Rare Books 2011

First edition of one of the most influential and most successful of all architectural books, and the work which spread Palladio's fame throughout Europe.

Early eighteenth-century manuscript of the Statutes of the Order of the Garter - in a contemporary armorial binding - illustrated with two lavish full-page colour illuminations heightened with gilt.

Rare first edition - entirely unsophisticated, uncut in the original marbled boards - of one of the greatest and most beautiful 18th century books on architecture.

The complete set of Visentini's 'Principali note della Piasa' after Canaletto - finely inked engravings with a silvery tone on sheets of fine laid paper that have been neither framed nor trimmed.

A fine copy of Joaquin Ibarra's masterwork and a classic of world literature.

First edition of Ann Radcliffe's influential Gothic novel.

Scarce early pattern book issued by the Leeds Pottery.

Large paper copy of Seeley's Stowe - limited to 150 copies - from the library of William Beckford in a lavish contemporary binding by Kalthoeber.

A very fine set of the first edition (limited to approximately 300 sets) of Goya's greatest series of engravings printed in warm sepia tones on thick laid paper.

First edition of Stubbs' rare, late and unfinished comparative anatomical work, uncut in the original wrappers and from the collection of Stubbs' patron Thomas Villiers, 2nd Earl of Clarendon.

First edition, first issue - uncut in the original publisher's boards - of Keats' second book.

Complete set of Grandville's rare first published suite of satirical plates.

Grandville's preparatory watercolour sketch for the print 'L'amour croise des races.

A fine copy of Thomas Shotter Boys most highly regarded work and an early use of chromolithography.

First edition of Al-Tantavy's Arabic grammar with a double-presentation to Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria, in Arabic calligraphy within a decorative illuminated frame, and in French.

First edition with a fine association (presentation in sepia ink on initial blank leaf): 'à Mon ami Nadar / G.

First edition and presentation copy of Préziosi's fine colour plates of Cairene life and costume.

First edition - one of 300 copies - of Goya's esoteric series of engravings.

Very rare collection of Schinkel's fantastic 'Higher Architecture' designs for the Russian Imperial Crimean pleasure palace Orianda.

A delightful composite album of colour woodcuts demonstrating the changes in Japanese society at the Meiji Restoration.