BOOKS AND COLLECTORS ITEMS

AUTOGRAPH. early autograph Queen Victoria. printed command to attend Coronation June 28, 1838 with autograph. ...[more]

MANUSCRIPT LEGAL OPINIONS. 4 cases written up by L. Kenyon, Lincoln's Inn, 1780-1783.

AUTOGRAPH ALS etc. mostly to Robert Bateman re Art, from eg T.C. Gotch John Murray, Sidney Lee, Marie Corelli etc (40 items) c1840's-1915.

PRE POSTAL plus quantity ALS ephemera etc. Condition report: 38 items. ...[more]

SHAKESPEARE EXHIBITION GRAFTON GALLERIES. 12 pp manu notes by Sidney Lee

TACITUS (GAIUS CORNELIUS) "Opera." woodcut initials tailpeices etc, old vellum, folio,m Plantin, 1668

JOHN LE CARRE. "The Night Manager." 1st edn, unclipped dj, 1993 vg; "The Constant Gardener." 1st edn, unclipped dj, 2001 vg; "Absolute Friends." 1...

MINIATURE WOODEN BOOKCASE. Mahogany glazed bookcase with finial & bun feet, Shakspeare in gilt 10 x 12 inches, mid 19C vg. ...[more]

J.R.R. TOLKIEN. "Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Pearl & Sir Orfeo." trans Tolkien, 1st edn, unclipped dj, 1975 vg; "Unfinished Tale of Numenor & Mi...

Books about Tolkien, Shakespeare etc, 10 various.

DE VECCHI (P.). "Raphael." boxed 2002 fine; plus 1 other.

JOHN LE CARRE. "The Pigeon Tunnel." 1st edn, signed, unclipped dj, 2016 vg.

JACYNTH PARSONS ILLS. "Songs of Innocence." col plts with descriptive guards comp, orig cl, 1927; MILLER (HENRY) "Tropic of Cancer." 1st Eng. 1963...

JOHN LE CARRE. "The Looking-Glass War." 1st edn, orig cl, unclipped dj, 1965 good.

DYLAN THOMAS "The Map of Love." 1st edn orig cl,1939 good.

DYLAN THOMAS. "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog." 1st edn, orig cl, 1940 good. ...[more]

DYLAN THOMAS. "Under Milk Wood." 1sdt edn, reprinted 1954, unclipped dj, vg; plus 2 other Thomas 1st's. ...[more]

DYLAN THOMAS. 12 books by & about. vg ...[more]

FIRST EDITIONS. 16 1st or Eng 1st's novels. ...[more]

SMITH (SIMON). "Ralph Maynard Smith, A Haunted Man, painted, writer, architect, (1904-1964) 2004 as new.

RALPH MAYNARD SMITH. exhibition catalogues. 10 various.

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES. 20 various

EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS. "Stories from Hans Anderson." 12 col plts comp, orig cl, 4to, 1938.

CICELY MARY BARKER. "Flower Fairy Books." 5 various; MARGARET TARRANT. "Flower Fairy Books." 9 various.

BEATRIX POTTER. "The Tale of Jemina Puddle-Duck." 1st edn, 1908 (poor condition); plus 7 other children's.

SCULPTURE & OTHER EXHIBITION CATALOGUES. mostly 1980's. BOX ...[more]

SANDRO BOTTICELLI and DANTE ALIGHIERI "Goettlicher Komoedie." 79 photogravure plts, loose in cout 1/2 cf very large folio, Grotesche Verlasbuchand...

SCULPTURE. a near run of the magazine "Sculpture." 2008-2018, vg in 6 BOXES.

TRELOWETH TIN MINE. good manuscript ledger re accounts for 1785-1788. this ledger exhibited 7 Oct 1788 under a commision of Bankruptcy against Hug...

GENERAL GOODS LEDGER. well filled manu ledger Edwards family 1840's - 50's mod 1/2 cl.

"Harbour of Refuge Inquiry. North Coast of Devon & Cornwall." a report by Wm. Matthews, 23 June, 1906. 6 folding col maps comp, list of ships lost...

MACLEAN (JOHN). "Parochial & Family History of the Parish & Borough of Bodmin in the County of Cornwall." 4 plts (as called for) other illus, cont...

BOWDLER (MRS H.M.). "Pen Tamar, or, The History of an Old Maid." 4 aquatints comp, cont 1/2 cf, 12mo, 1830; plus 5 other 19C Cornish books. ...[m...

OLIVER (A.S.). "Boats & Boatbuilding in West Cornwall." 1971 g; plus other misc Cornish books; plus 3 non Cornish books. BOX ...[more]

POLWHELE (REV. RICHARD). "The History of Cornwall." 3 Vols bound in one, complete with the 96 page supplement. folding aquatint of Mount's Bay, fo...

SNAPSHOT ALBUM. including photos Cornwall 1931.

WILLIAM BORLASE. "Observations on the Ancient & Present State of the Islands of Scilly ..." 1st edn, 5 engr plts comp incl folding, mod 1/2 calf, ...

WILLIAM BORLASE. "Antiquities, Historical & Monumental of the County of Cornwall ..." 1769; plus "The Natural History of Cornwall ..." 1758. the 2...

PUBLISHER S. HOOPER. "Cornwall Illustrated." hand col map & 23 engr plts comp, well bound mod 1/2 calf gt, 4to 1786 vg. ...[more]

GREAT DOMESDAY BOOK. "Cornwall." Alecto Edition, 3 Vols in orig case, 1988 vg

WHITAKER (JOHN). "The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed." 2 Vols bound in 1, cf, 4to covers det 1804.

GILBERT DAVIES "A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall." 4 Vols, plts, folding charts etc comp, mod 1/2 cf gt, 8vo, 1867-72 vg.

VIVIAN (LT.-COL. J.L.). "The Visitations of Cornwall, comprising the Heralds Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620." mod cloth, 4to, 1887g ...[more]

SYMONS (R.). "A Geographical Dictionary of the County of Cornwall." folding maps (1 torn & repaired) orig cl, 4to 1884. ...[more]

LYSONS (D.& S.). "Magna Britannia." Cornwall. folding map, plts etc comp, cont 1/2 cf, spine loose, thick 4to 1814. ...[more]

WILLIAM BORLASE. "Observations on the Antiquities Historical & Monumental of the County of Cornwall." 29 (of 32) plts only, mod 1/2 mor, fl, 1754....

MANNING-SANDERS (RUTH) "A Bundle of Ballads." with 2 ALS, uncut dj, 1959 vg. ...[more]

DUCKET (SIR GEORGE). 6 bound offprints incl "Gundreda, Countess of Warnenne." 1878 etc, well bound 1/2 cf. ...[more]

CALAMY (EDMUND). "An Account of the Ministers, Lecturers, Master & Fellows of Colleges & Schoolmasters who were Ejected or Silenced ... 1660." Vol...

WILLIAM CAMDEN. "Britannia." woodcut title with royal arms, plus additional woodcut title with map, 3 engr maps comp, other engr plts, 831 pp comp...

"The Annals of King James & King Charles the First." (lacks last page index) cont cf, fl, 1681 ...[more]

CARNE (JOHN). "Letters from the East." 1st edn, hand col aquatint frontis 593 pp comp cont calf gilt, 8vo, Colburn, 1826 good.

LELAND (JOHN). "Joannis Lelandi Antiquarii de rebus Britannicis Collectanea ..." 6 Vols comp, engr plts incl folding, cont cf loose

"The Cambridge Visitation of Henry St George 1619." pub Gilmour 1840, bds, fl, 1840 g.

JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER. "Whistler as I knew him." by Mortimer Menpes. Ltd edn of 500 signed, original etched frontis by Whistler, 125 col & other ...

OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. Album containing number Swiss alpine scenes etc.

BEN NICHOLSON. "drawings paintings & reliefs 1911-1968." intro John Russell, plts comp, orig cl, unclipped dj, lg 4to 1969 good. ...[more]

BERNARD LEACH. volume pub in Japan showing pots by Leach in Japanese collections, col & other plts, orig cl folio, 1966 good. ...[more]

EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS "Stories from the Arabian Nights." 20 tipped-in col plts comp, orig cl gt, 4to c1920 vg.

GEORGE & ROBERT CRUIKSHANK ILLUS. "The Old Sailor's Jolly Boat ..." etched plts incl frontis & title comp, text by H.M. Barker, cont 1/2 cf, c1830...