Fine Books and Manuscripts

HALL, WILLIAM HENRY - THE NEW ENCYCLOPAEDIA OR MODERN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES On a New and Improved Plan, in Which all the Respe...

BURNET, GILBERT - AN EXPOSITION OF THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND London, R Roberts, 1699. First edition, folio, half-title pre...

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE - THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION OF THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY With Biographical Introductions by his Daughte...

[BINDING] - THE SONNETS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With decorations by Ernest G. Treglown, engraved on wood by Charles Carr, of the Birmingham Guild o...

BRONTE SISTERS - A SET OF SEVEN VOLUMES All published in London by Smith, Elder, & Co, (one volume dated 1893, the rest undated but circa 1890s), ...

[BINDINGS] - WESLEY, JOHN - THE JOURNAL OF THE REV JOHN WESLEY Edited by Nehemiah Curnock. London, Culley & Kelly, [1909]. Royal 8vo, vols 1 & 2 (...

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD - THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD BYRON In Five Volumes. London, John Murray, 1817. First collected edition of B...

[BINDINGS - THE CLASSICS AND POETRY] - APOLLONIUS OF RHODES - THE ARGONAUTICS OF APOLLONIUS Translated ...by W Preston. Four volumes (complete) bo...

MOORE, THOMAS (POET) - ODES OF ANACREON London, James Carpenter. 10th Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, engraved frontispieces; EPISTLES London, Carpenter, 18...

CULPEPER, NICOLAS & SIBLY, E - CULPEPER'S ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND COMPLETE HERBAL To which are now first added Upwards of One Hundred additional Her...

STANSBURY, HOWARD - AN EXPEDITION TO THE VALLEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE OF UTAH Including a description of its Geography, Natural History, and Mine...

[SPIRITUALISM, AFTERLIFE, SEANCES, ASTROLOGY] SMEDLEY, ALFRED - SOME REMINISCENCES... A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTAL SEANCES DEMONSTRATING THE FACT THAT...

DARWIN, CHARLES - JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle Round...

BENSON, E.F. - WINTER SPORTS IN SWITZERLAND With 12 full-page illustrations in colour by C. Fleming Williams and 47 reproductions from photographs...

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER - A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE London, A Fullarton, 1851. Two volumes in one, large 8vo, engraved frontispiece, ha...

GLOVER, STEPHEN - THE HISTORY, GAZETTEER, AND DIRECTORY OF THE COUNTY OF DERBY drawn up from actual Observation, and from the best Authorities; co...

[BREECHES BIBLE] - THE HOLY BIBLE conteyning the Old Testament and the New newlie translated out of ye originall tongues and with the former trans...

EUSTACHE, DAVID - SERMON SUR LE CHAPITRE PREMIER DE L'EPISTRE AUX COLOSSIENS VERS. 27 wrappers, Geneva 1660, Namen-buchlein sampt dem vatter unser...

[HOLY BIBLE] 4to, title page missing and no date/imprint, but circa 1660. Profusely illustrated with over 200 full-page engravings, calf, boards d...

[19TH CENTURY ANTIQUE DEALER'S ILLUSTRATED TRADE CATALOGUES, NOTTINGHAM INTEREST] - ANTIQUES, CURIOSITIES, AND OBJECTS OF ART on Sale by S Richard...

AMUNDSEN, ROALD - THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Gjoa 1903-1907. With a Supplement By First Lieuten...

COXE, WILLIAM - TRAVELS INTO POLAND, RUSSIA, SWEDEN, AND DENMARK London, T Cadell, 1787. 8vo, volume 1 only, folding maps/plates, full calf; HALL,...

LANZI, LUIGI & ROSCOE, THOMAS [TRANSLATOR] - THE HISTORY OF PAINTING IN ITALY From The Period Of The Revival Of The Fine Arts To The End Of The Ei...

REMINGTON, FREDERIC - DONE IN THE OPEN, DRAWINGS BY FREDERIC REMINGTON with an Introduction and Verses by Owen Wister and Others. New York, P F Co...

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE - VANITY FAIR London, Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 8vo, first edition mixed issue (with printed title dated 1848, engraved...

DICKENS, CHARLES - A CHRISTMAS CAROL in prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London, Chapman and Hall, MDCCCXLIII [1843]. third edition, secon...

ROSE, THOMAS - WESTMORLAND, CUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NORTHUMBERLAND, ILLUSTRATED From original drawings by Thomas Allom, &c., with historical & top...

SCOTT, SIR WALTER - MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER Edinburgh, James Ballantyne and Co, 1812. Fifth edition, three volumes, 8vo, attractively bo...

MAWE, JOHN - THE MINERALOGY OF DERBYSHIRE with a description of the most interesting mines in the North of England, in Scotland, and in Wales; and...

DRYDEN, JOHN - MISCELLANY POEMS Containing Variety of New Translations of the Ancient Poets: Together with Several Original Poems. London, J Tonso...

[BINDINGS] - BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER London, John Ottridge, 1816. Royal 8vo, bound in full plum morocco leather, gilt borders and spine; CALLCOTT, M...

[GHOSTS, MAGIC, THE DEVIL, & SORCERY] COLLIN DE PLANCY, J - DICTIONNAIRE INFERNAL ou Bibliothèque Universelle, sur les Êtres, les Personnages, le...

GIBBON, EDWARD - THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE With notes by Dean Milman and M Guizot. London, John Murray, 1862. Eight ...

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE - THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY IN TWENTY-FOUR VOLUMES London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1878-1879. Twenty four v...

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The text carefully revised with notes by S W Singer. London, Bell and Daldy, 1868...

DICKENS, CHARLES - THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY London, Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition/first state, with all text errors pr...

NEWMAN, SAMUEL - A LARGE AND COMPLETE CONCORDANCE TO THE BIBLE... By Samuel Newman, now teacher of the Church at Rehoboth in New-England. London, ...

BUTLER, ARTHUR G - BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS illustrated by F. W. Frohawk. London, Brumby & Clarke, no date [circa 1896]. First edit...

[CHILDREN'S NOVELTY MOVABLE BOOK] - THE SPEAKING PICTURE BOOK Reproducing the Voices of The Cock, The Donkey, The Lamb, The Birds, The Cow, The Cu...

DARWIN, CHARLES EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS London, John Murray, 1892. Second edition (11th thousand), 8vo, 7 fine heliotype pho...

[NOTTINGHAM INTEREST] - WILLIAMS, FREDERICK S - NOTTINGHAM PAST AND PRESENT ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHY Nottingham, R Allen & Son, no date [1877]. ...

THE SPORTING REPOSITORY containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism, Pugili...

[SPORTING INTEREST] - MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE JOHN MYTTON Esq. of Halston, Shropshire, formerly MP for Shrewsbury, with notices of his Hun...

[DERBYSHIRE INTEREST] - GOODACRE, J. A. - BUXTON OLD AND NEW a study of its Rise and Growth during Two Thousand Years. Buxton, J A Goodacre, 1928....

[POST-INCUNABLE] HORAPOLLO, THE GRAMMARIAN - DE HIEROGLYPHICIS NOTIS a Bernardino Trebatio Vincentino latinitate donatus. Paris, Robert Estienne, ...

HAWNEY, WILLIAM - THE DOCTRINE OF PLAIN AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY: with its Application and Use in the following parts of Mathematics; viz. I. Na...

CARNE, JOHN - SYRIA, THE HOLY LAND, ASIA MINOR... Illustrated. In a series of views drawn from nature by W.H. Bartlett, William Purser, [and Thoma...

SMITH, ADAM - AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS Glasgow, R Chapman, 1805. Four volumes, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, f...

SCOTT, SIR WALTER - THE WAVERLEY NOVELS Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1862-1863. A complete set of 25 novels in 13 volumes, all uniformly bou...

MACAULAY, LORD THOMAS BABINGTON - THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND From the Accession of James the Second. London, Longman, 1864. Four volumes bound in two ...

BOSWELL, JAMES - THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON Including a Journal of His Tour To The Hebrides. London, John Murray, 1835. Ten volumes, 8vo, engraved...

[THOMAS ARNOLD - VARIOUS WORKS] - THE HISTORY OF ROME Three volumes; HISTORY OF THE LATER ROMAN COMMONWEALTH Two volumes; MISCELLANEOUS SERMONS [e...

[BOWLES, THOMAS GIBSON] - THE VANITY FAIR ALBUM a Show of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Judges, and Men of The Day with Biographical and Critical Notices...

WHITBY, DANIEL - A PARAPHRASE AND COMMENTARY ON THE NEW TESTAMENT London, W Bowyer, 1709/1710. Third edition, two volumes, folio, engraved portrai...

DICKENS, CHARLES - MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK London, Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841. Two volumes, 8vo (complete, contains all 88 weekly parts), illustr...

COMBE, WILLIAM & ROWLANDSON, THOMAS - THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE [London, R Ackermann, 1815]. Fifth edition, 8vo, hand...

SAINT-JOSEPH, PIERRE DE - IDEA THEOLOGIAE SPECULATIVAE Paucis multa complectens, de Deo, de Christo, de Angelis, & de Gratia. Lyon, 1666. 12mo, co...

KNIGHT, CHARLES (EDITOR) - OLD ENGLAND A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities. London, James Sa...

BUTTERWORTH, EDWIN & TAIT, ARTHUR FITZWILLIAM (ILLUSTRATOR) - VIEWS ON THE MANCHESTER & LEEDS RAILWAY London, Tait, 1845. First edition, folio, li...

NANSEN, FRIDTJOF - IN NORTHERN MISTS - ARCTIC EXPLORATION IN EARLY TIMES London, Heinemann, 1911. First edition, two volumes, 4to, coloured fronti...