The Contents of Bishton Hall, Staffordshire & 6 Day Autumn Jewellery, Silver, Fine Art & Library Auction + No Reserve Attic Sale. See Listings.

Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, Works of Art, and Decorative Objects, the Property of His Grace The Duke of Hamilton, London: Christie, M...

Sporting / Fox Hunting Interest. Apperley, Charles James. "Nimrod". Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton of Halston, Shropshire, second edi...

Ruskin, John. The Pleasures of England, Lectures Given in Oxford, in four parts, Kent: George Allen, 1884-1885, in original paper covers (4)

Ruskin, John. Praeterita, the autobiography of Ruskin, first edition, Kent: George Allen, 1886, in two volumes, full vellum bindings with morocco ...

Building World, An Illustrated Weekly Trade Journal for Architects, Builders, Carpenters, bound volume containing issues from October 1900 to Apri...

Fox Hunting / Irish Interest. A Patrick's Day Hunt, by Martin Ross and E. Somerville, Westminster: Archibald Constable, no date [1902], illustrate...

Railway / First World War Interest. The London and North Western Railway Company's Roll of Honour, Dedicated to the Railwaymen Who Lost their Live...

Natural History Interest. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Fifth Series in three volumes, London...

Regency Education / Art / Cookery Interest. The Young Man's Companion (dealing with writing, arithmetic, geography, astronomy, law, chemistry), J....

American / Travel Interest. Gazetteer of the State of New York, by J. H. French, illustrated with steel-engraved plates, New York: R. Pearsall Smi...

Travel / Chinese Interest. Unrecorded 19th Century Illustrated Children's/Juvenile Book. Something About China and the Chinese, London: Dean & Co....

Criminal / Legal Interest. Mysteries of Police and Crime, by Major Arthur Griffiths, in three volumes, London: Cassell, no date, circa 1900. Speci...

Collection of five late-Victorian children's shape books, animals, chromolithographic illustrations, four published by Castell Brothers and one by...

Legal / Political Interest. Arcana Imperii Detecta: Or, Divers Select Cases in Government, London: James Knapton, 1701. A scarce book, published d...

Julian, or A Discourse Concerning the Earthquake and Fiery Eruption, which Defeated that Emperor's Attempt to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem, by ...

Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to his Friends and Memoirs of his Life, in two volumes, Lond...

18th Century French Military Interest. Memoires d'un Militaire, by Mr. R*****, A Wesel, 1759. Red & black title page, full calf, gilt title to spi...

Travel & Topography Interest. Collection of 27 books: Tweddell's Illustrated Annual for the North of England, 1879-1880 (very scarce); The Loch Ka...

Collection of 19th and 20th century children's books and novels, including Certain Personal Matters, H. G. Wells, 1898; The Research Magnificent, ...

Collection of leather-bound books: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, William Mavor, 1812; George Cruikshank's Table-Book, 1845; Fables for th...

Collection of books to include: Dickens Memento, A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings and Objects of Art of the Late Charles Dickens, Sold by Auc...

Typographical / Font Interest. Alphabets, A Handbook of Lettering with Historical Critical & Practical Descriptions by Edward F. Strange, limited ...

Grimms' Goblins; Or, Fairy Books for Boys and Girls, bound from the weekly parts, illustrated with 22 colour woodblock plates, 398 pages (closes w...

Richard Doyle (British, 1824-1883). The Little Hill People Gambling, signed with monogram l.r., watercolour, framed and glazed. A clipping from an...

Dumas, Alexandre. Memoirs of a Physician, the first complete edition, London: Simms & McIntyre, 1847, 334 pages, half-calf with marbled boards, ox...

The Act of Tonnage & Poundage and Book of Rates with Several Statutes at large relating to the Customs, London: Christopher Barker, 1675, calf bin...

Macauley, Thomas Babington. The History of England, in four volumes, London: Longman, 1856. Octavo, full calf bindings with red & black morocco ti...

John, W. D. Collection of ceramics reference books, first editions: Nantgarw Porcelain, Newport: R. H. Johns, 1948, quarto, full leather binding w...

John, W. D. William Billingsley (1758-1828) His Outstanding Achievements as an Artist and Porcelain Maker, first edition limited to 1000 copies, N...

Rackham, Arthur (Illust.). Gulliver's Travels, London: J. M. Dent, 1909, publisher's red cloth & gilt binding with pictorial endpapers and neat ow...

The Ferns of Great Britain: Illustrated by John E. Sowerby, Charles Johnson, London: John E. Sowerby, 1855, with hand-coloured engraved plates. Oc...

The Elements of Land Surveying, by A. Crocker, London: Longman, 1814, full calf with black morocco title label

[Bennett, Thomas]. An Answer to the Dissenters Pleas for Separation, or An Abridgement of the London Cases, third edition, Cambridge: University P...

Stoker, Bram. The Lair of the White Worm, first edition, London: William Rider and Son, 1911. Publisher's advertisements at rear, opening with 'Re...

The Ballad of Mr Rook, Written by G.W., Illustrated by the Hon. Mrs Percy Wyndham, London: Smith, Elder, 1901. Square folio cloth, lithographic pl...

The History of the Revolutions that Happened in the Government of the Roman Republic, René-Aubert Vertot, translated into English by Ozell, third ...

Pagan / Wicca / Occult / Witchcraft Interest. King of the Witches - The World of Alex Sanders, first edition, London: Peter Davies, 1969, with pho...

Folk Art: A handmade 18th-century Valentine's card, a "love token" or "puzzle purse", ink & watercolour on laid/chain-lined paper, folded construc...

The Compleat Angler, Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, London: Thomas Hope, 1760, engraved frontispiece and plates throughout the text, octavo, ful...

Collection of ephemera relating to the British Royal Family: a typewritten and printed letter on headed paper from Buckingham Palace, dated 13 Aug...

The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, by the Rev. Stebbing Shaw, in two volumes, London: Nichols, 1798-1801, folio, illustrated throughout...

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), photographic portrait with inscription bearing signature/autograph, 'To Kyrle Bellew with the best wishes of Theod...

The Farmer's Year, A Calendar of English Husbandry, written & engraved by Clare Leighton, first edition, illustrated throughout with wood-engraved...

Edwardian Motoring / Automobilia Interest. Automobile Handbook, 1904; The Art of Driving a Motor Car, 1906, and two others similar (4)

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita, first UK edition, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1956, dust-jacket present but torn

Travel / Exploration / Mountaineering Interest. Hillary, Edmund. High Adventure, first edition signed by the author, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1...

Travel / Exploration / Mountaineering Interest. Hillary, Edmund. High Adventure, first edition signed by the author, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1...

The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, by James Northcote, second edition in two volumes, London: Henry Colburn, 1819, half-calf and marbled boards with...

19th Century manuscript History of Manchester, probably based on a published work, vellum binding

An album containing a large collection of original photographs of English landed gentry, 19th century portraits of notable families and their esta...

Criminal / Legal / Staffordshire Interest. The Times Report of the Trial of William Palmer for Poisoning John Parsons Cook at Rugeley, London: War...

Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1945, publisher's red cloth with gilt title, lacking dust-jacket

Behan, Brendan. Borstal Boy, first edition, London: Hutchinson, 1958, with dust-jacket; the book was banned in Ireland

Occult / Magic Interest. Crowley, Aleister. Magick in Theory and Practice by The Master Therion, Published for Subscribers Only, 1929, red buckram...

Greene, Graham. Collection of nine books, including first editions (9)

Finden's Landscape & Portrait Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron, in three volumes, London: John Murray, 1834, half-leather and mar...

Collection of decorative leather bindings, mostly poetry, to include Poetical Works of Keats, 1862, and Poems by Shelley, illustrated by Robert An...

Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Sword, first edition in unclipped dust-jacket, London: Collins, 1983. Together with 14 other first editions from the S...

Natural History Interest. Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, edited by M. Flourens, in 12 volumes, Paris: no date [c.1850s], morocco bindings with gilt ...

Natural History / Lepidoptera Interest. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Lepidopteres, French, 1836, illustrated with colour plates, morocco bindin...