Books, Manuscripts & Maps Sale - Timed Auction

DAVID TEW. 'The Oakham Canal.' Signed author, ltd edn, Illustrated by Rigby Graham, Two postcards regarding the book to Justin Brooke loosely inse...

EDAWARD THOMAS. 'In Pursuit of Spring.' First Edition, original cloth, top edge etc gilt, 1914, very good. Condition: please request a condition ...

DYLAN THOMAS. 'Under Milk Wood.' First edition, vg condition with slightly worn dj, 1954; 'Collected Poems. 1934-1952.' Top edge red, some foxing ...

CHARLES DAVID BADHAM. 'A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England.' Ten hand-coloured plates complete, orig cloth, gilt, some wear to covers, ...

T. E. LAWRENCE. 'The Mint.' Limited edition of 2000, of which this is Number 1040, goatskin-backed buckram, Jonathan Cape, 1955. The front and rea...

MERVYN PEAKE ILLUSTRATIONS. 'The Hunting of the Snark.' Two copies in fair/good condition. Lacking dj, 1941 plus Zodiac edition, 1942, vg. (3) Co...

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. 'The Tower.' Original cloth gilt, designed by Thomas Sturge Moore, vg condition, Macmillan 1929. Condition: please request ...

Father Tuck Little Books. 28 vols, plus 4 in the "A Pixie Book" series. All in dustjackets and in good to very good condition. (Little Red Riding ...

MERVYN PEAKE. 'Shapes and Sounds.' Village Press, 1974. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. The Macmillan Company, New York; Plus 13 other books ...

AGNES CATLOW. 'Popular Garden Botany: A Familiar and Scientific Description.' 20 hand-coloured plated complete, 1855, original cloth gilt, good. ...

ANES CATLOW. 'Popular Greenhouse Botany.' Twenty hand-coloured plates complete, uncut, 1857, original cloth gilt, good. Condition: please request...

DOREEN TOVEY. 'Raining Cats and Donkeys.' Illustrated by Maurice Wilson, six line dedication to the Tangyes on ffep signed 1972 - pub 1967, first ...

DOREEN TOVEY. 'Cats in May.' Illustrated by Maurice Wilson, first edition, 1959; 'Donkey Work,' illustrated by Maurice Wilson, 1962, first edition...

EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS. 'The Tempest.' By William Shakespeare, 40 tipped in coloured plates with descriptive tissue guards complete, original ...

DICCIONARIO DE LA LENGUA CASTELLANA. 'por la Real Academia Espanola.' Orig marbled leather, labels, 1899, good. Condition: please request a condi...

MURIEL HANDLEY SPICER. 'Toy Dogs and How to Breed and Rear Them being The Life of a Griffon Bruxellois.' Original pictorial cloth, photographic il...

LAURA KNIGHT. 'Oil Paint and Grease Paint.' 3 vols., first Penguin edition, 1941, vg; Plus other unusual Cornish-related books, all in very good c...

W. LAUDER LINDSAY, MD. 'A Popular History of British Lichens, comprising an account of their structure, reproduction, uses, distribution, and clas...

AMBROSE HEATH. 'Good Food from the Aga.' Cover and decorations by Edward Bawden, second impression of the first edition, good, 1934; AMBROSE HEATH...

ARTHUR G LANGDON. 'Old Cornish Crosses.' With an article on their ornament by J Romilly Allen, FSA. Illustrations and maps complete. Ex-library wi...

MARRIOTT EDGAR. 'Albert Arold and Others compiled and written by Marriott Edgar. Performed by Stanley Holloway and Marriott Edgar.' With 46 charac...

WILLIAM HODGSON HOPE. 'Men of the Deep Waters.' Second (Cheap) edition, 1921, original cloth, browning to top of backstrip which is separating fro...

EISHIRO ABE. 'The Hand Made Paper of Izumo.' Hand-printed paper-covered boards, hand-made paper dj. 16 tipped in examples of Japanese hand-made pa...

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. 'Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology. Modern Architecture being the Kahn Lectures for 1930.' Decorative paper-covered ...

THOMAS WRIGHT. 'Heart's Desire, Being principally a presentment from various translations of the quatrains of Omar Khayyam that relate to SAKI, th...

EDWIN MULLINS. 'Alfred Wallis: Cornish Primitive Painter.' Orig cloth, dj in which tears have been repaired, contents and cover vg. First Edition,...

EARLY CHILDREN'S CHAPBOOK. 'The Life of Jack Sprat, his Wife, and his Cat.' 16pp each with woodcut illust, orig wps, York, J Kendrew, Colliergate,...

RICHARD CAREW. Rare Elizabethan Indenture re lease by Richard Carew of Antony (the early Cornish Historian) of land in Gwennap, dated 1599. Wax se...

ENYS-GALPIN Two rare Elizabethan Indentures dated 1588. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regard...

GODFREY BLOUNT. 'A Book on the Nature - Development of Imaginative Design for the Use of Teachers Handicraftsmen - Others. Original cloth, uncut, ...

MICHAEL CARDEW. 'Pioneer Pottery.' Orig cl, dj, unclipped, First Edition, 1969. good from the Library of John Blowey; GARTH CLARK 'Michael Cardew:...

BERNARD LEACH. 'A Potter's Book.' Orig cl, dj unclipped slightly frayed, 1945; plus four others by and about Bernard Leach. Condition: please req...

SHOJI HAMADA CATALOGUE. Japanese text, dated 1981, good condition; Plus SUSAN PETERSON. 'Shoji Hamada: A Potter's Way and Work.' Orig cloth, 1995;...

FLORENTINE FINE BINDING. 'Echoes of Old Florence, Her Palaces and Those who have Lived in Them.' By Leander Scott, mounted photos complete, origin...

STEPHEN MURFITT. 'The Glaze Book: A Visual Catalogue of Decorative Ceramic Glazes.' Glazed boards with ringback binding, 2002, vg MICHAEL BAILEY. ...

ALFRED R SEARLE. 'The Clayworker's Handbook: A Manual for All Engaged in the Manufacture of Articles from Clay.' Second Iimpression of the fifth e...

D. H. LAWRENCE. 'Pansies.' Cloth backed boards, small stain on first three pages, 1929, g; T. S. ELIOT. 'The Dry Salvages.' Cloth-backed boards, f...

DON IRVING. 'A Guide to Growing Marijuana in Cool Climates.' Card covers, 1995, good; RICHARD BLUM & Associates. 'Utopiates: The use and users of ...

'VALHALLA', THE TRESCO SHIPS' FIGUREHEAD COLLECTION. National Maritime Museum, illusts, orig illustrated covers, 1984. vg. Condition: please requ...

H. G. WELLS. 'Floor Games.' Photographic plates complete plus drawings by J R Sinclair, orig boards with onlay, 1911. Slightly rubbed and some spo...

THE REV HOBART CAUNTER. 'The Eastern Legends and Romances.' Twenty-two engraved plates by William Daniell complete mostly with tissue guards, moro...

G. W. DASENT. 'Tales from the Fjeld.' A Second Series of Popular Tales, from the Norse of P.Chr.Asbjornsen, first English translation, engraved fr...

RUTH MANNING-SANDERS. 'A Book of Ogres and Trolls.' First edition, original illustrations by Robin Jacques, orig cloth, colour dj unclipped, 1972,...

GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD. 'Xenophon's Adventure.' First edition, illustrations complete, orig cloth, dj clipped, 1961, good condition. Condition: pleas...

SCARCE EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOK. 'Tales of Instruction and Amusement written for the use of Young Persons,' by Mrs Mitchell ( Mrs Ives Hurry), volume...

ROBERT ELLICE MACK. 'When All is Young.' Coloured illustrations complete with tissue guards by Harriet M Bennett, orig cloth-backed coloured board...

THOMAS CRANE and ELLEN HOUGHTON. 'Abroad.' Original chromo plates and illustrations, original cloth-backed coloured boards, corners rubbed, publis...

RUTH MANNING-SANDERS. 'A Book of Mermaids.' First edition by Methuen, unclipped dj, coloured dustjacket by Robin Jacques, black-and-white plates a...

RUTH MANNING SANDERS. 'A Book of Wizards.' First edition by Methuen, unclipped coloured dustjacket and frontispiece by Robin Jacques, black and wh...

ELEANOR VERE BOYLE. 'A New Child's-Play.' Sixteen Drawings by EVB, first edition, photographed from the original drawings and printed by the helio...

KAY NIELSEN ILLUSTRATIONS. 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North.' Twenty-five, coloured plates, each with tissue guard ...

SYLVANUS GRISWOLD MORLEY. 'An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphics.' First edition, signed by the Author "To C C James, Esq, A .......

MARION M WINGRAVE. 'The May Blossom; or The Princess and her People.' Col plates and illustrations by H H Emmerson complete, original coloured clo...

ATHANASII KIRCHERI. E. SOC. JESU. Mundus Subterraneus in XII Libros digeotus quo Divinum Subterrestris Mundi Opificium Ergasteriorum Naturae in eo...

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies According to the Use of the Church of England. Pri...

COLONEL GEORGE GREENWOOD. 'Hints on Horsemanship.' New Edition, engraved plates complete, half-title, orig cloth, gilt, foxed, 1861. Condition: p...

DAVID COWLEY. 'Moulded and Slip Cast Pottery and Ceramics.' Paperback, Batsford, 1984, vg; NEAL FRENCH. 'The Potter's Directory of Shape and Form....

GEORGE FREDERICK ARDON. 'Hoyle's Games Modernized.' Numerous original engravings, original cloth, gilt, 1863, vg. Condition: please request a con...

THE ROYAL KALENDAR; OR COMPLETE AND CORRECT ANNUAL REGISTER FOR England, Scotland, Ireland and America, for the year 1768; upon a new and more ext...

BOZENA NEMCOVA. 'The Disobedient Kids and Other Czecho-Slovak Fairy Tales.' Col and other plates complete, orig boards, dj, 1921, g; CAROLINE FOX ...