Fine, Esoteric and Collectable - Two-Day Auction

H L Blackmore, "The Armouries of the Tower of London. 1. The Ordnance", HMSO, 1976, 28 cm x 23 cm. [ cannon / artillery ]

An Imperial German S98/05 bayonet by Gottlieb Hammesfahr

An Imperial German Demag combined trench knife and bayonet, (a/f)

A late 19th / early 20th Century starting pistol, 11.5 cm

7th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. The Great War 1914-1919

Grierson, "Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force 1859-1908", Blackwood, 1909

Lt Col Robin Hodges, "British Army Badges", 2005

A small group of books on the German Third Reich including Ailsby, "Combat Medals of the Third Reich" and Davis, "Badges and Insignia of the Third...

A group of books on military medals, badges and insignia including Westlake, "Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles; ibid, "Collecting Volunteer Milita...

Peterson and Johnston, "Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the British Army 1660-1960", Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1968

Cook, "Casualty Roll for the Crimea", 1976, together with Waterloo, Military General Service and Naval General Service Medal rolls

A quantity of books on the Second World War including Robert Lumsden, "A Collector's Guide to Third Reich Militaria. Detecting The Fakes"

Commander Charles N Robinson, Royal Navy, "Celebrities of the Army", Newnes, 1900, colour lithographic plates, 36 cm x 27 cm

Robert Taylor, "Air Combat Paintings", volumes I-IV, volume three bearing the artist's autograph signature on the title page

21 "The Third Reich" books, Alexandria, Time-Life Books Inc

A Great War publication, "Nelson's Map-Book of the World-Wide War containing an entirely new series of 35 clear maps with A Diary of the War and S...

A 1920s bon mot album containing a ink and watercolour drawing of a young woman

A quantity of books pertaining to Scotland and the Scottish Highlands

Wonderful West Cumberland - The Glories of its Mountains, Lakes & Sea, Cumberland Development Council Ltd, 1936, including an introduction from Si...

Seven first edition novels by Lillian Beckwith [Beckwith was an English writer best known for her series of semi-autobiographical books set on the...

[ Modern First Editions ] A large quantity of crime and thriller fiction including works by Dick Francis

[ Modern First Editions ] A large quantity of thrillers and historical naval novels including works by Alistair Maclean

Winston Graham, "The Stranger from the Sea. A novel of Cornwall 1810-1811", first edition, London, Collins, 1981, together with Georgette Heyer, "...

An early Victorian pen-and-ink humorous annotated "stick man" sketch describing the circumstances of a polite dance, romance and its outcome, init...

A 19th Century risque engraving superficially being a profile portrait of a knight of St George but incorporating a reclining female nude, 14 cm x...

An uncommonly good 1920s-1930s album of photographs largely depicting maritime subjects, sailing and other boats / ships, harbours and docks inclu...

James R Petersen, "Playboy Blondes" and "Playboy Brunettes", San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2005, together with Poul Gerhard, "Pornography or Art...

F E Weatherly, "Magic Pictures. A Book of Changing Scenes", Bavaria, E P Dutton & Co, 1895

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", Newnes, 1905, first edition; together with "Adventures of Gerard", Newnes, nd, 1903, firs...

[ Autograph ] Sir Bobby Charlton "My Life in Football" with signature

Marshall Hall, "The Artists of Cumbria", 1979

A BBC Doctor Who limited edition postcard album, circa 1994

Edmund Spencer, "The Poetical Works", five volumes, James Nichol et al, 1867, 8vo gilt blue calf with claret labels and decorative spine, all edge...

[ Autographs ] An album of first day stamp covers bearing the signatures of celebrities

[ Autographs ] First day stamp covers bearing the signatures of the naturalists Sir David Attenborough and Tony Soper

[ Autographs ] First day stamp covers respectively bearing the signatures of the actors Dustin Hoffman, Sir Laurence Olivier and Rod Steiger

A 1930s photograph album containing black and white photographs detailing a tour of The Holy Land and Palestine 1936 - 1937, annotated throughout,...

A group of books on shotguns, military and other firearms, ammunition etc, including Baer, "The Parker Gun An Immortal American Classic"; Kirkland...

[ Autograph ] Heath Robinson, (illustrator), Cervantes, "The Adventures of Don Quixote of La Mancha", London, Dent, 1902, signed and dated 1942 on...

49 Victorian cartes de visite portraying of various ladies and gentlemen including a full length portrait of a Scottish Highland highland soldier

A Victorian tintype photographic portrait of a young housemaid standing in a domestic courtyard with a child's pushchair, in ornate gilt slip, 7 c...

Captain W E Johns, "Biggles Fails To Return", first edition, London, Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1943

Captain W E Johns, " Worrals of the WAAF", first edition, London, Lutterworth Press, 1941

Rev J B Thomson, "Joseph Thomson. African Explorer. A biography by his brother", London, Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1896

Walford Bodie, "The Bodie Book. Hypnotism. Electricity. Mental Suggestion. Magnetic Touch. Clairvoyance. Telepathy.", Holborn, The Caxton Press Lt...

Hugh S Gladstone, "Birds and the War", first edition, Strand, Skeffington & Son Ltd, 1919

George MacDonald Fraser, "Flashman. From The Flashman Papers 1839 - 1842", first edition, London, Herbert Jenkins, 1969

The Mechanical World Pocket Diary and Year Book for 1913, Manchester, LMMott & Co Limited together with "BOT and Marine Engineering Knowledge Stea...

The Harmsworth Altas and Gazetteer, London, Carmelite House

Craufurd Tait Ramage, "Drumlanrig Castle and The Douglases: with the Early History and Ancient Remains of Durisdeer, Closeburn and Morton", Dumfri...

A large quantity of books by and about Robert Burns

A quantity of books pertaining to Scottish poetry and prose including Hugh MacDiarmid, "A Lap of Honour", etc

The Citizen's Atlas of the World, edited by JG Bartholomew FRGS, three quarters calf, London, George Newnes ltd

[ Autograph ] Two signed photographs of Shobna Gulati and Ronnie Corbett

[ Autograph ] A large quantity of autobiographies / books with signatures, including Jonny Wilkinson, Judi Dench, Kate Adie, Aled Jones, etc

An album of vintage studio promotional portrait postcards and photographs depicting 1940s / 1950s film, television, and music stars, including an ...

Seven vintage "Black Bob the Dandy Wonder Dog" annuals published by D C Thomson

Alfred Wainwright, "A Lakeland Sketchbook", "A Second Lakeland Sketchbook", "A Third Lakeland Sketchbook", first editions in dustwrappers

Alfred Wainwright, "A Lakeland Sketchbook", "A Second Lakeland Sketchbook", and "Fellwanderer. The Story Behind the Guidebooks", first editions

The Second Register Book of the Parish of Hawkshead, in the Diocese of Carlisle and the County of Lancaster 1705 - 1787, recording baptisms, chris...