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BLUNDEVILLE, (Thomas) The Fower Chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanshippe. London: Willyam Seres, [no date c. 1570], 4to, 4 parts in one volume...

HOLINSHED (R) Chronicles, 1587, folio in sixes, comprising The History of England - Ireland - Scotland, lacking general title but with 4 section t...

KILBURNE (Richard) A Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent, London: for Thomas Mabb 1659, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, later worn calf and re...

Du HALDE (J B) A Description of the Empire of China, in 2 vols. 1738-41, folio, engraved frontispiece of Confucius only, lacking the plate and map...

CHAUCER (Geoffrey) The Works, edited by John Urry (1663-1714), London: for Bernard Lintot 1721, first edition, folio, 2 engraved portraits, illust...

COLLINS (Arthur) The Peerage of England, fourth edition, in 8 volumes including supplement, 1768, 8vo, engraved armorial plates, together with thr...

[HARBIN (GEORGE)] The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England Asserted, London: Richard Smith, 1713, folio, contemporary panelled calf (worn); BA...

GUILLIM (John) A Display of Heraldrie... London: Jacob Blome, 1638, third edition, folio, numerous shields and crests with hand colouring, lower m...

Fine Binding. ROSTAND (Edmond) Cyrano de Bergerac, Paris 1899, large 8vo, illustrated, bound with an extra suite of proof plates on chine paper, s...

Fine Binding. SHELLEY (P B), The Cenci a Tragedy in Five Acts, New York, 1903, 8vo, with three added engraved portraits, in fine red gilt tooled m...

Bindings. Collection of 40 vols, 8vo, circa 1900, classic works and novels, with Institution of Electrical Engineers gilt arms to covers; PRESCOTT...

Literature - bindings. Collection of 19th century works, 8vo and 12mo, variously leather bound, including Poems by Tennyson in Riviere binding; al...

Bindings. Thirty Four Portraits of Eminent and Illustrious Characters with Biographical notes, London 1820, 12mo, mainly East Anglian interest, wi...

Bindings. AUSTEN (Jane) Works, 5 vols, Macmillan 1897-1904, 8vo, illustrated by Hugh Thomson or C. E. Brock, occasional staining, slightly dusty, ...

Bindings. KIPLING (R) Works, 16 vols, c.1900, 8vo; THACKERAY (W) Works, 13 vols.; TROLLOPE (A) Orley Farm, 1st edition, in 2 vols., Chapman and Ha...

Bindings. ELIOT (G) Works, 7 vols. c.1900, 8vo, half calf; SHAKESPEARE Works, 12 vols. c.1900, some spines worn or damaged; GREEN (J) Histories, 8...

Bindings. BRONTE Sisters. Works, Haworth Edition in 7 vols., c. 1900, 8vo, illustrated, some foxing, half calf, t.e.g. (rubbed);

Bindings. HARDY (T) Works, 8 vols. c.1900, 8vo, half calf; KINGSLEY (C) Works, 12 vols., c.1900, 8vo, half calf; and 11 further vols. Kingsley, sm...

DICKENS (Charles) Works, Crown edition in 17 vols., c.1895, 8vo, half calf, illustrated

ROBERTS, (Kate) Two Old Men and Other Stories, illustrated by Kyffin Williams, Gregynog Press, 1981, one of the special copies bound and signed wi...

Fine modern bindings by Desmond Shaw, duplicates for presentation to HM the Queen. MAHON (D) & N.TURNER. The Drawings of Guercino in the collectio...

Fine modern bindings by Desmond Shaw, duplicates for presentation to HRH Prince Philip. Cambridge University Press: The Beagle Record, 1980, 4to, ...

MOORE (James) A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, second edition, London 1809, 4to, portrait frontispiece, plate and 2 foldi...

Fine modern bindings by Desmond Shaw, duplicates for presentation to HM the Queen. The Louis XVI Service, CUP 1986, 4to, full red morocco with gil...

BELL (Malcolm) Sir Edward Burne-Jones a record and review, G. Bell & Sons 1901, 8vo, slight foxing, with tipped in autograph letter signed written...

RHYS (Ernest) Frederic Lord Leighton an Illustrated Record, G. Bell & Sons 1900, 8vo, extra-illustrated including an autograph letter signed by Le...

Bindings - literature Cassells' Natural History, 6 vol. in 3, illustrated, a little browned, half calf; BONNEY (T G) Cathedrals Abbeys and Churche...

COLERIDGE, SHELLEY and KEATS The Poetical Works, Paris 1829, 8vo, complete in one volume, first collected edition (Coleridge section being the sec...

CLENNELL (J A) Recreations in Natural History; or Popular Sketches of British Quadrupeds, 1815, 8vo, plates as called for, light foxing, fine crim...

The Modern Part of A Universal History from the Earliest Account of Time.., complete in 42 vols., c.1780s, 8vo, contemporary calf, slightly rubbed...

MURRAY (Cecil) Extracts from his Writings and Correspondence, with a brief Biographical Memoir, Blackwood 1899, 8vo, with a MS recollection at the...

OLIVER (George) Illustrations of Masonry by the late William Preston, 1829, small 8vo, with a contemporary fore edge painting of a city bridge, ha...

FOOTE (Captain) Vindication of his Conduct when Captain of His Majesty's Ship Sea-Horse, 2nd edition, London 1810, with the bookplate of William, ...

The Religion of Nature Delineated, London 1731, 4to, 5th edition, portrait frontispiece of Wollaston, calf; CHAMISSO (A Von) Peter Schlemihl: from...

TENNYSON (Alfred, Lord) The Works, in 7 vols., London: Henry S. King & Co., 1877, 8vo, fine contemporary crushed morocco gilt, a.e.g.

Fine bindings, 8vo. MILTON (J) Poetical Works, 1843, 2 vols., polished calf by Riviere; HERBERT (George) Poetical Works, 1856, bound by Hayday; LE...

DICKENS (Charles) Works, 'Charles Dickens Edition', 18 vols in 14, c.1870, 8vo, slight foxing, good half red morocco

BALZAC (H de) Oeuvres Completes, 1872-1892, 8vo, edition 'Definitive' in 24 vols., half grained morocco (rubbed in places)

Fine bindings. DICKENS (C) Bleak House, 1853; Old Curiosity Shop, complete in one vol., half morocco; WHITE (Rev. G) The Natural History of Selbor...

WILLIAMS (Lieut. Col.) The Life and Times of the late Duke of Wellington, J. Tallis & Co., no date, 4 vols in two, map and plates, half calf; ARCH...

BOSWELL (J) The Life of Samuel Johnson, in ten vols., 1859, small 8vo, illustrated, half morocco

DIGBY (Kenelm) The Broadstone of Honour; or the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry, in five vols., 1876-77, 8vo, no.12 of 50 large paper copies, ...

Bindings. THACKERAY (W M) The Works, in 22 vol., 1869, half calf; PRESCOTT (W) The Conquest of Peru, in 3 vols, 1850;... Mexico, 3 vols, 1852;...T...

ROLLIN The Ancient History, in six vols., 16th ed., Edinburgh 1829, 8vo, old brown staining, folding maps, half calf (6)

MAXWELL (W H) Life of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, 1839, in 3 vols., first edition, in contemporary calf

ROWLANSON (Thomas) Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, illustrated by twenty-one engravings of humourous subjects, 2nd edition, London: for R. Acker...

BRAY (Mrs) Life of Thomas Stothard, London: John Murray 1851, thick 8vo, extra illustrated with about 120 plates, bound in full red morocco by Man...

SMITH (Rev J.J) The Cambridge Portfolio, 2 volumes, London: John W Parker 1840, 4to, numerous plates, sporadic spotting or foxing, half red morocc...

GIBBON (E) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in 12 vols 1821, 8vo, engraved portrait, folding maps, original calf rubbed, s...

ACKERMANN (R) The Microcosm of London, 3 vols, London: Methuen & Co. 1904, illustrations after Pugin and Rowlandson, 4to, sporadic foxing, half mo...

Bible. London: John Field 1658, 12mo, double column, red ruled, in two volumes, with contemporary tooled binding, a little rubbed, one board corne...

Juvenile. 'The Bookcase of Knowledge', London: for John Wallis, 1800, 16mo, 8 miniature vols (of 10?) including Geography and Astronomy with colou...

Croquet rules Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations, 1870, 12mo, frontispiece of Eglinton Castle croquet game, few illustrations, original yel...

The Baronage of England since the Norman Conquest, 1627, small 8vo, fine manuscript book on vellum of armorial shields with painted decoration and...

The Infant's Library - a miniature set of Children's books, 15 (of 16) vols., in coloured paper wrappers, scarce

FROST (Robert) The Cow's in the Corn. Printed by James and Hilda Wells, Gaylordsville: The Slide Mountain Press, 1929, small 8vo, first separate e...

Various. The Book of Common Prayer, Cambridge 1768, 4to, bound with Psalms, contemporary panel calf gilt (cracked joints, spine ends chipped), var...

Book of Common Prayer, 1662 or later, black letter, folio in sixes, defective (incomplete), lacking title, some leaves loose, old staining, detach...

Bible, John Field, London 1648, small 4to, engraved title damaged, bound with Genealogies, 1638, typical brown staining, some tears to margins, fe...

BIBLE, 1715, folio, bound with Prayer Book and Psalter, six double page maps by J. Moxon, other illustrations either eight or six per leaf, skilfu...