Auction Of Antiquarian & Secondhand Books

COOK (Capt. J.) & KING (Capt. J.) A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…in Four Volumes, 4 vols., 8vo, vol. 1: large folding map (tears), 18 plates; vol. ...

[CHINA] LITTLE (A.) Through the Yangtse Gorges, 8vo, illus., col. map, original cloth, 3rd Edn., L., 1898; & others CHINESE interest. (1 box). ....

q. of misc. lit, 19th/20th c. incl. leatherbound. (1 box) ...[more]

HANNER (M.) translator: The Ancient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Years after Christ…, 4to, 6ff., pp. 598, 9ff. index, 1f. bl...

[CIRCLE PRESS] untitled trial proof by RON KING of gentleman with hat, etching, 11.75 x 9.75 inches [P.]; & 4 other proofs before titles, various....

[NUDES, nearly NUDES etc.] La Revue des FOLIES-BERGERES, 4to, illus., cut away title revealing lady with large gorilla, Paris, 1929; Paris Plaisir...

TRENCH (Col.) A Collection of Papers relating to the Thames Quay…, 4to, plates 1 – 9 (incl. folding & 1 extra) plates 10 – 15 = one composite fold...

WREN (P. C.) Mammon of Righteousness, 8vo, clo., 1st Edn., AUTHOR SIGNED on AUTHOR’s bookplate on front paste-down, L., 1930; PEAKE (Mervyn) Gorme...

EPHEMERAL ITEMS, 19th/early 20th c., incl. ms. diary, chromo cards, occasional album, WWI monochrome watercolour, etc. (Q) ...[more]

misc. lit. incl. art reference and general. (Q) ...[more]

[CHILDREN’S BOOKS] The Country ABC, 4to, col. illus., pictorial card covers, n.d. (ca. 1910); & misc. annuals, childrens’s books etc. (1 box) .....

OCCASIONAL ALBUMS, misc. early 19th – 20th c. newspaper cuttings, chromo scraps, some ms. material. (Q) ...[more]

BIBLIOGRAPHY, misc. (2 boxes). ...[more]

[COSTUMES] early 19th c. concertina-style folding series of hand-col’d engr. ITALIAN costume plates, 25 in all, in a continuous strip, front board...

ANNIGONI (Pietro) Spanish Sketchbook, 4to, illus., SIGNED LTD EDN., clo., d.w., 1st Edn., L., 1957; & another book. (2) ...[more]

[APIARY] HERROD-HEMPSHALL (W.) Bee-keeping New and Old Described with Pen and Camera, 2 vols., lge 8vo, profusely illustrated, pictorial cloth, 1s...

[LONDON] BARRATT (T. J.) The Annals of Hampstead, 3 vols., 4to, profusely illus., orig. dec cloth, SIGNED LTD EDN (of 550), fine set in morocco-ba...

[LONDON] FERET (C. J.) Fulham Old and New, 3 vols., 4to, profusely illus., original cloth gilt, L., Leadenhall Press, 1900 (3, fine set). [see ill...

[LONDON] HOLLAR’s LONDON. 37 Etchings of London Views…, clamshell folio, booklet & plates (lacking 1-9, 12, 13, 15-17, 26-28, 35-37) LTD EDN, Edgw...

LYSONS (D. & S.) Magna Britannia…Volume the First, Containing Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, 4to, 44 plates (incl. 3 d.-p. maps etc....

DICKENS (Charles) Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 2 vols., 8vo, contemp. green half-morroco, Paris, Galignani, 1839. (2) ...[more]

WILLIS (N. P.) American Scenery, 2 vols., 4to, frontis., add. pict. title, map, 64 (of 65) plates, i.e. lacking plate 24; vol. 2, 53 plates incl. ...

WRIGHT (G.) Ireland Illustrated, 4to, add. pictorial title, 80 views on 40 ff., later calf, L., Fisher, 1831. ...[more]

JONES’s Views of the Seats, Mansions, Castles, & L., 4to, engr. pict. title, 100 plates (with 2 views each) contemp. green morocco gilt (rebacked ...

[SCOTLAND] Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels with Descriptions…, 2 vols., 4to, 80 plates on India paper laid, after Stothard, Prout e...

INGRAM (James) Memorials of Oxford, 3 vols., 4to (i.e. L. P. copies), 112 plates (some on india paper) 1 map, text vignettes, later half morocco, ...

PIANO MUSIC, bounnd volume of Polkas, Quadrilles, etc., many with pictorial covers, incl. The Great Exhibition Quadrille, mid 19th c. ...[more]

SCOTT (Sir Walter) Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland, 2 vols. bound in 1, 4to, 2 x engr. pictorial titles, 50 plates, con...

SHEPHERD (T. H.) illustrator: Modern Athens! Displayed in a Series of Views…EDINBURGH, 4to, add. engr. t.p., frontis & 46 plates (each with 2 view...

– another copy, bound with a further series of views of “Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Seats” (the latter series lacking title), later half morocco, (a...

BEATTIE (W.) Scotland…Illustrated, 4to, engr. frontis, pictorial title; 62 plates, half morocco, (i.e. 2 vols. in 1), L., Virtue, n.d. (as a colle...

PROUT (Samuel) Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, etc., folio, 20 litho plates, original cloth, L., Ackermann, 1838. ...[more]

ART JOURNAL, vols. for 1852, 1854, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1867 (x2), 1884; MAGAZINE of Art, 1888; & World’s Greatest Paintings, 3 vols.; 12 vols in all...

[ENGRAVINGS etc.] The Vernon Gallery 1st & 3rd Series, 2 vols., 4to, engr. plates, ½ morocco, L., Virtue, 1850, 1853; National Gallery of Pictures...

SPECIMENS of Modern Masters…, folio, preliminary “name plate”, 1f. title, 99 plates, all on india paper, half morocco, L., 1835; STRAHAN (E.) Etud...

GREENE (Graham) Loser Takes All, 8vo, clo., d.w. (large chip) 1st Edn., L., 1955; End of the Affair, d.w., 1st, 1951. (2) ...[more]

THOMSON (Hugh) illustrator: Quality Street, 4to, tipped-in col. plates, dec. cloth, L., [1901]; MILNE (A. A.) Winnie-the-Pooh, 8vo, illus., leathe...

[RAILWAYS] AHRONS (E.) Locomotive and Train Working in the latter Part of the Nineteenth Century, vols. 1-5, 8vo, illus., clo., d.w., 1st Edns, Ca...

[RAILWAYS] WILLIAMS (F. S.) Our Iron Roads…, 8vo, illus., pict. cloth gilt, 1st Edn., L., 1852; MacDERMOT (E. T.) History of the Great Western Rai...

[RAILWAYS] LATHAM (J. B.) The Story of McAlpine Steam Locomotives 1869-1965, 4to, illus., clo., d.w., n.p., 1993. ...[more]

BOURNE’s London & Birmingham Railway, folio facsimile edn., 1970. ...[more]

[CRICKET] The Times M.C.C. Number, illus., L., 1937. ...[more]

MINIATURE NEWSPAPERS: Daily Mail, Feb. 17, 1925; Daily Telegraph, Oct. 18, 1956 and The TIMES City of London Number, Part 1 [and] Part 2, illus., ...

PUNCH in India, Issues 1-3, 6-12, 4to, illus., 1865/6; Times of India Annual, 1929 (a/f); Baghdad Times, March 25th, 1918. (Q) ...[more]

[YELLOWBACKS] SKETCHLEY (Arthur) Mrs Brown on Cleopatras’s Needle, sm. 8vo, pict. boards, L., Routledge, n.d.’ 4 other Mrs Brown titles & 1 other,...

[ROWING] DRINKWATER (G.) & SANDERS (T.) The University Boat Race Official Centenary History 1829-1929, 4to, illus., LTD EDN, 398/600 copies, clo.,...

[ROWING] BURKE (W. S.) The Calcutta Rowing Club, 8vo cloth bound pamphlet reprint of 1963, with covering t.l.s. loose within. (1) ...[more]

WELLS (H. G.) Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island, 8vo, clo., d.w. designed by Sir William Orpen, L., 1928. ...[more]

WAUGH (Evelyn) Black Mischief, 8vo, map frontis., patterned cloth, 1st Edn., L., 1932. ...[more]

THE PLAY PICTORIAL, Vol. 3, No. 13, Aug. 1903-Vol. 22, No. 131, lacking No. 28 which has instead No. 7 from Vol. 2) bound in 9 vols., 4to, cloth (...

OFFICIAL PROGRAMME of the NORTHERN COMMAND TATTOO…Roundhay Park, Leeds, 4to, pictorial clo. covers, Aldershot, 1937; & the same for 1938. (2) .....

[SCHOOL] THOMPSON (H.) A History of Ackworth School…, 8vo, plates, clo., Ackworth/London 1879; & 5 others on BOOTHAM SCHOOL; MOUNT SCHOOL, York; S...

CORNHILL MAGAZINE, 49 vols., variously bound, some nice leather, some loose issues, 1860’s & later. (49) ...[more]

BLAIR (M.) The Paisley Shawl, 4to, col. & b/w illus., clo., Paisley, 1904. ...[more]

REED (T. B.) Adventures of a Three Guinea Watch, 4to, illus., clo., L., ca. 1890; together with “Don Duan”, and “Edward VII” 2 satirical illus. co...

[BINDING] SLIGHT (H.) True Stories of H. M. Ship Royal George, 16mo, 3 plates only, & lacking f.e.p. & half of the prelim poem, wooden boards from...

[CRICKET] BOONE (F. C.) Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Seventeenth Annual Issue, sm. 8vo, clo., gilt, a.e.g., Leeds, 1909. ...[more]

[CRICKET] Baxter’s Second Innings, 8vo, patterned cloth, cloth BADGE of same loose within, L., 1892. ...[more]

[CRICKET] JOHNSTON (Brian) Armchair Cricket, 8vo, illus. p.b. SIGNED, BBC, 1957; LEVESON-GOWER (H.D.G.) Cricket Personalities, 8vo, clo., ms. Pres...

[CRICKET] MCLAREN (A. C.) Cricket Old and New, 8vo, illus., (biro marks in text), 1st Edn., clo., L., 1924; EVANS (G.) The Gloves are Off, 8vo, il...