The Library Sale

An Edwardian Cambridge theatre decorative poster, 'Thoroughbred', colour lithograph by Alick Ritchie, 49 x 73cm ...[more]

Arabic poetry, Quran, a Sura, verse 27, 17 x 11.5cm, 12pp manuscript verses heightened with gilt, on laid paper, limp morocco covers ...[more]

Ashenhurst Works, Blackley [Manchester], 1857-83 Visitors Book, with signatures including Disraeli, Ford Maddox Brown, Maharaja of Kolhapur, Josia...

Stamp collection - principally GB mint (UMM) and used; Victoria from 1840 onwards, including two 1d blacks with margins, fine used; 2d blue with c...

After Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1756-1827) A woman in distressed state, 27 x 22cm (10.5 x 9in); and Study of a madman in handcuffs, prints with ...

Bert Hardy (b.1913) The Gorbals, a later print, signed in black felt tip pen to lower right margin, 24 x 35cm ...[more]

Cambridge Grand Horticultural Fete 1847. Two pale pink sheets with embossed borders of Classes with prizes, edges slightly nicked and creased; and...

Captain H Adcock (19th-20th Century Colonial Engineer) and other photographers, A collection of approximately 200 platinum, gelatin silver and alb...

Captain H Adcock (19th-20th Century Colonial Engineer) and other photographers, The Kaaba at Mecca and Middle Eastern interest, A late 19th Centur...

Ceremonial of the Coronation of King George the Fourth, gilt and embossed sheet with herald in colours below, 67 x 52cm Lots of dirt under the gl...

Charles Keene (1822-1891) Two small watercolour figure studies and an etching of a seated gentleman; three monochrome landscape watercolours by th...

Charles Shannon (1863-1937) In the House of Delia, lithograph, 1895, signed in pencil below, depicting Shannon and Ricketts either side of 'Delia'...

Charles John Watson, RE (British, 1846–1927) Mansion House, London signed lower left "Mansion House 1880 / Charles J Watson"" watercolour 31 x 19....

China Missions, late 19th century, a small box of various China Missionary items and ephemera, including a tissue paper map, passport to Rev. A W ...

DARWIN (Charles) autograph letter signed, 4pp., dated May 25th [1851], to Mrs Horner, [wife of Leonard Horner, a past President of the Geological ...

DARWIN (Erasmus) autograph letter signed, 3pp., dated Derby Jan 25, 1801, to Miss Seward, on astrological queries '...I have looked over the astro...

DICKENS (Charles) Three letters signed, to Dr Harrington Tuke, dated October - November - December 1863, on Gads Hill Place headed letter paper, i...

Dublin, Ireland, a print album 'Waterfoot House', with 12 mounted hand coloured aquatints by Brocas published by LePetit, some trimmed, c.28 x 44c...

Frank Crossman (British, 19th Century), a group of small watercolour landscape studies and others ...[more]

FREUD (Dr Sigmund). Autograph letter signed, in German, single sheet, to Mrs Paula Adler-Freud [a niece of Freud, and wife of Dr Oskar Adler, phys...

Genealogy of the ancient family of Williams alias Cromwell, a hand-coloured Family Tree A Victorian scroll on two sheets of card, circa 1850, copy...

George Dance RA (1741-1825) Side portrait of Charles Burney (1726-1814), pencil, bust length, signed and dated 1785, in a feigned oval, 17.5 x 28c...

GOLDSMITH (John) Almanack for 1682, 16mo, interleaved with ms entries of Rev. Samuel Angier of Duckinfield, calf; and an Oxford University gentlem...

Heraldry - PORNY (M) A manuscript folio copy or partial copy of Porny's Heraldry, on paper watermarked 1799, in pen and ink with some hand colour,...

HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Philip, A Warrant of Appointment, under The Queen's Sign Manual, to the Most Excellent Order of the British E...

HOKUSAI (Katsushika) Views along the Sumida River, 3 vols, early 20th century, 46 colour illustrations, blue cloth covers; and 45 colour prints in...

Iceland - album, dated 1863, oblong folio, with c.45 amateur scenic watercolours , including Geysir, Reykjavik, Pingvellir, Gullfoss, Hekla, etc, ...

Japanese crepe paper prints, 7 loose woodblock prints mainly of ladys in courtly dress, 27 x 20cm ...[more]

Joan Kingsford-Wood (active 1926-1938) Curlylocks, Curlylocks, wilt though be mine ? original gouache and charcoal illustration to 'Nursery Rhymes...

King George III restored to health 1789, eight dated commemorative medallions framed with another for the marriage in 1761 of King George and Quee...

A small collection of historical letters and manuscripts. John Wesley, Dublin 1785, 1p.(stuck down), to Samuel Purvis Junr, Belford, Northumberlan...

King George III, holograph letter signed to Lord Hawkesbury in which he declares War against France, 14 May 1803, 1p. 4to., slight staining. 'The ...

Malta (stamps) Davo Album. An unused collection (some MNH) 1860 to 1978, unchecked for shades, wmks, perfs, etc. Noted SG 30,35,63,104,121,139 & 1...

Marjorie Miller (active 1920s-1930s), Illustration of a woman feeding turkeys, watercolour, signed, 37 x 29cm ...[more]

Middlesex County Lunatic Asylums in the 19th century, mostly Hanwell Lunatic Asylum. A collection of papers and ephemera, reports and letters, inc...

NIGHTINGALE (Florence) autograph letter signed, 1p.dated Dec 23/83, horizontal tear across centre fold, to Sir James Paget wishing him a happy Chr...

PARRY (Harriet) an album dated 1814 of watercolours, with 14 views around Hastings, 6 of Tunbridge Wells countryside and buildings, and 6 of views...

Photograph album, Egypt, Tunis and Malta c.1888, folio, 85 photographs mounted on 44 leaves, typical scenes, some age fading, most captioned in in...

CHAPPELL (Edwin) Samuel Pepys Club lecture pamphlets, correspondence etc. c.1930s; and Bell's edition of Samuel Pepys' Diary ...[more]

Stamps. 1942 Japanese Occupation of States of Malaya, (Straits Settlements, Perak, Johore, Pahang, Trengganu, Negri Sembilan (noted J238), Selango...

THATCHER (Margaret, Baroness) Two page letter signed to [Sir] Richard Parsons [Ambassador to Hungary] dated 11th December 1977, thanking him for h...

The Bevan family of Hilston Park, Monmouthshire and the Hon. Caroline E S Norton, A leather-bound album bearing a book-plate and penned inscriptio...

Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756-1827) Doctor Willis at Home, pen ink and watercolour, inscribed 'Private Madhouse' lower left, and with title in ca...

Three albums. A late 19th century photograph album, with views of ruins in Greece, and Turkish dress, various sizes including carte de visite; ano...

Two stamp albums, and loose bag, mainly Scandinavia, but also Romania and Far East, etc ...[more]

Various framed prints, some of hospital or asylum interest, including Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum Female Diet Table 1882, 32 x 50cm; three framed ...

Walter Crane Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1894, mounted in two oak frames, one with signed limitation leaf to the...

William Heath Robinson, Promenade in the park, the dropped hankerchief. watercolour and pen, signed lower right. 47 x 36cm. Provenance: Sir David ...

[CROMWELL (T K)] Excursions in the County of Suffolk, 2 vols., 1818, large 8vo, folding map and plan, mounted india paper plates, uncut, boards (w...

[YOUNG (Arthur)] The Farmer's Tour through the East of England. London 1771, 4 vol., 8vo, plates including folding, 4pp. advertisements at end of ...

BACON (Nathaniel) The Annals of Ipswich, edited by William H. Richardson, 1884, 4to, subscribers' edition, slight foxing to title, modern half cal...

BLOMEFIELD (Francis) and Charles PARKIN. An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, in five volumes 1739-75, small folio, ...

BOYER (A) The History of Queen Anne, 1735, folio, 2 engraved portraits, 2 folding plans, 3 plates, some toning, skilfully rebacked panel calf;CHAM...

BRUCE-MITFORD (R) The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, 3 vols in 4, 1975-83, 4to, vol. I inscribed by the author, dust wrappers (4) ...[more]

BYNG (John, 1704-57) The Trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng at a Court Martial.... London 1757, folio, 130pp. and appendix, in card covers ...

DARWIN (Charles) A Naturalist's Voyage, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology.., London 1897, 8vo, bright cloth gilt; MOGG (E...

DUGDALE (William) The History of Imbanking and Draining of Divers Fens and Marshes, Both in Foreign Parts and in this Kingdom, 2nd edition by Char...

HERALDRY. FOX-DAVIES (A C) Armorial Families, 2 vols., 7th edition 1929, 4to, uncut, cloth gilt; Papworth's Ordinary of British Armorials, Tabard ...

History, church and state. Mixed assortment mainly 18th century, all in varying condition, including Parlimentary debates, memoirs and letters, od...

HUTCHINS (John) The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, vols. 1 - 3, third edition, 1861-68, folio, titles printed in red and black, ...