Books, Coins and Stamps Auction

FAULKNER, Thomas, History and Antiquities of Kensington. 4to, 1820. Half morocco, front board loose. With other books on London (2 boxes) ...[mor...

FAULKNER, Thomas, History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hammersmith, 1839. Later blue cloth, covers marked; withGALER, Allan M, Norwood and Dul...

CHELSEA - A collection of books on Chelsea including FAULKNER, Thomas, An Historical and Topographical Description of Chelsea and its Environs, 18...

ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). History of The Abbey Church of St Peter's Westminster. 2 vols, folio, 1812. 1st edition, 2nd issue as usual. With ...

WESTLAKE, Herbert Francis, Westminster Abbey, 2 vols, folio 1923. With 80 plates and 14 illustrations in the text. One of only 50 copies on fine p...

ARCHER, John Wykeham, Vestiges of Old London. Folio 1851, 37 plates; withSMITH, John Thomas, Antiquities of Westminster, the Old Palace and St Ste...

FERET, Charles James, Fulham Old and New. 3 vols, 4to, 1900. Original cloth. Covers of vols 1 & 2 damp marked, not affecting contents (3) ...[mor...

WOOD-MARTIN, WG, Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland. A Folklore Sketch. 2 vols 1902; withSPENCER, Sir Baldwin & GILLEN, F J, The Arunta: A Stud...

AUSTEN, Jane, Sense and Sensibility. J M Dent & Sons, no date, circa 1898. Colour illustrations by C E Brock. Boards printed in a red floral desig...

CRISP, Frederick Arthur, Visitation of Ireland, Vol 5. 4to, privately printed 1911. One of 250 copies. Quarter vellum; withGULGARD, Joannis, Armor...

WALFORD, Edward, The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past. Vols 1-20, 1880-1889. Half black calf. With duplicate of vols 1-3, qu...

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. A collection of books by and about including WHITE, Newman Ivey, Shelley, 2 vols 1947; PECK, Walter Edwin, Shelley, His Lif...

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe, Complete Works. Edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter E Peck. 10 vols 1927. Limited to 780 sets. Original quarter vellum, green...

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe, Queen Mab. W Clark, 1821. 1st published edition. Lacking final advert leaf. Half maroon morocco by Zaehnsdorf ...[more]

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe, The Revolt of Islam. John Brooks, 1829. Errata leaf at end. Half green morocco;With two Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge catalogu...

MEDWIN, T, The Shelley Papers. Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley. 12mo 1833. Portrait frontis, half morocco ...[more]

DONNE, John, Works, 6 vols 1839. Modern cloth with leather labels (6) ...[more]

WILKINSON, Robert, publisher, Atlas Classica, being a collection of Maps of the Countries Mentioned by Ancient Authors. Folio, [1798-1814]. With 7...

PHILIP, George, publisher. County Atlas. Folio, 51 coloured maps, circa 1870. Maps are linen backed. No title page or text. Full brown morocco. ....

NOLHAC, Pierre de, Louis XV et Madame de Pompadour. Paris 1903. 4to, one of 800 copies. Full red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, red silk endpapers, top ed...

HALL, Mr & Mrs SC, Ireland; Its Scenery, Character, etc. 3 vols 1841-43. With 48 plates and 18 maps, Half green morocco. (3) ...[more]

BOSWELL, James, Life of Samuel Johnson. Edited by Alexander Napier. 5 vols George Bell 1884. Including Anecdotes edited by Robina Napier. Large Pa...

ANDERSON, Robert, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain. 13 vols 1795. Full contemporary mottled calf with red and black title labels. ...

LEFROY, Major-General J H, Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands 1515-1685. 2 vols, Bermuda Government...

MAP OF BERMUDA. Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas. Willem Bleau, Amsterdam, circa 1660. 405mm by 535 mm. Outline hand colour. Lists of tr...

BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS AND BOOK COLLECTING, including 6 vols from the series published in the 1890s by Kegen Paul, Trench, Trubner & co, and William Sw...

WATT, Robert, Bibliotheca Britannica, 4to, 11 vols, Glasgow & Edinburgh 1819-24. Original red printed boards (11) (box) ...[more]

EPHEMERA, Mainly guide books pre-1960, including a postcard album (mainly French postcards, 1960s) and 3 autograph albums (box) ...[more]

WHITE, Gilbert, A Nature Calendar, Folio, The Selborne Soctiety, 1911. One of 250 copies. With other books (2 boxes) ...[more]

CROSLEGH, Charles, Descent and Alliances of Croslegh, or Crossle, or Crossley of Scaitcliffe; and Coddington of Oldbridge; and Evans of Eyton Hall...

SHEPARD, Ernest H, Fun & Fantasy, a Book of Drawings. 1st edition 1927, in d/w; withHOFFMAN, Dr Heinrich, Struwwelpeter, 2 copies;BENNETT, Charles...

DICKENS, Charles, Mr Pickwick. Pages from the Pickwick Papers. Illustrated in colour by Frank Reynolds, R.I. 4to, Hodder & Stoughton [1910]. With ...

WAIN, Louis, Cats. Folio, Sands & Company [1901]. Versed by 'Grimalkin'. 48pp. Blue pictorial covers.With Louis Wain's Summer Book for 1903 (defec...

WAIN, Louis, In Cat and Dog Land. Folio, Raphael Tuck & Sons. No date, circa 1905. 36pp including 12 full page chromo illustrations. Red pictorial...

RACKHAM, Arthur. A Midsummer-Night's Dream. 4to, William Heinemann, 1st edition 1908. With 40 tipped-in colour plates. Original cloth; WithUndine,...

ALCOTT, Louisa M, Little Women. 4to, Hodder & Stoughton [1922]. Illustrated by M E Gray. PRESENTATION COPY from the artist and illustrator Millice...

FITZGERALD, Edward, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. 4to, George G Harrap 1930. With 12 mounted colour illustrations by Willy Pogany;With another Rubaiya...

GUILLIM, John, A Display of Heraldrie, 2nd edition 1632. Many coats of arms with contemporary hand colour. A few contemporary marginal notes. Incl...

YORKE, James, The Union of Hanover. Folio 1640 (engraved title dated 1641). Many coats of arms with early hand colour. Contemporary calf. Bottom c...

CARTWRIGHT, William, Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems. Humphrey Moseley, 1651. Portrait frontis by Lombart (laid down). Contains the pla...

CAMERARIUS, Joachim, Symbolorum ac Emblematum Ethico Politicorum. Ludovici Bourgeat, Mainz, 1697. 4 parts in 1 vol. With 400 circular engravings. ...

CARPENTER, John, In Vaticinia Isaiae, Prophetae Clarissimi, Paraphrasis. 4to, Christopher Plantini, Antwerp 1588. Contemporary Vellum. Condition:...

ALDINE. Orthographiae Ratio Ab. Aldo. Manutio. Venice, Aldus Manatius, 1566. Extensive early marginal annotation. Contemporary vellum. Condition:...

BIBLIA SACRA. Latin Bible with Apocrypha. Amsterdam 1669. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges;With Relationi Del Cardinal Bentivoglio. Brussels 16...

GOSSE, Philip, My Pirate Library. 4to, 1st edition, 1926. One of 300 copies numbered and signed by the author. Red buckram with bevelled edges. ....

WALTON, Isaac, The Complete Angler. Henry G Bohn, 1856. Edited by Edward Jesse. With portrait frontis and 203 wood engravings in the text. Origina...

MANUSCRIPT, EARLY 18TH CENTURY. MS title on front cover: 'Record of the British Chapel in Danzig begins 1706'. Folio, circa 131 hand-written pages...

MANUSCRIPT. Marquis d'Argens (Jean Baptiste Boyer, 1704-71, free thinker) The Modern Legislator, or the Memoirs of the Chevalier de Mellincourt. A...

COMBE, William, The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of (1) The Picturesque (2) Consolation (3) a Wife. Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson. 3 vols 1812-2...

HOLY BIBLE, 12mo, Oxford 1799. Contemporary red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Booksellers label of J Painter, Wrexham ...[more]

ADOLPHUS, JH, Memoirs of Queen Caroline, Queen Consort of Great Britain. 3 vols 1821. Bound with The Last Days, Death, Funeral, Obsequies etc, and...

HOGG, Thomas Jefferson, Two Hundred and Nine Days; or the Journal of a Traveller on the Continent. 2 vols 1827. Contemporary half calf, marbled bo...

Memoirs of the Professional Life and Glorious Achievements of the late Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, Norwich, Stevenson and Matchett, [1806]. Portrait...

Zaehnsdorf, Joseph W, The Art of Bookbinding, 1st edition 1880. Superbly bound in crushed red morocco with a design of 13 narrowing concentric rec...

MARTYN, Thomas, Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations intended to Illustrate Linnaeus' System of Vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Lett...

SCRAP ALBUM, circa 1897-1908, including ticket and order of service for funerals of Gladstone and Queen Victoria, theatre programmes, ocean liner ...

DE MORGAN, William (1839-1917) English tile designer. Autograph letter signed. On blue Orange House Pottery, Chelsea, headed notepaper. 4to, one s...

CARLYLE, Thomas (1795-1881) English author. Autograph letter signed. To Vernon Lushington. Chelsea, dated 18 January 1864 (but 1865), congratulati...

TENNYSON, Lord Alfred, (1809-92) English poet, Poet Laureate 1850-92. Autograph letter signed. To Vernon Lushington, congratulating him on his mar...

HUNT, William Holman (1827-1910) English artist. Two autograph letters signed and one letter signed. All are addressed to Vernon Lushington.(1) AL...