An Auction of Antiquarian and Second-hand Books

ILLUMINATED LEAF, red & black text with initials illuminated in red, blue and gold, in clip frame, 6.5 x 4 inches, on vellum, French, 13th c.; a l...

[MUSIC] a pair of very large ms. Antiphonal sheets on vellum, 28 x 18 cms, f. & g., ca. 1500? (2). ...[more]

[MAP] "Airey's Railway Map of London and It's Suburbs", folding linen-backed map, 22 x 29 inches, folding into leather covers, 10th Edn., 1892; & ...

DOROTHY COOMBES, a quantity of original artwork including dust jacket design for Chaucer's Works (Q).

[SALE PARTICULARS] ms. map & ms. sale agreement particulars for FARLEY HALL 1874. ...[more]

MALTA, coll'n of loose prints and booklets by DINGLI (Q).

NEWSPAPERS, 4 various (4).

[FIREWORKS / LADY HAMILTON] small broadside re Stockport fireworks, 1809, pasted to album leaf; the verso carries a ms. copy letter by Lady Hamilt...

DUSTWRAPPERS for "The House at Pooh Corner" & "Now We Are Six" (2). ...[more]

PRINTS from a German Periodical.

LEITCH (R. P.) [DRAWING BOOKS], 2, unbound, L., n.d. (2).

BARKER (Benjamin) English Landscape Scenery, 4to, plates, unbound, Bath, 1843.

LEWIS (F. C.) a collection of title-pages and plates, unbound, for his "Scenery of the Rivers", series (68).

Album of One Thousand and One Beauties, 20 plates, 13 x 20.5 inches, [S], loose, Paris, Goupil, n.d. (20).

[ASTRONOMY] group of plates from Ball's Popular Guide to the Heavens (25).

[ARCHITECTURE] RIVOALEN, La Brique Moderne, folio, 63 of 64 plates, loose in portfolio (as a collection of plates).

[MAP] ROCQUE, England and Wales, on 2 sheets, each 25 x 39.5 ins, torn, etc., L., Robert Sayer, 18th c. (1).

MILLAIS (J.G.) & others: The Gun at Home and Abroad: 1) British Game Birds and Wildfowl. 2) British Deer and Ground Game, Dogs, Guns & Rifles, 2 v...

WALTON (Izaak) & COTTON (C.), The Complete Angler, 8vo, engr. add. title "Bagster's Second Edition", portrait frontis, 13 plates, text vignettes &...

BINDINGS, 5 misc. leatherbound (5).

BINDINGS, misc., 4to et infra. (1 box).

PRINCE (J.), Danmonii Orientales Illustres: or, The Worthies of Devon, folio, with ms. MARGINALIA & 5 pp. ms. notes at the end, rebound in 1867, f...

[BIG GAME HUNTING] HUGHES (J. E.), Eighteen Years on Lake Bangweulu, 4to, plates as called for, pictorial cloth, PRESENTATION COPY, dated May 1933...

[TIBET] HEDIN (S.), Trans-Himalaya Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet, 2 vols., 8vo, plates and maps as called for, pict. cloth gilt, L., 1909 (2...

[AFRICA] ALEXANDER (Lieut. Boyd), From the Niger to the Nile, 2 vols., sm. 4to, maps and plates as called for, SIGNED COPY, L., 1907 (2).

[POLAR] AMUNDSEN (R.), The South Pole, 2 vols., 8vo, plates & maps as called for, pict. cloth, L., 1912; SHACKLETON (E.), Heart of the Antarctic, ...

[SPAIN, HUNTING] CHAPMAN (A.) & BUCK (W.), Wild Spain: Records of Sport With Rifle [etc.], 8vo, illus., clo., L., 1893. ...[more]

[HUNTING] MILLAIS (J.G.), Newfoundland and Its Untrodden Ways, sm. 4to, plates and maps as called for, pict. cloth gilt, SIGNED COPY, L., 1909; 'S...

ALDIN (Cecil), The Romance of the Road, lge. 4to, col. & b/w illus., clo., L., 1928; Mr Tickler's Caravan, reprint, 1934; & 2 others illus. by Ald...

EDWARDS (Lionel) illustrator: MEADS (F.), They Meet at Eleven, 4to, illus., clo., L., 1956; & 3 other titles (4). ...[more]

[ORNITHOLOGY] MORRIS (F. O.), History of British Birds, 6 vols., lge. 8vo, 364 L-col'd plates, (a few loose), green cloth gilt, 2nd Edn., L., 1870...

[ORNITHOLOGY] SEEBOHM (H.) & BOWDLER SHARPE (R), Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, lge. 8vo, portrait frontis. & 60 col. plates, clot...

[ORNITHOLOGY] - another copy; together with WITHERBY, JOURDAIN et alia, Handbook of British Birds, 5 vols., 8vo, illus., clo., d.w.'s, 1st Edns., ...

POLLARD (H.), Game Birds, 4to, illus. by P. Rickman, SIGNED LIMITED EDN., 41/99 copies, quarter vellum, L., 1929; & 3 others, birds etc. (4). ......

[HUNTING] BRADLEY (C.), Fox-Hunting from Shire to Shire, lge. 8vo, illus. clo., L., 1912; ST JOHN (C.), Wild Sports ...... of the Highlands, 4to, ...

[BERKSHIRE] HUMPHREYS (A. L.), Bucklebury - A Berkshire Parish, 4to, illus., folding map, etc., quarter vellum, Reading, 1932.

PAGET (G.), History of the Althorp and Pytchley Hunt 1634-1920, 4to, illus., SIGNED on t.p., LTD. EDN., quarter vellum, L., 1937.

WHITAKER (T.), History of the Original Parish of Whalley and Honor of CLITHEROE, 4to, plates, pedigrees & folding map as called for, half calf by ...

AIKIN (J.), Description of the Country .... Round MANCHESTER, 4to, lacking the frontispiece, add. pict. title, index map, map at p. 98, & some pla...

[EGYPT] BUDGE (E. A. Wallis), Some Account of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of Lady Meux, 4to, plates, half-morocco, 12...

BUDGE (E. A. Wallis), Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great: Being a Series of Ethiopic Texts, 2 vols., 4to, illus., 80/250 sets, half-morocco,...

[ANON] The Cruise of the "Clan Matheson" 1895, sm. 4to, col. & b/w illus., cloth gilt, Printed for Private Circulation / L. Cassell. [1896]; HAMIL...

ROBY (J.), Traditions of Lancashire, 4 vols. (1st & 2nd Series), 8vo, illus., later half morocco by Bayntun, L., 1829/1831 (4). ...[more]

[BINDINGS] 6 misc. small quarter vellum vols.; EMERSON'S Essays, 2 vols., full vellum, L., n.d. (8).

[BINDINGS] DICKENS (Charles) Works, "Library Edition," 26 vols., 8vo, blue half calf, L., Chapman & Hall, n.d. (26). ...[more]

McKENNA (Stephen), The Sensationalists, 3 vols., 8vo, signed & inscribed, with tipped in a.l.s., 1927, red half calf, L., [1921] (3). ...[more]

[IRELAND] "The Treble Almanack", 7 vols., 1803, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1816, 1818, 1825, all with the map, but with slight faults/repaired bindings, pu...

[IRELAND] PIGOT and Co's City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory ...., 8vo, folding h-col'd map, folding table, calf (re-backed_, L., Au...

[ALMANACKS] a red morocco sammelband of 1819 almanacks; and a collection of Dublin Almanacks lacking the maps (8).

[IRELAND] LEET (A.), A Directory to the Market Towns [etc.] and other Noted Places in Ireland ...., 8vo, tree calf (re-backed), 2nd Edn., Dublin, ...

[GENEALOGY] BURKE (J.) & (J. B.), A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, 3 vols., 8vo, full red morocco (re-backed with orig...

DICTIONARY of NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, 22 vols., 8vo, uniformly bound in navy blue half-morocco, L., 1908-1909; & 11 Supplementary vols., cloth bound (...

LEWIS (S.), Topographical Dictionary of England, 4 vols., 4to, and Supplementary vols. (2) incl. Atlas, ex-public library, quarter morocco, L., 18...

[MILITARY] MANNING & WALKER, British Warship Names, 8vo, clo., d.w., 1st Edn., L., 1959; and small q. misc. (Q). ...[more]

[INDIA] The Bengal Directory and General Register, 1827, 8vo, incl. 1 folding table, ends with Subscribers list, quarter leather (fore-edges soft,...

[INDIA] The Bengal Directory and Annual Register for the Year 1836, 8vo, folding table, contemp. red leather, Calcutta, Bengal Hurkaru Press, 1836.

[INDIA] INNES (Lieut.-Col. P.), History of the Bengal European Regiment, now the Royal Munster Volunteers, 8vo, frontis. & maps, half-morocco by S...

[SCOTLAND] M'KAY (A.), History of Kilmarnock, 8vo, frontis., folding map, cloth, 4th Edn., Kilmarnock, 1880; & 4 others of Scottish interest (5). ...

[EAST INDIA] HAMILTON (W.), The East-India Gazetteer, 2 vols., 8vo, 2 folding map frontispieces, calf (re-backed) with Signed Library armorial, 2n...

EAST-INDIA REGISTER, 13 vols., 8vo & 12mo, for 1805, 1814, 1817, 1818, 1821, 1824, 1839, 1845, 1847, 1853, 1855, various bindings (some re-backed)...