Antiquarian Books, Maps and Prints

" AUTOGRAPHS BISHOPS. 1767-1821: " [ title on the spine ] half calf rubbed, large 8vo, a bound volume of eighty-one legal documents (Pateat Univer...

ACCOUNTS BOOK : manuscript church accounts book [many entries], 4to, vellum, 1796-1825.* includes payments for catching moles and hedgehogs

WITHDRAWN ADDAMS, Charles Samuel "Chas" : 1912-1988, American cartoonist. Creator of the " Addams Family." A small signed sketch showing a charact...

AIRCRAFT : a photograph album of 1930s biplanes, 270 small photographs in an album neatly captioned, Avro, Fairey-Napier, Gloster, Hawker Horsley,...

AUTOGRAPH ALBUM : including cat drawings in the manner of Louis Wain. With a cabinet photograph album.(2)

AUTOGRAPH BOOK : characters appearing at the BBC studios in the 1950s inc. George Raft, Vera Lynn, Dora Bryan, Eric Sykes, Gilbert Harding, Kennet...

Corporal G. Cooper [circa 1917]- Bombay; a sketch book with drawings, largely of Bombay, the Harbour, Elephant Cave, Dhows, Mosque, Walkeshawar:- ...

DARWIN, Charles : (1809-1882) - photograph by Maull & Polyblank, 200 x 150 mm arched upper margin, (1855). * Henry Maull and George Henry Polyblan...

De La Rue calf bound gentleman's vanity and writing case:, circa 1888.

DIARIES : Punch's Pocket Book for 1863 - folding hand coloured frontispiece, org. wallet style binding, small 8vo, 1863. With three other 18th cen...

DOCUMENTS : a collection of mainly legal documents on vellum relating to lands in Middlesex, Gloucestershire, and the Huntley Charity, with a few ...

ELIZABETHAN DOCUMENT : Copy of Court Roll, land document re. Richard Blackett, Lynesack, Co Durham, ten lines on paper, 1575. With 2 later documen...

GEORGE, David Lloyd : ( 1863-1945 ) Typed signed letter on 11, Downing Street headed note paper, dated 16th December, 1910, to Martin Woosnam. In ...

GRANT OF ARMS : to George Fearnley Blackburn, on vellum, with two seals, contained within red faux morocco box, 1921.

JAPANESE BIRDS : 20 coloured mounted woodblocks [no text], size : 210 x 150 mm, in 'old' battered brocade covers, no date. With a 19th cent. India...

JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM : 50 hand tinted mounted photographs, in concertina format, in rather plain lacquer covers, oblong 8vo, c1890s?* photogr...

MANUSCRIPT : volume relating to the Dyer Family [Barnstaple], 19th cent. With a vellum bound folio relating to the Palk Family Settlement. With a ...

MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK : four pages on two vellum sheets, written in black with line headings in red and blue, 740 x 550 mm, North Europe, 16th cen...

MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOK : half calf, 144 pages, 8vo, mid-nineteenth cent. With a book of calligraphy dated 1794.(2)* First work bears the name : L...

MANUSCRIPT SCHOOL BOOK : over 60 pages of geography, sciences, arithmetic, astronomy, etc on paper with decorative page headings heightened with c...

MURRAY, T.L - Northumberland : hand coloured map, 355 x 460 mm, 1831. With other maps inc. facsimile, indentures on vellum in 17th century some re...

PASSPORT : for Geoffrey Palmer, in original calf wallet style binding, c1840s* extensive entries

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM : Grand Tour - many titled photographs by David A. Wells, half morocco, oblong 4to, c1870.

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS : an interesting collection of eight mainly early 20th cent. albums, one relating to H.M.S. Diadem, pre WW1.

PHOTOGRAPHS : a collection of early photographs of Europe and G.B. Inc. "Florence, from the Boboli Gardens," taken by Fratelli Alinari. (a lot)

QUEEN VICTORIA : (1819-1901) - Queen Victoria with Princess Beatrice of Battenberg, gilt edged photograph mounted on thick card by A. Bassano, (18...

QUR'AN : A single manuscript sheet, 24 x 15 cms, 5 lines on both sides of a parchment leaf with gilt emblems, 15th century Mamluk Qur'an (Egyptian...

ROYALTY : George IV Coronation - five highly decorative embossed invitation/passes for :- 1) Westminster Abbey. 2) Westminster Hall. 3) Westminste...

RUSKIN, John : (1819-1900) - original portrait photograph, 150 x 105 mm, (photographer unknown). With a collection of 19th portrait photographs, i...

SCRAP ALBUM : early 19th cent, (paper watermarked 1831), watercolours, hand coloured and black & white prints, Ms verse, etc, cont. full morocco. ...

SCRAP ALBUM : prints, sketches, Ms, water colours, etc. loose in morocco binding, 4to, mid-19th cent ?

SCRAP BOOK : early 19th cent. album, inc. 3 good quality botanical w/cols, caricature, moveable w/col of a cellist, etc, contents loose, cont. red...

SHAKESPEARE, William : 12 page manuscript, " Monument to Shakespeare," disbound, bearing the name "George Williams," late 18th century ? With a co...

THOMSON, John & SMITH, Adolphe - Street LIfe in London : 36 mounted photographs, library cloth, 4to, lacks title-page,1877.* sold as a collection ...

WATERCOLOURS : a small group of early 19th century topographical w/cols, one signed ' C. Lyell.'