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Cartography - Paterson (Daniel, Esq., Assistant Quarter-Master General of His Majesty's Forces): Paterson's British Itinerary/Being A new and accu...

Ceramics, The Potteries - Provincial Staffordshire Imprint, Creyke (W.R.), Book of Modern Receipts, Containing Full Instructions for Producing All...

Children's & Juvenile Books - Lucas (Mrs Edgar, translator) & Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Grimms' Fairy Tales, ?first English trade edition, [L...

Children's Book - Rowling (J.K.), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first deluxe edition, fifth impression: sequentially numbered 10-5, Lo...

Children's/Juvenile Book - Militaria, Holloway (Edgar A., illustrator), Regimental Pets of the British Army, first and only edition, London: Gale ...

Country Pursuits - Fishing, Salter (T.F., Gent.), The Angler's Guide, sixth edition, London: Sherwood and Co., 1825, engraved portrait frontispiec...

Dicks' Standard Plays, twenty-two various authors and titles, late 19th century, original pictorial paper wrappers as issued, 8vo, [22]

European Works - French Picaresque Novel Translated into Portuguese and Printed in London, [Lesage (Alain-Réne)] & Fernandez (Rdo. Dm. Felipe, tra...

Flint (Sir William Russell, R.A.): Shadows in Arcady, signed by the artist-author, first and numbered limited edition 349/500, London: Charles Ski...

Folio Society - Collins (Wilkie) & La Dell (Edwin, illustrator), The Moonstone: A Romance, 1951, cloth, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo, (1); Homer: The...

Folio Society - Hemingway (Ernest), five volumes, slipcase en suite, (5); Holt (Thaddeus), The Deceivers, two-volumes, (2); Graves (Robert), The G...

Folio Society - Shakespeare (William), thirty-seven various plays, mixed dates, colour frontispiece and plates, contemporary cloth bindings as iss...

Folio Society - Trollope (Anthony), The Chronicles of Barsetshire, six-volume set, slipcased as two, (6); further works by Trollope, various, (10)...

Franco-Spanish War, Battle of Valenciennes - Rantre (Jacques de, Licentié és Loix, Advocat, & du Conseil particulier de la ditte ville), Descripti...

Germany, Saxony, History and Antiquities - Abel (Caspar), Teutsche und Sächsische Alterthümer [...], two-volume set bound as one, Braunschweig [Br...

Gray [(Thomas)] & Bentley [(Richard, illustrator)], Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, ?large paper copy, fourth edition ove...

Greey (Edward), three titles: Yei-Sen (Kei-Sai, of Yedo, illustrator), The Loyal Ronins: An Historical Romance, Translated from the Japanese, firs...

Italian Belles-Lettres - Manzoni (Alessandro), I Promessi Sposi [...], three-volume set, first and only Livorno edition: being the re-impression o...

Judaica - Polish Imprint of a Jewish text, printed in Hebrew, Warszawa: Druk A. Ginsa, Nowozielna No. 37, 1881, elaborate architectural woodcut ti...

KJV, The Holy Bible [...], London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, [n.d., c. 1850], Queen Victoria's royal arms on title-pages...

Literature - [Mathias (Thomas James)], The Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues, with Notes, first complete edition of Parts...

Literature - Lewis (M.G., Esq., M.P., Author of the Monk [...]), Tales of Wonder; Written and Collected, two-volume set, first edition, London: Pr...

Literature - various, including approx. 105 titles from Dent's Temple Classics, mixed dates, alternating, leather and blue cloth bindings, 12mo, (...

Local Interest - ?Large Paper Copy, Rhodes (E[benezer]), Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire [...], text only, Parts I-IV bound as one, Lond...

Local Interest, Archaeology and Antiquarianism - [Bateman (Thomas, of Middleton Hall)], [Isaacson (Reverend Stephen)], & Lock (Frederick William, ...

Local Interest, Georgian Politics, 1775 Poll Book - Provincial Imprint, An Alphabetical List of the Burgesses of the Borough of Derby, Who Polled ...

Local Interest, Newspapers - The Derbyshire Advertiser, two volumes: 1949 & 1950, black quarter-calf over green cloth boards, atlas folios (63cm x...

Medical, Medicine - Platen (M), The New Curative Treatment of Disease/Handbook Of Hygienic Rules of Life, Health Culture, and the Cure of Ailments...

Medico-Botany - Culpeper [(Nicholas)] & Sibly [(Ebenezer), editor], Culpeper's English Physician; and Complete Herbal [...] [&] Family Dispensator...

Military History - Welsh (Colonel James, of the Madras Establishment), Military Reminiscences; Extracted from a Journal of Nearly Forty Years' Act...

Military History - World War One - Association Copy, Ware (Fabian) & Blunden (Edmund), The Immortal Heritage: An Account of the Work and Policy of...

Military History - World War One - Callwell (Major-General Sir C.E., K.C.B.), Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, Bart., G.C.B., D.S.O.: His Life and ...

Military History - World War One - Clarke (Capt. A.O. Temple, R.A.S.C. (T.F.)), Transport and Sport in the Great War Period, first and only editio...

Military History - World War One - Swinton (Maj. Gen. Sir Ernest, K.B.E., C.B., editor), Twenty Years After: The Battlefields of 1914-1918, Then a...

Military History - World War One, Macedonian/Salonica Front, Great War Poetry - Rutter (Capt. Owen, ("Klip-Klip")), The Song of Tiadatha, Reprinte...

Military History - World War One, Rare Egyptian Imprint, Turkish-English-Greek Military Vocabulary and Dialogues, Cairo: Government Press, 1915, p...

Military History - World War Two, North Africa Campaign - Saber (Clifford), Desert Rat Sketch Book, first and only edition, New York: Sketchbook P...

Military History, Americana - The Photographic History of the Civil War, ten parts complete in five volumes, Secaucus: The Blue & Grey Press, 1987...

Miscellaneous - [Walker (Albert)], "The Road:" Leaves from the Sketch-Book of a Commercial Traveller, by "The Whistling Commercial", third edition...

Miscellaneous - Architecture, including Weaver (Lawrence, editor), Small Country Houses of To-Day, London: Country Life, [n.d., c. 1920], b/w illu...

Miscellaneous - Lord Chesterfield's Letters, four-volume set, seventh edition, London: J. Dodlsey, 1776, rebacked, relayed contemporary calf board...

Miscellaneous - Lovecraft (H.P.), The Haunter of the Dark And Other Tales of Horror, first edition thus, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1966, h/b, ...

Miscellaneous - Lyell (Sir Charles, Bart., F.R.S.) & Duncan (P. Martin, F.R.S., editor), The Student's Elements of Geology, fourth edition, London...

Miscellaneous - Mathematics, Geometry, Hamilton (The Rev. Henry Parr), An Analytical System of Conic Sections [...], fifth edition, Cambridge: Pri...

Miscellaneous - Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1906, colour plates and adverts, red roan gilt over cloth, l...

Miscellaneous - Travel, Addison (Joseph), Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c., In the Years 1701, 1702, 1703., London: J. and R. Tonson, 1767, ...

Miscellaneous - Travel, Jephson (John Mounteney, F.S.A.), Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany, first and only edition, London: Lovell Reeve, 1...

Miscellaneous - Travel, Riesbeck (Baron de), Voyage en Allemagne [...], three-volume set, first French edition, Paris: Chez Buisson, 1788, illustr...

Miscellaneous - Walton (Izaak) & Cotton (Charles), The Complete Angler, London: Henry Washbourne, 1842, full-page engraved plates and in-text illu...

Modern First Editions - Beerbohm (Max) & Sheringham (George, illustrator), The Happy Hypocrite, printed on Japanese vellum: numbered limited editi...

Natural History - Shaw (George, M.D., F.R.S. &c), Insecta/Insects, Volume VI: Part 1 of General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History, London: Ge...

Numismatics - Peck (C. Wilson, F.S.A.), English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coin in the British Museum 1558-1958, With 50 Plates, second edition, Londo...

Parnell (Dr Thomas, Late Arch-Deacon of Clogher), Poems on Several Occasions, To which is added, The Life of Zoilus: and His Remarks on Homer's Ba...

Periodicals - The Quarterly Review, fifteen volumes: March 1842, June 1842, October 1846, December 1847 & March 1848 (bound as one), September 185...

Politics, Finance, and Society - Liverpool Free Public Library sammelband of seven 19th/early 20th century pamphlets: Gaskell (Charles G. Milnes),...

Presentation Copy from the Author - Maugham (W. Somerset), A Writer's Notebook, signed presentation inscription from the author dated 25 January 1...

Provincial Yorkshire Imprint - Bawden (The Rev. William), Dom Boc/A Translation of the Record Called Domesday, so far as relates to the Counties o...

Science - Hooke ([Robert], Fellow of the Royal Society), Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glas...

Science & the Enlightenment - Blagden (Charles, M.D., F.R.S.), two papers: Paper I, Experiments and Observations in an heated Room, Read at the Ro...

Science & the Enlightenment - Rumford ([Sir] Benjamin, Count of, LL.D., F.R.S., &c. &c.), Philosophical Papers: Being a Collection of Memoirs, Dis...

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