Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Battis (Walter).Bushman Art.Pretoria: Red Fawn Press, no date, folio, forty-two pages of illustrations (one or two plates per page, the majority m...

Booth (Stanley)Sir Alfred Munnings,1878-1959, Sotheby, Parke Bernet, 1978, de luxe numbered limited edition of 100, signed by the author, quarto, ...

Bianconi (Gio. Lodovico).Descrizione Dei Circhi Particolarmente di Quelllo di Caracalla E Dei Giuochi in Essi Celebrati.Rome: Stamperia Pagliarini...

Davison (W.) 1781-1858. A collection of thirty-four caricatures, printed and published by William Davison of Alnwick comprising: Nos. 2, 4 and 17,...

Grant (Charles Jameson). The Managers Last Kick, or, The Destruction of the Boroughmongers. J. Quick, no date [c.1832], broadside with woodcut ill...

Potter (Beatrix).The Tales of Beatrix Potter.Folio Society, twenty-three volumes, cloth, housed in two original gilt-lettered cloth slipcases, new...

Illuminated Edges.The Book of Common Prayer ..., Oxford University Press, 1844, duodecimo, marbled endpapers, gauffered gilt edges with painted il...

Tolkien (J.R.R.).The Lord of the Rings.George Allen and Unwin, 1969, first India paper edition, first impression, two folding maps, original cloth...

Bewick (Thomas).The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with designs on wood by Thomas Bewick.Newcastle: printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1818...

Bewick [Thomas].History of British Birds, Vol I. History and Description of Land Birds, Vol II. … Water Birds.Newcastle: printed for the author, 1...

Bewick (Thomas and John).[Bell (John Gray)*], A Descriptive and Critical Catalogue of Works, Illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, Wood Engravers...

Paper Peepshow. Tunnel Under The Thames. No date, concertina-style peepshow of the Thames Tunnel comprising three hand-coloured cut-out prints dep...

Milne (A.A.).Winnie The Pooh.Methuen, 1926, first edition, previous owner's name (dated Xmas 1926) to first blank leaf, [xvi], 158, [2] pages, map...

Folio Society.OUP, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles.Folio Society and Oxford University Press, 2002, numbered deluxe lim...

Lewis (C.S.). The Allegory of Love, A Study in Medieval Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936, first edition, viii, [2], 378, [2] pages, origin...

Conrad (Joseph). [The Works of Joseph Conrad]. Folio Society, 1996-2005, seventeen volumes, pictorial cloth, each volume in slipcase; Kipling (Rud...

Greene (Graham).The Great Novels.Folio Society, 1997, six volumes, slipcase. Books Fine, slipcase slightly marked; idem, The Complete Entertainmen...

Doyle (A. Conan)The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.George Newnes, 1892, first edition, 'cucaine' for 'cocaine' (p.133), 'Violent for Violet' (p.317...

Dickens (Charles)The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home.Bradbury and Evans, 1846, first edition, second state advert, several of Smith's ...

Wilson (Arthur).The History of Great Britain, Being the Life and Reign of King James The First, Relating To what passed from his first Access to t...

Panvinio (Onofrio).Onuphrii Panvinii Veronensis, De Ludis Circensibus, Libri II De Triumphis, Liber Unus.....cum notis Joannis Argoli IVD et Addit...

Scott (Sir Walter).Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, addressed to J.G. Lockhart, Esq.John Murray, 1830, first edition, [4], ix, [1], 402 pages...

Shakespeare (William).The Sonnets.The Swallow Press, 1975, numbered limited edition of 300, signed by Robert Graves, Edward Burrett and Clarke Hut...

Tolkien (J.R.R.).The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King).Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1984, th...

Folio Society Literature. A large quantity of books by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Shakespeare, etc. Folio Society, ...

Detective Fiction. An extensive collection of crime stories by Erle Stanley Gardner. US and UK first editions and later printings, includes works ...

Folio Society History A large quantity of historical works relating to British and Roman history, military history, etc. Folio Society, various da...

Fleming (Ian)Thunderball.Jonathan Cape, 1961, first edition, dust jacket (priced 15s.);idem, You Only Live Twice.Jonathan Cape, March 1964, first ...

Ovid.Metamorphoses.The Folio Society, 2008, numbered limited edition of 2750 (plus 20 hors commerce), folio, translated by Arthur Golding, mounted...

Pepys (Samuel).The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volumes I to XIThe Folio Society, 2003, numbered limited edition of 1000, eleven volumes, all edges gilt...

Peake (Mervyn) - The Gormenghast Trilogy. Titus Groan. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, first edition, previous owner's name to front free endpaper, fox...

Tolkien (J.R.R.) - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.The Fellowship of the Ring.George Allen & Unwin, 1963, thirteenth impression, folding map, previo...

Orwell (George).The Road to Wigan Pier.Victor Gollancz, 1937, Left Book Club edition, illustrated, unfortunately a 'first edition' label has been ...

Eliot (T.S.).Four Quartets.Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1996, numbered limited edition of 200 copies (plus 26 lettered), folio, original cloth-...

Johnson (Samuel).A Dictionary of the English Language: in which The Words are deduced from their Originals ....Folio Society, 2006, numbered limit...

Folio Society.A large collection of books published by the Folio Society, including literature and historical works, various authors including Ern...

Geminiani (F[rancesco]), A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick.London, 1749, folio, engraved frontis after Bouchardon, engraved title, 4 p...

YachtingYachting Monthly Magazine Illustrated, Volumes I and II.'The Yachtsman', February to December 1898, two volumes, plates as called for, fox...

[Fane (John, Earl of Westmorland)].Memoir of The Early Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in Portugal and Spain. By an Officer Employed in the Ar...

Nelson (Horatio, Viscount). The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton; with a Supplement of Interesting Letters by Distinguished Characters.Thom...

Royal NavySignal-Book for the Ship of War. Day and Fog.No imprint or date [c.1796], small quarto, [4], 14, [2], 40, [2], 47-50, [2], 55-67, [1], i...

Naval Chronicle. The Naval Chronicle, Volumes I to XXIV. Bunney & Gold, January 1799-December 1810, twenty-four volumes, engraved plates and chart...

An Unknown Yorkshire Soldier. A First World War ‘Trench’ Diary, dating from the 12th of April 1915 and ending abruptly after a gas attack on the 1...

Victorian Photograph AlbumsA Silver Mounted Bog Oak Photograph Album.Bog oak boards, the upper board ornately carved in relief with an Irish scene...

Royal Family Autograph Letters An outstanding archive of letters written to The Mackintosh of Mackintosh in the first half of the twentieth centur...

Westmorland Elections. A collection of fifteen nineteenth century Election broadsides for Westmorland, comprising: Westmorland Election, March 182...

Bewick (Jos.). Geological Treatise on the District of Cleveland in North Yorkshire, Its Ferruginoius Deposits, Lias, and Oolites; with some Observ...

Yorkshire Geology.Phillips (John), Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire ... Part I The Yorkshire Coast.John Murray, 1835, second edition, qua...

[Wilkinson (Robert)].Londina Illustrata. Graphic and Historic Memorials of Monasteries, Churches, Chapels, Schools, Charitable Foundations, Palace...

Somner (William).The Antiquities of Canterbury, or A Survey of that Ancient Citie, with the Suburbs, and Cathedrall. Containing principally matter...

Bell (John). A Plan of the Town of Winlaton, Shewing the Property of Sir Thomas Blackett Bart. and the Boundaries of the Other Proprietors’ respec...

Catlin (Geo.)Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians ...London: published by the author, 1841, seco...

Vittorio Sella [1859-1943].Alpine Ranges, six large format silver print photographs of the Monte Rosa massif and others, comprising:358 - Monte Ro...

Vittorio Sella [1859-1943].The Matterhorn (Cervino), six large format silver print photographs of the mountain, comprising:5 - Alte Alpi. Cervino ...