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Royalty - Abstracts from Diaries, a late Victorian-Edwardian titled ink manuscript precis of a diary, dated from 1878 to 1910, inscribed over 32 s...

Theatrical and Royal Naval History - a Victorian printed silk advertising bill, The Golden Farmer or The Last Crime, at The Theatre Royal, Her Maj...

Photography - A Nikon F3 35mm S.L.R. camera with a conforming MD4 motor drive, serial number T1512644; a Nikon F3/T 35mm SLR camera with a conform...

Jean Faber, by, Peter Vandyck, after, Son Altesse Serenissime Guillaume Charles Henri Friso, Prince d'Orange et de Nassau &c., mezzotint, 35cm x 2...

Maritime and Naval Interest - a sailor's sketch, HMS Indomitable, signed with monogram and dated Nov.1912, pastel and watercolour, 20cm x 31cm; ph...

Photography - North America - Canada - an interesting album of photographs and postcards documenting a tour of Canada c.1937, copiously annotated,...

Photography - Photographs, a late Victorian album, illustrating the English coast and its fishermen, fishing boats, further mercantile sail and st...

Photography - Railwayana - a collection of black and white photographs of Great Western Railway locomotives, many portraits, others hauling trains...

Photography - Railwayana - a collection of black and white photographs of London, Midland and Scottish Railway locomotives, many portraits, others...

Photography - Railwayana - a collection of black and white photographs of Midland Railway locomotives, many portraits, others hauling trains, pre-...

Photography - Japan - an album of photographs, mostly inter-war period, family groups, traditional dress, military uniforms, etc, comprehensively ...

Photography - Snap Album, a late Victorian family photograph album, illustrated with various formats of informal photographs capturing a prosperou...

Photography - three photograph albums, illustrated Palestine and the Holy Land, France, Italy, and further portions of Europe c. 1940 and the Seco...

Photography, Local Interest - a 1930s family photograph album, b/w snapshots generally of British holidays and topography, including a Scouts jamb...

Photography, Local Interest - Frank Dawson-Smith (1886-1920), by, 70 b/w and sepia photographs of mixed sizes, of named-view topographical scenery...

Photography, Travel , North Africa and the Mediterranean- an 1920/1930s photograph album, illustrated with 26 b/w photographs of a cruise and its ...

Photography - Sport and World War I - a photograph, North London Wanderers, Isle of Wight Tour 1908; a School Football Team, 1903-4; a military fo...

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE (1907 ? 1989) - ink manuscript autograph, on a bookplate designed by Rex Whistler (1904-1944), for the ...

Oliver Messel (1904-1978) - Shakespeare (William) & Messel (Oliver, illustrator), Romeo and Juliet, London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., October 1936, tipp...

Presentation Copies - American Stage and Screen, Keyes (Evelyn), I Am A Billboard: a novel, autograph presentation inscription signed by the autho...

Ray Coryton Hutchinson (1907-1975) - three autographed bookplates, "Testament", Ex Libris/Designed For The Book Society by Robert Gibbings [( (188...

Rex Whistler (1904-1944) - Autographed and Illustrated Association Copy, Blake (William), Songs of Innocence and Experience, London: Chatto and Wi...

Rex Whistler (1904-1944) - Autographed and Illustrated Association Copy, Sitwell (Sacheverell) & Sevier (Michael), Conversation Pieces: A Survey o...

Rex Whistler (1904-1944) - Autographed Presentation Copy, Whistler (Rex, illustrator), The New Forget-Me-Not: A Calendar, 124/130 copies signed by...

Rex Whistler (1904-1944)Original Artwork Design for a Bookplate, The Book Society/Ex Libris, an 18th century gentleman reads in a library of c. 17...

Richard Aldrich (1902-1986) - Presentation & Association Copies - Three Plays, comprising Massingham (Dorothy) & MacDonald (Murray), The Lake: A P...

Sir Noël Coward (1899 ? 1973) - a large George VI silver rounded rectangular presentation hipflask, To Norman from Noël, hinged turn-cover enclosi...

Sir Noël Coward (1899 ? 1973) - Autographed Presentation Copy to Lady Colefax, Coward (Noel) & Macnaughtan (Lorna, illustrator), A Withered Nosega...

Sir Noël Coward (1899 ? 1973) - Autographed Presentation Copy, Coward (Noel), Post-Mortem: A Play in Eight Scenes, autographed presentation copy i...

Sir Noël Coward (1899 ? 1973) - Autographed Presentation Copy, Whittlebot (Hernia), [pseud. Coward (Noel)], Chelsea Buns, inscribed and signed pre...

Sir Noël Coward (1899 ? 1973) - ink manuscript autograph, on a bookplate designed by Rex Whistler (1904-1944), "Present Indicative", The Book Soci...

Sir Noël Coward (1899 ? 1973) - Sylvia Coleridge's Autographed Presentation Copy, Coward (Noel), Quadrille: A Romantic Comedy in Three Acts, autog...

Sitwelliana - Gino Severini (Italian Futurist, 1883-1966), a bookplate design, Ex Libris Osbert et Sacheverell Sitwell, monogrammed by the artist ...

Antiquarianism - Archaeological Pamphlets, a sammelband of six titles: The Archaeological Journal, March-September 1850, fold-out, full-page and i...

Antiquarianism - Scotland, Wilson (Sir Daniel, LL.D., F.R.S.E.), Memorials of Edinburgh, In the Olden Time, two-volume set, limited large paper co...

Antiques Reference - Berthoud (Michael): A Directory of British Teapots, 2006, h/b, d/j, (1); A Compendium of British Cups, 1990, h/b, d/j, (1);...

Antiques Reference - 18th and 19th Century British Pottery, including Griffin (John D. ): The Leeds Pottery, 1770-1881, two-volume set, first and ...

Antiques Reference - a photographic archive of a reference collection of 18th and 19th century British porcelain and pottery, taken in colour, arr...

Antiques Reference - Atterbury (Paul, editor), The Parian Phenomenon: A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary Busts, first edition, Richar...

Antiques Reference - Derby Porcelain, approximately 96 copies, Cope (Geoffrey), William II: Porcelain Manufacturer to His Majesty, 1763-1796, firs...

Antiques Reference - English Porcelain, 18th and 19th centuries, including Spode, Mason's, New Hall (& their pattern books), Ridgway, Liverpool, v...

Antiques Reference - Miscellaneous, including Georgian and later glass, including drinking glasses, Victorian carnival glass, etc; Mauchline ware,...

Antiques Reference - Stuart (Susan E.), Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840: Cabinetmakers and International Merchants, A Furniture and Busi...

Antiques Reference - The English Ceramic Circle Journal, various issues from Volume 3: Part 1, 1951 to Volume 26, 2015, mixed sizes, (50); two ECC...

Antiques Reference - Worcester Porcelain, including Dr Wall, Flight & Barr, Grainger, Chamberlain, and Royal Worcester periods, various dates, all...

Art - The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical, five volumes: 1882, 1884, 1886, 1887, & 1888, illustrated with full-page etchings and photogravures, ...

Automobilia - Handbook of the Model 24 Albion, first edition, Glasgow: Albion Motor Car Company, Limited, 1923, printed in parallel columns, adver...

Bindings - Chamber's Encylopædia: A Dictionary of Useful Knowledge, ten-volume set, 1888-1892, fold-out maps printed in colour and b/w in-text ill...

Bindings - 'Miniature Books', Guarini (Battista) & Boschini (Giovanni Battista, editor), Il Pastor Fido, two-volume set, Londra [London]: G. Schul...

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

Borges (Jorge Luis) & Daniélou (Alain), The Congress of the World, with miniatures of tantric cosmology, first separate edition, numbered 2112/400...

Botany - Herbarium, Tams (Nicola Eyoub, Arranged by), Flowers from the Holy Island, Jerusalem: Printed at the L.J.S. House of Industry, [n.d., 188...

Botany - Neubert (Wilhelm), seven volumes of the Deutsches Magazin: 1853, 1871, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1878, & 1880, various publishers, full-page chro...

Botany - Thornton's Temple of Flora with Plates, faithfully reproduced from the original engravings and the work described by Geoffrey Grigson wit...

Canterbury - Palaeography, The Eadwine Psalter - James (M.R., Provost of Eton, [editor]), The Canterbury Psalter, No. 5 of a limited edition of 42...

Cartography - Black's General Atlas of the World, New and Revised Edition, Edinburgh: 1884, chromolithograph Flags of the All Nations frontispiece...

Cartography - Cary [(John)], Cary's New Map of England and Wales, with part of Scotland, second edition, [London]: 1816, pp: [2] (blank), [vi], 79...

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