Books, Maps and Ephemera

(Ephemera). "The Royal Rosebuds and the Parent Stem", a printed gilt decorative/pictorial card, circa 1843, depicting Vicky (Princess Victoria), A...

(Ephemera). A Coventry woven silk, early 1860's, depicting a pretty lady in centre wearing purple ribbons, surrounded by several ugly ladies with ...

(Ephemera). A Victorian Die Cut Bookmark of a ceremonial barge of a London Livery Company ...[more]

(Ephemera). A Windsor Castle Programme of Plays, November 1860, together with a Buckingham Palace Music Programme, June 1868 (2) ...[more]

(Ephemera). A Coronation of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra ticket, Constitution Hill Stand Block B, 26th June 1902, together with a coloured litho...

(Ephemera). Two Winston and Clementine Churchill unused Christmas cards, each illustrated with a mounted coloured print of a Churchill painting, "...

(Ephemera). Two mounted coloured Baxter Prints 1854, Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie ...[more]

(Ephemera). Autopen signature of Elizabeth II, a Warrant appointing  a British Consul to Romania, 1977, signed by Anthony Crosland, Foreign Secret...

Assorted ephemera including 3 CdV's colonial India including European Gentleman on horseback by Baker & Burke photographers, Punjab and portrait o...

A 1901 Stereoscope viewer by Underwood & Underwood of New York, housed in modern custom made box; together with a collection of approx 60 Stereo C...

A collection of framed and cased 19th Century phoographs including Ambrotypes, Daguerrotypes etc, including Ambrotype of a young man seated holdin...

A collection of 40+ circa late 19th Century photographic stereo cards, including the Vatican, Forum & Colosseum, Rome (3); Conway Bridge and Castl...

A collection of approximately fifteen Henry Moore (1898-1986) sculpture & art books, five of which signed and inscribed, including Philip James (e...

Jacques Dubarry de Lassale: "Identifying Marble", Editions H. Vial, 2000, 1st edition, folio, original cloth, dust wrapper

Cecil Beaton, two signed titles: 'The Glass of Fashion', London, 1954, 2nd impression, signed and inscribed to title page "For Charlotte Gaffran B...

Aubrey Beardsley.- Arthur Symons (editor): 'The Savoy: An Illustrated Quarterly', Leonard Smithers, 1896, 1st edition, volumes 1-4, plates and ill...

A collection of 5 titles illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley or related, comprising Vincent O'Sullivan: 'A Book of Bargains', Leonard Smithers, 1896, ...

Walter Pater: 'An Imaginary Portrait. (The Child in the House)', Oxford, printed by H.Daniel, 1894, limited edition (18/250), numbered, handmade p...

Charles Baudelaire: 'Les Fleurs du Mal', illustrated Carlo Farneti, Paris, Gilbert Jeune Librairie d'Amateurs, 1935, limited edition (1,487/3000),...

A collection of Poetry, plays etc including Rupert Brooke: 'Collected Poems', Riccardi Press, 1919, wood engraved portrait frontis and title page ...

Osbert Sitwell typed letter signed on Renishaw Hall, Renishaw, Near Sheffield headed paper, 14th December 1946, content re 'Left Hand Right Hand' ...

Denis Seurat: 'Death and the Dreamer', illustrated Edward Bawden, London, Westhouse, 1946, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper

Modern 1st editions etc including John Fowles: 'Mantissa', Jonathan Cape, 1982, 1st edition, signed and inscribed, original cloth gilt, dust wrapp...

A collection of titles relating to Virginia Woolf and The Bloomsbury Group including 'The Letters of Virginia Woolf', The Hogarth Press, 1975-1980...

Evelyn Waugh, 3 titles: 'Scoop', London, Chapman & Hall, 1938, 1st edition, 1st Issue (final word of p.88 "as"), original snakeskin design cloth g...

Vladimir Nabokov, five 1st UK editions published Weidenfeld and Nicholson, all in original cloth, all in dust wrappers, including 'The Eye', 1966,...

Aldous Huxley: "The Doors of Perception", London, Chatto & Windus, 1954, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (unclipped and VGC), bookp...

John le Carré: 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold', London, Victor Gollancz, 1964, 9th impression, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (VGC and iden...

Ian Fleming: 'Thunderball', London, Jonathan Cape, 1961, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (small part losses and closed tears, uncli...

James Stephens: 'Irish Fairy Tales', illustrated Arthur Rackham, London, Macmillan, 1920, 1st trade edition, 16 tissue guarded coloured plates, as...

W.E. Johns: 'Biggles Flies East', illustrated Howard Leigh & Alfred Sindall, London, Oxford University Press, 1935, 1st edition, signed and inscri...

Beatrix Potter, five first editions comprising 'The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck', London, Frederick Warne, 1908, first edition, half-title, 27 col...

'Tales of Nurseryland', London, Warne, circa 1890, chromolithographic illustrations by Constance Haslewood throughout, original pictorial paper co...

Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', London, Macmillan, 1874, 43rd thousand, 'Through the Looking-Gl...

Jane Austen: 'Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the author of "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park," &c. with a biographical notice of the au...

Rudyard Kipling, a collection of approximately 70 titles including 'The Jungle Book', London, Macmillan, August 1894, 2nd reprint, black and white...

A collection of 22 titles relating to George du Maurier, his daughter Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, her dear friend J.M. Barrie and her sons who inspire...

A quantity of mainly 19th Century volumes including Shelley's 'Poetical Works', 1839, 4 volumes, 1st collected edition edited by Mary Shelley, ori...

A small collection of leather bindings and other assorted volumes including 'Companions of My Solitude', London, William Pickering, 1852, contempo...

Sterne: 'Works...' in eight volumes, 1795, published by Mozley and Gainsborough, 8 volumes, uniform contemporary calf gilt (8)

Four antiquarian leatherbound volumes, comprising [Sir Samuel Garth]: 'The Dispensary', John Nutt, 1706, 6th edition, engraved frontis, rebound s...

Assorted 18th and 19th Century literature including satirical etc, including Peter Pindar [i.e. John Wolcot], 3 titles: 'Peter's pension : A solem...

Arthur Conan Doyle: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', illustrated Sidney Paget, 1895, 34th thou, original cloth gilt, plus 'The Strand Magazine...

(Leather Bindings): Charles Dickens 'Household Words', London, 1850-1858, volumes 1-17, contemporary half green morocco over marbled paper covered...

Charles Dickens, 3 titles: 'The Personal History of David Copperfield', illustrated H K Browne, London, Bradbury & Evans, 1850, 1st edition in bo...

Charles Dickens: 'The Life of Our Lord', 1934, 1st edition, original blue leather gilt, dust wrapper; 'Dickens Memento... - Catalogue...of the Pic...

Charles Dickens Works, 'Illustrated Library Edition', 1874-75, 10 volumes, comprising 'Nicholas Nickleby', 2 vols; 'David Copperfield', 2 vols; 'P...

Charles Dickens: 'A Tale of Two Cities', illustrated H.K.Browne, London, Chapman and Hall, 1859, 1st edition in book form, 2nd issue, page 213 cor...

George Cruikshank: 'Fairy Library. [Comprising:] Hop-O'My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots; The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk; Cinderella and t...

A collection of works by or illustrated by George Cruikshank, including 'Twelve Sketches, Illustrative of Sir Walter Scott's Demonology and Witchc...

Charles Dickens: 'The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition' [cover-title], parts 1-93 consecutive (of 101) original parts, London, Chapman ...

William Makepeace Thackeray: 'The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy', London, Bradbury & Evan...