Keys Fine Art Auctioneers Palmers Lane Aylsham Two Day Books & Ephemera Sale Norwich NR11 6JA United Kingdom Started Aug 25, 2016 10:30Am BST
Keys Fine Art Auctioneers Palmers Lane Aylsham Two Day Books & Ephemera Sale Norwich NR11 6JA United Kingdom Started Aug 25, 2016 10:30am BST
Lot Description
J R R TOLKIEN: THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN, illustrated David Wenzel, Forestville, Eclipse Books, 1990, limited 1 edition de-luxe (600), signed by the illustrator and numbered, original pictorial cloth gilt, dust wrapper, original silk lined solander box gilt
J R R TOLKIEN AND DONALD SWANN: THE ROAD GOES EVER ON - A SONG CYCLE, London 1968, 1st edition, original paper 2 covered boards, dust wrapper
J R R TOLKIEN: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL, illustrated Pauline Baynes, London, 1962, 1st edition, original pictorial 3 paper-covered boards, dust wrapper
J R R TOLKIEN: THE LORD OF THE RINGS, illustrated Alan Lee, North Ryde, Harpercollins, Australia, 1991, centenary limited edition 4 (200) numbered and signed by the illustrator, 50 coloured plates plus seven maps (of which one double page) as called for, original quarter blue morocco silvered, all edg ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN, 3 titles: THE LORD OF THE RINGS, London 1969, 1st India paper de-luxe edition, 1st impression, 3 maps (of which 2 5 folding) as called for, original decorative black cloth gilt and silvered (lacks slip case); THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN, 1986 de-luxe edition, 4th impression, orig ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN: THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN, 1976, 1st de-luxe edition, coloured frontis plus 12 coloured plates plus 6 two double page maps as called for, original decorative black cloth gilt and silvered, original presentation box, printed paper label
J R R TOLKIEN, 2 titles: NARN I CHIN HURIN - THE TALE OF THE CHILDREN OF HURIN, illustrated Alan Lee, 2007, de-luxe edition, 7 original quarter blue with grey boards gilt, original slip case gilt; THE LEGEND OF SIGURD AND GUDRUN, 2009 de-luxe edition, original quarter brown with grey boards gilt, orig ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN: THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH - THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, PARTS 1 AND 2 - THE LAYS OF BELERIND - 8 THE SHAPING OF MIDDLE-EARTH - THE LOST ROAD - THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW - THE TREASON OF ISENGARD - THE WAR OF THE RING - SAURON DEFEATED - MORGOTH'S RING, 1983-1993, 1st editions, 10 (of 12) v ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN, 3 titles: THE LORD OF THE RINGS - THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING - THE TWO TOWERS - THE RETURN OF 9 THE KING, 1967, 2nd editions, 2nd impressions, 3 volumes, 3 folding maps as called for (map in volume 2 loosely inserted), original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; THE HOBBIT, 1978, 4th edition, o ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN: THE LORD OF THE RING - THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING - THE TWO TOWERS - THE RETURN OF THE KING, 10 London, 1955 4th impression, 1955 2nd impression, 1955 1st edition, 2nd state, dust wrapper with reviewer comments to first two titles, sagging to text on page 49, 3 volumes, 2 folding maps on ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN: THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN, London 1965, 2nd edition, 15th impression, original decorative cloth, 11 dust wrapper
J R R TOLKIEN: THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN, London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1942, 2nd impression reprinted [3rd 12 impression], coloured frontispiece and black and white illustrations in text as called for, map end papers, one leaf advert at end, original decorative green cloth DAVID HARVEY: THE SONG OF MIDDLE-EARTH J R R TOLKIEN'S THEMES, SYMBOLS AND MYTHS, London 1985 1st edition, 13 original cloth gilt dust wrapper plus T A SHIPPEY: THE ROAD TO MIDDLE-EARTH, London 1982, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper plus RICHARD L PURTILL: J R R TOLKIEN MYTH, MORALITY AND ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN, 2 titles: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL AND OTHER VERSES FROM THE RED BOOK, illustrated Roger 14 Garland, London, Unwin Hyman 1990, 1st reset edition; FARMER GILES OF HAM, illustrated Roger Garland, London, Unwin Hyman, 1990 reset new format, each original cloth gilt, dust wrappers (2)
J R R TOLKIEN, 4 titles: SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR, illustrated Pauline Baynes, 1967, 1st edition, 1st issue (white lettering on 15 spine), original pictorial boards; BILBO'S LAST SONG, illustrated Pauline Baynes, London, Hutchinson, 2002, original pictorial boards, dust wrapper; LETTERS FROM FATHER CHRIS ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN: SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR, illustrated Pauline Baynes 1967 1st edition, 1st state (white lettering to spine), original 16 pictorial boads; THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL AND OTHER VERSES FROM THE RED BOOK, illustrated Pauline Baynes, 1972, 6th impression, original pictorial boards (2)
J R R TOLKIEN, 2 titles: THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN, London, 1965, 2nd edition, 15th impression, original decorative 17 cloth, dust wrapper; THE LORD OF THE RINGS - THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING - THE TWO TOWERS - THE RETURN OF KING, 1967 2nd edition, 2nd impression, 1966 2nd edition, 1967 2nd edi ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN, 5 titles: SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR, illustrated Pauline Baynes, Boston 1978, 1st impression, original pictorial 18 boards; BILBO'S LAST SONG, illustrated Pauline Baynes, 1990, 1st edition, original pictorial laminated boards, dust wrapper; THE FATHER CHRISTMAS LETTERS, London 1976, 2nd imp ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN: 4 titles: THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN, London, 1991, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, THE HOBBIT 19 OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN, illustrated Michael Hague, London, HarperCollins, circa 1990, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, THE ANNOTATED HOBBIT REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION ANNOTAT ...[more]
WAYNE G HAMMOND & CHRISTINA SCULL: J R R TOLKIEN, ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR, London, HarperCollins, 1995 1st edition, 20 original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper + KAREN WYNN FONSTAD: THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH, Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1981 1st edition, 6th impression, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, + JAMES ...[more]
CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN: PICTURES BY J R R TOLKIEN, London, 1979, 1st edition, original cloth gilt worn, dust-wrapper + BRIAN 21 SIBLEY & JOHN HOWE: THE MAP OF TOLKIEN'S BELERIAND AND THE LANDS TO THE NORTH, London, HarperCollins, 1999 1st impression, folding coloured map, original pictorial wraps + KAREN ...[more]
JOHN & PRISCILLA TOLKIEN: THE TOLKIEN FAMILY ALBUM, London, HarperCollins 1992, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust- 22 wrapper, + SARAH WELLS (EDITOR): THE RING GOES EVER ON, PROCEEDINGS OF THE TOLKIEN 2005 CONFERENCE 50 YEARS OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS, Coventry, The Tolkien Society, 2008 1st edition ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN: 4 titles: SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR, illustrated Pauline Baines, 1967 1st edition, 1st issue (white lettering on 23 spine), original pictorial boards, POEMS FROM THE LORD OF THE RINGS, illustrated Alan Lee, 2002 1st revised edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND ...[more]
24 J R R TOLKIEN: THE LORD OF THE RINGS, Book Club Associates 1992, 3 volumes, uniform quarter faux leather gilt (3)
J R R TOLKIEN: 3 titles: POEMS AND STORIES, illustrated Pauline Baines, London, 1980, 1st De Luxe edition, original decorative 25 black cloth gilt, THE LORD OF THE RINGS - THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING - THE RETURN OF THE KING, illustrated Alan Lee, London, HarperCollins, 1992, 2 volumes only (lacks part ...[more] J R R TOLKIEN: 5 titles: SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL & SIR ORFEO, translated J R R Tolkien, 1975 1st edition, 26 original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, THE SILMARILLION, 1977, 1st edition, original cloth gilt dust-wrapper, THE LORD OF THE RINGS - THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING - THE TWO TOWERS - THE ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN (CONTRIBUTION): OXFORD POETRY 1914-1916, Oxford, B H Blackwell, 1917, 1st edition, contributions by J R R 27 Tolkien: GOBLIN FEET, Aldous Huxley, Dorothy L Sayers etc, original cloth backed boards gilt + J R R TOLKIEN: BEOWULF; THE MONSTERS AND THE CRITICS, London [1937], 1st edition, "Fr ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN: NARN I CHIN HURIN - THE TALE OF THE CHILDREN OF HURIN, illustrated Alan Lee, 2007 1st edition, original cloth 28 gilt, dust-wrapper + J R R TOLKIEN: THE LORD OF THE RINGS, London, Unwin Hyman, 1990, one volume edition, 3 volumes in one, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper + J R R TOLKIEN: ...[more]
HARPERCOLLINS (PUBLISHED): TOLKIEN POSTCARD BOOKS: 6 titles: TOLKIEN'S DRAGONS AND MONSTERS: TOLKIEN'S 29 MIDDLE-EARTH: TOLKIEN'S DRAGONS AND MONSTERS: TOLKIEN'S HOBBIT: J R R TOLKIEN POSTCARD BOOK: THE LORD OF THE RINGS, 1993 1st edition, 1993 2nd impression, 1993 3rd impression, 1997 1st edition, 199 ...[more]
TOM SHIPPEY: J R R TOLKIEN AUTHOR OF THE CENTURY, 2000 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper plus HUMPHREY 30 CARPENTER: J R R TOLKIEN A BIOGRAPHY, 1977 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper plus HUMPHREY CARPENTER: THE INKLINGS C S LEWIS, J R R TOLKIEN, CHARLES WILLIAMS, AND THEIR FR ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN, 3 titles: THE LORD OF THE RINGS - FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING - THE TWO TOWERS - THE RETURN OF THE 31 KING, London, Harpercollins 1991, centenary edition, 3 volumes, each original cloth gilt, dust wrappers (dust wrappers by John Howe), original slip case gilt plus THE SILMARILLION, Edited Chr ...[more]
J R R TOLKIEN: THE LORD OF THE RINGS, Harpercollins 1999, 7 volume edition in slip case, all first printings with CD of excerpts 32 from The Lord of the Rings in original sleeve, original uniform laminated boards gilt, original slip case "Millennium Edition"
J R R TOLKIEN: POEMS FROM THE HOBBIT, Harpercollins 1999, 1st edition, 24 mo miniature book, original pictorial laminated 33 boards, dust wrapper plus ALIDA BECKER (EDITOR): A TOLKIEN TREASURY, Philadelphia and London, Running Press, 2001 1st edition, miniature book, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper p ...[more]
34 ONE BOX: J R R TOLKIEN and related titles, mainly hardbacks
ONE BOX: J R R TOLKIEN: THE HOBBIT, audiobook in 6 cassettes, The Mind's Eye circa 1994 housed in original wooden box, 35 together with various other Tolkien audio books on cassette including The Hobbit in slip case etc plus small quantity Tolkien/Lord of the Rings VHS videos, Tarot Deck and Card Game ...[more]
36 TWO BOXES: J R R TOLKIEN AND RELATED TITLES, mainly paperbacks
THE PEASANTS OF CHAMOUNI CONTAINING AN ATTEMPT TO REACH THE SUMMIT OF MONT BLANC; AND A DELINEATION 40 OF THE SCENERY AMONG THE ALPS, London, printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy and N Hailes, 1823 1st edition, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title, 164pp plus 12 pages of adverts at end, 3 co ...[more]
HISTORY OF WONDERFUL FISHES, Dublin, printed by Christopher Bentham 1820, 5 full page woodcut engravings plus woodcut 41 vignettes in text, 181pp bound together with THE NATURAL HISTORY OF REMARKABLE TREES, SHRUBS AND PLANTS, Dublin, printed by John Jones, 7 full page woodcut engravings, 179pp duo deci ...[more]
DEE DEE BOREHAM, 3 titles: LITTLE TAGGY TUMBLEDOWN; THE IMP IN THE BUS; THE NAUGHTY POPGUN, plus JOHN 42 RICHMOND: GRENVILLE OF THE REVENGE, plus CHARLES LESLEY: THE BOY WHO WON AN EMPIRE, plus TREASURE ISLAND, plus ROBINSON CRUSOE, each Pocket Wonder Library circa 1950s, small format original pictoria ...[more] ANDREW LANG (EDITED): THE NURSERY RHYME BOOK, illustrated L Leslie Brooke, London 1898, 1st edition, original cloth gilt plus 43 LETTY AND URSULA LITTLEWOOD (EDITED): THE BOWER BOOK OF SIMPLE POEMS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, illustrated Honor C Appleton [1922], 1st edition, 10 coloured plates as called for, o ...[more]
W E JOHNS, 5 TITLES: BIGGLES FLIES NORTH, 1939 "Pyramid" edition, original pictorial cloth; BIGGLES AIR COMMODORE, 1946 44 reprint, original pictorial cloth; BIGGLES IN BORNEO, 1951 reprint; BIGGLES GOES TO WAR, 1952 reprint; BIGGLES IN THE SOUTH SEAS, 1952 reprint, each original cloth, dust wrapper (5 ...[more]
W E JOHNS, 5 TITLES: BIGGLES CHARTER PILOT, 1946 reprint; BIGGLES IN THE JUNGLE, 1947 reprint; BIGGLES FLIES SOUTH, 45 1946 reprint; BIGGLES SECRET AGENT, 1949 reprint; BIGGLES IN SPAIN, 1953 reprint, each original cloth, dust wrapper (5)
46 CAPTAIN W E JOHNS: BIGGLES AND THE PLANE THAT DISAPPEARED, 1963, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper
W E JOHNS, 4 TITLES: BIGGLES GOES HOME, 1960, 1st edition; BIGGLES AND THE MISSING MILLIONAIRE, 1961, 1st edition; 47 BIGGLES SETS A TRAP, 1962, 1st edition; BIGGLES AND THE LITTLE GREEN GOD, 1969, 1st edition, ex lib, each original cloth, dust wrapper (4)
CAPTAIN W E JOHNS, 2 titles: BIGGLES'S SECOND CASE, 1948, 1st edition; WORRALS CARRIES ON, 1942, 1st edition, each 48 original cloth, dust wrappers (2)
W E JOHNS: ANOTHER JOB FOR BIGGLES, 1951 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (with part loss): BIGGLES IN THE GOBI, 49 1953 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (2)
W E JOHNS: 3 titles: COMRADES IN ARMS, 1947 1st edition: GIMLET LENDS A HAND, 1949 1st edition: GIMLET GETS AND 50 ANSWER, 1952 1st edition, each original cloth, dust wrapper, (3)
W E JOHNS, 3 TITLES: BIGGLES MAKES ENDS MEET; BIGGLES ON THE HOME FRONT; BIGGLES OF THE INTERPOL, each 51 1957 1st edition, each original cloth, dust wrapper (3)
CAPTAIN W E JOHNS, 3 titles: STEELEY AND THE MISSING PAGE AND OTHER STORIES; WINGED JUSTICE AND OTHER AND 52 COLLECTED STORIES; THE SPYFLYERS, each published Watford, Norman Wright, each limited edition (300) numbered, "The Splyflyers" signed by the publisher, illustrator and Jennifer Schofield (introd ...[more]
KATHLEEN HALE, 5 titles: ORLANDO BECOMES A DOCTOR, 1944, 1st edition, original pictorial wraps worn; ORLANDO A CAMPING 53 HOLIDAY, 1943 reprint, original pictorial wraps; ORLANDO A TRIP ABROAD, 1942 reprint, original pictorial wraps worn; ORLANDO HIS SILVER WEDDING, 1944, 1st edition; ORLANDO A SEASIDE ...[more]
A VON CHAMISSO AND WILHELM HAUFF: THE MARVELLOUS HISTORY OF THE SHADOWLESS MAN AND THE COLD HEART, 54 original decorative cloth gilt, top edge gilt
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE: PETER AND WENDY, illustrated Edmund Blampied 1939 1st edition, 12 mounted colour plates plus 17 55 black and white illustrations as called for, quarto, original cloth
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE: FAUST, translated Abraham Hayward, illustrated Willie Pogany, London, circa 1908, coloured 56 frontispiece plus 30 coloured plates as called for, original blind stamped cloth gilt, + RICHARD WAGNER: TANNHAUSER, illustrated Willie Pogany, London, Harrap, circa 1911, lacking s ...[more]
MAURICE MAETERLINCK: THE BLUEBIRD, A FAIRY PLAY IN SIX ACTS, illustrated F Cayley Robinson, London, 1911, 1st illustrated 57 edition, author's clipped signature to half title, 24 tipped in coloured plates as called for, quarto, original pictorial cloth gilt HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON: STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSEN, illustrated Edmund Dulac, London, Hodder & Stoughton [1911], 58 1st trade edition, 28 mounted coloured plates as called for, quarto, original cloth gilt worn
MARY CRARY: THE DAUGHTERS OF THE STARS, illustrated Edmund Dulac, London, Hatchard & Co, 1939, 1st trade edition, 2 59 coloured plates as called for, quarto, original decorative blind stamped cloth
A VON CHAMISSO AND WILHELM HAUFF: THE MARVELLOUS HISTORY OF THE SHADOWLESS MAN AND THE COLD HEART, 60 illustrated Forster Robson, London [1914], 30 coloured plates as called for, quarto, original decorative cloth gilt + RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, translated Edward Fitzgerald, illustrated Willie Pogany, ...[more]
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSEN, illustrated Edmund Dulac, London, Hodder & Stoughton [1911], 61 28 mounted coloured plates as called for, some leaves loose, quarto, original decorative cloth gilt, worn and soiled, inner joints split, + RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, translated Edward Fi ...[more]
RUDYARD KIPLING: A SONG OF THE ENGLISH, illustrated W Heath-Robinson [1909], 1st edition,30 mounted coloured plates as 62 called for, quarto, original decorative cloth gilt, inner joints weak + J R JOHNSON: THE PARACHUTE AND OTHER BAD SHOTS, illustrated C E Brock [1891], 1st edition, quarto, original c ...[more]
ARTHUR RANSOME: 9 titles: SWALLOWS & AMAZONS, 1940 reprint, SWALLOWDALE, 1942 reprint, PETER DUCK, 1943 15th 63 impression, PIGEON POST, 1943 10th impression, SECRET WATER, 1943 8th impression, THE BIG SIX, 1942 3rd impression, MISSEE LEE, 1942 2nd impression, WE DIDN'T MEAN TO GO TO SEA, 1942 10th imp ...[more]
DENYS WATKINS-PITCHFORD "BB": THE LITTLE GREY MEN, A STORY FOR THE YOUNG IN HEART, 1942 1st edition, original 64 cloth, dust-wrapper
DENYS WATKINS-PITCHFORD "BB": 2 titles: THE FOREST OF BOLAND LIGHT RAILWAY, 1955 1st edition, THE AUTUMN ROAD 65 TO THE ISLES, 1959 1st edition, each original cloth, dust-wrappers (worn), (2)
DENYS WATKINS-PITCHFORD "BB": 3 titles: THE WIZARD OF BOLAND, 1959 1st edition, THE WAYFARING TREE, 1945 1st 66 edition, each original cloth, dust-wrappers, THE LITTLE GREY MEN, A STORY FOR THE YOUNG IN HEART, 1942 1st edition, original cloth (3)
ENID BLYTON: 5 titles: FIVE GO TO DEMON'S ROCKS, 1961, 1st edition, FIVE ARE TOGETHER AGAIN, 1963, 1st edition, FIVE ON 67 FINNISTON FARM, 1965, 2nd impression, FIVE HAVE A MYSTERY TO SOLVE, 1965, 2nd impression, FIVE GO TO BILLYCOCK HILL, 1959, 2nd impression, each original cloth, dust-wrapper (5)
ENID BLYTON: 3 titles: THE TWINS AT ST CLARE'S, 1941 1st edition, original cloth; THE O'SULLIVAN TWINS ANOTHER SCHOOL 68 STORY ABOUT ST CLARE'S, 1942 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (worn); THE O'SULLIVAN TWINS ANOTHER STORY ABOUT ST CLARE'S, 1942 1st edition, original cloth (3)
ENID BLYTON: SUMMER TERM AT ST CLARE'S, 1943 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (top 2cm of dust wrapper spine 69 supplied in facsimile)
ENID BLYTON, 2 titles: FIVE GO OFF IN A CARAVAN, 1946 1st edition; FIVE HAVE A MYSTERY TO SOLVE, 1962 1st edition, each 70 original cloth, dust wrapper (1st title with part losses) (2)
ENID BLYTON, 2 titles: THIRD YEAR AT MALORY TOWERS, 1948 1st edition; IN THE FIFTH AT MALORY TOWERS, 1950 1st 71 edition, each original cloth, dust wrappers (with part losses) (2)
ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE, 3 titles: NOW WE ARE SIX; WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG; THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER, each 72 illustrated E H Shepard, 1927 1st edition, 1927 15th edition, 1928 1st edition, each original cloth gilt, slightly soiled (3) OLIVER GOLDSMITH: THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, illustrated Arthur Rackham, London, George G Harrap & Co Ltd, 1928 1st trade 73 edition, 12 coloured plates as called for, de-luxe olive green morocco binding with gilt titles and pictorial design to top board depicting the main characters, Reverend Doctor Char ...[more]
KATE GREENAWAY: MOTHER GOOSE OR THE OLD NURSERY RHYMES, George Routledge and Sons [1881], 1st edition, signed 74 and inscribed "From Kate Greenaway" to half title but with the recipient's name above excised, therefore loss to top piece of half title (not affecting illustration) with further piece of ha ...[more]
MARTIN GARDNER (EDITOR): THE ANNOTATED ALICE, London, Antony Blond [1964], 1st UK edition, quarto original cloth, dust 74A wrapper plus FRANK STAFF: THE VALENTINE AND ITS ORIGINS, 1969 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (2)
JONATHAN SWIFT: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, illustrated Arthur Rackham, 75 London, J M Dent & Co 1909, 1st edition, 12 coloured plates as called for, original decorative cloth gilt worn plus G B LEWIS [M QUAD]: THE LIFE AND TROUBLES OF MR BOWSER ..., Chicago circa 1902, ...[more]
76 THE NEW RUPERT BOOK, Daily Express Publications [1938], original cloth backed pictorial boards
DR HEINRICH HOFFMANN: DER STRUWWELPETER ..., Esslingen and Munich, J F Schreiber [nd] circa 1930, shaped book, 24 77 shaped pages coloured illustrations and text, original pictorial paper covered shaped boards worn
RUPERT ANNUAL, 1949, Daily Express, original pictorial wraps worn + THE NEW RUPERT BOOK, annual 1951 Daily Express, 78 original pictorial boards + RUPERT AND UNCLE BRUNO: RUPERT AND THE NEW ROAD: RUPERT AND THE ROCKING HORSE, Rupert Adventure Series number 2, 9, 15, 1949, 1951, 1953 each original picto ...[more]
[ALFRED BESTALL]: THE NEW RUPERT BOOK, [1938], some leaves loose and worn, original cloth backed pictorial boards very worn, 79 together with RUPERT'S ADVENTURE BOOK, [1940], original pictorial boards very worn and soiled, together with THE RUPERT BOOK [1941], original pictorial boards very worn and so ...[more]
FRANK RICHARDS: TOM MERRY'S ANNUAL: TOM MERRY'S OWN, L, Mandeville [1949-1954], 6 annuals under author's various 80 pseudonyms, each original cloth d/ws (6)
NICOLA BAYLEY AND WILLIAM MAYNE: THE PATCHWORK CAT, 1981 1st edition, original pictorial laminated boards plus JANE 81 HISSEY: OLD BEAR, 1986 1st edition, original pictorial laminated boards, dust wrapper plus WAYNE ANDERSON AND CHRISTOPHER LOGUE, 2 titles: RATS MAGIC, 1976 1st edition; THE MAGIC CIRCU ...[more]
EDITH NESBIT: ROYAL CHILDREN OF ENGLISH HISTORY, illustrated Frances Brundage and M Bowley [1897], Father Tuck's 82 "Golden Gift" Series books 1 and 2, 2 volumes each with 2 mounted coloured plates, each original cloth backed pictorial boards plus HERBERT ASQUITH AND ALEC ROWLEY: PILLICOCK HILL, illust ...[more]
AUNT LOUISA'S KEEPSAKE COMPRISING SING A SONG O'SIXPENCE ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY MEN THE ROBIN'S 83 CHRISTMAS EVE THE SEASIDE ..., London 1868, 1st edition, 24 coloured plates as called for, quarto original blind stamped decorative cloth gilt worn, inner joints weak plus PICTURES OF ENGLISH HISTORY FR ...[more]
G A HENTY, 5 titles: THE LOST HEIR, 1899 1st edition, 8pp advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth gilt; AT THE POINT OF THE 84 BAYONET A TALE OF MAHRATTA WAR, 1902 [1901], 1st edition, original green pictorial cloth gilt; WITH BULLER IN NATAL, [1901], 1st edition, original blue pictorial cloth ...[more]
85 G A HENTY: AT AGINCOURT, London 1897 [1896], 1st edition, 32pp adverts at end, original pictorial bevelled cloth gilt ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE: NOW WE ARE SIX, illustrated E A Shepard, 1927, 1st edition, original cloth gilt plus OLIVER HERFORD: 86 THE RUBAIYAT OF A PERSIAN KITTEN, New York 1927, original boards, dust wrapper plus JOSEPH BIBBY: TOWARDS THE LIGHT, circa 1931, folio, original pictorial wraps worn (3)
SHEILA HODGETTS, 6 titles: THE TOBY TWIRL STORY BOOK, [1947], original cloth backed pictorial boards worn, inner joints weak; 87 TOBY TWELVE ADVENTURE STORIES, [1948], original cloth backed pictorial boards; TOBY TWIRL ADVENTURES, [1952], original cloth backed pictorial boards (2 copies): TOBY TWIRL AD ...[more]
FRANK RICHARDS: THE MAGNET, Howard Baker [published] facsimile editions volumes 11, 14, 77, 89, 1972, 1972, 1980, 1983, each 88 original cloth, dust wrapper plus NELSON LEE LIBRARY EXPELLED!, Howard Baker (published) facsimile edition 1972, original cloth, dust wrapper worn (5)
89 RUPERT, Annuals including 1957 and 1958 plus ten others later, each original pictorial laminated boards (12)
B & N PARKER: ARCTIC ORPHANS, [1924], 13 coloured plates as called for, defective, lacks title page (A/F), oblong original pictorial 90 boards v worn, inner joints split
FLORENCE K UPTON, 2 titles: THE GOLLIWOGG'S BICYCLE CLUB, London, Longmans [1896] 1st edition, 31 leaves of coloured 91 illustrations as called for, some leaves with small closed tears but generally very good, oblong original cloth backed pictorial boards worn; THE GOLLIWOGG IN HOLLAND, London, Longman ...[more]
FLORENCE K UPTON: THE GOLLIWOGG'S POLAR ADVENTURES, London, Longmans [1900] 1st edition, 31 leaves of coloured 92 plates as called for, some leaves chipped/with closed tears, oblong original cloth backed pictorial boards worn, lacks end papers plus THE GOLLIWOGG'S BICYCLE CLUB, London, Longmans [1896] ...[more]
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: FAIRY STORIES, illustrated Margaret Tarrant, 1917, 48 coloured plates as called for, original cloth gilt, 93 inner joints weak plus CHARLES AND MARY LAMB: TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE, illustrated A E Jackson, 1918, 48 coloured plates as called for, original cloth gilt worn plus LOUE ...[more]
FREDERIC CHAPMAN: PROVERBS IMPROVED, illustrated Grace A May, London and New York, [1901], 1st edition, 24 full page 94 coloured illustrations as called for, oblong original pictorial boards re-backed, plus HEINRICH HOFFMANN: THE ENGLISH STRUWWELPETER OR PRETTY STORIES AND FUNNY PICTURES FOR LITTLE CHI ...[more]
EDITH NESBIT, 4 titles: THE ENCHANTED CASTLE, 1907 1st edition; THE HOUSE OF ARDEN, 1908 1st edition; THE STORY OF 95 THE TREASURE SEEKERS, 1905, 7th impression; FIVE CHILDREN AND IT, 1904, 2nd impression, each original cloth gilt very worn, 1st 3 titles back strips near detached (4)
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: THE UGLY DUCKLING, illustrated Johannes Larsen, translated R P Keigwin, London, Edmund Ward 96 1956 1st UK edition, 24 leaves of coloured illustrations as called for, oblong original cloth backed boards, dust wrapper plus [ELIZABETH TURNER], 2 titles: THE COWSLIP; OR, MORE CAUT ...[more]
MARGARET E DARTON: THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS, London, Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co, 1853 1st edition, folding coloured 97 litho frontis "A Birds Eye View of The Earth" on linen as called for, 386pp, old half calf gilt worn
THE CHILD'S OWN BOOK ILLUSTRATED WITH NEARLY THREE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS, 1839 6th edition, original blind stamped 98 cloth gilt worn, inner joints split (A/F); together with eight other illustrated and miscellaneous titles including WILD BIRDS AT HOME, Gowans & Gray Ltd, 1908, 2nd series, illustrated thr ...[more]
ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE: NOW WE ARE SIX, illustrated E H Shepard, London 1927 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine a 99 little faded otherwise very good condition "MRS DOROTHEA TWADDLE": THE TWO DOLLS, A STORY, illustrated "Mrs Dolly Trott", Edinburgh T Constable 1846 1st edition, 14 100 litho plates as called for, original decorative cloth gilt
BEATRIX POTTER, 2 titles: THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES, London, Frederick Warne & Co 1909 1st edition, 27 coloured 101 plates as called for; THE TALE OF MRS TITTLEMOUSE, London, Frederick Warne & Co 1910, 1st edition, 27 coloured plates as called for, each original paper-covered boards, pictorial prin ...[more]
CICELY MARY BARKER, 9 various titles, some early editions, mixed condition including FLOWER FAIRIES OF THE AUTUMN, circa 102 1926?, 22 (of 24) coloured plates, original boards, pictorial printed label to top board, lacks back strip, very worn; THE LITTLE PICTURE HYMN BOOK, circa 1933?, 12 coloured plate ...[more]
DANIEL DEFOE: ROBINSON CRUSOE, illustrated Newell Convers Wyeth London, Harrods Limited [1920], coloured frontis plus 12 103 coloured plates as called for, original cloth, pictorial printed label to top board plus MARGARET TARRANT NURSERY RHYME BOOK, Collins 1945 reprint, original cloth, dust wrapper pl ...[more]
PLEASE NOTE: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND IS DEFECTIVE LACKING 3 LEAVES, PP63/64, PP75/76 & PP77/78. 104 SOLD WITH ALL FAULTS AS FOUND, WITH NO ESTIMATE/RESERVE.CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON "LEWIS CARROLL": ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, illustrated John Tenniel, London, MacMillan & Co 1866, ...[more]
ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE, 3 titles: WINNIE THE POOH, 1926, 1st edition, half title loose, title page slightly scuffed; WHEN WE WERE 105 VERY YOUNG, 1924 4th edition; NOW WE ARE SIX, 1929 2nd edition, each illustrated E H Shephard, each original pictorial cloth gilt (3)
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF, 4 titles: THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH, 1954, 1st edition; THE SILVER BRANCH, 1957 1st edition; WARRIOR 106 SCARLET, 1958 1st edition; THE LANTERN BEARERS, 1959 1st edition, each original cloth, 1st 2 titles and 4th title, dust wrapper (4)
IRENE PEARL: WALT DISNEY'S PETER PAN, FROM THE ORIGINAL STORY BY J M BARRIE, Leicester, Brockhampton Press 1953 107 1st de-luxe edition, original decorative boards, pictorial paper label to top board plus JOHN S GOODALL: ESCAPADES, London 1950 1st edition, oblong original decorative cloth backed boards, ...[more]
108 RUDYARD KIPLING: THE JUNGLE BOOK, London, Macmillan & Co, June 1894 early reprint, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt
[MARGARET] RUMER GODDEN, 7 titles: IMPUNITY JANE THE STORY OF A POCKET DOLL, 1955 1st edition, original cloth, dust 109 wrapper; CANDY FLOSS, 1960 1st UK edition with autographed letter signed and two autographed notes signed loosely inserted, original cloth, dust wrapper; MISS HAPPINESS AND MISS FLOWER ...[more]
G E BREARY: HANKY, PANKY AND THE HEDGEPIG, London, George Newnes [1945], 1st edition, coloured illustrations throughout as 110 called for, original cloth worn plus MICHAEL BOND: A BEAR CALLED PADDINGTON, illustrated Peggy Fortnum, Collins 1958 1st edition, original cloth slightly soiled plus ELEANOR FAR ...[more]
[VOJTECH KUBASTA]: TIP + TOP AT THE ZOO, London, Bancroft & Co circa 1961, 6 pop-up illustrations as called for, original cloth 111 backed pictorial boards
ARTHUR RANSOME, 4 titles: WINTER HOLIDAY, 1933 1st edition; SWALLOWDALE, 1933 reprint; PIGEON POST, 1936 2nd 112 impression; SECRET WATER, 1939 1st edition, each original cloth gilt (4)
ANDREW LANG: THE ANIMAL STORY BOOK, illustrated H J Ford, 1903 new impression, original pictorial cloth gilt plus HANS 113 CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES, illustrated Antony Groves-Raines, The Heirloom Library [nd] circa 1950, original cloth, dust wrapper (2) HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: TALES AND FAIRY STORIES, translated Madame de Chatelain, illustrated Henry Warren, London, 114 George Routledge & Co 1853, 1st UK edition, 6 (of 8) plates only, rebound decorative blue morocco gilt, Art Nouveau decoration to spine, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: THE SAND-HILLS OF JUTLAND, London, Richard Bentley 1860, 1st edition 1st issue, (no translator 115 name on title page), original pictorial cloth gilt soiled, together with duplicate copy of the same title, London 1860, 1st English language edition, 2nd state, contemporary half c ...[more]
J K ROWLING: THE TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL RUNES BY HERMIONE GRANGER, 116 Children's High Level Group 2008, 1st edition, 1st impression, collectors edition, original faux leather cast and applied base metal mounts, base metal clasp, original velvet drawstring bag enclosed in ...[more]
THE BOYS OWN ANNUAL, October 5th 1889 - September 17th 1890, volume 12, chromolitho folding frontis, plus 12 full page mainly 117 chromolitho plates as called for, some leaves loose/worn, original decorative cloth gilt worn, inner joints split, together with two other Boys Own Annuals, volumes 41 and 42 ...[more]
JULES VERNE, 3 titles: ROBUR LE CONQUERANT, Paris, J Hetzel 1886 but later, 8pp catalogue EL for 1888-89 at end, original 118 decorative cloth gilt, all edges gilt; MISTRESS BRANICAN, Paris, J Hetzel [1891], 1st edition 8pp catalogue FX for 1891-92 at end, contemporary quarter crimson morocco, spine gil ...[more]
JULES VERNE: L'ILE A HELICE, Paris, J Hetzel [1895], 1st edition, 8pp catalogue D adverts for 1895-96 at end, original elaborate multi 119 coloured pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt
JULES VERNE AND PASCHAL GROUSSET "ANDRE LAURIE": L'EPAVE DU CYNTHIA, Paris, J Hetzel 1885, 1st edition, 8pp 120 catalogue CS for 1885-86 at end, contemporary quarter crimson morocco, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt
JULES VERNE, 8 titles (EACH LONDON, ARCO PUBLICATIONS, "THE FITZROY EDITION": THE VILLAGE IN THE TREETOPS, 121 Translated I O Evans, 1964 1st UK translation; PROPELLER ISLAND, 1961; MASTER OF THE WORLD, 1962; FOR THE FLAG, 1961; THE MYSTERY OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM, 1960; THE PURCHASE OF THE NORTH POLE, 196 ...[more]
JULES VERNE: KERABAN THE INFLEXIBLE THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUIDARA - PART II SCARPANTE THE SPY, London, Sampson 122 Lowe et al, 1884, 1885, 1st English translations, 2 volumes, 1st work 49 engraved plates as called for (2 plates bound upside down), contemporary half calf gilt worn, 51 engraved plates as cal ...[more]
JULES VERNE: THE FLOATING ISLAND OR THE PEARL OF THE PACIFIC, London, Sampson Lowe, 1896, 1st UK edition, 79 black 123 and white full page plates/illustrations as called for, original green pictorial cloth gilt worn, all edges gilt
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, 2 titles: KIDNAPPED BEING MEMOIRS OF THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID BALFOUR IN THE YEAR 124 1751, Cassell & Co 1886, 16th thousand, folding coloured map, original cloth gilt worn; TREASURE ISLAND, London, Cassell & Co 1887, illustrated edition, 24th thousand, chart frontispiece, illustr ...[more]
RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES, Daily Express [April 1960 - June 1963 Nos 41-50 consecutive], very good condition - fine condition, 125 original pictorial wraps (10)
KNOCK-OUT AND MAGNET THE VICTORY COMIC WEEKLY, Amalgamated Press January - December 1941, Nos 97-147 (near 126 unbroken run, 2 missing), Bunter and Sexton Blake content in all, original wraps (49)
127 ONE BOX: THE MAGNET, approx 50 issues circa 1930s, original printed wraps THE MODERN BOY WEEKLY, Amalgamated Press 1932 and 1933 complete years, Nos 204-308 including Christmas issues, with W E 128 Johns Biggles content plus fiction by Geo Rochester, Joel Hamilton, Percy F Westerman and Murray Roberts, each original printed wraps (104)
ONE BOX: APPROX 40 ASSORTED COMICS, mainly US, some Marvel including THE INCREDIBLE HULK, 6 assorted issues circa 129 1969-1971 plus CAPTAIN AMERICA AND FALCON; STRANGE TALES FEATURING WARLOCK plus THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN, etc
BIGGLES FLIES AGAIN THE CAPTAIN W E JOHNS MAGAZINE, January 2000 - Winter 2008, 18 issues, volume 1 No 6 - volume 2 No 130 10 consecutive, original wraps plus W E JOHNS (EDITOR): FLYING; FLYING THE NEW AIR WEEKLY, April 2nd 1938 to September 10th 1938, volume 1 Nos 1-24 and October 1st 1938 to January 2 ...[more]
MARY W MCCLURE: ALFIE APPLE'S ANNUAL, ill "Thack" circa 1931, original cloth backed pictorial boards worn together with an 131 original sketch by the illustrator depicting "Alfie" the Apple and "Bertie" the Banana, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes Thack", large piece of brown paper approx size of illus ...[more]
W H COBB: ATLAS OF FAIRYLAND, [1948], quarto original pictorial wraps plus STELLA MEAD: HOPPING TIMOTHY ... PICTURES 132 BY EULALIE, London, Amex Co [1945], folio, original pictorial wraps plus LAWSON WOOD: MEDDLESOME MONKEYS, London, Birn Bros [1946], folio, original pictorial wraps plus MOVING PICTURE ...[more]
133 ONE BOX: DISNEY MIRROR, comics, 100+ issues circa 1992-1994 (vgc)
134 THE BEANO, large quantity 200+ numbers circa 1971-1993 (2)
135 ONE BOX: THE DANDY, 70+ numbers, circa 1950s to 1970s + small quantity other comics
ONE BOX: DR WHO MAGAZINE, circa 1986-1996, 60+ issues (vgc) + DR WHO CLASSIC COMICS, circa 1993-1994, 20+ issues 136 (vgc), all housed in four ring binders
ONE BOX: 100+ assorted comics circa 1970s including SPIDER-MAN COMICS WEEKLY, 1973 (4) 1979 (6), 1980 (3), + SUPER 137 SPIDER-MAN, 1977 (2), 1978 (35), 1979 (3), SUPER SPIDER-MAN WITH THE SUPERHEROES, 1976 (21), SPIDER-MAN COMIC, 1979 (11) + SUPER SPIDER-MAN PLUS THE TITANS, 1976 (5), 1977 (17) etc
ONE BOX: 2000AD FEATURING JUDGE DREDD, 100+ numbers 1982-1986 including 1982 (10), 1983 (17), 1984 (47), 1985 (29), 138 1986 (7), etc
ONE BOX: 40+ assorted comics including THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL STARRING THE INCREDIBLE HULK, approx 25 issues 139 circa 1974/75 + approx 15 others THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL FEATURING THE INCREDIBLE HULK AND FURY, ...THE INCREDIBLE HULK AND PLANET OF THE APES, ...THE INCREDIBLE HULK AND DRACULA LIVES ...[more]
ONE BOX: 70+ assorted comics circa 1975/76 including THE TITANS STARRING THE FANTASTIC FOUR!, THE TITANS STARRING 140 CAPTAIN AMERICA AND BUCKY! (27 numbers), PLANET OF THE APES, (29 numbers), + approx 18 other numbers of THE AVENGERS, DRACULA LIVES, etc
TWO BOXES: good quantity assorted comics circa 1970s/1980s including THE BEANO, 1981-1982 circa 36 numbers + BUSTER, 141 1975-1978 circa 58 numbers + WHIZZER & CHIPS, 1973-1977, circa 80 numbers + FUNTASTIC SPARKY, 1976-1977, circa 12 numbers etc (2)
142 ONE BOX: good quantity various comics and children's annuals including SPIDER-MAN, PLANET OF THE APES, FURY etc etc PETER LOVESEY: THE KINGS OF DISTANCE, A STUDY OF FIVE GREAT RUNNERS, London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1968 143 uncorrected proof copy, 192pp, 12pp of plates, original printed wraps
144 COMPTON MACKENZIE: THE MONARCH OF THE GLEN, London, 1941 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper
IRIS MURDOCH: A SEVERED HEAD, 1961 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper + GRAHAM GREENE: A BURNT-OUT CASE, 145 London, 1961 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper + W SOMERSET-MAUGHAM: POINTS OF VIEW, London, 1958 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper + four others similar (7)
SALMAN RUSHDIE: 2 titles: THE SATANIC VERSES, London, Viking, 1988 1st edition, signed to title page with coloured photograph of 146 author at book signing Hay on Wye 2012 loosely inserted, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, JOSEPH ANTON, A MEMOIR, 2012 1st edition, original boards, dust-wrapper (2)
SIGMUND FREUD: THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS, translated A A Brill, London, George Allen & Co Ltd, 1913, 3rd impression, 147 original cloth gilt
FRANCIS CRICK: WHAT MADE PURSUIT, A PERSONAL VIEW OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, London, 1989 1st edition, original cloth 148 silvered, dust-wrapper
H RIDER-HAGGARD: 6 titles: WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK, London 1919 1st edition, original cloth, THE YELLOW GOD, AN IDOL OF 149 AFRICA, 1912 reprint, MORNING STAR, 1913 reprint, JESS, illustrated Maurice Greiffenhagen, London 1900, new edition, LYSBETH, A TALE OF THE DUTCH, 1933, new impression, each original ...[more]
JULIAN BARNES: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 1/2 CHAPTERS, 1989, 1st edition signed, with photograph of the author at book 150 signing loosely inserted, original half cf gilt, dust wrapper, plus JOHN LE CARR : THE MISSION SONG, 2006 1st edition, signed, original cloth silvered, dust wrappers, plus GYLES ...[more]
GRAHAM GREENE: 5 titles: THE HONORARY CONSUL, 1973 1st edition, DR FISHER OF GENEVA OR THE BOMB PARTY, 1980 151 1st edition + duplicate copy of same title 1980 1st edition, MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE, 1982 1st edition, THE TENTH MAN, 1985 1st edition, each original cloth, dust-wrapper (5)
GRAHAM GREENE: 5 titles: A SORT OF LIFE, 1971 1st edition, THE HONORARY CONSUL, 1973 1st edition, THE HUMAN FACTOR, 152 1978 1st edition, THE TENTH MAN, 1985 1st edition, THE CAPTAIN AND THE ENEMY, 1988 1st edition, each original cloth, dust- wrapper (5)
153 GRAHAM GREENE: ENGLAND MADE ME - A NOVEL, New York 1935 1st US edition, original cloth gilt worn
ERIC WILLIAMS: THE WOODEN HORSE, 1949 4th impression, signed, original cloth + STEPHEN GWYNN: FOR SECOND READING 154 ATTEMPTS TO PLEASE, Dublin and London, Maunsel & Co 1918 1st edition, original cloth backed boards, printed paper label worn, + GRAHAM GREENE: A BURNT-OUT CASE, 1961 1st edition, original ...[more]
155 PATRICK O'BRIAN: POST CAPTAIN, 1971 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper
LEN DEIGHTON, 4 TITLES: AN EXPENSIVE PLACE TO DIE, 1967 1st edition, with transit docket loosely inserted, original cloth gilt, 156 dust wrapper; THE IPCRESS FILE, 1962 2nd impression, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; BILLION-DOLLAR BRAIN, 1966, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; SS GB NA ...[more]
157 LEN DEIGHTON: FUNERAL IN BERLIN, London, Jonathan Cape, 1964, uncorrected proof, original card wraps, dust-wrapper IAN FLEMING: YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, 1964 1st edition, original cloth gilt and silvered, dust-wrapper + JOHN GARDENER: FOR 158 SPECIAL SERVICES, 1982 1st edition, ex-library, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper (2)
JOHN LE CARRE: THE NAXVE AND SENTIMENTAL LOVER, 1971 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, + ALAN FURST: 159 NIGHT SOLDIERS, 1988 1st UK edition, original cloth silvered, dust-wrapper (2)
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR: A TRAVELLERS TREE, A JOURNEY THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, London, John Murray, 160 1950 1st edition, frontispiece double page map plus 51 black and white plates as called for, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper (tatty)
C S FORESTER: 3 titles: THE COMMODORE, 1945 1st edition, LORD HORNBLOWER, 1948 1st edition, HORNBLOWER AND THE 161 ATROPOS, 1953 1st edition, each original cloth, dust-wrapper (3)
C S FORESTER: THE COMMODORE, 1945 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper + ALAN HUNTER: GENTLY TO THE SUMMIT, 162 1961 1st edition, + ENID BLYTON: THE RIVER OF ADVENTURE, 1955 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper (3)
163 GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER: FLASHMAN, 1969 1st edition, original cloth silvered, dust-wrapper
COMPTON MACKENZIE: KEEP THE HOME GUARD TURNING, 1943 3rd impression, original cloth, dust-wrapper + FRITZ THYSSEN: 164 I PAID HITLER, 1941 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper + HANS SIEMSEN: HITLER YOUTH, translated Trevor & Phyllis Blewitt, 1941 2nd impression, original wraps, dust-wrapper
MARGARET MILLAR: ROSE'S LAST SUMMER, 1954 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper + ERNEST DUDLEY: MENACE FOR DR 165 MORELLE, A FURTHER ADVENTURE FROM HIS CASEBOOK, [1947] 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper + GEORGES SIMENON: 4 titles: MAIGRET AND THE WINE MERCHANT, 1971 1st UK edition, origina ...[more]
E PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM: CURIOUS HAPPENINGS TO THE ROOKE LEGATEES, A SERIES OF STORIES, London, Hodder & 166 Stoughton 1937 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper
DENNIS WHEATLEY: 5 titles: THE HAUNTING OF TOBY JUGG, [1948] 1st edition, TO THE DEVIL - A DAUGHTER, 1953 1st edition, 167 THE KA OF GIFFORD HILLARY, 1956 1st edition, THEY USED DARK FORCES, 1964 1st edition, THE IRISH WITCH, 1973 1st edition, each original cloth, dust-wrapper (5)
GIL NORTH: 4 titles: SERGEANT CLUFF STANDS FIRM, 1960 1st edition, SERGEANT CLUFF AND THE MADMEN, 1964 1st edition, 168 SERGEANT CLUFF AND THE DAY OF RECKONING, 1967 1st edition, SERGEANT CLUFF RINGS TRUE, 1972 1st edition, each original cloth, dust-wrapper (4)
ANTHONY ABBOT: THE MURDER OF THE NIGHTCLUB LADY, London, Collins for The Crime Club Ltd, 1932 1st edition, original 169 orange cloth
ALEXANDER BARON: THERE'S NO HOME, 1950 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper + STAN BARSTOW: THE WATCHERS ON 170 THE SHORE, 1966 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper + ANTHONY BURGESS: BEDS IN EAST, 1959 1st edition, original cloth worn + BRIAN MOORE: THE DOCTOR'S WIFE, 1976 1st UK edition ...[more]
FRANCIS CHARLES GRANVILLE EGERTON, EARL OF ELLESMERE "CHARLES GRANVILLE": MRS JOHN FOSTER BEING THE 171 PAPERS AND LETTERS OF JOHN FOSTER ESQ OF FOSTERTON, London, William Heinemann 1897 1st edition, 16pp adverts at end dated 1897, original blind stamped cloth gilt
E W SEMLYN-JONES & FRANK OWEN: RED RAINBOW, 1932 1st edition, 40pp adverts at end for Spring 1932, original cloth, dust- 172 wrapper (each vgc) PERCIVAL CHRISTOPHER WREN (EDITED): SOWING GLORY, THE MEMOIRS OF "MARY AMBREE", THE ENGLISH-WOMAN 173 LEGIONARY, London, John Murray, 1931 1st edition, 4pp adverts at end, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper (each vgc)
NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY, New York, Street & Smith, 1910-12, 5 issues Nos 684, 698, 737, 783 and 791, original pictorial wraps, 174 No 783 top wrap detached + NICK CARTER STORIES, New York, Street & Smith, 1914, No 101, original pictorial wraps (6)
JAMES PAYN: A CONFIDENTIAL AGENT, London, Chatto & Windus [ND], 32pp adverts at end dated July 1888, original pictorial 175 boards, v worn, inner joints weak + A O S: UPS AND DOWNS OF A BLUECOAT BOY..., London, Houlston & Sons [1876], 1st edition, coloured frontis, original cloth + K F HILL: A MYSTERIOU ...[more]
ANON: THE VOICE BY WIRE AND POST-CARD, ALL ABOUT THE TELEPHONE AND PHONOGRAPH, CONTAINING 176 DESCRIPTION OF BELL'S AND DOLBEAR'S TELEPHONES AND EDISON'S PHONOGRAPH..., London, Ward Lock & Co, [1878], 1st edition, adverts at front and end including 24pp catalogue, original pictorial boards worn
JOHN GALSWORTHY: 2 titles: THE FREELANDS, London, William Heinemann, 1915 1st edition, original green cloth, SAINT'S 177 PROGRESS, London, William Heinemann, 1919 1st edition, 6pp adverts at end, original red cloth (2)
RAY COSTELLOE: THE WORLD AT EIGHTEEN, London, T Fisher Unwin 1907 1st edition "Edition for America" label tipped in, original 178 cloth gilt
MARGARET EGERTON: THE TREAD OF TIME, 1937, 1939, 1st editions, 2 volumes, both signed and inscribed presentation copies, 179 uniform cloth backed boards (2)
OSCAR WILDE: DE PROFUNDIS, London, Methuen 1905 1st edition, 1st issue, 40pp adverts at end dated February 1905, original 180 cloth gilt
D H LAWRENCE: LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, Kawsar Press, circa 1950s, "Unexpurgated authorised edition", "The only original 181 edition published in Sweden", original card wraps, v worn
AGATHA CHRISTIE: 4 titles: THE HOLLOW, 1946 1st edition, original cloth worn, dust-wrapper, DEATH ON THE NILE, Crime Club 182 1960, reprint, original cloth, dust-wrapper, N OR M?, Crime Club 1963 reprint, POSTERN OF FATE, 1973 1st edition, original cloth + ANDREW GARVE: THE LONG SHORTCUT, 1968 1st editi ...[more]
D H LAWRENCE: LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER INCLUDING MY SKIRMISH WITH JOLLY ROGER, privately printed, 1930 "the 183 author's unabridged popular edition", 260pp, original blue cloth + RICHARD ALDINGTON: D H LAWRENCE, AN APPRECIATION, Penguin Books 1950 1st edition, original wraps + C H ROLPH (EDITED): THE TRI ...[more]
P G WODEHOUSE: 3 titles: WEEK-END WODEHOUSE, London, Herbert Jenkins [1939], 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper, 184 SERVICE WITH A SMILE, 1962 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, MY MAN JEEVES, London, George Newnes Ltd, circa 1919, early reprint, printed by Hazell Watson & Viney, 25 ...[more]
P G WODEHOUSE: 3 titles: LOUDER AND FUNNIER, 1932 1st edition, original cloth worn, facsimile dust-wrapper, COCKTAIL TIME, 185 1958 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, PLUM TIE, 1966 1st edition, original cloth silvered, dust-wrapper (3)
WILLIAM JAMIESON: MY DEAD SELF, London, Chatto & Windus, 1894 1st edition, 32pp adverts at end dated November 1893, 186 inscribed "To Alfred Hastings in memory of the author from his wife and family", original decorative cloth
HENRY CHRISTOPHER BAILEY: CALL MR FORTUNE, London, Methuen [1920] 1st edition, catalogue of adverts at end dated 187 27/6/19, original blue cloth JEROME K JEROME: 4 titles: THREE MEN IN A BOAT, 1889 1st edition, 1st issue, DIARY OF A PILGRIMAGE..., [1891], 1st edition, 188 NOVEL NOTES, 1893 1st edition, TOMMY & CO, 1904 1st edition, each original cloth (4)
RUDYARD KIPLING, LEWIS CARROLL, MAY KENDALL, CONSTANCE NADEN & OTHERS: TOMMY AND OTHER POEMS FOR 189 RECITATION, London, James Clarke 1895, 6th thousand, original pictorial wraps, worn inner joints split + RUDYARD KIPLING: 7 titles: THE SEVEN SEAS, 1896 1st edition, original cloth, CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS, ...[more]
HENRY WILLIAMSON: 2 titles: THE PHOENIX GENERATION, 1965 1st edition, A SOLITARY WAR, 1966 1st edition, each original 190 cloth, dust-wrapper + KEBLE HOWARD: "CHICOT" CALLING, WHEN ALL STATIONS HAVE CLOSED DOWN, 1925 1st edition, original cloth + PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR: THE VIOLINS OF ST-JACQUES, A TALE O ...[more]
ROBERT GRAVES: PROCEED SERGEANT LAMB, 1946 2nd edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper + LAURIE LEE: CIDER WITH 191 ROSIE, 1959 1st reprint, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper + ALBERT CAMUS: THE PLAGUE, 1959 5th impression, original cloth, dust- wrapper + EDNA O'BRIEN: GIRLS IN THEIR MARRIED BLISS, 1964 1s ...[more]
PACKET: 30+ assorted dust-wrappers, mixed condition including DENNIS WHEATLEY: THE FORBIDDEN TERRITORY, pub 192 Hutchinson, worn etc
193 PACKET 30+ assorted dust-wrappers, all Victor Gollancz detection and thriller titles
J P HEMM: SPECIMENS OF PENMANSHIP, [1830], engraved title page + 9 engraved specimen plates, oblong folio, rebound cloth, 194 printed paper label to top board together with two other manuscript pen and ink books displaying copper-plate handwriting, SPECIMENS OF WRITING BY B MOORE AT MADDERMARKET ACADEMY ...[more]
HUDSON MAXIM (PUBLISHED): REAL PENWORK, SELF INSTRUCTOR IN PENMANSHIP, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, [1881], oblong, 195 original cloth backed decorative boards worn
GRAILY HEWITT: THE NEW ART LIBRARY LETTERING FOR STUDENTS AND CRAFTSMEN, London, Seeley Service & Co Ltd 196 1930, limited edition (380), de-luxe signed and numbered, tipped in frontispiece + 383 illustrations, some tipped in + two plates printers initials as called for, original cloth gilt
HENRY MAYO BATEMAN: COLONELS, 1925 1st edition, coloured frontispiece plus black and white illustrations as called for, quarto, 197 original pictorial paper covered boards, dust-wrapper
ARISTOPHANES: THE FROGS, translated William James Hickie, wood engravings throughout by John Austen, Limited Editions Club 198 1937, limited edition (1500), numbered and signed John Austen, folio, original pictorial cloth loosely inserted, in original paper covered boards folder worn + PEYTON SKIPWITH: ...[more]
MARIE CORELLI: THE DEVIL'S MOTOR, illustrated Arthur Severn, London, Hodder & Stoughton [1910], 6 tipped in coloured plates as 199 called for, leaves with smoky smell as issued, leaves dry and brittle, the majority with repairs, tears and part losses etc (A/F), quarto, original decorative half vellum gi ...[more]
ABU HAMID AL GHAZZALI: THE ATTRIBUTES OF DIVINE PERFECTION..., Jeddah Xenel Industries Ltd 1989, original decorative 200 cloth gilt, original solander box gilt
F J HARVEY DARTON: TALES OF THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS RETOLD FROM CHAUCER AND OTHERS, illustrated Hugh 201 Thomson, London, Wells Gardner Darton & Co, 1906, original decorative cloth gilt (bright), lacks front end paper + EARLY POEMS OF WILLIAM MORRIS, illustrated Florence Harrison, London 1914 1st editio ...[more]
THE SISTER NIVEDITA (MARGARET E NOBLE) AND ANANDA K COOMARASWAMY: MYTHS OF THE HINDUS AND BUDDHISTS, 202 illustrated Abanindro Nath Tagore, London 1913, 1st edition, 32 coloured plates as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt OLIVER GOLDSMITH: THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, illustrated V A Poirson, London, John C Nimmo, 1886, 114 coloured illustrations 203 as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt
JACK LONDON: THE CALL OF THE WILD, illustrated Paul Bransom, London, William Heinemann, 1915, 16 coloured plates as called 204 for, original pictorial cloth gilt
JONATHAN MAYNE: BARNET FREEDMAN, New York [1948], original cloth + four other Freedman related items comprising WALTER 205 DE LA MARE: 2 titles: THE WIND BLOWS OVER, London, 1936 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper, EARLY ONE MORNING, London, 1946 5th impression, original cloth, dust-wrapper + JAM ...[more]
WALTER DE LA MARE: 12 titles: THE BURNING GLASS AND OTHER POEMS, 1945 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper, 206 PEACOCK PIE, 1941 1st Faber & Faber edition, illustrated by Emett, original cloth, BELLS AND GRASS, 1941 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper, THE WIND BLOWS OVER, 1936 1st edition, ...[more]
[WILHELM BUSCH] "PROFESSOR WOLLEY COBBLE": WALK-UP! WALK-UP! AND SEE THE FOOL'S PARADISE OF THE MANY 207 WONDERFUL ADVENTURES THERE AS SEEN A STRANGE SURPRISING PEEPSHOW OF PROFESSOR WOLLEY COBBLE, London, John Camden Hotten [1871], illustrated with coloured caricatures throughout, quarto, original deco ...[more]
CURRY FURNISS: P & O SKETCHES IN PEN AND INK, London, Studio of Design and Illustration circa 1900, oblong, original pictorial 208 cloth gilt
[CHARLES ALBERT D'ARNOUX] "BERTALL": THE COMMUNISTS OF PARIS 1871..., Paris, Buckingham & Co [1874], 40 hand 209 coloured plates as called for, folio, original cloth + HISTORIQUE DES MAGASINS DU BON MARCHE PARIS, Tours, Mame, circa 1907, 48pp text + 31pp street index and folding plan of Paris at end, or ...[more]
ARTHUR WRAGG: SEVEN WORDS, London and Toronto, William Heinemann Ltd, 1939 1st edition, 8 black and white plates as called 210 for, oblong, original cloth, dust-wrapper + CLARE LEIGHTON: THE FARMER'S YEAR, A CALENDAR OF ENGLISH HUSBANDRY, The Sumach Press 1992 reissue, 12 full page illustrations as call ...[more]
KEITH HENDERSON: BURNS - BY HIMSELF..., London, Methuen, 1938 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, illustrations and 211 dust-wrapper design by Keith Henderson
REX WHISTLER: THE KONIGSMARK DRAWINGS, London, Richards Press, 1952 limited edition (950) numbered, 10 tipped in plates 212 plus one tipped in illustration in text as called for, large quarto, original cloth gilt worn, part of dust-wrapper (A/F) loosely inserted + WALTER DE LA MARE AND PAMELA BIANCO: FL ...[more]
HENRY RICHARD VASSALL-FOX, 3RD BARON HOLLAND: EVE'S LEGEND, illustrated Hester Sainsbury, London, Etchells & 213 MacDonald 1928 limited edition (300) numbered, wood engravings as called for, quarto, original decorative paper covered boards worn, printed label to spine, original slip-case worn, pictorial ...[more]
WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF GWEN RAVERAT, illustrated Reynolds Stone, London, Faber & Faber 1959 1st edition, quarto, rebound 214 cloth backed boards, together with WILL H OGILVIE: OVER THE GRASS, illustrated Lionel Edwards, 1925 1st edition, original cloth gilt (2)
A VIRGIL: THE GEORGICS OF, translated R D Blackmore, illustrated Edward Carrick, London, George W Jones 1931 limited edition 214A (500), out of series, signed and inscribed by Jones to Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth (1869-1948), quarto, original vellum backed boards gilt, glassine, dust-wrapper, ...[more]
JOHN MASEFIELD: BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS, 1910 1st edition, original cloth gilt, A BOOK OF DISCOVERIES, illustrated 215 Gordon Browne, London, Wells Gardener Darton & Co, 1910, original pictorial cloth gilt + MELLONEY HOLTSPUR 1922 limited edition (530) signed and numbered, original boards gilt, JIM DAVI ...[more] JOHN MASEFIELD: THE TRIAL OF JESUS, London, William Heinemann 1925, limited edition, (530), signed and numbered, original 216 boards
FREDERICK KEELING SCOTT: VERSE, Brighton, J Beal & Son circa 1946, signed, old cloth backed boards plus WALTER DE LA 217 MARE: POETRY IN PROSE, London, Humphrey Milford 1935, signed and inscribed to George Rostrevor Hamilton (1888-1967) "To GRH from W de M Christmas 1936", original wraps very worn (2)
JOHN BETJEMAN: SLICK BUT NOT STREAMLINED, Edited W H Auden, New York, Doubleday & Co 1947 Galley Proof, original 218 wraps
SAMUEL THOMAS DAVIES: ODDFELLOWSHIP, ITS HISTORY, CONSTITUTION, PRINCIPLES AND FINANCES, Witham 1858 1st 219 edition, with the original manuscript bound in, author's copy with his bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary half green morocco gilt, 2 copies only on COPAC
EDITH E CUTHELL: A BAIREUTH PILGRIMAGE [A NOVEL], London, Sampson Lowe, Marston & Company, 1894, 1st edition, 2 220 volumes, contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, library labels tipped in on front end papers, no other library markings (2)
WALTER STEPHENS: MYSTERY, A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS, London, Head, Hole & Co, Printer [1873?], printed for private circulation, 221 inscribed presentation copy to [Sir] Julian Goldsmid (1838-1896) with his library label on front pastedown, contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, one copy only on ...[more]
[GEORGE DALZIEL]: ONLY A FLOWER GIRL - WHO LIVED THERE, London, "Fun" Office, [1887], two works in one, both works 222 signed, 1st work signed twice, original pictorial top wraps pasted in, contemporary grained morocco gilt worn
CLAUD WARREN: THE CAUSE OF PROSTITUTION IN THE FORM OF A BOTANICAL STUDY OF THE FINE OLD "FAMILY TREE", 223 UPAS PROSTITUTIONAS, A "PAPER" READ BEFORE THE DIALECTICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, London, Claud Warren 1st edition, signed on top wrap "With the author's compliments asking a review", original printed ...[more]
COLLECTION CELTIC CROSS PRESS TITLES (PUBLISHED) INCLUDING GEORGE MACKAY BROWN, 3 titles: THE SON OF THE 224 FISHERMAN, 2002, limited edition (165), signed by the artist and numbered, original two tone cloth gilt with separate associated pamphlet loosely inserted; THE LOST VILLAGE, 1992, limited edition ...[more]
JOHN ERSKINE: PETER KILLS THE BEAR, London, 1930, limited edition (530) signed and numbered, original cloth backed boards 225 plus JEAN RHODES ZIVKOVIC: SEEDS OF THE POMEGRANATE DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS POETRY AND PROSE, Oxford 1993, 1st edition, signed, tipped in coloured plates as called for, original p ...[more]
226 C S LEWIS: THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, London, Geoffrey Bles 1942, 1st edition, original cloth, printed paper label to spine
227 ANTONY POWELL: FROM A VIEW TO A DEATH, London, Duckworth 1933, 1st edition, original cloth gilt worn
228 BRAM STOKER: DRACULA, London, William Ryder 1921, 14th edition, original decorative cloth
GEOFFREY MORGAN, 4 titles: A SMALL PIECE OF PARADISE, 1967; A TOUCH OF MAGIC, 1968; A WINDOW OF SKY, 1969; THE 229 VIEW FROM PROSPECT, 1972, each 1st edition, each signed and inscribed, each original cloth, dust wrapper (4)
SIR JOHN "JACKIE" SMYTH: THE WILL TO LIVE THE STORY OF DAME MARGOT TURNER DBE RRC, London 1970, 1st edition, 230 signed and inscribed by author to front end paper with autographed letter signed loosely inserted, together with original photograph of Dame Margot Turner 1975 and relevant news cuttings loos ...[more] 231 STELLA GIBBONS: NIGHTINGALE WOOD, 1939 re-issue, signed and inscribed to front end paper, original cloth very worn
DENNIS WHEATLEY, 7 titles: UNCHARTED SEAS A NOVEL, London [1938], 1st edition, signed and inscribed to title page, original 232 cloth very worn, back strip near detached; FAKED PASSPORTS, [1940], 1st edition, signed and inscribed, original cloth worn; THE SCARLET IMPOSTOR [1940], 1st edition, signed and ...[more]
[RICHARD BERNARD HELDMANN] "RICHARD MARSH", 4 titles: THE CRIME AND THE CRIMINAL, London, Ward Locke [1897], 1st 233 edition, 2 black and white plates as called for, original cloth gilt; TOM OSSINGTON'S GHOST, illustrated Harold Piffard, London, James Bowden, [1898], 1st edition, original pictorial clot ...[more]
JOHN FOWLES: THE COLLECTOR, Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1963 advance proof copy of US 1st edition, one of a run of 500 copies, 234 original printed brown card wraps
235 AGATHA CHRISTIE: FIVE LITTLE PIGS, 1942 1st edition, original cloth worn and soiled, dust wrapper (worn)
HENRY NEWBOLT: ALADORE, William Blackwood & Sons, 1914 1st edition, signed and inscribed to front end paper, limited edition 235A (150) numbered, original full vellum, top edge gilt
SAMUEL BECKETT: WAITING FOR GODOT, London, Faber & Faber 1956 1st edition, tipped in publisher's note, variant binding with 236 1955 to rear board, original decorative cloth, dust wrapperPLEASE NOTE:Variant Binding or possibly a well executed private rebind? Decorative brown cloth gilt with 1955 d ...[more]
237 LORD DUNSANY: THE CHAIRWOMAN'S SHADOW, 1926 1st edition, signed to front end paper, original cloth gilt worn
HENRY HOLT: CALLING ALL CARS, 1934 1st edition, original cloth plus JOAN COCKIN: CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT, 1947 1st 238 edition, original cloth, dust wrapper plus PATRICK HAMILTON: THE SLAVES OF SOLITUDE, 1947 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper plus FRANCIS DURHAM GRIERSON: THE ACREFIELD MYSTERY, ...[more]
CECIL BISHOP, 2 titles: ADVENTURES OF R A H FOO, THE CHINESE SHERLOCK HOLMES, London, Mitre Press [1943], 1st 239 edition, original pictorial wraps; CRIME AND THE UNDERWORLD, London, The Mitre Press [1944], 1st edition, original pictorial wraps plus JUSTIN ATHOLL: THE TRACKLESS THING, [1944], 1st editio ...[more]
AGATHA CHRISTIE, 4 titles: CRICKET HOUSE, 1949 1st edition; THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD, 1951 1st edition; EVIL UNDER THE 240 SUN, 1941, 1st edition; MY COUSIN RACHAEL, 1951 1st edition, each original cloth plus P G WODEHOUSE: THE CLICKING OF CUTHBERT, Herbert Jenkins 1922 1st edition, original cloth plus DAPH ...[more]
W SOMERSET MAUGHAM, 5 titles: THE MIXTURE AS BEFORE, 1940 1st edition; COSMOPOLITANS, 1936, 1st edition; ASHENDEN 241 OR THE BRITISH AGENT, 1928 new impression; CAKES AND ALE OR THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD, 1930 1st edition; DON FERNANDO OR VARIATIONS ON SOME SPANISH THEMES, 1935 1st edition, each orig ...[more]
WYNDHAM LEWIS, 3 titles: THE DEMON OF PROGRESS IN THE ARTS, 1954 1st edition; SELF-CONDEMNED, 1954 1st edition; 242 THE LION AND THE FOX, 1927 1st edition, each original cloth (3)
PETER ROBINSON, 13 titles: ABATTOIR BLUES; CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION; WATCHING THE DARK; BAD BOY; THE 243 PRICE OF LOVE; FRIEND OF THE DEVIL; PIECE OF MY HEART; 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, each published Hodder & Stoughton, each 1st edition; STRANGE AFFAIR; NOT SAFE AFTER DARK; PLAYING WI ...[more]
LLEWELYN POWYS: THE VERDICT OF BRIDLEUSE, 1927 limited edition, (900) numbered, original two tone cloth, dust wrapper plus 244 WILLIAM HUNTER: THE NOVELS AND STORIES OF T F POWYS, 1977, 2nd edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (2) PETER LOVESEY: THE LAST DETECTIVE, London, Scorpion Press [1991], limited edition (99) signed and numbered, original quarter 245 calf, original acetate, dust wrapper plus P D JAMES, 2 titles: THE BLACK TOWER, 1975, 1st edition; DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS, 1977 1st edition, each original cloth, dust wrap ...[more]
JEROME K JEROME: THREE MEN IN A BOAT, 1889, 1st edition, 1st issue, "Quay Street", original cloth gilt plus JOHN BETJEMAN: 246 GHASTLY GOOD TASTE OR A DEPRESSING STORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE, London, Chapman & Hall, 1933 1st edition, 1st issue, folding plate as called for, errata s ...[more]
RUDYARD KIPLING, 9 titles: THE JUNGLE BOOK, 1896 5th printing, original pictorial cloth gilt worn; DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND 247 OTHER VERSES, Calcutta 1892, 7th edition, original pictorial cloth gilt; KIM, 1901 reprint, original cloth worn; WEE WILLIE WINKIE AND OTHER STORIES, Allahabad and London, circ ...[more]
248 FUN AND FICTION, London, Fleetway House 1913, Nos 65-116 in 2 volumes complete run, original wraps, quarto, later cloth (2)
JACK LONDON, 4 titles: THE CALL OF THE WILD, 1903 August reprint, original pictorial cloth gilt; THE FAITH OF MEN, 1904 1st 249 edition, original decorative cloth gilt; BEFORE ADAM, 1907 1st edition, MacMillan's Colonial Library, original pictorial cloth; JERRY OF THE ISLANDS, 1917, 1st edition, origina ...[more]
JOHN RUSKIN: THE ETHICS OF THE DUST, TEN LECTURES TO LITTLE HOUSEWIVES ON THE ELEMENTS OF 250 CRYSTALLISATION, London, Smith Elder & Co 1866 1st edition, inscribed presentation copy to [Sarah] Angelina Acland (1849-1930) "With the old lecturer's love Christmas 1865" with her armorial bookplate on front ...[more]
JOHN TAYLOR: MONSIEUR TONSON, illustrated Robert Cruikshank, Londonm Marsh & Miller 1830, 1st Cruikshank edition, 3pp 251 adverts at end, duo decimo, original wraps soiled plus HORACE SMITH: PILATE'S WIFE'S DREAM AND OTHER POEMS, Cambridge and London 1860, 1st edition, duo decimo, crimson morocco gilt w ...[more]
CHARLES J ROLLO: WINGATE'S RAIDERS, London 1945, new edition revised and enlarged, signed and inscribed by Lorna Wingate 252 to James Robertson Justice (1907-1975) plus typed letter signed from Orde Wingate to Justice dated 10th November 1943 "... I have been lying on my back for seven weeks with a seve ...[more]
COLLECTION TONY BENN (1925-2014) SIGNED TITLES including ARGUMENTS FOR SOCIALISM, 1979 1st edition, signed, original 253 cloth gilt, dust wrapper; AGENDA FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY - A FUTURE FOR SOCIALISM, Fount Paperbacks 1991 1st edition, signed and inscribed to title page, original wraps; FIGHTING ...[more]
254 ANTHONY EDEN: ANOTHER WORLD 1897-1917, 1976 1st edition, signed and inscribed, original cloth silvered, dust wrapper
MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES: MORE GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY, London, Edward Arnold 1911 1st edition, 2nd issue, 255 2pp adverts at end, original cloth recased, new end papers
E H CRAGG: ALMACK, THE DETECTIVE, [London, 1886] 1st edition, title page and final page browned, original decorative cloth worn 256 and soiled, spine darkened plus E PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM: THE PEER AND THE WOMAN, London, Ward Locke 1895 1st edition, title page with some tears not affecting text, original c ...[more]
"SIR FRETFUL MURMUR, KNT": MORE MISERIES !! ADDRESSED TO THE MORBID, THE MELANCHOLY, AND THE IRRITABLE, 257 London for H D Symonds & Mathews & Leigh 1806, hand coloured folding frontis, duo decimo original boards, spine worn with remnants of printed label
JANE AUSTEN: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, London, Grant Richards 1898, 2 volumes, "The Novels of Jane Austen Winchester Edition" 258 volumes 1 and 2 (of 12) only, portrait frontis to volume 1 as called for, uniform original green cloth gilt, spines browned, top edges gilt (2) CHARLOTTE, EMILY AND ANNE BRONTE: THE WORKS ..., London, J M Dent & Co, 1893-1996, volumes 1 and 2; JANE EYRE, 259 1896 1st edition in this form, volumes 3 and 4; SHIRLEY, 1896, 1st edition in this form, volumes 5 and 6; VILLETTE, 1895 2nd edition in this form, volume 7; THE PROFESSOR, 1895 2nd edition ...[more]
CHARLES DICKENS: LITTLE DORRIT, illustrated H K Browne, London, Bradbury & Evans 1857, 1st edition in book form, engraved 260 frontispiece, added engraved title page plus 38 engraved plates as called for, original cloth gilt
CHARLES DICKENS: THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, illustrated R Seymour and Phiz, London, Chapman & 261 Hall, 1837 1st edition in book form, 1st issue, 43 engraved plates as called for, added engraved title page with "Tony Veller" on signed board, engraved frontispiece door with four vertical ...[more]
CHARLES DICKENS: MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, London, Chapman & Hall, 1840-1841 1st edition in book form, volume 1 lacks 262 all before preface, volume 3 lacks all before page 3, contemporary half calf gilt very worn (A/F) (3)
CHARLES DICKENS: LITTLE DORRIT, illustrated H K Browne, London, Bradbury & Evans 1857, 1st edition in book form, engraved 263 frontis, added engraved title plus 38 engraved plates as called for, contemporary half calf very worn, back strip near detached, lower board detached but present plus CHARLES DIC ...[more]
CHARLES DICKENS: THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH A FAIRY TALE OF HOME, London, Bradbury & Evans, 1846, 1st edition 1st 264 issue, engraved frontispiece, added engraved title plus 12 engraved illustrations in text as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked, original back strip retained
CHARLES DICKENS: THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS - A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE CHIMES A GOBLIN STORY ... - THE CRICKET ON 265 THE HEARTH - THE BATTLE OF LIFE A LOVE STORY - THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN ...; A CHRISTMAS CAROL, 1855 13th edition, original decorative cloth gilt rebacked, inner joints reinforce ...[more]
T E LAWRENCE: ORIENTAL ASSEMBLY, 1939 1st edition, original cloth gilt, plus J P FERRIER: CARAVAN JOURNEYS AND 266 WANDERINGS IN PERSIA, AFGHANISTAN, TURKISTAN AND BELOOCHISTAN ..., Karachi 1976, facsimile reprint of the original edition 1st published 1857, original cloth (2)
GEORGE FARQUHAR: THE RECRUITING OFFICER A COMEDY, London for Bernard Lintott 1714, 5th edition, engraved frontispiece, 267 old half calf gilt plus [DANIEL MERDANT]: THE ABDICATION OF FERDINAND; OR, NAPOLEON AT BAYONNE; AN HISTORICAL PLAY IN FIVE ACTS, London 1809, 1st edition, rebound modern cloth plus ...[more]
SAMUEL L CLEMENS "MARK TWAIN" (EDITED): PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC BY THE SIEUR LOUIS DE 268 CONTE ..., London, 1896, 1st UK edition, original cloth gilt worn plus FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT: THROUGH ONE ADMINISTRATION, London 1883, 1st edition, 3 volumes in 2, uniform quarter calf gilt worn (3)
S C HALL: THE TRIAL OF SIR JASPER: A TEMPERANCE TALE, IN VERSE, London circa 1873, signed and inscribed to front end 269 paper and further signed with tipped in photograph verso free front end paper, 25 full page plates as called for, original decorative cloth gilt
270 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: THE COURTIN', ill Winslow Homer, Boston 1874, 7 heliotype plts as list, original pict cl gt worn
HENRY JAMES, 3 TITLES: THE MIDDLE YEARS, London 1917, 1st edition, original cloth gilt; EMBARRASSMENTS ..., London 1896 271 1st edition, 32pp publisher's ads at end, old quarter calf gilt worn; NOTES OF A SON AND BROTHER, London 1914 1st edition, port frontis, original cloth gilt (3)
ELLEN TERRY: THE STORY OF MY LIFE, 1908, 1st edition, 4 photogravure plates plus 77 other illustrations as called for, real 272 photographic postcard of Ellen Terry corner mounted to front pastedown, original cloth gilt plus MY DOUBLE LIFE MEMOIRS OF SARAH BERNHARDT, London, William Heinemann 1907 1st e ...[more] CHARLES HEATH: BEAUTIES OF THE OPERA AND BALLET ILLUSTRATED WITH TEN HIGHLY FINISHED PORTRAITS 273 ENGRAVED ON STEEL AND NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD ..., London, David Bogue [1844], 10 full page steel engraved plates as called for, original decorative blind stamped cloth gilt
GEORGE BORROW: LAVENGRO ..., London, John Murray 1851 1st edition, 3 volumes, portrait frontispiece, half titles, volume 1 32pp 274 adverts at end dated February 1851, volume 2 32pp adverts at end dated January 1851, original cloth printed paper labels worn, inner joints weak, volume 3 some splitting to ...[more]
ELIZABETH GASKELL: CRANFORD, illustrated Hugh Thompson, London, McMillan & Co, 1891, original cloth, printed paper label to 275 spine
276 PACKET: 7 erotic bookplates, 6 by Mark Severin and 1 by John Buckland-Wright, very good condition (7)
JULIAN ROBINSON (Pseudonym "Viscount Ladywood"): WEIBER HERRSCHAFT DIE GESCHICHTE DER KORPER LICHEN UND 277 DER SEELISCHEN ERLEIBNISSE, ill Karl Maria Diez, Leipzig, privately printed 1909, limited edn (650), 3 vols, 6 plts complete, cont dec limp leath gt (3)
[THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON]: THE LETTER BAG OF THE GREAT WESTERN, OR LIFT IN A STEAMER, London, Richard 278 Bentley 1840, 1st edition, advert slip tipped in, original blind stamped cloth gilt
W H WATTS [REPORTER FOR THE MORNING HERALD]: LONDON LIFE AT THE POLICE-COURTS, London, Ward & Locke, 1864 279 1st edition, rebound (not recent) cloth gilt plus J EWING RITCHIE: THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON, Tinsley Bros 1861, 3rd edition revised, original blind stamped cloth gilt (2)
ALBERT SMITH: THE PHYSIOLOGY OF EVENING PARTIES, illustrated J Leech, Richard Bentley 1846, new edition, wood engraved 280 frontis plus 38 text illustrations, duo decimo original printed boards, rebacked
EYRE AND WILLIAMS INDISPUTABLE CAB FARE INDICATOR, OR THE HACKNEY CARRIAGE ACT MADE EASY ..., London 281 [1854], corrected edition, 16mo original printed boards rebacked
ANTHONY TROLLOPE: THE CHRONICLES OF BARSETSHIRE, London, The Zodiac Press, 1949 2nd impression, 1949 2nd 282 impression, 1949 2nd impression, 1950 2nd impression, 1950 2nd impression, 1949 1st edition in this form, 6 volumes, each uniform original decorative cloth, volumes 1-5 original acetate wrappers, ...[more]
ANDRE MAUROIS: LES SILENCES DU COLONEL BRAMBLE, ill Berthomme Saint-Andre, Paris, Editions de la Maison Francaise 283 [1949], ltd edn, (800), (470), 20 plts complete, original card wraps d/w, glassine d/w, ptd folder, original s-c
WILLIAM GODWIN: CALEB WILLIAMS, London, Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831, 1st issue in the "Standard Novels", engraved 284 frontispiece, added engraved vignette title, some worm damage mainly affecting margin, rebound cloth worn plus J S LE FANU: UNCLE SILAS A TALE OF BARTRAM-HAUGH, London, Richard ...[more]
285 [OSCAR WILDE] "C33": THE BALLED OF READING GAOL, London, Leonard Smithers, 1898, 4th edition, original two tone cloth
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: THE POETICAL WORKS - THE PROSE WORKS, Edited Harry Buxton Forman, London, Reeves & 286 Turner 1876-77, 1880 1st edition, 4 volumes, 4 volumes, all plates and facsimiles present, original pictorial cloth gilt, volume 1 of poetical works with ownership signature of William Michael Ro ...[more]
THE REVEREND GEORGE CRABBE, 2 titles: POEMS, 1807 1st edition; TALES OF THE HALL, 1819, 1st edition 2 volumes, uniform 287 rebound cloth, morocco labels to spines (3) VICTOR HUGO: HERNANI, translated R Farquharson Sharp, London, Grant Richards 1898, original boards very worn, printed paper 288 label to spine plus CARLO GOLDONI: FOUR COMEDIES, Edited Clifford Bax, The Curwen Press for Cecil Palmer 1922, limited edition (500) signed by the publisher and numbered, origi ...[more]
CHARLES WILLIAMS: THE HOUSE OF THE OCTOPUS, London, 1945 1st edition, signed and inscribed by Edith Williams the author's 289 sister to front end paper plus two page typed obituary from the bookseller (by Gerard Hopkins) tipped in at front, original cloth, dust wrapper plus CHARLES WILLIAMS: THREE PLAYS ...[more]
(COLLECTION RICHARD DOYLE ILLUSTRATED TITLES) LEIGH HUNT: A JAR OF HONEY FROM MOUNT HYBLA, London 1857 290 new edition plus E H KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN: HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY OR STORIES FOR EVERYBODY AND EVERYBODY'S CHILDREN, 1875 1st edition, 8 engraved illustrations by Richard Doyle as called for, original pi ...[more]
COLLECTION [ALFRED HENRY FORRESTER] "ALFRED CROWQUILL", illustrated titles including THE CROWQUILL NUMBER ONE, 291 stitched booklet of original pen and ink manuscript sketches by Forrester containing six full page original sketches circa 1860 plus K R H MACKENZIE: THE MARVELLOUS ADVENTURES AND RARE CONC ...[more]
KENNETH R H MACKENZIE: THE MARVELLOUS ADVENTURES AND RARE CONCEITS OF MASTER TYLL OWLGLASS, illustrated 292 Alfred Crowquill, London, 1860, 1st edition, autograph letter by Crowquill to Thomas Gaspey (1788-1871) tipped in at front "My dear Gaspey, my lumbergo (sic) has kept me in this state since I saw ...[more]
COLLECTION VERILY ANDERSON, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, signed titles etc including folder containing approximately 10 293 autographed postcards, signed autographed letters signed, typed letters signed etc, the recipient of several Bryan Hall, late of Banningham Rectory, Norfolk + SPAM TOMORROW, 1956 1st ...[more]
ALLAN JOBSON, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED dated November 15 1953 to Bryan Hall + five printed Christmas/Greetings/New 294 Year greetings cards from Mr & Mrs Allan Jobson, circa 1950s/1960s + DUNWICH STORY, The Southwold Press 1951, signed original wraps, SUFFOLK YESTERDAYS, 1945 2nd impression, original clo ...[more]
HENRY JAMES: TALES OF THREE CITIES, London 1884, 1st edition, 2pp adverts at end, crushed crimson morocco gilt, inner 295 dentelles gilt by The French Binders, Garden City, NY, top board with gilt ownership stamp of Harrison Williams, top edge gilt + THEODORE FRANCIS POWYS: MARK ONLY, London 1924, 1st e ...[more]
[SIR THEODORE MARTIN & WILLIAM EDMONDSTONE]: THE BOOK OF BALLADS, illustrated A H Forrester, "Alfred Crowquill", John 296 Leech and Richard Doyle, London [1849], new edition with several new ballads, frontis, added chromolitho title, 8pp adverts at end, 16mo, original blind stamped pictorial cloth gilt, ...[more]
PETER CHEYNEY: 8 titles: SINISTER ERRAND, 1945 1st edition; UNEASY TERMS, 1946 1st edition; DARK HERO, 1946 1st edition; 297 TRY ANYTHING TWICE, 1948 1st edition; NO ORDINARY CHEYNEY, 1948 1st edition; ONE OF THOSE THINGS, 1949 1st edition; LADY, BEHAVE!,1950 1st edition; LADIES WON'T WAIT, 1951 1st edi ...[more]
DICK FRANCIS: RISK, London 1977, 1st edition, signed with a lengthy inscription dated 11th September 1977 to Martin Tickner (1941- 298 1992) "... my last night's effort for you at Drury Lane was my first attempt on the stage...", original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper (fine/near fine condition)
HENRY JAMES, 4 titles: THE SOFT SIDE, London, Methuen & Co, 1900, 1st edition, catalogue adverts at end dated October 1900, 299 original cloth gilt worn; THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1902, 1st edition, original cloth gilt; THE BETTER SORT, London, Methuen & Co, 1903, ...[more]
CHARLES TENNYSON [TURNER]: SONNETS AND FUGITIVE PIECES, Cambridge, B Bridges 1830 1st edition, 2nd issue, dedication 300 leaf headed "To my sister Mary" with author's ? inscription "Afterwards Mrs Alan Kerr", two ownership inscriptions of Allan Park Paton, duo-decimo, original green cloth worn, lacks pa ...[more] P G WODEHOUSE: 5 titles: MY MAN JEEVES, London, George Newnes circa 1920 reprint; THE INIMITABLE JEEVES, London, 301 Herbert Jenkins 1923 1st edition; CARRY ON JEEVES, London, Herbert Jenkins 1925 1st edition (green cloth); VERY GOOD, JEEVES, London, Herbert Jenkins 1930 1st edition; THE CODE OF THE WOO ...[more]
C H LAY: 7 titles: APRIL'S FOAL, The Red Lion Press, 1932, limited edition (59), numbered, original boards, printed paper label to top 302 board, glassine, dust-wrapper, SAMPLES, The Red Lion Press, 1934, 1st edition, original limp leather gilt, original spider's web effect glassine, dust-wrapper, "HA A ...[more]
ALBERT HUNT: "ABIDE WITH ME", THE HYMN OF CHRISTENDOM, illustrated Will Owen, Bradford, Clegg & Son [1947] 1st edition, 303 autograph letter signed to Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth tipped onto front paste down, original wraps, browned, one copy only on COPAC
[JOHN BECHERVAISE] "THE OLD QUARTERMASTER": A FAREWELL TO MY OLD SHIPMATES AND MESSMATES, WITH SOME 304 EXAMPLES AND A FEW HINTS OF ADVICE, Portsea, W Woodward, 1847 1st edition, original cloth gilt worn, losses to backstrip, inner joints weak, armorial book plate of F L Campbell to front paste down
GEORGE GORDON LORD BYRON: 2 titles: ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS, A SATIRE, London for James Cawthorn 305 1810, 3rd edition, half title, 3pp adverts at end, text block weak, contemporary drab boards rebacked (not recent), THE BRIDE OF AVYDOS, A TURKISH TALE, London for John Murray 1815, 11th editi ...[more]
SUSAN EDMONDSTONE FERRIER: THE NOVELS..., London, J M Dent & Co, 1894, volumes 3-6 (of 6) including THE INHERITANCE, 306 volumes 1 and 2 and DESTINY, volumes 1 and 2, original uniform cloth gilt + [D M M CRAIK]: OUR YEAR, A CHILD'S BOOK IN PROSE AND VERSE, London, 1881, original cloth gilt, (5)
S R CROCKETT: 8 titles: THE MOSS TROOPERS, 1912 1st edition, THE FIRE BRAND, 1901 1st edition, THE WHITE PLUMES OF 307 NAVARRE, 1906 3rd impression, LOCHINVAR, 1897 1st edition, THE LILAC SUNBONNET, 1894 2nd edition, A BANNER OF BLUE, 1903 1st edition, THE MEN OF THE MOSS HAGS, 1895 1st edition, THE STA ...[more]
WILLIAM STUBBS: SELECT CHARTERS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY FROM THE 308 EARLIEST TIMES TO THE REIGN OF EDWARD THE FIRST, Oxford, 1913 9th edition revised throughout by H W C Davies, copy of Leslie Poles-Hartley (1895-1972) with his ownership signature to front end paper an ...[more]
VOLTAIRE: CANDIDE, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1979, original quarter calf gilt, all edges gilt + F SCOTT-FITZGERALD: THE 309 GREAT GATSBY, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1982, original quarter calf gilt, all edges gilt + HERMAN MELVILLE: MOBY DICK; OR, THE WHALE, Norwalk, The Eastern Press ...[more]
THE REV E GILLIAT: IN LINCOLN GREEN, A MERRIE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD, London 1897, original decorative cloth gilt + THE 310 REV ROBERT ARIS WILLMOTT: SUMMERTIME IN THE COUNTRY, illustrated Birkett Foster, Harrison Weir & John Carrick, London, 1880, original decorative cloth gilt + THE FABLES OF AESOP, illus ...[more]
LORD WARKWORTH [HENRY PERCY, EARL PERCY (1871-1909)] : BROKEN LIGHTS, London, Edward Arnold 1899, printed for 312 private circulation, signed and inscribed verso front end paper, manuscript poetry by the author tipped in at front on Kielder Castle headed paper, original cloth gilt + ARCHER'S HYMNS ILLUS ...[more]
MARGERY ELLINGHAM: DANCERS IN MOURNING, London, William Heinemann 1937 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper 313 (slightly trimmed at top and bottom edge),
313A HARRIET AINSWORTH: CONSIDER THE LILIES, London, Hodder & Stoughton 1955 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper (worn),
314 ANTHONY TROLLOPE: CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?, Leipzig 1865 1st Tauchnitz edition, 3 volumes, original printed wraps worn (3) FANNY BURNEY: CECILIA OR MEMOIRS OF AN HEIRESS, Chiswick, T Wickham 1823, 3 volumes, original dilapidated printed 315 boards, very worn and soiled, (3)
[JOHN NEWBERRY]: A NEW HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE INVASION OF JULIUS CAESAR, TO THE PRESENT TIME..., 316 Gainsborough by and for H Mozley, 1811, wood engraved frontis + 32 wood engraved illustrations in text, 16mo, original Rowan backed boards + OLIVER GOLDSMITH: SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, circa 1912, 16mo ...[more]
317 ONE BOX: CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL, 20+ numbers, circa 1899-1930s, original printed wraps
ANTHONY HOPE: SOPHY OF KRAVONIA, Bristol, J W Arrowsmith, 1906, original cloth gilt + A W MASON: RUNNING WATER, 318 London, 1907 1st edition, original cloth gilt + collection approx 18 RUPERT LITTLE BEAR LIBRARY, titles early edition, v mixed condition
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE, New York and London, W W Norton & Co 1996 2nd edition "The 319 Norton Facsimile", folio, original quarter calf gilt, original slip case gilt; together with MICHAEL DOBSON (EDITED): THE OXFORD COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE, Oxford University Press 2005 repr ...[more]
JOHN VYVYAN, 3 titles: SHAKESPEARE AND THE ROSE OF LOVE - A STUDY OF THE EARLY PLAYS IN RELATION TO THE 320 MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE, 1960 1st edition, signed and inscribed; THE SHAKESPEARIAN ETHIC, 1968 reprint; SHAKESPEARE AND PLATONIC BEAUTY, 1961 1st edition, each original cloth, dust wrapper (3)
JOHN BAILEY (EDITED): A FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE ENGRAVINGS TAKEN FROM THE DRAWINGS BY HENRY WILLIAM 321 BUNBURY ..., London, Ariel Press [1978], limited edition (500) out of series, oblong folio, original cloth gilt
(COLLECTION FOUR TITLES WITH ILLUMINATED ILLUSTRATIONS): WE PRAISE THEE O GOD - TE DEUM CALENDAR FOR 322 1909, London and New York, E Nister & E P Dutton [1908], original cloth backed boards gilt plus SONNETS BY SHAKESPEARE - WITH ILLUMINATED INITIALS AND BORDERS BY EDITH A IBBS, London, Constable & Co ...[more]
FRANCIS WORMALD: THE WINCHESTER PSALTER, London, Harvey Miller and Medcalf 1973, 1st edition, "Monograph on ... British 323 Museum cotton manuscript Nero C IV", 4 mounted coloured plates and numerous black and white illustrations as called for, folio, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper plus J J G ALEXAND ...[more]
J J G ALEXANDER: INSULAR MANUSCRIPTS 6TH TO 9TH CENTURY, London, Harvey Miller 1978, 1st edition plus NIGEL 324 MORGAN: EARLY GOTHIC MANUSCRIPTS [I] 1190-1250, London, Harvey Miller and Oxford University Press 1982 plus LUCY FREEMAN SANDLER: GOTHIC MANUSCRIPTS 1285-1385, London, Harvey Miller and Oxford ...[more]
JOHN PLUMMER: THE HOURS OF CATHERINE OF CLEVES, New York 2002 3rd printing, original boards gilt, dust wrapper, together 325 with VLADISLAV ANDREJEV: THE ILLUMINATED GOSPEL OF ST MATTHEW CALLIGRAPHY AND ICONOGRAPHIC ILLUMINATIONS IN THE BYZANTINE/SLAVIC STYLE, Oakwood Publications 1993 1st edition, foli ...[more]
MARTIROLOGIO DE USUARD [MARTYROLOGY OF USUARD], Barcelona, Moleiro Editor, 1997, limited edition (987) numbered (this 326 copy No 707), facsimile of the original work exhibited in the Museu D'Art, Girona, folio, original full decorative crimson morocco gilt, housed in original decorative crimson morocco ...[more]
LIBRO DE HORAS DE JUANA I DE CASTILLA, Barcelona, M Moleiro Editor, 2005, limited edition (987) numbered (this copy No 782) 327 facsimile of the original work housed in the British Library under shelf mark "additional MS 35,313" quarto, original decorative full grained morocco gilt, spine gilt in compar ...[more]
VLADISLAV ANDREJEV: THE ILLUMINATED GOSPEL OF ST MATTHEW CALLIGRAPHY AND ICONOGRAPHIC ILLUMINATIONS 328 IN THE BYZANTINE/SLAVIC STYLE, Oakwood Publications 1993 1st edition, folio, original decorative cloth gilt, all edges gilt plus THE BOOK OF KELLS - REPRODUCTIONS FROM THE MANUSCRIPT IN TRINITY COLLEG ...[more] W M THACKERAY: THE VIRGINIANS A TALE OF THE LAST CENTURY, London, Bradbury & Evans, 1858-59, 1st edition in book 329 form, 1st issue, 2 volumes, added engraved title pages plus 46 engraved plates as called for, pp359-364 trimmed at foot (not affecting text), uniform contemporary half green calf gilt wor ...[more]
VICTOR HUGO: OEUVRES COMPLETES ..., Paris [1827], 5 volumes, uniform full calf gilt by Deighton Bell & Co of Cambridge, spines 330 browned (5)
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD: RECOLLECTIONS OF A LITERARY LIFE ..., London, 1852 1st edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf 331 gilt worn plus ANTHONY TROLLOPE: ORLEY FARM, illustrated J E Millais, London 1862 1st edition, 2 volumes in 1, 39 (of 40) engraved plates, contemporary half crimson morocco gilt wo ...[more]
GEORGE GORDON NOEL LORD BYRON: THE WORKS..., Edinburgh and London, A Fullerton circa 1865, 2 volumes, old full grained 332 crimson morocco worn, (2)
P TERENTII AFRI COMOEDIAE, EX EDITION ARN HENR WESTERHOVII ..., Londini, Rodwell & Martin 1819, duo decimo, 333 contemporary calf gilt worn plus JACQUES HENRI BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE : PAUL AND VIRGINIA, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH ... TO WHICH IS ADDED ELIZABETH FROM THE FRENCH OF MADAME COTTON, Londo ...[more]
CHARLES MACFARLANE AND THE REV THOMAS THOMSON: THE COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF ENGLAND; CIVIL AND 334 MILITARY, RELIGIOUS, INTELLECTUAL, AND SOCIAL ..., London, Blackie & Son 1861, 4 volumes, each volume with engraved frontispiece and added engraved vignette title page, uniform contemporary half calf gilt, ...[more]
TOBIAS SMOLLETT: THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS..., London, 1802, 3 volumes, volume 3 pp177-178 loose, old half browned 335 morocco gilt, worn, (3)
SIR WALTER SCOTT: MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, Edinburgh and London 1820 1st edition, half title bound in with W D WALKE: 337 RAPHAEL, A POEM [ALRAH, OR THE CORSAIR'S DAUGHTER ETC], London 1829 1st edition, old half calf, spine gilt in compartments worn
WALTER SCOTT: TALES OF A GRANDFATHER, BEING STORIES TAKEN FROM SCOTTISH HISTORY, Boston, Samuel H Parker 338 1828, added engraved title, old half calf gilt worn
ROBERT BURNS: POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT, Belfast, William Magee, 1793, Pirated Belfast edition, 2 volumes in 339 1, engraved portrait frontis, duo decimo, old calf recased
PAUL WHITEHEAD: MANNERS: A SATIRE, Islington, printed near the Three Pumps 1748, with separate title pages; THE STATE 340 DUNCES ... and HONOUR A SATIRE, 52pp continuous pagination, bound in together with [SALOMON GESSNER]: RURAL POEMS TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN ..., London 1762, engraved front ...[more]
PETER JAMES BEGBIE: SUPERNATURAL ILLUSIONS, London, T C Newby, 1851 1st edition, 2 volumes in 1, contemporary half calf 341 recased
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE: LES CARACTERES DE THEOPHRASTE, AVEC LES CARACTERES OU LES MOEURS DE CE CIECLE ..., 342 Amsterdam, Francois Shanguion 1743, 2 volumes, engraved frontispiece by Bernard Picart, each volume with engraved vignette title pages plus two engraved portrait plates as called for, duo decimo, o ...[more]
JAMES THOMSON: THE SEASONS, Edinburgh 1768, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, duo decimo, old calf worn plus 343 THOMAS CAMPBELL: THE PLEASURES OF HOPE ..., Edinburgh 1812, 4 engraved plates, old calf gilt worn plus WILLIAM COWPER: THE TASK, London 1825, added engraved vignette title pl ...[more] FRANCIS BACON: THE WORKS ..., London for J Johnson & others, 1803, 10 volumes, engraved portrait frontispiece plus 2 folding 344 tables as called for, uniform full calf worn (10)
W HARRISON AINSWORTH: THE NOVELS AND ROMANCES ..., London, George Routledge & Sons [nd circa 1880] 8 volumes, 345 uniform half morocco gilt worn, spine gilt in compartments (8)
[SAMUEL BUTLER]: HUDIBRAS ..., London, J M for Geo Sawbridge 1709, 3 parts in 1, 1st illustrated edition, 1st issue, part 2 title page 346 for R Chiswel, G Sawbridge, R Wellington and G Wells, part 3 title page for Thomas Horne, engraved portrait frontispiece, 18 engraved plates including 1 folding, the ...[more]
LEIGH HUNT, 6 titles: A JAR OF HONEY FROM MOUNT HYBLA, illustrated Richard Doyle, London, Smith Elder 1848 1st edition, 16pp 347 adverts at end, original decorative paper covered boards gilt worn, designed by Owen Jones, inner joints reinforced, slip case; LEIGH HUNT'S LONDON JOURNAL, London, Charles Kn ...[more]
HENRY FIELDING: THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES ..., London, Robert Riviere circa 1900 2 volumes, contemporary half calf gilt, top 348 edge gilt plus JOHN RUSKIN: LECTURES ON ART DELIVERED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD ... 1870, Oxford 1875, 2nd edition, contemporary full calf gilt, prize binding worn, spine ...[more]
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, 2 titles: PLAYS AND POEMS …, London for J Dodsley 1774, 2 volumes, POEMS …, York, J Robson & W 349 Clarke, 1788, engraved port frontis, uniform old half calf gilt worn (3
TOBIAS SMOLLETT, 2 titles: TRAVELS THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY ..., London 1766, 2nd edition, 2 volumes, contemporary full 350 calf gilt worn, armorial bookplate of Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), Chief Secretary for Ireland (1779-72) Governor of Madras etc to front pastedown; THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS ...[more]
[J J HORNBY, EDITED]: REMAINS OF ALEXANDER KNOX, ESQ, London, James Duncan & John Cochran 1834, 2 volumes, 351 contemporary full morocco gilt, spines gilt in compartments, all edges gilt (2)
ROBERT BLOOMFIELD, 3 titles: THE POEMS ..., London 1827, 3 volumes in 1, old full calf gilt worn; RURAL TALES, BALLADS AND 352 SONGS, London 1803 3rd edition, engraved port frontis, old full calf worn, inner joints reinforced; MAY DAY WITH THE MUSES, London for the author 1822 1st edition, 8 wood cuts a ...[more]
COLLECTION OF BINDINGS: THOMAS MORE: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD, London 1831, 2 volumes, 353 engraved port frontis and engraved folding map of Quebec and environs as called for, uniform old half morocco gilt worn, + HUGH MACMILLAN: THE LIFE WORK OF GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS, 1903, full tr ...[more]
JOHN RUSKIN: PRAETERITA OUTLINES OF SCENES AND THOUGHTS PERHAPS WORTHY OF MEMORY IN MY PAST LIFE, 354 Orpington and London, 1900 2nd edition, 3 volumes, 4 plates as called for, rebound 3/4 green morocco by Hatchards, spines browned (3)
(COLLECTION OF BINDINGS), SAINT-GERMAIN: POUR UNE EPINGLE LEGENDE, Paris 1856, duo decimo, contemporary full 355 morocco gilt slightly worn plus PER HALLSTROM, 2 titles: DE FYRA ELEMENTERNA, 1906; THANATOS, 1900, uniform calf backed decorative boards, morocco labels to spines plus WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: TH ...[more]
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON:2 titles: THE IMPROVISATRICE; AND OTHER POEMS, London 1824 2nd edition, engraved port- 356 frontis, added engraved vignette title, contemporary full gilt ruled blue morocco, spine gilt in compartments, crimson morocco label, POETICAL WORKS..., London, Longman 1850, 2 volumes, uni ...[more]
LADY MARIA (DUNDAS) GRAHAM CALLCOTT: MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF NICHOLAS POUSSIN, London and Edinburgh, 1820, 1st 357 edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding plates, contemporary half calf marbled boards worn, 1st study of Poussin published in English SAMUEL ROGERS: BOUND VOLUME OF EXTRACTS OF REVIEWS OF HIS VARIOUS WORKS IN MONTHLY REVIEW, CRITICAL 358 REVIEW, ANALYTICAL REVIEW, ENGLISH REVIEW, EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, GENTLEMAN'S REVIEW, THEATRICAL JOURNAL ETC, 1786-98, engraved portrait frontis of Rogers by Findon on front paste down, contemporary calf ...[more]
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: AMONG MY BOOKS, SIX ESSAYS, London 1870 1st edition, original cloth gilt + ALEXANDER IRELAND: 359 THE BOOK LOVERS ENCHIRIDION..., London 1894 1st edition, original cloth gilt + RICHARD GARNETT AND EDMUND GOSSE: ENGLISH LITERATURE, AN ILLUSTRATED RECORD, London 1906, 4 volumes, cont ...[more]
PLEASE NOTE: This book has a fore-edge painting, by Steven St. Clair Smallwood, the image depicting a valley scene, with people 360 and horses in fore-ground.BARONESS E C DE CALABRELLA (EDITED): EVENINGS AT HADDON HALL, illustrated George Cattermole, London, Henry Colburn, 1846 1st edition, engraved fro ...[more]
CHARLOTTE BARRETT (EDITED): DIARY AND LETTERS OF MADAME D'ARBLAY, London, Chatto & Windus 1876, new edition 361 revised, 4 volumes, 15 portrait plates + facsimile folding letter as called for, uniform contemporary half calf gilt worn (4)
ROBERT BURNS: THE POETICAL WORKS..., London, George Bell & Sons, 1893, "The Aldine Edition of the British Poets", 3 volumes, 362 uniform original decorative cloth gilt, top edges gilt (3)
DR SMOLLETT: THE ADVENTURES OF PEREGRINE PICKLE IN WHICH ARE INCLUDED MEMOIRS OF A LADY OF QUALITY, 363 London, circa 1794 "Cooke's edition", 4 volumes, 12mo, old half calf, morocco labels to spines (4)
SIR WALTER SCOTT: WAVERLEY..., London, Macmillan & Co 1907-1914, large type border edition, 24 volumes complete, 364 contemporary olive green morocco gilt, all edges gilt (24)
EDWARD GIBBON: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, London for W Strahan & T Cadell, 1783- 365 90, new edition, 12 volumes, engraved portrait frontis, 3 engraved folding maps dated 1781 (1 in volume 2, 2 in volume 6), contemporary tree calf, decorative gilt spines, morocco labels, boo ...[more]
REYNOLDS'S MISCELLANY OF ROMANCE, GENERAL LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, May 25th 1861-June 7th 1862, nos 676- 366 730 bound together in one volume, old half calf gilt, v worn, inner joints split
GEORGE GORDON NOEL LORD BYRON: CHILDE HARALD'S PILGRIMAGE, A ROMAUNT, London, John Murray 1855, engraved 367 portrait frontispiece + 30 engraved plates as called for, quarto, contemporary calf gilt worn re-cased, some losses of original backstrip, all edges gilt
ABRAHAM COWLEY: THE WORKS..., London for Henry Herringman 1693, 8th edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, composite 368 volume with separate title on pages 4 "The Mistress", "Pindarique Odes", "Davideis" dated 1687, separate title page for "Cutter of Colman Street" dated 1693, bound together with THE ...[more]
THE ANNUAL REGISTER, OR REVIEW OF THE HISTORY, POLITICKS, AND LITERATURE, OF THE YEAR 1759, London for R & J 369 Dodsley, 1760, contemporary calf worn + THE HISTORICAL REGISTER, CONTAINING AN IMPARTIAL RELATION OF ALL TRANSACTIONS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTICK, London, H Meere 1717-1738 volumes 1-23 + THE HIST ...[more]
W COOKE TAYLOR: LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR ROBERT PEEL, London, Peter Jackson [1846-51], 4 volumes, 85 engraved plates as 370 called for, uniform contemporary half calf, worn (4)
WILLIAM COMBE: THE TOUR OF DR SYNTAX IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE, A POEM, London, R Ackermann 1823, 31 hand 371 coloured aquatint plates as called for, small format edition, duo-decimo, contemporary half calf gilt worn + EDEN WARWICK: THE POETS' PLEASAUNCE, London, Longman & Co, 1847, added engraved ti ...[more] ARTAUD DE MONTOR: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF THE POPES..., New York, The Catholic Publication Society of America 1911 de 372 luxe limited edition (1000) out of series, 10 volumes, uniform original cloth, printed paper labels to spines (10)
STEPHEN D'ESTRY: HISTOIRE D'ALGER DE SON TERRITOIRE ET DE SES HABITANTS, DE SES PIRATERIES, DE SON 373 COMMERCE ET DE SES GUERRES..., Tours, AD Mame et cie 1843, added engraved vignette title + 2 engraved plates, contemporary half calf marbled boards + ROBERT FRANCOIS VALENTIN: LES DUCS DE BOURGOGNE..., ...[more]
ANTHONY, EARL OF SHAFTESBURY: CHARACTERISTICKS OF MEN, MANNERS, OPINIONS, TIMES, 1749, 3 volumes, volume 1 374 engraved vignette title, duo-decimo, uniform contemporary calf worn (3)
H W LONGFELLOW: THE POETICAL WORKS..., London 1901, (complete copyright edition), engraved portrait frontis, original limp 375 leather gilt, all edges gilt + ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING: POEMS..., London, Frederick Warne & Co, c,1900 "Albion" edition, engraved portfrontis, original limp leather gilt, all ...[more]
EDWARD LEAR: VIEWS IN SEVEN IONIAN ISLANDS, Oldham, Hugh Broadbent, 1979 limited edition (1000), numbered, "A facsimile 378 of the original edition published in 1863 by the artist", engraved title page + 20 plates as called for, folio, original cloth gilt, worn and soiled (foot of lower board damaged)
[KLOPSTOCK]: PLAATEN TOT DE NEDERDUITSCHE WERTAALING VAN KLOPSTOCK'S MESSIAS DOOR M JOHAN 379 MEERMAN..., Fugger circa 1803, 22 engraved plates as called for, folio, contemporary black blind stamped gilt morocco, v worn, all edges gilt
PIERRE LOUYS: APHRODITE MOEURS ANTIQUES EDITION COMPLETE ILLUSTREE DE SOIXANTE-QUINZE DESSINS 380 ORIGINAUX PAR ANTOINES CALBET, Paris [1923], limited edition (570), (50), one of the 50 examples on Hollande paper numbered 21 to 70, 2 different sets of states of plates as called for, original printed wra ...[more]
THE FIRST AND CHIEF GROUNDES OF ARCHITECTURE BY JOHN SHUTE, PAYNTER AND ARCHYTECTE FIRST PRINTED IN 381 1563, London, Country Life 1912, limited edition (1000) out of series, a facsimile of the first edition, folio, original boards, printed paper label
PAUL VERLAINE: PARALLELEMENT, illustrated Lluis Vidal Molne, Nice, L'image litterarie 1947, limited edition (318) (190) on cream 382 japon, 8 litho plates loose as issued, quarto, disintegrated leather wraps
JOHN RUSKIN: THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE, 1880 new edition, large quarto, original printed boards, printed paper label 383 to spine, plus JAMES K COLLING: DETAILS OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, London [1856] volume 2 (of 2) only, original decorative cloth gilt, plus F E HOWARD AND F H CROSSLEY: ENGLISH CHU ...[more]
ARK - AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT PRODUCTION PUBLISHED FROM THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, 1951, number 2 - 385 domestic art, October 1951 No 3 - political and religious art, cover by Geoffrey Ireland, number 4 - February 1952, cover by David Gentleman (2 copies), each oblong, original pictorial printed wraps + R ...[more]
ARK - THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, 1950, number 1, with original supplement loosely inserted, cover by 386 Geoffrey Ireland, 1951 number 2, October 1951 number 3, cover by Geoffrey Ireland, February 1952 number 4, cover by David Gentleman, Summer 1952 number 5, cover by Raymond Hawkey and "L ...[more]
MRS BURY PALLISER: HISTORY OF LACE, London 1865 1st edition, contemporary half calf gilt worn plus HANNA WOODBRIDGE 387 HUDSON MOORE: THE LACE BOOK, London 1905, 1st edition, quarto, original decorative cloth gilt (2)
MRS BURY PALLISER: HISTORY OF LACE, (Edited) Margaret Jourdain and Alice Dryden, London 1902 entirely revised, rewritten and 388 enlarged, original cloth, all edges gilt MARY KONIOR: CROCHET LACE AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO MAKING CROCHET LACE FABRICS, 1991 1st UK edition, original 389 cloth gilt, dust wrapper
THERESE DE DILLMONT: ALBUM DE BRODERIES AU POINT DE CROIX, Paris [1885], 32 plates as called for, quarto loose as 389A issued, original decorative wraps soiled plus THE BRIGHTON KNITTING BOOK, Brighton and London circa 1846, 21st thousand 24mo original limp printed wraps worn and soiled, 5 small knitted ...[more]
JAMES CAWLFIELD: CALCOGRAPHIANA: THE PRINT SELLERS CHRONICLE AND COLLECTORS GUIDE TO THE KNOWLEDGE 390 AND VALUE OF ENGRAVED BRITISH PORTRAITS, London 1814, engraved port frontis, rebound cloth backed boards gilt plus A CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS, WHO HAVE BEEN BORN, OR RESIDED IN ENGLAND; DIGESTED BY MR HO ...[more]
J A GERE: PRE-RAPHAELITE DRAWINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 1994, original pictorial wraps plus MICHAEL BARTRUM: THE 391 PRE-RAPHAELITE CAMERA ASPECTS OF VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHY, 1985 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper plus R L M COUPE: ILLUSTRATIONS EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MORRIS IN ENG ...[more]
DAVID HAMILTON: A SUMMER IN ST TROPEZ, 1982 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper plus COVER TITLE, THE BEST OF 392 DAVID HAMILTON, 1976, original cloth, dust wrapper plus BILL NEWMAN (EDITED): THE ART OF PAGE 3, illustrated Beverley Goodway 1993, 1st edition, original pictorial wraps plus JEFF DUNA ...[more]
RAINE AND JOHN SPENCER: THE SPENCERS ON SPAS, London 1983 1st edition, signed and inscribed by the author and the 393 photographer, original cloth, dust wrapper
HMSO (PUBLISHED): AN INVENTORY OF THE HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE, 1988 2nd impression, 2 394 volumes, 4 folding plans loosely inserted, original pictorial laminated wraps (2)
DAVID HOCKNEY: HOCKNEY'S PICTURES, 2004 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper plus PETER WEBB: PORTRAIT OF DAVID 395 HOCKNEY, 1988 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper plus DAVID HOCKNEY PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND DRAWINGS 1960- 1970, London, Lund Humphries, 1970 1st hardback edition, original c ...[more]
DAVID HOCKNEY AND WALLIS STEVENS: THE BLUE GUITAR ..., London, Petersburg Press 1977 1st edition, prospectus, signed 396 and inscribed by Hockney "toTom from David Xmas '77", original boards, printed paper label, together with a set of 20 loose small format coloured prints as contained in the prospectus
MARGARET WHINNEY: SCULPTURE IN BRITAIN 1530 TO 1830, 1964 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper plus RUDOLF 397 WITTKOWER: ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY 1600 TO 1750, 1958 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, original slip case worn plus HENRY RUSSEL HITCHCOCK: ARCHITECTURE 19TH AND ...[more]
FRANCOISE SOUCHAL: FRENCH SCULPTORS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES THE REIGN OF LOUIS 398 XIV, Translated Elsie and George Hill, Bruno Cassirer Publishers Ltd, 1977, 1981, 1987, 1st edition 3 volumes, each original boards silvered, dust wrapper, volume 3 card slip case (3)
BETTY BALLANTINE, 3 titles: FRANK FRAZETTA BOOK TWO; FRANK FRAZETTA BOOK FOUR, each Peacock Press/Bantam 399 Books 1977 1st US edition, 1980 1st US edition; THE FANTASTIC ART OF FRANK FRAZETTA, Rufus Publications/Peacock Press/Bantam Books 1975 1st US edition plus ARIEL THE BOOK OF FANTASY VOLUME TWO, i ...[more]
GERARD DE LAIRESSE: THE ART OF PAINTING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES..., trans John Frederick Fritsch 1738 1st English edition, 400 added engraved title, 69 plates on 71 leaves as called for, some folding (one plate damaged with loss, another with some staining and small part marginal loss), quarto rebound (not ...[more]
RICHARD AVEDON AND TRUMAN CAPOTE: OBSERVATIONS, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1959, 1st edition, folio, original 401 printed boards worn, original slip case worn ELISE GRILLI: SHARAKU, Elec Books [1959] 1st edition, original cloth dust wrapper (v worn) plus IGEIJI YOSHIKAWA: TAIKO AN 402 EPIC NOVEL OF WAR AND GLORY IN FEUDAL JAPAN, 1992 1st edition, original cloth backed boards, dust wrapper plus THE DAWN OF THE FLOATING WORLD 1650-1765 EARLY UKIYO-E TREASURES F ...[more]
PIERO CHIARA AND MARCO VALSECCHI: DISEGNI DE GIOVANNI CARNOVALI DETTO IL PICCIO - NUOVI DISEGNI DE 403 GIOVANNI CARNOVALI DETTO IL PICCIO, Milan, Edizioni Di Vanni Scheiwillier, 1968, 1969, 1st editions, 2 volumes, each folio, original gilt calf backed boards, original slip cases (2)
LAMBERTO VITALI: DODICI ACQUARELLI E DISEGNI DI ALBERTO DURER, Milan, Vanni Scheiwiller Editore 1970, limited edition 404 (450) numbered, 12 mounted coloured plates as called for, each housed in separate folding card wallets loose as issued with title page letterpress and list of plates on a further 9 e ...[more]
WILLIAM FELDSTEIN AND ALISTAIR DUNCAN: THE LAMPS OF TIFFANY STUDIOS, 1983, limited edition (75), signed by both of the 405 authors and numbered, 83 hand tipped coloured plates as called for, 150gsm and 120gsm paper by Papeteries de Biberist of Switzerland and Salzer of Austria, folio, original blind sta ...[more]
HANS EDVARD NORREGARD-NIELSEN: NY CARLSBERGFONDET 1902-2002, Copenhagen, Gyldendal 2006 1st edition, 3 volumes, 406 each original cloth, dust wrapper plus TOM BUK-SWIENTY: 1864 I BILLEDER, Copenhagen, Gyldendal 2002 1st edition, original pictorial boards, dust wrapper (4)
THE ART JOURNAL, London, J S Virtue & Co Ltd, 1884 new series, plates complete as called for, folio, old half calf very worn plus 407 OEUVRE DE JEAN HOLBEIN OU RECUEIL DE GRAVURES D'APRES LES PLUS BEAUX OUVRAGES DE SE FAMEUX PEINTRE PUBLIAE PAR CHRETIEN DE MECHEL ..., Basle chez Guillaume Haas 1780, par ...[more]
JOHN LEECH: PENCILLINGS FROM PUNCH - LATER PENCILLINGS FROM PUNCH, [1864-65], 2 volumes in 1, each 252pp, 408 contemporary half calf gilt worn
HERBERT CENCINSKY: THE GENTLE ART OF FAKING FURNITURE, London, Chapman & Hall 1931, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, 409 dust wrapper (worn) plus EDWARD L CUTTS: AN ESSAY ON CHURCH FURNITURE AND DECORATION, London 1854, 1st edition, original blind stamped cloth gilt worn plus JOHN F DOWSETT: STAIR BUIL ...[more]
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF PICTURES AND SONGS BY RANDOLPH CALDECOTT, ENGRAVED AND PRINTED BY 410 EDMUND EVANS WITH A PREFACE BY AUSTIN DOBSON, L, George Routledge & Sons, 1887, ltd edn (800), sigd "Edmund Evans", numbered, large paper edition, folio, original cloth rebacked
JAMES THOMSON: THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE, AN ALLEGORICAL POEM WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF SPENSER, London, 411 1845, oblong, original decorative cloth gilt
JAMES A MICHENER: FACING EAST, ill Jack Levine, NY, Maecenas Press, 1970 (2500), de-luxe edn, 2 parts, signed twice by author 412 and artist in the colophon and on inside of clamshell box, part 1 text with orig woodcuts by Jack Levine ptd on arches paper, orig "hors- texte" woodcut on Japanese vellum pap ...[more]
BERYL LESLIE URQUHART (EDITED): THE CAMELLIA - THE CAMELLIA VOL II, Sharpthorn, The Leslie Urquhart Press, 1956, 1960, 413 1st edition, 2 volumes, each folio, original cloth gilt, dust wrappers (both worn with losses) plus THE ORIENTAL ALBUM PRISSE D'AVENNES, Cairo, Zeitouna 2000 folio, original suede b ...[more]
JOHN E GRANT AND OTHERS (ED): WILLIAM BLAKE'S DESIGNS FOR EDWIN YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS A COMPLETE 414 EDITION, Oxford 1980, 2 volumes, each original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (ink stamp damaged verso title page, no evident defects) (2)
PERCY WALTER LOUIS ADAMS: A HISTORY OF THE ADAMS FAMILY OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE AND OF THEIR 415 CONNECTION WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POTTERIES ..., London, The St Catherine Press, 1914 1st edition, quarto, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt plus FREDERICK LITCHFIELD: POTTERY AND PORCELAIN A GUIDE TO C ...[more] WILLIAM HOGARTH: THE COMPLETE WORKS ..., The London Printing and Publishing Co Ltd, circa 1865, 151 engraved plates as 416 called for including portrait frontispiece and 2 added engraved title pages, old half calf gilt very worn, inner joints split plus MAUD A BATEMAN AND GRACE ALLEN: THE RUSKIN BIRTHDA ...[more]
THE ART JOURNAL, London, Virtue & Co, 1868 volume 7, 1869 volume 8, 1870 volume 9, 3 volumes, volume 7 28 engraved plates as 417 called for; volume 8 35 (of 36) engraved plates, volume 9 34 (of 36) engraved plates (of which 2 with closed tears), each folio contemporary half crimson morocco very worn, in ...[more]
THE ART JOURNAL, London, George Virtue, 1871, volume 10, 1872 volume 11, 1877 volume 16, volume 10 35 engraved plates as 418 called for, volume 11 35 (of 36) engraved plates, volume 16 34 (of 36) engraved plates, each folio, contemporary half crimson morocco gilt very worn, inner joints weak (3)
THE ART JOURNAL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE THE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS 1851, London, George Virtue, 1851, engraved 419 title page and wood engraved illustrations throughout, folio contemporary half morocco, spine gilt in compartments worn, all edges gilt plus THE GRAPHIC ROYAL WEDDING NUMBER, comprising Wedn ...[more]
HARRODS LIMITED (PUBLISHED) COVER TITLE: FASHIONABLE RENDEZVOUS, circa 1909, 6 mounted coloured plates as called 420 for with further black and white engraved illustrations and text fashion catalogue exhibiting "Latest Conceptions", "Exclusive Gowns", "Smart Coats for All Occasions", "Millinery Styles", ...[more]
GRAND ALBUM DE CHAPEAUX - CHIC PARISIEN, Atelier Bachwitz circa 10, 32 full page chromolitho fashion illustrations depicting 421 fashionable ladies modelling hats, some leaves loose, 2pp of letterpress only with tears/part loss affecting text, folio, original decorative wraps gilt (worn and laminated, A ...[more]
THE ENGLISH WOMAN'S DOMESTIC MAGAZINE AN ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL COMBINING INFORMATION, INSTRUCTION, AND 422 AMUSEMENT, London, S O Beeton, circa 18601864, new series, volumes 1 and 2, 2 volumes, 5 hand coloured plates, 6 hand coloured plates, uniform original blind stamped cloth gilt plus THE MAGAZINE OF T ...[more]
HELEN ALLINGHAM AND STEWART DICK: THE COTTAGE HOMES OF ENGLAND, London, Edward Arnold 1909, limited edition 423 (500) signed by the artist Helen Allingham and numbered, 64 mounted coloured plates as called for, original cream cloth gilt (top and bottom boards slightly rubbed/scuffed), top edge gilt
VASES FROM THE COLLECTION OF SIRE HENRY ENGLEFIELD, BART, illustrated Henry Moses, London, H G Bohn, 1848, 424 engraved portrait frontispiece, added engraved title page plus 51 engraved plates as called for, old half calf very worn, top board detached
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 14th 1842 - December 30th 1843, volumes 1-3, Nos 1-87 plus volume 4 Nos 88 and 89, 425 bound together in one volume, folio, old half calf very worn, backstrip detached but present
426 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January - December 1845, volumes 6 and 7, bound together in one volume, old half calf worn
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January - December 1847, volumes 10 and 11 bound together in one volume, old half calf very 427 worn
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January - June 1848, volume 12 and July - December 1849, volume 15, 2 volumes, each folio, 428 old half calf very worn (2)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January - June 1850, volume 16 and July - December 1850, volume 17, 2 volumes, each folio, 429 original pictorial cloth gilt, very worn and soiled, each lacking backstrip, some contents loose (2) THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January - June 1852, volume 20, folio, original pictorial cloth gilt, very worn and soiled, inner 430 joints split plus July - December 1852, volume 21, folio, old half calf gilt worn plus July - December 1857, volume 31, folio, original pictorial cloth gilt worn and soiled ...[more]
431 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July - December 1859, volume 35, old half calf worn
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January - December 1859, volumes 34 and 35, bound together in 1 volume, folio, old half calf 432 very worn, top board detached but present
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July - December 1871, volume 59, folio, old half calf worn plus January - June 1873, volume 62, 433 folio, original pictorial cloth gilt (2)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July - December 1879, volume 75, folio, original pictorial cloth gilt very worn and soiled, inner 434 joints split plus July - December 1893, volume 103, old cloth backed board, folio, old cloth backed board worn (2)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January - June 1880, volume 76, folio, original pictorial cloth gilt very worn, backstrip near 435 detached, top board near detached plus January 7th - March 25th 1882, volume 80 Nos 2227-2238, bound together in 1 volume, folio, old cloth gilt (2)
436 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January - June and July - December 1887, 2 bound volumes, each old half calf gilt worn (2)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January 1st - March 25th 1916, volume 148 Nos 4002-4014, folio, old half calf gilt worn plus 437 January - June 1919, volume 154 and July - December 1919 volume 155, 2 volumes, each folio, original pictorial cloth gilt very worn (volume 154 lacks top third of backstrip) (3)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, September 9th 1939 - March 2nd 1940, consecutive, bound together in 1 volume plus March 9th 438 1940 - August 31st 1940, consecutive, bound together in 1 volume, plus September 7th 1940 - March 1st 1941, consecutive, bound together in 1 volume, 3 volumes, each folio, origina ...[more]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January - June 1942, volume 200 and July - December 1942, volume 201, 2 volumes, each folio, 439 original cloth gilt worn (2)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January - June 1943, volume 202 and July - December 1943, volume 203, 2 volumes, each folio, 440 original cloth gilt worn (2)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January - June 1944, volume 204 and July - December 1944, volume 205, 2 volumes, each folio, 441 original cloth gilt worn (2)
THE THEATRICAL TIMES A WEEKLY MAGAZINE OF THESPIAN BIOGRAPHY ..., 1846, volume 1, Nos 1-34 in 1 volume, rebound 442 not recent cloth
HENRY MACKINNON WALBROOK: NIGHTS AT THE PLAY, London, W J Ham-Smith 1911, 1st edition, signed and inscribed to Gilbert 443 Dalziel (1853-1930) 3 autographed letters signed to Dalziel tipped in, Victorian flyer for pantomime "Blackbird" at Princes Theatre tipped in, original cloth gilt
W J MACQUEEN POPE: THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE, London, W H Allen 1945 1st edition, signed and inscribed to title page "To 444 celebrate its reopening 19 December 1946 W J Macqueen Pope", original cloth backed pictorial boards worn MARGOT FONTEYN: A DANCER'S WORLD, 1978 1st edition, signed to half title plus signed and inscribed to piece of paper loosely 445 inserted, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, plus MARY BERRY: FAST CAKES, 1981 reprint, signed and inscribed to title page, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (2)
JAMES C DIBDEN AND JOHN AYLING (EDITED): THE BOOK OF THE LIFEBOAT ..., Edinburgh and London, Oliphant Anderson and 446 Ferrier 1894, 1st edition, original cloth, spine darkened
JOHN RATTENBURY: MEMOIRS OF A SMUGGLER COMPILED FROM HIS DIARY AND JOURNAL ..., Sidmouth, J Harvey 1837 1st 447 edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map, duo decimo, original blind stamped cloth gilt, rebacked
FILSON YOUNG: TITANIC, London, Grant Richards 1912, 1st edition, coloured frontispiece, original pictorial cloth gilt (bright), 1st book 448 published on the disaster
JOHN BLACK ATKINS: THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH, London, Methuen, 1900 1st edition, 40pp catalogue of adverts at end dated 449 February 1900, original pictorial cloth gilt plus JOHN MACKINNON ROBERTSON: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WAR, AN OPEN LETTER TO DR A CONAN DOYLE, London, The New Age Press, 1902, 1st edition, ...[more]
JOHN HARVEY KELLOGG: A HOUSEHOLD MANUAL - HYGIENE, FOOD AND DIET, COMMON DISEASES ..., Published at the 450 Office of the Health Reformer Battle Creek, Michigan 1877 1st edition, original blind stamped green cloth, no copy on Copac
HENRY BELCHER: ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SCENERY ON THE LINE OF WHITBY AND PICKERING RAILWAY IN THE NORTH 451 EASTERN PART OF YORKSHIRE ..., London, 1836, 1st edition, added engraved vignette title, 12 plates, errata slip at end, folding litho map of Cleveland extension mineral railway [1881] loosely inserte ...[more]
SAMUEL SIDNEY: RIDES ON RAILWAYS LEADING TO THE LAKE AND MOUNTAIN DISTRICTS OF CUMBERLAND, NORTH 452 WALES AND THE DALES OF DERBYSHIRE ..., London, William S Orr & Co [1851], 1st edition, litho frontis, folding map plus 24 engraved plates as called for, 6pp adverts at end, original printed boards recase ...[more]
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY: HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE NAVIGABLE RIVERS, CANALS AND RAILWAYS OF GREAT BRITAIN..., L, 453 1831, folding map and folding sectional plan, re-cased, original cloth retained, (worn) printed paper label to spine
HENRY RODOLPH DE SALIS: BRADSHAW'S CANALS AND NAVIGABLE RIVERS OF ENGLAND AND WALES A HANDBOOK OF 454 INLAND NAVIGATION FOR MANUFACTURERS, MERCHANTS, TRADERS AND OTHERS, London, Henry Blacklock & Co Ltd 1904, 1st edition, folding coloured map in rear pocket as called for (separated and with splits at fo ...[more]
JOHN BOURNE: A CATECHISM OF THE STEAM ENGINE, London, 1857 new edition, autograph of author on small piece on front 455 pastedown, contemporary cloth, spine gilt titled
THE HOUSEKEEPER'S RECEIPT BOOK, OR REPOSITORY OF DOMESTIC KNOWLEDGE, London, 1813, 1st edition, lacks title 456 page and frontispiece, old calf board detached
PERCY NALDRETT: MORE MISCELLANEOUS MAGIC, Portsmouth, published by the author 1919, original stitched wraps worn plus 457 GUSTAVE FRIKELL: THE SECRET OUT OR, ONE THOUSAND TRICKS IN DRAWING ROOM OR WHITE MAGIC, London, Hotten [1871], original pictorial cloth gilt plus WILLIAM E CHENERY: HOME ENTERTAINING ...[more]
BATTY LANGLEY: THE LONDON PRICES OF BRICKLAYERS MATERIALS AND WORKS BOTH OF NEW BUILDINGS AND 458 REPAIRS ..., London for Richard Adams and John Wren 1749, 31 (of 32) engraved plates, lacking plate 31, old calf rebacked
MAJOR HENRY WILBERFORCE CLARKE: LONGITUDE BY LUNAR DISTANCES, London, W H Allen 1885, 1st edition, signed and 459 inscribed, original cloth gilt, 1 copy on COPAC SIR ROBERT S BALL, 2 titles: IN STARRY REALMS, London, 1898 reprint, frontis plus 21 plates as called for, original decorative two 460 tone cloth gilt worn; THE STORY OF THE SUN, London 1897, 5th thousand 10 plates as called for, original cloth gilt plus P W ATKINS: THE CREATION, 1981 1st edition, origi ...[more]
HENRY THORNTON MAIRE WITHAM: A DESCRIPTION OF A FOSSIL TREE DISCOVERED IN THE QUARRY AT CRAIG LEITH, 460A NEAR EDINBURGH …, [1834], extract from “Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh”, 4 engraved plates including 3 coloured, quarto, disbound
THE ENGINEERING EMPLOYERS FEDERATION (PUBLISHED): LIST OF THE FEDERATED ENGINEERING AND SHIP BUILDING 461 EMPLOYERS WHO RESISTED THE DEMAND FOR A FORTY-EIGHT HOURS WORKING WEEK, Glasgow, 1898, 1st edition, original cloth gilt soiled plus CHARLES T PERFECT (EDITED): HANDBOOK FOR BARGEMEN, LIGHTERMEN, AND ...[more]
WILLIAM KITCHINER: THE ART OF INVIGORATING AND PROLONGING LIFE BY FOOD, CLOTHES, AIR, EXERCISE, WINE, 462 SLEEP ETC ... TO WHICH IS ADDED THE PLEASURE OF MAKING OF WILL, London 1828 6th edition, very greatly augmented and improved, old boards worn plus JOHN ROYSTON PEARSON: VINE CULTURE UNDER GLASS, Lon ...[more]
"A LADY": THE HOUSEKEEPERS' FRIEND OR MANUAL OF COOKERY, Norwich and London, Jarrold & Sons, [1852] 1st edition, 463 original blind stamped cloth gilt
WILLIAM CAVE: PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY, OR THE RELIGION OF THE ANCIENT CHRISTIANS IN THE FIRST AGES OF THE 464 GOSPEL..., London, 1676 3rd edition, added engraved title, imprimatur, old calf worn + LAURENCE ECHARD: A GENERAL ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY FROM THE NATIVITY OF OUR BLESSED SAVIOUR..., London, W Bow ...[more]
SIR REGINALD FLEMING JOHNSTON: LETTERS TO A MISSIONARY, London, Watts & Co, 1918 1st edition, signed (initials) "To Sir 465 Edward Dennison Ross", autograph letter signed (initials) on University of London, School of Oriental Studies headed notepaper (herewith a copy of the extremely wicked book...it ha ...[more]
"THRONE CRICK", SKETCHES FROM THE DIARY OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER, London, Joseph Masters for the author 1847 466 1st edition, added etched title, duo-decimo, original blind stamped cloth + HENRY SAMPSON: A HISTORY OF ADVERTISING..., London, 1875 (but later) coloured folding frontispiece, 32pp catalogue ...[more]
[WILLIAM BETHAM]: THE BARONETAGE OF ENGLAND..., London, John Stockdale, 1806, 34 engraved plates of Arms printed back to 467 back as called for, duo-decimo, old half calf rebacked + HUGH CLARK: A SHORT AND EASY INTRODUCTION TO HERALDRY, London, 1827, 10th edition, with considerable improvements, 44 main ...[more]
PRISCILLA WAKEFIELD: A FAMILY TOUR THROUGH THE BRITISH EMPIRE..., London, Harvey & Darton, 1820, 10th edition, hand 468 coloured folding frontis map (close tears), 6pp adverts at end, old calf worn, top board near detached, + "A LADY": CHRONOLOGY OF THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND, RENDERED INTO RHYME, ...[more]
PUNCH'S POCKET BOOK FOR 1845 CONTAINING RULED PAGES FOR CASH ACCOUNTS AND MEMORANDA FOR EVERY DAY 469 IN THE YEAR AND ALMANAC ..., London 1845, engraved hand coloured folding frontis piece, added engraved hand coloured title, plus six black and white engraved plates by John Leech, original limp calf wal ...[more]
MRS J BAKEWELL: FRIENDLY HINTS TO FEMALE SERVANTS, OR THE BEST MEANS FOR PROMOTING THEIR OWN AND 470 THEIR EMPLOYERS' HAPPINESS, London, Simpkin Marshall & Co, 1841, 64pp, 6mo, original blind stamped cloth gilt worn
R A BURT: BRITISH BATTLESHIPS 1889-1904, 2013 1st UK edition, original cloth silvered, dust-wrapper + DAVID HOBBS: BRITISH 471 AIRCRAFT CARRIERS DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE HISTORIES, 2013 1st UK edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper (2) LEONARD BRIDGMAN: JANE'S ALL THE WORLD'S AIRCRAFT 1942, 1943 1st impression, folio, original cloth gilt + JANE'S 472 FIGHTING SHIPS OF WORLD WAR TWO, London, Bracken Books 1989, reprint of original published 1946/47, original cloth gilt, dust- wrapper (2)
WILLIAM GREEN: 2 titles: WAR PLANES OF THE THIRD REICH, 1972 2nd impression, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, AIRCRAFT 473 OF THE THIRD REICH - VOLUME 1 ARADO TO FOCKE-WULF, 2010 1st edition, original cloth silvered, dust-wrapper (2)
PETER ELLIOTT: ALLIED ESCORT SHIPS OF WORLD WAR TWO, Naval Institute Press 1977, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper + 474 MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (NAVY) GERMAN NAVAL HISTORY THE U-BOAT WAR IN THE ATLANTIC 1939-1945, London, HMSO, 1992 2nd impression, original cloth gilt with 28 diagrams on five folding sheet ...[more]
HOWARD COLE: FORMATION BADGES OF WORLD WAR TWO, BRITAIN, COMMONWEALTH AND EMPIRE, 1985, original cloth 475 gilt, dust-wrapper + M R D FOOT: SOE IN FRANCE, AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORK OF THE BRITISH SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE IN FRANCE 1940-1944, London, HMSO, 1968, 2nd impression, original cloth, dust-wrap ...[more]
476 MARK ADKIN: THE WATERLOO COMPANION, 2001 1st edition, 6th impression, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper
RON MACKAY, MIKE BAILEY AND DARIN SCORZA: LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH IVAN THE 458TH BOMB GROUP (H), 8TH 477 USAAF AT HORSHAM ST FAITH 1944-1945, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2010, original pictorial laminated boards, dust wrapper plus GEORGE A REYNOLDS: THE 458TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY) IV, Pelham 1996, orig ...[more]
DEREK SMITH: PICTORIAL TRIBUTE TO THE MEN AND AIRCRAFT OF THE 447TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP (H) 1943-1945, East 478 Anglia Books 1006 1st edition, original cloth silvered, dust wrapper
MARK ADKIN: THE WESTERN FRONT COMPANION THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO HOW THE ARMIES FOUGHT FOR FOUR 479 DEVASTATING YEARS, 1914-1918, 2013 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper
480 EDUARD WAGNER: EUROPEAN WEAPONS AND WARFARE 1618-1648, Octopus Books 1979, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper
TADAO NAKATA AND THOMAS B NELSON: IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY AND NAVY UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT, 1995 3rd 481 printing, revised edition, original cloth, dust wrapper plus AFTER THE BATTLE VOLUME 6 PARTS 21-24, 1979 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (2)
WITH THE FLAG TO PRETORIA - AFTER PRETORIA THE GUERRILLA WAR, London, Harmsworth Bros Ltd circa 1900-1902, parts 482 26-45 only, each original pictorial wraps loosely inserted in original publisher's cloth covers for binding
R V B BLACKMAN (ED): JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS 1950-51, A REPRINT OF THE 1950-51 EDITION OF FIGHTING SHIPS, 1975 483 original cloth gilt, dust wrapper plus J E MOORE (ED): JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS 1973-74, London 1973, folio, original cloth silvered plus JOHN MOORE (ED): JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS 1987-88, London 1 ...[more]
THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS CLUB, September 1941 volume 1 No 1 - Christmas 1942 final issue 484 incorporating volume 2 No 3 December 1942 and volume 2 No 4 January 1943 consecutive, 16 issues bound in 1 volume, original top and bottom wraps bound in for each issue, contemporary cloth gilt pl ...[more]
HMSO (PUBLISHED): FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS VOLUME ONE NATIONAL FLAGS AND ENSIGNS VOLUME TWO STANDARDS OF 485 RULERS, SOVEREIGNS AND HEADS OF STATE FLAGS OF HEADS OF MINISTRIES, AND OF NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE OFFICERS, volume 1 1965 reprint incorporating amendments 1-6 and changes 1 and 2, volume 2 195 ...[more]
COMMANDER CHARLES NAPIER ROBINSON (ED): BRITANNIA'S BULWARKS, THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF OUR SEAMEN, THE 486 HONOURS OF OUR SHIPS, ill Charles Dixon & C J Staniland, London 1901 1st edition, coloured and black and white illustrations as called for, 96pp, oblong, original decorative cloth gilt, all edges gilt, ...[more] CHARLES NAPIER ROBINSON: THE BRITISH FLEET THE GROWTH, ACHIEVEMENTS AND DUTIES OF THE NAVY OF THE 487 EMPIRE, London, George Bell & Sons 1894, large paper edition limited (150) original quarter vellum gilt very worn, top edge gilt
CAPTAIN A T MAHAN, 7 titles: THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY 1660-1783, Boston 1898 15th edition; THE LIFE 488 OF NELSON THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SEA POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN, London 1897 1st edition 2 volumes; LESSONS OF THE WAR WITH SPAIN AND OTHER ARTICLES, Boston 1899 ex public service institutio ...[more]
COMMANDER GEORG VON HASE: KIEL AND JUTLAND, 1919 1st edition, frontispiece plus 6 plates plus map end paper as called for, 489 original cloth gilt plus F G TRAYES: FIVE MONTHS ON A GERMAN RAIDER BEING THE ADVENTURES OF AN ENGLISHMAN CAPTURED BY THE "WOLF", 1919 1st edition, frontis plus 5 full page plat ...[more]
MARY E BOYLE: AFTERMATH, Cambridge, W Heffer & Sons Ltd 1916, original card wraps worn and soiled plus A TOMMY: IF I GOES 490 WEST!, London, Harrap 1918, original suede wraps plus LOW'S WALKER: TUNES, The Cresset Press [1941], 1st edition plus PENCIL SKETCH OF A MARCHING SOLDIER, signed S Packard in pen ...[more]
MAJOR SIR GERALD BURRARD: IN THE GUN ROOM, 1964 3rd edition, original cloth, dust wrapper plus HENRY M STEBBINS: 491 PISTOLS A MODERN ENCYCLOPAEDIA, Harrisburg 1961, original cloth, dust wrapper plus MAJOR FREDERICK MYATT: THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PISTOLS AND REVOLVERS, 1985 reprint, original la ...[more]
ARTHUR FIRST DUKE OF WELLINGTON: THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD, London, Dickinson Bros 492 [1852], 36 coloured plates as called for, oblong quarto, original cloth gilt worn, lacks backstrip
FRED C CONYBEARE: THE DREYFUS CASE, London, 1898, 1st edition, black and white port frontis, original cloth + ALFRED 493 DREYFUS: FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE, London, 1901, 1st edition, 13 black and white plates, illustrations as called for, original pictorial cloth (2)
GEORGE SELDES: SAWDUST CAESAR, THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF MUSSOLINI AND FASCISM, London, 1936 1st edition, original 494 cloth + EMILIO DE BONO: ANNO EX IIII THE CONQUEST OF AN EMPIRE, introduction by Benito Mussolini, London, The Cressett Press, 1937 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper (2)
F H HINSLEY & OTHERS: BRITISH INTELLIGENCE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, London, HMSO, 1979-1990 1st editions, 5 495 volumes in 6, each original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper (6)
M R D FOOT: SOE IN FRANCE, AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORK OF THE BRITISH SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE IN FRANCE 496 1940-1944, London, HMSO, 1966 1st edition, signed and inscribed to front end paper "Francis Cammaerts (1916-2006), notable member of "Independent French" section of SOE which staged guerrilla oper ...[more]
THOMAS O'RIORDAN: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM, THE LIFE STORY OF MICK FITZGERALD (COMMANDANT) O/C 1ST 497 BATTALION CORK NO 2 BRIGADE, Barry's, Fermoy, circa 1970, 95pp, original pictorial printed wraps worn "this story contains an accurate and detailed account of the early life, volunteer activities, arrest, ...[more]
WINSTON S CHURCHILL: THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1948-1954 1st editions, 6 volumes, original cloth gilt, dust-wrappers (worn) 498 (6)
499 FRANK L BUNN: THE POLICE OFFICER'S ASSISTANT, 1954 7th edition, original cloth backed boards
LT COL T B H OTWAY: THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945 ARMY - AIRBORNE FORCES, The War Office 1951, "Confidential", 500 original cloth + PETER HORSFALL: HARD TO BELIEVE, TOO OLD AT 16, 1999, 1st edition, signed and inscribed, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper + MAJ GENERAL J A GASCOIGNE: STANDING ORDERS OF ...[more] 501 ARMY AND NAVY STORES LIMITED GENERAL PRICE LIST 1939-40, circa 1939, Number 104, 1127pp, qto, original cloth worn
COLONEL JOHN MONTMORENCY TUCKER: THE LIFE AND NAVAL MEMOIRS OF LORD NELSON; COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL 502 DOCUMENTS AND OTHER AUTHENTIC SOURCES, London, Willoughby & Co, circa 1850, armorial book plate of H W Compton, several references in work to Capt Henry Compton, HM Bomb Vessel Perseus, engraving of Ne ...[more]
LIEUTENANT COLONEL G F R HENDERSON: STONEWALL JACKSON AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, 1898, 1st edition, 2 503 volumes, 2 portrait plates plus 33 maps (mainly folding) as called for, armorial bookplates of Field Marshall Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Early Roberts (1832-1914) of Kandahar to front pastedowns ...[more]
SOTHEBY'S: DIE SAMMLUNG DER MARKGRAFEN UND GROSSHERZOGE VON BADEN, auction catalogues for the sale 5-21 504 October 1995 Baden-Baden, 6 volumes + volume information, conditions of sale etc + 2 volumes auction results, each original laminated wraps, original slip-case (9)
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL AND MARTIN GILBERT: WINSTON S CHURCHILL, Heinemann L, 1966-1988 1st edns, vols 1-8 with the 505 companion vols, vol 3 - companion vols 1 and 2, vol 4 - companion vols 1, 2 and 3, vol 5 - companion vols 1, 2 and 3, each unif orig cl gt (16)
[JULIAN SLIGHT]: A NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, AT SPITHEAD, AUGUST 1782..., Portsea, S Horsey 506 1843, 6th edition, 3 engraved plates (of which one folding, reinforced), 16mo, original limp leather backed wooden boards (bound in the wood of the wreck)
CAPT H GARBETT: NAVAL GUNNERY, A DESCRIPTION AND HISTORY OF THE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT OF A MAN OF WAR, 507 London, George Bell & Sons, 1897, 1st edition, original cloth gilt worn
PAUL CARELL: INVASION - THEY'RE COMING! THE GERMAN ACCOUNT OF THE ALLIED LANDINGS AND THE 80 DAYS BATTLE 508 FOR FRANCE, 1962 1st UK edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper + FELIX KERSTEN: THE KERSTEN MEMOIRS 1940-1945, 1956 1st edition, original cloth + WALTER GORLITZ (ED): THE MEMOIRS OF FIELD MAR ...[more]
JOHN FRAYN TURNER: HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE, THE EXPLOITS OF MAJOR "BILL" HARTLEY... OF BOMB DISPOSAL, London, 1961 509 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper (worn) + MAJOR A B HARTLEY: UNEXPLODED BOMB, A HISTORY OF BOMB DISPOSAL, 1958 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper (2)
ENGINEER SECTION HEADQUARTERS 5TH ARMY (PUBLISHED): ENGINEER HISTORY 5TH ARMY MEDITERRANEAN 510 THEATER, [1945], 1st edition, 3 volumes, volumes 1 and 2 plus appendices volume, black and white frontis and introduction Brigadier General Frank Otto Bowman + numerous plates, maps, plans etc "Confidential" ...[more]
CONSTANCE BABINGTON SMITH: EVIDENCE IN CAMERA, THE STORY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE IN WORLD WAR II, 511 London, 1958, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper
ADOLPH HITLER: MEIN KAMPF, 1940, "Wartime edition" with wedding presentation at front dated 28 April 1941, original quarter calf 512 gilt worn, slip-case (worn),
A T MAHAN: THE LIFE OF NELSON, THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SEA POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN, London, 1899, 2nd edition 513 revised, original cloth gilt + THE LIFE OF HORATIO, LORD NELSON, London, SPCK 1847, original blind stamped cloth gilt (2)
LT COL J R HARVEY: RECORDS OF THE NORFOLK YEOMANRY CAVALRY TO WHICH IS ADDED THE FENCIBLE AND 514 PROVISIONAL CAVALRY OF THE SAME COUNTY FROM 1780 TO 1908..., London and Norwich, Jarrold & Sons, 1908, 1st edition, 30 mounted plates as called for, Royal octavo, original half calf gilt worn (split of leat ...[more] MICHELIN & CIE, CLERMONT FERRAND (PUBLISHED): ILLUSTRATED MICHELIN GUIDES TO THE BATTLEFIELDS (1914-1918), 515 THE AMERICANS IN THE GREAT WAR, VOLUME 1 THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE MARNE...- VOLUME 2 THE BATTLE OF ST MIHIEL... - VOLUME 3 MEUSE-ARGONNE BATTLE, circa 1919, 3 volumes, each original cloth, volu ...[more]
CAPT G A PRIDEAUX: A SOLDIER'S DIARY OF THE GREAT WAR 1914-1917, London, for private circulation at The Chiswick Press, 516 1918, black and white frontis, folding black and white map, 192pp, original cloth backed boards worn, + FROM THE AUSTRALIAN FRONT, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1917, original pictorial wraps ...[more]
WALTER RICHARDS: HER MAJESTY'S ARMY, A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS REGIMENTS NOW COMPRISING THE QUEEN'S FORCES, FROM THEIR FIRST ESTABLISHMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME - INDIAN AND COLONIAL FORCES, A 517 DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS REGIMENTS NOW COMPRISING THE QUEEN'S FORCES IN INDIA AND THE CO ...[more]
MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS: THE WELLINGTON MEMORIAL, WELLINGTON HIS COMRADES AND CONTEMPORIES, London, 518 George Allen 1897, large paper edition, limited (100) numbered, original quarter vellum, spine v worn, + SIR HERBERT MAXWELL: THE LIFE OF WELLINGTON, THE RESTORATION OF THE MARSHALL POWER OF GREAT BRIT ...[more]
MAURICE BARING: FLYING CORPS HEADQUARTERS 1914-1918, 1930 1st collected edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper (v worn), 519 ex-Royal Air Force library + M F VON RICHTHOFEN: THE RED AIR FIGHTER, London, The Aeroplane and General Publishing Co 1918, original two-tone pictorial cloth + FL LT IRA JONES: KIN ...[more]
520 SAMUEL PEPYS: A DIARY OF THE GREAT WARR - A SECOND DIARY... - THE LAST DIARY..., 1917-1919, 3 volumes, (3)
LT GENERAL SIR BRIAN HORROCKS: A FULL LIFE, Collins 1960 1st edition, signed by the author on piece of paper tipped onto title 521 page, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper + SIR BRIAN HORROCKS: CORPS COMMANDER, 1977 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper (2)
THE ANNUAL REGISTER OR THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT WAR, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES, IN 1755; 522 AND CONTINUED DURING THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, AND TO THE END OF THE CAMPAIGN, 1761 ..., London, R & J Dodsley and Dublin, John Exshaw [1762], 5 engraved portrait plates plus 7 ...[more]
MAJOR JAMES WALTER: THE BRITISH VOLUNTEER OF YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY, A BULWARK FOR EUROPE’S PEACE, 522A London, W O Mitchell, c.1860 1st edition, signed and inscribed presentation copy to Capt Robinson, original cloth worn, one copy only on COPAC
SALLY HIBBIN: THE OFFICIAL JAMES BOND 007 MOVIE POSTER BOOK, 1987 reprint, folio, original pictorial laminated wraps + 523 DIRK MANTHEY: DIE TRICKS, circa 1981, original pictorial laminated wraps + GEORGE EYSTON & W F BRADLEY: SPEED ON SALT, A HISTORY OF THE BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, UTAH, USA, 1936 1st ed ...[more]
HERBERT J BUTLER: MOTOR BODY WORK, THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF PRIVATE, COMMERCIAL AND 524 PASSENGER TYPES, London, W R Howell & Co, 1924, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, worn and soiled + CHARLES JARROTT: TEN YEARS OF MOTORS AND MOTOR RACING, London, Grant Richards, 1906, 1st edition, original pic ...[more]
W C BERSEY & W V FOUCHARD: A LIST OF MOTOR CARS, LIGHT CARS AND CYCLE CARS MANUFACTURED OR SOLD IN 525 THE UNITED KINGDOM 1908-1914..., London, 1914, "The Motor Car Red Book", original cloth gilt + CASSIER'S MAGAZINE, 1907, volume 33 number 1, GAS POWER NUMBER, lacks wraps, contemporary cloth + JOSEPH L ...[more]
ARNOLD L HASKELL: BARON ENCORE, 1952, limited edition (50), signed by the author and [Nahum] Baron (1906-1956), 5 coloured 526 plates as called for, quarto, original calf worn plus A E JOHNSON: THE RUSSIAN BALLET, illustrated Rene Bull, London, 1913, quarto, original cloth worn (2) EARLY 19TH CENTURY SHEET MUSIC bound in 2 volumes, 120+ individual pieces including FRANCOIS PANORMO: CIUDAD 527 RODRIGO..., circa 1813, 9pp + J G FERRARI: PETITS AIRS POUR LE PIANOFORTE, circa 1813, 6pp etc etc, many works with engraved title pages, each volume with manuscript index at front, both foli ...[more]
SONGS, BY THE LATE JOHN HUNT, ORGANIST OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL, London, Cramer, Addison & Beale [1843], one of 528 379 subscribers copies only, 48pp, folio, original decorative morocco gilt worn
(TRADE CATALOGUES): THE METAL AGENCIES COMPANY LIMITED, CATALOGUE 66 SEPTEMBER 1937, original cloth v worn 529 and soiled, backstrip near detached, inner joints weak + GEO W KING LTD, HITCHIN (PUB): COWSHED EQUIPMENT CATALOGUE NUMBER CB36-ALL BRITISH EQUIPMENT, circa 1934, original wraps + BROAD & CO LT ...[more]
THOMAS WHITTAKER: ESSAYS AND NOTICES PHILOSOPHICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL, London, 1895 1st edition, original cloth 530 worn + JAMES M'COSH: AN EXAMINATION OF MR J S MILLS'S PHILOSOPHY, BEING A DEFENCE OF FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH, London, MacMillan & Co, 1866, 1st edition, original cloth worn + LUDWIG BUCHNER: LAST ...[more]
CHRISTMAS HUMPHREYS: STUDIES IN THE MIDDLE WAY, London, 1940 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper + SIR JOHN 531 WOODROFFE & PRAMATHA NATHA MUKHYOPADHYAYA: MAHAMAYA, THE WORLD AS POWER: POWER AS CONSCIOUSNESS (CHIT-SHAKTI), Madras, Ganesh & Co 1954, original cloth (3)
ALEXANDRE KOYRE: LA PHILOSOPHIE DE JACOB BOEMHE, Paris, Librarie Philosophique J Vrin 1919, original printed wraps + 533 SIGMUND FREUD: DELUSION AND DREAM, AN INTERPRETATION IN THE LIGHT OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS OF GRADIVA, A NOVEL..., translated Helen Downey, London, 1921, 1st edition, ex-Institutional ink s ...[more]
JOHN ABERCROMBIE: INQUIRIES CONCERNING THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS AND THE INVESTIGATION OF TRUTH, 534 Edinburgh, Waugh & Innes 1830 1st edition, inscribed presentation copy, original cloth v worn, rebacked original backstrip retained, inner joints reinforced
THOMAS REID: ESSAYS ON THE ACTIVE POWERS OF MAN, Dublin for P Byrne & J Milliken, 1790, 1st Dublin edition, contemporary 535 full calf
J F W HERSCHEL: THE CABINET OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY..., London for Longman, Rees et al, 1831, 1st edition, added engraved 536 vignette title, old full calf gilt worn, all edges gilt
ST GEORGE MIVART: ON TRUTH, A SYSTEMATIC ENQUIRY, London, 1889, 1st edition, original cloth gilt + H VAIHINGER: THE 537 PHILOSOPHY OF "AS IF", A SYSTEM OF THE THEORETICAL, PRACTICAL AND RELIGIOUS FICTIONS OF MANKIND, London, 1935, 2nd edition, original cloth gilt + F H BRADLEY: APPEARANCE AND REALITY, A ...[more]
E MASCART & J JOUBERT: A TREATISE ON ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM, London, 1883-1888, 1st edition, 2 volumes, original 538 cloth gilt + C F E BJORLING: SOLEN POPULARA FOREDRAG, Stockholm, F & G Beijers, 17 plates (of which 13 coloured), as called for, 1874-1875, original calf backed boards gilt (3)
FREDERICH WILHELM SCHUBERT: IMMANUEL KANT'S ANTHROPOLOGIE IN PRAGMATISCHER HINSICHT, Leipzig, Leopold 539 Voss 1838, plain paper wraps worn, + H W CASSIRER: A COMMENTARY ON KANT'S CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT, 1938, 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper + LEONHARD STAHLIN: KANT, LOTZE AND RITCHL, A CRITICAL ...[more]
WILLIAM FLEMING: A MANUAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY WITH QUOTATIONS AND REFERENCES FOR THE USE OF 540 STUDENTS, Glasgow, 1860, 1st edition, old half calf v worn + DUGGALD STEWART: PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS, Edinburgh 1818, 3rd edition, old full calf rebacked + HENRI BERGSON: TIME AND FREE WILL, AN ESSAY ON THE IMM ...[more]
SIR WILLIAM CROOKES (1832-1919), ENGLISH CHEMIST AND PHYSICIST, PIONEER OF THE VACUUM TUBES, COLLECTION 541 OF TITLES INCLUDING: ADDRESS BY SIR WILLIAM CROOKES, FRS, VPCS, PRESIDENT [BEFORE THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, BRISTOL, 1898], circa 1898 38pp, rebound marbled paper cov ...[more] THEODORE POUPIN: CARACTERES PHRENOLOGIQUES ET PHYSIOGNOMIQUES..., Brussels, 1837, 39 engraved plates (of which 542 2 folding), page 187/188 torn with part loss affecting very small part of text 187 only, rebound, half calf gilt + ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE: THE MAGICAL WRITINGS OF THOMAS VAUGHAN, London, Geor ...[more]
GEORGE EDWARD MOORE: COMMONPLACE BOOK 1919-1953, 1962 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper + M P W 543 BOLTON: INQUISITIO PHILOSOPHICA, London 1866, 1st edition, original blind stamped cloth worn + WILHELM WINDELBAND: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY, translated Joseph McCabe, 1921 1st edition, o ...[more]
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDREICH HEGEL: LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION TOGETHER WITH A WORK ON THE 544 PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, translated The Rev E B Speirs & J Burdon Sanderson, London, Keegan Paul et al 1895, 1st edition, 3 volumes, original cloth gilt v worn (3)
J M'GREGOR-ROBERTSON: THE HOUSEHOLD PHYSICIAN..., London, Gresham Publishing Co 1907, new edition, 4 volumes, A/F, 545 some leaves loose etc (4)
FREDERICK SODDY: RADIO-ACTIVITY: AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE, FROM THE STANDPOINT OF DISINTEGRATION THEORY, 546 The Electrician Printing & Publishing Co Ltd, 1904, 1st edition, original cloth + A S RUSSELL: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CHEMISTRY OF RADIO-ACTIVE SUBSTANCES, London, 1922, 1st edition, original cloth ...[more]
THEODORE DUCAMP: A TREATISE ON THE RETENTION OF URINE, CAUSED BY STRICTURES IN THE URETHRA AND OF THE 547 MEANS BY WHICH OBSTRUCTIONS OF THIS CANAL MAY BE EFFECTUALLY REMOVED, New York, Samuel Wood & Sons, 1827, 1st edition, 5 engraved plates, ex-lib, 2 ink stamps, rebound calf backed boards + S A KINNI ...[more]
WILLIAM WHEWELL: LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY, Cambridge 1862, new edition, original cloth gilt worn 548 + BENJAMIN MOTTE: THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS FROM THE YEAR MDCC... TO THE YEAR MDCCXX ABRIDG'D..., London for R Wilkin, 1721, volume 2 only, 41 (of 42) engraved plates, old half ca ...[more]
PASSAGES FROM THE DIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS..., Edinburgh and London, William 549 Blackwood and T Cadell, 1833, 2nd edition, 2 volumes, old half calf gilt + ANDREW COMBE: THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSIOLOGY APPLIED TO THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH..., Edinburgh, 1842, 11th edition, re ...[more]
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER..., Oxford, The University Press and l, Henry Frowde, circa 1889, "THE FINGER PRAYER BOOK", 550 96mo, original calf gilt
[PIERRE REMOND DE SAINTE ALBINE]: THE ACTOR A TREATISE ON THE ART OF PLAYING..., L for R Griffiths, 1750, 1st edition, 551 12mo, old calf worn, top board detached plus FREDERICK REYNOLDS: A PLAYWRIGHT'S ADVENTURES, L 1831, 12mo, contemporary half roan (2)
JAMES REYNOLDS (PUB): POPULAR ASTRONOMY A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL PHENOMENA OF ASTRONOMY, L 552 circa 1877, 20 double pages plates, mainly coloured, contemporary half calf worn
553 GEORGE ALBERT SOPER: MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING, L and NY 1909, 1st edition, original cloth
JAMES MITCHELL: FIRST LINES OF SCIENCE OR A COMPREHENSIVE AND PROGRESSIVE VIEW OF THE LEADING 554 BRANCHES OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AND INVENTION, L 1827, 19 engraved plates as called for, 12mo, rebound calf plus JACQUES ROHAULT: ROHAULT'S SYSTEM OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY ILLUSTRATED WITH DR SAMUEL CL ...[more]
SIR DAVID BREWSTER: LETTERS ON NATURAL MAGIC ADDRESSED TO SIR WALTER SCOTT BART, L, John Murray 1834, 555 pages 119 and 121 with 2 woodcut overlays (very often missing), 16mo, contemporary half calf DANIEL WATERLAND: A CRITICAL HISTORY OF ATHANASIAN CREED ..., Cambridge 1728, 2nd edition corrected and improved, 556 contemporary blind stamp calf worn plus CHARLES WHEATLY: A RATIONAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ..., L 1741, 7th edition, contemporary calf worn, t ...[more]
THE COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY BIBLE ..., Ed David Davidson, Blackie & Sons, 1860, engraved plates, thick 4to contemporary half 557 calf worn, all edges gilt
FRANCISCO HOGER: UNAUFHORLICHER KIRCHEN-GLANTZ ..., Ingolstadt, Johann Andre de la Haye 1725, half title loose, title 558 page chipped and stained, contemporary full vellum very worn and grubby, manuscript title to spine
GILBERT BURNET: THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND..., L, for J Wolthoe and B Tooke et al, 559 1715, 4th edn, 3 vols, vols 1 and 2 with added engrd ttle pge, 22 engrd port plts, old fl cf worn, vol 1 top bd detchd but present (3)
THE SELF-INTERPRETING BIBLE ..., Ed Rev John Brown, L, Virtue & Co circa 1870, engraved plates including quantity Bartlett, 4to, 560 contemporary blind stamped calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, crimson morocco label
THE HOLY BIBLE ..., Cambridge 1769, bound in at front THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER ..., Cambridge 1770, bound in at end THE 561 WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS ..., Cambridge 1777 and A BRIEF CONCORDANCE ..., L 1773, 4to contemporary blind stamped reversed calf worn, Herbert 1195
THE HOLY BIBLE ..., Oxford, The University Press, no date, decorative calf gilt presentation label on front pastedown dated 1857, thick 562 4to contemporary blind stamped calf worn, all edges gilt
JOHN SELDEN: TITLES OF HONOR, L, E Tyler & R Holt for Thomas Bassett, 1672, 3rd edition, fo contemporary blind stamped calf 563 worn
CASES IN EQUITY DURING THE TIME OF THE LATE LORD CHANCELLOR TALBOT WITH TABLES OF NAMES OF THE CASES 564 AND PRINCIPAL MATTERS, in the Savoy Henry Lintot for C Walter 1753, 2nd edition, fo old calf worn, top board loose, ex lib
THE HOLY BIBLE ..., Oxford 1784, title page grubby and loose, 4to contemporary blind stamped reverse calf soiled and very worn, 565 Herbert 1295
RICHARD HOOKER: OF THE LAWES OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITIE EIGHT BOOKES, L, William Stansbye circa 1632, engraved 566 general title page, 6 other engraved title pages dated 1631 or 1632, small fo, contemporary calf worn
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, Oxford, Bensley, Cooke, and Collingwood, engraved general title (imprint of R Ackermann and 11 567 plates) contemporary grained decorative crimson morocco gilt all edges gilt
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, L, J & F Tallis, circa 1840, 38 engraved plates as called for, 4to contemporary blind stamped calf 568 gilt
JOSEPH BUTLER: THE ANALOGY OF RELIGION NATURAL AND REVEALED TO THE CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF 569 NATURE ..., London 1736 quarto, contemporary panelled calf very worn, top board detached but present
570 (WELSH BIBLE): HANES PRYDAIN FAWR, YN WLADOL A CHREFYDDOL ..., Caerfyrddin 1857, old full calf worn rebacked
THE HOLY BIBLE ..., ill Gustave Dore, London and New York, Cassell Petter & Galpin, circa 1880, fo contemporary decorative blinds 571 stamped calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, armorial bookplate of H W E Storey AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES BY NOTES AND EXPLICATIONS ON THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ..., 572 London, for R Goadby 1759, 6th edition, 3 volumes, volumes 1 and 2 with 96 engraved black and white plates (of which several folding maps and folding plates), volume 3 title page, AN ILLUSTRATION OF TH ...[more]
ABRAHAM FARLEY (ed): DOMESDAY-BOOK..., [L], [1783], 2 vols, 382pp, 450pp, published without ttle pp, fo, old fl cf gt, vol 1 top bd 573 detchd but present + ROBERT KELHAM: DOMESDAY BOOK ILLUSTRATED CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THAT ANTIENT RECORD..., L, 1788, rebnd cl bkd bds + V H GALBRAITH: THE MAKING OF ...[more]
JOHN BUNYAN: BUNYAN'S CHOICE WORKS ..., Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, W R M'phun 1867, 4to, contemporary decorative 574 blind stamped calf gilt worn, all edges gilt plus ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS: THE ROMANCE OF EARLY EXPLORATION, London 1907, morocco gilt prize binding (2)
THE HOLY BIBLE, Ed John M'farlane, Glasgow, William Collins 1860, engraved plates, thick 4to contemporary blind stamped calf very 575 worn, brass edges and clasp, top board detached
HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW ..., Oxford, Clarenden Press from Jackson & W Dawson, 1795, 576 folio, old full calf worn, "Watton Church 1854" in gilt to top board, crimson morocco label to front pastedown, Herbert No 1389
NOVISSIMO LIVRO PEQUENO DA MISSA E DA CONFISSAO COM A SEMANA SANTA, Paris and Lisbon, Guillard Aillaud circa 1888, 577 2 coloured plates, ivorine boards, top board with decorative moulded oval panel, ivorine clasps all edges gilt plus AVE MARIA DEVOCIONAMO COMPLETO A MARIA SANTISSIMA, Lisbon, Porto, Win ...[more]
LIVRO DA MISSA E DA CONFISSAO COM OS OFFICIOS DOS DOMINGOS ..., Paris, Laplace, Sanchez circa 1857, 3 coloured plates, 578 4 engraved plates, mother of pearl boards, metal clasp, all edges gilt plus MANUAL ABREVIADO DA MISSA E DA CONFISSAO, Paris, Guillard Aillaud circa 1900, ivorine boards, top board w ...[more]
LIVRO ABREVIADO DA MISSA E DA CONFISSAO E OUTRAS ORACOES, Paris, Laplace, Sanchez circa 1900, ivorine boards, top 579 board with moulded panel, lower board with decorative overlaid multi-coloured panel, metal clasp, all edges gilt plus PEQUENO LIVRO DO OFFICIO DA MISSA, Paris, G Jeener circa 1880, added ...[more]
BROWN'S SELF-INTERPRETING FAMILY BIBLE ..., Ed Rev John Brown, London, J G Murdoch, circa 1860, thick 4to contemporary 580 blind stamped calf worn, brass edges and clasps, all edges gilt
581 THE SELF-INTERPRETING BIBLE, Ed Rev John Brown, Bungay, Brightly & Childs 1814, engraved plates, fo, contemporary calf worn
BROWN'S SELF-INTERPRETING FAMILY BIBLE, Ed Rev John Brown, London, John G Murdoch circa 1880, coloured and other 582 plates, thick 4to contemporary panelled calf, brass mounts and clasps (1 detached), all edges gilt, housed in wooden box
583 H C G MOULE AND H COPPING: THE GOSPEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, London [1908], folio, original decorative cloth gilt
TABLEAUX DE LA SUISSE OU VOYAGE PITTORESQUE FAIT DANS LES TREIZE CANTONS ET ETATS ALLIES DU CORPS 584 HELVETIQUE, Geneve 1977 (450) 4 volumes, numbered, facsimile edition, fo decorative faux leather gilt (4)
SEBASTIAN C ADAMS: ADAMS' ILLUSTRATED PANORAMA OF HISTORY, London and Paris, A H Walker [1881], 21 conjoined 585 coloured folding sheets, varnished, mounted onto linen depicting the history of mankind, large fo, original half crimson morocco gilt worn
[EDMUND H THURSTON] "THE SPORTSMAN": BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN: BIG GAME HUNTING AND ANGLING, 586 London, 1914 limited edition (1000), numbered, original two-tone cloth gilt, top edges gilt, folio THE GARDEN, AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY JOURNAL OF GARDENING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, 1874 (2) 1875, 1875, vols (2), vols 587 5, 6, 7 and 8, uniform decorative cloth gilt (4)
W ROBINSON: FLORA AND SYLVA..., London 1903, 1904, 1905, volumes 1-3, all original blind stamped cloth gilt worn with some 588 damp staining, volume 1 lacks front free end papers, volume 2 lacks all before title page, volume 3 lacks front free end papers, A/F + EDEN PHILLPOTTS: MY SHRUBS, London and New ...[more]
THOMAS H MAWSON: THE ART AND CRAFT OF GARDEN MAKING, [1912], 4th edition, original cloth gilt, worn, top edges gilt + 589 ROBERT THOMPSON: THE GARDENER'S ASSISTANT, 1905 new edition, 6 divs, 17 coloured plates, original cloth (7)
ALWYNE WHEELER: THE FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1969 1st edition, original cloth gilt + 590 DAVID NICHOLS & JOHN COOKE: THE OXFORD BOOK OF INVERTEBRATES, 1971, 1972, 2 volumes, original cloth + JOHN BURTON: THE OXFORD BOOK OF INSECTS, 1968, original cloth + ERNEST NEAL: THE BADGER ...[more]
HENRY WILLIAMSON: 7 titles: TARKA THE OTTER, 1932, 1st illustrated edition, original cloth gilt: SALAR THE SALMON, 1935 1st 591 edition, original cloth, dust wrapper: THE STAR-BORN, illustrated C S Tunnicliffe, 1933 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper: ON FOOT IN DEVON, 1933 1st edition, original ...[more]
592 F EDWARD HULME: FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS, [1877-85], 5 volumes in 2, contemporary half calf (2)
LIONEL EDWARDS, 8 titles: MY SCOTTISH SKETCH BOOK, 1929, 1st edition, 16 coloured plates as called for; MY HUNTING 593 SKETCH BOOK, 1930, 1st edition, 2 volumes, 15 coloured plates and 19 of 21 plates including 6 coloured; TALLY-HO BACK, 1931, 1st edition, 16 plates as called for; A LEICESTERSHIRE SKETC ...[more]
THE SPORTSMAN'S DICTIONARY; OR THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY CONTAINING FULL AND 594 PARTICULAR INSTRUCTIONS FOR RIDING, HUNTING, FOWLING..., London, 1785 3rd edition, 16 engraved plates as called for, quarto, contemporary full calf worn
CUTHBERT BRADLEY: THE FOXHOUND OF TWENTIETH CENTURY ..., London 1914, 1st edition, 31 plates including 16 coloured as 595 list, contemporary half green morocco worn, top edges gilt
W J BEAN: TREES AND SHRUBS HARDY IN THE BRITISH ISLES, London, 1919, second revised edition, 2 volumes, original cloth + 596 W KEBLE MARTIN: THE CONCISE BRITISH FLORA IN COLOUR, 1965, 1st edition, original cloth, gilt + THE YEAR BOOK OF THE RHODODENDRON ASSOCIATION, 1929, original cloth, worn and soiled ...[more]
ANTHONY HUXLEY AND OTHERS (EDS): THE NEW ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 1992, 597 1st edition, 4 volumes, 4to, original cloth, slip case
JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER: A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND LABOURS OF SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER ..., Oxford 1903, 1st 598 edition, port frontis, signed, printed presentation label verso of top wrap, original printed top wrap browned with loss and detached
[GEORGE KENDALL]: FAMOUS SPORTING PRINTS - BOXING, "The Studio" 1930 1st edition, 8 coloured plates, some foxing, 4to, 599 original pictorial wraps reinforced with sellotape
PIERCE EGAN: BOXIANA, OR, SKETCHES OF ANTIENT AND MODERN PUGILISM, FROM THE DAYS OF THE RENOWNED 600 BROUGHTON AND SLACK, THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF CRIB, L, Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1818-1824, 4 vols, vols 1 and 2 1818, vol 3 1821, vol 4 1824 + NEW SERIES OF BOXIANA BEING THE ONLY ORIGINAL AND COMPLETE LIVES ...[more]
EGERTON CASTLE: SCHOOLS AND MASTERS OF FENCE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ..., 601 London 1885, 1st edition, some old photograph of armour loosely inserted, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt very worn and soiled CHARLES JAMES APPERLEY "NIMROD": REMARKS ON THE CONDITION OF HUNTERS, THE CHOICE OF HORSES, AND THEIR 602 MANAGEMENT ..., London, M A Pittman, 1837 3rd edition, 3/4 crimson morocco gilt by Bickers, armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks, top edges gilt
THOMAS A MAWSON: THE ART AND CRAFT OF GARDEN MAKING, London [1912], 4th edition, fo, original pictorial cloth gilt plus 603 ALFRED AUSTIN: THE GARDEN THAT I LOVE, London, A & C Black, 1906 reprint, original decorative cloth gilt plus JOHN D SEDDING: GARDEN-CRAFT OLD AND NEW, 1891, 1st edition, original ...[more]
JOHN M WILSON (ED): THE RURAL CYCLOPEDIA OR A GENERAL DICTIONARY OF AGRICULTURE ..., Edinburgh, A Fullarton 604 1847-49, 4 volumes, 4to, old calf very worn, volume 1 top board detached plus JOHN C MORTON (ED): A CYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ..., Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, Black ...[more]
PABLO BUSH ROMERO: MI AVENTURA CON TIGRES Y LEONES, Mexico City [1956], signed and inscribed, text in Spanish 605 language, original printed wraps, dust wrapper
R D T ALEXANDER & A MARTIN-LEAKE: SOME SIGNPOSTS TO SHIKAR, Calcutta, Fred R Grenyer for the Bengal Nagpur Railway 606 Magazine 1932, ix 127pp, original cloth
R S R FITTER: LONDON'S BIRDS, 1949 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper plus KENT DURDEN: GIFTS OF AN EAGLE, 1972, 607 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper plus FRANCES PITT: BIRDS IN BRITAIN, 1948, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper plus IAN PITMAN: AND CLOUDS FLYING, ill Peter Scott, ...[more]
FRANCIS T BUCKLAND: CURIOSITIES OF NATURAL HISTORY, London 1866 9th edition, contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt in 608 compartments plus HERBERT RUSSELL: THE LONGSHOREMAN, London 1896, 1st edition, signed and inscribed, inner joints split with tape residue, original pictorial cloth gilt worn plus DOMEST ...[more]
VAN CAMPEN HEILNER: DUCK SHOOTING, ill Lynn Bogue Hunt, 1951 1st edition, 4to, original cloth dust wrapper plus ROBERT 609 CHURCHILL: GAME SHOOTING, 1955, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper plus EDWARD SEAGO: A CANVAS TO COVER, 1947, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper plus H VON MICHAELIS: ...[more]
OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE, London, J F Dove 1828, 3 volumes, 57 engraved 610 plates as called for, original cloth, printed paper labels worn and soiled, inner joints weak
CAPT C H STIGAND & D D LYELL: CENTRAL AFRICAN GAME AND ITS SPOOR, London, 1906, 1st edition, 64 plates (2 folding), + 5 611 additional un-numbered plates complete, original cloth worn + CAPT C H STIGAND: THE GAME OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA, London, 1909 1st edition, collates complete, original publishers "c ...[more]
ROBERT SMITH SURTEES: HANDLEY-CROSS OR MR JORROCKS' HUNT, ill Cecil Aldin, L, Edward Arnold [1911] 1st edn, 2 vols, 612 orig pict cl gt, teg, (2)
SIR SAMUEL W BAKER: WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS, REMINISCENCES OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA AND AMERICA, 613 London, MacMillan 1891 2nd edition, 455pp + 4pp publishers ads at end, original pictorial cloth gilt, together with another copy, London 1890 1st edition, volume 2 (of 2) only, original pictorial cloth ...[more]
ROBERT SMITH SURTEES: MR ROMFORD'S HOUNDS - MR SPONGE'S SPORTING TOUR, Illustrated John Leech, London, 614 Bradbury, Agnew & Co, circa 1852, circa 1864, each original pictorial cloth gilt rebacked, original back strips retained plus ROBERT SMITH SURTEES, 6 TITLES: MR SPONGE'S SPORTING TOUR - "HAWBUCK GR ...[more]
W KEITH NEAL & D H L BACK: BRITISH GUNMAKERS, MESSRS GRIFFIN & TOW AND W BAILES 1740-1790, Norwich, Historical 615 Firearms 1989 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, original cardboard packaging D H L BACK: GREAT BRITISH GUNMAKERS FORSYTH & CO, PATENT GUNMAKERS 1806-1852, Norwich, Historical Firearms 1995 616 2nd edition revised, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, original cardboard packaging
W KEITH NEAL & D H L BACK: GREAT BRITISH GUNMAKERS 1540-1740, Norwich, Historical Firearms 1984 limited edition (750) out 617 of series, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper
HUGH B C POLLARD & FRANK SOUTHGATE: WILDFOWL AND WADERS, NATURE AND SPORT IN THE COASTLANDS, London, 618 Country Life 1928 limited edition (950), numbered, coloured frontis, 15 coloured plates + black and white illustrations complete as called for, large quarto, original vellum backed paper covered boar ...[more]
619 PETER SCOTT: WILD CHORUS, 1949 reprint, 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper
ALFRED E T WATSON (ED): YOUNG SPORTSMAN, 1900, 1st edition, original cloth gilt worn plus DONALD MAXWELL: THE NEW 620 LIGHTS O'LONDON ..., 1926, 1st edition, original cloth gilt plus MADAME MICHELET: NATURE, London 1884, original pictorial cloth gilt worn (3)
THE ANGLER'S GUIDE TO THE IRISH FREE STATE, Dublin Stationery Office 1937 3rd edition, original cloth + H T SHERINGHAM & 621 H D TURING: WHERE TO FISH (THE ANGLER'S DIARY)..., London, The Field circa 1930, large folding map loosely inserted, original cloth gilt very worn, backstrip near detached, + S AL ...[more]
THOMAS MEDWIN: THE ANGLER IN WALES OR DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SPORTSMEN, London 1834 1st edition, 2 volumes, old 622 cloth worn plus G P R PULMAN: RUSTIC SKETCHES BEING RHYMES AND "SKITS" ON ANGLING AND OTHER SUBJECTS IN ONE OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN DIALECTS WITH A COPIOUS GLOSSARY AND GENERAL REMARKS ON COUNTRY ...[more]
IZAAK WALTON & CHARLES COTTON: THE COMPLETE ANGLER OR, CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION BEING A 623 DISCOURSE ON RIVERS, FISH-PONDS, FISH, AND FISHING..., London 1760 1st "Hawkins" edition, old full calf gilt, rebacked, original backstrip retained
JOHN GUILLE MILLAIS: GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES ..., London, Henry Sotheran, 16 coloured plates as called for, 624 large 4to, contemporary half crimson morocco very worn and soiled, inner joints split
GEORGE PLUMPTRE, 2 titles: THE LATEST COUNTRY GARDENS, 1988 1st edition, signed and inscribed, original cloth, dust 625 wrapper; GARDEN ORNAMENT, 1989 1st edition, signed and inscribed, 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper plus PIERRE-JOSEPH REDOUTE: ROSES, Ed Eva Mannering, 1954 2nd edition, folio, origin ...[more]
STANLEY HARRIS: OLD COACHING DAYS, illustrated John Sturgess, London 1882 1st edition, 12 tinted lithoplates as list, original 626 pictorial cloth + TOM BRADLEY: THE OLD COACHING DAYS IN YORKSHIRE, Leeds 1889, 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt + SIR WALTER GILBEY: EARLY CARRIAGES AND ROADS, Lon ...[more]
EDWIN HAUTENVILLE RICHARDSON: 2 titles: WATCH-DOGS, THEIR TRAINING AND MANAGEMENT, London, 1923 1st edition, 627 original cloth, FORTY YEARS WITH DOGS, [1929], 1st edition, original cloth + JOSEPH FRANKLIN PERRY "ASHMONT": KENNEL DISEASES, Boston 1907, original cloth, very worn + W POWELL-OWEN: DOG-KEEP ...[more]
JULIAN CUNDIFF: SUCCESSFUL CARP FISHING, 1995 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper + BRUCE POCKLINGTON: THE 628 PLEASURES OF COARSE FISHING, 1993 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper + STANISLAV LUSK: FISH AND FISHERMEN, 1995 1st edition, 4to, original pictorial laminated boards, dust-wrapper ...[more]
HENRY STEPHENS: THE BOOK OF THE FARM, Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood, 1851 2nd edition, 2 volumes, original calf 629 backed pictorial cloth boards, pictorial gilt spines, (2) J G MILLAIS: THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD: BRITISH DEER AND GROUND GAME DOGS, GUNS AND RIFLES, London, 1913, 630 limited edition (950) (500), numbered, volume 2 of "The Gun at Home and Abroad", original full calf gilt, top edges gilt, quarto
HAROLD FRANK WALLACE: STALKS ABROAD, BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE SPORT OBTAINED DURING A TWO YEARS 631 TOUR OF THE WORLD, 1908 1st edition, original cloth gilt worn + LIONEL EDWARDS & HAROLD FRANK WALLACE: HUNTING AND STALKING THE DEER, THE PURSUIT OF RED, FALLOW AND ROE DEER IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, 1927 ...[more]
ALEXANDER WEBBER: SHOOTING A POEM, COMPRISING A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF FIELD SPORTS DEPENDENT ON 632 THE GUN..., London, Rudolph Ackerman 1841 1st edition, engraved vignette title and frontis, inscribed presentation copy, original blind stamped cloth worn, split at spine + W W GREENER: THE GUN AND ITS D ...[more]
OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE, London, Blackie, 1866, 2 volumes, 67 plates including 633 37 hand coloured, some foxing, contemporary quarter calf, (2)
634 J A BAKER: THE PEREGRINE, 1967, 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper (spine faded)
ROBERT HOGG & THOMAS MOORE: THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST..., 1868, 11 hand coloured plates including one folding (this 635 with old repair), rebound, calf backed vellum boards
ANNE PRATT: WILD FLOWERS, London, 1855-53, early reprint, 1st edition, 2 volumes, coloured plates complete, original blind 636 stamped cloth + EDWARD STEP: WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND BLOSSOMS, nd, new edition, 1st and 2nd series, inscriptions dated 1926, original pictorial calf gilt + W J GORDON: OUR COUNTRY' ...[more]
J BARTLET: PHARMACOPOEIA HIPPIATRACA OR, THE GENTLEMAN FARRIER'S REPOSITORY, OF ELEGANT AND APPROVED 637 REMEDIES FOR THE DISEASES OF HORSES..., Eton, T Pote, 1766, 2nd edition, contemporary full calf worn, top board near detached, with manuscript farrier's account on one folio folded sheet dated August ...[more]
JOHN DUNCAN: BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES, London and Newcastle, 1898, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt + DAVID Lack: THE 638 BIRDS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Cambridge Bird Club, 1934, original cloth gilt + JOHN HANCOCK: A CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM, London, Edinburgh and Newcastle, 1 ...[more]
CECIL T PRINE: LORDS AND LADIES, 1960 1st edition, New Naturalist monograph number 17, original cloth top board with gilt school 639 stamp, school prize label on front paste down, dust-wrapper (some repairs and minor losses),
MARTIN J SUTTON: PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY PASTURES WITH DESCRIPTIONS AND COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OF 640 LEADING NATURAL GRASSES AND CLOVERS, London 1886, 1st edition, 23 coloured lithoplates as called for, gutta-percha perished, original cloth + EDWARD NEWMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH BUT ...[more]
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU: LETTERS ON THE ELEMENTS OF BOTANY ADDRESSED TO A LADY...AND TWENTY-FOUR 641 ADDITIONAL LETTERS FULLY EXPLAINING THE SYSTEM OF LINNAEUS, translated Thomas Martyn, London for B White & Son, 1785 1st edition, folding table, old half calf worn, joints weak
JOHN EDWARD SOWERBY & CHARLES PIERPOINT JOHNSON: BRITISH WILD FLOWERS, London, John van Voorst 1863, re- 642 issue, 90 plates, 88 hand coloured, original blind stamped cloth gilt, re-cased, all edges gilt
JOHN EDWARD SOWERBY & CHARLES PIERPOINT JOHNSON: BRITISH WILD FLOWERS, London, Gurney & Jackson, 1890, re- 643 issue, 92 plates including 90 hand coloured, owner's inscription of E Ellen Barclay, together with inscription of other members of the Barclay family, some marginal annotations, rebound (not rec ...[more] JOHN EDWARD SOWERBY & CHARLES PIERPOINT JOHNSON: BRITISH WILD FLOWERS, London, Gurney & Jackson, 1894, re- 644 issue, 92 plates including 90 hand coloured, original cloth gilt, all edges gilt, + C & L SCHROTER: COLOURED BADE-MECUM TO THE ALPINE FLORA, Zuerich, nd, 25th edition, 24 coloured lithoplates, o ...[more]
NICHOLAS CULPEPER: CULPEPER’S COMPLETE HERBAL AND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN…, Burslem 1814, engraved port frontis, 35 644A hand coloured plates, frontis and a few plates with marginal losses, 4to, old diced calf gilt
NICHOLAS CULPEPER: CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL..., London, Richard Evans 1816, engraved port frontis trimmed laid down 645 and damaged, 36 (of 40) hand coloured plates, 4to, old half calf A/F
PIERRE BOITARD & OTHERS: JOURNAL ET FLORE DES JARDINS, Paris 1852, 34 (of 36) hand coloured engraved plates, 646 contemporary rowan backed boards, spine gilt in compartments
ALFRED WAINWRIGHT: A PICTORIAL GUIDE TO THE LAKELAND FELLS, 2005, 50th Anniversary edition, boxed set of 7 volumes, 647 original boards, dust-wrappers + HUNTER DAVIES: WAINWRIGHT, THE BIOGRAPHY, 1995, original cloth, dust-wrapper (8)
ALFRED WAINWRIGHT: 7 titles: SCOTTISH MOUNTAIN DRAWINGS, 1974, 1976, 1976, 3 volumes, oblong, original cloth, dust- 648 wrapper, A DALES SKETCHBOOK - A SECOND DALES SKETCHBOOK, 1976, nd, oblong, original cloth, dust-wrappers, A LAKELAND SKETCHBOOK - A SECOND LAKELAND SKETCHBOOK, nd, nd, oblong, original ...[more]
MARTIN JOHNSON: THROUGH THE SOUTH SEAS WITH JACK LONDON, London, T Werner Laurie [1914], 1st edition, 32 plates as 649 list, original cloth gilt
ELY BANISTER SOANE: TO MESOPOTAMIA AND KURDISTAN IN DISGUISE WITH HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE KURDISH 650 TRIBES AND THE CHALDEANS OF KURDISTAN, London, John Murray 1912, 1st edition, folding map at end, 6 plates, original cloth gilt
EMIGRANT'S INFORMATION OFFICE HANDBOOKS 1899, HMSO 1899 numbers 1-12, Canada - New South Wales - Victoria - South 651 Australia - Queensland - Western Australia - Tasmania - New Zealand - Cape Colony - Natal - Professional handbook - emigration statutes and general handbook numbers 1-10, each with a fol ...[more]
EMIGRANT'S INFORMATION OFFICE HANDBOOKS 1893, HMSO 1892 numbers 1-12, Canada - New South Wales - Victoria - South 652 Australia - Queensland - Western Australia - Tasmania - New Zealand - Cape Colony - Natal - Professional handbook - emigration statuts and general handbook number 1-10, each with a foldi ...[more]
MANIX & WHELLAN: HISTORY GAZETTEER AND DIRECTORY OF CUMBERLAND, 1974, reprint of 1847 gazetteer, 5 copies, 653 original cloth, dust-wrappers (5)
ROBERT FALCON SCOTT: THE VOYAGE OF THE DISCOVERY, London, Smith Elder & Co, 1905 1st edition, 2 volumes, 654 photogravure frontises, 2 folding maps in pockets at end, plates collated complete, original cloth gilt worn (2)
HARLEIAN SOCIETY: 8 titles: VISITATION OF LONDON 1568, London, 1963, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, THE VISITATION OF THE 655 COUNTY OF HUNTINGDON 1684, London, 1994, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, THE VISITATIONS OF HERTFORDSHIRE...IN 1572...IN 1634..., London, 1886, 1st edition, original cloth g ...[more]
HARLEIAN SOCIETY: 5 titles: THE VISITATION OF LONDON ANNO DOMINI 1633, 1634 AND 1635, London, 1880, 1883, 1st edition, 656 2 volumes, original cloth gilt, volume 2 ex-library, THE VISITATION OF SUFFOLK 1561, London, 1981, 1984 1st edition, 2 volumes, original cloth gilt, THE VISITATION OF THE COUNTY OF ...[more]
657 THOMAS MICHELL: RUSSIAN PICTURES DRAWN WITH PEN AND PENCIL, London, 1889, 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt W B STEPHENS (ED): A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WARWICK, 1969 volume 8, the City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick, 658 1st edition, Victoria History of the Counties of England series, folio, original cloth gilt, ex-library + DOROTHY H McCULLA & MARTIN HAMPSON: VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN WARWICKSHIRE FROM O ...[more]
NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY - VOYAGES AND TRAVEL - BIOGRAPHY - ATLASES AND 659 CARTOGRAPHY - PIRACY AND PRIVATEERING - NAVAL HISTORY, 1968-1976, 5 volumes in 7, complete set, uniform original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (7)
660 HARRY DE WINDT: THROUGH SAVAGE EUROPE..., London, T Fisher Unwin, 1907 1st edition, original cloth gilt, very worn
WALTER THORNBURY & EDWARD WALFORD: OLD AND NEW LONDON, Cassell, Petter, Galpin [1873-1878], 6 volumes, 661 contemporary cloth worn, (6)
CHARLES G HARPER: THE CORNISH COAST (SOUTH) AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY, London, 1910, 1st edition, original cloth + 662 ARTHUR L SALMON: CORNWALL COAST, 1910, 1st edition, original cloth gilt + C LEWIS HIND: DAYS IN CORNWALL, illustrated William Pascoe, 1907 1st edition, original cloth + JOHN LLOYD WARDEN ...[more]
[SELINA MARTIN]: NARRATIVE OF A THREE YEARS RESIDENCE IN ITALY..., Dublin 1831, 2nd edition, engraved frontis, 12mo, old 663 cloth rebacked, inner joints weak + MRS HENRY STISTED: LETTERS FROM THE BYE-WAYS OF ITALY, London, John Murray 1845, 1st edition, original blind stamped cloth, very worn + CARLO G ...[more]
W PITT: GENERAL VIEW OF THE AGRICULTURE OF THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER..., 1969, facsimile of the 1st edition published 664 1813, folding map frontis, original cloth dust-wrapper + MAXWELL FRASER: COMPANION INTO WORCESTERSHIRE, 1949, 4th edition, original cloth + R M HAINES: A CALENDAR OF THE REGISTER OF WO ...[more]
THOMAS NORTH: A CHRONICLE OF THE CHURCH OF S MARTIN IN LEICESTER..., 1866 1st edition, original cloth gilt + W G 665 HOSKINS: THE HERITAGE OF LEICESTERSHIRE, 1950 1st edition, original cloth + F E SKILLINGTON: THE PLAIN MAN'S HISTORY OF LEICESTER, 1950 1st edition, original cloth dust-wrapper + COLIN EL ...[more]
PAPWORTH'S ORDINARY OF BRITISH ARMORIALS, Heraldry Today 1985, facsimile of original 1874 edition, original cloth gilt + SIR 666 BERNARD BURKE: THE GENERAL ARMORY OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND AND WALES..., circa 1962, facsimile reprint of 1884 2nd edition, contemporary cloth gilt + THE PLANTAGENET ROLE ...[more]
S G THICKNESSE: ABBOTS LANGLEY, 1946, 2nd impression, original cloth dust-wrapper (worn), + JOCELYN J ANTROBUS: 667 BISHOPS HATFIELD, SOME MEMORIES OF ITS PAST, 1937, original printed wraps + P C BIRCHNELL: A SHORT HISTORY OF BERKHAMSTED, 1960 1st edition, original cloth dust-wrapper + R PETERS: OCULUS ...[more]
THE GENEALOGIST NEW SERIES VOLUME 2 ... VOLUME 4, 1885, circa 1887, 2 volumes (volumes 2 and 4 only), volume 2 old half 668 calf worn, volume 4 original cloth gilt + MISCELLANEA GENEALOGICA ET HERALDICA... VOLUME 2 NEW SERIES, 1877, original cloth gilt + J D NICHOLS: HERALD AND GENEALOGIST VOLUME 1, 186 ...[more]
MANNEX & CO: A HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY AND DIRECTORY OF WESTMORLAND; AND HUNDREDS OF LONSDALE AND 669 AMOUNDERNESS IN LANCASHIRE, 1978, facsimile reprint of 1851 1st edition, original cloth gilt dust-wrapper, 4 copies of same work, each original cloth dust-wrapper (4)
SUFFOLK RECORDS SOCIETY: 9 titles: THE MILITARY SURVEY OF 1522 FOR BABERGH HUNDRED, 1986, THE CHOROGRAPHY OF SUFFOLK, 1976, THE FIELD BOOK OF WALSHAM LE WILLOWS 1577, 1974, POOR RELIEF IN 670 ELIZABETHAN IPSWICH, 1966, OXFORD CHURCH WARDENS ACCOUNTS 1530-1561, 1982, each original cloth gilt dust-wrapper ...[more] J H MORRISON: 3 titles: [INDEX TO] PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY, WILLS, SENTENCES AND PROBATE ACTS 1661- 671 1670..., PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION 1620-1630..., PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY REGISTER (SCROOPE) (1630) ABSTRACTS AND INDEX, 1935, 1935, 1934, each original c ...[more]
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE: DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE..., Paris, Michel Sidhon, Institut D'Orient 1990, facsimile of the plates from 672 the Imperial edition of 1810, original blind stamped cloth, thick folio
CHARLES MAC FARLANE: OUR INDIAN EMPIRE; ITS HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT OF 673 THE BRITISH IN HINDOSTAN, TO THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1843, London, Charles Knight & Co 1844, 2 volumes, old half calf worn plus THE REV ROBERT WALSH: CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE SCENERY OF THE SEVEN CHURCH ...[more]
EDWARD CHARLTON: MEMORIALS OF NORTH TYNDALE ..., Newcastle upon Tyne 1871, 2nd edition, large paper copy, rebound 674 half calf gilt plus SIR ARTHUR E MIDDLETON: SIR GILBERT DE MIDDLETON AND THE PART HE TOOK IN THE REBELLION IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND IN 1317, Newcastle upon Tyne 1908, 1st edition with aut ...[more]
GEORGE CATLIN: LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS 675 WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVEL AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICAN IN 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, AND 39, London, published by the author, at The Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, ...[more]
SAMUEL HARRISON: A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE GREAT FLOOD OF SHEFFIELD ON MARCH 11 AND 12 1864..., London 676 and Sheffield 1864 1st edition, original printed wraps housed in custom made original cloth binding, printed paper label to top board
GILBERT WHITE: THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE IN THE COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, illustrated 677 Thomas Bewick, London, Bickers & Son 1875, presentation copy from George H Barclay for J K Tancock to verso front end paper, old tree calf gilt very worn, top board detached but present, all edge ...[more]
THE THEATRE OF WAR AND REVOLUTION IN VIEWS, MAPS AND PLANS WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE LETTER 678 PRESS, Dresden and Leipzig, A H Payne circa 1850, 25 full page engraved views of European cities plus 9 engraved folding maps as called for, old half calf worn
J S BREWER (EDITED): CALENDAR OF THE CAREW MANUSCRIPTS, PRESERVED IN THE ARCHIEPISCOPAL LIBRARY AT 679 LAMBETH 1515-1574, London 1867, original cloth gilt worn, inner joints split plus CALENDAR OF THE CAREW MANUSCRIPTS ... 1603-1624, London 1873, old cloth backed boards gilt plus ACTS OF THE PRIVY COUNC ...[more]
GEORGE HILL: THE ELECTORAL HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF LAMBETH ..., London 1879, 1st edition, original cloth gilt worn 680 plus ROBERT HODGSON: THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT REVEREND BEILBY PORTEUS LATE BISHOP OF LONDON, London for T Cadell and W Davies 1811, engraved port frontis, old calf worn, top boards detac ...[more]
THOMAS KEIGHTLEY: THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE ROMANCE AND SUPERSTITION OF VARIOUS 681 COUNTRIES, London, H G Bohn 1850 new edition, revised and greatly enlarged, engraved frontispiece, original blind stamped cloth worn, some losses to backstrip
(COLLECTION MAINLY A & C BLACK TRAVEL): W G CLARKE: NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK, 1921 1st edition, original cloth gilt worn 682 plus ALFRED AUSTEN, 2 titles: LAMIA'S WINTER-QUARTERS, 1907 1st edition; HAUNTS OF ANCIENT PEACE, 1908, 1st edition, each original cloth gilt worn plus J D NEWTH: AUSTRIA, 1931, 1st ed ...[more]
R NISBET BAIN: THE DAUGHTER OF PETER THE GREAT ..., Westminster 1899 1st edition, frontis plus 6 plates as called for, 683 inscribed presentation copy, original cloth gilt worn plus W K KOROSTOWETZ: THE RE-BIRTH OF POLAND, 1928 1st edition, frontis plus 4 maps as called for, original cloth gilt ex Germa ...[more]
684 DIANA SHIPTON: THE ANTIQUE LAND, 1950, limited edition de-luxe (150) numbered, full calf gilt worn GEORGE ORMEROD: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY PALATINE AND CITY OF CHESTER, Ed Thomas 684A Helsby, 1882 2nd edition, 3 volumes, folio original cloth backed boards, printed paper labels to spines (3)
684B JOHN KENNEDY: A HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF LEIGHTON, ESSEX, Leighton, Phelp Bros 1894, folio original half vellum worn
E A JUDGES: SOME WEST SURREY VILLAGES, Guildford 1901, 1st edition, original decorative cloth gilt, plus C W HECKETHORN: 684C LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS AND THE LOCALITIES ADJACENT ..., London 1896 1st edition, original decorative cloth gilt worn (2)
684D THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND A HISTORY OF DURHAM, 1968 reprint, 3 volumes, original cloth gilt
VALENTINE GREEN: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY AND SUBURBS OF WORCESTER ..., London, W Bulmer 684E 1796, engraved portrait frontis, 2 engraved vignette title pages plus 24 engraved plates (of which 2 folding plates and 1 folding map) as called for, map loose but present, 2 volumes, old paper co ...[more]
REVEREND T D FOSBROKE: THE WYE TOUR, OR GILPIN ON THE WYE ..., Ross 1826 3rd edition, engraved frontis, old boards 684F worn, printed paper label to spine very worn plus RICHARD JOHNSON: THE ANCIENT CUSTOMS OF THE CITY OF HEREFORD ..., London & Hereford 1868, added engraved title, original cloth worn re ...[more]
T D FOSBROKE: THE WYE TOUR, OR GILPIN ON THE WYE ..., Ross 1834, 4th edition, engraved frontis, original boards worn, 684G printed paper label to spine plus [H P WYNDHAM]: A GENTLEMAN'S TOUR THROUGH MONMOUTHSHIRE AND WALES, London, 1781, new edition, lacks plates, original boards very worn plus EDWIN POO ...[more]
L H BUTTERFIELD (EDITED): ADAMS FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1963-1973, 1st 684H edition 4 volumes, original cloth dust wrappers (4)
A L HUMPHREYS: EAST HENDRED A BERKSHIRE PARISH HISTORICALLY TREATED A SUGGESTION FOR A COMPLETE 684I PAROCHIAL SURVEY OF THE KINGDOM, London, Hatchards 1923, photogravure frontis and folding map at end, original cloth backed boards, printed paper labels to spine and top board
THE UGANDA JOURNAL THE ORGAN OF THE UGANDA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY, July 1934-April 1935, volume 2 684J Nos 1-4, together in 1 volume, 45 plates plus 5 folding maps, original cloth plus XAVIER DE GRUNNE AND OTHERS: VERS LES GLACIERS DE L'EQUATEUR LE RUWENZOIR MISSION SCIENTIFIQUE ON THE END BELGE ...[more]
A J HAYES: THE SOURCE OF THE BLUE NILE A RECORD OF THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE SOUDAN TO LAKE TSANA IN 684K WESTERN ABYSSINIA ..., London, Smith Elder 1905, 1st edition, 32 full page plates plus 2 maps as called for, original cloth gilt worn plus HENRY M STANLEY: IN DARKEST AFRICA OR THE QUEST, RESCUE, AND R ...[more]
DAVID LIVINGSTONE: A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA, London, John 684L Murray 1868 new edition, folding map, folding frontis and engraved illustrations as called for, contemporary calf gilt prize binding, spine gilt in compartments
PHILIP P H SULLEY: THE HUNDRED OF WIRRAL, Birkenhead 1889, 1st edition, poly map and appendices at rear and black and 684M white plates as called for, original cloth gilt worn
BENJAMIN PITTS CAPPER: A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM COMPILED FROM PARLIAMENTARY 684N AND OTHER AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS AND AUTHORITIES ..., London for Longman, Hirst et al 1813, 46 maps (of which 7 folding) as called for, old full calf very worn, lacks backstrip
JOHN GEORGE BISHOP: A GUIDE TO THE BRIGHTON PAVILION ..., Brighton, William Henry Attwick for the author [1903] 11th 684O edition, original printed wraps plus T R BECKETT (PUBLISHED): THE EASTBOURNE PICTORIAL, BEING A GUIDE ..., [1916] 34TH year of publication, large folding plan in pocket at front, orig ...[more] ELSIE C TRAMS: TRAMWAYS MAP AND TIMETABLE, London 1930 (May) folding coloured litho map, original pictorial wraps plus G 684P PHILIP & SON (PUBLISHED): THE EVENING NEWS LONDON (TUBE MAP) DOUBLE SIDED COLOURED FOLDING MAP, [1909], original pictorial wraps (2)
JESSIE M KING, 2 titles: THE CITY OF THE WEST [GLASGOW], 1911, 1st edition, 25 tipped in plates as called for, original card 684Q covers dust wrapper plus THE GREY CITY OF THE NORTH [EDINBURGH], London 1912, 24 illustrations plus illustrated title and contents as called for, original card covers dust wra ...[more]
THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND CITY GUIDE ON A NEW PLAN ... TO WHICH IS ADDED A GUIDE TO BLENHEIM ..., Oxford, Henry 684R Slatter 1848 new edition, added engraved vignette title plus 8 engraved plates plus folding plan, 12 mo old half calf worn
CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVINGS, ETCHINGS, AND ORIGINAL DRAWINGS AND DEEDS ... COLLECTED TOWARDS THE 685 ILLUSTRATION OF THE TOPOGRAPHY OF NORFOLK AND INSERTED IN A COPY OF BLOMEFIELD'S HISTORY OF THAT COUNTY IN THE LIBRARY OF DAWSON TURNER, ESQ AT YARMOUTH, 1841, 1st edition, inscribed by the editor, original ...[more]
RICHARD HENRY DANA: TO CUBA AND BACK A VACATION VOYAGE, London, Smith Elder & Co, 1859, 1st edition, original cloth 686 gilt plus A J BERTUCHI: THE ISLAND OF RODRIQUEZ A BRITISH COLONY IN THE MASCARENHAS GROUP, London, John Murray 1923 1st edition, original cloth gilt plus FANNY CHAMBERS GOOCH: FACE TO ...[more]
NIK DOUGLAS: KARMAPA THE BLACK HAT LAMA OF TIBET, London 1976, 1st edition, original cloth dust wrapper plus MICHEL 687 PEISSEL: CAVALIERS OF KHAM SECRET WAR IN TIBET, 1972 1st edition, original cloth dust wrapper plus W Y EVANS-WENTZ (EDITED), 3 titles: THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE GREAT LIBERATION ..., 195 ...[more]
ROBERT BACKHOUSE PEACOCK: A GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF THE HUNDRED OF LONSDALE, NORTH AND SOUTH OF 688 THE SANDS, IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, 1869, original blind stamped cloth gilt worn
EDWARD MOGG: PATERSON'S ROADS ..., London for Longman et al [1829], folding map frontis worn with repairs and part losses, 689 plus 8 other folding maps plus 1 full page map facing appendix title page, rebound half calf marbled boards
LAURENCE STERNE "MR YORICK": A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY, London, 1769, 4 volumes bound 690 in one, volume 1 with engraved portrait frontispiece, each volume with separate title page with a further separate title page at end A POLITICAL ROMANCE ADDRESSED TO ... ESQ; OF YORK, 74pp, 78- ...[more]
JAPANESE ATLAS CIRCA 1963, numerous double page coloured folding maps and full page coloured folding maps, text in Japanese 691 language only, folio, original cloth gilt, ribbon ties
JAMES WILLIAM WILSON ESQ: SKETCHES OF LOUTH, [1840], 12 engraved plates as called for, slim folio, original blind stamped 692 cloth gilt very worn and soiled, inner joints split, contents loose, plates clean plus THOMAS ESPIN: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF LOUTH CHURCH, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS ...[more]
F C CASS: THE PARISH OF MONKEN HADLEY, Westminster 1880, bound together with THE PARISH OF SOUTH MIMMS, 1887, 693 quarto old half calf gilt worn
SIR PETER LEYCESTER: SOME ANTIQUITIES TOUCHING CHESHIRE FAITHFULLY COLLECTED OUT OF AUTHENTIQUE 694 HISTORIES, OLD DEEDS, RECORDS, AND EVIDENCES, 1672 (The General History of Britain omitted from this issue), old full calf very worn, top board near detached
THE OLD SERIES ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS OF ENGLAND AND WALES ... VOLUME III SOUTH CENTRAL ENGLAND, 1981, 695 folio original cloth gilt, dust wrapper THE OLD SERIES ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS OF ENGLAND AND WALES ... VOLUME II DEVON, CORNWALL AND WEST 696 SOMERSET, 1977, folio original cloth gilt, dust wrapper
LEO H GRINDON: LANCASHIRE BRIEF HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES, London, 1882, 1st edition, 14 full page etched 697 plates as called for, folio, original cloth gilt worn, inner joints weak
G N WRIGHT AND JULES JANIN: FRANCE ILLUSTRATED ..., illustrated Eugene Lami and Thomas Allom, London and Paris, Fisher, 698 Son & Co and H Mandeville, circa 1845-1847, 4 volumes, 128 engraved plates as called for, quarto, old half calf very worn (4)
MR AND MRS S C HALL: IRELAND: ITS SCENERY, CHARACTER ETC, London, Howe & Parsons 1841-1843, 3 volumes, rebound 699 half calf marbled boards (3)
A DESCRIPTION OF THE RIVER THAMES ETC WITH THE CITY OF LONDON'S JURISDICTION AND CONSERVAGY ..., London for 700 T Longman 1758, rebound paper covered boards plus THE BOGNOR, ALDWICK, FELPHAM, SOUTH BERSTED AND NORTH BERSTED DIRECTORY AND ALMANAC, 1915, original printed wraps plus THOMAS PENNANT: THE JOU ...[more]
AUGUSTUS CHARLES PUGIN AND CHARLES HEATH: PARIS AND ITS ENVIRONS DISPLAYED IN A SERIES OF PICTURESQUE 701 VIEWS, London, 1829, volume 1 (of 2), engraved vignette title, 80 engraved plates on 40 leaves, 4to, contemporary half crimson morocco worn
LOCHLANN MCGILL: IN CONALL'S FOOTSTEPS, Dingle, Brandon Book Publishers Ltd 1992 1st edition, original cloth gilt dust 702 wrapper
CAPTAIN BASIL HALL AND H J CLIFFORD: ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE WEST COAST OF COREA AND 703 THE GREAT LOO-CHOO ISLAND ..., London, John Murray 1818, 1st edition, 5 engraved charts (of which 2 folding), plus 2 engraved plates only, (plates present include hand coloured engraved plate "Prince ...[more]
J NICOLSON AND R BURN: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTIES OF WESTMORLAND AND CUMBERLAND, Ed 704 Jack Simmons, 1976, 2 vols, Classical County Histories Series, orig cl gt, d/ws (2)
HENRY M STANLEY: IN DARKEST AFRICA OR THE QUEST RESCUE AND RETREAT FOR EMIN GOVERNOR OF EQUATORIA, 705 New York, Charles Scribner Sons 1890, 1st US edition, 2 volumes, lacks folding maps, old half calf gilt very worn, vol 1 inner joint weak (2)
GEORGE H BOUGHTON: SKETCHING RAMBLES IN HOLLAND, illustrated by the author of E A Abbey, London, Macmillan & Co 706 1885, 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt
JOHN STABB: SOME OLD DEVON CHURCHES, London 1911 volume 2 only, 162 illustrations, original cloth gilt, plus P RUSSELL: 707 THE HISTORY OF TORQUAY AND FAMOUS ANCHORAGE OF TORBAY, 1960, original cloth gilt, plus THE HOMELAND ASSOCIATION LIMITED: THE HOMELAND HANDBOOKS VOL 27 NEWQUAY THE VALE OF LANHERNE ...[more]
LONDON PAST AND PRESENT BEING NOTICES HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE OF THE METROPOLIS ..., London 1880, 708 original cloth gilt plus A E DANIELL: LONDON RIVERSIDE CHURCHES, Westminster 1897, 1st edition, original cloth gilt plus G L APPERSON: BYGONE LONDON LIFE PICTURES FROM A VANISHED PAST, London 1903, o ...[more]
SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON: THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC, L, 1909, 1st edn, 2 vols, collated complete, sigd and inscr 709 presentation copy from A Buxton ? Burton? to Harold Collett Dent (1894-1995), H C Dent autograph (initials) inscription on ffep of vol 1, "E H Shackleton was a great friend of mine...... [more] GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA: LIVING LONDON, London, Remington & Co 1883, original pictorial cloth gilt plus BERNARD ADAMS: 710 LONDON ILLUSTRATED 1604-1851 SURVEY AND INDEX OF TOPOGRAPHICAL BOOKS AND THEIR PLATES, 1983 1st edition, original cloth gilt dust wrapper plus ROBERT HENREY: THE SIEGE OF LONDON, 1946 ...[more]
THOMAS DUGDALE: 2 TTLS: ENGLAND AND WALES DELINEATED, L, T Tallis circa 1850, divs 1 and 2, engrd vig ttls, 29 plts, 14 711 double pge col'd maps, orig blind stpd cl gt worn, CURIOSITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN, ENGLAND AND WALES DELINEATED..., circa 1860 vols 6 and 7, added engrd vig ttls, 47 plts, 13 outline ...[more]
MAJOR GENERAL J BLAKSLEY: TRAVELS TRIPS AND TROTS ON AN OFF DUTY FROM THE TROPICS TO THE ARCTIC CIRCLE, 712 1903 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt plus MRS J F BISHOP (ISABELLA L BIRD): UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN A RECORD OF TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR ..., London 1900 new edition, original pictorial ...[more]
ALBAN ALI: THE SCARLET ANGEL - THE STORY OF A SEVEN-THOUSAND MILE JOURNEY CHIEFLY IN A SINGLE-SEATER 713 LIGHT AEROPLANE, London, 1934, 1st edition, 15 plates as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (worn)
W DE FONVIELLE: ADVENTURES IN THE AIR BEING MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES OF GREAT AERONAUTS, Translated John S 714 Keltie, London, Edward Stanford 1877, 1st edition, frontis plus 18 plates as called for, original cloth gilt plus COLONEL FRED BURNABY: A RIDE ACROSS THE CHANNEL AND OTHER ADVENTURES IN THE AIR, L ...[more]
THE PORTOLAN OF ANGELLINO DE DALORTO MCCCXXV IN THE COLLECTION OF PRINCE CORSINI AT FLORENCE, London, 715 Royal Geographical Society reproductions of early manuscript maps 1929, 8 maps loose as issued, original portfolio
720 Military, including ships, naval, intelligence etc
721 `TWO BOXES: World War 1 interest, including Blitz etc
722 ONE BOX: East Anglian Interest
722A ONE BOX: mixed, including ASTERIX, UK editions, circa 1970s etc (13)
723 ONE BOX: Richard and Cherry Kearton titles
724 TWO BOXES: Philosophy etc
725 TWO BOXES: Redoute Roses pub Crown 1979, 48 duplicate copies
726 TWO BOXES: mixed
727 ONE BOX: mixed
728 ONE BOX: mixed
729 ONE BOX: mixed
ONE BOX: JOURNAL DES DEMOISELLES, Paris 1900, 68th year, 20 folding mainly coloured fashion plates, old quarter calf very worn 730 plus THE BELLE ASSEMBLEE, bound volume 1809 plus various other hand coloured fashion plates loose etc
731 ONE BOX: vintage Penguin paperbacks 732 ONE BOX: mixed
733 ONE BOX: modern first editions etc
ONE BOX: modern first editions including GEORGE MACDONALD: HOME AGAIN, London 1887 plus FAIRBAIRNE MCPHEE: MARCH 734 TO THE GODS THAT HEAL, Boriswood, London 1933 plus JOHN BUCHAN: JOHN BURNET OF BARNES A ROMANCE, 1898 plus E W BLIGH: SIR KENELM DIGBY AND HIS VENETIA, London 1932 plus others
735 ONE BOX: map reference
736 TWO BOXES: railway etc
737 ONE BOX: art reference including DICTIONARY OF WOMAN ARTISTS, 2 volumes
738 ONE BOX: art reference etc
739 ONE SMALL BOX: assorted signed titles
ONE BOX: collection approx 13 titles mainly signed/inscribed by authors to members of the Gladstone family, mainly Herbert John 740 Gladstone (1854-1930) with his bookplate
741 ONE BOX: CHURCHILL: HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 6 volumes, military etc
742 ONE BOX: mainly first editions
743 ONE BOX: mixed
744 ONE BOX: RICHMAL CROMPTON: WILLIAM, approx 38 titles
745 ONE BOX: literature
746 TWO BOXES: railway interest
747 TWO BOXES: railway interest
748 TWO BOXES: railway interest
749 THREE BOXES: engravings, sheet music, prints, Illustrated London News etc
749A ONE BOX: art reference etc
750 ONE BOX: mainly children's
751 TWO BOXES: railway interest 752 TWO BOXES: mainly antiquarian
753 TWO BOXES: mainly antiquarian
754 TWO BOXES: mainly antiquarian
755 THREE BOXES: mainly antiquarian
756 TWO BOXES: mainly antiquarian
757 TWO BOXES: mainly antiquarian
758 TWO BOXES: mainly antiquarian
759 TWO BOXES: mainly antiquarian
760 TWO BOXES: mainly antiquarian
761 TWO BOXES: mainly antiquarian
762 TWO BOXES: mainly antiquarian
763 TWO BOXES: mainly antiquarian
764 TWO BOXES: mainly antiquarian
765 THREE BOXES: VICTOR HUGO COMPLETE WORKS, 48 volumes, green quarter calf etc
766 TWO BOXES: THE MAGNET; THE GEM etc, 35 facsimile reprints, circa 1970s, pub Howard Baker
767 ONE BOX: set of 12 circa late 19th century/early 20th century binders/folders in old half calf gilt bindings
768 ONE BOX: fashion
770 ONE BOX: vintage Penguin paperbacks
771 ONE BOX: JULES VERNE, various French editions, some in original pictorial cloth gilt
772 ONE BOX: TAMMY ANNUAL, 1973-1977 (5) plus TAMMY AND JUNE, good quantity 1975-1978
773 TWO BOXES: mixed, mainly literature
774 ONE BOX: antiquarian 775 ONE SMALL BOX: church monuments etc
776 ONE BOX: Left Book Club, socialism, political ideology etc
777 TWO BOXES: East Anglia interest including PAYNE JENNINGS; G C DAVIES; ERNEST SUFFLING etc
778 ONE SMALL BOX: BEATRIX POTTER
779 ONE BOX: history/travel etc
780 TWO BOXES: railway, traction engines etc
781 ONE SMALL BOX: children's and illustrated
782 ONE BOX: fiction and poetry including first editions etc
783 ONE BOX: cookery, household, natural history etc
784 ONE BOX: business histories, reference etc
784A ONE BOX: Scotland topography including Highlands and Islands etc
785 THREE BOXES: philosophy etc
786 ONE BOX: science including physics
787 ONE BOX: travel and topography
788 TWO BOXES: Europe history plus German military history, including Nazis
789 TWO BOXES: military including tanks, U-boats, air ships and naval history etc
790 TWO BOXES: history including Nelson, Napoleon, Waterloo and World Wars analysis etc
791 ONE BOX: Third Reich including Hitler, Gestapo etc
792 ONE BOX: military history etc
793 TWO BOXES: history including aviation history, pilots, USAF, World War 1 etc
794 ONE BOX: World War 1 soldiers' perspective
795 ONE BOX: World War I and World War II, mainly civilians' perspective 796 ONE BOX: World War I battles etc
797 ONE BOX: World War II including biographies
798 ONE BOX: RAF World War II etc
799 ONE BOX: Naval warships etc
800 ONE BOX: nautical
WALTER SCOTT: NOVELS AND TALES OF THE AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY, Edin, Archibald Constable & Co and L, Hurst Robinson & 801 Co, 1821-1833, 41 volumes comprising "Novels and Romances" 7 volumes, "Novels and Tales" 12 vols, "Tales and Romances" 16 volumes, "Historical Romances" 6 volumes, each volume with engrav ...[more]
802 TWO BOXES: Beano comics circa 1979-1981 plus quantity children's annuals
803 ONE BOX: ONCE UPON A TIME, 130+ issues, February 1969 - April 1972
804 ONE BOX: WORLD OF WONDER, 120+ issues circa 1972-1975
805 ONE BOX: East Anglia interest
806 ONE BOX: travel - Americas
807 TWO BOXES: children's including Enid Blyton etc
808 TWO BOXES: military
809 ONE BOX: political European history etc
THREE BOXES: collection of approx 80 bee-keeping/apiculture titles including WILLIAM HERROD: PRODUCING, PREPARING, 810 EXHIBITING, AND JUDGING BEE PRODUCE, London, British Bee Journal Office 1912, 1st edition, inscribed, original cloth gilt plus A PETTIGREW: THE HANDY BOOK OF BEES BEING A PRACTICAL TREA ...[more]
THREE BOXES: collection of bookbinding finishing tools and equipment, including four small boxes of various brass type faces of 813 different fonts and sizes including script 28 pt plus 20 fillet wheel tools (most lacking handles) plus 70+ handle letters plus old laid paper, mainly 18th century plus sma ...[more]
814 TWO BOXES: mixed including King Penguins
815 ONE BOX: fashion/costume
816 ONE BOX: ballet, theatre, fashion etc
817 TWO BOXES: East Anglia interest 818 TWO BOXES: LOOK AND LEARN, run of 300+ issues
819 THREE BOXES: countryside, shooting, game-keeping etc
820 THREE BOXES: bibliography, books on books, typography etc
ONE BOX: W M THACKERAY: WORKS..., Ed Arthur Pendennis, London, Caxton Publishing Co, [no dates circa 1900], "The London 821 Edition", 26 volumes, uniform Art Nouveau decorative cloth gilt, spines faded (26)
822 TWO BOXES: children's
823 ONE BOX: mixed
824 ONE BOX: general science
825 THREE SMALL BOXES: children's
826 ONE SMALL BOX: clocks and watches reference
827 ONE BOX: bindings/antiquarian
828 THREE BOXES: children's
829 ONE BOX: mixed including militaria interest
830 TWO BOXES: military interest
831 TWO BOXES: military/aviation
832 TWO BOXES: military/aviation
833 THREE BOXES: military/aviation
834 TWO BOXES: military including guns, weapons etc
835 TWO BOXES: military/aviation
836 TWO BOXES: military/aviation
837 TWO BOXES: military/naval
838 TWO BOXES; military/naval
839 TWO BOXES: military/aviation 840 TWO BOXES: military, mainly tanks and armoured vehicles
841 THREE BOXES: Folio Society
842 TWO BOXES: P G WODEHOUSE, 1st editions etc
843 THREE BOXES: mixed
844 TWO BOXES: mixed, mainly military interest
845 TWO BOXES: military/naval
846 ONE BOX: mainly modern art, architecture, design etc
ONE BOX: EAST ANGLIAN MAGAZINE, 40 bound volumes circa 1953-1972, ex lib plus THE GREAT YARMOUTH PARISH 847 MAGAZINE, 15 assorted issues, May 1955 - December 1956, each original printed wraps
848 ONE BOX: mixed
849 ONE BOX: mainly East Anglia interest
850 ONE BOX: mixed
851 ONE BOX: children's including Folio Society editions, Arthur Rackham etc
852 ONE BOX: UK travel and topography
853 ONE BOX: antiquarian bindings plus illustrated volumes
854 ONE SMALL BOX: violins and violin makers
ONE BOX: modern poetry including JOHN F HUBICKEY, 5 titles: SNAPSHOTS, 1979; FOOTNOTES, 1980; SNAPSHOTS, (revised), 855 1980; "SHARDS", 1983; INCIDENTALS, 1982, 5 volumes, signed plus ROY FULLER: THE OTHER PLANET, ill Paul Peter Piech, 1979, limited edition (25) signed by author and ill plus ALAN BOLD: ...[more]
856 ONE BOX: crime fiction
857 ONE BOX: mixed
858 ONE SMALL BOX: fishing, shooting plus cricket interest
859 ONE SMALL BOX: ornithology
860 THREE BOXES: antiquarian etc 861 THREE BOXES: transport including railway, steam trains, buses etc
862 TWO BOXES: toy collecting, modelling etc
863 ONE BOX: European and British Royalty and Aristocracy mainly early 20th century, 1st editions
864 ONE BOX: East Anglia interest including transport plus PAYNE JENNINGS, G C DAVIES etc
865 TWO BOXES: military including Crimean War, Waterloo etc
866 TWO BOXES: military, mainly World War II including Churchill, aviation etc
867 THREE BOXES: military
868 THREE BOXES: military, mainly Peninsular Wars
869 TWO BOXES: mixed
870 TWO BOXES: mixed
871 TWO BOXES: mixed
872 ONE BOX: art/art reference
873 ONE BOX: mixed
874 ONE BOX: local topography pamphlets
875 ONE BOX: music interest
876 ONE BOX: art/art reference
877 ONE BOX: antique collecting and reference
TWO BOXES: countryside, fishing, natural history, travel and topography including ABOUT BRITAIN SERIES, 13 titles, dust wrappers 879 etc
880 ONE BOX: mixed
881 ONE BOX: East Anglia interest
882 ONE BOX: antiquarian
883 ONE BOX: mixed 884 TWO BOXES: Norfolk interest including small quantity of railway interest
885 TWO BOXES: mixed
886 ONE BOX: literature
887 ONE BOX: mixed
888 ONE BOX: mixed
889 ONE BOX: mainly modern firsts
890 ONE BOX: fiction including pictorial cloth
891 THREE BOXES: children's
892 ONE BOX: antiquarian
893 TWO BOXES: children's etc including Andrew Lang
894 TWO BOXES: antiquarian
895 TWO BOXES: bibliography, books on books, typography etc
896 THREE BOXES: mixed
897 ONE BOX: THE WAR ILLUSTRATED, 60+ issues circa 1916-1918, original pictorial wraps
897A TWO BOXES: modern 1st editions, some signed
897B TWO BOXES: prize bindings, leather bindings etc
897C TWO BOXES: countryside, shooting, game-keeping etc
897D FOUR BOXES: natural history including New Naturalist Folio Society etc
899 ONE LARGE FOLDER: assorted ephemera
900 ONE BOX: assorted ephemera
ONE BOX: assorted ephemera including good quantity snapshot photograph albums circa 1920s depicting holidays/tours of UK and 901 continental Europe including Switzerland, Austria, Italy etc plus small quantity postcards, scrap album etc LARGE COLLECTION: 20+ assorted snapshot photograph albums circa 1920s/1930s, majority family holiday albums compiled by a 902 Christine Thorne of 32 Wood Street, Norwich, the mounted photographs carefully arranged in album with near captions and descriptions and with some associated ephemera tipped in, ...[more]
ONE BOX: assorted motoring ephemera and magazines including six Castrol and Shell Oils printed booklets circa 1950s - 1960s plus 903 DAILY EXPRESS TROPHY MEETING SATURDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER 1957 SILVERSTONE, original programme plus various issues AUTO COURSE, THE MOTOR, THE SPORTING MOTORIST, circa 1950s/19 ...[more]
904 ONE BOX: good quality vintage needlework and sewing magazines, pattern books etc circa 1950s
905 DISPLAY, DESIGN AND PRESENTATION, magazine, good quantity circa 1950s, original pictorial wraps, mixed condition etc
ONE BOX: snapshot photograph album depicting voyage on the Canadian Pacific SS "Empress of Australia" from Southampton to 906 Quebec July 26th 1939, images include The Empress of Australia leaving Quebec harbour on homeward voyage August 3rd 1939, iceberg seen off the mouth of St Lawrence River July 31s ...[more]
907 FOUR BOXES: assorted ephemera
908 TWO BOXES: assorted ephemera
909 ONE BOX: assorted vintage newspapers Great War period etc
ONE BOX: assorted ephemera including Rootes Motors Ltd catalogues/brochures circa 1960s including Humber Imperial, Humber 910 Sceptre, Humber Super Snipe plus JAGUAR XJ6, original brochure 1971, 43pp oblong, original pictorial wraps, model price list and specification booklet in rear pocket etc
911 THREE BOXES: assorted ephemera
ONE BOX: VOGUE PATTERN BOOK, approx 12 magazines circa 1950s - 1980s with approx 50 original printed envelopes containing 912 original Vogue sewing patterns circa 1950s
913 ONE BOX: FLYING REVIEW, magazine, 1957-58 (13), 1963 (1) plus FLIGHT, magazine, 1957 (4), 1958 (19), 1959 (1)
ONE BOX: Winston Churchill related items including woodcarving of hand in "Victory Salute" V sign, on wooden base with metal 914 lettering "Victory Churchill", approx height 30cm plus carved wooden panel with Winston Churchill's head in profile and text "Churchill" carved at foot, approx size 30cm x 25c ...[more]
JAMES BOND: LIVE AND LET DIE, Global Arts Limited Edition (1000) original film cell montage in framed and glazed display, approx 915 26cm x 30cm plus another similar JAMES BOND: DIE ANOTHER DAY and STAR TREK GENERATIONS plus John Bon Jovi autograph photograph, framed and glazed, approx 25cm x 20cm plus ...[more]
ONE BOX: VOGUE magazine October 1997, December 1999, December 2000, each original wraps, together with 2 related hardback 916 books, plus small quantity of COUNTRY LIFE magazine, circa 1950s and later
917 ONE BOX: assorted ephemera including quantity modern postcards
918 ONE BOX: assorted ephemera including George III and IV Acts of Parliament, pamphlets, maps, letters, postcards, pictures etc
919 ONE BOX: approx 20 Victorian silk woven Stevengraphs, framed and glazed 920 ONE BOX: mixed ephemera
921 ONE BOX: assorted ephemera
ONE BOX: Victorian and later ephemera re Cooper, Mills & Cotterell families of Northampton, Liverpool, Walsall etc inter-related 922 including photograph albums, commonplace albums, loose photographs including carte de visites etc etc
COLLECTION of World War Two ephemera and documents relating to Private John Robert William Hicks, Service Number 7392639, 923 Royal Army Medical Corps who served in Italian campaign including his soldier's service pay book, record of service dated 12/12/1940 - 15/02/1946, embarkation card, form of Will, ...[more]
EIGHT UNIPART GLAMOUR CALENDARS, 1988-1994, consecutive (2 copies for 1994), various photographers including David 924 Litchfield (8)
925 ONE BOX: assorted ephemera including postcards, small quantity 1940s/1950s car handbooks/manuals, sewing pattern books etc
19th CENTURY MANUSCRIPT BOOK, circa 1834-1840 containing manuscript entries of poetries, prose and thoughts etc with approx 926 17 pages of manuscript preliminary pencil sketches of plants at rear, old half calf very worn
JOHN ADAMSON: EXERCISES IN GEOMETRY AND MENSURATION, 19th century school exercise book containing manuscript 927 notes, diagrams and exercises engraved title page, title within manuscript approx 180 complete pages, old calf backed boards worn
CIRCA MID-19TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT RECEIPT BOOK, circa 1850s-1870s, approx 95 pages of entries plus 15 page manuscript 928 index, entries include receipts for preserves, wines, summer drinks, jellies, ices, puddings, pies, meat, fish, biscuits, custards etc, including gooseberry wine, rhubarb wine, lemon ...[more]
COVER TITLE: MASON'S MARKS, 19th century manuscript album circa 1873 containing approx 35 pages of manuscript freemasons 929 marks and manuscript page of text describing the process of a mark master choosing a mark and the associated rules, full crimson morocco gilt, gilt titling to top board and spine, ...[more]
SPENCER THEYERE SMITH: UNCLE'S WHEEL, A COMEDIETTA IN ONE ACT, circa 1870, original manuscript 64 manuscript pages 930 including title page and proposed casting, the copy of William Hunter Kendal (1843-1917) with his ownership signature and inscription, various manuscript amendments in pencil and ink, f ...[more]
JOHN MALCOLM BULLOCH (1867-1938): THE HOUSE OF FORBES-ROBERTSON PARTICULARLY CONCERNING JOHN, SIR 931 JOHNSTON AND MISTRESS JEAN, 1929 bound volume outlining family history and descent of Forbes-Robertsons as well their stage careers containing combination of printed published works bound together with ...[more]
EARLY 20TH CENTURY ALBUM circa 1914-1920 containing manuscript pen and ink and pen, ink and watercolour sketches, poetry, 932 prose etc, many relating to the Great War, limp leather worn, crudely re-backed
MID 19TH CENTURY ALBUM containing a manuscript diary of a tour in Switzerland, August 1849, 31 pages of entries with manuscript 933 pen and ink hand coloured folding map of Switzerland on tissue paper loosely inserted, old blind stamped full calf gilt, all edges gilt, metal key-lock clasp, cotton protec ...[more]
MID-19TH CENTURY COMMONPLACE ALBUM circa 1841 with manuscript pen and ink copper plate title page "Fanny Peacock, 934 Middlesbro', 1841", numerous manuscript pen and ink entries of prose and poetry + original pen, ink and watercolour sketch of flowers and butterflies, + original pencil sketch of country ...[more] Late Victorian/Edwardian scrap album containing chromolitho scraps of Boer War Generals, Boer War newspaper cuttings, Dereham 935 interest cuttings, MS index and MS captions to borders between cuttings, probably compiled by Edward Coleby of Theatre Street, Dereham - page 133 with cuttings stating prize ...[more]
1948 LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES original programmes including BOXING AT THE EMPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY, TUESDAY AUGUST 936 10TH 1948, with original ticket (lacks stub) loosely inserted + WRESTLING AT THE EMPRESS HALL, EARLS COURT, FRIDAY AUGUST 6TH 1948, with original ticket (stub for Friday August 6th 1948 remaini ...[more]
PACKET CONTAINING 100+ theatre programmes c.1940s, all Norfolk Theatres including Theatre Royal, Norwich, New Britannia Pier 936A Pavilion Theatre Great Yarmouth, The Little Theatre Great Yarmouth, Norwich Philharmonic Society at Norwich Cathedral, Playhouse Theatre Lowestoft etc
SMALL COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN AND LATER CARD GAMES including THE ROYAL GAME OF BEZIQUE, published Goodall & 937 Son, London, circa late 19th century, original box with printed paper label, worn + THE NATIONAL GALLERY (BRITISH SCHOOL) A NEW GAME, published J Jaques & Son Ltd, original slip-case, printed ...[more]
Collection: early Cruise Line and Steamship ephemera circa 1884-1897 including Cunard Royal Main Steamship "Aurania" concert 938 programme, Friday April 24th 1885 + 4 others "Aurania" concert programmes each Thursday July 2nd 1885, each approx size 12 x 17 cm + printed Cunard Steam Ship Company log card ...[more]
PACKET Ephemera containing an autograph album circa 1928 to 1935 containing original pen, ink and watercolour sketches, 939 manuscript pen and ink poetry and prose entries etc + another album similar, circa 1920s/1930s + KATE GREENAWAY: MOTHER GOOSE OR THE OLD NURSERY RHYMES, London, Frederick Warne & C ...[more]
PACKET assorted ephemera containing sports and theatre programmes circa 1940s/1950s including 3 Etholl Oakeley original wrestling 940 programmes, Haringey Arena circa November 1951 + ice hockey, roller speedway, roller derby etc programmes, each Haringey Arena + THE NORFOLK NEWS EASTERN COUNTIES JOURNAL ...[more]
REAR ADMIRAL ALAN SHEPARD JUNIOR (1923-1998), one of the original NASA Mercury 7 astronauts and Commander of 1971 941 Apollo 14 mission to the Moon, autograph program signed "Bob Hope British Classic, Moor Park Golf Club, Rickmansworth, 22-25th September 1983", original printed folding program with star ...[more]
CIRCA MID-20TH CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM containing good quantity signatures, actors, actresses, comedians, musicians etc 942 including Zsa Zsa Gabor (born 1917), Benny Hill (1924-1902), Ann Heywood, Jane Hylton (1927-1979), Tony Curtis (1925-2010), Marguerite Brennan, Jack Payne (1899-1969, Band leader), ...[more]
BENJAMIN BRITTEN & RONALD DUNCAN, THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA, printed music score, L, Boosey & Hawkes 1947, sigd 943 Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Ronald Duncan (1914-1972) and John Piper (1903-1992) to title pge, lacks top and bottom wraps
PACKET containing 5 BIBA fashion store mail order catalogues, circa late 1960s, 3 of which with original printed order forms loosely 944 inserted, each with folding fashion illustrations and original wraps with iconic BIBA logo in gilt to top wrap of each issue, photographers including Hans Feurer, Dona ...[more]
PACKET OZ, underground alternative magazine, 4 issues, 1969-70 numbers 25-28 including "School Kids Oz", May 1970, number 28, 945 notorious issue that was subject to a high profile obscenity case in 1971 + issues number 25 - December 1969, number 26 - February 1970, number 27 - April 1970 "Sex Fair Spec ...[more]
THE INTERNATIONAL TIMES, underground newspapers, February 2nd 1968 - January 16th 1969, 7 issues including numbers 25, 29, 946 37, 42, 43, 45, 47 (content including John Peel, Rudi Dutschke, South Africa, Acid Rock etc etc), each original printed wraps worn COLLECTION 35+ assorted bookmarks, many Victorian and silk examples including some by Thomas Stevens, majority silk plus some 947 printed coloured litho examples, plus small quantity other similar ephemera including postcard with woven silk panel, large format silk cigarette card etc etc housed in a mod ...[more]
MONMOUTHSHIRE RAILWAY & CANAL COMPANY SHARE CERTIFICATE for 25 shares, to George Grout of Norwich dated 1852, 948 195 x 260mm, George Grout, together with his brother Joseph, founded a silk manufacturing company in Norwich and were inventors of Norwich Crepe
949 PACKET mainly early to mid-20th century travel guides and ephemera, folding maps etc
950 THREE VICTORIAN SCRAP ALBUMS containing Valentines, greetings cards, chromolitho, varied subjects, scraps etc (3)
VIEWS OF ARBROATH AND NEIGHBOURHOOD, published J F Hood & Son, circa 1900, oblong, original blind stamped boards gilt, v 951 worn, + SUTTON'S AMATEUR'S GUIDE IN HORTICULTURE FOR 1914, published Sutton & Sons, Reading, circa 1914, original paper covered boards, silvered, worn, lacks backstrip (2)
ALEXANDRA OF DENMARK, QUEEN CONSORT AND WIFE OF EDWARD VII (1844-1925), circa early 20th century gelatine silver 952 print portrait photograph by W & D Downey of 61 Ebury Street, London, mounted and signed by Queen Alexandra to the mount, framed and glazed, decorative gilt gesso by Dreyfous, 128 Mount S ...[more]
MARY OF TECK, QUEEN CONSORT AND WIFE OF KING GEORGE V (1867-1953) AND MARY, PRINCESS ROYAL AND 953 COUNTESS OF HAREWOOD (1897-1965), montage in glazed display including their autographs on card "Mary R February 27th 1920" and "Mary" beneath, approx size of card 7 x 12cm together with oval portrait monoc ...[more]
COLLECTION of Royal and other correspondence to Frank Lewis Publishers, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex together with related ephemera, 954 Frank Lewis published Christmas cards for Queen Mary (1867-1953) but are better known for their fine quality art books, included in the collection are 11 Queen Mary signed Chri ...[more]
PACKET of Royalty ephemera from the collection of Ken Wheal, former Grenadier Guardsman who was seconded as an orderly at 955 Clarence Hosue to work for the Royal Household from 1951-1955, during this part as part of the proposed 1952 Royal Commonwealth tour to Ceylon and the Southern Hemisphere, settin ...[more]
956 Packet: 15 assorted playbills mainly 1801-33, mixed condition (15)
TWO CIRCA EARLIER 20TH CENTURY original Colman's Mustard advertising tins, one in barrel shape approx size 22 x 18cm "This 956A barrel will be found useful for storing sugar, tea, flour, rice etc Colman's Fine Mustard warranted pure 5lbs nett" printed label to inside of lid, the other with Cow logo to li ...[more]
MANUSCRIPT document dated September 1727 relating to the Act of Charles I in 1673 directing the bodies of executed malefactors to 957 be delivered to "...Henry Gretton or Mathew Morris, Beadles of the Company of Barbers and Surgeons of London, or such other officer or officers as the said Company shall ...[more]
COLLECTION of 19th century railway ephemera circa 1870s to 1880, mainly North British Railway, including Carlisle etc railway income 958 tax assessment document 1875, James Irving - transfer of stock 1871, printed solicitors statement of claims re William Henry Charlton deceased, the North British Railw ...[more]
PACKET late 19th century ephemera circa 1880-1890 including ROYAL COURT THEATRE, MONDAY OCTOBER 29TH 6 NIGHTS MR 959 HENRY IRVING, MISS MARION TERRY AND THE LONDON LYCEUM THEATRE COMPANY, original souvenir program [6]pp original printed wraps + THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN FREEMAN THOMAS' EIGHTH ANNUAL S ...[more] SMALL QUANTITY assorted Royalty ephemera and books including QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S CHRISTMAS GIFT BOOK, 960 PHOTOGRAPHS FROM MY CAMERA, London, The Daily Telegraph, 1908, photogravure frontis bearing the contemporary inscription underneath facsimile signature "...Lynn January 20th 1909", original cloth with ...[more]
COLLECTION 10+ assorted 20th century newspapers covering Great War, Second World War etc including THE DAILY MIRROR, 961 Tuesday February 1st 1916, headline "Curtain drawn over a dug-out as a protection against gas attacks" + issues of various newspapers circa World War II period, mainly foreign includi ...[more]
SNAPSHOT photograph album compiled by Major S A T Coxon, 5th Norfolk Regiment of Kings Lynn, Norfolk depicting Britannia 962 Infantry Barracks, Mousehold Heath circa mid to late 1914, approx 50 snapshot photographs in total, images include external shots of buildings, clock tower, grounds, some with sma ...[more]
NORFOLK SECTION, MOUNTED INFANTRY, LONGMOOR, DECEMBER, 1910, gelatine silver print photograph depicting members of 962A Norfolk Regiment on horseback including Lieut J Bagwell, MVO, Sgt Smith, Privates Ridgeons, Francis, Carter, Slaughter…, L C Coleman, L C Watts, L C Page, Cpl Gray, L C E Sgt Ninham, th ...[more]
Two 1953 war office colour printed on silk maps, OSLO - STOCKHOLM/STOCKHOLM - RIGA AND AMSTERDAM - HAMBURG - 963 BERLIN; WARSAW/VILMA - MINSK, both "restricted", together with 4 MOD Operational Navigational Charts printed on fabric, ONC E-2 1970 (2 copies); ONC E-3, 19070 and ONC D-2, undated (6)
L/CPL G H CLARK LEWIS, GUN CORPS, CHELSEA BARRACKS 1918, notebook containing 35+ pages of manuscript notes and 963A sketches of .303 Lewis machine gun, notes including gun specification, instructions on stripping gun, description of parts, notes on cooling, magazine, mechanism, points to attend to before ...[more]
TWO VICTORIAN SCRAP ALBUMS circa 1870s containing good quantity Valentine cards, many paper lace plus quantity greetings 964 cards etc + one larger size Victorian Valentine card in decorative paper covered boards, custom made box, all ex-libris Bryan Hall, Banningham, Norfolk
HAND COLOURED MANUSCRIPT PLAN on vellum dated 1687 of an estate in the village of Trotton, Sussex, with manuscript pen and 964A ink title within columned architectural border, A TRUE AND PERFECT SURVEY OF THE DEMESNE OF YE MANOR OF TROTTON AND OF A FARME THAT IS CALLED BY THE NAME OF CUMBERS LYING IN THE ...[more]
CIRCA LATE 19TH CENTURY SCRAP ALBUM compiled by Julie Agnes Neale of Emneth near Kings Lynn Norfolk, containing a large 965 quantity of Victorian scraps etc including dogs, horses, natural history, religious etc + greetings etc, old dilapidated boards + two other scrap albums similar (3)
966 SMALL BOX OF CIGARETTE CARDS including complete sets and odds circa 1930s
ONE SMALL BOX assorted aviation ephemera and magazines etc including W G CHITTY: BOMBERS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 967 [1942] original pictorial wraps + SOUVENIR PROGRAM FOR VICTORY PARADE, SATURDAY JUNE 8TH 1946, Buckingham Palace/The Mall, original wraps etc etc
CIRCA LATE 19TH CENTURY SCRAP ALBUM containing assorted scraps including children, beauty, animals, etc, old half calf gilt + 968 good quantity mainly Victorian scraps etc loose in packets circa 1889 + quantity other assorted ephemera in box
969 ONE BOX assorted ephemera
ONE BOX assorted football programmes 1960s and later including 8 Bradford City AFC programmes 1962-1967 + 20+ assorted 970 programmes 1957-1972 including Arsenal, Sheffield Wednesday, Sunderland, Leicester, Leeds etc + 60+ Norwich City mainly away programmes circa 1970s and 1980s 971 ONE BOX small collection early 20th century theatre programmes, PLAY PICTORIAL, theatre postcards etc
972 ONE SMALL BOX fashion plates from LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE, etc etc
STANLEY MARCHANT (1883-1949) Royal College of Organists exam qualification certificate signed Stanley Marchant, Chairman dated 972A 24th July 1931, framed and glazed, the whole approx size 50 x 30cm
19TH CENTURY ALBUM containing 110+ well executed original pen and ink caricature sketches circa 1860-1875, the majority mounted 973 with manuscript pen and ink borders and captions and signed F G Lynn?, the first page of the album with the ownership signature in pencil, Frederick G Lynn?, some sketches ...[more]
EDWARD HENRY CORBOULD, RI (1815-1905), 19th century commonplace album circa 1885-1889, containing several high quality 974 original pen, ink and watercolour sketches by Edward Henry Corbould, the album having belonged to a Miss Ida de Kreeft of The Arches, Sutton, Surrey "Miss de Kreeft would feel highl ...[more]
19TH CENTURY COMMONPLACE ALBUM circa 1836 containing pencil and manuscript pen, ink and watercolour sketches, poetry, 975 prose etc, oblong, original blind stamped calf worn, lacks backstrip
19TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT volume c.1854 THE LOVING BALLAD OF LORD BATEMAN, with manuscript pen and ink text plus 11 975A original manuscript pen and ink illustrations, anonymous, each illustration approx 9 x 9cm, 11 pages of manuscript text, ownership signature of “Latitia Addington Efford Manor 1854” to v ...[more]
MID 19th TO EARLY 20th CENTURY SCRAP ALBUM circa 1847 to 1905, containing original admission pass for "Funeral of the late 976 Field Marshall The Duke of Wellington, KG", St Paul's Cathedral 18th November 1852 admitting "Capt Eyre" to "centre area under the dome, south side" with Earl Marshall of Englan ...[more]
F G E SPRING: KISTNA BRIDGE, BEZWADA, photograph album circa January to May 1892, containing a series of 38 photographs, 977 each with a printed caption of the construction of the bridge over the River Kistna near Bezwada, now Vijayawada City, Andhra Pradesh, India, 1890-1893 with printed leaf dated 5th ...[more]
A SNAPSHOT PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, circa 1930s containing 75+ snapshot photographs of Daytona Beach, Florida and environs, a 978 good quantity of the photographs featuring Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948) in Bluebird, March 7th 1935, various photos of him setting land speed record of 276mph, one photo bearing ...[more]