Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Hamerton (Philip Gilbert) The Graphic Arts ..., Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1882, Large Paper copy, partly unopened, original 'vellum' gilt bind...

St Dominic's Press. Old English Clocks. Being a Collector's Observations on some Seventeenth Century Clocks by F. H. Green, 1st edition, one of 30...

[Wood, Robert]. The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor in the Desart, 1st edition, London: [no publisher], 1753. Large folio (520 x 360 mm), 20th-...

The National Museum of Ethnology, LeidenPhilipp Franz Von Siebold's Ukiyo-E Collection, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1978, three folio volumes, colour illustr...

Hockney (David)A Bigger Book, Taschen, 2016, numbered limited edition of 10,000 [9000], signed by the artist, (L.A., 2016), 71cm x 52cm, dust wrap...

AlmanacksA collection of ten almanacks for 1689, bound as one, comprising Andrews' News from the Stars; Coley's Nuncius Sydereus; Dove's Speculum ...

Shakespeare (William)The Works of William Shakespeare, Allied Newspapers, fifty miniature volumes, cloth, displayed on original miniature bookcase...

Tennyson (Alfred)The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Strahan and Co. 1870, ten volumes, all edges gilt, original limp leather bindings, o...

La Rochefoucauld (François, duc de)The Memoirs of the Duke de la Rochefoucault, 1st edition in English, James Partridge, 1683, (179 x 105 mm), con...

Herbert (Edward, Lord)The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth, Henry Herringman, 1682, quarto, portrait plate after title, lacking endpapers a...

Johnson (Samuel)The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Clarendon Press, 1992-94, five volumes, dustwrappers;Pepys (Samuel), The Diary of Samuel Pepys, G B...

Peacock (Thomas Love) [Works] J. M. Dent, 1891, ten volumes, numbered large paper edition, limited to 100 copies, frontis to eight volumes (not in...

Mynors (R.A.B.)Durham Cathedral Manuscripts, to the End of the Twelfth Century, Durham Cathedral, 1939, folio, numbered limited edition of 250 (22...

Tomitano (Bernardino)Bernardini Tomitani Clonicus, sive De Reginaldi Poli, Card. Ampliss. Laudibus., Venice: Aldus, 1556, small octavo, twelve lea...

Bunyan (John)The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come ..., A. Wilde, 1722, twentieth edition, commences with title A2 so ma...

Caesar (Julius)C. Ivlii Caesaris quae extant: ex emendatione Ios. Scaligeri, Lvgdvni Batavorvm: Elzeviriana [Elzevier], 1635, engraved title page,...

Johnson (Samuel)The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets...., Bathurst, 1783, four volumes, portrait frontis, contemp calf;idem, The Lives of t...

PoetryThe Aldine Edition of the British Poets, Bell and Daldy, no date [c.1855], fifty-two volumes, half calf (final volume lacking spine labels) ...

Smollett (Tobias)The History of England from the Revolution in 1688..., J.Wallis, 1805, six volumes, contemporary diced calf gilt (joints cracked)...

Caesar (Julius). The Commentaries of C. Julius Caesar, of his Wars in Gallia; and the Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey. Translated into English ....

Twiss (Horace)The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, John Murray, 1844, three volumes, calf gilt;with twenty-two others (25) ...[m...

PLEASE NOTE - THE CATALOGUE IMAGE FOR THIS LOT IS INCORRECT. THE ONLINE IMAGE IS CORRECTGray (Thomas)The Poems of Gray, F. J. du Roveray, 1800, ha...

Boaden (James)Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbold: Including her Familier Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Persons of her Time...., Richard Bentley...

BindingsA quantity of books, various subjects including literature, classics, history, biography, etc., all leather bound ...[more]

Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de). Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish by Charles Jarvis, London: T. McLean, 1819. 4 volum...

Higgins (Bryan). Experiments and Observations made with the View of Improving the Art of Composing and Applying Calcareous Cements and of Preparin...

Occult. The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts, from the Original Manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum ...

Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 10th edition, London: by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies...

Wordsworth (William)The White Doe of Rylstone; or The Fate of the Nortons, A Poem. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815, quarto, first edit...

BindingsThe Spectator, Edinburgh, 1776, eight volumes, contemp calf gilt (several spines cracked);Pope (Alexander), The Works of Alexander Pope, M...

Spenser (Edmund)The Poetical Works of ....., Pickering, 1825, five volumes, all edges gilt, full calf by Herring;Wordsworth (William), The Poetica...

Holy BibleThe Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues. And with the former Translations...

Flechier (Esprit)Histoire du Cardinal Ximenes, Paris: Jean Anisson, 1694, second edition, two volumes, contemporary calf gilt (one joint starting,...

Horblit (Harrison D.)One Hundred Books Famous In Science, Based on an Exhibition held at the Grolier Club, N.Y.: The Grolier Club, 1964, limited e...

Holy BibleThe Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly Translated out of ye Original Tongues .., printed by Charles Bill and the...

BindingsDe Quincey (Thomas), [Works of ...], Adam and Charles Black, 1862, fifteen volumes, half leather;with a quantity of other literary works b...

Dickens (Charles)The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapman and Hall, 1838, half green morocco gilt by Riviere (spine tanned);idem, The P...

Arts and Crafts BindingLe livre d'or de J.-F. Millet. Par un ancien ami, Paris: A. Ferroud, E. Bénézit-Constant, [1891]. 4to (333 x 248 mm), near-...

Dickens (Charles)The Biographical Edition of the Works, London: Chapman and Hall Ld, c.1900. 19 volumes, 8vo (218 x 135 mm), contemporary red half...

Richardson (Samuel)The Complete Novels of Samuel Richardson, Heinemann, 1902, unnumbered limited edition of 375 copies for Great Britain, nineteen...

BibliographiesWolff (Robert Lee), Nineteenth-Century Fiction, A Bibliographical Catalogue Based on the Collection Formed by ..., arland, 1981, fiv...

Digs [Diggs] (Dudley)The Unlawfulness of Subjects Taking up Arms against the Soveraigne, in what case soever ..., William Sheares, 1662, portrait ...

[Jones William] A Treatise on the Art of Music, Colchester; published by the author, 1784, folio, signed by the author at end of dedication and nu...

Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de). The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha ... Translated from the Original by Several Hands, and publis...

Luther (Martin)A Commentarie or Exposition upon the twoo Epistles generall of Sainct Peter, and that of Sainct Jude ... familiarlie translated int...

[Foxe] Fox (John)[Book of Martyrs] Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable, Happening in the Church with an Universal History of ...

Heaney (Seamus)The Spirit Level, Faber and Faber, 1996, first edition, signed by the author, ticket for reading event loosely inserted, hardback, ...

Slightly FoxedA collection of books published by Slightly Foxed including forty-six hardbacks, some being numbered limited editions, all in origin...

Hall (J. Vine)Round the Camp Fire in East Africa with Six New Poems, Longman's Green, 1931, sixth edition, the author's own copy, signed on free e...

Plomer (William)Death of a Hedge-Sparrow, two page autograph manuscript of his poem, four six-line stanzas, address-headed paper, inscribed at the...

Powell (Dawn)A Cage for Lovers, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1957, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to J. B. Priestley,...

Lessing (Doris)The Grass is Singing, Michael Joseph, 1950, first edition, signed by the author in 1995, dust wrapper (priced 9s.6d.);idem, Martha ...

Hopkins (Gerard Manley). Poems, now first published. Edited with notes by Robert Bridges, London: Humphrey Milford, 1918. 8vo, original linen-back...

Political autographs, comprising: 1) Six typed letters signed from members of parliament Denis Healey (2 letters), Sir Keith Joseph (2 letters), M...

Ellis FamilyA small interesting collection of material relating to the Ellis Family, comprising a manuscript family history compiled by Carles Wal...

EphemeraAn interesting collection including;Motives for Making a Navigable Canal from Barnby Bridge, by Barnsley to .... River Calder, near Wakefi...

Autograph AlbumsTwo nineteenth century albums;The first album contains autograph letters, signed envelopes and cropped signatures of nineteenth ce...

Brontë CircleRingrose family scrap-album, c.1835-40. 4to (285 x 228 mm), disbound, 69 ff. (plus 2 blanks and endpaper), with numerous steel-engrav...

PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF DESCRIPTIONLaurel and Hardy. Collection of signed letters and photographs from Stan Laurel (1890-1965), comprising one auto...

South Wales DirectoriesKelly (E. R.) edit., The Post Office Directory of Monmouthshire and The Principal Towns and Places in South Wales, Kelly & ...