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DICKENS (Charles) Oliver Twist, first edition and first issue, 3 vols., London: Richard Bentley, 1838, half-titles to volumes 1 and 2, 24 etched p...

WILLIAMSON (Captain Thomas) and F W BLAGDON. The European in India; from a Collection of Drawings by Charles Doyley. London 1813, 4to, with 20 han...

Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa. London: W. Pickering 1840, large folio, hand coloured lithograph title and 28 (of 30) p...

SWEET (R) Geraniaceae, The Natural Order of Gerania, London 1820-30, 5 vols., 8vo, 496 sequential hand coloured plates, vol. 5 without title, some...

BENTLEY (publishers). AUSTEN (Jane) Novels, 6 vols., reprint editions circa 1875, 8vo, original cloth; WOOD (Mrs Henry) various works, 5 vols. in ...

Bindings. GREEN (J R) A History of the English People, in 8 vols., 1895-96, small 8vo, Zaehnsdorf green morocco gilt; METASTASIO (P) Works, in Ita...

French Chivalry. PERROT (A-M) Collection Historique des Ordres de Chevalerie Civils et Militaires, 1820, 4to, coloured plates, half calf; DAMBREVI...

Pamphlets - Orders of Chivalry. The Bath, 1725, 8vo; Ceremonies.., broadsheet, no date, folded; Catalogue of Knights of the Garter, by J.N. 1661; ...

A leather scrap album, with mounted trimmed cut-out small size lithographic cartoons, small etchings after Cruikshank and series of comical lithog...

A Scrapbook of various trimmed portraits of nobility and gentry, scenery, two loose inserted stipple engravings of Bacchic putti by Bartolozzi aft...

Collection of twenty-two pencil or pen and ink drawings, mostly removed from album leaves, mainly 19th century, various sizes and subjects, includ...

Collection of 19th century theatre playbills, mainly for the Shakespeare Theatre Liverpool circa 1890, some printed on yellow paper, a few others ...

Loan certificates. Three Madras Presidency Kallikote Raj 1907 Sterling Loan 6% debenture for £100, signed in ink, with coupons ...[more]

Photograph by Dinham Torquay of King George V, Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales, mounted, unframed, 363 x 294mm (image) ...[more]

Maritime interest. Seven mortgage deeds for sailing ships dated 1858, in the name of George Smeed, to Messrs Burmester, Cory & Durham ...[more]

William Blake interest. A wood engraving after J.H.E. Whitney annotated in ink ‘When the morning stars rang together, inside panel from Book of Jo...

A collection of miscellaneous 19th and 20th Century prints and drawings to include signed etchings of the Fishmarket, Polperro, by Sidney Tushingh...

World War I, a photograph album of soldiers' facial injuries, shown in various stages of treatment, 130 small mounted images dated 1917, each numb...

World War II, a collection of War Office official photographic negatives, small size, in tissue sleeves or envelopes with serial numbers, many wit...

DARWIN (Charles) Order of Proceedings at the Darwin Celebration, 1909, portrait frontispiece, cloth backed boards; with a photograph reprint of hi...

CHRISTIE (Agatha) '3 Souris Aveugles', colour lithographic poster printed by Martin, Paris, for the Renaissance Vera Korene production by Pierre B...

Malta colour printed advertising poster by Richter, Naples, after Dingli, printed with 'Government Tourist Bureau Malta' stamp to verso, circa 193...

Ditton Park [Slough?], four folded basic outline designs for details of steps, doors and arches, dated 1816; with a small drawing book 'Captain Su...

Five Jazz musician autographs: Sister Rosetta Thorpe dated 1937, Louis Armstrong 'Satchmo', Trummy Young signed photograph, Billie Holliday photog...

Warwickshire Portraits, a folio print album compiled by 'John Astley Coventry 1876' of mainly 19th century impressions, some with hand writing spe...

Border Terriers, a 1930s scrap album of dog show prize cards, including Spratt's, Winalot and Kennel Club, with clippings and certificates36 of 70...

A Chinese calligraphic scroll, a watercolour floral painting in silk, a cloud (?) study, a Japanese watercolour of two figures after a woodblock p...

Ferguson and Cremer families, a collection of mainly 1920s-30s photographs, including Lenare studio portraits and wedding groups, travel in India ...

BEWICK (T) Small collection of loose leaf illustrations for John Gilpin, animal subjects and others, printed on various paper types; together with...

Collection of 16th century folio text leaves printed in Latin, single and double column, some staining and chipping; together with few mid-18th ce...

Britain in the Blitz. Thirty large size (c.30 x 37cm) modern photographic prints of classic wartime images of London scenes and others, including ...

A bound customer order book of Dyne & Evens Ltd, Ship’s Pulley Block Makers and Engineers of Grays, Essex, containing specifications, letters and ...

An early 20th Century album containing original watercolours, photographs and a few postcards relating to Bermuda, to include views of Kyber Pass,...

Victorian School, two designs for an Almanack of 1874 depicting Chinese inspired river scenes, having ornate borders and shaped mounts, watercolou...

Two early to mid-20th Century Japanese photograph albums containing various family/military/naval images including depictions of figures wearing t...

Four albums of crests, some unmounted loose, mainly of regimental interest; together with about 23 vols. of military history, including Napier and...

Ephemera, pamphlets and loose prints etc. Various including two Dutch broadsides of different sizes dated 1654 and 1795; four early playing cards ...

An early Victorian print album, 4to, including small views of Germany and Switzerland, some coloured, lacking some leaves, green morocco gilt ......

Cambridge. A photograph album, oblong 8vo, circa 1890, with 24 college and other scenes, titled in the image and initialled 'J.V.', leather covers...

Drawings, sketches and cartoons. Collection of loose items including two pen and ink female head studies signed 'Pritchard Jones' dated 1915; a fe...

Maurice Broomfield (1916-2010), six original artworks, including 'Ostrea Abstracticus', mixed media, signed, 31 x 22cm; five other mounted works o...

Mappen Schlosser, late 19th century wooden game with sliding lidded box containing small wooden blocks to make 5 colour lithographed designs, text...

An album of equestrian and sporting prints and small views, dated 1827 at the start, 19 leaves of trimmed illustrations, in red morocco binding wi...

Lancaster Bomber ephemera. Two photographs (14.5 x 51cm) of No.195 Squadron R.A.F. Wratting Common, Cambs. 1945, each mounted on the original insc...

Georgian Theatre Playbills. Playbill for ‘Macbeth’ at the New Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, Monday Sept. 18, 1809 (the first ever performance at t...

An Edwardian photograph album containing a large quantity of family images dated between 1902 and 1906 showing bathing huts and beach belles at Os...

James Cawthorn (publisher): folio containing coloured aquatints of Athens, the Acropolis and Parthenon, dated 1812/13, 27 x 41cm (sheet); together...

World bond or share certificates. A collection including 14 Russian (19th and early 20th century), a Panama Canal Company certificate dated 1890, ...

Confederate States of America 6% 1000 dollar loan certificates, 1864, first to sixth series, with coupons below, all signed, printed by Evans and ...

A late 19th century photograph album, Italy, Portugal and Spain, c.1890, 43 mounted photographs, some by Bosetti and J. Laurent, varying sizes inc...

Photographs. Assortment of carte de visite and cabinet portraits, mainly unnamed sitters, with a few of larger size, loose and in albums, all in s...

A photograph album, circa 1890, 4to, green morocco gilt, with views of churches, art works, portraits and mounted crests; a small 8vo album of fam...

Photograph album, dated 1904, oblong 4to, mainly South Africa, with small size images of local people, buildings, transport and everyday life, wit...

Photograph album, 1890s, including Furness Abbey by Pettitt of Keswick (stamped), Coniston and Grasmere, other Lake District views, Glamis Castle,...

Colchester interest. MARRIAGE (Wilson) Borough of Colchester and Neighbourhood, Platinotype illustrations by William Gill. Printed for private cir...

World War II propaganda posters. Someone Talked! by Siebel, OWI Poster no. 18, 1942, 101 x 71cm (fold creases); 4 American posters of smaller size...

LEHAR (Franz) Friederike Singspiel in drei Akten von Ludwig Herzer und Fritz Lohmer, 1929, Crescendo Theaterverlag Berlin, portrait photograph fro...

American bond certificates, a collection including three State of Louisiana New Consolidated Bonds, 1892, for $100, $500 and $1000, all punched ‘P...

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