Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Books & Ephemera

A 17th century and later oak Bible box-on-stand, the carved front converted to a drawer, on turned legs, 63 x 45 cm

An autograph book bearing poems and sketches by WAAF and RAF pilots together with two books: Leo Rawlings 1971 'And the Dawn Came up Like Thunder...

A Schweppes Ltd. brass mounted menu holder for the exterior of a hotel or restaurant

Hendrik van Deventer : The Art of Midwifery Improv'd, Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife...

William Dugdale : History of Imbanking and Draining of Divers Fens and Marshes both in Foreign Parts and in this Kingdom, 1772. 2nd. Edition. Revi...

J.W. ( John Worlidge ) : Systema Agriculturae - The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered, 1687. 4th. Edition. ( Thomas Dring ). Full calf ( probably co...

Jethro Tull : Horse-Hoeing Husbandry or, An Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage. Designed to introduce a New Method of Culture, 1751...

James Small : A Treatise on Ploughs and Wheel Carriages, 1784. 1st. Edition. 8vo. Qtr. Binding, gilt, marbled boards. Tp., text and four large fol...

Walter Brodie : Pitcairn's Island and The Islanders in 1850, together with extracts from his Private Journal and a Few Hints Upon California, 185...

The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A, F.R.S. Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty, 1893 - 1899. ( 1st. Edition thus ). Transcribed from the s...

Mrs. C.E. Humphrey : The Book of the Home, 1909. Vols. 1 - 6. Qto. Hb. Light blue cloth, gilt titling, decorative period design. A comprehensive s...

Edward Lisle : Observations in Husbandry, 1757. Qto. Hb. Full calf, raised bands ( probably contemp. ) Red, gilt label. Engraved portrait frontis...

Royal 8vo Hb. Qtr. brown cloth and papered boards with the title. Title page, text with numerous charts and table relating to the various routes s...

The Complete Farmer, or, A general Dictionary of Husbandry in all its Branches : containing the various methods of cultivating and improving every...

John Quincy : Pharmacopoeia Officinalis Extemporanea Or, A Complete English Dispensatory in Four Parts, 1728. Seventh Edition. 8vo. Contemp. pane...

Daniel Turner : The Art of Surgery, 1725. Second Edition. Vols. I & II. 8vo. Contemp. calf, gilt. Engraved frontis Vol. I. Folding plate Vol.II. ...

Jean Rhys : The Left Bank & Other Stories, 1927. 1st. Edition, with preface by Ford Madox Ford. 8vo. Hb. Yellow cloth, with paper label.Spine of ...

William Coombe : The History of The Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, volumes I & II, 1812 ( Printed for R. Ackermann ), 1st. Edition. Foli...

T.S. Eliot : Asparagus, 1988. 1st. and only, Privately Printed Limited Edition, 55 / 200. Large qto./ small folio Hb + Dj. Red leatherette binding...

David Low : Low's Political Parade with Colonel Blimp, 1936 together with : Low Again - A Pageant of Politics, with Colonel Blimp, Hit and Mus & M...

Paul Rapin de Thoyras : The History of England, Translated into English by John Kelly, printed for James Mechell, 1732-35. Vols. I - III, Folio, f...

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

Adolf Hitler - Bilder Aus Dem Leben Des Fuhrers, 1936. ( Pictures from the life of the Fuhrer. ). Qto. Hb. Album containing a range of monochrom...

Thomas Hale : A compleat body of husbandry. Containing rules for performing, in the most profitable manner, the whole business of the farmer, and ...

John Johnstone : A Systematic Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Draining Land of England and Scotland, also on Sea, River and Lake Embankment...

James Slight & R. Scott Burn : The Book of Farm Implements & Machines. 1858. Royal 8vo. Hb. Qtr. binding, gilt. Title page, text with numerous vi...

George Evans : The Old Snuff House of Fribourg & Treyer at the sign of The Rasp & Crown No.34 St. James's Haymarket, London S.W. 1720 - 1920. Priv...

A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible; or, Select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of yout...

Bindings 'Ancient and Modern' - a Miscellany. Thomas Carlyle : The French Revolution, Vols. I - III, 1837 & Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1...

Rudyard Kipling : Traffics and Discoveries, 1904; Debits and Credits, 1926. 1st. Editions; Stalky & Co. 1899, 1st.Ed. 1st. Reprint. Actions and Re...

The Fine Art Scott, C.1920. This edition presents the whole of the Waverley Novels, the Poetical Works, and an abridged version of Lockhart’s Life...

J. Bailey & G. Culley : General View of the Agriculture of the County of Northumberland, with Observations on the Means of Its Improvement. (pp 1-...

Wheeler W. H. : A History of the Fens of Lincolnshire, 1897. 2nd. Edition. Royal 8vo. Hb. Qtr. binding, gilt. Title page, text with illustrations ...

John Morton : A Cyclopedia of Agriculture, Practical and Scientific, 1755. Vols. I & II. Qto. qtr. binding, gilt. Title page, text with engraved p...

Adam Dickson : A Treatise of Agriculture, 1765. 8vo. Contemporary full calf, gilt. Title page, text and two folding engraved plates as called for....

Treadway Nash : Collections for the History of Worcestershire', Vols. I & II. Folio, full calf, gilt, printed by John Nichols, 1781. 1st Edition. ...

Giles Jacob : A New Law Dictionary, Containing the Interpretation and Definition of Words and Terms used in the Law, 1762. Eighth Edition. Folio, ...

Herbert Ponting : The Epic of the South Pole, The Kinematograph Record of Captain Scott's Last Antarctic Expedition. The Story of a Great Adventur...

R. Anderson & D. Westmacott : Handle with Care - A Book of Prison Sketches Drawn and Written in Prison Camps in Germany, 1946. : Landscape Hb. + D...

G.L. Newnham Collingwood : Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood interspersed with memoirs of his ...

William Shakespeare: 'Miniature Shakespeare - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare', London, Kent & Co, 1880, 12 volumes, 16mo, original unif...

Schloss's English Bijou Almanac for 1839, Illustrated by L.E.L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon], pub. A. Schloss, [1838], six engraved portraits, a.e.g...

Rev. H.G. Watson : A History of the Parish of Great Staughton, 1916. Smaller qto. Hb. Original blue cloth gilt. Frontis, Tp, text with with photog...

Duncan Macdonald : Cattle, Sheep and Deer, 1872. 8vo. Hb. Original green cloth, gilt, portrait frontis, text; William Youatt : The Horse, Its Bree...

William Ellis : Agriculture Improv'd or the Practice of Husbandry, 1746, 1st edn, 2 vols in 1, vol 2 dated 1845, +8vo. Hb. Recent professional qtr...

George Winter : A Compendious System of Husbandry, containing the Chemical, Philosophical and Mechanical Elements of Agriculture, 1797. 2nd. Ed. 8...

Robert Louis Stevenson : Prayers Written at Vailima, 1922. Third Imp. Qto. Hb + Dj Bound in Japanese vellum with red titling, leaves with illumi...

D.J. Watkins-Pitchford : Recollections of a 'Longshore Gunner 'BB', 1976; A Child Alone - The Memoirs of 'BB', Sept. 1978; Ramblings of a Sports...

Denys Watkins-Pitchford : The Countryman's Bedside Book,1942 ( 1st. 2nd. Imp ); The Shooting Man's Bedside Book, 1948, 1st.Ed; The Sportsman's Bed...

Patent Specifications : Specification of Arthur Frederic Martindale - Steam Cultivator, A.D. 1875, No. 1721, 1875; Specification of William Palm...

'BB' Denys Watkins-Pitchford : Summer Road to Wales, 1964 ( signed by author on the half title );The Autumn Road to the Isles, 1959; The White Roa...

'BB' Denys Watkins-Pitchford : 'Tide's Ending', 1950 Qto. Hb.; 'Dark Estuary'; 1953 Qto. Hb; The Wayfaring Tree, 1945; The Idle Countryman, 1943;...

George Stephens : The Practical Irrigator and Drainer, 1834. 8vo. Contemp. qtr. binding, gilt, marbled boards, Tp, text with engraved plates ( plu...

A Sketch Map of Bedford Level and the Country adjoining; Shewing the Divisions, Rivers, Drains etc with the proposed New Cut, From Eau Brink to Ly...

Nick Meskell : Blackpool Trams 1968 - 2022. Limited Edition, 268/1000. Signed by author. Folio Hb + Dj. Text with mainly colour photographic illus...

Jean Rhys : Voyage in the Dark, 1934. 1st. Edition. 8vo. Hb. Original blue cloth, black titling and publisher on the spine. Together with another ...

Jean Rhys miscellany : Good Morning Midnight, 1939. 1st. Ed. 8vo. Hb. Original binding; Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966. 1st. Ed. 2nd. Imp. 8vo Hb + Dj; ...

Ford Madox Ford : When The Wicked Man, 1931. 1st. Edition ( Liveright ). 8vo. Hb. Original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt.Some minor wear to the ...

Fawaz Gruosi : Three Qto. Hb. differently coloured leather bound volumes within a specialised slip/solander case, entitled 'Amber', 'Colour Arti...

Franco Passoni : Art & Plastics, Industria pubblicazioni audiovisvi, 1975. Large. qto. volume with a flexible card dust-wrapper around what is ef...