Books, Stamps, Militaria, Coins & Medals

WILDE (Oscar) The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1st illustrated edition, Paris: Carrington, 1908 [1910], title printed in red and black, seven wood-engr...

ELIOT (G) pseud. of Mary Ann EVANS Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life, 4 vol., first edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and son...

Literature, topography and travel. WILKINSON (J. G) Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. London, 1837, 3 vols., with 16 plates (eight col...

HUNT (Leigh) The Liberal, Verse and Prose from the South, 2 vol. in one, London 1822-23, 8vo, first title with name torn away at head, text probab...

HADFIELD, (John, Editor.) Georgian Love Songs; Restoration Love Songs, decorations by Rex Whistler, Cupid Press, 1949 & 1950, numbered editions (6...

Bindings - poetry. JOHNSON (S) The Works of the English Poets, 17 various vols., 1790, small 8vo, calf; BROWNING (E B) Poetical Works, in 5 vols.,...

BANNET (Ivor) The Amazons, a novel, The Golden Cockerel Press 1948, illustrated by Clifford Webb, no. 137/500 copies, half morocco over patterned ...

Bookbinding. Collection of references including Eric Burdett - The Craft of Bookbinding; Grolier Bindings, others by Bernard Middleton and Warren ...

CORFE (J) The Beauties of Handel, 3 vol., London: for the author by Preston, no date, c.1800, oblong folio, portrait frontispiece vignette, some o...

Literature including children's and illustrated. SEARLE (Ronald) Forty Drawings, 1946, author's inscription to first leaf; MILNE (A A) Winnie the ...

GLADSTONE (Herbert, MP) Collection of 12 vols. with his bookplate, another with Mary Gladstone's bookplate; one of which inscribed by W. Gladstone...

NICOLAI (Friedrich) Recherches Historiques sur l'usage des Cheveux Postiches et des Perruques, Paris, [1809], half-title, engraved vignette title,...

JOHNSON (George) The Cottage Gardener's Dictionary, 1860, 5th edition, rebacked cloth; COBBETT (W) The English Gardener, 1838, folding plate, adve...

BANKS. Dormant and Extinct Baronetage of England, 1807, 4 vols., one of 750 copies, together with various others 18th and 19th century many in dam...

The Strand Magazine, 20 vols. from 1891, including first published editions in parts of the Sherlock Holmes stories, sporadic light foxing, half c...

WELLS (H G) The Stolen Bacillus and other Incidents, first edition, Methuen 1895, 8vo, half-title, 30pp. (of 32pp.) adverts at end (first advert l...

CAMMELL (Charles Richard) Eight slim volumes, mainly poetry, and inscribed by the author to Professor Geoffrey Bickersteth, some limited editions ...

CHURCHILL (Winston Spencer) My African Journey, first edition, London 1908, plates and maps as called for, adverts at end, light foxing mainly to ...

Literature, various. FRAZER (Sir J G) The Golden Bough, 12 vols., third edition, c.1925, 8vo, green cloth gilt; MARSH (J B T) The Story of the Jub...

STEVENSON (R L) Island Nights' Entertainments, London: Cassell & Co 1893, first edition, early issue (price correction present on page ii), 8vo, f...

[HEPWORTH (Barbara)] TOFT (Albert) Modelling and Sculpture, Seeley Service & Co [no date], inscribed in ink to first free end paper 'Barbara Hepwo...

LAWRENCE (D H) Lady Chatterley's Lover, Florence 1928, edition of 200 copies, damaged original paper wrapper, margins rather browned; another edit...

LEE (Harper) To Kill a Mockingbird, Heinemann 1960, proof copy, paper wrappers

PLATH (Sylvia) The Colossus, Heinemann 1960, uncorrected proof copy, original yellow paper wrapper marked in red ink '3-10-60 15/-', and typed hea...

MARKHAM (Robert) Colonel Sun, 1968, uncorrected proof, slightly skewed and foxed; TEDLOCK (E W) Dylan Thomas: The Legend and the Poet, uncorrected...

PLATH (Sylvia) Ariel. London: Faber and Faber, 1965, 8vo, first edition, red cloth lettered in gold, fine in very good dust jacket, very slight ed...

FLEMING (Ian) Five James Bond first editions in dust wrappers: From Russia with Love, 1957; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live T...

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 1969, 8vo, first single volume India paper edition, folding maps, original black buckram decorated in gilt...

CAMPBELL (Colen) The Third Volume of Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect, London 1725, folio, title page in red and black, in English ...

MAJOR (Thomas) The Ruins of Paestum, otherwise Posidonia in Magna Graeca. London: James Dixwell for the author, 1768, folio, author's gift inscrip...

WIGSTEAD (Thomas) and Thomas ROWLANDSON An Excursion to Brighthelmstone, made in the year 1789, first edition, G.G.J. & J. Robinson 1790, oblong f...

FARREN (Robert) Cambridge and its Neighbourhood, Cambridge 1881, folio, etched title and plates, occasional light foxing, blue cloth (rubbed)

PUGIN & HEATH Paris and its Environs, 2 volumes London 1831, 4to, large paper edition, mounted India paper plates (2 per page), slight occasional ...

HAMERTON (P G) Etching and Etchers. London: Macmillan & Co 1868, 4to, with 35 plates as required including folding, by and after Haden, Palmer, Ca...

WRIGHT (Rev. G. N.) and Thomas ALLOM China, in a Series of Views, vol. I only, c.1843, 4to, 32 plates as required, occasional dust staining or fox...

BELLASIS (George Hutchins) 'Six Views of Saint Helena, 1815', oblong folio, lacks title, with six hand coloured aquatints by Robert Havell after B...

PRIGNOT (E) La Marbrarie Moderne, Liege c.1880, folio, pictorial title and 25 plates of fireplaces in settings, rebacked boards; and - A Collectio...

ACKERMANN (R, Publisher) Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics, volumes XI and XII, 1814, 8vo, hand colour...

HARDING (J D) The Principles and Practice of Art, 1876, folio, cloth binding rubbed; Architectural Detail of the Works of Grinling Gibbons, no dat...

JENKINS (James) The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies, from 1799 to 1815, 4to, no date, hand coloured aquatint frontispiece, de...

BURRITT (Elijah H) Atlas, Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens, New York: Huntington & Savage 1835, 4to, 8 plates as required of wh...

BEATTIE (William) Scotland, London: George Virtue 1838, 2 vols., 4to, engravings by Bartlett, Allom et al, folding map, occasional light stains bu...

HASTED (Edward) The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, first edition, in 4 vols., Canterbury: for the author by Simmons and K...

French Revolution. Tableaux Historiques de la Revolution Francaise, circa 1800, folio, lacking title, 24 engraved plates after Prieur, worn bindin...

J. Hogarth & Sons, London, (publishers) CREALOCK, Lieut. -Colonel Henry Hope Folio of 66 loose printed illustrations, some of which are coloured, ...

Les Antiquités d'Herculanum avec leurs explications en françois. Paris: chez David, 1780, 4to, volumes I, II, IV, VI, VII, VIII only, numerous eng...

Indian Art reference. Various hard and paper backed works and monographs, mostly 1950s-60s, including Heinrich Zimmer two volumes (1964 reprint), ...

Modern Art reference. Various exhibition catalogues including Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore and Elisabeth Frink (1990, signed title, lower cover slig...

STEWART (Basil) Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Coloured Prints, London, 1922, folio, illustrated, cloth; AUDUBON (John J) The Original Water-Colou...

GREW (E. Sharpe) War in the Far East. A History of the Russo-Japanese Struggle, 6 vols bound in 3, [1904-06], 4to, colour maps, numerous illustrat...

MONTGOMERY (Sir A) The Story of the Fourth Army, c.1920, 4to, in two vols including plans; RICHTER & TAYLOR The Golden Age of Classic Christian Ar...

Bibliography. POLLARD and REDGRAVE: A Short Title Catalogue of English Books 1475-1640 (3 vols); WING (Donald) Short Title Catalogue 1641-1700, 3 ...

Bibliography. HALKETT and LAING Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature, 9 vols., TIMPERLEY 2 vols.; WOLFF Nineteenth Century ...

Bibliography. A collection of various 20th century works and references including catalogues, soft and hardbacked, a box

Real Tennis. WADE (Charles L) The History of the Leamington Tennis Court Club, 1996, signed by the author to title, in dust jacket; GARNETT (M P) ...

AHRONS (E L) The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1825-1925, 2 vols., 1927, plain dust wrapper, with companion volume II, 1966, dust wrapper; WOLT...

Book design and printing, with related subjects, a collection, mainly 20th century, to include several titles on shop display and advertising for ...

BERTRAM (Charles) Isn't it Wonderful ? A History of Magic and Mystery, London 1896, 8vo, inscribed by the author to title, decorative cloth covers

King Penguins. Large collection of published works

Bibliography, book reference, printing and related subjects, a quantity of works, mainly 20th century, in 3 boxes