The October Library Sale - Bishton Hall Saleroom

The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds, British & Foreign, by Blakston, Swaysland and Wiener, London: Cassell, [1877-80], complete with a...

Great Domesday Book, The Penny Edition, with silver coin - a penny of William the Conqueror, current at the time that Domesday Book was written in...

William IV scrapbook compiled by Lieutenant Joseph Rolfe of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 1830-32. Containing approximately 320 pages of newspaper c...

Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds, first edition, first issue with 16pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, Autumn 1897, London: William Heinema...

Milton, John. Paradise Lost, third edition, London: S. Simmons, 1678, bound with Paradise Regained, first edition, second issue [with "loth" on p....

Aldin, Cecil. Mac, first edition, London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. Quarto, publisher's illustrated boards, complete with 24 co...

Verne, Jules. Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar, first edition, translated by William H. G. Kingston, London: Sampson Low, 1877, original ...

Literary Hoax. The Lost Diary of Christopher Columbus. [Seyppel, Carl Maria]. My Secrete Log Boke, Dusseldorf: Frz. Rangette & Sons, [c.1890-1900]...

Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf, fifth impression, London: Hurst & Blackett, 1939. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Contents good with s...

Landt, Rev. G. A Description of the Feroe [Faroe] Islands with An Account of Their Situation, Climate and Production, London: 1810. Octavo, half-c...

Dickens, Charles. All the Year Round, 1857-1873, odd vol years in ten bound volumes, parts mis-bound in places, 1857 parts follow 1860 in the same...

Bindings. An extensive collection of decorative leather-bound books, predominantly C19, a few C18, inc. classics, novels & collected works, poetry...

Holy Bible with Book of Common Prayer, London: John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, Printers to the Kings Most Excellen...

Lane, Edward William (transl.). The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, first edition thus, ...

Betjeman, John (Ed.). Shell Guide to Cornwall, first edition, 1935, 63pp., ring-binder card covers, worn, tog. w/ Devon, 1936, similar but less wo...

Botany. A collection of 19th-century hand-coloured lithographs depicting bouquets of flowers, 24 plates in total, London: Paul Jerrard, n.d., in d...

Culpeper, Nicholas. Culpeper's Last Legacy, fifth impression, London: Robert Harford, 1676-77, contemporary calf, 276pp. plus index, followed by s...

Repton School & Roald Dahl Interest. An archive of books given as gifts to Sergeant W. A. Moughton, the second School Marshall at Repton, with gif...

Miscellaneous collection of books to include a signed copy of A Change of Climate, by Hilary Mantel; a signed copy of The Djinn in the Nightingale...

The Studio, Special Numbers, 40 volumes, 13 in publisher's embossed cloth, including Pen, Pencil and Chalk Drawings by Contemporary Artists, 1911;...

Sexton Blake Library. 362 magazines from No. 1, by John Hunter, Raiders Passed, with various writers inc. Anthony Parsons, Edwy Seales Brooks, Hyl...

Hare, Augustus J. C. The Story of My Life, in six volumes, London: George Allen, 1896-1900, publisher's cloth, tog. w/ South Eastern France, 1890,...

Christie, Agatha. The Mysterious Affair at Styles, first cheap edition, London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1923, publisher's cloth

Pratchett, Terry. The Last Hero, signed & inscribed by the author, 'With heroic wishes', London: Gollancz, 2001, hardback with dust-jacket, well-p...

Jaguar E Type, Series 2, operating manual & service handbook, c. 1960, in original wallet, together with Aston Martin: A Living Legend (2) ...[mo...

Warwickshire & Warmington Interest. Manuscript ledger, 1860-61, recording the clients & charges of a shoe repairer; a Lawyer's Diary, 1855, with m...

Holy Bible, prepared & arranged by D'Oyly & Mant, in three volumes, Oxford: Clarendon, 1817, quarto, straight-grain morocco, all edges gilt. Toget...

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, three-volume auction catalogue, New York: Sotheby's, 1997, softcover, housed in slipcase

Johns, Capt. W. E. Collection of ten Biggles books, to inc. Biggles Breaks the Silence, first ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1949; Biggles Gets His Men,...

Les Miserables, cinema programme [c.1913], including cast, orchestra, plot, and list of matinees around the UK at venues owned by the Provincial C...

Tymms, W. R. & Wyatt, M. D. The Art of Illuminating as practised in Europe from the Earliest Times, first edition, London: Day & Son, Lithographer...

Kipling, Rudyard. Collection of seven books comprising: Kim, London: Macmillan, reprinted November 1901; Just So Stories, Macmillan, reprinted 190...

Pratchett, Terry. The Carpet People, first edition, London: Colin Smythe, 1971. Octavo, publisher's cloth, unclipped dust-jacket, protective mylar...

Folio Society. Collection of slipcased literary classics & historical works, to inc. two deluxe morocco bound volumes sealed in original cellophan...

Bruel, Francis-Louis. Histoire Aeronautique, [one of 325 copies], Paris: Andre Marty, 1909, illustrated with hand-coloured plates & facsimiles. Fo...

Montaigne's Essays, London: Cadell & Davies, 1800, octavo, half-calf with marbled boards ...[more]

Kornilov, Boris. [How Bear Got Toothache After Honey], illustrated by Konstantin Rotov, Moscow: Publishing Cooperative of Foreign Works in the USS...

Bukei Kaso. Compiled by Huang Xianchen [Ko Kenshin], published in Kanbun, Kyoto: Nakano Ichiemon, [1661]. A Japanese work on military matters base...

Goldsmith, Oliver. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, in two volumes, London: Fullarton, c. 1850, 71 hand-coloured plates with two vignet...

Bennett, Alan. Smut, signed limited edition numbered 92/100, first issue, London: Faber & Faber, Profile Books, 2011, hardback cloth with decorate...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, seventh issue, featuring an original ink sketch of Harry's owl Hedwig, insc...

Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, in two volumes, new edition with copperplate engrav...

Dugdale, William. The Baronage of England, Tome the First, London: Thomas Newcomb, 1675. Comprising title printed in red & black, dedication page,...

Early newspapers. An archive of approximately 350 newspapers, 18th & 19th century, with five earlier issues of the London Gazette, 1688-1690. Coll...

Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, first edition, second state [without the S-like ornament inside caption of p.59, and wit...

Aldin, Cecil. The Twins, first edition, London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1910]. Quarto, publisher's quarter-cloth with illustrated ...

Freemasonry. Di Gargano, Michael. Irish and English Freemasons and Their Foreign Brothers, Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, 1877, three parts bound as on...

Burton, Richard F. A Mission to Gelele King of Dahome, in two volumes, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. Octavo, modern half-calf. Two wood-engraved...

Bishop [née Bird], Isabella L. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs,...

Manuscript book of music scores, by Lucie Caroline Moore, Lawnsdowne, 1840, half-calf with marbled boards, 53pp.

Hornby, Nick. About a Boy, signed first edition, 1998, wrapper with closed split top corner, tog. w/ Writing Home, by Alan Bennett, signed first p...

Sexton Blake, Fleetway Library Series, 153 issues, contributors inc. W. Howard Baker, Arthur Kirby, Martin Thomas, Jack Trevor Story and others, s...

Orwell, George. Essays, in four volumes, first edition thus, London: Secker & Warburg, 1968, very good in wrappers (4) ...[more]

A small miscellaneous collection of books, inc. popular classics and reference, inc. Conan Doyle & Edgar Wallace ...[more]

Gill, Eric (Illust.). The Travels & Sufferings of Father Jean de Brebeuf, translated by Theodore Besterman, limited edition numbered 299/300, Lond...

Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children, London: Jonathan Cape, reprinted 1981; The Moor's Last Sigh, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1995; Sha...

Collection of agricultural, Wesleyan and juvenile books

Africa. A collection of books on Africa to include The Rise of Our East African Empire, by Captain F. D. Lugard, in two volumes, Edinburgh & Londo...

Greene, Graham. Collection of three books to inc. The Comedians, first ed., Bodley Head, 1966; The Little Horse Bus, illustrated by Edward Ardizzo...

Equestrian & Hunting Interest. International Sport, The Hague: International Bridge of Trade, 1929-30, folio, numbered 138, text in English & Fren...