The Library Sale

An album of photographs and ephemera recording the life and adventures of Lieutenant Cyril Shakespear Beachcroft (1893-1917) to include scenes fro...

Black Watch, Perth 1898, standing in full uniform, signed watercolour in gilt mount, together with ‘Illustrated Histories of the Scottish Regiment...

and Mills family interest to include indentures dated 1681, 1683, 1750, a Release dated 1806 given by John Mills ‘late of Great Bealings but now o...

Ipswich to Marie Blitchinden dated 1 st October 1714; the second, a counterpart lease on vellum, between Eton College and Samuel Cuming (builder),...

An album c.1920s, the originator being ‘Dr. Chancellor’, containing numerous photographs taken during a motoring tour of Queensland etc. to includ...

A pack of 52 playing cards with figures wearing medieval-type costume, un-boxed, slight damage to one corner of the Jack of Spades otherwise all i...

of recruits at a Glider Training School, to include images of single-seater gliders, together with three other albums of Japanese military interes...

the contents dating from c.1910 to 1915, containing entries by various East Sussex residents (of Uckfield, Burgess Hill etc.) to include sketches,...

containing various signatures to include performers at the Hippodrome, Margate C.1910-1912; cricketers Jack Hobbs (1927) and Jim Sims (1945); vari...

Treasury £1, emergency issue circa 1914 together with a Bradbury Ten Shilling note and a Fisher Ten Shilling note (3)

A portrait photograph of T E Lawrence, and another of his Arab servant, each 9.5 x 7.5cm and inscribed to the reverse by Helle Flecker, wife of Ja...

including Ministry of Food publications, Stork Margarine recipes, literature on growing fruit and vegetables, rationing, and other food subjects

Original pen and ink drawing for front cover/p.98 of a proposed later edition of Stig of the Dump, by Clive King, 40 x 28cm, with notes to the mar...

c.1818-56, folio, with prescription and account holder information in ledger form, relating to patients and the practice of Dr Allchin, inscribed ...

A circa 1880s watercolour sketchbook by the artist with scenery including Cornwall, some with dates and place names; together with four other roug...

Stamp Office Certificate, no. 1352, to Major Willson of Didlington in Norfolk, 15 x 19.5cm, later framed

Achille Quinet, 21 mounted photographs of Paris, c.245 x 190mm, with stamped signatures below in red; 27 small loose coloured aquatint views aroun...

A large collection in 12 original boxes by Realistic Travels London, some labels overstuck by others, subjects mainly Great War, British Empire, G...

DURRELL (G) The Whispering Land, My Favourite Animals Stories, first editions in dust jackets; BATEMAN (H M) Colonels, 1925, dust jacket torn; oth...

The Book of the Queen's Doll's House;.. Doll's House Library, 2 vols, Methuen 1924, one of 1500 copies, small 4to, uncut, cloth backed boards, a l...

Badminton Library, 2 vols. - Hunting and Fishing; Country Life Library - Shooting, 2 vols., etc (7)

including: The Musical Miscellany, or Songster's Pocket Companion. London: T. Caslon 1760, 12mo, frontispiece, lacks 4 leaves, morocco gilt; DELAC...

a quantity, all in varying condition, 19th and 20th century, including: CARTER (H) and A C MACE. The Tomb of Tutankhamen, 2 vols 1927, 8vo, mixed ...

Quantity including memoirs, all in varying condition, lacking dust jackets, including Times History of the War, half morocco by Bumpus; and others...

painting and engraving, quantity including Bryan's Dictionary, 1920; ARMSTRONG (W) Sir Joshua Reynolds, Heinemann 1900, folio, photogravure plates...

Works, 10 vols., 1922-28, 8vo, one of 780 sets, vol. I signed by the author, coloured cloth bindings, uncut

A History of the British Army, London: Macmillan 1909-30, 8vo, 14 vols. text and 6 vols. of maps, red cloth (20)

14 vols. c.1960 and later, including Beatty Papers, Jellicoe Papers, Cunninhgham Papers, Fisher Papers, etc. in original blue cloth (14) (Qty: 14)

The Birds of Siberia, 1901; Siberia in Europe,1880; both original cloth, a little faded; SLATER (H) Manual of the Birds of Iceland, 1901, HACHISUK...

The Diary, 11 vols. Bell 1973-83, dust jackets; IRONSIDE (Sir E) Tannenberg, 3rd impression 1933; CHURCHILL (Sir W) The World Crisis, 2 vols., no ...

CONAN DOYLE (Sir A) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 1st edition 1894, covers detached; Sketches by Seymour, 3 vols. - I, II, V, 8vo, printed on co...

Odette D'Antrevernes and a Study in Temperament, first edition 1905, rather browned, paper cover; Odette, Grant Richards 1916, paper wrapper; Sant...

Alone. London 1921, 8vo, first edition, first issue, minor foxing to first leaves and edges, dust jacket; Looking Back, 1933, 2 vols., first editi...

Les Enfants Terribles, Paris: Bernard Grasset 1929, 8vo, no.1606/2500 copies, uncut, paper wrapper; La Belle et la Bete, Journal d'un film, 1946, ...

including 1960s culture, poetry and biography, quantity, authors include James Lees-Milne, David Caute, Jean Genet, J. P. Donleavy, etc, most in d...

An Atlas of England and Wales, The Maps of Christopher Saxton Engraved 1574-1578. Facsimile edition 1979, folio, no.115/500 copies, quarter calf, ...

Report on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar, pts. IV and V, 1905-06,. 4to, plates, cloth covers rather stained

LEE (Laurie) Cider with Rosie, first edition, first issue 1959, 8vo, with the suppressed passage about the piano factory fire, in dust jacket, lig...

A Brief History of Time, early reprint edition 1988, good in dust jacket. With Hawking's stamped signature countersigned by Susan Masey, his then ...

PHILLIPS (P) Paul de Lamerie, Batsford 1935, folio, one of 250 copies, illustrated, original cloth; 4 vols. on porcelain, vellum backed; HARTSHORN...

Various larger cloth folios, early 20th century, mainly by Macquoid and Edwards, Symonds, Jourdain and Lenygon, lacking dust wrappers, with Harold...

MICHEL (Emile) Rembrandt, memorial volume, Heinemann 1906, folio, 70 plates, half morocco by Riviere & Son; CALDECOTT (R) The Complete Collection ...

The Herefordshire Pomona, 2014, folio, no. 492 of 980 copies, text and plate vols. in green cloth drop back box; The Winchester Psalter Miniature ...

The Herbal of Apuleius Barbarus, 1925, 4to, a little rubbed; The Holkham Library, Illuminations and Illustrations, 1970, folio, moroco backed; The...

Little Domesday Suffolk and Norfolk, two cased sets of the County Edition, Alecto 2000, each with three vols. from a numbered edition of 1000 copi...

Collection of mainly early 20th century works, many published by the British Museum or similar, including: ASTLE (T) The Origin and Progress of Wr...

Large collection of 20th century titles, publishers include Ian Allan, David and Charles, Allen and Unwin, Middleton Press, etc, many in dust jack...

Collection of mainly 20th century reference works on clocks and watches, including: MERCER (V) The Life and Letters of Edward John Dent Chronomete...

Collection of 22 vols., including: LUBBOCK. The Last of the Windjammers, 2 vols., 1975-90 reprints, dust jackets; DUCKWORTH & LANGMUIR. Clyde and ...

Collection, including: BUTLER (H J) Motor Bodywork, 1924, illustrated, cloth; BEAUMONT (W W) Motor Vehicles and Motors, 2nd edition 1902, illustra...

Bentley: The Vintage Years. London: Dalton Watson, 1986, special numbered edition 68/200, signed by the author to title, numerous illustrations, a...

The Edwardian Rolls Royce, 2 vol., 1994, well illustrated, with foldout photographic print and Alpine Trial advertisement in rear pockets, good in...

Bugatti Magnum, 1989, Foulis/Haynes, 4to., original cloth, slipcase with limitation numbered plate

The Grand Prix Car, 2 vols, 1964/60, mixed edition, dust jackets; CONWAY (H G) Grand Prix Bugatti, first edition 1968, dust jacket; HULL (P) and N...

A good collection, including c.1950s-60s works in dust jackets by or on: Arthur Owen, Rodney Walkerley, Alf Francis, Alfred Neubauer, Graham Hill ...

KEITH (E C) Gun for Company, illustrated by J C Harrison, 1937, large paper copy signed, no.144/175, dust jacket; Pastoral Homes of Australia, 2 v...

Snaffles, Being a Selection of his Hunting and Racing Prints. New Zealand: Millwood Press, Wellington, 1983, oblong folio, no.272/750, tipped in p...

Collection of mainly modern works including lathe work and turning, model engineering and construction, steam engineering, furniture and woodwork,...

Collection of titles, including first edition,1963, of Puckoon, in dust jacket, War Biography series, novels, two signed photographs, etc

The Street Markets of London, first edition 1936, 8vo, photographic illustrations by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, original cream buckram