Timed Auction of Vintage and Antiquarian Books

A typewritten letter signed by Alfred Wainwright and dated 23rd July 1974 from his home address on Kendal Green to Mrs Pedley, the R.S.P.C.A Westm...

Natural History. Morris, Rev. F. O. - A History of British Butterflies. London: John C. Nimmo, 1895. Eighth edition. Complete with 79 coloured pla...

Tarot. Nordic, Rolla K. - The Tarot Shows the Path: Divination Through the Tarot. London: Regency Press, 1960. Publisher's cloth, in dust wrapper ...

First Edition. Johns, Captain W. E. - Biggles Flies South. London: Oxford University Press, 1938. Publisher's buff coloured cloth with shield desi...

Children's. Awdry, Rev. W. - Stepney The 'Bluebell' Engine. London: Edmund Ward, 1963. 1st. No.18 in the series. No dust wrapper. Loosely tipped i...

Presentation Copy. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. London: Collins, 1958. 4th impression. In dust wrapper. Inscri...

Children's. Aesop's Fables. Illustrated by Nora Fry. London: George G. Harrap & Co. 1927. With 8 colour plates and numerous text illustrations. Pu...

Children's. [Byron, May] - Cecil Aldin's Happy Family. London: Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton. 1912. Illus. with 36 plates by Aldin. Couple of pl...

West Indies & Maritime interest. The West India Pilot - volume I (1893, 5th edition); volume II (1887, 4th edition); and two supplement volumes (1...

Antiquarian. [Mary Collyer, trans.] - The Death of Abel, In Five Books. London: Printed for R. And J. Dodsley, 1762. Second edition. Octavo, xxiv,...

Art. Salwey, Charlotte M. - Fans of Japan. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co. Ltd. 1894. With 10 colour plates and numerous text illustrat...

Illustrated. Dickens, C. - A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 12 colour plates and numerous b&w il...

Miscellaneous. Francatelli, C. E. - The Cook's Guide, and Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant: &c. London: Richard Bentley, 1870. Twenty-Fifth Thou...

Children's. Louisa M. Alcott; a selection. 1920's/30's illustrated editions. (4)

Art. The Durer Society. Portfolio volumes for 1900 (third series) & 1905 (eighth series). 1900 portfolio with 29 of 31 plates & 1905 portfolio wit...

Gender History. Davies, Margaret Llewelyn - The Women's Co-Operative Guild 1883-1904. Kirkby Lonsdale: 1904. Illustrated. Original cloth. With sta...

Antiquarian. R. P. Cornelii Cornelii - A Lapide E Societate Jesu, Commentaria in Vetus Et Novum Testamentum. Venetiis [venice] Ex Typographia Ball...

Antiquarian. Potter, R. - The Tragedies of Aeschylus. Norwich: Printed by J. Crouse, 1777. Quarto. xxviii, 602pp with subscribers list and additio...

Antiquarian. Richardi Bentleii [Richard Bentley] - Q. Horatius Flaccus, ex Recensione & cum Notis Atque Emendationibus. Editio Altera. Amsterdam: ...

Antiquarian Odd Volumes. A small selection, includes; Francisco Turrettino - Institutio Theologiae Elencticae (pars secunda). Geneva: 1689; etc. (...

Limited edition. Austen, Jane - The Complete Works of Jane Austen: The Illustrated Library. The Works 'Special Limited Edition'. No.0294 of 5000. ...

Antiquarian. Pope, A. - The Iliad of Homer. London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co. 1853. Two volumes. Introduction and notes by Rev. Buckley. Illustrated ...

Samuel Johnson and related. A selection, includes; The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland. Dublin: J. Moore, 1795. Modern quarter lea...

French design. Two part works. First: Habert-Dys - Nouveaux Documents Decoratifs en Couleurs: Ornements, Fleurs, Oiseaux, Panneaux, Tentures, Bord...

Miscellaneous. Vere Foster's Drawing-Books. Sketches in Water Colors, by Various Artists. London: Blackie & Son, 1886. With nine plates, original ...

Antiquarian. Kusterus, Ludolphus - Suidae Lexicon, Graece & Latine. Cantabrigiae: Typis Academicis, 1705. VOLUME ONE ONLY. Folio. Contemporary ful...

Art. Zollner, Frank - Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete paintings and Drawings. Taschen: 2003. In dust wrapper. With; Finch, C. - The Art of Walt Di...

Reginald Farrer. A selection, includes; The Rainbow Bridge, 1926, 3rd impression, publisher's cloth; Alpines and Bog-Plants, 1908, 1st, publisher'...

Religious History. Butler, Rev. A. & Kelly, Rev. B. - The Lives of The Fathers, Martyrs and other Principal Saints. Virtue & Co. Circa 1930's. Six...

Local History. A selection, includes; Barber, H. - Furness and Cartmel Notes (1894); West, T. & Close, W. - The Antiquities of Furness (1818); wit...

Natural History. A selection, includes; Huxley, T. H. - The Oceanic Hydrozoa. London: Ray Society, 1859. With 12 plates at rear; Flower, W. H. - R...

Local History. Bardsley, Charles W. - Chronicles of the Town & Church of Ulverston. James Atkinson: 1885. With real photo illustrations. Original ...

Local History. Softabck miscellany. Including; Forsyth, Jennifer - Cartmel Fell: A Patchwork History (2007) presentation copy; other signed titles...

Lake District and environs. A carton of histories, topography, guides, etc. Including Wainwright pictorial guide reprints, etc. (quantity)

Archaeology and Historical Architecture. A carton. (28)

Geology, Petrology and Environmental Sciences. Two cartons. Specialist textbooks and monographs, hardback and softback, some ex-lib. (32)

Geology, Petrology and Environmental Sciences. Two cartons. Specialist textbooks and monographs, hardback and softback, some ex-lib. (45)

Maritime and Naval. A carton. Includes; Uffa Fox - Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction (1936); Uffa Fox's Second Book (1937); Claud Worth -...

Miscellaneous. Cotchett, L. E. - The Evolution of Furniture. London: Batsford, 1938; Pallis, M. - Peaks and Lamas. London: Cassell, 1946; etc. (4)

Signed Copy. Wainwright in Lakeland. Kendal: Abbot Hall Art Gallery, 1983. Signed on half-title. In dust wrapper. (1) Condition report - A 'good' ...

Botany - Rhododendrons. A carton. Includes; Davidian - The Rhododendron Species. Timber Press: 1982, three volumes; etc. (18)

Miscellaneous. A carton. Includes; 38 volumes from 'The Temple Shakespeare' series by J. M. Dent, circa 1890's. Etc. (47)

Antiquarian Miscellany. A carton. Includes; Cookery, Dickens, Children's, etc. (28)

Local History and Topography. A carton. Ex-library, with usual markings. Most in original bindings, includes; Whitehall in Cumberland (1865), etc....

Local History and Topography. A carton. Ex-library, all uniformly re-bound in blue library cloth. Includes; Whiteside - Shappe in Bygone Days (190...

Miscellaneous. A carton. Mainly large format. Includes; Searle - Turnpikes and Toll-Bars. 1930. Two volumes; Batty's Catalogue of Copper Coinage. ...

Travel/Geography. A carton. Odd volumes. Ex-library. Provenance: Barrow Library. (12) 2 x pictuesque America, India and its native princes, Italty...

Antiquarian Miscellany. A quantity. Includes; legal, art and related, Bishop Burnet's History, etc. Ex-library. Provenance: Barrow Library.

Childrens. Potter, Beatrix, The Tale of Mr Tod. London: Frederick Warne & Co 1912. First Edition. Original grey boards, blocked in green with Mr T...