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Local Interest - Johannes "Jan" Kip (1652-1722), after Leonard Knyff (1650-1722), Bretby in Derbyshire, the Seat of the Rt Hon:ble Phillip Stanhop...

Louis Joseph Masquelier, after Lieutenant Blondela, Parao, bateau de passage de Manille [Manilla]. Sarambeau, radeau de peche de Manille, from Atl...

M.H. Long (second-half, 19th century), after Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (1775-1851), seven Vignette Drawings, from the First Series, London:...

Natural History - a folio of 18th century and later prints, principally botany, various media, most of the 19th century botanical sheets hand-col...

Thomas Cook (1744?-1818), after William Hogarth FRSA (1697-1764), An emblematic print on the South Sea, [London: n.d., 1798-1804], engraving, 26cm...

Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese fl.1850/70), a Okunda Magodaya, from the series Chusin Gishi Meimei Den, woodblock print, 23.5cm x 17cm; another, from...

William Say (1768 ? 1834), after Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA (1723-1792), one of the Society of Dilettanti pair, [London: n.d., early 19th ce...

After Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), a two-page map, Europam sive Celticam Veterem [...], [Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, [n.d. 1638]?], monochrome engrav...

Cartography - B Cole, Walbrook Ward and Dowgate Ward with their Divisions into Parishes According to a New Survey, from William Maitland's History...

Cartography - Maritime Navigation - a collection of Royal Cruising Club charts, including no.11 Colne Blackwater, Crouch 1896, 25" x 19"; no. 4 Ti...

Cartography - The Times Contour Road Map of England and Wales in 10 Sheets, on the Scale of 3 Miles to 1 Inch/Each Sheet Measuring 31" x 40", Lond...

John Speed (1551/1552-1629), by and after, a two-page map, Leicester both Countye (sic) and Citie (sic) [...], [London]: Sold by Tho: Bassett [......

John Speed (1552-1629), by and after, a two-page map, Darbieshire defcribed (sic, Derbyshire), [London]: [S]old in popes head Alley (sic) by John ...

Maps, a collection of rolls of Ordnance Survey and other maps, mainly of Venezuela and the Caribbean, to include American Geographical Society (NY...

The Cyclist Pocket Touring Maps of Britain, fourteen sections in seven volumes, Edinburgh and London: W. & A.K. Johnston Limited, [n.d., c. 1935],...

A 19th century common place book/scrap album, compiled by Louisa Llewelyn, from c.1850, with various paintings, sketches, verse, cuttings and ephe...

A 19th century commonplace book, in ink manuscript, mostly poetry, Woman's Love, From the Italian, A Governess Wanted, The Missionary's Burial, by...

A 19th century manuscript music book, compiled by Lucie Caroline Moore, Lawnsdowne 1840, the ruled staves with musical notation and verse, various...

A 19th century morocco leather folio scrap book, pasted with 18th and 19th century prints and engravings, various portraits and topographical subj...

A Medieval hand-scrivened and 'illuminated' vellum antiphonal leaf, recto and verso with six lines of a Latin chant, one rubricated initial, the w...

An early 19th century and later album of British antiquarian-architectural and topographical watercolours and drawings, composed of approximately ...

An early 19th century lady's commonplace book or drawing-room album, compiled and illustrated with ink manuscript verse and prose from belles-lett...

Botany, a late Victorian lady's commonplace album, A. Linacre, 1880 and onward, one leaf 'illuminated' and scrivened with the owner's name and the...

Cinema - a collection of film posters, including 10 The Neptune Factor, the artwork illustrated by John Berkey (1932-2008), Printed by W.E. Berry ...

Cookery - Mr Albert Peasly, Receipt Book, May 1874, quarter-filled with food receipts in ink MS, loosely inserted related 19th century ephemera fr...

Ephemera - 21 World War One postcards, GB and French, including silks, colour, humour, others; autographed postcards; Victorian and later photogra...

Ephemera - Ireland, Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy - a mid-19th century British passport, No. 9855, for Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Taylor, Membe...

Local Interest, Crime and Punishment - The Pentrich Martyrs, an early 19th century fragmentary broadside, Account of the Life, Trial & Behaviour o...

Local Interest, the Dukes of Devonshire and Chatsworth House - French Revolutionary Wars/Napoleonic Wars, a George III hand scrivened vellum manu...

Manuscript - Lett's Pocket Diary and Almanac for 1892, partially filled in ink MS by a farmer's wife from near Daventry, Northamptonshire, with br...

Manuscripts - Victorian Life and the Law - John Richardson, Lawyer of Leeds, a collection of five his day-to-day pocket diaries, 1870, 1872, 1873 ...

Postal History - Royal Navy and The Caribbean, Jamaica - a George III ink manuscript crossed letter, addressed to [Commander] Joseph Baker Esqr., ...

Postcards and Greetings Cards - Tuck's Gramophone Record; Mabel Lucie Attwell; World War One; Victorian penny postcards, with Mansfield and Midlan...

Russia, Soviet Union/USSR - a collection of Soviet Cold War era propaganda posters, 95 x 81 printed in simple colours, mainly published in 1977, i...

The American Revolutionary War - George Washington Interest - an ink manuscript note, 'General Washington's compliments wait on Lt. Col Frazer by ...

The People's Republic of China - a collection of Chinese Communist propaganda posters, variously printed in polychrome with Mao Zedong and patriot...

Advertising - an archive of late 19th/early 20th century artwork, sketches, drawings and watercolours, compiled by Armitage & Ibbetson, Bradford, ...

Autographs, Stage & Screen - an album containing Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh & Alec Guinness, others, the rounded rectangular album partially-f...

Agriculture - Loudon (J.C.), An Encyclopædia of Agriculture [...], second edition, London: Longman [...], 1831, in-text illustrations, 20th centur...

Angling and Fishing - Edmonds [(Harfield H.)], Lee [(Norman N.)] & Edwards (J. Oliver Edwards, of Wakefield, editor), Brook and River Trouting: [A...

Antiquarianism - Birch (Walter de Gray, F.S.A., editor), Cartularium Saxonicum: A Collection of Charters Relating to Anglo Saxon History, three vo...

Art History - 20th and 21st art and architecture reference, including Old Master drawings, pre-Soviet and Soviet Russian art and artists; Bosch; V...

Australia - Calvert (Albert F.), The Exploration of Australia, [&] [...] from 1844 to 1896, two-volume set, London: George Philip & Son, 1895-1896...

Bilby, T and Ridgway, R B, The Book of Quadrupeds, for the Instruction of Young People, Darton and Clark, London [undated but c.1838], brown calf ...

Bindings - Scotland, Theology, Bonar (The Rev. Andrew, editor), Letters of Samuel Rutherford, With Biographical Sketches of His Correspondents, Wi...

Bindings - Verne (Jules), Aventures de Trois Russes et de Trois Anglais dans l'Afrique Australe, Paris: J. Hetzel et Cie, [n.d., 1873], frontispie...

Botany, Husbandry and Gardening - Grew (Nehemjah, M.D., Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the College of Physicians), The Anatomy of Plants/With...

Bunyan (John), The Pilgrim's Progress and Other Works [...], Glasgow: William Mackenzie, [n.d., c. 1870], printed in parallel columns, additional ...

Cartography - Gray (George Carrington), Gray's New Book of Roads, The Tourist and Traveller's Guide to the Roads of England and Wales, and Part of...

Children's and Juvenile Books - Brooks (Elbridge S.), The Master of the Strong Hearts: A Story of Cutler's Last Rally, London: Cassell, 1899, cont...

Children's and Juvenile Books - Shakespeare (William) & Thomson (Hugh, illustrator), As You Like It, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1909], tip...

Children's Book - Mare (Walter de la) & Lathrop (Dorothy P., illustrator), Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems, signed by the author, first an...

Children's Book - Rowling (J.K.), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, fourth printing: sequentially numbered 10-4, Ted Smart, for The Book P...

Children's Books - Dickens (Charles), A Christmas Carol, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, first edition thus, London: William Heinemann, 1915, colou...

Children's Books - six Rupert Annuals: More Adventures of Rupert, 1947, pictorial wrappers, (1); The Rupert Book, 1948, pictorial wrappers, (1); R...

Classics - [Livy], T. Livii Patavini Historiarum ab urbe condita/Libri qui supersunt XXXV [...], Tomus Tertius, [Paris]: Gabrielis-Francisci Quill...

Classics - Josephus (Flavius) and Whiston (William, translator), The Works [...], four-volume set, London: William Allason, 1818, contemporary mar...

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