Books and Maps - Timed Auction - Fri 17 Sept to Sun 26 Sept

MORDEN: Map of ESSEX. 1693, hand coloured, (420x360mm). Mounted, framed and glazed. ...[more]

BLOME, R: Mapp of Northamptonshire. C1680, hand coloured, (350x290mm). Mounted, framed and glazed. ...[more]

MAPS: 1-SPEEDE, J: The North & East Ridings of Yorkshire. No date, 1650. Hand coloured and measuring 520x420mm, with inset plans of Richmond and H...

William Kipp 17th century map of Hertfordshire, hand coloured, 285 x 340mm and another by John Carey, 505 x 390mm (2)

[Blaeu, J]: Mula Insula. The Yle of Mul. Map of the Isle of Mull. Hand coloured, mounted framed and glazed, 555 x 445mm together with [Blaeu, J & ...

ATLASES, Including: Johnston: New cabinet Atlas of the actual Geography of the World, 1867. 4to. With 33 colour maps; Bartholomew: Royal Atlas of ...

CARY, John: Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys. J Cary, Sept 1, 1787, First edition, large 4...

WALLIS, John: New Geographical Game, exhibiting a Tour Through England & Wales. March, 8th. 1802, (66 x 51cm) Hand-coloured, linen backed and fold...

TWO INDENTURES on Vellum, each in it’s own leather over wood box: 1- Frederick-William Mulcaster, of Greenford in the county of Middlesex, Captain...

A Tripartite Indenture: Dated 28 May, 1759 and Signed by Thomas Herbert and William Duncombe. 99pp, (400 x 320mm)

George IV: Document signed, as Prince Regent “Warrant for holding a general court martial for the trial of Lieutenant Applewait? of the 85th. Regi...

Capt. Bushe Vs. Lieut. Col. Stanley (Commandant of the 15th. Regiment, N.I.): The Second Mhow scandal, Bombay, India. 1865-1866. Journal volume c9...

AL-QURAN (KORAN) Manuscript: Dated at the back 1287 (Islamic calendar), i.e. C1870. Around 500 pages with 15 lines to the page and each measuring ...

Mrs Fern L. BEDAUX: 44 COPIES OF: Daniel SARDA: Conte de Maitre Espapidour. Printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, under the direction of the Nones...

Mantell, Gideon Algernon: A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, Consisting of Coloured Illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic Remains of ...

Shaw, G F & Dr. Goldsmith: The Panorama of Nature, or a Comprehensive View of Natural History and Botany, R Edwards, nd. [1817] The plates are dat...

WALLACE (Alfred Russel): 1- Island Life. Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras. Macmillan, 1880, 1st. edn. With 26 Maps and il...

DANIEL, WB: Rural Sports, 4 volumes (including supplement). Vols. 1-3: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme 1807 Supplement: T. Davison, 1813. All 4 volu...

FALCONER, Hugh: Palaeontological Memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer with a Biographical Sketch of the Author. Compiled and edited by Char...

GEOLOGICAL & ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS, including: Teall, JJH: Geological map of the British Isles 1912, 2nd. Edn. Folding linen backed coloured map (9...

1- Hume and Marshall: The Game Birds of India, Burmah & Ceylon, in 3 volumes. Hume & Marshall, no date [1879] preface dated. With 142 of 146 colou...

Saville-Kent, William: The Naturalist in AUSTRALIA. Chapman & Hall. 1897, first edn. 4to. With a frontis portrait, 9 chromo plates (one double-pag...

1- MAMMATT, Edward: A Collection of Geological Facts and practical Observations intended to elucidate the formation of the Ashby Coal-Field.., Ash...

LYELL, Charles: 1- Elements of Geology, in 2 vols. J. Murray, 1841, 2nd. Edn. With 2 colour maps, 4 folding plates, plus a folding hand coloured a...

MAMMATT, Edward: A Collection of Geological Facts and practical Observations intended to elucidate the formation of the Ashby Coal-Field, in the p...

CUMBRIAN GEOLOGY: 1- SALTER, J W: A Catalogue of the Collection of Cambrian and Silurian Fossils Contained in the Geological Museum of the Univers...

Phillips (John): Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire; or a Description of the Strata and Organic Remains of the Yorkshire Coast… In two part...

Buckman, S.S; J W Tutcher (ill): Yorkshire Type Ammonites, 7 volumes. W. Wesley & Son, 1909-1930. With well over 800 Plates (Many plates have a, b...

BARTLETT, Edward: A monograph of the Weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial Finches, Fringillidae. Maidstone: by the author, 1888. ...

HAWKINS, Thomas: Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth. Relfe & Fletcher, 1834, first edition, with 28 Pl...

MURCHISON, Roderick Impey: The Silurian System founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford. One volume bound in two. J. Mu...

MACKIE, S J (edit): The Geologist. A Popular Monthly Magazine of Geology. Volumes 1-7 (all published). Reynolds, and later Lovell Reeve, 1858-1864...

BINDINGS AND ILLUSTRATED, including: Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird. Methuen, 1911, 1st. edn. With 25 tipped-in colour plates by C Robinson. 4to. Ori...

BINDING & General, including: Scott, Walter: Peveril Of The Peak - 4 Volumes. Edinburgh, Constable, 1822, Original marbled boards and later leathe...

BINDING: A large quantity, including: Thackeray’s works, in 12 volumes. S. Elder, 1875. Cont. half leather, rubbed; Shakespeare’s works, in 4 vols...

FINE BINDING: A large quantity, including: Nature & Art. 2 vols. Bound in one. Day & Son, 1866-67 (fine full calf), VG; Ball, RS: Great Astronomer...

PAPIER MACHÉ BINDING: HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel: The Coinage of the British Empire: An Outline of the Progress of the Coinage in Great Britain & Her D...

BINDING: A collection including: Bronte: Life and works of Charlotte Bronte and her sisters. 7 vols. Smith, Elder, 1878-82. Cont. half leather; ru...

BRITISH THEATRE: Volumes 1, 2, 4-17, Plus 21 & 22. (18 volumes in all). Each volume is complete by itself. J Bell, 1791, with many engraved plates...

BINDING: 1: STRICKLAND, AGNES: Lives of the Queens of England. In 12 volumes. H. Colburn, 1844-48. With a frontis and an extra engraved title page...

BINDING: The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Collated with All the Former Editions and Corrected; with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, ...

BINDING, ETC: The Temple Shakespeare, 1894-96; Scott’s Novels, 1822-27; Leon Gautier: La Chevalerie. Poor copy, A/F; (Qty)

SIGNED COPY: QUANT, Mary: Quant by Quant. Cassell, 1966, 1st. edn. DW, Signed on the title page; VG+

SIGNED COPIES: 1- Montgomery, Field Marshall Viscount, of Alamein: A History of Warfare. 1st. edn. DW. Signed on the title-page; 2- Warner, O: Adm...

SIGNED Politicians (All Signed 1st. edns. with DWs): 1- Gordon BROWN: Beyond the crash; 2- Edward HEATH: Travels; DW torn; 3- John MAJOR: Autobiog...

Mixed SIGNED: 1- Hosseini, Khaled: The kite runner & A thousand splendid suns. 2 vols, Bloomsbury, 2008, Signed limited edn. #296, fine in slipcas...

SIGNED COPIES, All first editions with dust jackets and very good/fine copies: Ramsey, AM (Archbishop of Canterbury): Sacred and Secular; Lord Joh...

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, Six Books, all SIGNED & INSCRIBED To Mr. Burton (W J P Burton was the principal of Lea Board School at Holloway, Derbyshire)...

SIGNED 1st. edns: Beerbohm, Max: Things New and Old 1923, Signed limited #171/380 with 50 plates Plus an extra colour plate loosely inserted in th...

MODERN FIRST EDITIONS: 1- Forster, E M: A Passage to India. G Arnold, 1924, 1st. edn. PP: 325, (iii)Publisher’s adverts. Original cloth; small nic...

ILLUSTRATED: Heysen, N (ill): Woggheeguy, Australian Aboriginal Legends. Adelaide, Preece & Sons, 1930, DW, VG; Ogilvie, A: Profitable Proverbs. C...

RANDOLPH CALDECOTT: A large collection from a direct descendant, Including: Randolph Caldecott's "Graphic" Pictures Complete Edition. Routledge, 1...

FLINT, William Russell (illus.); KINGSLEY, Charles: The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children. P L Warner, Medici Society, 1912. Limited ed...

An album with 58 hand-painted birds on rice paper, one to a page, most of them with the name of the bird written below the image and measuring 75x...

DULAC, E (ill); The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy tales. Hodder & Stoughton, no date, c1927. With Dust Jacket (10/6). Illustrated with 15 tipped...

ILLUSTRATED: 1- Kent, Rockwell (ill); H. Melville: Moby Dick. Cassell, 1930 (Copyright). 823pp, original cloth gilt; 2- Kiang Kang-Hu; W Bynner(Tr...

CHILDREN’S BOOKS: 1- ROSCOE, W: The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast. Printed For J Harris, 1807, first Picture Book edition; with 14...

Children & Illustrated: LANG, Andrew: The Green Fairy book. Longman, Green, 1893, 2nd. Edn. Original gilt pictorial covers; rubbed and with cuts; ...

CHILDREN’S BOOKS, Including: Bush, W: A bushel of Merry-Thoughts: The Naughty Boys of Corinth; Cat and Mouse; Sugar-Bread; & Ice-Peter, [4 parts i...

LEWIS CARROLL: 1- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Macmillan, 1870, 26th. Thousand. Original cloth with gilt decoration and lettering and all edge...