Christmas Library & Country House Fine Art Auction at Bishton Hall. WEBCAST ONLY

Collection of Phil May books, comprising: Phil May's Sketch-Book: Fifty Cartoons, London: Chatto & Windus, 1895; Phil May's ABC, limited edition n...

Collection of 20th-century illustrated books, including cartoonists Ronald Searle, Ralph Steadman, Gerald Scarfe, David Low, Saul Steinberg, H. M....

Collection of art reference books, including works on Disney, Chinese landscape painting, Japanese eroticism, Gustave Dore, Feliks Topolski, Toulo...

Collection of miscellaneous books, 19th & 20th century, to include Seventy-Five Portraits of Celebrated Painters, etched by James Girtin, London: ...

Malcolm, J. P. An Historical Sketch of the Art of Caricaturing with Graphic Illustrations, London: Longman, 1813. Quarto, complete with 31 engrave...

Victorian scrapbook, 'Christmas Card Album', 46 pages of mounted chromolithographic Christmas cards and scraps, including traditional festive imag...

Dickens, Charles. The Chimes, London: Nottingham Court Press, 1983, from the limited edition of 100 copies - but not numbered. Finely bound in ful...

Harrison, George. I Me Mine, Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 1980, from the limited edition of 2000 copies - but not numbered or signed. ...

Two 18th-century recovery documents: 1730, Latin, between Thomas Curtis and John Rowley of Newton Flotman, Swainsthorpe, Norfolk, vellum, engraved...

Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Works, in 13 volumes, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1910. Octavo, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, top edge...

Dickens, Charles. Photographic portrait of Dickens holding a book at his desk, by Herbert Watkins, [c.1858], albumen print, stamped with Watkins' ...

Collection of seven Victorian framed photographs, ambrotype or similar process, family portraits (sitters not recorded), including one of a shop f...

Holy Bible. 'Breeches Bible'. Old and New Testament with psalms, incomplete, only two title pages present in volume: The Newe Testament, London: C...

Small collection of 19th-century books, mostly religion/theology, to include The World to Come or Discourses on the Joys and Sorrows of Departed S...

Collection of approximately 100 loose carte-de-visite/cabinet cards, family portraits, including two school groups (not named), two of an animal c...

Ephemera. Mixed collection comprising: approximately 40 miscellaneous almanacs, including several Old Moore's Almanack (1900s/1910s, one from 1873...

Victorian scrapbook, approximately 100 leaves, well-filled with scraps, greetings cards, wood-engraved illustrations/clippings from Illustrated Lo...

Winston Churchill (1874-1965). Autograph. The War Illustrated, Vol. 6, No.149, 5 March 1943, signed by Churchill in blue ink across the lower sect...

HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Wildlife Crisis, by Prince Philip and James Fisher, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970. Signed presentation copy,...

Political Biography & Autobiography. A collection of signed hardback books to include The Downing Street Years (1993), The Path to Power (1995), T...

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013). Signed photograph, 20.5cm by 29.5cm, framed & glazed, with letter confirming 'Authenticity of the signature for Lif...

Hallett, Job. De Venereo Morbo: A Practical Treatise of Treatment and Cure on the Venereal Disease, seventh edition, London: Printed for the Autho...

Cambridge University. Manuscript notebook, 'Lectures on Aeschines', featuring several humorous ink cartoons. 'J. Kempthorne Esq., Trinity College,...

French Revolutionary Wars. Manuscript copy of a letter from Captain Euler, Commander of the Arona to the Cirie administration of Novara, 30 Decemb...

Seals of the Counts of Flanders. Sigilla Comitum Flandriae, first edition, Bruges: Jean-Baptiste Kerchove, 1639. Quarto, later parchment-covered b...

Wills, A. W. Sunny Days in Burma, Birmingham: Privately Printed at The Midland Counties Herald Press, 1905. Quarto, full vellum lettered in gilt, ...

Illustrated. The Face of China, by E. G. Kemp, London: Chatto & Windus, 1909, limited edition numbered 99 of 110, bearing armorial bookplate for B...

Menpes, Mortimer. Japan: A Record in Colour, London: A. & C. Black, 1901. Featuring an original watercolour sketch on title page, inscribed, 'To G...

The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven in the County of York, by Thomas Dunham Whitaker, London: Nichols and Son, 1805, quarto, full...

Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg. Norwich, bird's eye plan, 1581 or later, hand-coloured copper engraving on laid/chain-lined paper. Framed and glaze...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, print line on copyright ...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boar...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards complete ...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, first edition, hardback, signed by the author in black ink on title page ('To Hazel, J K Rowl...

Frohawk, F. W. (Illus.). Butler, Arthur G. British Birds with their Nests and Eggs, in six volumes, London: Brumby & Clarke. Quarto, publisher's g...

Kirkman, F. B. & B. A. Oxon. The British Bird Book, in four volumes, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1911-13. Quarto, cloth, morocco title labels lett...

Wooster, David. Alpine Plants, first & second series (two volumes), second edition, London: George Bell & Sons, 1874, publisher's blue embossed bu...

Wilkinson, Norman (Illus.). An Angler's Anthology, collected by A. B. Austin, London: Country Life, 1930, quarto, publisher's green cloth lettered...

Loudon, Mrs [Jane]. British Wild Flowers, second edition, London: William S. Orr & Co., [c.1855]. Quarto, green cloth lettered in gilt, complete w...

Morris, Rev. F. O. A History of British Butterflies, first edition, London: Groombridge & Sons, 1857. Octavo, contemporary half crushed morocco le...

Collection of three signed books, comprising: 1. Rosen, Michael. Michael Rosen's Sad Book, illustrated by Quentin Blake, first edition, hardback, ...

Sparke, Edward. Scintilla Altaris: Primitive Devotion in the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England, sixth edition, London: T. Hodgkin, 1678. R...

Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, illustrated with engraved plates after Thomas Stothard, in two volumes, London: Cadell ...

Rackham, Arthur (Illus.). Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, first edition thus, London: Heinemann, 1905. Quarto, publisher's gilt green cloth,...

Rackham, Arthur (Illus.). The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving, first edition thus, London: Harrap, 1928. Quarto, publisher's gilt gr...

Rackham, Arthur (Illus.). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, first edition thus, London: Heinemann, [1907]. Octavo, publisher's g...

Milne, A. A. The Christopher Robin Verses, first edition, London: Methuen, 1932. Octavo, publisher's gilt blue cloth, 12 colour plates plus furthe...

Catlin, George. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, third edition, in two volumes, London: Tilt...

Bigsby, Robert. Historical and Topographical Description of Repton in the County of Derby, London: Woodfall & Kinder, 1854. Pictorial title page, ...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue [one of only 500], London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, publish...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, fifth issue, hardback, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, signed by the author in bo...

Rowling, J. K. The Harry Potter Gift Set: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, fifth impression ("10 9 8 7 6 5"), hardback, Lo...

Royal Association / Presentation Copy. [Greville, Frances Evelyn "Daisy"]. An Old English Garden, by the Countess of Warwick, London: Arthur L. Hu...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and Robert Browning (1812-1889). Autograph note. A slip of paper, folded twice, signed in dark brown ink by...

Harris, Moses. Natural System of Colours, [second edition, considered almost as scarce as the first], London: Printed by L. Harrison and J. C. Lei...

Benjamin West PRA (1738-1820), American-born artist and founder member of the Royal Academy, of which he became the second president (after Joshua...

Goddard, Charles. Charges, Sermons and Tracts, 17 bound as one, 1816-1844. Presentation copy, 'Charles Betham, from the author, 1846', with manusc...

Burns, Robert. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, to which are added Several other Pieces not contained in any former edition of his poems, G...

Detmold, Edward Julius. Twenty-Four Nature Pictures, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, no date [1919], no title. Folio covers housing 16 loose co...

Collection of books, comprising: The Cook's Oracle, by William Kitchiner, London: Robert Cadell, 1831, detached boards, bearing gift inscription f...