The Library Sale

Personal Narrative of Travels in Babylonia, Assyria, Media and Scythia in 1824, 3rd edition in 2 vols., London 1827, small 8vo, coloured plates, s...

Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia etc. London 1815, 4to, author's inscription to Maria Edgeworth to title, map and plates ...

Damascus and Palmyra: A Journey to the East, in 2 vols., London 1838, 8vo, 10 coloured plates after W M Thackeray, half titles, some occasional sl...

A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, in 2 vols. London 1815, 8vo, first edition, vignette titles (slightly cropped), maps, plans and plates (many colo...

LA LANDE. Voyage en Italie, 2nd edition, 7 vols., Yverdon 1787-88, 8vo, calf; BELL (John) Observations on Italy, 1825, small 4to, some water stain...

FORSTER (J R) Travels through Sicily.., London 1773, 8vo, title foxed, worn calf; RUSSELL (George) A Tour through Sicilly in 1815, London 1819, 8v...

MIGNAN (Capt. R) Travels in Chaldea London 1829, 8vo, map and plates as called for, title slightly soiled, diced calf; RICH (C J) Narrative of a J...

Collection of c.25 vols., 8vo, including: KENRICK (J) Ancient Egypt under the Pharoahs, in 2 vols 1850, cloth; HENNIKER (Sir F) Notes during a Vis...

various, mainly early 20th century in cloth bindings, including works by Forbes, Marvin, Hilton-Simpson, Jackson, Goldsmid, etc (20)

FINDEN & BEATTIE. Views of the Ports, Harbours and Watering Places of Gt Britain, in 2 vols., 1842, 4to, 123 plates by Bartlett, (lacking 1 Lighth...

Large collection of mainly 19th works, mainly 8vo, including ex. library copies, some in French, many rather worn and stained, leather bindings. S...

Large collection of mainly 19th works, mainly 8vo, including ex. library copies, many rather worn and stained, most in leather bindings. Sold not ...

The Three Voyages, 1773-1784, 4to, 8 vols. (lacking the atlas vol.), folding maps and plates as required to first 2 Voyages, original calf with 19...

Two painted 'tavolette' book covers in Biccherna style, one painted with a saint, the other with shields and text below, all on a gilded ground wi...

Costume of the Various Orders in the University of Cambridge, no date, 8vo, (early 19th century), engraved title, letter press title, 14 coloured ...

OPIE (A) Madeline a Tale, 1st edition in 2 vols., 1822, 12mo, half calf (worn); MORGAN (Lady) Florence Macarthy, 5th edition in 4 vols., 1819, 12m...

A Booke of the Foundacion and Antiquitye of the Towne of Greate Yermouthe, 2 vols., 1847, folio, the editor's copy with his bookplate and extra-il...

George Cruikshank's Fairy Library, comprising: Hop O My Thumb and the Seven League Boots, The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk, and, Cinderella an...

Phantasmion, London: Pickering 1837, 12mo, lacks half title, light foxing to title, first and last blank leaves, worn half morocco. Note: A rare w...

SCOTT (Peter) Wild Chorus, 1941; Morning Flight, 1942; bound in one 4to vol., signed and inscribed to Bill Barton by the author, dated 1943, half ...

Illustrations of Masonry, 1801, full black morocco gilt Masonic binding by Hering, with their ticket, silk doublures, in clamshell box

Everyman and Other Plays, Chapman & Hall, 1925, 8vo, chromolithographic frontispiece, seventeen illustrations, full black and gilt binding in Arts...

Pippa Passes, 1898, illustrated by Leslie Brooke, no. 17/50 copies, full claret morocco with art nouveau design to boards and doublures by the Gui...

Charles the Second, 1902, 8vo, inscribed to Sir Frank Wingate from Princess Louise (the Princess Royal), with the bookplate of Princess Alexandra,...

An unused quarto album in full morocco gilt [this was item 23 in catalogue 76 of De Burca Rare Books]; BUCHANON (Robert) Undertones, 1863, 8vo, cl...

TENNYSON (Alfred, Lord) Idylls of the King, 1859, 8vo, full red morocco gilt, the fore-edge painted with a sailing ship off the coast

Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1872, 8vo, full prize calf gilt

Collection of 13 vols. variously leather bound, including one by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, 12mo and 8vo, late 19th and 20th century (13)

Hoops of Steel, 1935, 4to, no 27 of 300 copies for private circulation, morocco with coloured onlays by Peter Doyle; De QUINCEY (T) Revolt of the ...

William Lilly's History of his Life and Times. London 1822, 8vo, portrait slightly offset on to title, full Russia binding with double gilt fillet...

all 1849, small 8vo and 12mo, with gift inscriptions, black morocco by W J Cleaver with gilt metal bands and clasps in original case

The Joyce Book. The Sylvan Press, folio, one of 500 copies, full blue goatskin by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, in drop back box

Flowers and their Kindred Thoughts, by M A Bacon, Longman & Co 1848, 8vo, colour printed, blind stamped calf ...[more]

Poems on Several Occasions, in 2 vols., London: for J. Tonson and B. Lintott 1720, 4to, 3 engravings, contemporary speckled calf gilt; HARRIS (Joh...

The Ingoldsby Legends, 3 vols., mixed editions, R. Bentley 1842-52, 8vo, plates, light spotting and foxing, half morocco; SMITH (John Thomas) Noll...

Falconry in the Valley of the Indus, London 1852, small 8vo, 4 plates as required, light foxing, half title, 8 pp. publisher's catalogue at end, o...

Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria. London: Bentley 1852, large 8vo, with inscription 'Harriet Lear from her brother Edward, Nov...

Works, 16 vols., 1882, half green morocco

CORYAT (T) Crudities, in 3 vols, London 1776, 8vo, calf with good reback; The Spirit of the British Essayists, in 4 vols., 2nd edition 1813, 8vo, ...

GIBBON (E) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in 6 vols., 2nd Milman edition 1846, 8vo, occasional marginal annotations, hal...

PRIDEAUX (H) The Old and New Testament, 4 vols. 1799, 8vo, folding maps and a plan, calf; others by Tennyson, Shakespeare, etc., a late Victorian ...

Bindings - literature. AUSTEN (Jane) Works, 5 vols. no date, R. Riviere & Son, 12mo, colour frontispieces, half calf; KINGSLEY (Charles) Works, 6 ...

Edited by A.W Lawrence, Nonesuch Press 1935, small folio, no.177 of 675 copies, maps at end, occasional light foxing and spotting, original blue v...

The River War, revised edition 1902, 8vo, edited by Col. F Rhodes, inscribed to first blank 'Frank Rhodes from the Author Oct. 30. 02', with maps ...

Travels in the Morea, in 3 vols., London: John Murray 1830, 8vo, first edition, 17 engraved maps and plans, 13 plates of inscriptions, rather brow...

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in 12 vols. London 1894, large 8vo, bright cloth gilt (12)

St JOHN (Bayle) Village Life in Egypt, in 2 vols. London 1852, small 8vo; STANHOPE (Lady Hester) Memoirs, in 3 vols. first edition 1845, 8vo, colo...

ROBERTS (David) and Thomas ROSCOE. The Tourist in Spain, 4 vols. 1835-38, 8vo, 'Jennings' Landscape Annuals', mounted india paper proofs, some spo...

Collection mainly late 19th century, including LANE (E W) Arabian Nights, in 3 vols., 1850, half calf; BLANCHARD (P) Le Voyageur de la Jeunesse, 5...

Collection of mainly mid to late 19th century plate books and others, many in leather bindings, including works by H V Morton, Carne's Syria, Pict...

Dictionnaire Universel de Geographie Moderne. Paris 1835, small 4to, two vols. in one, 39 maps (of 59?) hand coloured in outline, a few text leave...

Arctic Explorations, Nelson 1866, 8vo, cloth; with vol. II only of the 1856 edition; together with various others including polar, from the librar...

Malmesbury Diaries, 4 vols. 1844, 8vo, half morocco; JACKSON (Sir George) Diaries and Letters, 2 vols. 1872; The Bath Archives, 2 vols. 1873; ALBE...

Photographic glass plate of Archway, Pont Notre-Dame by Charles Meryon, 16.5 x 21cm; another plate - Japanese figures; also a Chinese busy street ...

Collection of 12 mounted views of Alexandria harbour and ruins, mounts dated by hand 1882, largest 28 x 22cm, also 2 landscape photographs of Jama...

of an officer, standing, three quarter length, in an oval gilt mount, 14.5 x 10.5cm, in Baker's Calcutta leather case

Views in Italy, mainly Rome landmarks, also including Grand Canal Venice, Marina at Naples, Como and Locarno, all mounted to album leaves, c.19 x ...

"On the Banks of the Stour, Constable's Country", mounted, 37 x 76cm

mounted, late 19th or early 20th century, 89 x 61cm

Italian, 19th century, in modern frames (10)