Books, Photographs, Documents & Ephemera

SUSSEX (NEWMAN & CO, PUBLISHERS): 'Illustrations of British Scenery': London, John Newman & Co, 1881: numerous steel engraved views, 2 per page: p...

IRISH FAMILY HISTORY: CROFTON (Helen A): 'Records of the Slacke Family in Ireland..': no date or publisher (circa 1900): 60pp, original blue cloth...

EXTRA ILLUSTRATED: ELWES (Dudley & Robinson, Rev. Charles): 'A History of the Castles, Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex': London and Lewes, ...

SCOTT (Peter): 'Wild Chorus': London, Country Life, 1938. No. 211/1200 copies, signed by Scott: publishers blue cloth gilt, teg, large 4to: with 2...

EDWARDS (Lionel & WALLACE, Harold): 'Hunting & Stalking the Deer...the pursuit of Red, Fallow and Roe Deer in England and Scotland': London, Longm...

MILLAIS (John Guille): 'The Wildfowler in Scotland': London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1901. Contemporary half-morocco gilt, teg, 4to, a smart copy: G...

MARKHAM (Gervase): 'A Way to Get Wealth: containing sixe principall vocations or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully ...

GLASSE (Hannah): 'The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy...': London, printed for A Millar, 1765: 9th edition: contemporary female ownership insc...

BRADLEY (Richard): 'New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical..', London, printed for J & J Knapton, 1731. 6th ...

WESTWOOD (J O): 'The Butterflies of Great Britain, with their Transformations Delineated and Described...', London, Wm. S Orr & Co, 1855: hand-col...

FRANCIS BACON: 'Baconiana or Certain Genuine Remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans...': London, printed by J ...

HALFPENNY (William): 'Useful Architecture; being the last work in this kind of William Halfpenny, architect and carpenter, in twenty-five new desi...

L'ESTRANGE (Sir Roger): 'Seneca's Morals by way of Abstract..', London, printed for G Strahan et al, 1739: 14th edition: title dust soiled, recent...

WILLOUGHBIE (John): 'Therorremwn: or, the ancient and most comfortable golden-mouth'd Father St Chrysostome Archbishop of Constantinople, treating...

BIBLE IN ENGLISH: 'The Holy Bible...', London, Companie of Stationers, 1650: 2 vols containing Old Testament part only, interleaved with sporadic ...

OWEN (John and Emmanuel BOWEN): 'Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd...': 4th edition, engraved title, preliminaries and 273 engraved road maps, ...

FISHERIES: a sammelband of five 18th century pamphlets on the fishing industry, to include 'A Letter to a Member of Parliament concerning the Free...

CAMPBELL (R): 'The London Tradesman. Being an historical account of the all the trades, professions, arts, both liberal and mechanic now practiced...

GORE  (Captain Arthur): 'An Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo...intended to elucidate the topographical plan, executed by W B Craan..':...

WALPOLE (Horace): 'Anecdotes of Painting in England..': Strawberry Hill Press, 1762-1771: 4 vols, 19thc crimson morocco gilt, aeg, a little rubbed...

CONAN DOYLE (Sir Arthur): 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes..': illustrations by Sidney Paget: London, George Newnes, 1894: FIRST EDITION. Publisher...

PARIS VIEWS: 'Principales Vues de Paris et de ses Environs..', Paris, Chez Rittner et Goupil, 1832: with engraved title and 59 steel engraved plat...

MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL: PARIS & STRASBOURG, 1867: a lively and extensive manuscript journal penned by Victor Yorke RA, an officer employed by the Brit...

'IN MEMORY OF PERCY DIXON, Lieutenant The Royal Fusiliers ob. Cairo. August 26 1902, aged 20 years' (so gilt titled to upper cover): an album of 5...

SENAPE (Antonio, 1788-1850): Italian Grand Tour Sketchbook: an album of 49 fine sketches of Naples and the Italian Coast in black and blue inks, c...

MARTYN (William): 'New Dictionary of Natural History', 1785: with 100 hand-coloured plates: lacks first quire of text, front board detached, perio...

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: 'A Tour of the Eastern Mediterranean..Egypt: Cyprus: Lebanon: Syria: Turkey & Greece, April-May 1953..': containing approx 107 i...

LEVINSON (Orde): 'John Piper..the Complete Graphic Works: a Catalogue Raisonne 1923-1983': London, Faber, 1987: original white cloth boards with d...

INDIA: group of 3 photograph albums, c.1915-1917: military and civilian life inc. photos of The Review by Sir Charles Munro at Rawalpindi, views o...

ORANGE (James): 'The Chater Collection..pictures relating to China, Hong Kong, Macao, 1655-1860; with historical and descriptive letterpress by Ja...

SHANGHAI: GREEN (O M): 'Shanghai of To-Day...a souvenir album of thirty-eight Van Dyke prints of 'The Model Settlement': A S Watson & Company (Sha...

WU LUEN TAK (Editor): 'The Living China..a Pictorial Record 1930': Shanghai, published by the Liang You Printing & Publishing Co, 1930: numerous b...

BINDINGS: 'The English Peerage; or, a view of the ancient and present state of the English nobility..', London, printed by T Spilsbury & Son, 1790...

BUMPUS BINDINGS: SKELTON (Sir John): 'Charles I': Goupil & Co, 1898: contemporary blue crushed half morocco gilt by Bumpus, aeg, rubbed and scuffe...

BIBLE IN FINE BINDING BY HERING: 'The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments...'. Cambridge, printed at the Pitt Press, 1837: 2 vols, fi...

CARTE DE VISITE ALBUM: a mid-Victorian album containing numerous window mounted cdv & cabinet cards, period diced calf with spine deficient, oblon...

'CONFESSION ALBUM': 'Confession Album. A mirror reflecting the general sentiments &c of my friends..', London, published by Joseph Mead, circa 188...

TAYLOR (Robert): 'The Air Combat Paintings of Robert Taylor...', London, Guild Publishing, 1988: No. 47/1000 copies, signed by Taylor and 12 pilot...

PICASSO: SABARTES (Jaime): 'Picasso: Toreros..with four original lithographs': London, Zwemmer & Montecarlo, A Sauret, 1961: publishers red cloth ...

RICHARDSON (Charles): 'A New Dictionary of the English Language, combining Explanation with Etymology: and illustrated by quotations from the best...

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: BRITISH and EUROPEAN TOUR: an interesting album of approx 380 small-format albumen-print photographs, British and European trave...

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: EUROPEAN TOUR: late 19thc album, densely filled with albumen-print photographs of European cities and scenery, various sizes, ma...

INDIA: 'Coronation Durbar, 1911..': Allahabad, Pioneer Press, 1912: 2nd edition, b&w illustrations from photographs, publishers green cloth gilt l...

HONG KONG: HURLEY (R C): 'Picturesque Hong Kong..a British Crown Colony and Dependencies...', Hong Kong, printed by The Commercial Press Ltd, 1925...

CARRUTHERS (Douglas): 'Unknown Mongolia..a Record of Travel and Exploration in North-West Mongolia and Dzungaria..', London, Hutchinson, 1913. FIR...

BRUCE (Major Clarence Dalrymple): 'In the Footsteps of Marco Polo...being the account of a journey overland from Simla to Pekin', London & Edinbur...

INDONESIA: PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: containing approx 200 corner mounted original photographs mostly of colonial Indonesia, images of various sizes and p...

BINDINGS: ROGERS (Samuel): 'Italy, a Poem..', London, printed for T Cadell, 1830: FIRST EDITION: period dark full morocco with gilt rococo decorat...

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS: a group of 3 small format early c20 albums, to include an album of 91 b&w snapshot images showing a Mediterranean tour encompas...

FLEMING (Ian): 'The Man with the Golden Gun', London, Jonathan Cape, 1965: FIRST EDITION: publishers black cloth, dustjacket (a little nicked and ...

SOCIETY BEAUTIES AND ACTRESSES: two autograph albums, early c20 period, many signed photographs and images pasted in (images largely cut from peri...

HONG KONG: 'We Shall Win! British Imperialism in Hong Kong will be Defeated!', Hong Kong 1967: FIRST EDITION: b&w illustrations from photographs, ...

CHINESE PITH PAINTINGS: album of 13 Chinese pith paintings, female characters, c.late 19th-early 20thc, each approx 22 x14cm, printed paper covere...

FLEMING (Ian): 'The Man with the Golden Gun', London, Jonathan Cape, 1965. Second Impression. VG in original black cloth with dustjacket (price cl...

FLEMING (Ian): 'Live and Let Die', London, Jonathan Cape, 1954. FIRST EDITION: publishers black cloth gilt, a little rubbed and bumped, contempora...

MANUSCRIPT EXCERPTS: a collection of manuscript poetry, prose and sketches in English, French and German, mid-19thc and in numerous different hand...

AMBROTYPE: cased portrait of uniformed man seated, metallic closure partially lacking, old repair to hinge.  (1)

INDIA: King Thebaw of Burma: a collection of photographs and negatives, largely compiled by Col. A F Laughton CB circa 1870s-80s: includes 2 image...

MARY OF TECK (1867-1953, Queen of United Kingdom and British Dominions 1910-36): collection of correspondence related, including at least 7 handwr...

EDWARD VIII (1894-1972): ALS from Edward Prince of Wales to a Mrs Clowes, 2nd June 1925, 4pp in blue ink, boldly signed, thanking 'you and Sainty ...