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A Persian papier-mâché and marquetry rounded rectangular photograph album, the front painted with a stag hunt on a traditional foliate Islamic gro...

An unusual French polished brass articulated drawing room periodical rack, the folio stands folding when lifted from the handle, the glazed panels...

Bindings - two 19th century quarter-morocco over cloth collector's portfolios or albums, vacant card leaves, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers, crow...

Political and Legal History - City of London - a George I summons, printed and completed in handwritten manuscript, Sir, You are desired to meet t...

Scouting Interest - Ken Blore, 57th Nottingham (St. Barts), his Boy Scouts Leader uniform, comprising his wool jerkin adorned with badges and embr...

A collection of mid-19th century and later periodical illustrations, taken from Punch, L'Illustration, The Graphic, The Illustrated London News, a...

Ornithology - Gremilliet, by, Pauline De Courcelle, after, Manakin Goitreux, from Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers by ...

A 19th century ink manuscript commonplace book, dated 1845, 'topsy-turvy' inscribed with 102pp of selections from belles-lettres and our author's ...

A bundle of 19th century vellum ink manuscript deeds, relating to a house in Kingston Square, Sculcoates, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, beginning...

A mid-Victorian lady's drawing-room friendship album, the property of and compiled by/& for Jenny Townsend [? of Attleborough House] from 2nd Sept...

An early 20th century sketch book, the album illustrated by Frederick P. Sinclair, Sub-Librarian, Free Public Library, Brentford, London, W., with...

An Edwardian album of newspaper cuttings, compiled by H. Hawkins of Everdon Hall, Northamptonshire, between 1906 & 1907, and all pertaining to his...

Ephemera - Local Interest, two postal history ink manuscript covers, comprising one from William Cavendish, 6th 'Bachelor' Duke of Devonshire, to ...

Local Interest - a George III vellum indenture relating to land off Babington Lane, Derby, dated 13th September 1796, signed and sealed by Thomas ...

Local Interest - A quantity of correspondence relating to the Derwent Hall estate, 1896-1901.Derwent Hall was owned by the Duke of Norfolk, and at...

Operation Grapple, Christmas Island, 1957-1958, & The British Hydrogen Bomb Programme - 5030323 Leading Aircraftman W.D. Bloore, Royal Air Force, ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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 - 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...

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

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

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...

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)...

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