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Ivan Daniel Zadok Bray (artist) A leaf bound sketchbook. pp.80 of charcoal sketches and prose, typically dark in subject, but quite the intriguin...

(Ichthyology) KURONUMA, Katsuzo and ABE, Yoshitaka. 'Fishes of Kuwait,' Green cloth covers with black lettering to spine and front, unclipped pho...

(Egyptology) Four works. G. Elliot Smith and Warren R. Dawson. 'Egyptian Mummies,' first edition, original cloth with gilt tooled sarcophagus and...

POOK, Peter Banking On Form, first edition and seventeen others. Banking On Form, unclipped, Robert Hale, 1962, together with seventeen others, ...

JERRARD, Paul [Illustrator] and SHELLEY, P.B. 'Gems from Shelley Illustrated. An Ode To The Wild West Wind, and The Question,' Folio, dark blue c...

Three illustrated works. Haldane MacFall. 'The Book of Lovat Claud Fraser,' cloth backed pictorial boards with some staining and bumps, decretive...

Five works on applied art techniques. C. R. Leslie. 'Hand-Book for Young Painters,' second edition, full red leather with ornate gilt embossed de...

(Edward Bawden illustrations) HEATH, Ambrose. 'Good Soups,' First edition, original pictorial boards slightly bumped to extremities, some spottin...

Seven illustrated juvenile works. Julian Tuwim. 'Lokomotywa Rzepka,' cloth backed pictorial boards, unclipped dj, illustrated throughout, some to...

CARLETON, William. 'Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry' Second edition corrected, original publishers cloth with remnants of paper label, ...

An early 19th Century Journal Amateur Musical Theatre Interest Containing a narrative of The Grand Duke, with stage layout and design illustrati...

[Photography] HIELSCHER, Kurt. 'Rumania: Landscape, Buildings, National Life' English edition, foreward by Octavian Goga, lacks dj, some staining...

Gothic Architecture Interest. John Sidney Hawkins. 'An History of the Origin and Establishment of Gothic Architecture.....An Investigation of the...

WALTON, Izaak and COTTON, Charles. 'The Complete Angler' Miniature (11cm x 7cm), full calf with gilt decorations to spine, bookseller label W & G...

'A Collection of Hymns,' 1782. 'equally adapted To Publick Worship and Private Devotion, from Different Authors' 12mo, full burr calf, loss to bo...

SASSOON, Siegfried. 'The Tasking,' Number 11 of 100 copies, initialled by the author and inscribed to Richard, lacks dj, original cloth backed bo...

MABBUT, George (attributed to). 'Sir Isaac Newton's Tables for Renewing and Purchasing the Leases of Cathedral-Churches and Colleges' Lacking fro...

ARNOLD, Matthew. 'Poems' With twelve photogravures after Gilbert James, original cloth with gilt tooled pictorial decoration to front board, tiss...

RACKHAM, Arthur Illustrations Grimm's Fairy Tales Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas; loose pictorial boards, cloth spine and some loose leaves; fron...

LE CARRE. John The Looking Glass War, 1965, first edition, together with four other signed works The Looking Glass War, clipped, Heinemann, first...

Cornish Art Interest Signed Ken Howard, David Tovey, Robert Jones and Sylvia Pender Johns among others Two signed Ken Howard Portland Gallery Exh...

Art Interest Two Copies of The Bryan Pearce Bequest, together with books about other luminaries of the art-world. The Bryan Pearce Bequest, Royal...

HARROLD, John (Illustrator, signed) Rupert Annual, No. 59, and seventeen other unsigned Rupert Annuals. Together with other Rupert-related books...

Kelly's Directories Somersetshire, 1914 and three others Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire, 1914; fold-out map and twenty-nine pages of advertis...

TANGYE Derek Four signed works A Cat In The Window, unclipped, first edition, Michael Joseph, 1962; The Ambrose Rock, unclipped, first edition, M...

GRAHAM, Winston Signed works and other Poldark-related works. Two signed copies of The Twisted Sword, signed by the author, unclipped, Chapmans, ...

Pop-Up Illustration Books Gustav Sed'a Illustrations, A Day At The Zoo, 1991; Fungus the Bogeyman - Raymond Briggs, Plop-Up Book; together with o...

BENNETT, Alan Two signed works Keeping On Keeping On; signed, unclipped, Faber & Faber, 2016; Untold Stories, signed, clipped, Faber & Faber, 200...

CORNWELL, Bernard Two signed works Sword Song, signed, first edition, Harper Collins, 2007; Azincourt, clipped, signed, first edition, Harper Col...

Thirteen signed works Michael Wood, two by Alan Titchmarsh, Robin Knox-Johnson, Colin Dexter, Phil Drabble, Pam Ayres, Gordon Richards, Jan Mauri...

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice Tarzan The Untamed, first edition Missing dj, Methuen & Co, London, 1920. ...[more]

Poetry Interest Including Tennyson, Chaucer, Betjeman and Longfellow TENNYSON, Alfred; Gareth and Lynette, first edition, Strahan & Co, 1872; Loc...

LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward The Seven Pillars of Wisdom - A Triumph Brown cloth with gilt decoration, Jonathan Cape, first publishing for general cir...

BETJEMAN, John Three first edition works Continual Dew, first edition, John Murray, 1937; Summoned By Bells, first edition, William Clowes & Sons...

TOLSTOY, Leo 'The Slavery of Our Times,' Translated by Aylmer Maude, red card wraps, staple bound, printed rear wrap stating the work was printed...

Cassell'S Natural HIstory Six volumes bound into three Profusely illustrated with steel engravings, including frontispiece in colour, cloth board...

Five signed works related to the land Including Journey To The Stones signed by author Ian Cooke Mermaid to Merrymaid, Journey To The Stones, Nin...

Vintage Furniture Interest Catalogues and Magazines. including Ercol from the 1980's and 90's G Plan catalogue 1965, Reprodux catalogues and othe...

The New Naturalist. Five works. Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. 'British Game,' first edition, number 2 in the series, original green cloth, some spottin...

FOLIO SOCIETY INTEREST Seventeen Folio Book, each within protective case Including works by Charles Dickens, Geoffrey Chaucer and Robert Graves. ...

FOLIO SOCIETY INTEREST Seventeen Folio Book, each within protective case Including works by HG Wells. Rudyard Kipling and Thomas De Quincey. ......

FOLIO SOCIETY INTEREST Seventeen Folio Book, each within protective case Authors including Barbara W. Tuchman, William L. Shirer's The Rise and F...

FOLIO SOCIETY INTEREST Eighteen Folio Book, each within protective case Including works by W.M. Thackeray, Aldous Huxley, Robert Louis Stevenson ...

BULWER, E. L. Four works 'The Last Days of Pompeii,' 1834; 'Rienzi. The Last of the Tribunes,' 1836; 'The Poetical Works of...,' 1836; 'The Pilgr...

(Military) Commemorative Book. 'In Honour of the Fallen Airmen' 'KsiÄ™ga PamiÄ…tkowa - Ku Czci PolegÅ‚ych Lotników,' Collective work edited by Maj. ...

ZUBY, Ozzir (artist). '40 Pen Drawings,' First edition, folio, original pictorial boards, plates complete, Elite Publishers Limited, Karachi, 197...

AMIS, Kingsley. 'A Case of Samples. Poems 1946-1956,' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj although hole punched through price, extra glas...

Three early 19th century works. 'The Tour of Doctor Syntax. In Search of the Picturesque. A Poem,' fourth edition, half leather with cracked fron...

Ernest Shackleton. Hugh Robert Mill. 'The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton,' first edition, original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and ...

Lot 450

Five works.

Five works. W. Heath Robinson (ill) and Walter De La Mare. 'Peacock Pie. A Book of Rhymes,' original cloth, nibbles to ends of spine panel, colou...

WHITEHURST, Mary. 'Trengwainton. A Cornish Story,' (Written for the St Just Institute), original printed paper wraps, with vignette engraving of ...

Troika Pottery. 17-21 May 1994 Exhibition booklet Harry Lyons, Paperback, with illustrations, some in colour New Century Gallery, 1994. Scarce. ...

Pottery Interest Clarice Cliff, Elton Pottery and Royal Doulton publications Griffin, Leonard, Clarice Cliff: The Bizarre affair; Thames and Hud...

CRUICKSHANK, George (illustrations) Satire in verse and caricature. 'The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder,' sixteenth edition, eighteen vignette woodcu...

(Bindings) Seventeen works. Hugh Thomson (illustrations). 'Tales of The Canterbury Pilgrims,' highly decorative gilt tooled cloth, some spotting ...

(Cats) Seven works. 'A Manchester book: The Song of the Cat; Illustrated with Wood-cuts: A Legend of the Chancery Court...,' edited by a master o...

(Botany and natural history) Illustrated works. Gertrude Jekyll. 'Wall and Water Gardens,' fourth edition, bleaching to original cloth, light spo...

Seven illustrated works. Walter Crane (illustrations). 'King Arthur;s Knights,' early trade edition, original cloth with gilt tooled decorations,...

TOLKIEN, J. R. R. 'The Art of the Hobbit,' By Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull, original cloth, slip case, colour plates throughout, fine, Harp...

Juvenile illustrated works. Hilda Austin and Cyril F. Austin. 'Edward Buttoneye and his Adventures,' no1874, cloth backed pictorial boards, ink o...

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