The Oxford Library Sale

Cartography:- J & C Walker, Holborn England and Wales, The Grand Trigonometrical Survey c1840. (approximately 130 x 110cm) in outer leather slip c...

Ordnance Maps of England sold by Letts, Son & Steer. 8 Royal Exchange (London). A set of 16 folding maps in 4 slip cases c1850 in used condition (...

Fine bindings: A collection of c60 19th century leather bound titles including Works of Alexander Dumas X 14 vols, Sir Walter Scott, Plutarch's Li...

Ruskin, (John). Sesame and Lillies. George Allen 1903. Half green morocco by Riviere plus Chaucer 'The Canterbury Tales' with preface by T Tyrwhit...

Pinkerton, (John). 'A General Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World'. 6 vols. 4to. full calf. Kimber & ...

Baedeker, (Karl). Paris and Its Environs 1924. Southern Italy 1903 and Switzerland 1901 - red cloth, all in used condition (3) ...[more]

Fine Bindings:- A collection of c40 leather bound titles including Macaulay, Molière, W.H. Prescott et al plus W.G. Farnside 'Views on the Thames'...

Elsevir, (Daniel). Institutiones. D Justiniani SS Princi. with colophon, Amsterdam 1664/76. Boards loose and defective. A further Elsevir pub. plu...

Ridgway (Emily). Through Cloud and Sunshine. Cornish Manchester n/d. small 8vo. Gilt edges, purple calf by Ramage plus five fine bindings, Bunyan,...

Hulme, (F. Edward). Familiar Wild Flowers. 1st Series with coloured plates. n/d 5 vols. Half calf plus second series, 4 vols with gilt decorative ...

Thompson, (Hugh). Irish Illustrator (1860-1920). A group of four titles illustrated by H.T. Dobson, (Austin). The Story of Rosina and other Verse...

Macmillan & Co (Publishers). A group of seven illustrated titles all similarly bound in green cloth with gilt ornament and edges. Washington Irvin...

Thompson, Hugh. Illustrator. Austen, Jane. 'Pride and Prejudice'. 'Peacock Edition'. with printed dedication, George Allen 1894 plus Gaskell, Mrs ...

Ministry of Transport folding Road Maps c1930. 35 out of a set of 40. approximately 65cm square plus six further maps, all in carrying case ...[m...

Palladio, (Andrea) (1508-1580). Les Bátiments et les Desseins de André Palladio. 2nd Ed. 4 vols. Jean Rossi, Vicenza 1786. Numerous plates through...

Billings, (Robert) and Burn, (William). The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland. Blackwood, London n/d. plates throughout c1845/50...

Phillips, (Philip A.S.) 'Paul de Lamerie A Study of His Life and Work'. Batsford, London 1935. Fo. plus Jackson, (C.J.) History of English Plate. ...

Hayward, (Helena) and Kirkham, (Pat). 'William and John Linnell Eighteenth Century Furniture Makers'. Studio Vista, Christies London 1980. Blue cl...

Christie's and Sotheby's House/Collection Catalogues including Dumfries House (2007), Easton Neston (2005), Evenden Hall (1984), Edward James (198...

Betjeman, (John). 'First and Last Loves'. John Murray, London 1952. 1st Ed with d/w. John Piper (and others) Illus. 'inscribed for P Morton Shand ...

Lycett-Green, (Candida). John Betjeman 'Letters'. 2 vols. 1926-1984. Methuen Latin plus Hillier, (Bevis). 'Betjeman The Bonus of Laughter' and 'Ne...

Mandela, (Nelson). 'The Long Walk to Freedom'. Little Brown and Company, London 1944. 1st Ed. Howe b/p, d/w. Fair condition, some dust marks and w...

Venkataraman, (Ramaswamy). 'My Presidential Years' - with dedication to 'my esteemed friend Lord Howe' d/w plus Shultz, (George). 'Turmoil and Tri...

Iqbal, (Allama Muhammed) (1877-1938). 'Poet of the East'. small Fo. with d/w. n/d but inscription dated 'to Sir Geoffrey Howe... 3 April 1986' b/p...

Gandhi, (Mohandas K.) (1869-1948). 'Prayer'. Chandrakant Kaji (Ed). 2nd Ed. Navajivan, Ahmedabad. Hessian boards plus three further Gandhi titles ...

Mahon, (Lord). History of England 1713-1783. 7 vols. Murray, London 1853. H Morton Shand b/p. Full tree calf gilt tooled back, binding worn (7) ....

The Holy Bible (Wing 859). Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb Old Testament. Title page torn and with losses. The New Testament date...

Tolkien, (J.R.R.) 'The Hobbit or There and Back Again'. 3rd Ed. 10th imp. d/w plus The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 10th Imp. 1961/7th/6th Imp. 1960...

Speed, (John) (1552-1629). A Miniature Atlas: England, Wales,Scotland and Ireland Described, George Humble, Pope's Head Alley, London 1627. Oblong...

Folio Society - Nine titles including The Fables of Aesop. Edward Detmold Illus. all in slip cases (9) ...[more]

Rackham, (Arthur) Illustrator. Gulliver's Travels. Dent/Dutton, London 1909. 'Tales from Shakespeare' 1909, 'Th Legend of Sleepy Hollow', Harrop 1...

Seton, (Ernest Thompson). A group of ten titles plus Bates, (H.E.) 'Down the River' and 'Through the Woods', Gollancz 1936/37, red and blue cloth....

A collection of c20 17th and 18th century Manuscript Documents on vellum and paper, some with seals (c20) ...[more]

Gibbon, (Edward). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. 7 vols. Bell, London 1900. Small 8vo. full tooled calf with Marlboroug...

Stevenson, (Robert Louis). 'Poems'. Ltd Ed. 3/500 on hand made paper, untrimmed. Chatto and Windus 1913. Vellum boards with green silk ties (loose...

Eliot, (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965) Poet and Critic. 'Thoughts after Lambeth'. Criterion Miscellany No. 30. Faber and Faber 1931. 32pp. Brown pape...

Office of Ordnance 12th January 1727A 'Hulking' Order for H.M.S. Southampton , with instructions, m/s in black ink, signed Edward Short, framed (3...

Darwin, (Charles). 'The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex'. 2nd Ed. Nineteenth Thousand. John Murray, 1885. b/p for Aldershot Manor....

Wallace, (Alfred Russell) (1823-1913) Welsh Naturalist. 'Darwinism An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection...' 2nd Ed. Macmillan, London ...

Pinelli, (Bartolomeo). Italian Engraver (1771-1835). Gran Quadro della Storra di Roma Antica Groato and Minesso Venice. n/d c1820. 100 plates with...

A Queen Anne Book of Common Prayer and The Holy Bible printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceased 1706. Old and New Testa...

Byron, (Lord George Gordon). 'The Prisoner of Chillon and other Poems'. Murray, London 1816, half calf plus Burns, (Robert). The Works Thereof. Ca...

Sturm, (Christopher). 'Reflections for Every Day in the Year on the Works of God in Nature and Providence'. 2 vols. 8vo. Brightley & Kinnersley, B...

'Cromwelliana, A Chronological Detail of Events in Which Oliver Cromwell was engaged from the Year 1642 to his death 1658'. Machell Stace Westmins...

Walker, (John). 'An Attempt towards recovering an account of the numbers and sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England...in the late times...

Leycester, (Sir Peter). Historical Antiquities in two books, Great Britain and Ireland, and Cheshire. Clavell, London 1673. Red and black printed ...

Devonshire, (Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of) (1757-1806). The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard, A Poem with four frontispiece portraits an...

Appianus. Des Guerres des Romans libres XI translated from the Greek into French by Claude de Seyssel, ruled in red, ornamental initials, title pa...

Johnson, (Benjamin). Playwright and poet (1572-1637). The Works Thereof...in two vols. Vol. 1 printed by William Stansby, London 1616 with engrave...

Thompson, (Hugh). Irish Illustrator (1860-1920). Goldsmith, Oliver. 'She Stoops to Conquer or the Mistakes of a Night'. Ltd Ed. 226/350 and Sherid...

Henty. (George Alfred) 1832 - 1902A group of twenty-seven titles in mixed condition, some with d/w (27)

A collection of c55 Antiquarian bindings, part sets etc. 18th/19th century History, Literature. Mixed condition (c.55) ...[more]

Pullman (Philip) English Writer. His Dark Materials 'Northern Lights'. 1st Ed. Scholastic, London 1995, signed on title page. d/w, 'The Amber Spyg...

Disraeli, (Isaac) (1766-1848) Father of Benjamin Disraeli. 'A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature. 3 vols. Murray London 1823 8vo, full tre...

Hayward, (A). Biographical and Critical Essays. 2 vols. Longmans et al / John Murray 1858/80. 8vo full calf with marbled end papers, gilt tooled b...

Brandes, (George). Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature. 6 vols. Heinemann London 1901, 8vo, half red Morocco with gilt title, plus thir...

Meredith, (George). English Novelist and Poet. 1828-1909. Works thereof, Surrey ed. Times Book Club, London 1912. Twenty five vols. 8vo half red M...

Lockhart, (J.G.) 'Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart'. 7 vols with frontispiece engraved portrait after Raeburn, 1st edition(?), Cadell...

Von Arnim, (Elizabeth). Australian writer (1866-1941) 'Elizabeth and Her German Garden', 2nd edition, Macmillan London 1899. 8Vo half green calf a...

Leigh Hunt, (James Henry), Writer and poet (1784-1859). 'Sir Ralph Esher or Adventures of a Gentleman of the Court of Charles II'. 3 vols. Colburn...