GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY AND GRAND TOUR AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

Miscellaneous Fiction - Tilsey (Frank), I'd Do It Again, first edition, London: Martin Secker & Warburg, Ltd., contemporary black cloth only, 8vo;...

Theology - Bibles: The Holy Bible [...], [...] Notes by The Rev. John Hewlett [...], Illustrated with [...] Engravings, volumes II & III only, Lon...

Botany - Loudon (Mrs [Jane]), British Wild Flowers, second edition, London: William S. Orr & Co., [n.d. 1849], pp: [i]-xvi, [1]-311, illustrated w...

Botany - Loudon (Mrs [Jane]), The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials, second edition, London: William S. Orr and Co, [n.d. 1849], pp: ...

Miscellaneous - The Life of John Wilkes, Patriot: An Unfinished Autobiography, with illustrations by Donald Higgins, numbered limited edition 107/...

Chambers (E.K.), The Elizabethan Stage, four-volume set, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1923, frontispieces and some b/w illustrations, contemporary...

MacBean Knight (W. Stanley), The History of the Great European War: Its Cause and Effects [...], ten-volume set, London: Caxton Publishing Company...

Politics - The Conservative Party, Signed and Dedicated Copies: Heseltine (Michael), Where There's A Will, first edition, London: Hutchinson 1987,...

French Architecture and Decorative Art, Eighteenth Century - Deshairs (Léon), Bordeaux: Architecture et Décoration au Dix-Huitième Siècle, Paris: ...

MacQuoid (Percy) and Edwards (Ralph), The Dictionary of English Furniture: From the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period, With a General Introd...

Miscellaneous - Provincial Imprint, Davis (John), A Concise History of the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew, in Wells [...], second edition, Shept...

Hodgkin: (John Eliot, F.S.A.) and (Edith), Examples of Early English Pottery: Named, Dated, and Inscribed, London: Printed for the Authors by Priv...

The Cambridge Ancient History, six-volumes, mixed editions, comprising Volume I, Parts 1 & 2: Prolegomena and Prehistory & Early History of the Mi...

Peck (Francis), Desiderata Curiosa: or, A Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces Relating Chiefly to Matters of English History [...], Ado...

The Office of the Holy Week According to the Missall (sic) and Roman Breviary, Translated out of French, With a new and ample explication taken ou...

Architecture and Heraldry - Specimens of Mediæval Architecture Chiefly Selected from Examples of the 12th and 13th Centuries in France & Italy and...

Roy (The Late William, F.R.S., F.S.A., Major-General of His Majesty's Forces, Deputy Quarter-Master General, and Colonel of the Thirtieth Regiment...

Art and Illustration - Monkhouse (W. Cosmo), The Turner Gallery: A Series of One Hundred and Twenty Engravings from the Works of the Late J.M.W.Tu...

The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical, Edited by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, with Many Illustrations, 1885, 1888 & 1889, London: Seeley & Co., illust...

Modern Painting, four volumes in one: I. The Work of Laura & Harold Knight, II. The Works of P.A. de László, M.V.O., III. The Work of Arnesby Brow...

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward FitzGerald, With Illustrations by Willy Pogány, London: Georg...

The Plays of Shakespere (sic, Shakespeare) With Notes by Charles Knight And Illustrations Photogravure, six-volume set, London: Virtue & Co., [n.d...

Lewis (C.S.), The Chronicles of Narnia, Illustrated by Pauline Baynes, seven-volume set, London: The Folio Society, 1996, pictorial teal cloth bin...

Auction Catalogues - Old Masters, including Christie's and Sotheby's, various Day and Evening Sales, the majority fairly recent; Sotheby's:~ The U...

Auction Catalogues - Country Houses and Private Collections, including Christie's: Collection de Madame Nelia Barletta de Cates, Paris, 18th March...

Modern First Editions - Middleton (Stanley): signed and dedicated modern first editions, comprising Catalyst, 1994; Brief Garlands, 2004; Sterner ...

Theology - Pott (Davide Julio) & Ruperti (Georgio Alexandro), Sylloge Commentationum Theologicarum, eight-volume set bound as four, [Helmstadt]: C...

Classics - Tacitus, Opera, four-volume set, [London]: G & W.B. Whittaker, 1823, one fold-out genealogical table, contemporary polished and gilt-pa...

Miscellaenous - Nimrod, [Appleby (Charles)], Memiors of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire [...], second edition, Lond...

History - Militaria, Southey (Robert), History of the Peninsular War, six-volume set, London: John Murray, 1828-1837, contemporary quarter-calf gi...

Maritime - Messers Harries Bros & Co, Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping, Yacht Register, From 1st May 1899 to 30th April 1900, picto...

Art History, Rembrandt - Springer (Jaro) and Singer (Hans W.), Rembrandt's Sämtliche Radierungen, In Getreuen Nachbildungen Herausgegeben, limited...

Children's Books - The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, Abridged from Malory's Morte d'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard, Illu...

Nazi Germany/Third Reich - Hitler (Adolf), Mein Kampf [...], München: Verlag Franz Eher Nachfolger, G.m.b.H., 1933, portrait frontispiece wit tiss...

Tailoring - Thornton (J.P.), International System of Garment Cutting for Coats, Trousers, Breeches, and Vests, including Diplomatic, Naval, Milita...

[Jortin (John)], The Life of Erasmus, first edition, two-volume set, London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1758-1760, pp: [iii], iv-vi, [2]...

Local Provincial Imprint - Pegge ([Rev] Samuel), A Sermon Preached at Whittington in the County of Derby, on the Grand Jubilee, or Centenary Comme...

Gastronomy and Cooking - Montagné (Prosper) & Salles (Prosper), Le Grand Livre de la Cuisine, Préface de Henri Béraud, Bois de Renefer, Paris: Ern...

Literature - Milton's Paradise Lost, Illustrated by Gustave Doré, Edited, with Notes and a Life of Milton, by Robert Vaughan, D.D., London: Cassel...

History - Smyth (William), Lectures on Modern History [...], two-volume set, London: William Pickering, 1848, contemporary calf gilt, marbled edge...

Music - A Favourite Collection of Songs, Sung [...] at Vaux-Hall-Gardens (sic, Vauxhall Gardens): Composed by Mr [James] Hook, two volumes: for 17...

Railwayana and Engineering - Light Railways - Orders Confirmed 1899-1901 [&] 1902-8, two volumes, each composed of unpaginated lithographic leaves...

Travel, Exploration and the Royal Navy - Miller (Hugh), The Cruise of the Betsey: or, A Summer Holiday in the Hebrides; with Rambles of a Geologis...

Local Interest - Cox (John Charles): Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, four-volume set, Bemrose and Sons, London & Derby, 1875 - 1879, comprisi...

Literature, Children's Books and Illustrators - Doyle ([Arthur] Conan), Adventures of Gerard, first edition, London:George Newnes, Limited, [n.d. ...

Miscellaneous - Hunting - Anon, [Surtees (Robert Smith)], "Ask Mamma;", or, The Richest Commoner in England, with Illustrations by John Leech, fir...

Classics - Cicero's Epistles to Atticus, with Notes, Historical, Explanatory, and Critical, Translated by William Guthrie [...], three-volume set,...

Micali (Giuseppe), Antichi Monumenti, Per Servire All'Opera Intitolata L'Italia Avanti Il Dominio Dei Romani, Firenze: Nella Stamperia Pagani, 182...

Pain (William), The Practical Builder; or Workman's General Assistant; Shewing (sic) The moft approved and eafy Methods for Drawing and Working th...

The Workes (sic) of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Newly Inlarged (sic) and Corrected by Thomas Lodge, second edition of Lodge's translation, London: Prin...

Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil [...], With Illustrations on Steel and Wood, by Eminent American Art...

Renaissance Art History, Raphael & the Vatican - I Freschi Delle Loggie Vaticane Inventati da Raffaele Sanzio, Illustrati per cura di Agostino Val...

Smith (The Reverend Samuel, D.D.), The Compleat (sic) History of the Old and New Testament: or, A Family Bible: with Large Annotations and Practic...

Topography and Antiquarianism - West [William], The History, Topography and Directory of Warwickshire [...], Illustrated with Characteristic Etchi...

Browne (James, LL.D., Advocate), A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans; with an Extensive Selection from the Hitherto Inedited Stua...

Hall (William Henry, Esq.), The New Royal Encyclopædia; or, Complete Modern Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, on an Improved Plan [...], ...

Law/Legal History - Cay (John), An Abridgment of the Publick (sic) Statutes in Force and Use [...], two-volume set, London: Printed by his Majefty...

Natural History - Botany, Hulme (F. Edward), Familiar Wild Flowers, with Coloured Plates, five-volume set, London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [n....

Ornithology - Maynard [Charles Johnson], Eggs of North American Birds, Illustrated with Ten Hand-Coloured Plates, first edition, Boston: De Wolfe,...

Cricket - Local Provenance, Anon, [Pycroft (James)], Cricketana, first edition, London: Longman [...], 1865, pp: [2], [i]-vi, [1]-238, advertiseme...