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Dr. Arthur W. Wakefield (1876-1949) Archive: 1922 Everest Expedition: an album of original photographs, contemp. album with mounted photographs, f...

1922 Everest Expedition: handwritten letters sent home from Dr. Wakefield, effectively a journal/diary of the expedition (images of all material a...

Second Boer War: collection of 110 photographs documenting Wakefield’s time serving as a Sharpshooter in the Imperial Yeomanry, they provide a rea...

World War I: original photographs from Dr. Wakefield’s time during the war, mounted in contemp. album, including pictures of training camps, trans...

1922 British Mount Everest Expedition, Mountaineering and Fell Walking: Manuscript Diaries, Photographs, Postcards. Three diaries, recording and...

Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada: Album of original photographs, c. 1908-1914, depicting Dr. Wakefield’s life in Canada, working for the Royal Nat...

Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada: Archive from Dr. Wakefield’s time working for the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, including: Let...

Dr. Wakefield’s cameras and photographs: Cameras: Cine-Kodak Model B, 16mm movie camera, made in the USA, c. 1920s – Eastman Kodak folding camer...

Photography: magic lantern slides, slides, and film Box of lantern slides, Canada, c. 1910, photographs include, daily life, inhabitants, hospit...

Grenfell hooked mat, handmade in Labrador/Newfoundland (the cottage industry being established by Dr. Grenfell to help the struggling local popula...

Inuit figure, carved wood, hand-stitched fur clothes, 28cm high – together with model of kayak, wood and bark Dr. Arthur W. Wakefield was a mou...

Miscellaneous objects collected by Dr. Wakefield, including: handmade leather pouches with decorated strapping, with other leather strapping with ...

A 19th-century fragment of an erotic or medical Persian manuscript, 26 pages (both sides of 13 leaves), graphically illustrated with 30 gouache mi...

A late-18th/early-19th century manuscript Hindu prayer book containing hymns and prayers from both the Shaivite and Vaishnava traditions [antholog...

[Hafez/Hafiz of Shiraz]. Persian manuscript Divan [collected works] of Ḥāfiẓ of Shiraz, Nastaliq script on 390 pages (on 195 leaves), measuring ap...

Leaf from a Book of Hours c. 1420 An extremely fine leaf with a large illuminated coloured initial with floral decoration in gold and colours on...

Superb late 15th. c. Painted Scene from a Book of Hours. Printed in outline and then painted, this depicts the story of Dives and Lazarus. This ha...

Thomas Woodall (1849-1926), a master of cameo glass design. A unique and important archive of personal material comprising: The last cameo vas...

GODFREY, (Admiral John Henry). [SIGNED PRESENTATION & ASSOCIATION COPIES]. The Naval Memoirs, FIRST & ONLY EDITION, PRIVATELY ISSUED, comprising V...

SMITH, (Adam). The Works, in five volumes, SIGNED (tipped-in autograph/signature), FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Scottish economist's writings, edite...

[SPIRITUALISM & TITANIC INTEREST]. STEAD, (Estelle W.). Life Eternal, by William Thomas Stead [purported spirit communications following his death...

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION INTEREST]. "Cato" [TRENCHARD, (John) and GORDON, (Thomas)]. Cato's Letters, scarce and important fifth edition [the same edit...

PAINE, Thomas. Sammelband containing letters and essays, (including Common Sense, The American Crisis and Agrarian Justice), originally separate a...

AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE – THE STAMP ACT A volume of the Statutes at Large from 1765-1770. London 1771. 809pp. folio, calf binding rubbed bu...

United States [of America] Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel 1870 – 77 The 6 volumes printed in Washington at various dates coveri...

[CAPTURE AND DESCTRUCTION OF WASHINGTON – 1814] An original issue of the Staffordshire Advertiser, 1 October 1814, containing an account of the ...

[JOHN F. KENNEDY INTEREST]. Derek Dale, City Editor at Daily Mirror. An extensive personal archive, including unpublished material relating to wha...

Osvaldo Salas (Cuban-American, 1914-1992). Fidel Castro (Waving), New York City, gelatin silver print, [originally taken 1959], signed l.r., beari...

ANDREWS, (Henry). The Botanist's Repository for New and Rare Plants, FIRST EDITION/PRINTING, volumes I - IV, 4to 28.5 x 23cm, contemp. half calf, ...

[JUDAICA]. A collection of antiquarian Jewish theological books, predominantly bound in contemporary vellum, bearing stamps, inscriptions and refe...

POE, Edgar Allan. The Bells and Other Poems, with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac, LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, no. 34/750, large 4to, full...

POGANY, Willy (illust.) The Tales of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan, after the drama of Richard Wagner, adapted by T.W Rolleston, LIMITED EDITION S...

MAETERLINCK, Maurice. The Life of the Bee, translated by Alfred Sutro, illust. Edward J. Detmold, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, 4to, 28.5x23cm, vellu...

OPPE, Adolf Paul. Sandro Botticeli, with 25 plates in colour selected and executed under the supervision of the Medici Society, LIMITED DELUXE EDI...

BASILE, Giambattista. Stories from The Pentamerone, Selected and Edited by E.F. Strange, illust. Warwick Goble, DE LUXE EDITION 0f 150 copies, lar...

JAMES, Grace. Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tails, with Forty Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble, DE LUXE EDITION of 500 copies, lar...

TOYNBEE, Arnold. A Study of History, SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 70 of 105, of which only 100 were for sale, deluxe binding, designed and bound...

DESROCHES-NOBLECOURT, Christine. Tutankhamen, SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 38 of 265, of which only 250 were for sale, deluxe binding, designed ...

MASTERS, John. Casanova, SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 151 of 265, of which only 250 were for sale, deluxe binding, designed and bound by Zaehnsd...

HAWKES, Jacquetta. Dawn of the Gods, SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 33 of 265, of which only 250 were for sale, deluxe binding, designed and bound...

CALDER, Ritchie. Leonardo, SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 33 of 265, of which only 250 were for sale, deluxe binding, designed and bound by Zaehns...

ROWLING, (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, paperback, London: Bloomsbury, 1997. Octavo, paperback, ...

ROWLING, (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, first edition, SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author, bearing hologram, including the original ...

ROWLING, (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, paperback, London: Bloomsbury, 1997. Octavo, paperback, ...

ROWLING, (J. K.). A collection of four SIGNED books comprising: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 45th printing, paperback, 1997; Chamber ...

ROWLING, (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire, FIRST DELUXE EDITIONS, FI...

JANSSON, Tove. The Exploits of Moomin Papa, FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, illustrated by author, translated by Thomas Warburton, 8vo, 19x13c...

JANSSON, Tove. Finn Family Moomintroll, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, illustrated by author, translated by Elizabeth Portch, 19x23cm, 1...

JANSSON, Tove. Comet in Moominland, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, illustrated by author, translated by Elizabeth Portch, 19x13cm, 192pp...

JANSSON, Tove, (author and illustrator), Moomin Summer Madness, translated by Thomas Warburton, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, 8vo, 19x1...

POTTER, (Beatrix). The Tale of Tom Kitten, first edition, dated at foot of title page and colophon, 86 pp., illustrated with 27 colour plates (inc...

POTTER, (Beatrix). The Tale of Jeremy Fisher, first edition, dated at foot of title page and colophon, illustrated with 26 colour plates, lacking ...

TOLKIEN, (J. R. R.). The Hobbit, Deluxe Edition, 3rd impression, publisher's black cloth with lettering and motif in silver, gold and red, interna...

TOLKIEN, (J. R. R.). The History of Middle-Earth, Vols. 1-9, mixed editions, unclipped dust jackets, internally bright, bindings well-preserved, d...

PRATCHETT, (Terry). Interesting Times, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author 'To Angela, live in interesting times', publisher's blue cl...

CLARKE, Arthur C. The Fountains of Paradise, FIRST EDITION, publisher’s blue buckram, gilt titles to spine, unclipped pictorial d.j., tight and sq...

CHANDLER, Raymond. Omnibus, FIRST EDITION, 2nd impression, includes The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely, LONDON: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. SILLITO...

SIMENON, Georges. A large collection of Maigret hardback novels, almost all with the publisher’s dust jackets, many in near fine condition. The co...

SIMENON, Georges. A large collection of his Maigret novels in paperback, many Penguin FIRST EDITIONS in English; the collection includes 10 Omnibu...

Richards, J.M. High Street, Eric Ravilious, pictorial dust jacket with matching illustration to publisher’s dark green cloth, a facsimile of the 1...