Gentlemen's Library and Grand Tour Auction of Curiosities, including a large private collection of Tribal Art and Ethnographica - ONLINE ONLY

Americana - Crime History, 1932 Lindbergh Kidnapping - an American paper rectangular poster, $25,000 Reward! For Information Resulting in the Appr...

An early 19th century lady's manuscript pharmacopoeia/mathematics book, compiled and inscribed in ink MS by Sarah Sadler, [from Septr: 15th 1817, ...

An early 20th century commonplace book, various comical illustrations, topographical watercolours, botanical studies, a drawing in the manner of L...

Autographs, Stage & Screen - Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (1907-1989), a charming typed and autographed letter turning down the 'flatt...

Derbyshire Interest - a 19th century commonplace book, various verse, engravings, scraps and pasted down photographic images, several of Peak Dist...

Early Aviation - Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (1872 - 1936) - a letter on Bleriot Aeronautique headed paper, bearing signature and stamp of E'cole...

Ephemera - an Edwardian dressmaker or haberdasher's MS account/notebook, partially-filled, dated 1907 onwards; a George IV hand-scrivened ink MS o...

Freemasonry, Friendly Society - Binding, an early 20th century Masonic illuminated vellum manuscript bequest, To Wor. Bro. Edward Collens, P.G. St...

Local Interest - an archive collection of Miss F Martin, Sheffield, late 19th/early 20th century: three cloth bound sketchbooks with ties, each 7 ...

Medical - Apothecary, Pharmaceutical - a mid-late 19th century ink MS pharmacopoeia, most probably composed and used by Squire & Sons, 413 Oxford ...

Natural History, Botany - a Victorian herbarium, collected, preserved and compiled by E.H. McGary, containing approximately 120 pressed land and m...

Nazi Germany/Third Reich - 1936 Berlin Olympics, an archive-collection of 50 souvenir pieces and ephemera, including a Junghans pocket watch, the ...

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965), a handwritten letter, It has given me great pleasure to receive your kind message on my birth...

Stage and Screen - This Is Your Life: Joe Longthorne MBE (1955-2019), singer and impressionist, presented and autographed by Michael Aspel and sig...

The Lincoln Crest & Monogram Album, the scraps compiled by J.M. Walker, Evesham Vicarage, Worcester, contemporary tipped-in label, later owned by ...

Third Reich Nazi Germany - Autographs - Field Marshal Erhard Milch (1892 - 1972), a signed Luftwaffe commission document, issued in The Name of t...

World War II Era Political Figures - a collection of ephemera, envelopes and airmail addressed to Winston Churchill, at 10 Dowing Street, Chartwel...

Ireland, Irish Ascendency - Royalty, the Court and the British Army - a large Victorian matrimonial scrapbook, compiled and illustrated by General...

Broadsides - Midlands Agriculture, Farming and Husbandry - The Old & Original Paddy's Watch, for the Year of Our Lord 1812, Being Bisextile or Lea...

Broadsides and Satire - Politics and the Age of Reform, Local Interest - Positively the Last Time, The Election Juggles, early 19th century satire...

Ancien Régime France and the French Revolution - a collection of 9 ink MS letters from pre-Revolutionary French aristocrats and clergymen, includi...

Royalty - Queen Victoria & Hemophilia - Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany's Internment at St. George's Chapel, Windsor - the funerary procession issu...

Militaria, Local, Rolls-Royce and Royal Flying Corps Interest, photographs and papers of Sergeant Mechanic Horace Wilkes, 30 Sq. RFC: Personal pap...

Art, Old Masters - Auction and Dealers' Catalogues - P&D Colnaghi: Art in XVII Century Italy, April-May 1972 & Etchings by Giovanni Battista Pira...

[Camden (William)], Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English: with Large Additions and Improvements, Publish'd by Edmund Gibson, of Queen...

[Eikon Basilike], The Povrtraictvre (sic) of His Sacred Majestie (sic) in His Solitudes and Svfferings (sic), first edition, third state, [London:...

[Gough (Richard)], An Essay On the Rise and Progress of Geography in Great-Britain and Ireland, Illustrated with Specimens of our Oldest Maps, Lon...

[Gough (Richard)], British Topography: or, An Historical Account of What Has Been Done for Illustrating the Topographical Antiquities of Great Bri...

[Kettilby (Mary)], A Collection Of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick (sic), and Surgery; For the Use of all Good Wives, Tender Moth...

Architecture and Antiquarianism - Carter (John), Views of Ancient Buildings in England, Drawn in different Tours and Engrav'd [...] commencing [in...

Biblia Sacra, Vulgatæ Editionis, Sixti V & Clementis VIII. Pont. Max. auctoritate recognita, Versiculis Distincta, Unà Cum Selectis Annotationibus...

Bibliography - Chubb (Thomas), The Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland: A Bibliography, 1579-1870 [...] And Biographical Note...

Binding - Mayhew (Henry) and Binny (John), The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life, with Numerous Illustrations from Photographs,...

Binding - The Court Album: Fourteen Portraits of The Female Aristocracy, Engraved by the Best Artists, from Drawings by John Hayter, London: David...

Botany - Local Association Copy, [de La Quintinie (Jean-Baptiste)], The Complete Gard'ner: or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fr...

Camden (William, Clarenceux King at Arms), Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, Together with the Adjacent Isl...

Cartography - [Cary (John)], Cary's New Map of England and Wales with part of Scotland on which are carefully laid down all the Direct and Princip...

Cartography - [Cary (John)], Cary's Survey of the High Roads from London [...], On a Scale of one Inch to a Mile; Wherein Every Gentleman's Seat, ...

Cartography - [Jefferys (Thomas)], Jefferys's Itinerary; or Travellers Companion, through England, Wales, and Part of Scotland, Containing All the...

Cartography - [Ogilby (John), Owen (John), & Bowen (Emmanuel)], Britannia Depicta, or Ogilby Improv'd [...], ?first edition thus, London: ?Printed...

Cartography - [Taylor (George) & Skinner (Andrew)], Taylor & Skinner's Survey and Maps of the Roads of North Britain, or Scotland, [...], London: ...

Cartography - Bindings - Moule (Thomas), The English Counties Delineated; or, A Topographical Description of England, Illustrated by a Map of Lond...

Cartography - Cary (John), Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being A New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys, Exhibiting All the Direct and...

Cartography - Harrison (John), Maps of the English Counties; with the Subdivisions of the Hundreds, Wpiintakes, Wards &c. &c. which are Curious an...

Cartography - Moll (Herman), Great Britain, London: 1717, an album of 12 two-page engraved maps delineated in contemporary hand-colouring, compris...

Cartography - Ogilby (John, Esq), Britannia; or, the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, Acutally Survey'd: with A Geographical and Historic...

Cartography - Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex's Copy - Ogilby [(John)], Owen [(John)], & Bowen (Em[manuel]), Britannia Depicta, or Ogilb...

Cartography - Reynolds's Travelling Atlas of England: with All the Railways and Stations, Accurately Laid Down, Constructed from the Surveys of th...

Cartography - Scottish Imprint, Salmon [Nicholas], A New Geographical and Historical Grammar [...], Illustrated with a new set of Maps of the Coun...

Cartography - Senex (John, F.R.S.), The Roads through England delineated; or, Ogilby's Survey, Revised, Improved, and Reduced to a Size portable f...

Cartography, Topography and Bibliography - Margary (Ivan D): Roman Ways in the Weald, first edition, London: Phoenix House Ltd, 1948, ochre cloth,...

Cassell's Illustrated Shakespeare: The Plays of Shakespeare, Edited and Annotated by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke [...], Illustrated by H.C. Sel...

Children's Books, Illustrations and Pictorial Bindings - Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, with Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, [London]: Hodder an...

Classics - [Homer's Iliad], Londinensium [London]: J. Bowyer & H. Clements, Bibliopolarum, 1714, erroneous pagination but complete, title-page in ...

Continental - Œuvres de Messire Antoine Arnauld [...], volume VI only, Paris & Lausanne: Chez Sigismond d'Arnay & Compagnie, 1776, title-page engr...

Cornwell (Bernard), Sharpe's Sword: Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign June and July, 1812, first edition signed and dedicated from the aut...

Early Canadian Ownership, Carpenter (Tho[mas], Gent), A New Description of the World: Being An Account of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, Repub...

Finance and Trade - Fortune's Epitome of the Stocks & Public Funds [...] Nature of those Securities, and the Mode of Doing Business Therein [...],...

Fuller (Thomas, D.D.), The History of the Worthies of England, first edition, London: Printed for J.G.W.L. and W.G., 1662, erroneous pagination an...

Gaultier (Abbé [Aloïsius Édouard Camille]), A Complete Course of Geography, By Means of Instructive Games [...], A New Edition, Corrected, Improve...