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Darwin, Charles. Naturalist's Voyage: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M...

Travel / Polar Exploration Interest. Conquering the Arctic Ice, Ejnar Mikkelsen, first edition, London: Heinemann, 1909, publisher's pictorial clo...

Late-Victorian scrapbook of theatre clippings and playbills, to include a few autographs of stage actors. Together with a 19th-century album of ca...

19th Century album of watercolour sketches (cartoon and topographical) with occasional verse, many dated 1830s, some after book illustrations, to ...

Book of printed cartoons/caricatures by "Cham", circa 1850s

Travel / Topography Interest. Views in Westmorland, The Bosphorus Illustrated, and Paris and its Environs, in leather bindings (worn) with gilt ti...

Collection of books comprising Alison's History of Europe in five volumes, calf bindings with morocco title labels, Wrangham's British Plutarch in...

Collection of eight 18th-century etchings and engravings, to include The Happy Peasant by Vivares after Berghem, an engraved portrait of King Geor...

Crompton, Richmal. Collection of 23 William books, to include 1939 first edition of William and ARP; early editions and reprints of others, some w...

Theology Interest. Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches in the Time of Queen Elizabeth of Famous Memory, London: A. Bettes...

Greenaway, Kate (Illust.). A Day in a Child's Life, Music by Myles B. Foster, first edition, London: George Routledge, no date [1881]. Publisher's...

Wain, Louis (Illust.). Jolly Animals, London: Collins, no date [1920s], colour plates, publisher's pictorial boards, a very scarce children's pict...

The English Counties Delineated; Or, A Topographical Description of England, by Thomas Moule, first edition, in two volumes, London: George Virtue...

Sir Walter Scott / Literary History Interest. An intriguing bankruptcy letter involving Sir Walter Scott and publishers James Ballantyne & Archiba...

[Johnstone, Charles]. Chrysal: Or, The Adventures of a Guinea, by an Adept, in four volumes, London: T. Beckett, 1767-1771 (4)

A Selection of Views in Scotland, James Moore, London: Thomas Macklin, 1794

Agricultural / Veterinary Interest. Collection of eight books to include Practical Agriculture or a 'Complete System of Modern Husbandry, R.W. Dic...

Scottish Borders Interest. Collection of books to include a number of works by Sir Walter Scott, including the Library Edition of Waverley Novels ...

My Garden, An Intimate Magazine for Garden Lovers, Theo. A. Stephens, complete unbroken run in 43 volumes (1934-1951) plus accompanying Index volu...

Collection of gardening/botanical/horticultural books, to include: The Lady's Country Companion, Mrs. Loudon, London: Longman, 1845, publisher's g...

Jekyll, Gertrude. Wood and Garden, second edition, London: Longmans, 1899. Home and Garden, new edition, London: Longmans, 1900. Roses for English...

Collection of nine antiquarian cookery books, to include Modern Cookery, Eliza Acton, London: Longman, 1859; The Frugal Housewife, Mrs Child, tent...

Gaskell, E. C. The Life of Charlotte Bronte, in two volumes, London: Smith, Elder, 1857. Quarto, publisher's cloth (2)

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in eight volumes, Oxford: Talboys and Wheeler, 1827, period calf, as foun...

Welch, Denton. In Youth is Pleasure, first edition, London: Routledge, 1944; Brave and Cruel, first edition, London: Western Printing Services, 19...

Smith, Eliza. The Compleat Housewife: Or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion, sixth edition, London: J. Pemberton, 1734, rebound, as found

Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, in three volumes, London: John Murray, 1854, contemporary calf with oxblood morocco titl...

Walton, Isaac and Cotton, Charles. The Complete Angler, seventh Bagster edition, with lives of the authors by Sir John Hawkins, London: Samuel Bag...

Beckett, Samuel. Ill Seen, Ill Said, limited edition signed by the author to half-title, first edition thus, Lord John Press, Northridge, Californ...

An Inventory of the Furniture at The Royal Hotel, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 1877. Manuscript inventory in black ink, vellum binding with handwritten titl...

Winston Churchill (1874-1965). Autograph letter on Chartwell headed paper bearing manufacturer's watermark (Joynson), typewritten and signed 'W', ...

Phiz and Dickens as they Appeared to Edgar Browne, London: James Nisbet, 1913, limited edition numbered 31 of 175, signed by the author. A present...

English and Scottish Silver Spoons, by Commander George Evelyn Paget How, in three volumes, limited edition numbered 275 of 550, illustrated, Lond...

A collection of seven wax seals / roundels, armorial/heraldic shields and crests, one depicting a galleon (7)

H.M. Queen Victoria's chemise, with the embroidered V.R Royal. monogram, this chemise, formally the property of H.M. Queen Victoria is made of cot...

Joan Ellacott (British, b.1920), costumer designer. Collection of seven original costume designs/fashion illustrations as used in The First Church...

A History of Newark-on-Trent, Cornelius Brown, large paper edition numbered 3 of 100 and signed by the author, Newark: S. Whiles, 1904, two volume...

Nottinghamshire / Coaching / Legal / Political Interest. An 18th century legal publication detailing the upkeep and improvement of the town of New...

Nottinghamshire History Interest. Dickinson, William. The History and Antiquities of the Town of Newark, London: Longman, 1819, illustrated with e...

Agricultural / Economics / Political Interest. County Reports to the Board of Agriculture, by Mr. Marshall, volume the fourth ('Midland Department...

A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists, John Wesley, London: Wesleyan Conference Office [no date], presentation label t...

The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain, Andrew Ure, in two volumes, London: Charles Knight, 1836, octavo, publisher's gilt cloth (2)

Bronzes, by C. Drury E. Fortnum, London: Chapman and Hall [no date], illustrated with 13 original etchings of bronzes in the South Kensington Muse...

Skinner's Cotton Trade Directory for 1924, London: Thomas Skinner & Co., pictorial gilt spine advertising J. Smith Lancashire Steeple Jack, quarto...

The History of England, Hume & Smollett, Cooke's Pocket Edition in 25 volumes, London: C. Cooke, no date, 1790s, full calf bindings with oxblood m...

Regum Pariumque Magnae Britanniae Historia Genealogica, Jacob Wilhelm Imhoff, first edition, Nuremberg: 1690, red & black title page, engraved all...

A scarce Elizabethan English theological book, Catechism of Richard Greenham, by Henry Holland, third edition, London: Felix Kyngston and Robert D...

British Political / Legal / Military / Jacobite Interest. Votes of the House of Commons, a bound collection from 1718 to 1719, published in London...

Travel / Exploration Interest. History of the British Expedition to Egypt, Robert Thomas Wilson, second edition, London: T. Egerton, Military Libr...

History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Jacob Hooper, London: 1738, rebound as found. Together with A Complete Collection of State-Tri...

The Unfortunate Court-Favourites of England, by R. B., London: Nath. Crouch, 1695. A scarce 17th-century work with engraved frontispiece showing p...

Typographical / Font / Graphic Design Interest. A mid-20th Century cased set of lead printer's letters, housed in cabinet with multiple divided dr...

Fleming, Ian. Thunderball, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1961, unclipped dust-jacket with 'Jonathan Cape 16s' sticker over price. Together...

Yorkshire, An Historical and Topographical Introduction to a Knowledge of the Ancient State of the Wapentake of Strafford and Tickhill; with Ample...

British Royalty Interest. Queen Victoria, by Richard R. Holmes, London: Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1897, illustrated throughout, colour frontispiece,...

Art History Interest. Galleria Accademia Delle Belle Arti Di Firenze, Maria Cristina, Firenze: 1845, illustrated with engraved plates throughout, ...

Decorative Leather Bindings. The Complete Work of Rembrandt, by Wilhelm Bode, limited edition numbered 122 of 500, Paris: Charles Sedelmeyer, 1900...

Late-Georgian manuscript book for an Odd Fellows Lodge in the Woolwich district of London, 1810s, recording the names/trades/residences of members...

The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2 June 1953: an invitation to the Coronation (addressed to Mr & Mrs Ernest Partridge) complete w...

British Political History Interest. A collection of autograph letters from various political figures, including Edward Heath; John E. Harvey; Rich...