The Library Auction - Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Prints & Photographs

Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), British newspaper proprietor and collector of illuminated manuscripts. Scrapbook, 1860s, compiling naïve field s...

The Redbourn Hill Iron & Coal Company Limited. A collection of ledgers in red crushed morocco lettered in gilt, manuscript entries, comprising: Ag...

Manuscript. Studien im Zieglerschen Institut in Wilhelmsdorf, 1878-80, by H. F. Nuppnau. A manuscript workbook from Die Zieglerschen, a diaconal d...

A book of manuscript musical notation belonging to Eliza Harriet Dean, Birmingham, 22 June 1840. Containing various scores, including 'Philomelon ...

Taylor, Alexander [Surveyor]. Manuscript plans of Knockando in Moray, Scotland, surveyed in 1774. Comprising 14 linen-backed, double-page maps, en...

Cooper, Caroline. An album containing 11 original pencil sketches of figures in military uniforms, European & Asian fashions, animals, some signed...

Valentine. A late-Georgian manuscript "puzzle purse", c. 1810, depicting a fashionable young woman holding the hand of a man in shako hat and unif...

Quin, Edward. A Historical Atlas, first edition, London: Seeley & Burnside, 1830. Complete with all 21 hand-coloured & aquatint-etched maps, six o...

Bailey, E. B. Geological Map of the British Islands, third edition, 1939, 78 x 64.5cm, on hanging rollers

Kanarek & Lipski. Poloniae, a pictorial nature map of Poland created for the 1939 New York World's Fair, subsequently censored, withdrawn and dest...

Greenwood, C. & J. Map of the County of Westmorland [Lake District], London: Greenwood, Pringle & Co., 1 January 1824. Dissected, linen-backed, ha...

[Drayton, Michael]. Allegorical map of Staffordshire, engraved by William Hole for Poly-Olbion, c. 1612 or later, hand-coloured engraving on laid/...

Hennet, George. A Map of the County Palatine of Lancaster, large-scale map engraved by James Bingley, London: Henry Teesdale & Co., 1 May 1830. Di...

Blaeu, J. [Derbyshire], Darbiensis Comitatus vernacule Darbie Shire, c. 1648, hand-coloured copper engraving on laid/chain-lined paper with decora...

A miscellaneous collection of dissected & linen-backed maps to include three maps of the Midlands, covering parts of Gloucestershire, Worcestershi...

Steer, Vincent. Printing Design and Layout, second edition [third according to errata slip], London: Virtue & Company Ltd., [c. 1948-49], quarto, ...

Freud, Sigmund. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, in 24 volumes, translated by James Strachey in collaboration with Anna F...

Ralph, Benjamin. The School of Raphael, Or, The Student's Guide to Expression in Historical Painting, illustrated with engravings by Duchange and ...

Travel & Exploration. Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert, first edition of the first Thomas Cook guide to Egypt, origin...

Wilson, John. The Scriptures, Genuine Interpreter Asserted: Or, A Discourse Concerning the Right Interpretation of Scripture, Savoy [London]: Prin...

Martin, (George R. R.). A Song of Ice and Fire. Collection comprising: A Game of Thrones, first edition, first issue, number line '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...

Hogarth, David George. Excavations at Ephesus, the Archaic Artemisia, Atlas [atlas only], London: Printed by Order of the Trustees, British Museum...

[George V]. Association Copy belonging to George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925). The Form and Order of Service for The Coron...

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Uncorrected Proof, London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. Octavo, publisher's blue-green paper c...

Horror. The Pan Book of Horror Stories, 30 volumes, paperbacks in read condition, some first editions, 1969-1989 (30)

Association Copy. [Xenophon]. Xenophontis de Socrate Commentarii; Item Socratis Apologia, Glasgow: Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1761. Small quarto,...

Rousseau, Jean Jacques. The Confessions, Library Edition [limited to 1,000 copies], in two volumes, illustrated with two frontispiece portraits an...

Recorde, Robert. The Castle of Knowledge, scarce and important first edition of "the first comprehensive and original astronomical treatise to be ...

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring, second impression, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954. Octavo, publisher's red cloth lettered i...

A collection of engineering reference books to include parts catalogues & handbooks, 1930s to 1950s, together with Snow Canvas: Ski, Men & Mountai...

A collection of rare book catalogues, predominantly from Maggs Bros in 1912, but also including Edgar Backus, Robson & Kerslake, Charles J. Sawyer...

[Greatrakes, Valentine]. Wonders No Miracles,; Or, Mr. Valentine Greatrates Gift of Healing Examined, [by David Lloyd], London: Samuel Speed, 1666...

Kinneir, John Macdonald. Journey Through Asia Minor, Armenia, and Koordistan, first and only edition [one of 750], London: John Murray, 1818. Octa...

Rowland, Samuel. The Famous History of Guy of Warwick, two editions bound in one volume, title page present for the second only, London: Printed f...

Holy Bible. Old & New Testament, a Geneva or "Breeches Bible" [Genesis 3:7], London: Christopher Barker, 1599. Octavo, later half-calf, heavily wo...

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, London: Methuen, 1928. Octavo, publisher's gilt pink cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated endpa...

Gardner, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Terrified Typist, Uncorrected Proof, London: Heinemann, 1961. Octavo, publisher's yellow paper covers, shel...

Quarles, Francis. Divine Poems, London: Thomas Sawbridge, 1680. Octavo, engraved allegorical frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 471, [i], six unnumbered pla...

Camden, William. Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most flourishing Kingdomes, London: Joyce Norton & Richard Whitaker, 1637. Folio...

Military History. Signed first edition hardbacks with dust-jackets: The Hidden Perspective, by David Owen, London: Haus, 2014; Cabinet's Finest Ho...

A collection of four books comprising: The Story of Rushen Castle & Rushen Abbey in the Isle of Man, by Rev. J. G. Cumming, illustrated with sever...

A collection of reference works on bookplates to include The Bookplate Society Newsletter, 1972-1990; The Bookplate Journal, 1983-1990; The Journa...

Kinsey, Reverend W. M. Portugal Illustrated, 1828. Illustrated with nine hand-coloured aquatint costume plates and 18 other maps & plates within t...

King, Stephen. Pet Sematary, first UK edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983. Octavo, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt with unclipped d...

Fore-Edge Painting. Tennyson, Alfred. Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon, 1867. Octavo, full crushed morocco, all edges gilt, featuring a di...

Pomeroy, Laurence. The Grand Prix Car, illustrated by L. C. Creswell, second impression of the Revised Edition, in two volumes, London: Motor Raci...

Ono, Yoko. Grapefruit, first British Commonwealth edition, London: Peter Owen, 1970. 12mo., hardcover, unclipped dust-jacket, internally very good...

Yonge, Charlotte Mary. The Daisy Chain; or, Aspirations, first edition, two parts in one, London: John W. Parker & Son, 1856. Octavo, half-calf wi...

Dikenmann, R. Swiss Views. A 19th-century album of 24 vibrant, hand-coloured aquatint views bearing stamps verso for R. Dikenmann, Peintre, Zurich...

Pennant, Thomas. The History and Antiquities of London, A New Edition, London: Edward Jeffery, 1814. Title, 2pp. preface, illustrated with 30 plat...

Automobile Year, Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9, 1957-62, five in worn dust-jackets; Annual Automobile Review, 1955 & 1956 Edition, in worn jackets; Auto-...

Dickens, Charles. Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. Octavo, contemporary half crushed morocco, illustrated with 40 p...

Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol, fifth edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. Octavo, four hand-coloured plates by John Leech (including front...

Heraldry. Dithmar, Justus Christoph. Commentatio De Honoratissimo Ordine Militari de Balneo [Commentary on the Most Honourable Military Order of t...

[May, Robert. The Accomplisht Cook, or The Art and Mystery of Cookery], lacking all before p.53, numerous woodcut illustrations within the text, o...

Bible in Hebrew, Frankfurt an der Oder: Johann and Friedrich Hartmann, 1620. Quarto, worn calf, rebacked, separate title pages with woodcut border...

Hind, John Russell. The Illustrated London Astronomy, first edition, London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853. Octavo, publisher's blind-embossed gree...

Cary, John. Cary's Traveller's Companion, or, A Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales, London: Printed for John Cary, 1 January 1...

Masonic Interest. A collection of three books comprising: A Pocket Companion for Free-Masons, by [William Smith], London: E. Rider, 1735, engraved...

Tennyson, Alfred Lord. In Memoriam, limited edition numbered 648/2000 on Van Gelder paper, printed by Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press to the de...