The Library Sale

Maps. 11 various maps in modern frames, most with hand colouring.France, late 18th century, 15 x 20cm; with another, 19 x 23cm; Dept. de la Vendee...

Jan Jansson. Aethiopia Superior vel Interior; vulgo Abissinorum sive Presbiteri Ioannis Imperium, engraved double page map with some hand colour, ...

John Speed, Huntington Both Shire and Shire Towne with the Ancient Citie Ely Described, engraved hand coloured map of Huntingdonshire, for Bassett...

David Loggan, Peterhouse [Cambridge], late 17th century engraving, 34 x 49cm ...[more]

Charles E Brock (1870-1938), seven early 20th century pen and ink cartoons, c. 29 x 38cm, (most mounted); a red chalk drawing dated 1903; and a Br...

Charles E Brock (1870-1938) three pen and watercolour illustrations dated 1900 and 1914, 15 x 21cm (2) and 18 x 27cm; two larger size watercolour ...

Montague Smyth (1863-1896) Yokohama [original illustration to Old and New Japan publ. 1907 by J M Dent & Co], signed 'Montague Smith' (lower right...

Five original 'Noddy' coloured illustrations, ex Sotheby's Sale 29 October 1997, all in modern frames, sizes vary, largest 34 x 24cmCondition repo...

Eileen Soper, four original illustrations for Happy Rabbit, published Macmillan 1947, three with watercolour, circa 23 x 15.5cm, one in pen and in...

Original illustration for 'Hop O' My Thumb' in The Book of Fairy Tales, London, Frederick Warne & Co Ltd [1914]signed 'H. M. Brock' (lower left)pe...

Attributed to Walter Crane, Town crier with crowd, pen, ink and bodycolour on board, with artist's monogram, dated 'feb 80', rather chipped to som...

Harry Dixon (1861-1942) Black rhinoceros, oil on card, 19.5 x 32.5cm (image, unframed) ...[more]

Dorothy Hutton, British (1889-1984)Illuminated calligraphic Shakespearean sonnet on vellum 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds', in original...

DARLING (Grace, 1815-1842) English lighthouse keeper’s daughter. Manuscript handwriting exercise signed by Darling, the slim oblong 8vo page neatl...

ZOLA (Emile) Autograph letter signed 'Emile Zola', 3pp., 8vo, Paris, 3rd March 1887, to his friend and translator, Ernst Ziegler, in French (with ...

HARDY (Thomas) Moments of Love: Poems to Emma, no. 112 of a limited edition of 157 facsimile copies of Hardy’s love poems to his wife Emma, 1st ed...

ORCZY (Baroness Emmuska) Typed document signed, 3pp., 4to, dated 8th October 1935, being a memorandum of agreement between Orczy and Twickenham Fi...

WAUGH (Evelyn) Autograph letter signed with his initials E.W., one side of his personal printed correspondence card from Combe Florey House, near ...

FOWLES (John) Typed letter signed, 2pp., 8vo, Lyme Regis, Dorset, 29th July 1987, to Julie Reed. Fowles offers his thoughts on how a person become...

EDWARD VIII (1894-1972) A lengthy autograph letter signed, 'David' (also signed a further three times at various breaks in the letter), 8pp., 4to,...

ASQUITH (Anthony, 1902-1968) English film director; DEHN (Paul, 1912-1976) English screenwriter, known for the James Bond movie Goldfinger; GISH (...

Cyprus, Greece and The Holy Land, ink manuscript journal entitled ‘Notes of a Holiday in Cyprus by H.M. Hardcastle 1885', giving an insight into l...

Joseph Finnemore (1860-1939) 'With Buller's Army in Natal, Fallen Out: an Incident on the March', pen, ink and watercolour illustration for the Sp...

An illuminated vellum covered album, early 20th century, 33 x 27cm, the front board painted with a miniature Nativity scene within a foliate gilt ...

[SIMPSON (Samuel)] Teachings by Flowers and Trees, an Old-Man's Reveries 1876, manuscript book (27 x 18.5cm) written in a calligraphic hand with w...

A collection of Cambridge solicitors' correspondence, 1795-1857, mainly Christopher Pemberton and Pemberton & Co, three with 1d blacks on letter s...

Ephemera. Bradshaw's International Air Guide 1937, Cook's Holiday Abroad brochure 1939; Cambridge University and Town Waterworks, 1866, 'An Act fo...

Chinese Imperial Government Bond, £100, 4.5%, Gold Loan of 1898, folded certificate No.077561, 50 x 39cm ...[more]

A collection of bookbinder's hand tools, including various wooden handled punches and rolls for decorative motifs, also a stone slab.Note: these t...

Chinese Junks on East Point, Hong Kong, albumen photograph, c. 1868, 16 x 26cm: withtwo albumen photographs of Happy Valley Racecourse, Hong Kong,...

Guangdong Province, Children near Toi Shan, China, 26th November 2000,silver gelatin, gold chloride and selenium toned photograph, 19.5 x 24cm;tog...

A collection of old documents, photographs and ephemera, mainly relating to the Rickards family, including Lt Com A H P S Rickards RNR, mainly 19t...

A collection of vintage greetings cards circa early to mid 20th century, loose, and various ephemera including 1930s bill heads ...[more]

India. Portrait photograph of Krishnaraja Wadiyar [Maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore] dated 1934, signed in ink, laid to board, 38 x 23cm, in a sh...

VALENTINO (Rudolph) Day Dreams, New York 1923, 8vo, author's inscription 'To Audrey, most charming, elusive and fascinating....', original boards,...

A mid-19th century print scrap book, containing portraits and figures, animals, scenery and popular subjects, many with added ink captions, covers...

A collection of dried fern specimens, 19th century, mounted to paper leaves, within loose covers, some with captions ...[more]

A William IV indenture, an agreement between Samuel Jones, Edward Gatty, Richard Lowndes and others, concerning land around Wootton, Bedfordshire,...

Romeo and Juliet, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 1818, (including Kemble), 20 x 15cm; The Africans, 1822, 32 x 19cm; Sublime & Beautiful [and others], ...

A Colliograph by Henry Hughes and Son Ltd, with maritime enquiry models in the original wooden box, with about 24 paper-covered model vessel types...

A Victorian wooden block puzzle of the 'Sovereigns of England' from William I to Victoria, 36 coloured lithographic portraits with text to verso o...

A folder of pressed flowers, Finnish, labels for each specimen dated 1942-44 all written in Finnish and signed Kaisa Kuskila, each specimen on a l...

Guide Book to Kelsall's Crystal Palace Exhibition and Royal Collection of Moving Wax Models, Kilmarnock: by James McKie, c.1870, small 8vo booklet...

LAWRENCE (D H) and Suffragette (WSPU) interest circa 1914. Leather bound hotel visitor’s book recording names/addresses/arrivals/departures and si...

Newmarket Horse Racing and the Joel family circa 1940s/50s. Leather album compiled by Mrs Solna Thompson Jones (nee Joel), wife of horse trainer H...

Monkswell family interest. Group of early 20th century photographic portraits by Elliott & Fry, Bassano Ltd. etc., including images of Mary J.H. C...

BIRO (Balint Stephen) ('Val Biro'), original book-jacket design for ‘The Sisters of Rye’ by Philip Lindsay, pub. Hutchinson 1960, ink and watercol...

Singapore Interest. Various printed architects plans and a hand-drawn sheet showing proposed room and garden designs for The Cockpit Hotel, Singap...

A 19th Century photograph album containing 41 black and white images by various photographers to include views of Tintern Abbey, Chepstow Castle, ...

A collection of twelve 19th century topographical watercolours and drawings, most unsigned, various subjects and sizes, one signed Hunter Blair 'N...

Henry Pegram, Euston Road, London, illustrated catalogue circa 1890 of High Class Baby and Invalid Carriages, Rocking and Velocipede Horses, 40pp....

Boxing. A printed broadside 'Rules to be Observed in all Battles on the Stage', double column sheet of 7 rules with 5 tinted boxing woodcuts above...

South Africa, Zulu War, coloured steel engraving of Sir G Wolseley presenting the Victoria Medal to Major Chard R.E., framed with a South Africa c...

An 1890s photograph album, of views taken by a passenger on board steam yacht Minerva [built 1875], cruising the Norwegian fjords, at Solovetsk, g...

PROCLUS (Diadochus) De sphaera; CLEOMEDES, libri I & II; ARATI; DIONYSII; HONTERI; Basel: per Henricum Petri, 1561, small 8vo, circa 154 x 107mm, ...

BIBLE, Matthews version combining the Tyndale and Coverdale translations, edited by John Rogers under the pseudonym ‘Thomas Matthew’. [The Byble, ...

Bible, "Breeches" version. The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1598, 20 x 14.5cm, tit...

SIDNEY (Sir Philip) The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, 11th edition, 1662, small folio, rather age stained and soiled throughout, two small holes...

SHAKESPEARE (William) Third Folio. [Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, The Third Impression, London: for P.C. 1664,] 2nd issue, adding for first t...

JONSON (Ben) The Workes. London: Printed by William Stansby, 1616, folio, with second vol., [London: W. Stanbsy 1641 [i.e. 1631-40-41], First foli...