The February Library Sale (Rare Book Auctions)

[Hugh Cecil (1889-1974)]. An original glass plate negative of Edward VIII (1894-1972), produced for the Royal Mint for use on stamps and planned c...

CHILD, Thomas. Views of North China. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY. A collection of 65 albumen prints ranging in size from 122mm x 187mm to 230mm x 343mm, 39 ...

IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPHS & PHOTOGRAPHS. An archive from the Mayor & Mayoress of Sheffield, 1940-41: 1. The Mayoress of Sheffield's wartime visitors' ...

HAWKING, Stephen. STARMUS: 50 Years of Man in Space, first printing [one of only 500 copies that were made available to attendees], SIGNED with th...

Skylab-3 Mission. An unusual "laminated plaque" [photographic image printed directly onto wood], depicting a huge solar flare, the original Extrem...

'Malby's Terrestrial Globe'. A very early and extremely scarce example of an 18-inch terrestrial globe by Malby & Co., Broughton Street - Newcastl...

Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922). TLS [Typed Letter Signed] on The Trans-Antarctic Expedition letterhead, 17 June 1914, addressed to E. H. Bayliss Es...

"The Conquest of Everest" [Tom Stobart], three 35mm film reels in original Kodak cans bearing remnants of labels, Countryman Films Group 3, [1953]...

Katushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Poem by Samurai Dayu from Hokusai's final series of prints - One Hundred Poems Explained by Nurse, the poem on whic...

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Saint Simon, engraving on laid paper, signed in the plate with monogram, dated 1523, later/weaker impression of uncert...

Jakob Andreas Fridrich the Younger (German, 1714–1779). An extremely large and rare engraving of the Imperial Forces of  Francis I Holy Roman Empe...

BURY, Thomas Talbot (illus.). Six Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, First edition, 4to 35 x 30cm, 7 aquatint etchings with f...

Georgian era scrapbook compiled by John Newman (d.1824) of Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London (father of John Henry Newman, who became a Catho...

The Works of William Hogarth, the Baldwin 1822 editions from original plates restored by James Heath, disbound copy, boards 69 x 51cm, some plates...

[HEATH, William (Illust.)]. The Glasgow Looking Glass, Vol. 1, No. 2, folio (39cm), 4pp., illustrated with satirical cartoons on various subjects,...

CRUIKSHANK, George. The Progress of a Midshipman exemplified in the career of Master Blockhead, set of eight hand-coloured aquatint etchings after...

Walter Ernest "Wally" Fawkes, 'Trog' (b.1924), original satirical cartoon depicting Harold Wilson handing a copy of 'The Queen's opening of Parlia...

David Knight (British, 20th Century), 'The Cabinet in Session', signed l.r., well executed piece, pen and ink, 42 x 46cm, framed and glazed, forme...

Stanley Franklin (1930-2004), "We'll meet again...", original ink cartoon depicting cartoonists crying over the retirement of the easily caricatur...

Stanley Franklin (1930-2004), original ink cartoon, published in the Sun newspaper 12 July 1975, depicts Harold Wilson in charge of the Cabinet/cr...

Paul Rigby (1924-2006), original ink satirical cartoon, stamped 'received' and 'used' 20th June 1973 by the Sun newspaper Art Library on verso, 25...

Stanley Franklin (1930-2004), original ink satirical cartoon, depicts Wilson as the 'Blackpool Rock' on which the 'looney left' ship has been wrec...

Raymond Jackson, 'JAK' (1927-1997), original ink satirical cartoon, depicts Harold Wilson as a lion tamer and his Cabinet as lions, dated 3 April ...

3 original pen and ink cartoons by artist and illustrator Frank Reynolds (1876-1953), captioned in pencil, n.d. c.1930s, 2 depicting privations an...

Stonehenge 1815 - Grand Conventicle Festival of the Britons. A hand-coloured aquatint etching designed by Charles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859), engr...

Pauline Baynes (English, 1922-2008). Middle Earth [Lord of the Rings, Tolkien], original poster, first issue, 30" x 20", small hole near top, trac...

Paul Davis (American, b. 1938). Threepenny Opera [Bertolt Brecht], original 2-sheet 1-piece poster, 62" x 42" [lacking top section of 22" x 42"], ...

Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954). Hommage a Teriade: French Graphic Art, original poster for Royal Academy of Arts, Diploma Galleries, screenprin...

David Hockney (English, b. 1937). Original Tate exhibition poster, 30" x 20", 1980

Julia Bimfield (20th Century). Original poster for Olivetti, 49" x 68", 1990

Aage Rasmussen (Danish, 20th Century). Hans Christian Andersen's House: Odense, Denmark, original poster, 40" x 25", pin-holes to corner, small re...

Ensak (20th Century). Phillips Radio: The World of Entertainment, original map poster, 28 1/8" x 41 1/8", tear through Australia, nibble to right ...

Original fairground poster by Willson’s Green Dragon, 30" x 40", Leicester, [c. 1930s]

Harland Miller (English, b. 1964). York: So Good They Named It Once, unsigned print, lithograph, 84cm x 56cm, 2020

Manuscript Music. A William IV period album of manuscript folk songs, anonymously copied from various composers & lyricists including Charles Jeff...

Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855) author, famed for the book Our Village - which described life in Three Mile Cross, Shinfield, Berkshire. An arch...

James Davies of Youghal [Ireland] & Longford [Staffordshire], Priest and Captain of the 8th Royal Irish Dragoons. A manuscript book of sermons, we...

Vaishnavism/Hinduism. A 19th-century Sanskrit palm-leaf manuscript, a Vaishnava religious text, Oriya [Odia] script on both sides of 168 leaves, 3...

Persian manuscript fragment, single leaf, recto embellished with gouache illustration and two lines of text, verso with 15 lines of text, laid pap...

SELLERS, W. H. Mensuration, a manuscript workbook, bearing printed title for John D'Arby's Academy, Leeds, where "Young Gentlemen are taught the E...

Robert Kerr [or Carr], Viscount Rochester, 1st Earl of  Somerset (c. 1587-1645). Autograph Letter Signed to the Earl of Northampton, [c. 1613]. In...

Henry III of France (1551-1589), King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589, also King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 15...

European Manuscripts & Autograph Letters Signed. A small archive comprising a secretarial memorandum in Italian, counter-signed by Cardinal Alessa...

Medieval Illuminated Manuscript. A very fine, small leaf from a medieval Book of Hours, 8″ x 5½″, illuminated text on both sides, 13 + 6 lines, 9 ...

Suffolk – Hundred of Lowestoft, Lothingland & Mutford – 1608. Grant by King James I & VI to Clement Hyrne of Haveringland, Norfolk, of the Manor a...

RATCLIFFE UPON TRENT – NOTTS.  – 1715. A rare vellum document relating to 242 pieces of land etc. within the Open Fields with names, abutments and...

Parish of Etwall – Derbyshire – 1685. Barrowecoate (sic) & Burnaston. Deed of Sale by Katherine Bonnington of Derby to Robert Burditt (sic) of Bro...

A small archive of manuscript estate plans relating to New Mills, Derbyshire, comprising 20 on silk, three on waxed paper, to include "Plan of the...

William Tallon, "Backstairs Billy" (1935-2007). Three autograph letters signed, Clarence House and Sandringham letterheads, giving thanks to a sal...

A large collection relating to the formative years of the Labour Party, including: Over 20 signed letters (ALS and TLS) from J. Ramsay MacDonald (...

THATCHER, Margaret. The Downing Street Years, Deluxe Edition, SIGNED by the author, 8vo, publisher's cloth with title label lettered in gilt, inte...

MASSIE, Chris. Corridor of Mirrors, manuscript draft [originally titled My Friend Douglas], entirely handwritten in black ink, [iii], 221pp., [224...

MASSIE, Chris. Pity My Simplicity [Love Letters], manuscript draft [originally titled Fata Morgana], entirely handwritten in black ink, [iii], 192...

MASSIE, Chris. Death Goes Hunting, incomplete manuscript draft, entirely handwritten in black ink, commencing from p. 63 [midway through Chapter V...

MASSIE, Chris. A collection of nine FIRST EDITIONS, all scarce, each one a PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author, comprising: Penny Whip, insc...

ACHER, Frater. Mutabor: A Journey into the Goêtic Flesh, [Deluxe Limited Edition, one of only 72 hardcover copies], SIGNED by the author, featurin...

BERTIAUX, Michael. Cosmic Meditation, limited edition numbered 763/777, 8vo, limp boards, tipped-in colour frontispiece, near-fine/fine, London: F...

LEARY, Timothy. High Priest, Limited Signature Edition, SIGNED by the author, numbered 45/500, 8vo, laminated hardcover, near-fine/fine, Berkeley:...

GARY, Gemma. Wisht Waters: The Cult & Magic of Water, limited edition SIGNED by the author, numbered 52/175, 8vo, full imitation crushed morocco l...

GARY, Gemma (Ed.). Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis: The Little Key of Solomon, limited edition SIGNED by the editor, numbered 72/250, featuring a lo...