1 ALBIN | A natural history of birds, 1738-1740 (but later)

2 ALKEN | The national sports of Great Britain, 1821

3 AMBERT | Esquisses historiques... l'armée française, Saumur, 1835, half red morocco, Furstenberg copy

4 ANNING, MARY | autograph letter signed, to William Buckland, [1829]

5 ASTLEY | The art of riding, London, 1584, later calf, drop-back box

6 AUTOGRAPH ALBUM | c.460 items including letters by Babbage, Charles Vignoles, and many others

7 BEDFORD, DR EVAN | Medical papers, diaries, and related material

8 BEEBE, C.W. | A Monograph of the Pheasants, London 1918-1922, 4 volumes

9 BONAPARTE, C.L. | Iconographie des pigeons, Paris 1857

10 BOYS | Original views of London as it is. London: Thomas Boys, 1842

11 BRAZIL | Brass plaque celebrating the establishment of the First Brazilian Republic, 15 November 1889

12 BRAZIL | Fernando de Noronha island, watercolour and engraved map

13 [BRAZIL]--CICÉRI AND BENOIST | Rio de Janeiro, [1852], hand-coloured lithograph

14 [BRAZIL]--CORONELLI | Three globe gores of South America, mainly Brazil, [c.1693]

15 [BRAZIL]--HORATIUS | Il Regno del Brasile parte nobilissima del Mondo nuovo, 1698, engraved map

16 BRAZIL | Two lithographed views of Rio de Janeiro, [1850s]

17 BRINDESI | Elbicei atika. Musée des anciens costumes Turcs de Constantinople. Paris, Lemercier, [1855]

18 CARDIGAN and McCORMICK | Eight months on active service & A Visit to the Camp before Sebastopol, both 1855; 2 works

19 CARLEVARIS | Le fabriche e vedute di Venetia, Venice, [1705]

20 CHILE | Two lithographed views of Valparaiso, [c.1854]

21 CORONELLI | Atlante Veneto, 1691

22 DAFFY | Elixir Salutis, 1681, 2 pamphlets

23 DARWIN | autograph letter signed, to Henry Colburn, [1837]

24 DINGLE | The new atlas of China, 1920

25 DONN | A map of the county of Devon, 1765

26 DONOVAN | The natural history of British birds, 1794-1798

27 DURY | A chorographical map of the King of Sardinia's dominions, 1765

28 EDWARDS | A natural history of birds [Gleanings of natural history], 1802–1806 (watermarks 1816–1824)

29 EINSTEIN | Signed photograph, 1955

30 ELLIOT, D.G.| A Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, New York 1873, folio, 36 plates

31 ELLIOT, D.G. | A Monograph of the Phasianidae, New York 1870-1872, 2 volumes

32 FARRÈRE AND FOUQUERAY | Jonques et sampans, 1945

33 [FER] | Mappe-monde ou carte generale de la terre, 1760, large hand-coloured wall-map

34 FRANCE | A pair of trompe-l'oeil engravings of assignats, c.1797

35 FÜSSLI | Vues remarquables de la Suisse, [c.1802]

36 GART DER GESUNDHEIT | Augsburg, 1487, coloured woodcuts, later boards

37 GOULD, J. | Monograph of the Trogonidae, London 1835-1838, folio

38 HAYES, W. | Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds, London 1794

39 HUME and MARSHALL | The Game Birds of India, Calcutta 1879-81, 3 vols

40 JAILLOT AND SANSON | Atlas Nouveau. Contenant toutes les parties du Monde, 1692-1693, 2 volumes

41 JAWHARI, ISMA'IL IBN HAMMAD | Turkish-Arabic dictionary, 1803, Sir Gore Ouseley's copy

42 KNORR | Verlustiging der oogen en van den geest, 1770–1775

43 KOREA | Manuscript map, [twentieth century]

44 LATHAM | A general synopsis of birds, 1781-1785

45 LONDON |The several plans and drawings ... in the Third Report ... upon the improvement of the Port of London, 1800

46 MALAYSIA | Reconnaissance Map South-East Pahang, 1922

47 MEDICINE | Manuscript medical and culinary recipe book, 17th centuy

48 MERCATOR AND HONDIUS | Atlas, 1613