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Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley Novels, Illustrated Edition in 47 volumes, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1877-1879. Together with Memoirs of Walt...

18th-century educational/children's game: The Elements of Astronomy and Geography, 40 cards (complete) with hand-coloured engraved designs, publis...

Collection of three 18th-century books: An Essay on the Theory of Painting, 1715; Tithes, Politically Considered, 1794; and The Cottage of Friends...

Discoveries in The Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, by Austen H. Layard, London: John Murray, 1853. Octavo, full leather binding with oxblood morocco...

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The Garden, An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture, W. Robinson, bound volumes with full-page colour plates, Volumes XIII to XX (1878-1881)...

The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentleman, W. Johnson, bound volumes VIII to XIX (1865-1870), half-leather bindings with...

The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, Practical and Scientific, G. Nicholson, c.1900, set of eight volumes, together with a quantity of other b...

The British Bee Journal and Bee Keeper's Adviser, Volumes II to IV bound as one, July 1874 to December 1876, half-leather binding, together with A...

Travel / Chinese Interest. Swallow, R.W. Highlights on Peking Life, Peking: China Booksellers Limited, 1927, presentation copy signed by the autho...

Collection of three cookery books: Warne's Model Cookery, 1868; The Illustrated London Cookery Book, Frederick Bishop, 1852; The Cult of the Chafi...

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, April to September 1876, dealing with cricket, hunting, horse racing, sailing, polo and so on, includi...

Harald Bruff (1874-1946), engineer. Archive of original ink & watercolour architectural drawings and engineering designs, including buildings and ...

The Ashley Library: A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters Collected by Thomas James Wise, London: Printed for Private Ci...

Victorian Engineering Interest. Humber, William. A Comprehensive Treatise on the Water Supply of Cities and Towns, London: Crosby Lockwood and Co....

Dore, Gustave (Illust.) The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments, in two volumes, London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin [1870], folio, p...

Persian / Iranian / Islamic Art Interest. Pope, Arthur Upham (Ed.). A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, Asia Institute,...

Collection of four mid-19th century London theatre/pantomime playbills (including Theatre Royal Haymarket and Victoria) advertising 'Devil of Pari...

The Age of Lewis XIV, Translated from the French of Voltaire, in two volumes, first edition, London: R. Dodsley, 1752. Octavo leather bindings wit...

The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh, in four volumes, Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1927, numbered 5 of 110 special editions on English hand...

Association copy signed by Admiral James Scott, British Royal Navy officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars: Leslie, John. Elements of Natural Ph...

Ballantyne, Robert Michael. The Iron Horse or Life on the Line, A Tale of the Grand National Trunk Railway, first edition with publisher's adverti...

Travel / Exploration / Mountaineering Interest. Wills, Alfred. Wanderings Among the High Alps, first edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1856. Octav...

Cameron, Katharine (Illus.). Chisholm, Louey. The Enchanted Land Tales Told Again, first edition, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1906. Quarto vellum ...

Japanese Art / Ukiyo-e Interest. Gookin, Frederick William. Japanese Colour-Prints and their Designers, A Lecture Delivered before the Japan Socie...

History of Alexander the Great, King of the Ancient Greek Kingdom of Macedon (Quinti Curtii Rufi de Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, Regis Macedonum,...

Illustrated English History / Topography Interest. Traditions of Lancashire, John Roby, fourth edition in two volumes, London: George Routledge, 1...

Meteyard, Eliza. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, in two volumes, London: Hurst & Blackett, 1865-1866. Octavo, publisher's embossed blue cloth with pi...

Travel / Military Interest. Popular History of Egypt, by Captain J. W. Watkins, London: James Hagger [no date], 1880s. Quarto, publisher's pictori...

Travel / Costume / Fashion Interest. Une Anné en Suéde (A Year in Sweden), C. Forssell, 1829. Complete with 47 plates, hand-coloured stipple engra...

English Language / Linguistics / Regional Dialect Interest. The West Somerset Word-Book, A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases use...

Travel / Topography / Architecture Interest. Illustrated London, or A Series of Views in the British Metropolis and its Vicinity, Engraved by Albe...

Robeson, Paul. Here I Stand, second edition, London: Dennis Dobson, 1958. Signed by the author to dedication page, below which are two autographs ...

Legal / Criminal Interest. Late-Georgian pamphlet, circa 1820, The Trial of Eugene Aram, for the Murder of Daniel Clark, Late of Knaresborough in ...

The Divine Art of Memory: Or, The Sum of the Holy Scripture delivered in Acrostick Verses, translated from the latin of John Shaw by Simon Wastel,...

Travel / Exploration / Military Interest. The East India Voyager, or The Outward Bound, by Emma Roberts, London: J. Madden, 1845. Octavo, publishe...

Travel / Architecture Interest. The Public Buildings of Paris and its Environs, in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, Illustrated: Being a Seri...

Agricultural Chemistry, A Familiar Explanation of the Chemical Principles Involved in the Operations of the Farm, by Alfred Sibson, London: G. Rou...

Carpentry / Woodworking Interest. Patterns for Turning, by H. W. Elphinstone, London: John Murray, 1872, illustrated with plates. Together with Th...

Travel / Costume / Fashion Interest. Skånska Folkdrägter, O. Wallgren and Arvid Kurck, Stockholm: 1872. Complete with 22 hand-coloured lithographi...

English History / Topography Interest. Curiosities of Great Britain, England and Wales Delineated, by Thomas Dugdale, in eleven volumes, London: L...

Sporting / Fishing / Angling Interest. Collection of nine books: two copies of An Angler's Rambles and Angling Songs, Thomas Tod Stoddart, 1866; F...

Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-Catcher, After 25 Years' Experience, Ike Matthews, no date, circa 1898, publisher label pasted to title pag...

Sporting / Hunting / Shooting Interest. Collection of four books: The Dead Shot or Sportsman's Complete Guide: Being a Treatise on The Use of a Gu...

A Method of Breaking Horses, and Teaching Soldiers to Ride, Designed for the Use of the Army, by Henry Earl of Pembroke, second edition, London: J...

Collection of three cookery books: Common-Sense Cookery for English Households with Twenty Menus, A. Kenney-Herbert, London: Edward Arnold, no dat...

Harpocrates, Gisbert Cuper, Utrecht: Franciscum Halma, 1687. A 17th-century illustrated work on the Ancient Greek god of silence, secrets and conf...

The Children's Wonderland, a Victorian mechanical picture book featuring seven changeable plates that rotate to show a different illustration, chr...

Henty, George Alfred. A collection of four novels in publisher's pictorial cloth: By Pike and Dyke, 1890; In the Reign of Terror, no date; Redskin...

Colonel Seccombe's Army and Navy Birthday Book for Children, with Illustrations for every Day and Month, London: George Routledge, no date but own...

Here and There, A Book of Transformation Pictures, a mechanical Victorian children's book with six changeable chromolithographic plates (a couple ...

Travel / Exploration Interest. A Voyage to Arabia Foelix through the Eastern Ocean and the Streights of the Red Sea, London: E. Symon, 1732. Octav...

Travel / Topography Interest. The History and Antiquities of Rochester and its Environs, illustrated with copper-engraved plates and folding map f...

Farming / Agriculture Interest. A Compleat Body of Husbandry, Thomas Hale, London: Osborne & Shipton, 1756, engraved frontispiece and further plat...

Fashion / Costume Interest. The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, 1860s, bound in two octavo half-calf bindings with marbled boards and gilt title...

Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical, by Christopher Wordsworth, fifth edition, London: John Murray, 1868, full vellum binding with gilt...

Surtees, Robert Smith. Handley Cross, Hawbuck Grange, Plain or Ringlets, Ask Mama, Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, Mr Romford's Hounds, six volumes, Lo...

Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Count Anthony Hamilton, in two volumes, London: A. H. Bullen, 1903, limited edition numbered 8 of 265 copies on hand...

Fragments of Voyages and Travels, Including Anecdotes of a Naval Life, by Captain Basil Hall, in three volumes, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1831. To...

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in seven volumes, London: Methuen, 1926, publisher's gilt blue cloth (7)