Books & Ephemera

(Cookery), a circa early 19th Century manuscript receipt book, paper watermarked 1807, ownership inscription at head of first leaf "Elizabeth Croc...

(Cookery, Medicine), a circa 18th Century manuscript receipt book, 120+ pages of manuscript cookery recipes and medical cures/remedies, entries in...

(Cookery, Medicine), a Victorian manuscript receipt book containing 150+ pages of cookery recipes and medical remedies and cures circa 1830's to 1...

(Cookery, Medicine), a circa early 19th Century manuscript receipt book, 130+ pages of mainly tipped in/pasted in manuscript cookery recipes, medi...

(Cookery, Medicine), a circa late 18th/early 19th Century manuscript receipt book, 45+ pages of manuscript mainly cookery recipes, plus a few m/s ...

(Cookery, Medicine), a circa late 18th/19th Century manuscript receipt book, 124 m/s numbered pages of entries of m/s cookery recipes, remedies & ...

Mrs Isabella Beeton: 'The Book of Household Management', London, Times Newspapers & Jonathan Cape, 1968 limited edition facsimile of the 1861 firs...

A manuscript book of remedies, cures, medicines etc circa 1836-1896, 100+ pages of manuscript entries including accounts entries, some receipts/re...

Sir Hugh Plat: 'The Jewel House of Art and Nature: containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the A...

(Cookery, Medicine), W.M. [i.e. Walter Montagu]: 'The Queens Closet Opened: Incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving and candying, ...

Elizabeth Raffald: 'The Experienced English House-keeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, House-keepers, Cooks, &c. Wrote purely from Practice, an...

Mrs [Mary] Eales: 'The Compleat Confectioner, or, the Art of Candying and Preserving in its Utmost Perfection. By the late Mrs. Eales, Confectione...

A Lady [i.e. Hannah Glasse]: 'The art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy; Which Far Exceeds Any Thing of the Kind Ever yet Published', London, Printed...

Charlotte Mason: 'The Lady's Assistant for Regulating and Supplying the Table; being a Complete System of Cookery', London, J. Walter et al, 1801,...

(Cookery, Culinary), Elizabeth David; John Minton (illustrated): 'French Country Cooking', London, Macdonald, 1958, 2nd edition, b/w ills/decorati...

(Cookery, Culinary), Ambrose Heath, 10 titles: 'Good Savouries', London, Faber & Faber, 1934, 2nd impression, black & white decorative title page ...

Harry Craddock: 'The Savoy Cocktail Book', London, Constable and Company, 1930, 1st edition, illustrations and decorations printed in black and co...

Mrs [Harriet Anne] De Salis: 'Oysters à la mode, or, The oyster and over 100 ways of cooking it : to which are added a few recipes for cooking all...

(George Eliot), Gordon S. Haight (edited): 'The Yale Edition of the George Eliot Letters 1836-1881', New Haven, Yale University Press, 1954-1978, ...

Gustave Doré (illustrated); Alfred Tennyson, 2 titles: 'Vivien. Illustrated by Gustave Dore.', L, Moxon, 1868. Folio. 9 engraved plates, with tiss...

BAYLEY, F.W.N.. The New Tale of a Tub: An Adventure in Verse. With Illustrations, Designed By Lieutenant J.S. Cotton. Lithographed By Aubry.. ill....

Richard Doyle, 2 titles: 'An Old Fairy Tale Told Anew in Pictures and Verse By Richard Doyle and J. R. Planché', L, George Routledge, 1865, fronti...

Thomas Gray: 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', London, Joseph Cundall/The Etching Club, 1847, unpaginated proofs on India Paper, mounted on...

W.H.G. Kingston, quartet of juvenile fiction naval adventures in pictorial cloth, all early 20th Century new editions with colour plates and publi...

William H.G. Kingston: 'The Circassian Chief', London, Richard Bentley, 1843, 1st edition, 3 volumes, triple decker, Vol. I, vi + 338. Vol. II, [i...

Margaret Oliphant: 'Salem Chapel [Chronicles of Carlingford]', London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1863, 1st edition, Double Decker. Vol. I, [vi] + ...

Wilkie Collins: 'Poor Miss Finch', London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1872, 1st edition, 3 volumes, Triple Decker. All details [except for binding] ...

Wilkie Collins: 'The New Magdalen', London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1873, 1st edition, 2 volumes, All details [except for binding] correspond exa...

Wilkie Collins: 'Mr Wray's Cash-Box; or, the mask and the mystery. A Christmas Sketch.', illustrated John Everett Millais, London, Richard Bentley...

Limner, Luke [pseud. for John Leighton]: 'Christmas Comes But Once a Year: showing what Mr Brown did, thought, and intended to do, during that fes...

John Tenniel (ill.); Friedrich de la Motte Fouque: 'Undine, A Romance. From the German', London, James Burns, 1845, 1st edition, 11 engraved illus...

[Richard Burton]; Isabel Burton: 'Lady Burton's Edition of her Husband's Arabian Nights. Translated literally from the Arabic. Prepared for Househ...

Daniel Defoe: 'The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner', London, John Stockdale, 1790, 1st Stockdale editio...

Wood, Ellen, Mrs. Henry: 'East Lynne', London, Richard Bentley, 1861, 1st edition, 3 volumes, Triple Decker. All three volumes dated '1861': First...

Robert Browning: 'Dramatis Personae', London, Chapman & Hall, 1864, 1st edition, [250 + 2pp. publisher's catalogue at end]. Original publisher's r...

Obediah Throttle: 'The Life and Surprising Adventures of Jack Shepperd', London, James Caton, 1839, 1st edition, 237pp, wood engraved illustration...

Charles Dickens: 'Pears' Centenary Edition of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books', illustrated Charles Green, London, A & F Pears, 1912, 1st edition...

Charles Dickens: 'The Life and Surprising Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby', London, Chapman & Hall, 1839, 1st edition in book form, 40 engraved pl...

Henry Rider Haggard: 'Cleopatra', London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1889, 1st edition, signed & inscribed by Henry Rider Haggard verso of the title...

Eleanor Vere Boyle (ill.); Eliza Harriet Keary: 'The Magic Valley, or Patient Antoine', London, Macmillan & Co, 1887, 1st edition, frontis, title ...

George Alfred Lawrence: 'Guy Livingston; or, 'Thorough'.', London, John W. Parker and Son, 1857, 1st edition, inscribed presentation copy with ink...

Bertall: 'Les Communeux 1871. Types, Caracteres, Costumes.', Paris/Londres, Gottschalk, 1871, Deuxieme edition, 38 numbered hand-coloured plates a...

John Payne (translated): 'The Novels of Matteo Bandello Bishop of Agen, now first done into English Prose and Verse by John Payne', London, Printe...

John Donne; David Colclough (edited): 'The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne. Volume III Sermons Preached at the Court of Charles I', Ox...

(Robert Burns), a collection of approximately 60 Robert Burns and related volumes, including 'The Poetical Works of Robert Burns', Edinburgh, Oliv...

WALKER, JOHN. An Attempt Towards the Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England... In the Late Times of the Grand Rebellion. . London: J.Ni...

HEARNE, THOMAS. Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Transcrib'd and Now First Published from a Mss in the Harleyan Library By Thomas Hearne. Samuel ...

(Holy Bible, Bishops' Bible, "Treacle Bible"), a Holy Bible, 1575, a/f, lacks general title page, separate wood engraved title page with decorativ...

'The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle', London, John Nichols & Son for Elizabeth Newbery & J. Harris, ten assorted volumes 1800-1811,...

(Chapel Royal Leather Binding), an 1829 French language work 'Liturgie ou Formulaire des Prieres Publiques...', London, Dunoyer & Prevost, 1829, c...

Thomas Stackhouse: 'A New History of the Holy Bible, from the Beginning of the World, to the Establishment of Christianity', London, Stephen Auste...

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...

DAVIS, CHARLES H: 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead.' Putnam's, 1894. Folio. Covers partly, lightly damp speckled. Inner front board bit wormed, with...

(Classics), 'The Cambridge Ancient History', Cambridge University Press, 2007, complete set of 12 volumes in 14, uniform original cloth gilt, dust...

Winston Churchill: 'The Second World War', London, Cassell, 1948-1954, 1st edition, 6 volumes, original cloth gilt, 'A History of the English-Spea...

A collection of 18 titles relating to the Navy, battleships, naval battles WW1 etc., including The Admiralty (pub.): 'Narrative of the Battle of J...

(Ephemera. Royal Navy.) Ratings' Certificates of Service, &c. 1850's to 1920's. Vellum. Seven documents, of which five relate to the Crupps family...

Jay Winter (Edited): 'The Cambridge History of the First World War. Volume I Global War; Volume II The State; Volume III Civil Society', Cambridge...

Arthur Bugler: 'H.M.S. Victory: Building, Restoration & Repair', London, HMSO, 1966, 2 volumes (text & plates), text volume xix,382pp, colour fron...

(British Army, Military), a collection of works/titles, including The Hon. J.W. Fortescue: 'A History of the British Army', London, Macmillan, 13 ...