A Library of Important Books

RAWLING (CAPTAIN C.G.). "The Land of the New Guinea Pygmies, An Account of the Story of a Pioneer Journey of Exploration into the Heart of New Gui...

BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN. 15 original photos including tanks 24 Oct, 1942; plus other photos including E.N.S.A. photos etc (album titled Egypt, Palest...

ITALIAN CAMPAIGN. Good photo album containing 100 photos battle scenes Anzio, Casino Salerno etc (album titled Italy December 1943 - June 1944 com...

SWISS HAND COLOURED AQUATINTS. 7 views incl Mont Blanc, contained in keepsake album, also incl is fine oval enamel of Swiss girl. ...[more]

W. HAMILTON MAXWELL. "Wild Sports of the West. 2 Vols, engr plts & vignettes comp, well bound cont 1/2 cf, 8vo, Bentley 1833 vg. ...[more]

EDMUND SPENCER. "Travels in Circassia, Krim - Tartary... Black Sea." 2 Vols, 2 hand col frontis map of Black Sea other plts & illus comp well boun...

WRIGHT (REV. G.N.) "The Shores & Islands of the Mediterranean." Maps & 64 engr plts comp, finely bound Morocco gilt, aeg, 4to 1838 fine. ...[more]

EDWARD NORTH BUXTON. "Short Stalks, or Hunting Camps North, South East, & West." plus "Short Stalks, Second Series... Daghestan." the 2 Vols with ...

CHILTON (CHARLES). "The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand." 2 Vols, maps, plts etc comp, orig cl gt, 4to 1909 (some pages marked). ...[more]

FRIDTJOF NANSEN. "Farthest North." 2 Vols, plts map etc, (lacks col plt) orig cl gt, 1898. ...[more]

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL. "Thirteen Celebrated Italian Duets, Accompanied with the Harpsicord or Organ, never before Printed, Composed by the late M...

DOMENICO SCARLATTI. "Libro de XII Sonatas Modernas para Clavicordio Compuestas por el Senor D. Domingo Scarlati Caballero del Orden de Santiago y ...

CHARLES BURNEY. "A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period." 4 Vols, Vol I 2nd edn, others 1st's all plates etc comp...

JOHN CHRISTIAN BACH. Finely Bound Volume of Printed Music Containing: "Six Sonates pour le Clavecin, accompagnees d'un Violin ou Flute Transversie...

JAMES JOYCE. "Seven Poems." set to music by E.J. Moeran, 20 pp comp, orig wps, O.U.P. 1930 VG. ...[more]

JAMES HOOK. A Christmas Box." (Vol I) & "Second Volume of Christmas Box". The 1st appearance, each complete, published Bland & Waller circa 1797; ...

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART. "Die Zauberflote, Grosse Oper in Zwei Akten, (Ridotto per il (embalo)" arranged M.G. Fischer, 124 pp comp (lacks last pag...

MUSIC COVERS. A Collection of 9 colour printed lithographs of the early period of the artist Alfred Concannen & others, depicting Music Hall perfo...

MUSIC COVERS. A Collection of 4 colour printed lithographs showing London Street Scenes including humerous by 5Concanen & others 1860's. ...[more]

MUSIC COVERS. A Collection of 7 colour printed lithographs by H.G. Banks showing artists such as Marie Lloyd & Dan Leno 1892 etc. ...[more]

MUSIC COVER. Very rare colour printed lithograph "Northward Ho!, or Baffled Not Beaten." by Alfred Concanen. Commander John Cheyne R.N. proposed p...

MUSIC COVERS. A Collection of 5 covers (4 col printed) showing Railway & early motoring by Concanen & others (the black cover c1840's with numbers...

MUSIC COVERS. 14 colour lithographs ballet, opera, stage entertainments etc, incl "The Great Chang Polka." by Concanen. ...[more]

MUSIC COVERS. A Collection of 27 colour lithographs military subjects incl Angus Mackay & Ross Her Majesty's Pipers, Crimean & American Civil War....

MUSIC COVERS. A Collection of 22 miscellaneous covers including "Patience Lancers." "Amy" (Johnson), "Rudolph Valentino", "Queen of the Sea" (Quee...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. "The Larger Temple Shakespeare." 12 Vols complete limited edition of 175, edited Israel Gollancz, plates with descriptive tis...

GREEN (J.R.). "A Short History of the English People." 4 Vols, illus, maps etc comp, 1/2 Morocco gilt by Howell, 1892 vg; FIELD-MARSHAL LORD ROBER...

JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER. "The Portfolio, An Artistic Periodical." ed P.G. Hamerton, Eleven Volumes 1870, 1872, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 & 188...

CASED GEOGRAPHICAL GRAMMAR SET. 3 Vols dated 1795 & 1797 in original calf gilt case of book form (back section missing). ...[more]

GEORGE ELIOT. "George Eliot's Life as Related in her Letters & Journals." 4 Vols, edited J.W.Cross, fine 1/2 olive Morocco gilt by Riviere Bernhar...

JOHANNES WOLFGANG VON GOETHE. "Werke." 15 Vols complete, edited E. von der Hellen, 1/2 pigskin, c1920 vg. ...[more]

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON. "Works." 5 Vols bound in 2, green calf gilt by Bumpus, aeg, 1906 vg. CHARLES LAMB. 6 Vols, 1/2 calf gilt, lettering pieces, ...

BRITISH ARMORIAL BINDING. "The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire." by Edward Gibbon, 12 Vols complete, port & maps comp, finely bo...

JOHN RUSKIN. "Works." 15 Vols unnumbered, contempory 1/2 Morocco gilt by Stoakley, 1887 - 1892 vg; plus "Selections from the Writings of John Rusk...

CHARLES DICKENS. "The New Oxford Illustrated Dickens." 21 Vols complete, plts by Cruickshank & others comp, blue Morocco gt, teg, 1966 vg set (Ble...

THORNBURY (WALTER). & WALFORD (EDWARD). "Old & New London." 6 Vols complete, plts etc comp, well bound 1/2 calf gt, lettering piece, c1870 vg set....

BURTON (J.H.). "The History of Scotland." 8 Vols complete, from Lord Rosebury's Library with his mann initial & bookplate, half Morocco gilt by Wo...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. "The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare.10 Vols complete, ed S.W. Singer, cont calf gilt, lettering pieces, 1888 vg. ...[...

VOLTAIRE & OTHERS. "Contes et Nouvelles en Vers." 2 Vols complete, Ltd edn of 200, engr plts comp, cont Morocco gilt, teg, LeClere Fils, 1862 vg; ...

MERIVALE (CHARLES). "History of the Romans under the Empire." 7 Vols complete, maps etc comp, cont 1/2 cf, lettering pieces, 1866 vg; ROBINSON (T....

THOMAS PENNANT. "British Zoology." 4 Vols complete, engraved plates comp, 19c buckram, lettering pieces, teg, uncut, 1812 vg set. ...[more]

ARTS & CRAFTS BINDING. Superb set, "The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova written by himself now for the first time translated into English in twelve vo...

SIR WALTER SCOTT. "Novels & Tales." 16 Vols; "Tales & Romances." 9 Vols; "Historical Romances." 8 Vols. & "Novels & Romances." 8 Vols. All making ...

SIR WALTER SCOTT. "Waverley Novels." 24 (of 25, missing Vol 21) well bound calf gilt, lettering pieces, Cadell, 1841 vg. ...[more]

REV. THOMAS CHALMERS. "On the Power Wisdom & Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of the External Nature to the Moral & Intellectual Co...

BOHN'S ANTIQUARIAN LIBRARY. 9 Vols incl sets, plts comp, well bound calf gilt by Wright, lettering pieces, aeg, 1847 - 49 vg. PLUTARCH. "Plutarch'...

FINE BINDINGS. Quantity in very good condition, includes complete works, also includes prize bindings (approx one third of total). ...[more]

GIULIO GIANNINI BINDING. "Romola." by George Eliot, Bernhard Tauchnitz 1863. Fine parchment works elaborate red & gilt lion rampant design in perf...

AUBREY BEARDSLEY ILLUSTRATIONS. "The Birth Life & Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table... and the Dolourous Death and Depar...

KAY NIELSEN ILLUSTRATIONS. "Hansel and Gretel, and other stories by the brothers Grimm." signed by Nielsen and limited to 600, 12 tipped-in col pl...

SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. "The Whole Works of Homer, Prince of Poetts, in his Iliads, and Odysses Translated according to the Greeke by George Chapm...

SIDNEY ROYSE LYSAGHT. "The Marplot." 3 Vols, 1st edition, good ALS discussing work, original green cloth gilt, 1893 good condition. ...[more]

CUTHBERT BEDE. "Mattins and Mutton's, or, The Beauty of Brighton, A Love Story." 2 Vols comp, 1st edition, author dedication Denton Rectory, Hunts...

HERBERT GREY. "The Three Paths." 2 Vols comp, 1st edn, superb orig "polka dot." cloth binding, gt, Hurst & Blackett, 1859 fine. ...[more]

MRS J. H. RIDDELL."The Nun's Curse, A Novel." 3 Vols comp, 1st edn, orig dark green cloth, gt Ward & Downey, 1888 g (W.H. Smith & Sons's sticker o...

CAPTAIN F. MARRYAT. "The King's Own." 3 Vols, 1st edn, cont 1/2 cf, Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley 1830 good. ...[more]

VIOLET FANE. "Sophy, or, The Adventures of a Savage." 3 Vols 1st edn, signed in Vol 3, and dedication in Vol I, orig violet cloth gilt, Hurst & Bl...

RHODA BROUGHTON. "Alas! A Novel." 3 Vols, 1st edn, orig floral cloth gt Richard Bentley & Son, 1890 vg copy. ...[more]

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. "The Body Snatcher." the first publication. Pall Mall Christmas "Extra". original wraps, prize tickets etc, 1884. ...[mor...

JESSIE FOTHERGILL. "The Wellfield." 3 Vols, 1st edn, orig floral cloth gt, Richard Bentley & Son, 1880 vg copy. ...[more]