The Library Sale

Ships at anchor including warships, 10 views, each about 6 x 9cm, one other of a ship in dry dock, 12.5 x 10cm; also 4 early London views (largest...

of c.50 photographic head portraits by Kissack, c.1920s, mounted to album leaves, each signed by the sitter, image size c.14 x 9.5cm

a large collection of British and Continental CDVs, mostly portraits, with some scenery, several by Willey of Louth

with carved wood front board (detached), enclosing numerous portraits and country house views within watercolour decorated mounts, including a pag...

of mainly British scenery including the Lake District, churches, castles and landmarks, also a locomotive accident and some Continental views, siz...

four duplicate mounted funerial recumbent female effigies by Dixon, London, c.12.5 x 26cm, three of statues by F. Thrupp, one other (8)

including Royal commemoratives, exhibition tickets, 3 small coloured caricature maps, perpetual calendars, few drawings and watercolours, calling ...

Collection of mainly 19th century greetings cards, including 2 of heart-shape with ink inscriptions, 2 'Contents of Dressing Case' with named flap...

Early Chinese Bronzes, 1924, 4to, 110 plates. original cloth; MORRISON (Arthur) The Painters of Japan, 2 vols., New York [no date] c.1911, folio, ...

The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated, Quadrupeds and Birds, 2 vols, 1835, 8vo, illustrations, half morocco; WOOD (J G) T...

The Falkland Islands, no date c.1890, 4to, 20 photographic plates on card, loose as issued with booklet of text, original cloth gilt case

probably late 19th century, containing numerous 16th century and later clipped title pages, imprints, illustrations and decorations, including 8 t...

with 12 paintings of various vessels, each about 16.5 x 22.5cm, with varying surface wear and age damage, within marbled wrappers bound into calf ...

drawings and autographs, including Louis Wain

of photographs, postcards etc c.1914-18, in Japanese lacquered covers

of about 340 sketches, drawings and watercolours including Oxford, Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk, by the architect Richard Suter. Appointed as Su...

An album of about 300 drawings and watercolours of Bedfordshire, Chester, Derby, Durham, Yorkshire, Stafford, Shropshire, Leicester, Warwick, Linc...

An album of about 130 drawings and watercolours of Welsh subjects

Three albums, illustrating Belgium in about 250 drawings, sketches and watercolours; Normandy, dated 1849, with about 80 sketches and watercolours...

An archive of related items, including: Lettice & Lovage by Peter Shaffer - Theatre Royal, Bath, [Premiere] 1987; with 3 large printed plans, 6 or...

mainly George Comins, Ely and Littleport, a collection in plastic sleeves

mainly London themed, with 12mo text pages mounted to larger leaves with various prints and scraps pasted in

18th and 19th century, several after old masters, and many trimmed or mounted, subjects and sizes vary, including portraits and landscapes, also t...

to Miss Amy Rean of Eastbourne, 4p., advising on suggested reading material. Wells relates that he has lately been reading Booth's Life and Labour...

A late 18th century vellum album of pen and ink crests, a few others printed stuck in, covers worn; 29 others mainly classic literature, a few in ...

folio, 10 lines of manuscript text with musical notation, possibly from a Psalm, double glazed, 39 x 28cm

Small Rhyme Sheet No.7, 'The Man of Science', publ. St Dominic's Press, Ditchling, 20 x 13.5cm

an official legal petition or edict, in the name of Philip of Spain, dated 7 July 1566, small folio, concerning 'de Torniellis' and 'de Brusatis',...

Three handwritten letters, three handwritten postcards, a typed postcard, three typed letters and a telegram, Hoglands, Perry Green, Much Hadham H...

A small cloth bound sketch book comprising thirty-eight drawings and watercolours depicting views of Canada and The United States taken between Au...

one c.1470 initial 'H' from a German antiphoner, depicting the Annunciation 11 x 10cm, the others lines of religious text, on vellum (6) ...[more]

typed letter signed to Frau [Gigi] Richter, California 1942, in German, 1 p.; another letter from Bruno Frank, 1920; 2 other letters. Also - a Ric...

Autograph letter signed to Gigi Richter, dated October 25th 1945, from Mexico, 4pp. Paalen writes 'Enclosed please find a letter of introduction f...

Royal ephemera. Queen Victoria autograph letter in the third person to Lord Odo Russell, on mourning paper, dated July 1874, "to repeat her wish t...

"I fear Cambridge will present you with many new and difficult problems..." pen and ink drawing, signed and dated 1952, ink caption to the mount b...

43 photographs (about 11 x 15cm), of Buganda, including the Infant King Daudi Cwa II with Apolo Kagwa, Lake Victoria and other areas of Uganda, wi...

nine Daguerreotype or similar cased portraits, various small sizes (9)

early 19th century, formerly from Rushbrooke Hall, Suffolk, including numerous press cuttings, some manuscript material and memorabilia, etc

one with CDV family portraits, including a cabinet card signed of W Gladstone dated 1892; the other a nautical album with portraits within decorat...

with 50 Cambridge and University views by GWW (probably George Washington Wilson), with printed captions and index numbers, mounted into a worn le...

as derived from the Practice of the Central School of the National Society... in the Sanctuary, Westminster. 2nd edition London: Roake and Varty 1...

Portrait photograph, signed in ink to the mount, in a hallmarked silver frame engraved 'Foreign Office 1916-1919', 31 x 24cm overall

and Mills family interest to include indentures dated 1681, 1683, 1750, a Release dated 1806 given by John Mills ‘late of Great Bealings but now o...

containing various Christmas and New Year cards, scraps of cats and dogs etc., together with another album of cards and scraps, a small photograph...

First Series card game, complete set (63 cards), in blue box

watermark date 1828, containing various pen and ink sketches, poems and verses etc.; also - William Beaven of Kilburn, Organist and Professor of t...

of Richenda Buxton, the marble-boarded cover applied with a gilt-tooled leather label inscribed ‘Italy No.1’, the interior containing 57 watercolo...

containing various inscriptions, signatures and two photographs, including entries made at No.24 Stationary Hospital, Kantara, Egypt, 1917; a fold...

watercolours and ephemera to include a large quantity of Victorian scrap album leaves

A WWI machine gun company in action, an original illustration for ‘The War Budget’ (1914-18), watercolour on card, 35.5 x 25cms, unframed.

A personal archive compiled by Mrs.Vera Court of the Arts Theatrical Club, London comprising original photographs and ephemera relating to the Bal...

of Napoleonic soldiers together with contemporary newspaper cuttings, various sizes, unframed.

dated 19th October 1868 awarded to Joseph Cockshoot and Henry Weatherill of Manchester, for ‘Certain improvements in the construction of Carriage ...

The Fell & Rock Climbing Club, The Alpine Club, British Everest Expedition and Frank Smythe (photographer). An album of mountaineering, climbing a...

An original etched and coloured Christmas card depicting The Nativity, inscribed in the plate ‘P.E. 4’ and ‘F.L’, the interior containing a two–pa...

a group of four photo prints on card of North American Indians, each numbered and inscribed within the image, unframed

early 20th Century black and white photographic panorama of Jerusalem by The American Colony Photography Dept., in oak frame.

containing numerous natural history prints, Christmas and New Year greetings cards

‘A certain King had a beautiful Garden and in that Garden stood a tree which bore golden Apples…Grimm’s Fairy Tales’; an illustration in pen and i...

Dover Castle and Rochester Castle, watercolour, each 9.5 x 16cms