Three Day Sale of Antiques & Collectables

AUTOGRAPHS - 20th cent., some as holograph letters, approx. 20 of mostly minor `great and good`, with ecclesiastical emphasis; folder compilation ...

LITERATURE - Stephen McKenna (1888 - 1967), earlier 20th cent. novelist; an album of approx. 100 letters from readers (admirers and detractors), 1...

CHARLIE CHAPLIN - 4 letters apparently in a secretary`s hand (Vevey, May - Sept. 1962) to the landscape gardener, Peter Anderson, all on one side ...

NINETEENTH CENTURY - Emma Sophia, Countess Brownlow; 4 leatherbound manuscript notebooks - `Reminiscences of a Septuagenarian from the year 1802 t...

CONCERT PROGRAMME - `Ella Fitzgerald Sings With Duke Ellington`, Souvenir Brochure (? Royal Albert Hall, 1966), illus. wrappers - signed by member...

(Pamphlets) cloth-bound volume, includes `Notes of a Holiday Tour in Germany, Switzerland & Italy...` (1875, reprinted from the Eastbourne Clifton...

(Book Binding) an interesting and mostly modern miscellany (27). ...[more]

Haining (P.) Moveable Books: an illustrated history. coloured illus. throughout, d/wrapper, oblong 4to. 1979 ; with others on books about books (q...

Fordham (H.G.) Studies in Carto-Bibliography . . . gilt cloth, reprinted 196; Van Eerde (K.S.) John Ogilby and the Taste of His Times. illus., 197...

Stables (G.) Leaves from the Log of a Gentleman Gipsy: in wayside camp and caravan. First Edition. plates and other illus. (inner hinge weak, titl...

(Cookery) a miscellany of later 19th & earlier 20th cent. books, incl. some Mrs Beetons (qty) ...[more]

(Cookery, Housekeeping & Related) mostly 19th cent. titles - incl. Mrs Taylor`s `Present of a Mistress to a Young Servant` (1826); and Mrs Loudon`...

(Cookery & Related) a miscellany of later 20th cent. titles (15) ...[more]

(South East England) a miscellany of (mainly) clothbound books (qty) ...[more]

Tavistock (Marquess of) Parrots and Parrot - Like Birds in Aviculture. 8 coloured plates (by E.J.Boosey), later gilt morocco (ca. 1930); with thre...

Dalton (L) Rolls-Royce: the Derby Phantoms. illus throughout, d/wrapper. 1991; Morton (C.W.) A History of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. vol.l: 1903-7. n...

(Motoring) a miscellany, incl. motorcycling & some other transport books (qty). ...[more]

O` Gorman (M) O`Gorman`s Motor Pocket Book. engraved illus., gilt leather & later slipcase. 1904; with some others on early motoring (11). ...[m...

KENNEDY (R) The Book of the Motor Car . . . 3 vols. illus. throughout, pictorial cloth, 4to. (1913); sold with some others - incl. prewar cookery ...

Corbett (E.) An Old Coachman`s Chatter, with some practical remarks on driving . . . 2nd edition. 8 tinted litho. plates ( by John Sturgess) & thr...

Stow (John) A Survay of London. Conteyning the originall, antiquity, increase, moderne estate, and description of that city. (Second Edition), sin...

Cary`s New and Correct English Atlas . . . from actual surveys . . . First Edition, 43 engraved and partly coloured county maps & three others, en...

Tweddell (G.M.) & Ricahrdson (J.) Furness, Past and Present; its history and antiquities. 2vols. coloured pictorial and printed titles, coloured d...

Salmon (W.) Pharmcopoeia Londinensis. Or, the New London Dispensatory . . . 2nd edition, corrected and amended . . . (16), 877pp. (title & next le...

Sibbes (Richard) The Returning Backslider, or, a commentarie upon the whole XIIII chapter . . . of the prophet Hosea . . . (13), 511, (16) pp. (la...

(Petrarch) Il Petrarcha con l`Esposifione di M Gio Andrea Gesualdo. nuouamente ristampato, e con somma diligenza corretto . . . engraved title ill...

Brillat-Savarin (J.A.) Physiologie du Gout . . . avec une preface par Ch. Monselet, 2 vols. portrait & engraved vignettes, half titles, later tan ...

ATKYNS (Sir Robert) The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire, 2nd edition. folded map, plan and view of the city, folded cathedral view, 8 ...

PALLAS (Peter Simon) Miscellanea Zoologica, quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae Animalium Species describuntur . . . First Edition, engraved titl...

AMUNDSEN (R.) Sydpolen: den Norske Sydpolsfaerd med Fram, 1910-1912. 2 vols. num. plates & other illus. (incl. 3 folded maps/charts), gilt pictori...

LYAUTEY (Marechal L.H.G.) Paroles d`Action: Madagascar - Sud Oranais - Oran - Maroc (1900 - 1926). 2nd edition. leather - backed patterned boards....

Muir (Ann) Harvesting Colour: the year in a marbler`s workshop . . . Limited Edition. mounted marbled papers, text sketches, half buckram and marb...

POWELL (A.) A Dance to the Music of Time. 11 vols (ex 12), all First Editions, 9 vols, with d/wrappers. 1951 - 75. * Lacks the 2nd vol. in the ser...

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) - Part 1: The Fellowship of the Ring; Part II: The Two Towers; Part III: The Return of the King. ...

ISHIGURO (K.) An Artist of the Floating World. First Edition, d/wrapper, 1986. * 1st issue (printed by Butler and Tanner) ...[more]

LYLE (R.C.) Royal Newmarket. coloured plates and other illus. (by Lionel Edwards), cloth (sl. wear, light marginal stain), 1945. *signed on title ...

M`CALL`S RACING CHRONICLE . . . 12 various vols, 1888-1914, limp cloth bindings; with a similar publication (1900); and later stud books (1960s/80...

Bone (G.) Old Spain . . . Limited Edition, 2 vols. num. etched plates (incl. titles, some coloured) & other illus. (by Muirhead Bone), tan morocco...

STOWE (H.B.) Uncle Tom`s Cabin . . . a Tale of Slave Life in America. engraved title, frontis and num. illus., contemp. gilt calf, rebacked and or...

LAWRENCE (S). 45 Wood-Engravers. with an introduction by John Lawrence. Limited Edition. 45 plates gilt-lettered quarter cloth and marbled boards,...

KIRCHNER (R) De La Brune a La Blonde. 14 coloured plates, loose in cloth -backed pictorial portfolio. Paris, (ca.1910). * no title or letterpress;...

A Wood (Anthony) The Ancient and Present State of the City of Oxford . . . with additions by the Rev. Sir J. Peshall . . . engraved and folded pla...

MILTON (J) Paradise Lost/Regain`d . . . to which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. . . . 2 vols, comtemp. gilt calf (sp...

CONGREVE (W) The Works of Mr. William Congreve . . . 3 vols. engraved portrait and five plates, contemp. half calf and marble boards (worn, some i...

SHAKESPEARE (W) Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Being a reproduction in facsimile of the First Folio Edition 1623. From the Chats...

SWIFT (J.) The Works of . . . 22 vols (only), contemp. calf (some vols. worn). 1765 - sold as found; incl. some vols of the letters; together with...

[BIBLE} The New Year Testament, Translated by William Tyndale 1534 . . . with the translator`s prefaces and notes, and the variants of the edition...

BIBLIOTHEQUE De L`Enseignment des Beaux-Arts. 56 vols. many engraved illus. (some full-page), contemp. morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettere...

SPENSER (Edmund) The Fairie Queene. With an exact collation of the two original editions . . . to which are now added, a New Life of the Author , ...

[OLYMPIC GAMES] The XIth Olympic Games Berlin, 1936 . . . Official Report, 2 vols. illustrated throughout with many photo. & other illus., incl. s...

BAUMBACH (R.W.) Look for the Dog: an illustrated guide to Victor talking machines, 1901-1929. many illus., gilt pictorial cloth. Woodland Hills (C...

KONDO (I.), editor. On the Sotatsu-Korin School of Painting. letterpress folded title sheet & 10 tissue-guarded & captioned plates in gold & colou...

BEERBOHM (M.) Rossetti and His Circle. First Edition. 23 coloured plates (with captioned tissue guards), d/wrapper (v.sl. edge tears). 1922; SHAW ...

WALKER (K.E.) Freedom: a fable. A curious interpretation of the wit of a negress in troubled times . . . First Edition. silhouette pop-up illus., ...

BERNARD (J.) Retrospections of the Stage . . . First Edition, 2vols. engraved portrait frontis., contemp. half calf & marbled boards, gilt-pictori...

[FOLIO SOCIETY] The Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver . . . col. illus. by Edward Bawden, d/wrapper, 1948; NIEVO (I.) The Castle of Fratta . . . illus. b...

PANVINIUS (Onofrio) De Ludis Circensibus; (with) De Triumpho Romanorum Commentarius (the 2 works together as issued, & with separate title-pages)....

JOHNSON (S. ), editor. The Works of the English Poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical. 73 vols. (only, of 75 - lacks vols 22 & 53). some...

HUDSON (W.H.) A Shepherd`s Life. Limited Edition. title & wood-engraved text illus. (by Reynolds Stone) & with the 10 leaves of artist`s mounted p...

HUDSON (W.H.) Birds of La Plata First Edition, 2 vols. 22 coloured plates (by Gronvold), gilt buckram, 1920.; HUDSON (W.H.) Idle Days in Patagonia...