GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY, GRAND TOUR AND AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

Nicholas Pocock (c. 1741 - 1821)Matlock from the Hag Woodsigned, titled and dated June 6th 1794 to verso, monochrome grey wash and pencil on paper...

Attributed to Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)Caricature of a Gentleman, bust-length, smoking his cigarbares signature, watercolo...

Continental School (19th century)A Jewish Scholaroil on canvas, 40cm x 31cm

Orientalist SchoolThe Haremoil on canvas, 39cm x 64cm

Sir Henry Maximilian 'Max' Beerbohm (1872 - 1956), an extensive folio of caricatures, off-set prints laid on woven paper, early 20th century (coll...

Belgian Revivalist School (mid-19th century), St. Jacques Church, Liège, chromolithograph, 41cm x 30cm

Abraham Raimbach (1776 - 1843), after Sir David Wilkie RA (1785 - 1841), The Rent Day, Engraved from the Original Picture in the Collection of the...

After Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528), The Adoration of the Shepherds, from the Life of the Virgin, foreground masonry slab with monogrammed AD devic...

After Martin Droeshout, Portrait of William Shakespeare, lithograph print laid on panel, 44cm x 33cm, oak frame

After Stefano della Bella (1610 - 1664), a pair, Boats at Anchor, Shipyard and Figures, each numbered 3 & 4 to margin, 18th century copperplate et...

An interesting collection of 18th and 19th century engravings, various Classical, pastoral, caricature, etc (13)

English Maritime School (19th century), a pair, Gun Brig Close Hull'd (sic) and A Schooner, engravings, varnished, 16.5cm x 23cm, titled gilt sli...

Horse Racing - J Scott, by, C. Tomson of Nottingham, after, Orville, Late the Property of His R.H. George Prince of Wales, printed by William Bish...

Irish School (early 19th century), a two-fold caricature, One Heavy Son of Mars, Gainst (sic) Seven Light Hussars, Published by M* Cleowy, 39 Nass...

James Dobie (early 20th century) after Watler Dendy Sadler (1854-1923), by and after, Passing the Port, Published by L.H. Lefèvre & Son, London 19...

Johann Hoffmann (Nuremberg, 17th century), by and after (?), [King of Tartary], etched engraving, 34cm x 24.5cm, 19th century collector's ink MS c...

Louis Phillipe Boitard, by and after, The Beau Monde in St James's Park, monochrome engraving, 19cm x 16.5cm; others, Sir Peter Lely; Richard Wils...

Marianecci (Italian, late 19th century), after Michelangelo (1475 - 1564), a pair, The Prophet Ezekiel and The Delphic Sibyl, From the Fresco of t...

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), after, Boy Leading a Horse or Jeune Garçon au Cheval, a colour lithograph, blind stamp, 50cm x 32cm, label to verso f...

Pietro Testa (1611 - 1650), after, Ritratto di Pietro Testa Pictore eccel.te, [Self-portrait], half-length, facing front, holding a drawing board ...

Samuel & Nathaniel Buck, The South View of Leicester Abby (sic), monochrome engraving, 21.5cm x 37.5cm, 18th century; Francis Jukes (1745 - 1812),...

Thomas Sutherland, by, William John Huggins (1781 - 1845), after, Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, engraving, varnished and laid on canvas, titled to...

William John Huggins (1781 - 1845), by and after, A Frigate Riding Out a Gale, engraving, 20cm x 25.5cm

William Hole (d. 1624), after Christopher Saxton (c. 1540 - c. 1610), Universi: Derbienfis Comitatus [...] (sic), two-page map of Derbyshire, from...

William Kip (fl. c. 1585 - 1618), after Christopher Saxton (c. 1540 - 1640), a pair of Welsh county maps, Denbigh and Radnor, from Camden's Britan...

A 19th century hand scrivened pen and ink instructional 'sampler', by Master H Stone, Xmas 1857, with the Lord's Prayer, centred by Christ, oval, ...

A mid-18th century calf bound notebook, uninscribed and blank throughout, the spine embossed with geometric devices in compartments, thick 8vo

An interesting collection of 19th century tooled morocco commonplace books, each pasted with scraps and engravings, and inscribed with verse, thou...

An interesting collection of 19th century tooled morocco commonplace books, each pasted with scraps and engravings, and inscribed with verse, thou...

Ephemera - Anonymous [Combe (William)], The Diaboliad: A Poem Dedicated to the Worst Man in His Majesty's Dominions, Also, The Diabo-Lady: Or, A M...

Hearldry - a 19th century country house album of crests, each cut-out and pasted in a watercolour strapwork matrix, quarter-morocco and marble boa...

Politics - People's Budget Budget 1909/10 - The Budget League, a suite of posters, Our Old Nobility, [British Worker and Peer, Unearned Increments...

Politics and Law - Parliamentary Acts, [Queen's Speech], Her Majefties (sic, Queen Anne) Most Gracious Speech To both Houses of Parliament, On Tue...

Postcards - Local Interest - an album of real photographic and polychrome and monochrome printed cards of Derby and its environs, including Corn M...

Royal History - Marriage of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret with Mr Antony Armstrong Jones [later Lord Snowdon], Wedding in Westminster Abbey on Frid...

Rt Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965) - a letter, on 10 Downing Street headed paper, I thank you gratefully for [your]...

Rt Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965) - a letter, on 10 Downing Street headed paper, Thank you for [your] kind wishes ...

The Crystal Palace and The Great Exhibtion - Lane's Telescopic View of the Ceremony of Her Majesty Opening Great Exhibition of All Nations, design...

Autographs - Sport and Entertainment - a mid-20th century album with Football League teams, including Blackpool with Stanley Matthews and Billy Wa...

A 19th century antiquary's folio, composed of various Medieval brass engravings, some engravings and other prints, quarter-morocco and marbled boa...

A mid-20th century 'folio' map of Derby and its environs, 1 : 1250 or 50. 688 inches to 1 Mile, each page 53cm x 50cm, Printed and published by th...

An early 20th century leather travelling case of folding maps, Ordnance Survey "Quarter Inch", including English regional, North Wales and some of...

Rolls-Royce - A.H. Buckle (fl. 1945)Portrait of Harry Swift, OBE, three-quarter length, striding forward wearing a double-breasted suit, flanked b...

Rolls-Royce - a photographic archive, including a box of Barnet Bromide Paper photographs, of the factory's Mountsorrel Children's Field Day, 1st ...

Rolls-Royce - Photography - a black buckram oblong photograph album, Childrens' Field & Sports Day, June 22nd, 1946; another, brown buckram, Rolls...

Rolls-Royce - Photography - a brown buckram oblong photograph album, Garden Party Held at Duffield Bank House, June 2nd, 1951; another, H.J. Swift...

Aviation - an archive, including two WW2-period RAF pilot's helmets (2); Crop Duster Microlight propeller, the terminals picked out in white paint...

Sir Alexander Fleming FRS, FRSE, FRCS (1881 - 1955), the father of penicillin, 1944 Allied Military 5 Schilling banknote for Austria, I2H 571323, ...

An early 20th century green morocco commonplace book or album, illustrated with various children's cartoons and illustrations in pen & ink and wat...

Local Interest - Geology, Mineralogy and Mining - an early 19th century vellum accounts book, inscribed and tabulated in ink manuscript with [...]...

The Bible, That Is, The holy Scriptures conteined (sic) in the Olde (sic) and Newe (sic)Teftament (sic), Translated According to the Ebrew (sic) a...

[The Iliad and Odyssey] of Homer Engraved From The Compositions of John Flaxman R.A. [,] Sculptor, London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme...

A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, With Descriptive and Historical Letterpress, ed...

A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, With Descriptive and Historical Letterpress, ed...

Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: Third Girl, first edition, The Crime Club, Collins, London 1966, h/b, d/j, 12mo; Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, Bo...

Agatha Christie - an autograph letter, typed and signed by the author, on Winterbook House, Wallingford, Berkshire, headed notepaper, dated 17th S...

Agriculture/Farming - Anonymous [Whitaker (Edward)], The Complete Grazier: Or, Gentleman and Farmer's Directory [...], Written by a County Gentlem...

Agriculture/Farming - Cobbett (William), Cottage Economy [...], fifteenth edition, Anne Cobbett, London 1838, 199, index [i], adverts [xii], publi...

Agriculture/Farming - Loudon (J.C.), An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture [...] Illustrated With Upwards of Eleven Hundred Engravings on Wood by Branst...

Aldin (Cecil), Old Inns, 38/380 copies numbered and signed by the artist in ink MS, William Heinemann, London 1921, viii, 149pp, tipped-in colour ...