Books, Manuscripts & Maps Auction

THE NEW MONTHLY BELLE ASSEMBLEE, vol 16, January - June 1842. With fashion plates, front board and spine detached. With other books (box) ...[mor...

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS July - Dec 1843, January - June 1844, July - Dec 1845, Jan - June 1851. Bindings a/f. With Diamond Jubilee number 1897 and...

EDINBURGH IMPERIAL ATLAS, folio, c.1837. With 47 hand-coloured maps, mostly double page.Map of Hispania with long tear. General fingering, edge te...

THREE DIARIES. (1) Diary of a trip to Oberammergau, the Rhine and Southern Germany. Aug. 2 - Aug. 20, 1900. (2) Diary of a trip to Sienna and Rome...

7 POSTCARD ALBUMS of mainly foreign views including an album of postcards, from a 10-week holiday to Rangoon, Pekin, Ceylon, Malaya, Hongkong, Sha...

THE ANGLO-SAXON REVIEW, 1899 - 1901. Edited by Lady Randolph Churchill. Vols 1 - X (complete). Ex-library with stamps. Some spines defective (10) ...

LUXFORD, George (parts 1-4) and NEWMAN, Edward, The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany. Vols 1 - 4 in 10 parts, 1844-1852. Half calf, spi...

THE ILLUSTRATED NATIONAL FAMILY BIBLE with the Commentaries of Scott & Henry. Thick 4to, circa 1870. Colour plates. Full black morocco with brass ...

CORFE, Joseph, The Beauties of Handel, 3 vols, oblong, 4to, circa 1790. Engraved throughout. Half-red morocco. With 6 other books of music (9) (bo...

HOLY BIBLE. Folio, John Harrison, 1785. Numerous plates. Worn contemporary calf. ...[more]

HOLY BIBLE, thick 4to, Robert Martin, Birmingham 1776, Contemporary reversed calf. Several pages loose. Sold with all faults. ...[more]

SPENCER, George William, A New Authentic and Complete History of England. Folio, Alexander Hogg, 1794. With circa 80 plates. Contemporary marbled ...

POPE, Alexander. Works in 9 vols. Ex-library with numbers to spine. With other antiquarian books, mostly 18th and 19th century. Many in poor condi...

BYRON, Lord, Works edited by William Anderson. 2 vols, circa 1840, half calf. With other antiquarian vols including odd vols (3 boxes) ...[more]

BURTON, Robert, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 2 vols 1824, 13th edition, full calf. With other antiquarian books, some in poor condition (box) ...[m...

MAITLAND, Captain F.L, Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte, 2nd edn, 1826. With folding map. Worn half morocco. With other antiquarian books,...

HUGHSON, David. London; Being an accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and its Neighbourhood to thirty miles extent, from an ...

MARRYAT, Captain Frederick, Mr Midshapman Easy. 3 vols, 1st edn. 1836. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked (3) ...[more]

BONAVENTURA, Saint. Vita et Costumi Del Glorioso et Serafico Santo Francesco (Life of St Francis of Assisi), 12mo. Venice, Fioravante Prati, 1588....

MAP OF ITALY. Kirchenstaat and Toscana (Papal States and Tuscany). 10 sheets in a slipcase circa 1820. Each sheet is 474mm by 716mm and is dissect...

WISE, John R, The New Forest: Its History and Scenery. 4to, 1853. Artist's Edition, one of 350 copies. With 12 etchings by Heywood Sumner and 63 i...

KENDALL, Edward Augustus, Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master. 12mo. 2nd edition, E Newbery, 1799. Later calf, front board detached, lacking ...

HANDEL, George Frederick. Lessons for the Harpsichord, first published in the year 1720. Folio, half calf, front board detached. With CROFT, Willi...

COXE, William, Atlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough; containing armorial bearings, Fac Similes, maps and military plans. 4to 1820. Wit...

Pauli Aeginetae Medici, Opera (Paul of Aegina, Works). Guliel Rovillian, Lugduni (Lyon) 1567. Contemporary vellum. Marginal worming. Lacks last le...

HOLY BIBLE, Folio, 1708/1707. Probably printed in Amsterdam. Additional engraved title and 6 maps by Nicholas Visscher and Joseph Moxon, 4 of them...

SHROPSHIRE POSTCARDS. An album of 160 postcards all by WS Allcock of Ironbridge showing Ironbridge and surrounding towns and village ...[more]

SHROPSHIRE POSTCARDS, A album of 90 Real Photograph postcards, all by W S Allcock of Ironbridge, of Ironbridge and surrounding towns and villages ...

WAIN, Claire. Seven original pencil drawings by Claire Wain drawn in 1926, one of which is in colour, all but one of cats. 5 are 170mm x 135mm; on...

BINDINGS. Fables de la Fontaine, 2 volumes, Paris, 1842. Red morocco gilt. With other antiquarian books in English and French (2 boxes). ...[more]

BINDINGS. JOHNSON, Samuel, A Dictionary of the English Language. 2 Volumes, 10th edition, 1778. With PERCY, Thomas, Reliques of Ancient English Po...

SCOTT, Sir Walter, 20 vol part set. Novels & Tales, 10 vols. Novels & Romances, 10 vols. Edinburgh 1822-27. Contemporary half green morocco, marbl...

DICKENS, Charles, Master Humphrey's Clock. 3 vols, 4to, 1st edition, 1840-41. Half calf. With other Dickens titles, some in poor condition (11) (b...

TRACTION AND TRANSMISSION. A monthly supplement to 'Engineering'. Volumes 1-10, April 1901 - October 1904. 4to . Numerous Illustrations and plates...

REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITEE ON FINANCE. First Report - thirty-sixth Report, 1797-98. Folio. Lacking reports 26 & 27. Bound in half calf in 4 v...

RAPIN DE THOYRAS, Paul, History of England. Volumes 1 & 3 only, 1732 - 37, folio. Boards detached, some plates stained, sold with all faults. With...

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, commonly called The Arabian Night's Entertainments. Translated by Edward Lane. 3 volumes 1839 - 41. Original cloth. W...

(DARWIN, Charles) Nature; A weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, Vols 14 (1876), 16, 17, 19, 21 (1879 - 80) containing 8 letters by Charles Darw...

AUDSLEY & BOWES, The Keramic Art of Japan . Folio, 1875. Vol 1 only. Half red morocco. With DURAND, Georges, Monographie de D'Eglise Notre-Dame Ca...

PUMPELLY, Raphael, Across America and Asia: Notes of a five year journey around the world and of residence in Arizona, Japan and China. New York, ...

JACKSON, Sir Thomas Graham, Gothic Architecture in France, England and Italy. 2 vols 1915. Quarter vellum, with the original dust wrappers. With F...

ORMEROD, Eleanor A , Reports and Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests. Annual reports from 1879 to 1897. Some are in original w...

Honeyman Collection, Sothebys 1978 - 1981, parts 1-7. With other noteable sale catalogues of scientific libraries (box) ...[more]

Scientific & Medical book catalogues from Bernard Quaritch, Maggs Brothers, Jeremy Norman, Roger Gaskell, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, The Antiquarian S...

DAUDET, Alphonse, Works. Oeuvres Completes Illustrees Edition Ne Varietur. 27 vols complete, Paris 1930. With illustrations by Marcel Roche, Adrie...

Auction & Gallery Catalogues, mainly art and design, 1990s onwards. With other ephemera (3 boxes) ...[more]

PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINES including Aperture, 12 issues, 1980s and '8', 14 issues, 2000s. With other photographic magazines and catalogues (box) ...[...

PHOTOGRAPHS. A large quantity of black and white photographs, 1940s - 1960s. Mainly family, with letters and invitations and other ephemera. Some ...

DARWIN, Charles, The Beagle Letters, edited by Frederick Burkhardt, 2008. With other books by and about Charles Darwin (a box) ...[more]

MACQUOID, Percy, A History of English Furniture, 4 vols. Folio, 1904-08. Rebound in library buckram. Minor library marks to title verso and endpap...

HARLEIAN SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS. Visitation of Shropshire. 2 vols 1889. With vols for 1963 - 64, New Series vol 4 1985, then vols 6 - 22, 1987 - 201...

OBSERVERS BOOKS. A large collection of over 400 Observers Books, most in dust wrappers where required and most in very good condition. There are m...

POSTCARDS. Two albums of mainly modern postcards showing the whole of the Welsh coastline from north to south. Approximately 340 postcards. (2) ....

MAP OF BELGIUM. Homann, Johann Baptist. Belgii pars Septentrionalis communi nomine vulgo Hollandia. Nuremberg c.1720. 485mm x 565mm. Hand coloured...

SPEED, John, Map of the Countye Palatine of Chester, Sudbury & Humble, 1611 or later. 390mm x 515mm. English text to verso. Framed and glazed both...

MAPS OF WORCESTERSHIRE by Emanuel Bowen, 1756, 535mm x 705mm; John Speed, 1610, 385mm x 510mm; John Cary 1801; John Cary 1805 (stained); Saxton & ...

OGILBY, John. 4 hand-coloured strip road maps. The Road from London to Aberistwith [1675] 315mm x 435mm, with the 2 continuation sheets. With the ...

BUILDWAS MAP. Very large Ordnance Survey Map centred on Buildwas. 2nd edition 1902. 2000mm x 2190mm (6' 7" x 7' 2") on a scale of 25 inches to a m...

SAMBO'S COURTSHIP. Print, 305mm x 250mm, mounted. With 6 other prints of Sambo's life, all mounted. With 7 more African-American prints, some with...

BURT LANCASTER FILM POSTERS. 7 posters 485mm x 360mm and 3 posters 305mm x 540mm. Printed in Belgium. With 8 other posters featuring Ray Milland, ...