very rare separate printing of Cruikshank's etchings on India paper.

First edition of the coloured issue of Kingsborough's magnum opus, the greatest illustrated work on Mexican antiquities.

A very scarce complete set of William Blake's unfinished 'Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy'.

The magnificent Scotland Delineated in the extremely rare hand-coloured state.

A rare early album of views in Seville, bound for presentation, by the French photographer Masson.

An exceptional gift: Beethoven's 'Lieder' in a binding painted by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and presented by him to Mary Gladstone, daughter of the Liberal Prime Minister.

An excellent complete and unsophisticated set of Octave Uzanne's review 'L'Art et L'Idée' in the original wrappers and volume chemises.

A beautiful set of Sir Richard Burton's translation of Alf Layla wa Layla, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.

A rare collection of original photographs - by the first professional Indonesian photographer Kassian Cephas - of the Hindu temple at Candi Prambanan.

An exceptional copy from the édition de tête of Mucha's mystical Art Nouveau masterpiece with an original signed watercolour and in a binding by Marius Michel.

The complete literary works of John Ruskin.

The édition de tête of Pascin's first illustrated book with an original drawing.