Books, Manuscripts & Maps Auction

SCOTT, Sir Walter, Waverley Novels. Large Type Border Edition. 24 vols, John C. Nimmo, 1899-1900. Illustrated. Introductory essays and notes by An...

COUNTY MAPS by Robert Morden. Gloucestershire, 1695, 345mm x 420mm, hand-coloured. With 7 other County Maps by Morden of Monmouth, Worcestershire,...

OGILBY, John, The Road from London to Shrewsbury [1675] 340mm x 425mm, hand coloured. With The Roads from Shrewsbury to Chester and Holywell [1675...

OGILBY, John, The Road from Bristoll to Worcester [1675] 315mm x 415mm, hand coloured. With The Continuation of the Road from Bristol to Chester [...

OGILBY, John, The Road from Welshpool to Carnarvan [1675] 335mm x 415mm. Hand coloured. With The Road from Glocester to Montgomery [1675] 320mm x ...

OGILBY, John, The Road from London to St. David's [1675] 300m x 445mm. Hand coloured. With The Road from Glocester to Coventrey [1675] 315mm x 440...

GARDNER, Thomas, 3 strip maps: The Roads from Shrewsbury and Chester to Holywell, 180mm x 280mm; The Road from York to West Chester; and The Conti...

FIVE SMALL STRIP MAPS, c.1720, showing roads in Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire. Approx 190mm x 12mm. In gilt frames (5). ...[more]

SPEED, John, Map of Montgomeryshire. Sudbury & Humbell, c1611. 385mm x 510mm. Handcoloured in gilt frame. ...[more]

Lloyd, Humphrey, Map of Cambriae (Wales), 17th century, 348mm x 495mm. Hand coloured, in gilt frame. ...[more]

SAXTON, Christopher & KIP, William, Map of Denbigh. 265mm x 320mm. Hand coloured. With a similar map of Brecknoc by Saxton and Robert Vaughan. Bot...

DRAYTON, Michael, Map of Herefordshire and part of Gloucestershire and part of Worcstershyre showing the principal rivers. 1612 or later. 250mm x ...

MAP OF AFRICA. Purdy, John, The Continent and Islands of Africa with all the recent explorations. Robert Laurie and James Whittle 1809. 1170mm x 1...

BOWEN, Emanuel, An Accurate Map of Shropshire, c 1765, 530mm x 677mm. Dissected on linen. Hand coloured. With Cary's map of Shropshire, 1805, 497 ...

MAPS OF SHROPSHIRE. Blome, Richard, circa 1671, 190mm x 250mm. With another Blome map, c1670, 315mm x 270mm. With other maps of Shropshire by T Ki...

MARIVAUX, Pierre de, Le Vie De Marianne, Ou Les Adventures de Madame La Contesse De***, 4 vols, Amsterdam 1772, contemporary calf (4) ...[more]

SWADLIN, Thomas, King Charles His Funeral Who Was Beheaded by Base and Barbarous Hands, January 30th 1648, 4to 1661; TAYLOR, Thomas, The Parable o...

BUS & TRAM TICKETS, 1930s and 1940s, over 200 pasted to album leaves. Including Crosville Motor Services, Liverpool Corp, P.T., Isle of Man, Lland...

MANUSCRIPT LIFE OF A SOLDIER. Major General John Soame Richardson, CB (1836-1896), for 25 years commander of the 12th Regiment of Foot in New Sout...

NEWTON, ISAAC, Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John, 4to, first edition 1733. Two parts in one vol. Original...

THE AEROPLANE (Magazine) January 1934 - June 1935. Vols 45, 47 & 48. Blue cloth gilt, bound without the covers. (3) ...[more]

FUNERAL PROCESSION of the Earl of Powys, original drawing, circa 1801, 230mm x 545mm. Framed and glazed. ...[more]

GRANT OF ARMS to Samuel Addison of Wednesbury and his late father, also Samuel, of Charnes Old Hall, Eccleshall, 1838. On vellum with two attached...

TWO AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS, 1930s, containing signatures of Sportsmen and Stage and Screen stars. Including Jesse Owens (Athletics), Jack London (Athlet...

GUNPOWDER PLOT. James I, King of England. His Majesties speech in this last session of Parliament as neere his words could be gathered at the inst...

JOHNSON, Samuel, Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, 3 vols 1774. 1st edition. Quarter calf neatly rebacked, marbled paper covered boards, vellum t...

GUTHRIE, Maria, A Tour Performed in the Years 1795-6 Through the Taurida, or Crimea, 4to 1802. With 2 folding maps and 11 plates. Later half calf....

SIMON, James, An Essay Towards an Historical Account of Irish Coins, 4to, Dublin 1749. With 8 plates. Recent half-calf, marbled boards. ...[more]

WILLIAMS, Rev Robert. Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall. 4to 1865. Quarter calf over marbled boar...

FOX, John, The Book of Martyrs. Folio, John Fuller, 1761. With 18 of 20 plates. Recent half calf over marbled boards. ...[more]

SAMPSON, Rev. G Vaughan, Statistical Survey of the County of Londonderry, Dublin 1802. With 3 folding maps and 5 plates. Water-staining affecting ...

MOORE, John Hamilton, The Practical Navigator, and Seaman's New Daily Assistant. 9th edn, 1791. Half calf, marbled boards. ...[more]

LA QUINTINYE, Jean de, The Complete Gard'ner: Or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen Gardens. Abridged & I...

CORONATION OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II, 2 June 1953. Order of Service. Special copy bound in full red morocco, watered silk endpapers, gilt ...

FLEMING, Ian, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1st edn, 1963. Some water staining to dust wrapper. ...[more]

TERN PRESS, Market Drayton. Penner, Meirion, The Poems of Taliesin. Folio, 1989, no. 33/90; The Battle of the Trees, translated by Meirion Pennar,...

TERN PRESS. Market Drayton. Langland, William, Piers The Plowman, 4to 2001, no. 11/75; From the Chronicles of Froissart, Of the Batayle of Crecy, ...

PRATT, Anne, The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain. 6 vols c.1873. With The British Grasses and Sedges. Over 300 coloured plates. Full c...

MORRIS, Rev FO, A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds. 3 vols, 1st edition. 1853-56. With 223 coloured plates. Half green calf ...

MORRIS, Rev FO, A History of British Birds, 6 vols 1851-62. With 358 hand-coloured plates and 13 duplicate plates bound in at the end of vol 3. ...

SMOLLETT & HUME, The History of England, 2 vols, small 4to 1855. Finely bound in full calf. With another copy in one vol. With the Works of Willia...

ELIOT, George. The Novels of George Eliot, 8 vols in 7. New edition. William Blackwood and Sons, c. 1880. Illustrated. Contemporary half red calf,...

DICKENS, Charles, Pickwick Papers, 1st edition 1837. 'Veller' title, contemporary half calf; Nicholas Nickleby, 1st edition 1839, contemporary hal...

DICKENS, Charles, Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 vols, 4to, 1st edition 1840 - 41. Contemporary half black calf, very clean internally. With Edwin D...

ROBJENT, Richard, and MARTIN, Brian. The Pheasant: Studies in Words and Pictures. 4to, Fine Sporting Interests Ltd., Holt, Norfolk, 1995. With 24...

MADONNA, Sex. Folio, 1st UK edition, Martin Secker and Warburg, 1992. Matt aluminium covers, spiral bound. With cd and original silver printed foi...

EROTICA. A collection of erotic books and prints, mostly published by the Erotic Print Society. Circa 40 books. 8 issues of Desire magazine, no. 4...

SMYTHE, FS, The Valley of Flowers, 1938. Signed limited edition of 250 copies. With 16 tipped-in colour plates and 2 maps. White cloth, gilt. ......

RACKHAM, Arthur. Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen. With 12 tipped-in colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 4to, George G Harrap, 1st Edition 1936. Sign...

DULAC, Edmund. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 4to, Hodder and Stoughton (1919). With 20 tipped-in colour plates. One of 750 signed and numbered copi...

JAMES, Grace, Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales. 4to 1910. With 40 tipped - in colour illustrations by Warwick Goble. Edition de Luxe of...

STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, retold by Laurence Housman. 4to, Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. With 50 tipped-in colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac...

THE BROTHERS GRIMM, Hansel & Gretel and other stories. 4to, Hodder & Stoughton, 1925. With 12 tipped-in colour plates by Kay Nielsen. Number 16 of...

THACKERAY, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair. 4to, Hodder & Stoughton c.1910. With 20 tipped-in colour plates by Lewis Baumer. One of 350 copies size...

THE FABLES OF AESOP. 4to, Hodder & Stoughton 1909. With 25 tipped-in colour plates by Edward Detmold. One of 750 copies signed and numbered by the...

THE SONG OF SONGS which is Solomon's. 4to, Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society, 1909. With 10 tipped-in colour plates by W Russell Flint. One...

ROLLESTON, TW, The Tale of Lohengrin. 4to, GG Harrap & Co., no date. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Signed numbered limited edition of 525. Blue clo...

MALORY, Sir Thomas, Le Morte D'Arthur. Thick 4to, J M Dent & Sons, 1927. With several hundred Illustrations in black and white by Aubrey Beardsley...

RACKHAM, Arthur, 6 books illustrated by Rackham. Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods, 4to, Heinemann, 1911. With 30 tipped-in colour plates; A Wo...

CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED. A good collection including A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4to 1914, with 12 tipped-in colour plates & 32 illustrations in b...