Two-day Books & Ephemera Auction

JAMES F WALFORD: A BOOK OF ORCHID PAINTINGS, text Peter F Hunt, foreword L Maurice Mason, introduction Roy Grubb, London, Orchid Books, 1972, (525...

EDMUND OLLIER (ED): THE DORE GALLERY..., London, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, circa 1870, 2 vols, 250 plates as called for, large 4to, lib cloth (2) ...

ERIC GEORGE MILLAR: DESCRIPTION OF AN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT OF THE THEBAID OF STATIUS NOW MS 76 IN THE LIBRARY OF A CHESTER BEATTY, FSA, Oxford U...

PAUL RAPIN DE THOYRAS: THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND, trans John Kelly, London for James Mechell, 1732-37, 3 vols (vol 2 trans Joseph Morgan, the reigns ...

THE PRODIGAL SON AND OTHER PARABLES, ill Thomas Derrick, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1931, 1st edition, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards, ...

CHARLES DICKENS: COMPLETE WORKS, London, Heron Books [1967-69], Centennial edition, 36 vols complete + 5 duplicate vols, original faux leather gil...

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 1797-1801, 3rd edition, 20 vols, 566 plates, 19 maps including some folding, folding table and folding historical chart,...

DAVID MICHAEL STERN & CLIFFORD WILLIAM FURNEAUX BURNETT: A MODERN PRACTICE OF OBSTETRICS, London, Balliere, Tindall & Cox, 1952, 1st edition, insc...

ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL HOLMS: THE FACTS OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY COLLATED AND DISCUSSED, London, Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co, 1925, 1st ed...

PHILIPPE-PAUL COMTE DE SEGUR: HISTOIRE ET MEMOIRES, Paris, Firmin Didot Freres, 1873, 1st edition, 8 vols, later cloth, (8)

MAJOR S IRELAND (ED): PERIMETER, Cairo, 1945-46, vols 1-2, each containing issues 1-6 of a scarce Serviceman's magazine, lacking wraps, contempora...

EDWARD GIBBON: A HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, Edinburgh, 1811, 12 vols, engraved portfrontis, 2 maps, contemporary calf gi...

ARMY & NAVY STORES LTD, GENERAL PRICE LIST 1937-38, illustrated catalogue, 4to, original cloth ...[more]

SIR JOHN GEORGE WOODROFFE "ARTHUR AVALON": 3 titles: THE SERPENT POWER, Madras, Ganesh & Co, 1964, 7th edition, original cloth, d/w; S'AKTI & S'AK...

PRINCESS MARIE BONAPARTE: FIVE COPY-BOOKS, trans Nancy Proctor Gregg (vol 1), Eric Mosbacher (vols 2-4), London, Imago, 1950-53, (1030) (1000), 4 ...

BERTRAND RUSSELL: PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS, London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1910, 1st edition, original cloth, 2 inscriptions on ffep, otherwise vgc .....

IRVING FISHER: THE SERIES OF INTEREST, New York, The MacMillan Co, 1930, 1st edition, original cloth, spine gilt lettered, clear adhesive tape res...

SIR J J THOMSON: RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS, London, G Bell & Sons, 1936, 1st edition, original cloth, spine gilt lettered + LORD RAYLEIGH: THE...

JOHN A MIZZI: MALTA AT WAR, Malta, Bieb Bieb Publications, 2001, 1st edition, 2 vols, 4to, original boards, d/ws, (2)

THE TRIAL OF GERMAN MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL SITTING AT NUREMBERG, GERMANY, HMSO, 1946-51, parts 1-9...

JOSEPH FREEMAN: AN AMERICAN TESTAMENT, A NARRATIVE OF REBELS AND ROMANTICS, London, Victor Gollancz, 1938, 1st edition, Left Book Club, original b...

CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL: 2 titles: STUDIES IN A DYING CULTURE, London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1938, 1st edition, 2 inscriptions on ffep, origina...

C F DENDY MARSHALL (ED): A HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY, London, The Southern Railway Co, 1936, 1st edition, plates and plans collated complete...

C H WENDEL: 150 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER, Osceola, 1993, 4to, original pictorial boards gilt

SIR EDWARD SULLIBAN AND OTHERS: YACHTING, London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1894, 1st edition, 2 vols, Badminton Library, original half blue morocco g...

MAURICE GRIFFITHS: 5 titles, all signed: SWATCHWAYS AND LITTLE SHIPS, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1971, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w (price ...

ROGER D TAYLOR: 4 titles: VOYAGES OF A SIMPLE SAILOR, The Fitzroy Press, 2008, 1st edition, signed and inscribed, original pictorial wraps; MING M...

JOHN LEATHER: 2 titles: THE NORTHSEAMAN, Lavenham, Terence Dalton, 1978 reprint, original cloth, d/w; THE SALTY SHORE, Lavenham, Terence Dalton, 1...

UFFA FOX: 4 titles: THOUGHTS ON YACHTS AND YACHTING, London, Peter Davies, 1943 reprint, 4to, original cloth, d/w (part losses and tears); SAILING...

DAVID GENTLEMAN: 2 titles: DAVID GENTLEMAN'S PARIS, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1991, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w; DAVID GENTLEMAN'S ITALY, L...

HARTMUT LEHBRINK: MERCEDES, Koln, Konemann, 1997, 1st edition in English, German and French, inscription on half title, 4to, original cloth, d/w, ...

THE SYREN AND THE SHIPPING ILLUSTRATED, 3 issues, January 7 1914 No 906, January 4 1922 No 1323 and January 3 1934 No 1949, fo, original wraps wit...

LEO BAGROW: HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY, revised and enlarged by R A Skelton, London, C A Watts, 1964, 1st edition, 4to, original cloth gilt, d/w, vgc

F J GOMM: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE HYDE PERCEPTORY NO 98, 1967, 1st edition, prepared to commemorate the centenary of the consecration of the Percep...

[FRANCIS V WOODHOUSE]: A NARRATIVE OF EVENTS AFFECTING THE POSITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, London, 1885, 2nd edition with a ...

TOM SALTER: CARNABY STREET, Walton-on-Thames, Margaret and Jack Hobbs, 1970, 1st edition, oblong 4to, original laminated boards

J CLERK MAXWELL: MATTER AND MOTION, London, SPCK, 1876, 1st edition, 4pp adverts at end, original cloth

THE CUNARDER YEAR BOOK 2011/2012 - 2017/2018, 7 vols, 4to, original cloth d/ws, vgc (7)

JOHN CHARLTON: ROYAL NAVAL AND MILITARY BAZAAR...SOUVENIR, LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS BY HAROLD BEGBIE, WALTER BESANT, GUY BOOTHBY, F C BURNAND AND JO...

SAINT ALBERTUS MAGNUS: PARADISUS ANIMAE ALBERTI MAGNI..., ed Henricus Sommalius, Duaci Petri Aurol 1617, 2 parts in one with separate title pages,...

JOHN TAYLOR: VERBUM SEMPITERNUM "THUMB BIBLE", London, printed by F Collins for T Ilive, 1693, 2 parts in one, part I (Old Testament) dedicated to...

Packet: 21 assorted miniature and small format books including THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, Cambridge University Press, ND, 128mo, hallmarked silver...

THOMAS PAINE: RIGHTS OF MAN, intro Howard Fast, ill Lynd Ward, New York, Heritage Press, 1961, 4to, original marbled cloth, slip-case

WILLIAM GODWIN: ENQUIRY CONCERNING POLITICAL JUSTICE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON MORALS AND HAPPINESS, London for G G & J Robinson, 1796, 2nd edition cor...

THOMAS PAINE: RIGHTS OF MAN - RIGHTS OF MAN PART THE SECOND, London for Jeremiah Samuel Jordan, 1791, 1792, 1st Jordan edition, first part, 2nd ed...

LIVES ENGLISH AND FOREIN CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS OF OUR OWN AND OTHER NATIONS FROM THE YEAR 1550 TO THE YEAR 1660 B...

JOHN LOCKE: SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION, Edinburgh for J Brown, 1752, 12th edition, engraved portfrontis, 12mo, re-bound, grained blue moro...

MARY JEWRY (ED): WARNE'S MODEL COOKERY AND HOUSEKEEPING BOOK, London, Frederick Warne, 1868, 1st edition, 20 coloured plates as called for, some f...

ELIZABETH RAFFALD: THE EXPERIENCED ENGLISH HOUSEKEEPER, London, 1789, new (pirated?) edition, 3 folding plates (some faults), lacks portfrontis, t...

WILLIAM JEANES: THE MODERN CONFECTIONER..., London, John Camden Hotten, 1861, 1st edition, 15 engraved plates including key plate for frontis, ori...

HANNAH ROBERTSON, GRAND-DAUGHTER TO CHARLES II: THE LADIES SCHOOL OF ARTS CONTAINING INSTRUCTIONS IN EVERY USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL BRANCH OF A LADY'...

JOHN CHARLES BUCKMASTER: BUCKMASTER'S COOKERY..., London, George Routledge [1874], 1st edition, 4pp adverts at front, 2pp adverts at end, original...

ELIZABETH RAFFALD: THE EXPERIENCED ENGLISH HOUSEKEEPER..., London for R Baldwin, 1794, 11th edition, engraved portfrontis, 3 folding plates (one r...

JOHN FARLEY: THE LONDON ART OF COOKERY..., London for Scatcherd & Letterman et al, 1807, 11th edition, engraved portfrontis (some water staining),...

HANNAH GLASSE "A LADY": THE ART OF COOKERY MADE PLAIN AND EASY..., London, Mrs Ashburn's China Shop et al, 1755, 5th edition with additions, half ...

ISABELLA BEETON: THE BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT, London, Ward Lock & Tyler, [1869], entirely new edition revised and corrected, 176 thou, 12 col...

MARIA ELIZA KETELBY RUNDELL "A LADY": A NEW SYSTEM OF DOMESTIC COOKERY, London, John Murray, 1819, new edition corrected, engraved frontis (croppe...

FRANK G G CARR: SAILING BARGES, London, Peter Davies, 1951, revised edition, original cloth, d/w (part losses) + HAROLD A UNDERHILL: 2 titles: SAI...

BASIL LUBBOCK: 5 titles: ROUND THE HORN BEFORE THE MAST, London, John Murray, 1903 reprint, original pictorial cloth gilt worn, inner joints weak;...

Packet: good quantity assorted maritime interest, mainly cruise liners including Cunard, P&O etc ...[more]