Two Day Books & Ephemera Auction

[SARAH MORE]: THE TWO SOLDIERS, London, sold by Howard & Evans, circa 1800, Chapbook, wood engraved vignette title, 16pp ...[more]

FRANCOIS ANDRE DANICAN "PHILIDOR": CHESS ANALYSED OR INSTRUCTIONS BY WHICH A PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF THIS NOBLE GAME MAY IN A SHORT TIME BE ACQUIR'D,...

JOHN CHANDLER: THE SEAMAN'S NEW GUIDE AND COASTER'S COMPANION..., eds J W Norrie & J S Hobbs, London for Charles Wilson, 1847, 24th edition, engra...

[RICHARD DICKELL]: ANTICIPATION CONTAINING THE SUBSTANCE OF HIS M...Y'S MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH TO BOTH H.....S OF P....L...T ON THE OPENING OF THE A...

IZAAK WALTON AND CHARLES COTTON: THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, ed James Rennie, Edinburgh, W & R Chambers, London W Orr, Dublin W Cully, 1883, 4 engraved p...

ALPHONSE BALLEYDIER: DIEU NE LES VEUT PAS OU LES REVOLUTIONNAIRES PEINTS PAR EUX-MEMES, Paris, 1849, bound in with 5 other works comprising CHARLE...

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: SAINT JOAN, A CHRONICLE PLAY IN SIX SCENES AND AN EPILOGUE, ill C Ricketts, London, Constable & Co Ltd, 1924, (750), 16 tippe...

MAX BEERBOHM: HEROES AND HEROINES OF BITTER SWEET, London, Leadley Ltd [1931] (900), numbered 233, 5 mounted coloured caricatures, mounted facsimi...

THE EXETER BOOK OF OLD ENGLISH POETRY, London, Percy Lund Humphries for the Dean and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral, 1933 (250), numbered, large 4to,...

JOHN KEATS: THE EVE OF SAINT AGNES, ill Charles Oliver Murray, London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1880 1st edition, half title, etc...

EDMUND LODGE: PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF GREAT BRITAIN..., London for Harding & Lepard, 1835, 1st edition, 12 vols, 240 engraved ports...

JAMES E DOYLE: A CHRONICLE OF ENGLAND, London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864, 1st edition, engraved and painted in colours by E...

HENRY SHAW: DRESSES AND DECORATIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES, London, William Pickering 1843, 2 volumes, 94 engraved plates, a good quantity hand colour...

MARIANETTE MARGARET, VISCOUNTESS ALFORD: NEEDLEWORK AS ART, London, 1886, 1st edition, 85 plates as list, original cloth worn, all edges gilt

DION CLAYTON CALTHROP: ENGLISH COSTUME, London, Adam & Charles Black, 1906, 1st edition, 4 vols, original blind stamped cloth gilt, top edges gilt...

ALAN GORDON SMITH: THE BABINGTON PLOT, London, MacMillan, 1936, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper + JOHN HUNGERFORD POLLEN (ED): MARY QUEE...

SIR NATHANIEL WILLIAM WRAXALL: 2 TITLES: HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF HIS OWN TIME, London, Richard Bentley, 1836, new edition revised, 4 volumes: POSTHU...

LAURA, LADY TROWBRIDGE: MEMORIES AND REFLECTIONS, London, William Heinemann, 1925, 1st edition, signed and inscribed on large piece on front paste...

PIERCE EGAN: WAT TYLER, London, W S Johnson et al, 1851, "large" edition, modern calf backed boards

GEORGE BORROW: THE WORKS, ed Clement King Shorter with much hitherto unpublished manuscript, London, Constable, New York, Gabriel Wells, 1923-24, ...

JANE AUSTEN: THE NOVELS, ed R W Chapman, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1923, (1000) (950), 5 vols, large paper, ills collated complete, uncut, orig...

[CHARLES MCCORMICK] (ED): THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE COURT AND REIGN OF CHARLES THE SECOND BY A MEMBER OF HIS PRIVY COUNCIL TO WHICH ARE ADDED INT...

GEORGE BORROW: THE BIBLE IN SPAIN..., London, John Murray, 1843, 2nd edition, 3 vols, half titles, 2pp adverts at end of each vol, original blind ...

GEORGE BORROW: 3 titles: THE BIBLE IN SPAIN..., London, John Murray, 1843, 4th edition, half titles, vol 3 1pp adverts at end; LAVENGRO..., London...

HESIOD: HESIODI ASCRAEI QUAECUMQUE EXTANT GRAECE ET LATINE EX RECENSIONE JOANNIS CLERICI..., Amsterdam, G Gallet, 1701, 2 vols in one, engraved fr...

[SARAH SCOTT]: THE TEST OF FILIAL DUTY IN A SERIES OF LETTERS BETWEEN MISS EMILIA LEONARD AND MISS CHARLOTTE ARLINGTON, A NOVEL IN TWO VOLUMES, Du...

THE STRAND MAGAZINE, 1891-99 vols 1-17, original pictorial cloth, vols 1-2 very worn with inner joints weak, (17)

JOHN DRINKWATER: PERSEPHONE, New York, William Edwin Rudge, 1926, [550], uncut, original black cloth, spine gilt titled

THEOCRITUS: THE IDYLS, trans Andrew Lang, ill Sir William Russell Flint, London, The Medici Society, 1922, (500), 1st edition, 2 vols, 20 coloured...

JAMES FENNIMORE COOPER: AFLOAT AND ASHORE OR THE ADVENTURES OF MILES WALLINGFORD, Paris, Bawdry's European Library, 1844, 1st Paris edition, conte...

LAURIE LEE: THE VOYAGE OF MAGELLAN, ill Edward Bubra, London, John Lehmann, 1948, 1st edition, stamps of The Speech Fellowship on front free end p...

SAMUEL BUTLER: HUDIBRAS..., London for Thomas McLean, 1819, new edition, 2 vols, 12 hand coloured plates as called for, old diced calf gilt, vol 1...

CLEMENT SCOTT (ED): DRAWING-ROOM PLAYS AND PARLOUR PANTOMIMES, London, Stanley Rivers, 1870, 1st edition, original bevelled cloth gilt worn

JANE CAVE MRS WINSCOM: POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS ENTERTAINING ELEGIAC AND RELIGIOUS WITH A FEW SELECT POEMS FROM OTHER AUTHORS, Shrewsbury, T Wood...

VINCENT ZACHARY COPE "ZETA": THE DIAGNOSIS OF THE ACUTE ABDOMEN IN RHYME, ill Peter Collingwood, London, H K Lewis, 1947, 1st edition, original cl...

ELLA SHARPE YOUNGS: THE APOTHEOSIS OF ANTINOUS AND OTHER POEMS, London, Kegan Paul Trench & Co, 1887, 1st edition, port frontis, original bevelled...

"A DETENO": FORT RASBANE OR THREE DAYS QUARANTINE, London, Smith Elder & Co, 1832, 1st edition, half title, 2pp adverts at end, lacks front free e...

CATHERINE MARIA GREY: THE GAMBLER'S WIFE, A NOVEL, London, Clarke Beeton & Co, circa 1855, added engraved title frontis, contemporary half calf ma...

JAMES THOMSON: THE SEASONS, A HYMN, circa 1730, lacks title, old mottled calf, very worn

ALEXANDRE DUMAS: PAULINE, A TALE OF NORMANDY TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY A LADY [L] H G Clarke [1844], "Clarke's Home Library", title page with ...

MARIA EDGEWORTH: THE NOVELS, London, J M Dent, New York, Dodd Mead, 1892, 12 volumes, engraved titles and frontispieces, original decorative cloth...

PIERRE DE NOLHAC: MARIE ANTOINETTE THE DAUPHINE, Goupil, [1898], quarto, contemporary half vellum morocco label, autographed letter signed from au...

FREDERIC MASSON: L'IMPERATRICE MARIE-LOUISE, Goupil 1902, quarto crimson morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments by Morrell, degrees of foxing th...

LUDOVIC HALEVY: THE ABBE CONSTANTIN, ill Madeleine Lemaire, London, Chatto & Windus, 1888 (250), 1st edition, numbered, plates and text ills colla...

JULES JANIN (INTRO): CHEFS-D'OEUVRE DRAMATIQUES DU DIX-HUITIEME SIECLE, 1872, 1st edition, 20 hand coloured plates as called for, 4to, contemporar...

THE WILLIAM MORRIS MANUSCRIPT OF THE ODES OF HORACE, London, The Folio Society, 2014 (980), 1st Folio Society edition, numbered, 2 vols, comprisin...

THE HOLKHAM BIBLE, The Folio Society, 2007 (1750), 2 vols, numbered, comprising facsimile of The Holkham Bible held by The British Library, 4to, o...

W W WATTS: OLD ENGLISH SILVER, London, Ernest Benn, 1924, (40) (35) on paper cheval chinois, numbered and signed, 134 collotype plates as list, pa...

STANLEY MORISON AND KENNETH DAY: THE TYPOGRAPHIC BOOK 1450-1935, A STUDY OF FINE TYPOGRAPHY THROUGH FIVE CENTURIES..., London, Ernest Benn, 1963, ...

OPPI UNTRACHT: TRADITIONAL JEWELRY OF INDIA, London, Thames & Hudson, 1997, 1st edition, 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper + MARTHA BOYER: MONGOL ...

MAGDALENE KEANEY: IRVING PENN PORTRAITS, London, National Portrait Gallery, 2010, 1st edition, original cloth, photographic label

HEINRACH VON KLEIST: DAS KATHCHEN VON HEILBRONN ODER DIE FEUERPROBE EIN GROSSES HISTORISCHES RITTERSCHAUSPIEL, ill Alexander Zick, Berlin, A Golds...

RONALD SEARLE: FORTY DRAWINGS, Cambridge University Press, 1946, 4to, original printed boards

VIRGIL: THE AENEID trans Robert Fagles, London, The Folio Society, 2010 (1750), 1st Folio Society edition, numbered, original decorative Wassa goa...

VICTOR HUGO: THE TOILERS OF THE SEA, trans/ed James Hogarth, London, The Folio Society, 2014 (1250), 1st Folio Society edition, numbered, original...

AIDAN MACKEY: MR CHESTERTON COMES TO TEA, OR HOW THE KING OF ENGLAND CAPTURED THE REDSKIN ISLAND...TO ACCOMPANY SIXTEEN HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED PENCI...

CHARLES JAMES APPERLEY "NIMROD": HUNTING REMINISCENCES..., ill Henry Alken & others, London, Rudolph Ackermann, 1843, 1st edition, engraved title,...

RAMENDRA NATH CHAKRABORTY: SKETCHES OF EUROPE BEFORE THE WAR, London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1944, 1st edition, 27 tipped in plates as list, origin...

THE THATCHER'S CRAFT, intro John Betjeman, London, Rural Industries Bureau 1961, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper

MICHAEL BRYAN AND HENRY OTTLEY: A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS ,,,, Ed George Stanley, London, H G Bohn 1849, 18...