BOOKS, MAPS, EPHEMERA & POSTCARDS

STAGECOACHES: 'London, Winchester, Southampton, Romsey, Lymington, Ringwood, Fordingbridge, & Poole..Common Stage Wagons, set out from the warehou...

BALLAD SHEETS: 'Death and the Gentleman..': J Catnach, Seven Dials, n.d. (circa 1820): folio, printed to one side and laid down onto thick grey pa...

GEORGIAN FISHING TACKLE PROVISIONER: 'George Gimber, New & Old Net Warehouse, No. 10 Crooked Lane, London..': pub. E Abraham, printer, Clement's L...

FOUGASSE, SIGNED: 'The Kensington Spitfire Fund: help to sweep him from the sky..': sm. folio, printed to one side in red, blue, yellow, black and...

DECLARATION OF WAR ON JAPAN: original naval telegram, typewritten, dated 7/12/41, marked 'Most Immediate', stating 'commence hostilities against J...

BERTHOLD'S POLITICAL HANDKERCHIEF: London, Monday, September 5 1831 (No.1): folio broadsheet newspaper, folded down into four pages, printed on ca...

MOZART (Leopold): 'Il Flauto Magico..': Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, n.d. (early 19thc): oblong 4to, original boards with printed labels to each s...

DITCHLING PRESS: 'Aspidistras and Parlers..by author of Concerning Dragons': printed at St Dominic's Press Ditchling, Sussex, 1929: 12mo, 8pp inc....

FITZGERALD (Edward): 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam': Manuscript: a neat manuscript copy of The Rubaiyat, earlier c20, 14pp, each set within coloured f...

CORONATION PANORAMA: 'Great Room, Spring Gardens. Novelty! Marshall's Grand Historical Peristrephic Panorama of the Ceremony of the Coronation, th...

FREEDMAN (Barnett): a group of three unused Christmas cards designed by the artist, for the years 1950-54 and 57, some minor handling wear, else G...

IRISH NATURE PRINTING: collection of twenty-one nature-printed illustrations from botanical specimens, circa 1860, each example tipped-down onto c...

GEORGIAN MINIATURE EYE PAINTINGS: a group of three, each on ivory and arranged in old card mount, mount with some worming (not affecting paintings...

NATALIS (Hieronymus): 'Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia..' Antwerp, 1594: folio, recent full brown morocco gilt blocked in black, five ra...

MANUSCRIPT: QUAKER WOMAN IN AMERICA: an interesting manuscript account of a woman's life in the first half of the 18th century: born in England, 1...

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT: TENNYSON (Alfred Lord): attractive 19th century illuminated verse from Tennyson's Enid: 19 lines, each with decorative or ...

SWISS PANORAMA: large folding panorama of the Swiss Alps, pub. Zurich, Heinrich Keller, 1823: approx 185 x 19cm, folding down in original pink gla...

WILLIAM MORRIS TRADE CATALOGUE: catalogue of stained glass, casements and metalwork by William Morris & Company Ltd, circa 1910: folio, original b...

NIELSEN (Kay, illustrator): 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon..': London, Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. (1914): 4to, original blue pub. cloth gilt,...

BULL (Rene, illustrator): Fitzgerald (Edward): 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam': London, Hodder & Stoughton, (1913): signed, limited edition of 250 copi...

HUTCHINSON (Horace Gordon): 'British Gold Links': London, 1897. First trade edition. 4to, publishers green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked,...

KENTFIELD (Edwin): 'The Game of Billiards: Scientifically Explained, and Practically Set Forth...', London, pub Smith, Elder & Co, 1839. Folio, pu...

FITZGERALD (Edward): ' The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam...a personal selection compared to the five editions of Edward Fitzgerald's translation': Lond...

FRITH (Francis): 'Canterbury Cathedral, Photographed..': pub. Hal Drury, Fine Arts Repository, Canterbury, circa 1870: oblong 4to, publishers red ...

BOGNOR GUIDE: 'The Bognor Guide, containing the history of Bognor, and the history and antiquities of several adjoining parishes, including an acc...

TURKEY: TREATY BETWEEN THE SUBLIME PORT AND THE HANSE TOWNS: printed version of this Germano-Turkish agreement, published in Hamburg, 1839: Turkis...

CATHOLIC MASS: 'A Very Profitable Exercise for Offering the Mass; according to the four ends thereof: vis Homage, Thanksgiving, Satisfaction, Impe...

FONTEYNE (Margot, Dame): signed sepia photograph, ink dedication lower left, 'to Kay Clark...', approx 15 x 19cm within mount, framed and glazed. ...

FIRE OF LONDON: HARDY (Nathaniel): 'Lamintation, Mourning and Woe. Sighed Forth in a Sermon preached in the Parish-Church of St Martin in the Fiel...

CULPEPPER (Nicholas): 'The English Physitian Enlarged...' London, printed by Peter Cole, 1656. 12mo, contemporary blind tooled sheep, rubbed: vert...

MANUSCRIPT: ADDISON (Joseph): 'Some of the Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison Esq..': an 18th century transcription in manuscript, approx...

BECKFORD-HAMILTON COPY: HOOLE (John): 'Dramas and Other Poems; of the Abbe Pietro Metastasio..' London, Otridge & Son et al, 1800: 3 vols: tall 8v...

FORSYTH (Captain J): 'The Highlands of Central India..' London, Chapman & Hall, 1871: 8vo, recent full green crushed morocco gilt, aeg. (1) ...[...

BYRNE (Oliver): 'The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ...

GRACE (W G): 'Cricket', Bristol, J W Arrowsmith, 1891: crown quarto deluxe edition, No.305 of 652 copies, signed by W G Grace: 4to, original board...

COOKERY: GLASSE (Hannah): 'The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy...' London, printed for W Strahan et al, 1770. New Edition. 8vo, later blind ru...

CATHEDRAL BINDING: 'The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacrements.., London, printed by George Eyre, 1844: tall 8vo, contemporary...

CHURCHILL (Winston Spencer, Sir): 'Lord Randolph Churchill...' London, Macmillan & Co, 1906. First Edition. 2 vols, 8vo, later red half morocco gi...

DARWIN (Charles): 'A Naturalist's Voyage..journal of researches into the natural history and geology of countries visited during the voyage of HMS...

ORCZY (Baroness): 'Blue Eyes & Grey...' London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1928. First Edition: 8vo, pub. blue cloth, dustjacket, some tears/loss to corn...

WAUGH (Evelyn): 'Helena a novel..', Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1950: 8vo, publishers brown cloth, ex-library with usual markings and without dustj...

HIGHSMITH (Patricia): 'A Game for the Living': Heinemann, 1959. First Edition. 8vo, publishers cloth in dustjacket, a good copy: SIGNED BY AUTHOR ...

ORWELL (George): 'Homage to Catalonia': London, Sekker & Warburg, 1938: First Edition. 8vo, publishers green cloth, gilt lettered, spine a little ...

WODEHOUSE (P G): 'Laughing Gas', London, Herbert Jenkins, 1936. First Edition. Original red publishers cloth, dustjacket with some neat restoratio...

NISTER (Ernest, publisher): 'Good Friends..': circa 1900: shape-cut edges, partly printed in colours: TOGETHER WITH 'Dolly in the Country', a simi...

KEROUAC (Jack): 'Excerpts from Visions of Cody..' New York, New Directions, 1959. One of 750 copies, this example marked by hand 'out of series' a...

LEE (Harper): 'To Kill a Mockingbird..' London, Heinemann, 1960. First UK Edition. 8vo, publishers red cloth, dustjacket, a little browned and rub...

TOLKIEN (J R R ): 'A Middle English Vocabulary..', Oxford Clarendon Press, 1922. First Edition of the author's first book, without 'Printed in Eng...

ISHERWOOD (Christopher): 'The Memorial..Portrait of a Family', London, Hogarth Press, 1932. First Edition. 8vo, publishers cloth in dustjacket, a ...

LEWIS (C S): 'The Magician's Nephew..', London, Bodley Head, 1955. First Edition. 8vo, publishers green cloth, dustjacket, spine sl. browned, a li...

FORD (Ford Madox): 'The Good Soldier', New York, Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. This edition limited to 300 numbered copies, this No.180, signed by ...

FLEMING (Ian): 'You Only Live Twice..', London, Jonathan Cape, 1964: First Edition, 8vo, publishers black cloth, dustjacket, minor marks and wear ...

FLEMING (Ian): 'Thunderball': London, Jonathan Cape, 1961. First Edition: 8vo, publishers cloth, dustjacket, a bit rubbed and worn to edges, a few...

HEANEY (Seamus): 'Electric Light': Faber & Faber, 2001. First Edition: signed by author in black ink to title page: 8vo, dustjacket, VG: TOGETHER ...

GREENE (Graham): 'Stamboul Train..', London, Heinemann, 1932. First Edition. 8vo, publishers black cloth, with original dustjacket showing neat re...

McCARTNEY (Paul): SIGNED BEATLES BOOK: a copy of the Penguin paperback 'Love Me Do: The Beatles' Progress', by Michael Braun, pub. 1964: boldly in...

JOYCE (James): 'Ulysses..', London, published for The Egoist Press by John Rodker, Paris, 1922: No.1392 /2000 copies on handmade paper: large 8vo,...

FOLIO SOCIETY: CHAUCER (Geoffrey): 'The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted...': Folio Society, 2008: illustrations by Edward Burne-Jone...

FOLIO SOCIETY: SHAKESPEARE (William): 'King Lear': London, 2007: limited edition, 2 vols in half maroon goatskin gilt over marbled boards, present...

FOLIO SOCIETY: SWIFT (Jonathan): 'Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, newly illustrated by Peter Suart..': Folio...