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A mid-twentieth century table plan for luncheon or dinner. Every other leaf with a table for describing planned menu, guests, wines, flowers, gown...

CHARLES DICKENS. 'The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club,' first edition, rebound in full leather, ex libris 'Vigilantibus' to pastedown, grap...

ART INTEREST. 'Edward Bawden and His Circle: The Inward Laugh,' by Malcome Yorke, unclipped dj, Antique Collectors' Club; 'Painting The Modern Gar...

BERNARD SHAW. 'The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism,' first edition, original decorative boards, Constable and Company Ltd, L...

MIKHAIL BULGAKOV. 'The Master and Margarita,' unclipped dj, Everyman's Library, London, 1992; With nineteen other works relating to Soviet and Rus...

FOLIO SOCIETY. Thirty-three mostly with card slips, including Dostoyevsky, Harper Lee, Thackeray, Anne and Charlotte Bronte. (33) ...[more]

FOLIO SOCIETY. 'The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire,' eight volumes, individual cardboard slips; 'The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean ...

An incredible snapshot of the late 18th century in the form of a newspaper scrap book, containing reports on Admiral Horatio Nelson; Lyrical ode's...

WILLIAM JAMES. 'The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France, In February 1793, to the Accession of George IV. in Jan...

SIR WALTER SCOTT. 'The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French,' nine volumes complete, full calf with tooled boards, engraved frontisp...

REV JOHN FOX. 'Book of Martyrs Containing an Authentic Account of the Lives, Persecutions & Sufferings of the Holy Martyrs....Revised, Corrected &...

CHARLES ROLLIN and J. P. L. CREVIER. 'The Roman History from the Fondation of Rome to the Battle of Actium,' translated from the French, vols II V...

WINSTON CHURCHILL. 'The Second World War,' first edition, six volumes, original cloth, ex libris, foxing to edge of textblock and throughout, Cass...

ART INTEREST. 'David Hockney: A Bigger Picture,' first edition on occasion of the exhibition, Royal Acadmey of Arts, 2012; 'Inspirations & Episode...

ART INTEREST. 'John Ruskin and Victorian Art,' catalogue of a British Council touring exhibition held at the Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo from 25th...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'Cornwall in the Great Civil War and Interregnum 1642-1660,' by Mary Coate, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1933; With over fifty ...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'Mineralogia Cornubiensis; A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining...' by Wiliam Pryce, reprint, original cloth, clipped dj, ...

BINDINGS. Nine Probus School prizes, uniformly bound in tree calf leather with tool worked gilt school crest on front board and sectional spines, ...

'The Fox,' volume one, number one, New York, 1975.Founded by members of the New York Art & Language circle in 1975, the serial arose out of frustr...

'Vignola: Or, The Compleat Architect,' by James Barozzio, translated by Joseph Moxon, ink stamp to verso of Latin half title, title page loose, de...

W & G AUDSLEY. 'Cottage, Lodge, and Villa Architecture,' rebound in half pebble leather with marbled boards, profusely illustrated with full page ...

J. R. R. TOLKIEN. 'The Two Towers,' fifth impression, unclipped dj, original cloth, staining to spine of dj, bumped and rubbed, slight tear to ver...

GUIDO MORRIS. 'The Tight-Rope Walker,' by Norman Levine, frontispiece by Sven Berlin, foxing to card wraps, tear to title page, The Totem Press, L...

BOTANICAL and AMERICAN INTEREST. 'Report on the Botany of the Expedition,' by J. M. Bigelow, part V of the report by the U. S. War Department conc...

Late 19th century note book, bound in maroon Morocco with ostentatious gilt border and spine, cracking to hinges, content containing verses copied...

'Lord Bassey's Farewell to the Sunbeam, on Handing Her Over to Capt Walter Lumsden....' cardboard wraps, printed for private circulation, Bombay, ...

'Bacon's Cycling Road-Map of England,' sheets no. 2 and 7, printed on silk; 'Bacon's County Map and Guide,' Derbyshire, Cheshire, Warwick, Somerse...

MAPS. Seven Ward Locks including South Cornwall, Torquay, Newquay, North Wales, North Cornwall, Minehead and Liverpool; The Harmsworth Universal A...

MAPS. Two James Wyld's, one of England (1857) and the other of England, Wales, & Scotland (1880). Both paper on canvas, both in card cases; plus o...

CHARLES KNIGHT. 'Old England: A Pictorial Museum,' Two vols, profusely illustrated, decorative bindings, gilt edge to textblock, James Sangster, L...

Four architectural plans for Kilkhampton Rectory in Cornwall by Gilbert Scott of 20 Spring Gardens, London; Plus two indentures dated 1865 and 187...

JEROME K. JEROME. 'Three Men in a Boat,' first edition, original cloth, chipped, J W Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1889; 'A Essay on Old Maids,' by a frien...

PRIVATE PRESS. 'Translations and Verses,' by Duff Cooper, 239/600, The Dropmore Press, London, 1949; 'Seven Poems,' by Anne Watson Hughes, for 'my...

J. K. ROWLING. 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,' 28th impression, unclipped dj, ISBN 0747532699, Bloomsbury, 1997; 'Harry Potter and the...

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. 'The Complete Works of....,' The Bonchurch Edition, 218/780, twenty volumes, original green cloth, paper spine labels,...

'Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary, Improved and Enlarged by the Late Dr Thomas Morrell,' by John Carey, second edition, rebound in full leather, ex li...

SIR WILLIAM DUGDALE. 'The Antiquities of Warwickshire,' facsimile in two volumes, republished by E. J. Morten, Manchester. (2) ...[more]

'The Art-Journal,' new series, volume IV, decorative tooled gilt front board, numerous illustrations with full page plates, gilt edge to textblock...

HOLY BIBLE. 'A Practical and Explanatory Commentary on The Old Testament,' by Rev Robert Jamieson, steel engravings, full black leather, James S. ...

SIR HERBERT MAXWELL. 'Trees: A Woodland Notebook,' 149/275, illustrations complete, joints cracked, James Maclehouse and sons, Glasgow, 1915. ......

NATURAL HISTORY. 'Cassell's Popular Natural History,' four volumes, profusely illustrated some with later hand colouring, half green leather with ...

NATURAL HISTORY. 'Pictures from Nature,' by Cherry Kearton, Fifteen Rembrandt Photogravures of which there are twelve, cardboard case, Cassell and...

MILITARY INTEREST. 'Lettres de Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Miltaire de Saint-Louis,' awarded to Monsieur Claude Cavaye Captaine Commandent of th...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'A Compendium of the History and Geography of Cornwall,' by Rev J. J. Daniel, third edition, Netherton & Worth, 1894; 'The Gran...

ESOTERIC INTEREST. 'Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing,' by William Walker Atkinson, card wraps, Guidance Publications, printed in the USA 1...

THE NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY. 'State Papers Relating to the Defeat of The Spanish Armada Anno 1588,' vol II, secondond edition, edited by John Knox La...

RICHARD HAKLUYT. 'The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation,' ten volumes in uniform binding, J. M. Dent, L...

JOHN ADOLPHUS. 'The History of England....' the fourth edition, uniformly bound, bumped, vol I with loose front board, vols I-III, T. Cadell and W...

Rev HUGH JAMES ROSE. 'A New General Biographical Dictionary,' twelve volumes, full tan calf, spines with red and brown labels with gilt decoration...

EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS. 'Fairy-Book: Fairy tales of the Allied Nations,' original decorative cloth, illustrations complete, rubbed and bumped,...

Sir WALTER SCOTT. The 'Waverley' Handy Volumes, missing vol 10, original green cloth, Bradbury Agnew & Co, London, 1877, vg. (24) ...[more]

T. W. ROLLESTON. 'Myths & Legends of The Celtic Race,' decorative gilt boards, second edition, George G. Harrap & Co, London, 1912; M. I. EBBUTT. ...

BIBLE. 'The Book of Common Prayer,' full leather binding with ornate gilt border and spine, lacking frontispiece, good clean textblock, John Baske...

'Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales; Their Legendary Lore and Popular History,' by John Timbs and Alexander Gunn three volumes...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'The Origin of The Pillow-Lava in Cornwall,' ink inscription to endpaper 'To Bothild(?) Maud Miller, with love from the author ...

ARTHUR RANSOME. 'Coot Club,' first edition, original cloth, some foxing, rubbed and bumped, Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1934; 'Missee Lee,' first e...

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