Books and Works on Paper

NO RESERVE Anglo-Norman.- Bronze clasp or mount, with relief design of a lion with raised head, part of ring loop at head, 2 holes for rivets at t...

NO RESERVE Wounded in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.- Fido (Thomas, surgeon, of Exeter) To Thomas Carew Esqr Judge of the Sessions and to... fellow J...

NO RESERVE Board of Ordnance.- Bridges (William, politician, a member of the Board of Ordnance, d. 1714) Certificate, Thomas jenkins Ma[ste]r of ...

Battle of Guadeloupe.- Royal Navy Log.- Simms (Thomas, midshipman) Journal of Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Vengeance Command'd by Comm.r Hoth...

NO RESERVE Medical.- [Prescriptions and recipes for medicine and cookery], manuscripts in several hands, c. 50pp., folds, browned, v.s., v.d. [c. ...

NO RESERVE Painting.- Process of Painting, manuscript, title and 6pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, stitched, unbound, 118 x 90mm., [c. 1800...

NO RESERVE Porson (Richard, classical scholar, 1759-1808) Porson's Book Notes, 4 ?autograph manuscript notes (1 page of Anacreon and another title...

NO RESERVE Genealogy.- Cowper (William, physician and antiquary, bap. 1701, d. 1767) Parentalia... A Genealogical Account of the Family of Cowper,...

NO RESERVE History of Kings and Queens of England.- [Question cards for children on English royal history], manuscript, 55 sides on cards, loose, ...

NO RESERVE Bristol Mechanics Institute.- Napier (Sir William, army officer and writer, 1785-1860) 3 Autograph Letters signed to J.L. Smith of the ...

NO RESERVE Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of, army officer and prime minister, 1769-1852) Autograph Note third person to Mr Wilmand his ...

NO RESERVE Victorian Juvenilia.- Grove (Georged B., of West Bromwich) The Monthly Circulator, autograph manuscript signed, title and 238pp., numer...

Second King of Siam.- Pinklao (King, born Prince Isares Juthamanee, became Second King of Siam in 1851, just after his elder brother, Prince Monku...

Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition.- Thornton (Richard, geologist on Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition, 1837-62).- Thornton (Octavia, Helen & M.V., s...

NO RESERVE Dorset, Charmouth.- Charmouth Beach - Dorset. From Map Made in 1783, folding pen and ink with watercolour wash map, 300 x 360mm., n.p.,...

Arnold (Matthew, poet, writer, and inspector of schools, 1822-88) Autograph Letter signed to Mrs Anthony, 4pp., 8vo, Pains Hill Cottage, Cobham, S...

NO RESERVE Manuscript Collections.- 3 Short Stories.- The Ruby Ring: The Spirit of the Orange Tree: The discontented Girl, manuscript, 51pp., slig...

NO RESERVE Kipling (John Lockwood, artist and art school administrator, father of Rudyard Kipling, 1837-1911) 3 Autograph Letters signed to Martin...

NO RESERVE Boxing.- Mace (James "Jem", bare-knuckle pugilist, 1831-1910) Signature with inscription in another hand, mounted, folds, browned, 220 ...

Mauritius.- Bower (Sir Graham, KCMG, Colonial Secretary of Mauritius, 1848-1933) Photograph album of views in Mauritius, 10 albumen photographs, s...

Letters.- Baring-Gould (Sabine, Church of England clergyman, author, and folksong collector, 1834-1924) Autograph Postcard to J.E. King & a cut si...

NO RESERVE Tasmania.- Nicholson (Louisa Frances, granddaughter of John Page who fought at Waterloo, b. 1834) Autograph Letter signed to Sir Matthe...

NO RESERVE Wells (Herbert George, novelist and social commentator, 1866-1946) Typed Letter signed to Mrs Massingham, 1p., 8vo, Regent's Park, 6th ...

NO RESERVE Fowles (John, author and museum curator, 1926-2005) Typed Letter signed to James Stevens Cox, as curator of Lyme Regis Museum, 1p., 8vo...

NO RESERVE Incunable leaf.- Single leaf from ?Juvenal's Satires, printed leaf, 2pp., slightly browned, remains of stub, sm. folio, [?Venice], [?c....

NO RESERVE Church of England, Province of Canterbury. Convocation. An order for publike Prayers to be used on Wednesdayes and frydayes in every Pa...

NO RESERVE Bible, English. [The Holy Bible], [from New Testament], ?Authorised version, double column, black letter, 47ff. only, loose, a few smal...

Newspapers.- Collection of various newspapers, including issues of The London Gazette, The Times, The Graphic, L'Independance, Gazette de L'Îsle d...

NO RESERVE Bindings.- Persius Flaccus (Aulus) The Satyrs, translated by Thomas Sheridan, text in Latin and English on facing pages, contemporary i...

NO RESERVE Education.- Blagdon Controversy.- More (Hannah).- The Something Wrong Developed; or, Free Remarks on Mrs. H.More's Conventicles, &c. se...

NO RESERVE Cartomancy.- Art of Fortune Telling by Cards (The), woodcut frontispiece of King of Hearts, original printed green wrappers, woodcut of...

NO RESERVE Etiquette.- Etiquette for Gentlemen: with Hints on the Art of Conversation, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved title-vignette, or...

NO RESERVE Costumes of the Members of the University of Cambridge (The), engraved title, 45 hand-coloured engraved costumes on 23 pages, folding c...

NO RESERVE Pins.- Tomlinson (Charles) Illustrations of the Useful Arts. No II. The Manufacture of a Pin, third edition, 4pp. publishers' catalogue...

NO RESERVE Stevenson (R.L.) Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, second edition, frontispiece, ink inscription to front free endpaper, original ...

Daniel Press.- Dixon (Richard Watson) Odes and Eclogues, 1884; Lyrical Poems, 1887; The Story of Eudocia & her Brothers, 1888, together 3 vol. in ...

NO RESERVE Hardy (Thomas) [Wessex Novels], vol.1, 13, 15 & 'Wessex Poems' only, each with etched frontispiece, original green cloth, internally go...

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Art and Craft of Printing: A Note...on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press..., one of 210 copies, prin...

Hanley (James) The German Prisoner, with an Introduction by Richard Aldington, first edition, one of 500 copies signed by the author, signed by th...

NO RESERVE Private Press.- [Hill (Sir John)] Lucina sine concubitu: A Letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society; in which is proved...that a Wo...

NO RESERVE Cleverdon (Douglas).- Sassoon (Siegfried) Vigils, number 8 of 272 copies signed by the author from an edition limited to 303, engraved ...

NO RESERVE Penrose (Boies) Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance 1420-1620, Cambridge, Mass., 1952 § Strachan (M.) The Life and Adventures of Th...

NO RESERVE Manuscripts.- Mare (A.C. de la) The Handwriting of the Italian Humanists, vol.I Fascicule 1 [?all published], Oxford, 1973 § Munby (A.N...

NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Mortlock (D.P.) The Holkham Library: A History and Description, for members of the Roxburghe Club, 2006 § History of Boo...

NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Gumuchian & Cie. Les Livres de l'Enfance du XVe au XIXe Siècle, 2 vol., some spotting, bound in half red morocco, spines...

NO RESERVE Conjuring.- Sachs (Edwin) Sleight of Hand: a Practical Manual of Legerdemain..., second, enlarged, edition, occasional foxing, 1885 § [...

NO RESERVE Conjuring.- Evans & Son (J.) The little conjurer/ Der Kleine Jauberer/ Le petit escamoteur, original marbled box with lithographic titl...

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". The Nursery "Alice"..., second edition [first published edition], with "Price four shillings" at fo...

NO RESERVE Gaskin (Georgie) Little Girls and Little Boys, colour illustrated alphabet of girls' and boys' names, printed on rectos only, light spo...

Greenaway (Kate).- Harte (Bret) The Queen of the Pirate Isle, first edition, illustrations by Kate Greenaway, original pictorial beige linen, blu...

NO RESERVE Greenaway (Kate).- Cundall (H.M.) Kate Greenaway Pictures from Originals presented by her to John Ruskin..., mounted portrait frontispi...

NO RESERVE Scrap Album.- A collection of Victorian scraps, Christmas & Valentine cards etc., printed in colours, a few heightened with gold, some ...

NO RESERVE Wells (H.G.) Floor Games, first edition, photographic plates, illustrations in blue by J.R.Sinclair, original cloth with illustration ...

NO RESERVE Bewick (John).- Emblems of Mortality; representing...Death seizing all Ranks and Degrees of People, first Bewick edition, wood-engraved...

Cobweb painting.- Czichna (C.A., Innsbruck-based artist, active 1870s) "Spinnewetten", portrait of a woman seated at a table with jug, opaque pigm...

NO RESERVE English Amateur artists.- Clarke of Scaldwell (George, 1790-1868) Parish churches, a pair, black ink and monochrome washes, one signed,...

NO RESERVE English School (early 19th century) Pastoral landscape at sunset; Two figures before a waterfall in a landscape, a pair, oil on panel, ...

Bookplates.- A collection of c.120 bookplates, book-labels, booksellers' tickets & advertisements etc., many from the West Country, some engraved,...

NO RESERVE British drawings.- Mulready (William, 1786-1863), After. Seated female nude, black and white chalks on grey-coloured wove paper without...

NO RESERVE Flemish School (probably 17th century or later) Bird's-eye view of a rocky landscape capriccio with travellers on a footpath, pen and i...