Books, Medals, Militaria, Collectables (Cheltenham)

Large quantity of Observer's books including early numbers as in no.6, no.12, no.14, no.5 (1 box) 

Railwayana including:-MacDermot"History of the Great Western Railway", 3 vols, Sekon, G A"The Great Western Railway",Gordon"Our Home Railways", 2 ...

Butler, Arthur G and Frohawk, F W (ills) "British Birds with their Nests and Eggs in Six Volumes", Brumby & Clark Limited, numerous black and whit...

Newman, Edward"An Illustrated Natural History of British Butterflies", William Tweedie, London, black and white illustrations throughout, original...

"The History of the Works of the Learned for the Year 1739 containing impartial accounts and accurate abstracts of the most valuable books publish...

Barrie, J M "Peter and Wendy", illustrated by F D Bedford, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 5th and 6th editions printed November 1911, colour frontis,...

"Army and Navy Stores Limited General Price List 1935-36", fully illustrated catalogue and Whitaker 1947 bound in blue calf, front board titled wi...

Rugby Interest:Wheeler, Peter"Rugby from the Front", Stanley Paul 1983, signed by the author on the title page, numerous black and white photograp...

Whymper, Edward "Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69", John Murray 1893, 4th edition, numerous illustrations throughout, pencil inscri...

Livingstone, David "Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa", John Murray 1857, folding frontis plate, frontis portrait, folding map, il...

Morecambe, Eric"The Reluctant Vampire", Methuen's Childrens Books 1983, inscribed and signed by the author 'To The Three J's, Eric Morecambe', ill...

Militaria:Coastal Command Magazine, the 8th Army, East of Malta, West of Suez, His Majesty's Mine Sweepers, etc, two small RAF diaries 1945 to Jan...

Dodwell, Edward"A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece during the years 1801, 1805 and 1806", in two vols, printed for Rodwell & Martin...

Small pocket bible (1652), cut down, pencil inscriptions at the back, not complete, contemporary leather with blindstamped decorations and heart-s...

Two volumes of The Racing Illustrated Magazine dated December 1895 to December 30th 1896, rebound green cloth with gilt titles, numerous black and...

Quantity of antiquarian volumes and find bindings (1 box) 

Fine bindings including "Gibbons Roman Empire", "Goldsmith Animated Nature" and other volumes (1 box) 

Austen, Jane  Thomas Nelson & Sons, 4 uniform vols, cream vellum with green pastedowns to title Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Emma and Northang...

"English Housekeeper Cookery Book", lacking boards, early chapters, very damaged"Catalogue Musee Ceramique de Sevres", 1929"The Concise Household ...

Dickens, Charles,  Dombey & Son (as originally published), paper covers, there are two copies of August No.11 and two copies of January No.16, als...

de Morgan, Mary"On a Pin Cushion and Other Fairytales", with illustrations by William de Morgan, Seeley, Jackson and Halliday 1877, plates, header...

Hasted, Edward "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent containing the Ancient and Present State of it, Civil and Ecclesiastica...

Waley, Arthur (trans)"170 Chinese Poems", London, Constable & Company 1918, offsetting on the ffep, H Blackwell Bookseller label inside front boar...

"Burke's Peerage and Baronetage", 106th edition, 1st impression "Burke's General Armory" published by Heraldry Today 1989 

Quantity of cricketing books including Wisdon 1971, etc (1 box) 

Assorted volumes including two volumes of "The International Scientific Series", "The Book of Family Crests", 6th edition, Henry Washbourne 1851, ...

Lee, Mrs R "Trees, Plants and Flowers: Their Beauties, Uses and Influences", illustrations drawn and coloured by James Andrews, Grant & Griffith 1...

Various volumes, mainly relating to poetry, including:Griffis, William Elliot "Japanese Fairy World Stories From the Wonder-Lore of Japan", illust...

"A Memoir of Maria Edgeworth with a Selection from her Letters by the Late Mrs Edgeworth", edited by her children, not published, in four vols, pr...

' Maria Edgeworth Interest:"Sir Walter Scott's Works", signed on the content page 'Maria Edgeworth given to Harriet Beaufort as a token of regard ...

Beaufort, Francis FRS   please note the letter has been withdrawn"Karamania: or a brief description of the South Coast of Asia Minor ... 1811 to 1...

Edgeworth, R L Esq"School Lessons", Dublin, printed for the author by John Jones 1817, inside front cover, inscription to Mrs Beaufort from Maria ...

Maria EdgeworthLarge quantity of sketchbooks/notebooks believed being notes for various of her novels including many with titles, subtitles, cross...

Various rent slips dated 1849 to Mrs Edgeworth (likely to be Maria's stepmother)Although Maria Edgeworth spent most of her childhood in England, h...

Letters from Maria Edgeworth including My Dearest Mary dated October 4th 1834 from Edgeworth's Town, to Margaret Buxton (her aunt) dated June 15th...

Quantity of letters, Maria Edgeworth -some possibly copies of letters to various people, dates from June 1821 Edgeworth Town, these appear to be t...

A letter from Richard Bentley (with a copy of ME's letter July 1834) with Irish seal and stamp, letter from Richard Bentley signed, letters from J...

"Copy of correspondance relative to the publication of a cheap edition of  Miss Edgeworth's Helen......and agreement......Richard Bentley...." cop...

Copy of the Will of the late Mr Joseph Johnston, publisher previous to R. Hunter in Baldwin & Craddock, a letter to Mrs Johnston dated 1804, a let...

Large quantity of letters from R. Hunter to Maria Edgeworth, various dates dating from 1814 through to 1837, 1841, to Maria and to Mrs Edgeworth (...

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Jane Austen "Austen's Works including Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Memoir of Lady Susan etc...

Quantity of folio society including history, biography, fiction (4 boxes) 

Quantity of folio society including Great Stories of Crime four-vol box set, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy boxed set, etc (3 boxes) 

SS Songbook "SS = Liederbuch" published Munchen, Munich, with music, words, illustrations, a pen inscription inside front cover, small 8vo with th...

Austen, Jane "Emma", illustrated by Hugh Thompson, Macmillan & Co 1896, Peacock edition, yellow peacock ep, red cloth with gilt decorations, the s...

Two copies of The Times Atlas and Bacon's Popular Atlas of the British Isles, the latter lacking backstrip and major damage to the boards and "Orb...

The Printers' International Specimen Exchange in Connection with the Paper and Printing Trades Journal, vol 2 (only) 1881, examples of printing an...

[Whymper]"Thirty Plates of Illustrated Natural History with a Short Description Annexed to Each Plate, Part 2", Society for Promoting Christian Kn...

Quantity of pictorial covers including The Romance of Aeronautics, Robin Hood, A & C Black, Ernest Glanvill, The Children's Press, Jules Verne "Ar...

Quantity of antiquarian books including:Dickens, Charles"Little Dorrit", Chapman & Hall 1863, illustrations by H K Brown, half-leather, boards bum...

The New Naturalist Series No.1Ford, E B"Butterflies", Collins 1945, numerous ills, green cloth, dj not price clipped but a bit chipped and fadedNo...

Quantity of The Left Book Club volumes, Victor Gollancz Limited, various authors 1942, quantity of The Cherry Tree Book Series, Grove Press, limp ...

Quantity of detective novels including Glyn Barnett, Dennis Wheatley, Leslie Charteris, various Gollancz , etc with djs

Quantity of detective novels including Gollancz Yellow Jackets, The Thriller Book Club, Conan Doyle uniform edition, Dennis Wheatley, John Rhode, ...

Quantity of H&S Yellow Jackets including Leslie Charteris, Edgar Wallace, John Buchan and various Dornford Yates published Ward Locke (no djs) (1 ...

Agatha Christie "The Crime Club Series" including 'Sparking Cyanide' 1945, 'The Hollow' 1946, 'The Sittaford Mystery' 1952, 'The 4.50 from Padding...

Baker, Sir Samuel W "The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamram Arabs", Macmillan & Co 1872, frontis map, folding map (...

Large quantity of Penguins (1 box) Condition ReportPlease see further images