Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items & Books

Ten Beswick and Royal Albert Beatrix Potter figures comprising:Fierce Bad Rabbit,Pickles,Mr Jeremy Fisher,Jemima Puddle-Duck made a feather nest,O...

A pair of 20th century cloisonné birds, l. 9 cm each ...[more]

A collection of glass plates and photograph duplicates including thirteen Blake & edgar plates of Bedford (two possibly of the building of Allen's...

William Borlase : Antiquities, Historical and Monumental of the County of Cornwall, 1769. 2nd. Edition. Folio, full calf, gilt. Folding County map...

Jean Rhys : The Left Bank, 1927. 1st. Edition. 8vo. Hb. Yellow cloth, no Dust-wrapper, as published.Binding slightly marked or faded in places but...

John Wilson : The Farmer's Dictionary, or, Cyclopedia of Agriculture in all its Departments, Principles, Methods, Recent Improvements and Business...

Charlotte Smith : The Old Manor House, 1793 ( Bell ). 2nd. Edition. Vols. I - 4. 12mo. Full contemporary tree calf, red morocco labels, gilt. Ha...

Louis Wain : Pussy Cat Capers. Nd. C 1910. Folio, cat-shaped or contoured card covers. Upper cover features a kind of coloured 'Dandy Cat' about t...

John Nichols : History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester. 1795-1815. 1st. Edition. Complete set bound in eight volumes ( Four volumes in ...

Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; to Which are Annexed. An Extensive Introduction; Marginal Reference...

Edmund Ollier : Cassell's Dore Gallery: Containing Two Hundred And Fifty Beautiful Engravings Selected from the Dore Bible, Milton, Dante's Infern...

Gray's Anatomy ( 35th. Edition! ). 1973. Folio Hb. of this popular work edited and updated to the publication date by Professors Roger Warwick & ...

Stewart Duke-Elder : Text-Book of Opthalmology, Vols. I ( 1946 ), II ( 1946 ), III ( 1945 ) together with additional copies of Vols. I & II. Roy...

Post Office London Directory 1952. 153rd. Annual Publication. Large 'fat' Qto. Hb. ( 2847pp ), original red cloth, gilt. Comprising Official, Str...

Thomas Wright : The Land of Souls and Other Poems, 1927. Limited edition, No.35 of 225. Signed dedication from author on the fep dated 23 July 192...

Jessie M. King : The Grey City of the North, Edinburgh. A Book of Drawings, July 1914. 2nd. Edition. Tall, slim 8vo. Hb. Original dust-wrapper des...

Collector's Miscellany. Cuthbert Bede ( E. Bradley ) : Little Mr. Bouncer and His Friend, Verdant Green, C.1870. Small 8vo. Elaborately rebound co...

Denys Watkins-Pitchford "BB": : A Carp Water (Wood Pool) And How to Fish It', London, Putnam, 1958, 1st edition. 8vo Hb. + Dj. Original green clot...

Angling Miscellany ; Fine Angling for Coarse Fish ( Lonsdale ); Walker : Still-Water Angling, 1960; Venables : Fishing, 1953; Thorndike : Sea Fis...

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers and The Old Curiosity Shop, C. 1911 ( Copac ). Special Editions illustrated by Frank Re...

Prize Bindings. Nine 8vo. Hb. volumes in blue leather and cloth Qtr. bindings, gilt with cartouche on the upper board. Marbled edges and eps with ...

G.A. Middleton : Modern Buildings. Their Planning, Construction and Equipment, 1906. Vols. I - VI. Small folio hb, blue cloth featuring 'Art Deco'...

Plutarch : The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plurtarke of Chae...

John Weathers ( Ed. ) : Commercial Gardening. A Practical & Scientific Treatise for Market Gardeners & Growers, Fruit, Flower & Vegetable Growers,...

Skinner, Thomas & Webster, William : The Life of General Monk : Duke of Albemarle. London : Printed for J. Graves. 1724. 8vo. Contemporary pane...

Oliver Onions : The Collected Ghost Stories, 1935. ( Ivor Nicholson ). 1st. Edition, 1st. printing. 8vo. Hb. Dark blue cloth with white lettering ...

S. Beaty - Pownall : The "Queen" Cookery Books, 1902 - 1905. Complete set of the fourteen volumes originally printed by Horace Cox. Small 8vo. Ori...

Robert Mudie : The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands, 1854. 4th. Edition. Vols. I & II. 8vo. Qtr. binding, gilt. Text with h/c engraved plat...

Francis Wheatley : Cries of London, 1929. Large square folio Hb., qtr grey cloth & boards. Introduction by Stanford Rayner. Thirteen tipped in pla...

John de Serres : A Generall Historie of France, unto the Yeare 1598, Contynued by Peter Mathew to the death of King Henry the fourth in the yeare ...

Local History Selection. Joseph Simpson : History of the Town of Newport Pagnell and Its Neighbourhood, 1882. 8vo. Hb. Text with local adverts at ...

Strand Magazine. 14 Bound volumes in the standard blue cloth binding with illustrated top boards and gilt spines. Comprised of volumes 1891-1896, ...

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...

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

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. ...

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...

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,...

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...

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...