Books

(Ephemera, Stage, Theatre) Beatrice Lillie, singer, actress, comedienne (1894-1989). Two original publicity photographs to accompany the announcem...

(Music Hall Stage, Vaudeville, Theatre), a scrap album 1910-1917 containing various signatures, inscriptions, signed postcards and photographs and...

(Scrap albums) An album of chromolithographic scraps c.1887, 65 pages of mounted scraps incl. animals, modes of transport, flowers, children, hunt...

Robert Bowyer: 'An Impartial Historical Narrative of those Momentous Events Which Have Taken Place in this Country during the Period from the Year...

'Charpenterie' (Carpentry), a series of engraved plates from an 18th Century edition of Diderot's Encyclopedie, 46 of 53 plates, incl. 17 double p...

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill: 'The History of The Second World War', London, Cassell, 1948-1954, 1st edition, 6 volumes, uniform original cloth g...

Sir Winston Churchill: 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples', L, Cassell, 1956-58, 1st editions, vols II, III & IV (of 4), uniform original ...

Winston Spencer Churchill: 'Ian Hamilton's March', London, Longmans & Co., November 1900, 2nd edition, (one month after the first), portrait front...

Sir Winston S. Churchill: 'The Second World War', London, Cassell, 1948-54, 1st edition, 6 volumes, uniform original cloth gilt (a/f worn/part dus...

Major V.A. Cazalet: 'With Sikorski to Russia', London, Printed at the Curwen Press for Private Circulation, 1942, one of 300 copies only, signed &...

Louis W. Bondy: 'Racketeers of Hatred: Julius Streicher and the Jew-baiters' International', London, Newman Wolsey Ltd, [1946], 1st edition, illus...

Richard R. Holmes: 'Naval & Military Trophies & Personal Relics of British Heroes. A Series of Water Colour Drawings by William Gibb', London, Joh...

General Sir H.E. Blumberg & Colonel G. Field: 'BRITAIN'S SEA SOLDIERS. A History of the Royal Marines and Their Predecessors and of Their Services...

Commander Bernard Trotter Coote (1880-1955), Royal Navy, archive of photograph albums, manuscript ships log books with well executed m/s maps and ...

C.H. Gifford: 'History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution...Comprising, also...the History of the Wars in Spain and Portugal; the Ame...

Princess Hélène d'Orléans, Duchess of Aosta (1871-1951), a collection of signed books, Autograph Letters Signed, signed portrait photographs etc, ...

'The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book', [1935], with one coloured plate entitled 'Childhood'. The Gift book was produced as a charitable concern in ai...

Three copies of typed letters relating to the death of Princess Diana, 1997, including Mohamed al-Fayed, letter to David Welch, dated September 19...

The Compact Edition of the Dictionary of National Biography, 1975, complete in 2 volumes in slipcase with original magnifying glass in sliding dra...

'Picturesque Europe', London, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [c. 1880], 5 vols, 5 additional steel engraved title pages + 59 (of 60) full page steel en...

Dr. A.G. Paspates: 'The Great Palace of Constantinople', translated from the Greek by William Metcalfe, London, Alexander Gardner, 1893, 1st editi...

T.G. Jackson: 'Dalmatia the Quarnero and Istria with cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado', Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1887, 1st ed...

Ten Mount Everest and Polar Exploration titles, including Edmund Hillary: 'High Adventure', London, H & S, 1955, 1st edition, original cloth gilt,...

John Hunt: 'The Ascent of Everest', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1953, 1st edition, signed by the author and leader of the successful 1953 British ...

(Australia, Passenger Ships, Travel), 'The Parramatta Echo, Being a Series of Papers Published on the Homeward Voyage of the S. "Parramatta," from...

Ten early 20th Century "Myths & Legends" series books published George G. Harrap & Co., comprising four titles by Lewis Spence: 'The Myths of Mexi...

Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks (née Rutley, later Fisher, 1895–1970), British explorer, member of the Royal Geographical Society, credited with trave...

(Japan), a Japanese woodblock printing illustrated book, modern pencil and pen notes on leaf loosely inserted state the book to be 'Bumpo Gafu', c...

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

(Argentina, Travel & Topography), Samuel Hull Wilcocke: 'History of the Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres; Containing the Most Accurate Details Relative...

David Livingstone: 'Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa', ...

Sir W.M. Flinders Petrie, 2 titles: 'The Arts & Crafts of Ancient Egypt', Edinburgh & London, Foulis, 1909, 1st edition, inscribed by Flinders Pet...

Lady Isabel Burton: 'The Inner Life Of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land, from my private Journal.', London, Henry S. King, 1876, 2nd edition, 2...

(Sir Gawain Bell, Arabia), James Lunt: 'Hussein of Jordan, a Political Biography', London, Macmillan, 1989, 1st edition, Typed Letter Signed from ...

Captain William Gill: 'The River of Golden Sand : Being the narrative of a journey through China and eastern Tibet to Burmah', London, John Murray...

Claude Savary: 'Letters on Egypt. Containing a Parallel between the Manners of its Ancient and Modern Inhabitants, its Commerce, Agriculture, Gove...

Edward Walsh: 'A Narrative of the Expedition to Holland, in the Autumn of the Year 1799. Illustrated with a Map of North Holland, and Seven Views ...

Franklin Hudson: 'The Brasses of Northamptonshire', London, Thomas McLean, 1853, 1st edition, 94 lithograph plates printed in grey, gold and black...

Ten A & C Black colour books, including 'Japan', 1902 reprint, 'Kent', 1907, 1st edition, 'Essex', 1909, 'Beautiful Wales', 1905, 'Gardens of Engl...

Aaorn Arrowsmith: 'An Atlas of Modern Geography, for the use of King's College School [Cambridge University]', London, J. Arrowsmith & B. Fellowes...

Benjamin Pitts Capper: 'A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom', London, Richard Phillips, 1808, 1st edition, 46 hand coloured maps as c...

(North Devon), an oblong folio late 19th Century photograph album containing 28 mounted albumen print photographs of the North Devon coast by Jame...

Robert William Billings & William Burn: 'The Baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.', Edinburgh, William Blackwood, c.1849, volumes ...

Sebastian de Pontault, Sieur de Beaulieu (1612-1674), seven 17th Century double engraved battle plans/views illustrating military campaigns waged ...

(London), a collection of 16 volumes, including Ernest Rhys (ed.): 'The Hampstead Annual 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900', London, Sydney C. Mayle, 1897-19...

A late 19th Century Souvenir of the opening of Tower Bridge, 1894, printed on tissue paper, 'Opening of the Tower Bridge by the Prince and Princes...

(Maps), a collection of photo-facsimile reproductions of Ortelius' Typus Orbis Terrarum' on laid paper, aged, Image size 48 x 35 cms. Four copies,...

A late 19th Century watercolour of Salhouse Broad, Norfolk. Signed in pencil lower right: 'J.Miller. Norfolk 1891'. 33 x 23 cms. Framed and glazed...

(Exeter, Devon), James Cossins: 'Reminiscences of Exeter Fifty Years Since', 1878, Privately printed, second edition (with additions), viii,80pp, ...

'Slater's (Late Pigot & Co.) Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties of... [Eastern England, including Norfolk, Suf...

John Farmer: 'The History of the Ancient Town, and once famous abbey, of Waltham, in the county of Essex, from the foundation to the present time'...

(Essex), an excerpt from Lysons 'Environs of London' 1792-1796, pp.601-749, 'County of Essex', 6 engraved plates, mainly Barking Abbey content plu...

(Durham, Newcastle), Edith Milner: 'Records of the Lumleys of Lumley Castle', London, George Bell, 1904, frontis + 12 plates + pedigrees (1 foldin...

Walter Arthur Copinger: 'The Manors of Suffolk. Notes on their History and Devolution. The hundreds of Babergh and Blackbourn; The hundreds of Bly...

The Rev. Hugh Pigot, Curate of Hadleigh: 'Hadleigh. The Town; The Church; and the Great Men who have been Born in, or Connected with the Parish. A...

(Enclosure Act, Bressingham & Fersfield), a manuscript vellum document, 1799, comprising 24 large rolled vellum leaves, "An Act for dividing and a...

A late 19th Century Carte de Visites album containing 23 CdV's, majority King's Lynn photographers including Walter S. Dexter, Blackfriars Street,...

A quantity of sales particulars Pulham St Mary and environs, together with 4 issues of 'The Norfolk Annual', 1930's, covers a/f

'Particulars and Conditions of Sale of the Suffolk Estates of the Late Charles James Goodrich, Esq., Situate in the Parishes of Stonham, Mendlesha...

'The Diss Express and Norfolk and Suffolk Journal', two issues, Friday, December 2, 1870, and Friday, March 26, 1875, period adverts, some with en...