Two Day Gentlemen's Library and Grand Tour Auction of Curiosities - online bidding only

A Chinese lacquer brush pot, inscribed in green with a poem, red seal mark, 11cm high, boxed

An Edwardian silver novelty bookmark, crested by a fox mask, 7.5cm long, Birmingham 1909; a menu holder, similar, J B Chattersley & Sons, Birmingh...

Medical Interest - a didactic rubber acupuncture figure, mapped out in polychrome with Chinese and Western annotations, 49cm long

Photography - a 19th century brown leather rounded rectangular table-tope photograph album, Favorite Flowers & Orchids chromolithograph leaves ill...

Two Victorian quarter-leather bound ledgers, the red-ruled blank contents, marbled edges and endpapers, (2); church organ restoration, various pla...

Wireless, Radio and Communication History - an Edwardian silver desk model, of Marconi's Disc Discharger, the first means of producing musical not...

World War One - Yorkshire Interest, a Memorial Plaque, Lance-Corporal Edward Jobson, Royal Engineers, of the New Inn, Thornton-le-Dale (formerly o...

Local Interest - Photography, Derbyshire: a Victorian photograph album, comprising 21 b/w and sepia images of the Chapmans of Repton at leisure (M...

Photography - Japan - an album of photographs, scientific students in laboratories, school children, young people in uniform, temples, daily life,...

Photography - Sport, Golf - RAF, Royal Air Force Versus Aircraft Industry/Wentworth - March 1953, an album of 22 b/w photographs of the game and i...

Photography - The English Country House - an album of photographs, depicting a 19th century Italianate house and grounds, the gardens in the Chine...

Photography - Travel - Spain, Portugal, Scotland and Isle of Man - an album of photographs, depicting cruising and travel, comprehensively annotat...

Photography - Travel, South Africa, an early 20th century photograph album, a Winter cruise on R.M.S. Edinburgh Castle, November 30th 1923 - Xmas ...

Photography - World War One and Post-War Life, Home Counties, an officer's photograph album, illustrated with captioned images of various sizes, i...

Photography, The Raj, British India - a mid-1920s photograph album, compiled and illustrated with 40 b/w photographs (various sizes), showing form...

After Rolph and Alfred T Agate, Thian Hock Keng Temple, Singapore, from Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838 ...

Ethnographica - Auguste Wahlen, a set of three, Femme Esquimaude (Inuit), Naturel de L'ile Saritcheff, plates from Manners, Customs and Costumes o...

George Vertue (1684 - 1756), The Oxford Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God MDCCXL [1740] being Bissextile or Leap Year, engraving on silk, 51cm...

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 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 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...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

Crabbe (The Rev. George, LL.B.), Crabbe's Works: Poems, Tales, and The Borough, six-volume set, mixed fourth and sixth editions, London: J. Hatcha...

Farming - The Shire Horse Society Stud Book, five volumes: 65-66, 68, 70-71, 1944-1951, contemporary maroon cloth gilt, 8vo, (5); The Livestock of...

Folio Society - Dickens (Charles), The Works [with] Hayward (Arthur L.), The Dickens Encyclopaedia, sixteen volumes, London: The Folio Society, mi...

Folio Society - Travel, Burton (Richard F.), A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, London: 2004, pictorial boards, slipcased en suite, 8vo, (1)...

Geology - Local Interest - Fox-Strangways, F.G.S (C.) & Watts (W.W.), No. 141 Memoirs of the Geological Survey/England and Wales: The Geology of t...

Geology - Zenz (Johann), Agates II & III, Bode: 2009-2011, profusely illustrated throughout in colour, pictorial h/b, large 4to, [2] ...[more]

Grangerized Copy, Peyster (Frederic de), William the Third as a Reformer, An Address Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society, at the Cele...

Hayden (Arthur), Old English Porcelain: The Lady Ludlow Collection, with an Introduction by W. Leslie Perkins, signed by Alice Ludlow and numbered...

History - Local Provenance, The Ingestre Hall Copy, North's Lives, three-volume set, London: Henry Colburn, 1826, portrait frontispieces, contempo...

History and Politics - Eachard (Lawrence, of Christ's College, Cambridge), The Gazetteer's, or Newsman's Interpreter: Being a Geographical Index [...

History and Topography - Camden Society: Bruce (John, editor), Charles I in 1646: Letters of Charles the First to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1851, [&]...

Illustrators - Ronald Searle, various, mostly first editions, h/b, d/j, (8); Ralph Stead, (2); Osbert Lancaster, (2); Robert Gibbings, (1); etc., ...

Jacobitism and Jacobites - A Grandee of Carlisle's Copy, Mounsey (George Gill, editor), Carlisle in 1745, An Authentic Account of the Occupation o...

Judaica, Jewish Prayer Book - Machzor, volumes I-III, Vilnius: "ROM", [n.d., c. 1880-1886], printed in Hebrew, architectural title-pages, contempo...

Juvenile Fiction - Westerman (Percy), various titles, early 20th century, contemporary cloth pictorial bindings, 8vo, [15]

Literature - Trollope (Anthony), Can You Forgive Her?/With Illustrations, first editions, two volumes bound as one, London: Chapman and Hall, 1864...