Printed Books, Maps & Autographs

* Bonds. Counterbond in £26 13s 4d; 13 June 1535, Fulk Greyvill of Beauchamp Court [in Alcester], Warwickshire, esquire, to Humphrey Jennettes of ...

* Bookplates & labels. A collection of 30 bookplates, ownership labels & business cards, etc., 18th & 19th century, including bookplates for Hookh...

* Bristol Reward Poster. A printed poster advertising a reward of 150 guineas for the apprehension of Thomas Gray, John Morgan, and Emanuel Lewton...

Bristol. A collection of 24 broadsides, tracts and pamphlets relating to Bristol, 18th & 19th century, including: Bristol Institution, for the Pro...

* Bruce (Thomas Charles, 1825-1890). A voluminous archive of family letters, mostly mid to late 19th century, including approximately 250 autograp...

* Churchill (Winston Spencer). General Election poster, printed by Tulip Press and published by Col. W.H. Barlow-Wheeler, [1959], printed in black...

* Rumbold (George Berriman, 1764-1807). 'Account of Losses & Expenses incurred in Consequence of my Seizure by the French at my House in Hamburg i...

* Court Roll: Bampton , Devon. Court roll of the Court Leet of Bampton in Devon, 1 8 August 1547 (unfinished), an undated court, a court of 19 Mar...

* Court Roll: Wimbledon, 1666. Copy of court roll, manor of Wimbledon; 30 April 1666, licence to William Mathews of Putney, husbandman, to hold an...

* Dunfermline Land Grant, 1583. Notarial instrument of James Kingorne, admitted notary public by the Lords of the Council and scribe of the regali...

* Dunfermline Land Grant, 1583. Notarial instrument of James Kingorne, admitted notary public by the Lords of the Council and scribe of the regali...

* Elizabeth I (Queen of England, 1533-1603). Exemplification of Fine, Westminster, 20 October 28 Elizabeth [1586], for the Manor of Alfrington and...

* Elizabethan Licences to Alienate. Licence to alienate (letters patent) for £2; 1 April 1592, The Crown to Francis Worley, esquire, to alienate t...

* Essex, Bucks & Berks Deeds, 16th c. Counterpart settlement; 3 June 1565, Michael Anneys otherwise Smythe of Ashen ( Asshyn ) in Essex, yeoman, t...

* Gloucestershire Terrier of Land. Vellum indenture, 7 December 1657, being a deed of sale between Morgan Hicks and the purchaser Robert Jenkinson...

* Great Seals of King William IV & Queen Victoria. A reversionary lease of Methwold Warren lands &c. in the county of Norfolk, 13 December 1834, m...

* Guernsey Deeds. Certificate of a lease, 24 September 1681, manuscript on vellum written in Norman French, Charles Andros, esquire, seigneur of A...

* Hampshire Deeds. Counterpart deed of defeasance of a Statute Staple in £500; 12 May 1613, John Pey of Petersfield in Hampshire, gentleman, to Ro...

* Hastings (Warren, 1732-1818). An original ticket for the trial of Warren Hastings, Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Day, [16 April 1794], engraved and ...

* Indentures & Agreements. An assorted collection of 47 paper documents, 18th & 19th century, including 10 x 18th-century obligation binds relatin...

* Kent Deeds. 3 vellum land deeds, 15th/16th c. Grant; 25 March 1460, Margery Terry of Bredgar (Bradgare) [in Kent], widow, to Robert Caym, Robert...

Leather-bound Diaries. An attractive group of manuscript diaries, 42 volumes, 1845/92, 1895-1907, 1910/21, all seemingly kept by a Mr & Mrs Walter...

* Legal Documents. An assorted group of 47 mostly 18th-century paper documents, including 12 related to Essex, 8 to East Anglia, etc., many with s...

* Legal Documents. An assorted group of 20 vellum and paper documents, 17th century, various agreements, releases, bonds, etc., many with original...

* Letters Patents, 1586 & 1604. Pardon (letters patent), Westminster, 10 March 1604, The Crown granting a pardon to Lazarus Garth, gentleman, one ...

* Lincolnshire Deeds, 1513 & 1548. Covenant after arbitration; 16 February 1513, Thomas [Howard] Earl of Surrey to Richard Littilbury, esq., rent ...

* London Mansion House. An anonymous manuscript Anecdote addressed to Sir Herbert Mackworth at Stourhead, no place, c.1750, observing that the ori...

Manuscript Commonplace Book. A manuscript commonplace book, probably written by a young woman, circa 1730-40, 79 leaves of neat handwritten manusc...

* Obligation Bonds. A good group of 51 manuscript and partly printed bonds completed in manuscript, mostly 18th & twelve 19th century, all paper d...

* Obligation Bonds. A good group of 27 manuscript bonds, 17th century, including 4 vellum document with seals, the remainder paper documents with ...

* Pembrokeshire Deed, 1525. Grant, 20 August 1525, Richard Walden of Erith in Kent, knight, and his wife Margery, daughter and one of the heirs of...

* Pipe Roll. Manuscript pipe roll on vellum for the annual money owed to the government by Fleetwood Parkhurst, sheriff of Worcestershire, 1792, b...

* Recipe for Brewing Ale. Manuscript titled 'A Receipt for Yest', circa 1790, 28 lines, written in a neat hand on a single sheet, '1lb of hops, 32...

* Recovery Documents. An attractive large vellum Recovery document, dated 21st June 1820, in which Francis Price petitions against Joseph Blower f...

* River Avon Navigation. Two Autograph Letters from Robert Peirce and from Edward Woolmar, dated from Bath 11 & 13 December 1699 respectively, bot...

* [Brocklehurst, Robert James, 1899-1995]. A group of four commemorative medallions for the 11th-15th International Physiological Congresses in St...

* Stamps. A large collection of stamps, including several albums mostly 20th century GB & World, plus many loose stamps (Qty: 3 cartons) ...[more]

* Stamps. A large stamp collection, mostly 20th century GB and World, including an album of G.VI.R.1937 Coronation stamps (15 pages), G.V.R. and l...

* Stamps. Victorian GB / World and later stamps in 4 albums, including a Stanley Gibbons album with VR postage & revenue, them World in alphabetic...

* Surrey Deeds, 1572/1617. Settlement (feoffment); 24 January 1572, Joan Balchilde on Cranley in Surrey, widow, one of the sisters and coheirs of ...

* Valentine & commemorative cards. A collection of Victorian valentine, commemorative and greetings cards, including 7 paper lace cards, and appro...

* [Victorian Education]. An archive of approximately 250 autograph letters, c.1850-95, mostly addressed to the teacher Frederic Nash and largely r...

* Victoria (Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 1819-1901). Letters Patent granted to John Widgery, Tin Plate Worker, of Plumstead, Kent, 1 Novemb...

* Wesley (John, 1703-1771, co-founder and leader of the Methodist movement). An original engraved copper bookplate for ‘The Revd. John Wesley A.M....

* West Country. A group of 26 assorted indentures and documents, 18th & 19th century, relating to Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol and Gloucestershire...

* West India Docks, London. An Autograph Letter Signed from Henry Collier, London, 20 May 1795, written to the Alnwick Solicitor Thomas Adams refe...

* Westlake (Ernest, 1856-1922, geologist). An archive of notebooks and papers, c.1874-1910, including approximately 600 disordered quarto manuscri...

* Yorkshire, Notts & Staffs Deeds. [?Unexecuted] stock-deed, manor of Tong in Yorkshire West Riding; [ blank ] August 1558, Henry Tempest of Tong ...

* Illuminated leaf. An illuminated leaf displaying copies of two 14th century initials, late 19th century, vellum leaf with two illuminated initia...

* Anglo-Savoyard Alliance. An important manuscript letter from Victor-Amedee Seyssel d'Aix, Marquis de Sommariva (1679-1754), Ambassador to London...

* Beatty (Sir William 1773-1842). Autograph letter to Page Nicol Scott, congratulating him on a birth, meeting his nephew and enclosing an autogra...

* Beresford (William Carr, Viscount Beresford, 1768-1854). Autograph letter signed to Sir Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845), en...

* Berkeley (Sir George Cranfield, 1753-1818). Four letters to Sir Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845), envoy extraordinary and mi...

Clowes (William Laird). The Royal Navy. A History from the Earliest Times to the Present, 7 volumes, 1897-1903, photogravure frontispieces, numero...

* Collingwood (Cuthbert, 1st Baron, 1748-1810). Autograph letter to Sir Evan Nepean, regarding the appointment of an agent for the prize ships tak...

* Collingwood (Cuthbert, 1st Baron 1748-1810). Autograph letter to Sir Hew Dalrymple, discussing Turkey, Russia and Napoleon Bonaparte, on board H...

* Collingwood (Cuthbert, 1st Baron 1748-1830). Autograph letter to Sir Hew Dalrymple, regarding French control in Spain and the tobacco trade with...

* Collingwood (Cuthbert, 1st Baron 1748-1810). Autograph letter to Sir Hew Dalrymple, thanking him for the offer of accommodation in Gibraltar but...

Corbett (Julian S.). Drake and the Tudor Navy, with a History of the Rise of England as a Maritime Power, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1898, folding ma...

* Croft (Sir John 'Jack', 1st Baronet, 1778-1862). Autograph letter to Sir Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845), envoy extraordina...