150 reproductions of C17th architectural drawings and archive documents relating to the urban expansion of the city of Paris with associated essays and commentaries by art historian Pierre Francastel.  Text in French.  Paperback.  284 pages.

A complete map of Suffolk reproduced in book form to its original scale and showing the county as it was before industrialisation, accelerated population growth, and improved communications.  Large format paperback.  30 pages.  Near new condition.  Cat No 5104

Arranged by county, this compendium lists and describes topographical collections that comprise drawings, prints and photographs of historic places and buildings.  Hardback.  159 pages.  In very good condition.  Cat No 5088

The Livre d’Aneaux was a pattern book of ornamental jewellery published in 1561 by jeweller to the royal families of Lorraine and France and is the fullest record of the Fontainebleu style as applied to the smallest yet most symbolic of jewels.

A very large heavy thick card portfolio containing forty folio-size reproductions of the original paintings by Pietro Fabris held by the British Museum which formed the basis of Sir William Hamilton’s 1779 publication 'Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies'.

Large album reproducing picture postcards of old Macau dating from the 1890’s and 1900’s assembled by a single dedicated collector.

A huge tombstone of a catalogue containing 346 lots of exceptional examples of historic Americana including rare documents, manuscripts, maps, charts, engravings and a selection of hard-to-find books, each illustrated in colour with lengthy descriptions including provenance and citations.

Illustrates in excellent colour plates the delicate paintings and adornments that decorate 103 ancient poetic manuscripts from Tabriz, Herat, Mahshhad, Shiraz and Bukhara.  Each is captioned listing the subject matter, date, style and calligrapher.

Six essays that consider the practical and political purposes for which maps were used through the history of South-Western England and the ways in which map evidence can be employed to recover facts about the past including the interpretation of enclosure maps and tithe surveys.

The history of settlement and governance of Iceland as told through a series of medieval illuminated manuscripts held at the Arnamagnean Institute in Copenhagen.  The lengthy text is complemented by fine colour reproductions of many of the manuscripts.  Harback.  96 pages.