Books, Maps and Ephemera

Stickmaking British Stickmakers Guild, The Stickmaker, No 1 - 124, Nov 1984 - July 2015 (includes additional 'Memorial Issue' but lacks volume 72)...

Stacey (Conor) The Stapleton Collection, Designs for the Irish Neoclassical Interior, 2007, Tralee; Churchill House Press, folio, dust wrapper ...

Adams (George) A Treatise, Describing the Construction and Explaining the Use of New Celestial and Terrestrial Globes ..., 1810, Dudley Adams, fou...

Scientific Instruments Morton (Alan Q.) & Wess (Jane E.), Public and Private Science, The King George III Collection, 1993, OUP, quarto, original ...

Lafond (Paul) The Prints of Hieronymous Bosch .., 2002, Wofsy, quarto, dust wrapper; Bax (D.), Hieronymous Bosch and Lucas Cranach, Two Last Judge...

Daniels (George) The Art of Breguet, 1986, Sotheby's, folio, dust wrapper (fine); Pieces of Time, Catalogues 23, 26, 28 through to 92, 94, 1992-20...

Cipriani (Giovanni Battista) A Collection of Prints after the Sketches and Drawings of the Late Celebrated Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Esq. R.A., ...

How (George Evelyn Paget & Jane Penrice) English and Scottish Silver Spoons, Mediaeval to Late Stuart, and Pre Elizabethan Hall Marks on English P...

Bode (Wilhelm) Die Anfaenge der Majolikakunst in Toskana, 1911, Berlin; Bard, folio, numbered limited edition of 200, 37 plates, mounted illustrat...

Falke (Otto von) Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in Munchen, 1914, Leiden, two volumes, folio, unnumbered from a limited edition of 200, 15...

Campbell (Colin), Woolf (John) & Gandon (James) Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect Containing the Plans, Elevations, and Sections of ...

Diorama A German Hunting Party In the Middle Ages, nd. [?19th century], Verlags-Eigenthum, printed card diorama, comprising castle background (190...

Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, 1984, George Allen & Unwin, seventh impression, signed by the author (1985), original pictoria...

Dahl (Roald) James and the Giant Peach, A Children's Story, 1983, George Allen & Unwin, eighth impression, signed by the author (1985), original p...

Dahl (Roald) Danny the Champion of the World, 1982, Cape, reprint, signed by the author (1985), dust wrapper (publisher's price clip) Fine/Fi...

Dahl (Roald) The BFG, 1984, Cape, reprint, signed by the author (1985), dust wrapper Fine/Fine (not price-clipped)

Dahl (Roald) Fantastic Mr Fox, 1983, George Allen & Unwin, sixth impression, signed by the author (1985), original pictorial boards Slight cr...

Dahl (Roald) Revolting Rhymes, 1984, Cape, reprint, signed by the author (1985), original pictorial boards Head of spine slightly bumped, low...

Dahl (Roald) George's Marvellous Medicine, 1982, Cape, reprint, signed by the author (1985), dust wrapper Fine/Fine (not price-clipped)

Dahl (Roald) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, and six more, 1984, Cape, reprint, signed by the author (1985), dust wrapper Book Fine, dust ...

Dahl (Roald) Boy, Tales of Childhood, 1984, Cape, first edition, signed by the author (1985), dust wrapper Small bump to upper joint (to the l...

Original Artwork A collection of original artwork and manuscript material, mounted in a 19th century album, some interesting illustrations includi...

Hawthorne (Nathaniel) Tanglewood Tales, nd. [1918], Hodder and Stoughton, quarto, numbered edition de luxe, limited to 500 copies, signed by the i...

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1903, Warne, first edition, third printing, original grey boards [Linder p 423]; idem, The Tailor of...

Parkinson (Norman) A large colour photograph of a female model in white dress attending to a white caged bird (we are advised that the model is I...

Burton (Robert) The Anatomy of Melancholy .., 1925, Nonesuch Press, two volumes, folio, signed presentation copy from the illustrator E. McKnight ...

Powys (Llewelyn) The Book of the Days of Llewelyn Powys, 1937, Golden Cockerel Press, folio, numbered limited edtion of 300, twelve etchings by El...

Bartoli (Petro Sancti) Antiquissimi Virgiliani Codicis Bibliothecae Vaticanae Picturae, 1776, Rome; Monaldini, engraved title, portrait, 118 plate...

Carroll (Lewis) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, nd. [?1907], Heinemann, 13 colour plates after Arthur Rackham, pictorial end papers, original cl...

The Graphic The Graphic, An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, Volumes 19 to 25, Jan 1879 - June 1882, folio, seven volumes, original cloth gilt (damp ...

Bestiarum Liber Bestiarum, MS Bodley 764, 2008, Folio Society, numbered limited edition of 1980 (of 2000) copies, facsimile manuscript bound with ...

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1911, Warne, first edition, original dark grey/green boards [Linder p.429]; idem, The Tale of Mrs Titt...

[Clapham (John)] The Historie of England/Great Britannie ..., 1602-6, printed by Vaventine Simmes, half calf (worn and taped, sold w.a.f.); [Swift...

Powys (John Cowper) Two page Autograph Letter Signed, to Mrs Dora Pigott, January 25, 1956, with envelope; Powys (Littleton), Three page A.L.S. to...

Burton (Miles) Up The Garden Path, 1941, The Crime Club, first edition, gift inscription to pastedown, dust wrapper (worn)

Dickens (Charles) Bleak House, 1853, Bradbury & Evans, first edition, first issue (internal flaws as given by Smith #10), plates as called for (so...

Trollope (Anthony) The Way We Live Now, 1875, Chapman and Hall, first edition, two volumes, plates as called for, half roan (joints cracked, some ...

Ruskin (John) Letters on Art and Literature, 1894, private printing 'limited to a few copies for private circulation only', edited by Thomas J. Wi...

Mansfield (Katherine) The Garden Party, 1939, Verona Press, numbered limited edition of 1200, coloured lithographs after Marie Laurencin, dust wra...

Doyle (A. Conan) The Hound of the Baskervilles, Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, 1902, Newnes, first edition, 'you' for 'your' on p. 13, sixt...

Doyle (A. Conan) The Hound of the Baskervilles, Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, 1902, Newnes, first edition, 'you' for 'your' on p. 13, sixt...

Doyle (A. Conan) The Hound of the Baskervilles, Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, 1902, Newnes, first edition, 'you' for 'your' on p. 13, sixt...

Pepys (Samuel) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1893-6, Bell, thirteen volumes, including Index, 1899; Pepysiana, 1899; Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, ...

[Pepys (Samuel)] Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, For Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688, 1690, large paper, portrait...

Anon. [Defoe (Daniel)] The History of the Great Plague In London, in the Year 1665 ......By a Citizen who lived the whole Time in London. to which...

Bacon (Francis) Letters of Sr Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam .... Written During the Reign of King James the First ..., 1702, Tooke, portrait fro...

Hume (David) The History of Great Britain, James I - James II, Volumes I & II, 1754-57; The History of England, Under the House of Tudor, Volumes ...

Clarendon (Edward, Earl of) The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England ..., 1702-1704, Oxford, three volumes, portrait frontis to each...

Maugham (W. Somerset) A Writer's Notebook, 1949, Heinemann, numbered first deluxe edition, limited to 1000 copies, signed by the author, t.e.g., o...

'An Impartial Hand' The Life of the Late Victorious and Illustrious Prince, John Duke of Marlborough and Pr. of Mindelheim, 1723, Sanders, contemp...

Bottomley (Gordon) Midsummer Eve, 1905, Pear Tree Press, limited edition of 120, original cloth-backed boards; idem, The Riding to Lithend, 1909,...

Book Forgeries A small collection of books and pamphlets on Thomas Wise the forger (14)

Binding France (Anatole), Penguin Island, 1924, John Lane, translation by A.W. Evans, t.e.g., coloured vellum gilt binding with penguin illustrati...

Wordsworth (William) The Prelude, 2007, Grasmere; Wordsworth Trust, numbered limited edition of 200 copies, colour illustrations after David Essle...

Wordsworth (William) The River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia, and Other Poems. To which is Annexed, A Topographical Descripti...

Wordsworth (William) Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems, 1835, Longman, Rees ..., first edition, presentation inscription from the author's wife, Ma...

Fore-Edge Painting Wordsworth (William), The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 1869, Moxon, portrait frontis, with double fore-edge painting, ...

Wordsworth (William) The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, 1820, Longman, Hurst ..., first edition, four volumes, frontis to each, volume...

Bullen (A.H.) Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, 1887, Nimmo, numbered limited edition of 250 large paper copies; idem, More Lyri...

Bindings Shakespeare (William), The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere, nd, Virtue, edited by Charles Knight, eight volumes, half calf; M...