GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY AND GRAND TOUR AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

A 19th century dark patinated cabinet bronze, of William Shakespeare, stepped circular base, 11.5cm high

An Edwardian gilt brass-mounted mahogany periodical or music stand, turning lyre-shaped canterbury, rectangular plinth-shaped plateau above a mech...

An Edwardian mahogany correspondence cabinet, moulded rectangular top above shaped letter divisions, telegram drawer to base, 29.5cm high, 28.5cm ...

Antiquarian Interest - an interesting collection of museums casts and replicas, including a late Babylonian contract; Fragments from the Library o...

Ornithology - an early 20th century identification print, cuckoo and eggs, chromolithograph, 28.5cm x 26cm

Native American/Arctic Indigenous Peoples - a pair of early 20th century Inuit hide and softwood models, of fishermen in kayaks, with raft, creel ...

An interesting 19th century photograph album, of an Oriental and Pan-Asian tour, 48 b/w named-view photographs with scenes of real native and colo...

Photography - India and Ceylon - an interesting archive of Colonial-era photographs, various subjects including portraits of native people, school...

Photography - Travel, an early 20th century family touring holiday, Paris, Pierrefonds, London, Holland and Winchester, 1929-30, annotated and dat...

Aviation Interest - The Farnborough twenty club - founded 1959, photographic archive of pilots and aviators stood in uniform toasting luck and su...

11 Prints of the First Paintings of The Victoria Falls, Zambesi River, by Thomas Baines, F.R.G.S., Rhodesiana Reprint Library, Published in 1969 b...

A collection of indentures, mostly referring to property conveyance, early 20th century (7)

A large Victorian quarter-morocco over cloth scrapbook, compiled by Ormerod Heyworth Heap, the stiff card leaves typically applied with colourful ...

A mid-19th century lady's commonplace book-herbarium, compiled by Ellen French and commencing in February 1847, ff: 20 pages of ink MS typically c...

A mid-Victorian commonplace book of verse, inscribed in ink manuscript by J.N. Bishop, [c. 1860], half-filled contents with original poetry of Bis...

A substantial Victorian desk-top manuscript accounts ledger, supplied by Wm. Townsend & Sons, Sheffield, their ticket to pastedown, inscribed in M...

A Victorian manuscript, Notes on Land Tenure in the Different Countries of Europe, 176ff inscribed in ink MS and some pages applied with contempor...

A Victorian red morocco leather pocket book or aide memoire, The Regent or Royal Tablet of Memory for 1855, with an Almanack containing a variety...

An early 19th century black cloth and gilt scrap book, illustrated throughout with late 18th century to 20th century engravings and prints, variou...

An early 19th century quarter green-stained calf over marbled boards scrap book, illustrated throughout with late 18th century to 20th century eng...

An early 20th century leather scrapbook, the stiff card leaves typically applied with colourful scraps, cartoons, some advertising ephemera and pr...

An interesting Tudor ink MS on vellum or diploma, washed away initial letter with off-set shadow, indistinct script and fragmentary architectural ...

Autographs - mainly Show Business with some Sports Personalities, six 10.5 x 14.5cm albums, some with a few pages separating, pages labelled with ...

Derbyshire Policing History - a 19th century police station ledger, Smalley District Register of Convict License Holders, each page with sections ...

Legal and Urban History - London, a bundle of early 19th century and later ink MS on vellum and/or paper indentures and documents, relating to the...

Local Interest - a mid-Victorian ink MS on vellum indenture, Counterpart Deed of Partition of the Friary Estate in Derby, Dated 8th day of July 18...

Local Interest - a William III ink manuscript and vellum indenture, dated 1699, recording the settlement of a payment between Thomas Bristow of Ca...

Local Interest - Chesterfield College, a scrapbook of local newspaper clippings, principally from the Derbyshire Times, clipped, aranged, pasted a...

Local Interest, Industrial Archaeology and Railwayana - Great Northern Railway: Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension, Derby/Friargate, a thirty...

Mathematics and Geometry - a set of three 19th century exercise books, inscribed in ink manuscript with problems, calculations, equations, tabulat...

Newspapers - The Times, No. 2517, January 26, 1793; No. 3936, July 3, 1797; No. 4298, October 3, 1798; No. 5080, April 16, 1801; No. 6572, Novembe...

Rolls-Royce - a post-Second World War business portfolio illustrated with 191 b/w photographic images, the directory of company locations followed...

Royal Interest, Travel/Scandinavia and its Fjords - an early to mid-Victorian ink MS notebook, ?almost certainly the property of and kept by a Vic...

Travel - Colonial India - a 19th century diary, compiled by J.C., recording a trip to India and back again between 20th March 1885 and to 10th Apr...

Theology - Saint Irenaeus, First Bishop of Lyon and Primate of Gaul, Prières et pratiques du séminaire de Saint-Irénée de Lyon, approuvées par Mon...

Continental Theology - Mabillon [Dom Jean, O.S.B.], De Liturgia Gallicana, Luteciæ Parisiorum [Paris]: Apud Viduam Edmundi Martin et Johannem Boud...

Theology - [Faber (Matthias, S.J.)], [Sermons], four-volume set, comprising: Opus Concionum Tripartitum [...], three volumes, Antwerp: Hieronymum ...

Theology - [Gother (John)], Instructions and devotions for hearing Mass, [London]: 1725, lacking title-page, pp: [14], 150, 43 full-page engraved ...

Theology & Philosophy - Locke (John), Essay Concerning Human Understanding, two-volume set, London: Printed for C. and J. Rivington [...], 1824, c...

Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars - The Earl of Sefton's Copies: The History of the Campaign of 1796 In Germany and Italy, Translated from the Fre...

History and Politics - De Foe [Defoe] (Daniel), The History of the Union Between England and Scotland [...], To which is prefixed, A Life of Danie...

Medicine - [Goulin (Jean)], Le Médecin des Dames, ou l'Art de les Conserver en Santé [...], Paris: Vincent, 1772, lacking signature 289-312pp but ...

The Works of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, 1490-1555, Edited by Douglas Hamer, M.C., M.A., four-volume set, Edinburgh and London: Printed for th...

Theology - Provincial Imprint, Fleetwood (Rev. John, D.D.), The Life of [...] Jesus Christ [...], Liverpool: Printed by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon...

Topography, Yorkshire - Baines (Edward, M.P.), Yorskhire: Past and Present [...], two-volume set, London: William Mackenzie, [n.d., 1870], full-pa...

Pocock (W[illiam] F[uller]), Designs for Churches and Chapels of Various Dimensions and Styles; Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections: wit...

Literature and Language, principally English but some European, including Arthurian, Medieval, Elizabethan primary sources and studies; Shakespear...

Buckmaster's Cookery: [...] A Collection of Approved Recipes and Menus, London: George Routledge and Sons, [n.d. 1874], contemporary cloth, 12mo; ...

Nineteenth-Century Thought - Natural History and Anthropology - Darwin (Charles), The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Popular Imp...

Ornithology - Provincial Imprint, Bewick (Thomas), A History of British Birds, first edition, two-volume set, Newcastle: Printed by Charles Henry ...

Robert Louis Stevenson - books by and about, various, late 19th century and later, various bindings and sizes, [collection]

Nineteenth-Century & Later Miscellany - The Steam Engine; or Guide Book for Engineers, London: Fisher & Son [...], [n.d., c. 1860], contemporary r...

James Bond, 007 - Fleming (Ian): Goldfinger, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1959, h/b, d/j designed by Richard Chopping (1917-2008), 12mo; ...

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

The British Novelists; with an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, By Mrs [Anna Laetitia] Barbauld, fifty-volume set, London: Printed ...

Miniature Books - Tilt's Miniature Almanack for 1868, London: [Printed by] Harrild, [32]pp, title-page with an engraved armorial vignette of the c...

Fréart (Roland, Sieur de Chambray), Parallel of the Antient (sic) Architecture with the Modern, In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have ...

English Civil War and Parliamentary History - [Rushworth (John)], Historical Collections, volumes I, III & V only, London: 1703-1708, volume I wit...

Miniature Book - Provincial Imprint, The Daily Text Book, Bristol: Wright & Albright, [n.d., c. 1855], pp: [124], contemporary purple leather enve...

Venetian Binding - Officium Hebdomadæ Sanctæ, Juxta Formam Missalis & Breviarii Romani, Sub Urbano VIII correcti, [...], Venetiis [Venice], Ex Typ...