Books & Ephemera

A packet of assorted ephemera, including Sir John Pollock (1878-1963), playwright, proof copy of his autobiography, published 1950, with correctio...

A Victorian album containing 400+ crests and monograms, including army and navy regimental, colleges and schools, clubs etc, regimental includes s...

An 1810 Bank of England manuscript document showing national debt for Great Britain and Ireland, various columns of figures and calculations, bear...

A handwritten document on vellum from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I re Northumberland dated 14th May 1596

(King Arthur of Britain, Merlin, Mythology), Jeffrey [Geoffrey] of Monmouth: 'The British History, translated into English from the Latin of Jeffr...

'The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church...

Abraham Cowley: 'The Works Of Mr Abraham Cowley. Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed: And Those which were Design'd for the Press, Now...

(Bumpus Binding), Edward Gibbon: 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', London, John Murray, 1862, 8 volumes, engraved portrai...

Samuel Johnson: 'The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.', Oxford, Talboys & Wheeler; London, W. Pickering, 1825, 9 volumes, uniform half morocco gilt ...

Robert Freke Gould: ' 'The History and Antiquities of Freemasonry, Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, etc - Embracing an Investigat...

S.F.A. Caulfield & Blanche C. Saward: 'The Dictionary of Needlework, an Encyclopedia of Artistic, Plain, and Fancy Needlework (&c)', London, Upcot...

(Cookery, Wine and Wine Making, Confectionery), [Mr. Borella]: 'The Court and Country Confectioner: or, the House-Keeper’s Guide..., To which is a...

[William Kitchiner]: 'The Cook's Oracle; Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families: also, the Art of ...

(Anatomy), M.N.,B.A.: 'Anatomy Epitomized and Illustrated: Containing, I. A concise and plain description of all the parts of the human body ... I...

(Heraldry, Knighthood & Chivalry), Matthew Carter: 'Honor Rediviuus or An analysis of Honor and Armory', London, Printed by E. Coates. Sold by Tho...

(Miniature book), 'Souvenir of Derbyshire', c.1850, 15 steel-engraved views on a single sheet folding out concertina fashion. Each illustration ap...

(Theatre, Actresses), 'Celebrities of the Stage. Extracts from 'The Sketch', London, George Newnes, 1901, compiled from Volumes I to XXXII, Februa...

A collection of antiquarian and leather bound volumes, including [Bulstrode Whitlocke]: 'Memorials of the English affairs, or, An historical accou...

A box of miscellaneous antiquarian works and other volumes etc

Alexander Pope: 'The works of Alexander Pope in verse and prose. Containing the principal notes of Drs Warburton and Warton...to which are added, ...

Birket Foster (1825-1899), collection of thirteen late 19th/early 20th Century titles, including H.M. Cundall: 'Birket Foster R.W.S.', London, A &...

Anthony Trollope: 'The Last Chronicle of Barset', London, Smith Elder, 1867, first edition, bound from the parts, 32 engraved plates as called for...

Charles Dickens, 2 titles: 'Master Humphrey's Clock', Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne, London, Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841, 1...

(Binding), Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 'The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti', London, Ellis & Elvey, 1891, new edition, engraved portrait fro...

Christina Rossetti: 'The Prince's Progress and Other Poems', London, Macmillan, 1866, first edition, frontis and illustrated title engraved by Lin...

(Literary Forgeries), Thomas Chatterton: 'Poems, Supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and others, in the Fifteenth Century....

(Bindings), Macaulay: 'Victoria. Her Life and Reign', 1887, large 8vo, fine full crushed brown morocco, both boards elaborately gilt with the roya...

James Boswell: 'The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.', London, Charles Dilly, 1793, second edition (first 8vo edition), 3 volumes, engraved portrait ...

Cervantes Hogg [i.e. Eaton Standard Barrett]: 'The Rising Sun, a Serio-Comic Satiric Romance. The Second Edition.', London, Appleyards, 1807, 2nd ...

Gustave Doré (illustrated); Dante Alighieri: 'The Vision of Purgatory and Paradise. Translated by Rev Henry Cary. Illustrated by Gustave Dore', Ca...

William Hogarth: 'The Complete Works of William Hogarth In a Series of One Hundred and Fifty Steel Engravings ... With an Introductory Essay by Ja...

Two scarce military interest titles relating to the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II, comprising Ian Lyall Grant & Kazuo Tamayama: 'Burma ...

A manuscript scrap album compiled by 2nd Lt. Philip Wills circa 1942-1946, firstly during his time at the Indian Military Academy as an Officer Ca...

(Crimean War, Royal Navy), an 1892 cheque payable to and endorsed by Captain James Edward Hunter R.N. (1834-1932). Capt. J.E. Hunter entered the R...

A Royal Navy printed receipt 1719, signed with manuscript additions, for Royal Navy [annual?] budget, Received then of "the Lord Onslow" the Sum o...

A Royal Navy printed receipt 1778, signed with manuscript additions, for Royal Navy [annual?] budget, Received then of "the Right Honble the Earl ...

(Australia, Royal Tour 1920), Edward Prince of Wales, (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom January-December 1936, later...

A composite album of various periodicals and newspapers circa 1870's-1890's, content includes Jubilee of Queen Victoria from the Illustrated Londo...

'The Illustrated London News', 4 volumes, comprising volume 50, January-June 1871; volume 78, January-June 1881, volume 80, January-June-1882 & vo...

[John S. Roberts]: 'The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D., Carefully Compiled from Reliable Sources', London; Newcastle-on-Tyne, ...

Mungo Park: 'Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association in the Years 1795...

(Africa, Travel & Exploration), Samuel White Baker, 2 titles: 'The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources',...

(Middle East, Arabia, Travel), St John Philby: 'The Empty Quarter. Being a description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub' al Khali....

(Asia, Travel), a collection of twenty three assorted titles relating to Asia, Central Asia, China, India, The Silk Road etc, including Sven Hedin...

(Travel & Exploration), William Spotswood Green: 'The High Alps of New Zealand, or a Trip to the Glaciers of the Antipodes, with an Ascent of Moun...

(Manuscripts, Geography, Ethnology), George Bryan Souza & Jeffrey S. Turley: 'The Boxer Codex: transcription and translation of an illustrated lat...

Commander Bedford Pim: 'The Gate of the Pacific', London, Lovell Reeve & Co, 1863, 1st edition, 7 engraved maps (2 folding, 1 coloured in outline)...

(India, China), Sir John Malcolm: 'A Memoir of Central India, including Malwa, and Adjoining Provinces, with the History, and Copious Illustration...

(India), an album of approximately 85 mid 20th Century snapshot photographs taken in and around the town of Cuttack, in the state of Odisha, easte...

(Travel, Africa, South America), Henry Savage-Landor, 3 titles: 'Across Widest Africa. An Account of the Country and People of Eastern, Central an...

An 1826 document registering the birth of a slave, Cape Town, 1826, as the property of ''Mr Jan Hoels''. A male infant named Carel 3rd, born on th...

An 1830 document registering the birth of a slave, Cape Town, 1830, as the property of ''Mrs the widow of the late Johannes Petrie, born Hendrina ...

A handwritten certificate of birth for two child slaves, Cape Town, 16th January 1833, "This is to certify that the following slaves have bene bor...

A handwritten certificate of birth for a slave, Cape Town, 4th July 1832, "I hereby certify that my female slave named Rebecca about 36 1/2 years ...

A handwritten certificate of birth for a slave, Cape Town, 27th April 1821, a boy named "Hoemaad[?]", born 17th March 1821, document in Afrikaans ...

A handwritten certificate of birth for a slave, Cape Town, 3rd April 1821, a boy named Africa, his mother named Philida, born 15th March 1821, doc...

Arnold Louis MUMM (1859-1927): 'Five Months in the Himalaya. A Record of Mountain Travel in Garhwal and Kashmir', London, Edward Arnold, 1909, fir...

(Mountaineering, Travel, Himalayas), Fanny Bullock & William Hunter Workman, 2 titles: 'Ice-bound Heights of the Mustagh. An account of two season...

(Mountaineering, Exploration, Travel, Hunting), a collection of sixteen late 19th/early 20th Century mountaineering and exploration books relating...

Sir George Scott Robertson, 2 titles: 'The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush', London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, 1st edition, large folding map at end + 79 ...