Fine Art Sale including Books and Manuscripts

AN ART DECO SILVER FREEDOM CASKET  enamelled with the arms of the Corporation of Blackpool (granted 1899) the finial enamelled en basse taille wit...

A JACKFIELD WARE THREE FOOTED TEAPOT AND COVER AND JUG AND COVER, C1760  the jug with bird knop and gilt decoration, 13cm hProvenance: According t...

FRENCH COPYIST, 19TH/EARLY 20TH  CENTURY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE  ivory, oval, 79 x 61mm Good condition, fabric mount faded, rectangular gilt frame rub...

AN EARLY ACKWORTH SCHOOL QUAKER SAMPLER  ANN PRIEST 1ST MO.TH 19TH, 1789 worked in black with On The Words If Thou Knew'st Who it is & cie John 4t...

WALKER, (GEORGE) AND E HAILSTONE (EDITOR),  THE COSTUME OF YORKSHIRE ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF FORTY ENGRAVINGS BEING FAC-SIMILIES OF ORIGINAL DR...

[BINDING] THE HOLY BIBLE… WITH NOTES & PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS BY THE REVD ISAAC SAUNDERS  London, R Edwards, 1811, folio, engraved f/p and addition...

[BINDINGS] THOMPSON, FRANCIS, THE WORKS  VOLUME I: POEMS, VOLUME II: POEMS, VOLUME 3: PROSE London, Burns & Oats, [1913],1st edition (9th thousand...

[BINDINGS] BAKER SAMUEL W   WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS, REMINISCENCES OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA AND AMERICA London, Macmillan, 1891, second edition,...

[BINDINGS] COTTIN MADAME  OEUVRES Paris, Ledentu, 1820, 11 volumes, 12mo, half-title and engraved f/p to each vol, text in French, attractively bo...

BELL?S POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN A COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VOLUMES all published in ?Edinburg?, comprising the poetical works of: Chaucer, 1...

MILMAN, HENRY HART  HISTORY OF LATIN CHRISTIANITY London, John Murray, 1864 third edition, 9 volumes (complete), 8vo, 19th c, brown calf, spines g...

MACKLIN, THOMAS [PUBLISHER] THE HOLY BIBLE London, printed for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bensley, 1800, 6 volumes, elephant folio, engraved vignett...

YEATS,  W B  POEMS SECOND SERIES, Stratford on Avon 1913, new edition, portrait frontispiece, signed, inscribed and dated on the endpaper Anne fro...

FOX-DAVIES, ARTHUR CHARLES  THE ART OF HERALDRY AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ARMORYLondon, Jack, 1904, folio, heraldic plates and illustrations in text thr...

TOLKIEN, J R R  THE LORD OF THE RINGS; THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING; THE TWO TOWERS; THE RETURN OF THE KINGLondon, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1954, 1...

BROWN, CORNELIUS  A HISTORY OF NEWARK-ON-TRENTNewark, S Whiles, 1904 and 1907, limited large paper edition, number 50 of 100 copies and signed by ...

BINDINGS 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY  various subjects, all 8vo (14) ...[more]

BINDINGS, MOSTLY 18TH & 19TH C  various  subjects, all 8vo (21) ...[more]

BINDINGS 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY, primarily classical subjects, several with coloured plates, all 8vo (15) ...[more]

DICKENS, CHARLES  WORKS [THE LIBRARY EDITION]London, Chapman and Hall, ND (19th century), 30 volumes, complete, 8vo, with plates illustrated by Cr...

BRITTON, JOHN [AND OTHERS]  THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES London, Vernor and Hood, 1810-1818, 26 volumes, thick 8vo, hundreds of engraved topo...

ANON  A GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN GRECIAN, ROMAN, ITALIAN, AND GOTHIC ARCHITECTUREOxford, John Henry Parker, 1841-1845, 4th edition, 3 volumes, 8v...

[SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY] CHURCHILL, WINSTON S   A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, VOLUME 1, THE BIRTH OF BRITAINLondon, Cassell and Com...

[BINDINGS]  SHARPE, JOHN (PUBLISHER)  ELEGANT EPISTLES FROM THE MOST EMINENT WRITERS; ELEGANT EXTRACTS FROM THE MOST EMINENT BRITISH POETS; ELEGAN...

LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (TRANSLATOR) THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, COMMONLY CALLED, IN ENGLAND, THE ARABIAN NIGHTS? ENTERTAINMENTSLondon, Charles Knig...

SCOTT, SIR WALTER  WAVERLEY NOVELSEdinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1871, centenary Edition, 25 volumes (complete), 8vo, engraved plates, very good...

PALGRAVE, FRANCIS [EDITOR] THE PARLIAMENTARY WRITS AND WRITS OF MILITARY SUMMONS   printed by command of His Majesty King George IV, 1830, vol 2 (...

SWIFT JONATHAN TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD [GULLIVER'S TRAVELS] London, Motte, 1726. 2 volumes, 8vo, first edition uncertain ...

JOHNSON, SAMUEL A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE London, J and P Knapton [and others], 1755, first edition, 2 volumes, large folio, titles in ...

BOSWELL, JAMES THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON London, Henry Baldwin, 1791, first edition second state (with 'give' reading on line 10 of p135), 2 volu...

HUNT, LEIGH THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEIGH HUNT London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1850, first edition later issue (adverts dated September 1853), 3 vols 8v...

POPE, ALEXANDER MISCELLANY POEMS; THE ILIAD OF HOMER; THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER; WORKS London, mixed dates and printers, 1732-1745, a 22-volume uniform...

WOOLF, VIRGINIA THE COMMON READER (TOGETHER WITH) THE SECOND COMMON READER - THE SECOND WORK SIGNED BY WOOLF London, Hogarth Press, 1925 (first wo...

PROUST, MARCEL DU COTE DE CHEZ SWANN  Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1914, wrapper dated 1913, first edition, second issue with colophon at rear dated 8t...

H G WELLS. A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON OR ABOUT H G WELLS including The World of William Clissold, London, Ernest Benn, 1926, de luxe edition, vol 1 ...

DARWIN, CHARLES ON THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTIONLondon, John Murray, 1859,  first edition (32pp adverts at rear dated Ju...

STOTHARD, CHARLES ALFRED  THE MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES OF GREAT BRITAINLondon, Chatto and Windus, 1876, large folio, full-page engraved plates, some oc...

DUGDALE, SIR WILLIAM MONASTICON ANGLICANUM; A HISTORY OF THE ABBEYS AND OTHER MONASTERIES [ETC]  London, James Bohn, 1846, 6 vols bound in 7, foli...

ABERCROMBY, PATRICK THE MARTIAL ATCHIEVEMENTS OF THE SCOTS NATIONbeing an account of the lives, characters, and memorable actions, of such Scotsme...

BIGLAND, RALPH HISTORICAL, MONUMENTAL AND GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS RELATIVE TO THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER   London, John Nichols for Richard Bigland...

DOUGLAS, ROBERT  THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND, CONTAINING AN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE NOBILITY OF THAT KINGDOMEdinburgh, R Fleming, 1...

GILCHRIST, ALEXANDER LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKELondon, Macmillan and Co, 1880. 2nd (and best) edition, two vols, large 8vo, plates and other illustrati...

WELLESLEY FAMILY. 19TH CENTURY JUVENILE AND OTHER SMALL FORMAT BOOKSincluding: Flavel, John - The Seaman?s Companion 1825; New Testament in Greek ...

FINE BINDINGS, 17TH - 20TH CENTURY including: Josephus, Flavius - Histoire de la Guerre des Iuifs contre les Romains, Paris, Pierre le Petit, 1673...

THE HISTORY OF LITTLE FANNY, EXEMPLIFIED IN A SERIES OF FIGURESLondon, S and J Fuller, 1830. 10th edition, 16mo, original printed wrappers (very g...

THOROTON, ROBERT  THE ANTIQUITIES OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRELondon, Robert White for Henry Mortlock, 1677. 1st edition, folio, title in red and black (lai...

WAGNER, RICHARD AND  ARTHUR RACKHAM (ILLUSTRATOR) THE RHINEGOLD & THE VALKYRIEtranslated by Margaret Armour. London, Heinemann, 1910. 1st trade ed...

THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEWLondon, Robert Barker, 1640, thick square 8vo, woodcut title, separate woodcut title to th...

COKAYNE, GEORGE EDWARD THE COMPLETE PEERAGELondon, 1910-1940, complete set of 13 volumes from 1910 - 1940 (a final ?Addenda? volume was published ...

SALTEN, FELIX  BAMBI A LIFE IN THE WOODSNew York, Simon and Schuster, 1928, 1st American edition (July 1928) and the 1st edition in English, 8vo, ...

[BREECHES BIBLE] THE BIBLE  imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie, 1599, large...

ROSE, THOMAS WESTMORLAND, CUMBERLAND, DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND  ILLUSTRATED FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ALLOW, GEORGE PICKERING & C  London,...

COPINGER, WALTER ARTHUR  HISTORY AND RECORDS OF THE SMITH-CARINGTON FAMILY, FROM THE CONQUEST TO THE PRESENT TIME?London, Henry Sotheran, 1907, la...

DERBYSHIRE. KERR, PHILIP WALTER  UNPUBLISHED TYPESCRIPTS OF THE FORMATION OF MELBOURNE HALL & GARDENS AND [GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF] COWPER thre...

L'IMAGE 1896-1897 REVENUE ARTISTIQUE ET LITTERAIRE; ORNEE DE FIGURES SUR BOIS PARAISSANT [12 ISSUES BOUND IN ONE] Paris, Chez Floury, 1897, 12 ind...

BINDINGS.  A COLLECTION OF MAINLY 19TH C PRIZE BINDINGS English literature, travel, history and other subjects, calf gilt and a smaller quantity o...

THE GEOGRAPHICAL GUIDE A POETICAL AND NAUTICAL TRIP ROUND THE ISLAND OF GREAT-BRITAIN 1805  the original Bath Guide considerably enlarged and impr...

TOWNSEND (SUE) A COLLECTION OF PRESENTATION COPIES TO ONE OR BOTH OF HER PARENTS-IN -LAW (MAUREEN AND JOHN 'MUM AND DAD' ) OR STEPHEN MANGAN SIGNE...

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON LORD ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS A SATIRE Paris 1819 and London 1828,3rd edition, Laxton library stamp to title togeth...

WHITE, T P  ARCHAEOLOGICAL SKETCHES IN SCOTLAND, DISTRICT OF KINTYRE [TOGETHER WITH] DISTRICT OF KNAPDALE AND GIGHA Edinburgh and London, William ...