Books & Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins

Mendoza (Daniel) Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza; Containing a Faithful Narrative of the Various Vicissitudes of His Life, and an Account of...

Mercuriale (Girolamo) Hieronymi Mercurialis De arte gymnastica libri sex…, third edition, [CNCE 28045], woodcut illustrations after Pirro Ligorio,...

Miles (Henry Downes)Pugilistica: Being One Hundred and Forty-Four Years of the History of British Boxing, 3 vols., second edition in book form, fr...

Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism. Containing a Full Account of Every Battle of Note from the Time of Broughton and Slack, down to the Present D...

Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism. Containing a Full Account of Every Battle of Note from the Time of Broughton and Slack, down to the Present D...

Pancratia; or, a History of Pugilism; Containing a Full Account of Every Battle of Note, from the Time of Broughton and Slack, down to the Present...

Prize Ring HeroesA collection of 4 volumes, including:Prize Ring Heroes: Life and Battles of Tom Hyer, Yankee Sullivan, John Morrissey, John C. He...

Sammelband.-‘A Pupil of the Late Tom Cribb’, The British Boxer, or Guide to Self Defence, title vignette, 16pp., [Hartley 1577], variation publish...

Smeeton (George, publisher) The Catechism of Boxing, Which, It Is Presumed, Will Enable the Pupil More Readily to Attain a Perfect Knowledge of Th...

Sullivan (John L.) John L. Sullivan, The Champion Pugilist. His Life and Battles, With a Full History of His Great Battle with Paddy Ryan…, 23 pla...

Timony (Patrick, pseud.) The American Fistiana: Containing a History of Prize Fighting in the United States, with All the Principal Battles of the...

Tunney (Gene) Arms for Living, first edition, inscribed ‘To W. E. Chilton, Jr., Gene Tunney, 9/29/41’ to front endpaper, staining to endpapers, or...

Wrestling.- Parkyns (Sir Thomas, of Bunny Park)Progymnasmata: The Inn-Play: or, Cornish-Hugg Wrestler…, second edition ‘with large Additions’, [ES...

Snaffles’[Johnson Payne (Charles)]Sporting Anecdotes for the Twelve Months of the Year, or, ‘The Twelve Months of the Year,12 coloured images of h...

Sporting & Travel.-Beckford (Peter)Thoughts on Hunting, number 32 of 350 copies, signed and numbered by the artist, 25 tipped-in colour plates by ...

Tennis.-Marshall (Julian)The Annals of Tennis,first edition in book form, title printed in red and black, frontispiece and 45 plates, publisher's ...

Baldung Grien (Hans) Madonna and Child on a Grassy Bench, woodcut, with Albrecht Durer’s monogram upper left, [Bartsch (as Durer) VII.13; Hollstei...

Berman (Eugene)Mackie, from The Threepenny Opera,dated 1937 (lower right) and inscribed L'Opera de 4 sous (upper right) and Mackie (lower centre),...

Berman (Eugene)Scenes from The Threepenny Opera,initialled and dated E.B 1937 (lower right) and inscribed L'Opera de 4 sous (lower right), waterco...

Collection of Original Art Work27 original pen, ink, and watercolour drawings by and after Charles Green, illustrator of Charles Dickens, D. MacPh...

Coriolano (Bartolomeo) & Reni (Guido, after) Sybil holding a Tablet with a Winged Putto to the Right, [Bartsch 4], chiaroscuro woodcut, printed fr...

Cruikshank (George) A Grand Manoeuvre! or, The Rogues march to the Island of Elba, hand-coloured etching on wove paper, watermark of ‘Wilmott 1819...

Cruikshank (Robert Isaac) "The Brigand Plundering", "The Wounded Brigand Retreating" and "The Dying Brigand", ink and watercolour on wove, all sig...

Rowlandson (Thomas) & Sauley (G.) The Beast as described in the Revelations, Chap.13, resembling Napoleon Buonaparte, hand-coloured etching on wov...

Gilbert (Terence J.)"R. A. B." Butler, pencil on wove, signed and titled, overall 54 x 44 cm, n.d.***Gilbert’s commissions include HM The Queen an...

Gilbert (Terence J.)Alec Douglas-Home, pencil on wove, signed and titled, overall 54 x 44 cm, n.d.***Gilbert’s commissions include HM The Queen an...

Gilbert (Terence J.)Dwight Eisenhower, pencil on wove, signed and titled, overall 54 x 44 cm, n.d.***Gilbert’s commissions include HM The Queen an...

Gilbert (Terence J.)Edward Heath, pencil on wove, signed and titled, overall 54 x 44 cm, n.d.***Gilbert’s commissions include HM The Queen and Pre...

Gilbert (Terence J.)Enoch Powell, pencil on wove, signed and titled, overall 54 x 44 cm, n.d.***Gilbert’s commissions include HM The Queen and Pre...

Gilbert (Terence J.)Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, pencil on wove, signed and titled, overall 54 x 44 cm, n.d.***Gilbert’s commissions include ...

Gilbert (Terence J.)Harold Macmillan, pencil on wove, signed and titled, overall 54 x 44 cm, n.d.***Gilbert’s commissions include HM The Queen and...

Gilbert (Terence J.)Iain Macleod, pencil on wove, signed and titled, overall 54 x 44 cm, n.d.***Gilbert’s commissions include HM The Queen and Pre...

Gilbert (Terence J.)Lord Mountbatten, pencil on wove, signed and titled, overall 54 x 44 cm, n.d.***Gilbert’s commissions include HM The Queen and...

Helleu (Paul César) Croquis de Têtes d'une Jeune Femme [Sketches of a Young Lady's head], signed in pencil lower left, drypoint printed in bistre,...

Infantino (Carmine) & Anderson (Murphy) Nine DC Comics characters, trial proof, pen and ink on paper, signed lower left, sheet 30.5 x 46 cm, 2004....

May (Phil). Artist/CaricaturistCollection of Cartoons.8 original cartoons by the celebrated cartoonist of the late C.19th and early C.20th., inclu...

Modernist & Scandinavian architecture interest.-A portfolio set of four large sheets of extensive and detailed presentation drawings, pen & ink on...

Nemteanu (Dan) A pair of costume designs for Igor Stravinsky’s Rucklarens väg [The Rake’s Progress], ink and wash, inscribed, signed and dated, ...

Playbills & theatrical flyers.-A collection of Georgian playbills and theatrical flyers, on paper or silk, v.s. loose within a contemporary half m...

Portrait engravings.-Gainsborough (Thomas, after) & Sherwin (John Keyse, engraver)The Right Honble William Pitt, scratched letter proof, [NPG D402...

Specchi (Alessandro)Prospetto della Basilica Vaticana, architettura di Carlo Maderno…, engraving, some browning, restored loss to lower left corne...

Stubbs (George) & Woollett (William, engraver) Shooting, the set of four numbered engravings, all browned, plate III with repaired tear upper righ...

Traditional and modernist architecture.-An archive of fine architectural drawings and works, in two portfolios, student and later architectural dr...

van de Velde II (Jan) The Sorceress, second or third state (of three), [H. 152], trimmed to the image (lacking text at foot), laid down, one short...

Van Dyck (Anthony, after) & Strange (Robert, engraver) Carolo Imo. Magnae Britanniae Regi, &c., hand-coloured engraving, with highlights in white,...

Art reference.- A collection of miscellaneous works, including:Stella (Rudolph, ed.) La pittura del ‘700 a Roma, vol. 2 in the Repertori fotografi...

Art reference.-A large collection of c.80 volumes, including:Grundy (Cecil Reginald) A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the collection of...