Specialist Books, Maps & Prints

Photograph albums. Two mixed circa 1930-50s albums, China (Canton), Japan, Canada, etc, the majority Japan interest, and including a surfer at Wai...

Manghetti, Chinese river boat with oarsmen rowing, a bromide silver print, signed lower right 34 x 46cm ...[more]

Carte de Visite albums. Four albums of portraits, including Syrian sbjects, American civil war, portraits after paintings, etc (condition varies) ...

Illustrated. Homes of American Statesmen, by various writers, New York: G.Putnam & Co 1854, 8vo, with crystallotype frontispiece, some foxing and ...

Photograph - Japan. ESKAI. Portrait of the Marquis and Marquise Tokougawa, 1929, inscribed in English and Japanese, slightly faded, 19 x 27.5cm (i...

Photographs – USA. interest. An American WWII soldier’s photograph album, largely Japan, with scenes of destruction to Nagasaki and Hiroshima incl...

Photographs - lunar. Four lunar glass plates, c.12.5 x 9 or 10cm; 4 others smaller (c.5cm square), and various portrait prints; with some hand wri...

Photography - BRAUN (Adolphe) Chasse de Neubourg, 1896, 34.5 x 48cm (image, mounted); and two mounted floral still lives, larger 38 x 45cm (3) ....

Photographs. BARKER (George) Frozen Niagara Falls, 2 mounted views, some foxing and old closed tears, 49 x 41cm; with - MARVILLE (Charles) Detail ...

Photographs. Glass negatives of Parisian scenes circa 1900, 13 (size 13 x 21cm), and 7 others larger; with 10 French Autochromes in Lumiere boxes,...

Collection of ‘In Memoriam’ cards and notices, Victorian and later, including Prince Albert with embossed decoration, in a folder, with framed lar...

Collection of autograph letters and signatures, 19th century, the letter writers include: Sir Walter Scott, Hannah More (partial), Mrs Siddons, va...

Photographs - portraits. Victorian album with 44 carte de visite type including Gladstone, Disraeli, Lord Palmerston, Lord Derby, Richard Cobden, ...

Travel guides. Victorian guides to Brighton, Arundel, Aldeburgh, and Malvern, etc; together with 4 limp cover books of printed views (10) ...[mo...

After Holbein Three small 17th century bookplate portraits engravings, trimmed and mounted c.15 x 10cm; with three small engraved decorative panel...

Photographs - vintage aircraft, militaria and ephemera. Collection of loose photographs circa 1920s, of early aircraft include the Vickers Vimy Bo...

SCHLETTER (Annie; London stage actress) Collection of personal letters and some theatrical reviews and ephemera, circa 1920s-1930s, including: sig...

Scottish Armorials. A large 19th century album with 7 leaves of pencil and watercolour crests (mainly Earldoms), and 20 leaves of coloured shields...

Two ‘Grand Tour’ travel journals, late19th century, the two oblong manuscript journals recording travels and artworks seen in Italy, illustrated w...

An Edwardian photograph album, with family and travel photographs including early motoring scenes in France (dated 1904), ephemera, etc; together ...

Rev. John Clifford M.A. (1804-1886) and others. A 19th century Polyglot Bible heavily annotated and with pasted in sketches, photographs and ephem...

Medicine at Edinburgh University 1804-05, five printed and named admission tickets to William Carr for lectures including ‘Second Course of Midwif...

Old puzzles. A Victorian mahogany box of cardboard tile alphabet letters, with label to lid ‘A new and amusing Social Game of Orthographical Recre...

LLOYD GEORGE (David, 1863-1945; Liberal politician and UK prime minister between 1916 and 1922). Collection of photographs and letters by Lloyd Ge...

RIDER HAGGARD (Sir Henry) 1856-1925. Collection of autograph letters and a signed photographic postcard portrait, the letters to include: 2 sheet ...

THOMAS (Dylan) Autograph single page letter from The Boat House, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, dated 10 June 1949, to Will Griffiths, then manager o...

Collection of literary ephemera, formed by Mr William Griffiths, manager and bookseller of Foyle’s Welsh Department and Griff’s in Cecil Court, Lo...

HM The Queen and Prince Philip, a Christmas card for 1953, depicting the Royal couple standing in ceremonial dress with Prince Charles and Princes...

India - Photographs. Album circa 1880-1900, with around 90 photographs of various sizes, subjects include Agra Fort (several), Taj Mahal, Futehpur...

Hills Free School, Thurcaston, Leicester, file circa 1901-03 of various official school ephemera including financial matters, Board of Education l...

ROUTLEDGE (Edmund) The New Handbook of Croquet, no date, circa 1870, small 8vo, colour printed cover, (a six-penny guidebook), spine chipped, 64pp...

Postcards. Large collection in 4 albums, including many amusing and real photographic subjects, early 20th century ...[more]

Brewing history, Suffolk. Hadley Brewery - James Harris Brown. Four ledgers, circa 1889-1914, containing various information including bottling ex...

Photograph album circa 1890s, Tehran - Lord HARDINGE. Persian bound small album with enamelled corner mounts, with circular Kodak photographs, sub...

IRISH POTATO FAMINE, 1847. An extraordinary letter sent from the Office of the Irish Relief Committee in New York, dated 14th July 1847, during th...

MILLAIS (Sir John Everett) Autograph letter from 7 Cromwell Place, signed, to Mr Lucas, dated 17 May 1864, single page, ‘... I have only just retu...

A Welsh indenture dated 1599, between David Edwardes of Carmarthen, and Jeban Thomas and John Owen of the same, mainly regarding property in the P...

Suffolk Record Society, 21 first editions. WEBB (J) Great Tooley of Ipswich, 1962; volumes 28, 29, 35, 38-42, 44-54, one other (Index of Sudbury W...

The Holy Land - Jerusalem. TASSO (Torquato) La Gerusalemme Liberata, in 2 vols 1705, 16mo, engravings, lacking some leaves, binding damaged; Studi...

~ H ~ Norfolk. BRITTON and BRAYLEY. A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Norfolk, no date, circa 1812, 8vo, folding map, un...

~ H ~ STUKELEY (William) Stonehenge, 1740 [but 1838]; bound with Abury, 1743 [but 1838], folio, together 2 works in 1 volume; the first with engra...

MACKENZIE (Sir George) Travels in Iceland during the Summer of the Year 1810, first edition Edinburgh 1811, 4to, coloured aquatints and folding li...

CRANTZ (David) The History of Greenland, 2nd enlarged edition, in 2 volumes 1820, 8vo, 2 maps and 7 plates, slight underlining in places, edges un...

[COMBE (William)] The Tour of Dr Prosody in Search of the Antique and Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles, ...

BRUZEN De La MARTINIERE (Antoine Augustin) Histoire de la Vie et du Regne de Louis XIV, 5 volumes, The Hague: chez Jean Van Duren 1740-42, 4to, ma...

WOODCROFT (Bennet) A Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam Navigation from Authentic Documents, London 1848, small 4to, added lithographic ti...

DEPPING (G-B) L’Angleterre ou Description Historique et Topographique du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne, 2nd edition, 6 volumes, Paris 1828, 12...

CUSSANS (John E) History of Hertfordshire, 3 volumes 1870-81, folio, coloured and other plates, folding map, some scattered age staining, half red...

GROSE (Francis) Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army, 2 volumes, 1801, 4to, engraved plates as required, occasional light...

Return of Owners of Land, 1873, for Ireland (published 1876), England, Wales and Scotland, in 5 volumes, covers (rubbed) with gilt Wigan Library a...

Horse Racing. Racing at Home and Abroad, 3 volumes 1923-1927-1931, large 4to, numbered limited editions, many plates, full morocco gilt, te.g. oth...

History - Britain. DILKE (C W) Greater Britain, a Record of Travel, 2 volumes 1868, 8vo, some foxing, Mudie Library label to cloth covers; PHILP (...

Inner Temple. A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, volumes I-5, 1896-1937, together with - WOOD (Rev.) Register of Burials at the Temple Church...

COBBETT (William) A Grammar of the English Language, 1819, 8vo, interleaved with a large number of annotations, notes and a manuscript index, titl...

Cambridge. A Concise and Accurate Description of the University, Town and County of Cambridge, new edition for J & J Merrill, no date, plates, map...

Illustration. BEGBIE (H) Great Men, 1901; MONVEL (M B de) La Fontaine’s Fables, c.1898; another; with - ‘The Fisher’s Life’ illuminated vellum lea...

~ H ~ SEARLE (Ronald) Good collection of his own or illustrated works, including first editions in dust jackets of: Back to the Slaughterhouse, 19...

~ H ~ Cartoons and humour. Collection of works by or illustrated by: Gerard Hoffnung, Fougasse, H.M.Bateman and Bruce Bairnsfather, some in dust j...

~ H ~ GRAHAME (Kenneth) Collection of works, including: The Golden Age, 1915, 4to, plates by R.Moony, damaged wrapper, dusty; various non-first ed...

~ H ~ Childrens and illustrated, various including: POTTER (B) The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, first edition 1908, recased in original boards, rep...