The Library Sale

Photograph albums.Two East Anglian country house albums, late 19th and early 20th century with various views of family gatherings, the countryside...

Crimean War, a series of thirteen autographed letters.Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Markham (1833-1918) British Army officer who served in the Crim...

Animals - natural history.PATTERSON (Arthur) Notes on Pet Monkeys and How to Manage Them, no date, adverts at end dated 8/96, 8vo, pictorial cloth...

Illustration and caricature.BEATTIE & BARTLETT. The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain, 2 vols. 1842, small 4to,...

WYVILLE THOMSON (Sir Charles)The Voyage of the 'Challenger', 1877, 2 vols., 8vo, maps and plates, slight foxing and spotting, paper library label ...

French texts. DE BALZAC (H)Romans et Contes Philosophiques, 3 vols., 2nd edition, Paris: C Gosselin 1831, 8vo, bright half green morocco, gilt spi...

French literature, bindings.A large quantity of literature in French, mainly second half 19th century, 8vo, variously bound, including sets or par...

Literature, various including bindings.CARLYLE (T) History of Friedrich II of Prussia, 2nd edition 6 vols. 1858-65, 8vo, half morocco, Gray Librar...

Bindings. AUSTEN (Jane)Pride and Prejudice, illustrations by John Ward, Nottingham Court Press 1985, Godmersham edition, no. 37 of 100 special cop...

Literature - bindings.Large collection mainly 19th century, including works by Shakespeare, Johnson, Pope, Byron, and others, also odd volumes, co...

KINGLAKE (A W)Eothen, or Traces of Travel brought home from the East. London, 1844, 8vo, title page inscribed ‘The Reverend Cecil Smith with the A...

SCOTT (Sir Walter)Journal of -- ; Familiar Letters of --; together 4 vols. Edinburgh: David Douglas 1890-94, 8vo, printed on Japanese vellum, the ...

The Yellow Book,An Illustrated Quarterly, vols I to XIII (1894-97), small 4to, ex libris David Douglas, illustrations, sporadic light foxing, clot...

AUSTEN (Jane)Works, 6 vols. in five, Riviere & Son no date, 12mo, colour frontispieces, slight offsetting to half titles, half red calf (5) ...[m...

ROBERTS (Lord)Forty-one Years in India, 2 vols., 1897, 8vo, folding maps, illustrations, half morocco; KIPLING (R) The Second Jungle Book, 1st edi...

OSBORN (Sherard)Stray Leaves from an Artic Journal, 1st edition, London 1852, 8vo, coloured frontispiece and 3 plates, folding map, 32pp. catalogu...

DRUMMOND (The Hon. W H)The Large Game and Natural History of South and South East Africa, 1875, cloth; NAPIER (Lt. Colonel E. Elers) Excursions in...

DARWIN (Charles)The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects, second edition, fifth thousand, 1890, 8vo, 32pp. catalogue at...

Polar exploration.M'CLINTOCK (Francis) The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin a...

ELLIS (Rev. W)Three Visits to Madagascar, 4th thousand 1858, 8vo, map and illustrations, original cloth; [BLENKINSOP] A Transport Voyage to the Ma...

Victorian children's picture books.A collection of late 19th century soft bound children’s books with coloured illustrations, including F. Warne &...

Yachting and Cruising.Collection of titles formerly from the library at Stapleford Park, many with Gretton bookplates. CHATTERTON (E Keble) Old Se...

BURTON (Richard F)The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California, first edition, London 1861, 8vo, half-title, folding map, p...

HUNTER (John)The Works of ---, edited by James Palmer, plate volume only, 1837, 4to, 61 plates including folding, some marginal browning and spott...

DU CHAILLU (P)Exploration and Adventures in Equitorial Africa, 1861, 8vo, folding map (a little torn and frayed), illustrations, publisher's cloth...

ARMSTRONG (Alexander)A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passage. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1857, 8vo, first edition, tinted l...

OLIPHANT (Laurence)Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s mission to China and Japan in the Years 1857, '58, '59. London 1859, first edition, 2 vols., c...

MECHAM (C H)Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow. London: Day & Son 1858, folio, tinted lithograph title and 26 views on 17 plates, cont...

MAYHEW (Henry)1851 or The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys... to see the Great Exhibition, no date, 8vo, folding etched plates by Cruikshank as r...

CHURCHILL (Winston S)London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, 1st edition, Longmans 1900, 8vo, 4 maps including 3 folding, light foxing, original cloth, ...

India, travel and colonial history.CASE (Mrs) Day by Day at Lucknow, 1858, 8vo, publisher's cloth; THACKWELL (E J) Narrative of the Second Seikh W...

DARWIN (Charles)The Descent of Man, London: John Murray, 1871, 2 vols., 8vo, first edition, first issue with errata on verso of Vol. II, and other...

MANN (J H)A History of Gibraltar and its Sieges, 2nd edition, 1873, 8vo, mounted photographs and a map as called for, some foxing, original cloth ...

British Army regulations, orders and drills, 19th century.Collection of works, 8vo and 12mo, including: HART (H G) The New Army List, 1839, half m...

Binding. [EGERTON (Mary Margaret, Countess of Wilton)]The Book of Costume, 1847, 8vo, new edition, coloured lithographic title, extra-illustrated ...

WALPOLE (Horace)The Letters of --, edited by Peter Cunningham, in 9 vols., 1891, 8vo, half polished brown calf gilt spines by Bickers & Son (9) ....

Bindings - literature.IRVING (Washington) The Alhambra, 2 vols., New York, Alcazar Edition 1899, large 8vo, no. 19 of 50 copies with mounted proof...

Literature, leather bindings.POPE (A) Works of Homer; IRVING (W) Columbus, 4 vols, folding maps, rebacked; HALE (T) A Compleat Body of Husbandry, ...

HUTCHINS (John)The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 4 vols., third edition 1861-70, large folio (47 x 28cm), titles printed in red...

ORMEROD (George)The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 2nd edition in 3 vols., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, large paper...

Literature and bindings.TENNYSON (Alfred, Lord) Works, 6 vols., Macmillan 1884, 8vo, thick paper edition, full vellum by Hatchards, top edges gilt...

KRETSCHMER (A) and C. ROHRBACH.The Costumes of all Nations, Sotheran 1882, 4to, colour illustrated throughout, binding rubbed; DICKENS (C) Nichola...

COLEMAN (J)The Cattle of Great Britain, 1875, 4to, plates, original green cloth gilt; POTTS (Thomas) The British Farmers Cyclopaedia, 1808, 4to, p...

PAYNE-GALLWEY (Sir Ralph)The Book of Duck Decoys. London, 1886. 4to, coloured lithographic frontispiece and plates, original blue cloth gilt ...[...

D'ARBLAY (Madame)Diary and Letters of.., 7 vols, London 1842-46, 8vo, extra-illustrated with portraits, views and buildings, (some plates with han...

BURTON (Richard F)The Nile Basin, first edition, London 1864, 8vo, half-title with modern ownership signature, 3 maps, 4pp. publishers' catalogue ...

BURTON (Richard F)The Book of the Sword, first edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1884, large 8vo, half title, numerous illustrations, flyleaf an...

BOSWELL (James)The Life of Samuel Johnson, in 5 vols. 1891, 8vo, extra-illustrated with c.100 plates including many portraits, fine blind-tooled m...

MARCOY (Paul)A Journey across South America, 2 vols. Blackie 1873, 4to, maps and engravings, added divisional pictorial title at the start of both...

TROLLOPE, AnthonyAutograph letter signed, dated 2 May 1878, 3pp., 8vo, to Mrs. Oliphant, introducing Mr. E. Gratton, British Consul at Antwerp and...

GRUNER (Louis)Decorations de Palais D'Eglises en Italie, Peintes a Fresque ou Exécutées en Stuc, nouvelle edition Paris and London 1854, large fol...

DICKENS (Charles)Works, 11 vols. circa 1890, Chapman and Hall, no date, small 8vo, half calf; DISRAELI (B) Works of the Earl of Beaconsfield, 11 v...

Bindings.THIERS (L A) The History of the French Revolution, in 5 vols, London: Bentley 1895, 8vo, illustrated, half morocco by Morrell; CHATEAUBRI...

Bindings.BERNERS (Lord) The Chronicle of Froissart, 6 vols, 1901-03, 8vo, full morocco by Zaehnsdorf with silk doublures; LYTTON (Lord) The Parisi...

SPEKE (John H)Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, 1863, first edition, 8vo, map and illustrations, half calf by Mansell; CRANTZ (D...

County histories.LIPSCOMB (George) The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, 4 vols., 1847, folio, maps and plates, light foxing, l...

THACKERAY (W M)The Works, 24 vols., London: Smith Elder & Co., 1879, 8vo, green half calf, spines slightly faded (24)Footnote: Provenance: An Oxfo...

AUSTEN (Jane)The Novels, 6 vols., London: R. Bentley 1886-92, 8vo, slight spotting to some initial leaves and edges, green half calfFootnote: Prov...

MORRIS (Rev. F O)A History of British Butterflies, London: Groombridge & Sons 1864, 8vo, 71 coloured plates with guards, half morocco, top edges g...

JESSE (J. Heneage)Works, 33 vols., 8vo, circa 1840-67, full polished calf gilt spines by Riviere & SonFootnote: Provenance: An Oxfordshire country...