GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY, STAMPS AND GRAND TOUR OF AUCTION CURIOSITIES

A 19th century Grand Tour marble library obelisk, the plinth base with Latin dedication. 41.5cm high, c.1870 Condition Report: many small patch ch...

A Chinese hardwood rectangular box, the cover applied with an elder holding a peach, and inscribed with verse, enclosing a small collection of mot...

A Victorian tooled and gilt leather rectangular box, hinged cover with Royal coat of arms and inscribed Under Royal Command & Especial Patronage o...

Byron Interest - a 17th century gesso and softwood kite-shaped ceiling boss, carved with a central monogram, 25cm wide, mounted for display and in...

Tribal Art - a Dayak hampatong guardian figure, of typical elongated form, 'Moai' features, irregular oval base, 69cm high, Borneo

Photography - World Travel - a photograph album, Libya and the Middle East, comprehensively annotated, Derna Wadi, Mosque in Our Street, The Main ...

Travel and Exploration - a mid-19th century Anglo-Jamaican letter?, inscribed from Folie's Hill? and dated May 5th 1853, from a husband to his wif...

A 19th century Scottish hand-scrivened and illuminated vellum grant of arms, of William Alston of Stockbriggs, Lanarkshire by George Burnett, Lord...

Napoleonic Wars - Newspaper, The Times, November 7th 1805, with various notices pertaining to the aftermath of the Battle of Trafalgar, including ...

A George IV vellum grocer's ledger, apparently kept by Master John Harrison of Hull, inscribed from July 1827 to 1829 in ink MS recording and tabu...

A pair of Islamic manuscript or Koran pages, inscibed with verse and painted in watercolour and gilt in the typical Persian mamnner, 22.5cm x 11cm

An interesting 19th century common place and scrap album, containing verse, ditties, cuttings, scraps and topographical engravings, various subjec...

An interesting 19th century herbarium, containing pressed botanical specimens of grasses, ferns, mosses and flowers, mostly from the Middle East a...

Local Interest - Antiquarianism, Architecture and Monuments - Peter Paul Pugin (1851-1904), a three-page ink MS inscribed and autographed letter a...

Ephemera - The Amusing Songster, edited by J.E. Carpenter, George Routledge and Sons, London 1866, pictorial paper covers as issued, 18mo; Wadding...

Martime Travel - Transatlantic Ocean Liners - a White Star Line programme, SS Doric Grand Concert, Friday October 8th 1926, framed; other entertai...

Lot Withdrawn Local Interest - Mining, an early 19th century and later miner's accounts cum notebook, by John Woolley Junior, Ripley, Derbyshire, ...

Postcards - an interesting album of early 20th century b/w and coloured humour, cartoons, Continental topography, aviation, etc., some loose, pict...

RMS Titanic - Transport/Maritime Incident - newspaper, The Daily Mirror, No. 2648, April 19, 1912, headline: Why Were There Only Twenty Lifeboats ...

Royal Interest - a large and comprehensive album of late Victorian newspaper and press clippings of the monarch's death, Her Majesty Queen Victori...

A 19th century hand scrivened pen and ink instructional 'sampler', by Master H Stone, Xmas 1857, with the Lord's Prayer, centred by Christ, oval, ...

Local Interest - Legal History, a late Elizabethan vellum MS Duffield land bond, Henry Stevenson to John Brockshaw, dated 5th March 1592; another,...

Legal History - Vellum indentures, including a Charles II 1664/1665 vellum manuscript mortgage, between the Earls of Londonderry and others, among...

[Ireland (William Henry)], Something Concerning Nobody, Edited by Somebody, Embellished with Fourteen Characteristic Etchings, first edition, Prin...

[Petrarch], Petrarchæ (Francisci), Poëtae Oratorifque (sic) clariffimi (sic), De remediis utriufque (sic) Fortunae, Libri Duo, Ejusdem De Contempt...

A Compleat (sic) History of the Bible [...], Collected from Prideaux, Stackhouse, Howel (sic), and other Writers on the Sacred Scriptures, by Laur...

Agriculture and Husbandry - Scottish Imprint, Ainslie (John, Land-Surveyor in Edinburgh), The Gentleman and Farmer's Pocket Companion and Assistan...

American Imprints - Mair (John), An Introduction to Latin Syntax [...], To Which is Subjoined, An Epitome of Ancient History [...], first American...

Rowling (J.K.), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Uncorrected Proof Copy of the first edition with typographical error to title-page: J.A....

Architecture and Masonry - Mylne (Rev. Robert Scott), The Master Masons to the Crown of Scotland and Their Works, copy no. 303, Scott & Ferguson a...

Auction Catalogues - 19th Century Art, including Orientalist, European and Victorian Art, predominantly Christie's, Sotheby's and Bonhams, some re...

Auction Catalogues - Art, including Contemporary Art, British Sporting Art, various European Schools, Russian Art, Photography, Travel, Decorative...

Auction Catalogues - British and European Works of Art, including Ceramics and Glass, Silver, Metalwork, Textiles, Carpets, Frames, etc., generall...

Auction Catalogues - Country Houses, Single-Owner and Family Collections, including British, European and some American, all Christie's and Sotheb...

Auction Catalogues - English and European Furniture and Works of Art, a substantial collection of Christie's and Sotheby's sales, late 1980s until...

Auction Catalogues - Old Masters, a substantial collection of Christie's and Sotheby's sales, later 1980s until fairly recently; a handful of spec...

Baconiana: Or Certain Genuine Remains of S[ir] Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Vifcount (sic) of St. Albans; In Arguments Civil and Moral, Na...

Bates (H.E.), The Two Sisters, first edition, Jonathan Cape Limited, London 1926, h/b, d/j (fragmented to spine), 12mo

Beckett (Samuel), Waiting For Godot: a tragicomedy in two acts, first edition, Faber and Faber Limited, London 1956, h/b, d/j small 8vo Condition...

Binding - Bates (H[erbert] E[rnest]), Through the Woods: The English Woodland - April to April, With 73 Engravings on Wood by Agnes Miller Parker ...

Binding - Botany - Edwards (Sydenham), The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; wit...

Binding - Burton (John Hill, D.C.L., LL.D.), The Book-Hunter etc., A New Edition with a Memoir of the Author, numbered limited edition 87/1000, Wi...

Binding - The Book of Common Prayer [...], Published for John Reeves, Esq., One of the Patentees of the Office of King's Printer, Sold by G. and W...

Bindings - Literature - Bunyan (John), The Pilgrim's Progress: In Two Parts, with Original Notes by the Rev. Thomas Scott, tenth edition, Henry G....

Book Auction Records, Volume 1, June 3rd 1902 - Volume 60, August 1963, (60); Second General Index, 1912 - 1923; Third General Index, 1924 - 1933,...

Books - Buchan (John), The Casual and The Casual in History, The Rede Lecture 1929, signed dedication from the author's sister, first and only edi...

Bradley (Richard), New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philofophical (sic) and Practical, In Three Parts [...], To which is added [.....

Browning (Robert), The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Story, Japanese vellum copy, Set Forth in a Series of Designs and Decorative Borders [...]...

Burkitt (William, M.A., Late Vicar and Lecturer of Dedham in Essex), Expository Notes, with Practical Obfervations (sic), on the New-Testament of ...

Byronmania - Byron's Letters and Journals, edited by Leslie A. Marchand, seven volumes: 1798 - 1820, John Murray, London 1973 - 1977, h/b, d/j, 8v...

Camden (Theophilus), The Imperial History of England [...], two-volume set, Printed by W. Stratford [...], London 1809 - 1811, each volume illustr...

Children's Book - Parker (B), Arctic Orphans, Illustrations by N. Parker, W. & R. Chambers, Limited, London [n.d., c. 1920], full-page chromolitho...

Children's Book - Parker (B), Larder Lodge, Illustrated by N. Parker, W. & R. Chambers, Limited, London [1914], full-page chromolithographic plate...

Children's Books - The Costume, Manners and Peculiarities, of Different Inhabitants of The Globe, Calculated to Instruct and Amuse The Little Folk...

Classics - The Works of Lucian, from the Greek, by Thomas Francklin [...], four-volume set, Printed for T. Cadell, London 1781, engraved portrait ...

Coles (William, Herbarift (sic)), Adam in Eden: or, Natures Paradife (sic), The Hiftory (sic) of Plants, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers [...], Printed ...

Continental Theology - [Chrysostom (Saint John)], S. Ioannis Chrysostomi Archiepiscopi Constantinopolitani Commentaria in Novum Testementum, six-v...

Continental Theology - Bishops Phillpotts' Copy, [Nazianzus (Saint Gregory of)], Sancti Patris Nostri Gregorii Nazianzeni Opera Græc Lat, [edited ...

Cookery - Jarrin (W.A.), The Italian Confectioner; or, Complete Economy of Desserts, According to the Most Modern and Approved Practice, New Editi...

Cosway-Type Bindings - Frith (William Powell, R.A.), John Leech, His Life and Work, Special Copy: Extra-Illustrated, four-volume set, Richard Bent...