Antiquarian Books: The properties of two collectors

Africa.- Horneman (Frederick) The Journal of...Travels, from Cairo to Mourzouk...in the years 1797-8, first edition, 2 folding engraved maps with ...

Americas.- [Davie (John)] Letters from Buenos Ayres and Chili, 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates, some light soiling, tear to one leaf repaired, con...

Americas.- Royal Geographical Society. A Selection of Papers on Arctic Geography and Ethnology, 2 folding maps, original cloth, spine very slightl...

Asia.- Guillemard (F.H.H.) The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and...Islands of the Malay Arch...

Asia.- M'Leod (John) Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, to China, Corea, and the Island of Lewchew, third edition, engraved portrait frontispie...

Australasia.- Caire (Nicolas, photographer) Aborigines of Australia; Scenes on the River Murray; Melbourne Scenery, 3 albumen prints, each c.155 x...

Australasia.- Australia.- Grey (George) Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, a...

Australasia.- Australia.- Labillardiere (Jacques Julien Houton de) Voyage in Search of La Pérouse, 2 vol., first English edition, large folding en...

Canada.- Willis (Nathaniel P.) Canadian Scenery Illustrated, 2 vol. in 6 parts, first edition, engraved portrait, additional vignette titles, map...

Central Asia.- Wolff (Rev. Joseph) Travels and Adventures..., 2 vol., second edition, lithographed portrait (lightly foxed), 3pp. errata in vol.1,...

NO RESERVE France.- Short Excursion in France (A), 1814, first edition, half-title, 2 engraved plates of the Venus di Medici and the Apollo Belved...

Germany.- Gerning (Johann Isaak von) A Picturesque Tour along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne, first English edition, list of subscribers, 24 fin...

India.- Sleeman (Maj.-Gen. Sir William) A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, in 1849-1850, 2 vol., first edition, half-title in vol.1 only (as c...

NO RESERVE Japan.- A Japanese woodblock-illustrated book, 10 hand-coloured woodblock illustrations, ink inscription dated 1869 to endpaper, origin...

Mauritius.- [Saint-Pierre (Jacques-Henri Bernardin de)] Voyage a l'Isle de France, a l'Isle de Bourbon, au Cap de Bonne-Espérance, &c., 2 vol., fi...

Mexico.- Lyon (Capt. George Francis) Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico...with some account of the Mines of that country, 2...

Middle East.- Cheesman (Maj. R.E.) In Unknown Arabia, folding colour map, plates, a very good copy, 1926 § Philby (H.StJ.B.) Arabia of the Wahhabi...

Middle East.- Niebuhr (Carsten) Description de l'Arabie, second edition in French, half-title, engraved vignette title, 25 engraved maps and plate...

Middle East.- Niebuhr (Carsten) Description de l'Arabie, 2 vol. in 1, third edition in French, half-titles, 25 engraved maps and plates, 6 folding...

South America.- Bolingbroke (Henry) A Voyage to the Demerary..., second edition, folding engraved map, light spotting, modern morocco-backed cloth...

NO RESERVE Voyages & Whaling.- Beaglehole (J.C.) The Exploration of the Pacific, first edition, 1934 § Pasco (Cdr. Crawford) A Roving Commission: ...

Britain.- Casford (Helen, active 1840s) An album of 36 landscape watercolours, the majority of locations within the British Isles, including Hayli...

Britain.- Coburn (Alvin Langdon) The Book of Harlech, 20 mounted plates, light spotting, original boards, spine and joints worn, Harlech, D.H.Parr...

NO RESERVE British Isles.- Camden (William) Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English with Large Additions and Improvements... by Edmund G...

NO RESERVE Dorset.- Bond (Thomas) A Description of Corfe Castle in the Isle of Purbeck...Read at the Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Gr...

NO RESERVE England.- Prout (Samuel) A New Drawing Book, in the Manner of Chalk, containing Twelve Views in the West of England, first edition, 11 ...

London.- Freehold Ground Rent and Houses, Clerkenwell. The Particulars of a Valuable Freehold Estate, situated in Turnmill Street, and Castle Stre...

Somerset.- Speed (John) Somerset-Shire described, inset bird's-eye view of Bath, upper left, coats of arms lower left, royal arms and ships off th...

Antiquities.- Cochin (Charles Nicolas) and J.C.Bellicard. Observations sur les Antiquités d'Herculanum, second edition, 40 engraved plates, some f...

NO RESERVE Antiquities.- Windus (Thomas) A New Elucidation of the...Portland Vase..., 10 lithographed plates, 4 of the vase printed in black and b...

Bristol.- Champion (Richard) and Hugh Owen. Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol being a History of the Manufacture of "the True Porcelain", sp...

NO RESERVE Holbein (Hans) Dance of Death...with a Dissertation...by Francis Douce, wood-engraved illustrations and decorations, contemporary roan,...

NO RESERVE Agriculture.- Blith (Walter) The English Improver Improved or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed..., third edition, engraved and letterpr...

NO RESERVE Agriculture.- Oekonomisches Bilderbuch, oder Historisch-Bildliche Darstellung der Landwirthschaft...,Second Series, 16 hand-coloured en...

Agriculture.- W[orlidge] (J[ohn]) Systema Agriculturae; the Mystery of Husbandry Discovered, fourth edition, advertisement leaf at beginning, with...

Carnations.- M. (L.C.B.) Nouveau Traité des Oeillets..., second edition, title with woodcut device, woodcut ornaments, foxed, title with small hol...

NO RESERVE Fruit trees.- Knight (Thomas Andrew) Some doubts relative to the efficacy of Mr. Forsyth's plaister in filling up the holes in trees, f...

Gardening.- S[tevenson] (H[enry]) The Young Gard'ner's Director, first edition, lacking engraved frontispiece but with engraved plate of knot gard...

NO RESERVE Natural History.- Lucas (Pierre Hippolyte) Histoire Naturelle des Lépidoptères d'Europe, engraved title and 80 plates by A.Noel (uncolo...

NO RESERVE Palms.- Seemann (Berthold) Popular History of the Palms and their allies, first edition, half-title, 20 chromolithographed plates, som...

Ray (John) Philosophical Letters..., first edition, advertisement leaf at end, title ruled in red and with contemporary and later ink inscriptions...

Songbirds.- [Albin (Eleazar)] A Natural History of Singing Birds, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 21 plates, one or two shaved at fore-edge,...

Songbirds.- Bird-Fancier's Recreation (The): Being Curious Remarks on the Nature of Song-Birds..., third edition, woodcut frontispiece, 5pp. Conte...

Songbirds.- Bulliard (Pierre) Aviceptologie Françoise, ou Traité général de toutes les ruses dont on peut se servir pour prendre les Oiseaux..., f...

Songbirds.- [Hervieux de Chanteloup (J.C.)] Traité du Serein de Canarie, et aures Petits Oiseaux de Voliere, first edition, 4pp. privilege/approba...

Songbirds.- Hervieux de Chanteloup (J.C.) A New Treatise of Canary-Birds. Containing the manner of Breeding and Coupling them..., first English ed...

Songbirds.- Kendall (Edward Augustus) The Canary Bird: A Moral Fiction, 2pp. 'Note' at end, 1799; The Crested Wren, 4pp. advertisements at end, 17...

Songbirds.- [Mancini (Cesare)] Instruction pour Elever, Nourrir, Dresser, Instruire & Panser toutes Fortes de petits Oiseaux de Voliere..., 1697 b...

Songbirds.- Wickede (F. van) Kanari-Uitspanningen of nieuwe verhandeling van de Kanari-Teelt..., ?first edition, engraved frontispiece and title-v...

Sporting.- [Apperley (Charles James)] The Analysis of the Hunting Field, first edition, first issue, additional pictorial title and 6 plates after...

Sporting.- Egan (Pierce) Sporting Anecdotes..., engraved frontispiece featuring multiple sports, 2 portraits and 3 hand-coloured aquatint or stipp...

Sporting.- Fairfax (Thomas) The Complete Sportsman; or, Country Gentleman's Recreation..., issue with colon after "recreation" on the title, p.11 ...

Sporting.- Fortin de Grandmont (François) Les Ruses Innocentes..., engraved additional pictorial title, title in red and black, 66 engraved plates...

NO RESERVE Sporting.- Johnson (Daniel) Sketches of Indian Field Sports...with a description of the Art of catching Serpents, as Practised by the C...

Sporting.- Rawstorne (Lawrence) Gamonia: or, the Art of Preserving Game; and an improved method of making Plantations and Covers..., first edition...

NO RESERVE Aviation.- Walker (Thomas) A Treatise upon Aerostation; or, the Art of Travelling through the Air, by Mechanical Means Alone..., second...

NO RESERVE Carriages.- Adams (William Bridges) English Pleasure Carriages, original cloth, spine gilt, a little rubbed and marked, 1837 § Straus (...

NO RESERVE Coal.- [Holland (John)] The History and Description of Fossil Fuel, the Collieries, and Coal Trade of Great Britain, second edition, ha...

NO RESERVE Medicine.- Glyster (Gregory) A Dose for the Doctors; or, the Aesculapian Labyrinth explored, in a series of instructions to young physi...

NO RESERVE Railways.- Bradshaw (George) [Bradshaw's Railway Companion] Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables, and Assistant to Railway Travelling..., No....