Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items & Books

Robert Morden : Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire ( both partially hand-coloured - outline, detail & cartouche ) and Nottinghamshire, C.1720 ( bu...

Emanuel Bowen : Map of the County of Northamptonshire, C. 1775. A copper-engraved map with vignette of Peterborough Cathedral and surrounded by d...

Holy Bible, 1727. Large Folio, full contemporary red morocco binding on cords, ornate gilt decoration on the spine panels & title, central gilt lo...

Robert Louis Stevenson. Complete 'Tusitala' Edition, Thirty five volumes of his works published by Heinemann in association with Chatto & Windus, ...

Original Early 20th.C. Estate, Farm & House Sale Auction Catalogues including: 1. Ashridge Estate, Northern Portions, 1923; 2. Kensworth Estate, 1...

Miniature volumes. Book of Common Prayer, C.1890. Ribbed calf spine, grained wooden boards. Silver clasp. Aeg. Silk register. Printed by Eyre & Sp...

P. Francis Hunt & Mary A. Grierson : Orchidaceae, Bourton Press 1973. Large Folio, vellum binding by Zaehnsdorf, with gilt, tooled spine, aeg. Lim...

History and Memoir of the 33rd. Battalion Machine Gun Corps and of the 19th., 98th., 100th. and 248th. M.G. Companies. Written and Illustrated by ...

Bedford, Bedfordshire & Local History Bibliographic Archive. Numerous collection of titles including : Lane : Story of Queen's Engineering Works B...

Military, R.A.F. & Home Front WWI & WWII Books, Documents and Ephemera. Training Manuals & Handbooks - Driver Training, Q.F. 4.5 Inch Marks I & II...

Late Victorian or early 20th.C. Double Screw Wooden Book Press, Dimensions : Length 60cm, Width 26cm, Height ( inc. screws ) 51cm.Some minor chi...

Johannes Blaeu : C. mid 17th century hand coloured engraved map of Norfolk - Nortfolcia, ( Norfolke ). Hand - coloured titular scroll work and He...

May W.E. & Annis P.G. : Swords for Sea Service, 1970. Vols. I & II. Small folio Hb + Dj; Robson : Swords of the British Army, 1975; Oakeshott R. ...

John Leech, Mr Sponges Sporting Tour, Ask Mamma, Handley Cross, Mr Romford's Hounds, Plain or Ringlets, Hawbuck Grange, Jorrocks Edition. 8vo. Blu...

Madeleine L'Engle : A Wrinkle in Time, 1962. 1st. Edition, 1st. Printing. 8vo Hb + Dj. ( Ariel Books, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy ). Original qtr. ...

Original, mounted Certificate of the Order of the British Empire appointing the recipient ( Frederick James Harlow ) to the rank of Ordinary Offic...

George Riley Scott : The History of Cockfighting, 1975. 1st. Edition. Limited edition 338/750. Qto. Hb. Text with colour and monochrome illustrati...

Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire, 1924. Royal 8vo. Hb. usual red cloth binding. Coloured folding maps ( tog...

Lt. Col. P. Richardson, Exterior Ballistics and Miscellaneous Notes, 1918. 8vo. Hb. Original black cloth binding, gilt. Privately printed, circula...

William Curtis : The Botanical Magazine or, Flower-Garden Displayed in which the most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the open ground, th...

Lewis Caroll : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, C.1940. Qto. Hb. Original blue cloth binding with gilt titling and illustration. Illustrated eps....

Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton : The Complete Angler, 1825. 1st. 'Pickering' miniature edition. Green morocco qtr. binding, elaborately gilt spine,...

John Garrard : Sea Angling with the Baited spoon; Lane : Fly-Fisher's Pie. Together with eight further Angling titles, all 8vo Hb + Dj.All general...

An Archive consisting of books, RAF pilot training notes and a variety of related ephemera including handbooks, manuals, company photographs, iden...

Mammoth Book of Working Models, C.1935. Qto. Landscape Hb. book with colour illustrated covers and card leaves featuring 'press-out' coloured des...

Hutton W. : The History of Birmingham, C.1835. Sixth Edition. 8vo. Qtr. binding, gilt, marbled boards, engraved frontis and title page, text and e...

William Page ( Ed. ). : The Victoria County History of the County of Derby, Vols. I & 2 ( 1905/1907 ). Folio Hb. Original & familiar red cloth bin...

Llewellyn Woodward : British Foreign Policy in the Second World War, Vols. I - V. 1970/76. Qto. Hb + Dj.VG ...[more]

Dunsterville G. & Garay L. : Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated, 1959. Vols. I & II. Qto. Hb + Dj. Text with line drawings and coloured plates.VG. .....

R.W. Dickson : Practical Agriculture, 1805. Vol. I. Qto. Hb. qtr binding. Title page, text with numerous engraved plates.Re-bound. Text block an...

G.A. Henty ( Ed ) ; Beeton's Boy's Own Magazine, 1889/90. Vols. I - VI. 8vo. Hb. Buckram binding, paper labels. Frontis, text with engraved plate...

Lettres De M. De Voltaire a ses amis du parnasse, avec des notes Historiques et Critiques, Geneve, 1766. 8vo. Hb. Qtr. binding. C. De La Marche ...

Cathedral Cities, Peterborough, with the Abbeys of Crowland & Thornley drawn and etched by R. Farren. Published by Macmillan & Bowes, 1888, Larg...

Rupert Bear. A substantial collection of 'Rupertalia' featuring : A). 26 Original Annuals including 3 with the 'Magic Painting Pages' with little ...

The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson , Vols. I - VII., 1883. 8vo. Three-quarter blue leather bindings, gilt on the spine, marbled covers, edges ...

'John Speed's England' : A coloured facsimile of the first edition in four volumes, edited by John Arlott, published Phoenix House Limited 1953/4,...

M. Armand Dayot : La Revolution Francaise, and La Restauration, C.1895. Both titles landscape Qto. Hb qtr. binding, gilt, teg. Text with monoc...

David Masson : The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Vols. I - XIV. 8vo. Hb. Original blue cloth bindings, gilt decoration & titling on spi...

0bserver Books. A collection of 61 titles most of which have the earlier format of Hb + Dj. There are a number of the books which have the same ti...

Bold Turpin - A Romance as Sung by Sam Weller ( with many pictures drawn by L.D.L ), 1903. 1st. Edition. Qto. Hb. Landscape. Illustrated front cov...

Rupertalia. A collection of ( 15 ) earlier Annuals including 1964, 1965, 1964, 1968 to 1979. Together with facsimiles of the 1941 Annual ( in slip...

Book Art. A unique work resulting from the creative folded manipulation of the Observer Book of Music which in the process has been linked to th...

Wembley National Stadium. Consignment consisting of 23 Architects large scale plans and drawings for the new Stadium, C.2004.Some closed tears on ...

Cornwall Cartography. Saxton (Christopher & Kip William) : Cornwall olim pars Danmoniorum, C.1640. Featuring an engraved cartouches of a view of L...

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Gala Performance Programme on the occasion of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Monday, 8th. Jun...

The Pilgrim's Progress and Other Works of John Bunyan, C.1880. Large qto. Hb., dark blue spine, gilt, green textured cloth boards. Marbled edges ...

A.K. Marilaun ( Translated F. Oliver ) : The Natural History of Plants, Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction and Distribution, 1896. Vols. I - VI. Qt...

Puss in Boots, Red Riding Hood & Cinderella, Dean's Kiddieland Series Nos. 6,7 & 8. Nd. C. 1935? ( Not the first in the series but quite early edi...

Thomas Hale : A Compleat Body of Husbandry, Containing Rules for performing, in the Most Profitable Manner, The whole Business of the Farmer, and ...

Lace & Lace-Making, a miscellaneous collection of titles including - Jourdain : Old Lace, A Handbook for Collectors, 1988 Hb + Dj; Palliser : A H...

William Camden : Britannia or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, 1722. Revised Edmund Gibson Edition. Folio, full contempo...

Titles from the Medical Fringe. John Bovee Dods : The Philosphy of Mesmerism and Electrical Psychology, 1876. 8vo. Hb. Original cloth binding with...

Specialist's Handbooks - Michaelis : Old Domestic Base-Metal Candlesticks; Towner : Creamware. Together with 16 other specialist titles.Generally ...

Hutchinson J. : A Botanist in Southern Africa, 1946. 1st. Ed. Royal 8vo Hb + Dj. Colour frontis of Smuts, Tp, text with numerous photographic plat...

Thomas Stamford Raffles : The History of Java, 1965. Vols. I & II. OUP Facsimile. Large Qto. Hb, Green buckram, gilt. Text with colour and monochr...

John Bunyan : The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to that which is to come. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream, 1799. Hundred and Twenty...

Foster J.J. : The Stuarts. Being outlines of the personal History of the family. 1907. Large qto. hb. Original gilt decorated red cloth binding, t...

Dr. W. Hoffmeister : Travels in Ceylon and Continental India including Nepal and other parts of the Himalayas, to the Border of Thibet, 1848. 8vo....

Folio Society. A collection of 17 titles ( with slip cases ) including Dickens, Gibbons, Saint Exupery, Conrad, Du Maurier, Yeatman & Kilvert.All ...

Arthur Butler : Birds' Eggs of the British Isles, Nd. C.1904. 1st. Edition. Illustrated by FW Frohawk,with 24 coloured plates (illustrating 475 s...