Timed Auction of Vintage and Antiquarian Books

Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John...

Miscellaneous. Three unrelated titles; Le Premier Grenadier De France La Tour D'Auvergne Par Paul Deroulede. Paris: Georges Hurtrel, 1886. Limited...

Mountaineering. Rey, Guido. The Matterhorn. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. Second edition. Complete with plates as per list. Original cloth, worn....

Travel. The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D., Carefully Compiled from Reliable Sources. Cononley (Leeds): Edward Slater. No date,...

Art. Bright's Advanced Landscape Drawing Book for 1845. No title page or publishing information. A series of 24 lithograph plates, not coloured, b...

Wainwright. Two boxed sets of The Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, 50th Anniversary Edition, 2005. VG copies. (2)

Wainwright. A selection of Sketchbooks, most in dust wrappers, various impressions. Includes the five Lakeland Sketchbooks; and Wainwright in Lake...

Wainwright. A large selection of Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, majority in dust wrappers, various impressions/editions. Includes a 5th i...

Antiquarian. Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to that Which is to Come: &c. London: Printed for A. Law, W. Miller, and R. Cate...

Botany/Gardening. A selection, includes; E. A. Bowles - My Garden in Summer & My Garden in Autumn and Winter, both published by T. C. & E. C. Jack...

Jessie M. King interest. Two items. Our Trees and How to Know Them. London: Gowans & Gray, Ltd. 1906. And; R. L. Stevenson Memories. London: T. N....

Local History. Rawlinson Ford, J. & Fuller-Maitland, J. A. (eds.). John Lucas's History of Warton Parish (compiled 1710-1740). Kendal: Titus Wilso...

Polar Exploration. Shackleton, Sir Ernest. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1919. Second imp...

Mountaineering. Pilley, Dorothy. Climbing Days. London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd. 1935, 1st. Original cloth, in worn dust wrapper. A 'good' copy. ...[...

Miscellaneous. A selection. Includes; Kelman, John - From Damascus to Palmyra. London: A. & C. Black, 1908. Original decorative cloth; Elwes, A. T...

Art and Design. Includes; Habert-Dys - Nouveaux Documents Decoratifs en Couleurs: Ornements, Fleurs, Oiseaux, Panneaux, Tentures, Bordures. Paris:...

Antiquarian Odd Volumes. A large selection, includes; Francisco Turrettino - Institutio Theologiae Elencticae (pars secunda). Geneva: 1689; R. P. ...

Folding Maps. North Wales interest. J. & A. Walker - To Lieut. General the Most Honorable the Marquis of Anglesey, K.G.G.C.B, Lord Lieut. Custos R...

Children's. [Byron, May] - Cecil Aldin's Happy Family. London: Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton. 1912. Illus. with 36 plates by Aldin. Couple of pl...

Birds and Natural History. A small selection, includes; Saunders, Howard - Manual of British Birds. 1899, second edition; Finn, Frank - Talks Abou...

New Naturalist. A small selection, all in dust wrapper's. Includes; The World of Spiders (1958); Fossils (1962); etc. (8)

Arthur Ransome. A selection, includes; The Child's Book of the Seasons. London: Anthony Treherne & Company, 1906. 1st edition. Illustrated by Fran...

Norman Nicholson. A selection, includes; A Match for the Devil. London: Faber and Faber ltd. 1955. 1st edition. In dust wrapper. With; two copies ...

W. Heaton Cooper. A selection, includes; The Hills of Lakeland. London: 1938. In dust wrapper; The Tarns of Lakeland. London: 1970. 2nd edition. S...

Yorkshire. Drake, Francis - Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York. London: Printed by William Bowyer for the Author. 1736. ...

Beatrix Potter. Two centenary limited editions. Squirrel Nutkin (2003) & Two Bad Mice (2004). Both limited to only 100 copies. Both complete in th...

Miscellaneous. A selection, includes; Renshaw, Walter Charles - Searches into the History of the Family of Byne or Bine of Sussex. London: Chiswic...

Topography and related. A selection, includes; Monk, W. J. - By Thames, Coln, and Leach. Oxford: 1927; ward Lock Red Guides for London (1915), Ang...

Natural History/Botany. Clapham, Tutin & Warburg - Flora of the British Isles. 1962, 2nd edition. With the 4 volumes of Illustrations and a copy o...

Botany. Dykes, W. R. & E. K. - Notes on Tulip Species. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1930. Illustrated with 54 colour plates. Original green cloth, rub...

Miscellaneous. Everett Lyon, D. - How to Keep Bees for Profit. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. 1st thus. Original cloth, worn.

First Edition. Kafka, Franz - the Trial. London: Victor Gollancz ltd. 1937. 1st UK translation. Publisher's cloth, some rubbing and minor soiling....

History and related biographies. Includes; Morley, J. - The Life of William Ewart Gladstone. 1903, three volumes; Thompson, J. W. - Economic and S...

Miscellaneous. A large carton. Includes; Sladen, Douglas - On The Cars And Off. London: Ward Lock & Co.; Graves, Robert - Good-Bye To All That. Lo...

Local History. Maps and Plans, a small selection. Includes; Map of the Proposed West Cumberland, Furness and Morecambe Bay Railway. By John Rastri...

Antiquarian miscellany. A small carton. Includes; White, Rev. Gilbert - The Natural History of Selborne. London: 1878; The Norfolk Tour. Norwich: ...

Antiquarian. Thomas Bewick. Comprising; A General History of Quadrupeds. Newcastle: 1807, 5th edition. With; A History of British Birds. Newcastle...

Natural History, antiquarian miscellany. Includes; Wallace, A. R. - Island Life. London: 1880; Bates, H. W. - The Naturalist on the River Amazons....

Natural History and Science. A carton. Includes; Zuckerman, S. - The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes. London: 1932; Waddington, C. H. - An Introdu...

Science. Physics and related. Includes; Thirring, J. H. - The Ideas of Einstein's Theory. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1921, 1st thus. Etc. (26) .....

Natural History. Sowerby, John Edward et al. - English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1872. Third ...

Botany. A carton. Includes; Flora Europaea, volumes 1-5, 1964-1980, etc. (9) Provenance: from the working collection of the noted botanist A. R. C...

Botany and Gardening. A carton. Includes; Mrs. Lankester - British Ferns. London: 1903; Takeda, H. - Alpine Flowers of Japan. Tokyo: 1938. Etc. (1...

Specialist Botany and Ecology. A carton. Includes; Robinson - Soils. London: 1937, 2nd edition; Microbial Ecology. Cambridge: 1957; Bawden - Plant...

New Naturalist. Two cartons. A selection of volumes from the 'NN' series, all bar one in the dust wrapper. Numbers as follows: 1, 2, 4-10, 12-22, ...

Literature. First and Signed Editions. A selection, includes; Roth, Philip - Goodbye, Columbus. London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. 1st, in dust wrapper;...

Arthur Ransome and related. A carton. Includes biographies, bibliographies, etc. Hardback and softback. (quantity)

Modern Signed First Editions. Mainly literature. Includes; Anthony Burgess, Richard Adams, Bertha M. Clay, Anne MacGillivray, etc. (21)

Sport Biographies. A carton. Mainly football related, many signed. Includes; Peter Crouch, Terry Venables, Michael Owen, Lennox Lewis, etc. (18)

Modern First Editions. A carton, mainly fiction. Most signed. (15)

The Easton Press/Franklin Library. A carton. Collector's Editions bound in genuine leather. Some signed. (17)

Children's. Two cartons. Includes; Uttley, Alison - Little Grey Rabbit Makes Lace. 1950, 1st. With 3 letters in envelope loosely tipped-in, from M...

Railways and related. A carton. Majority softback, many with Cumbria and Lancashire interest. (quantity)

A late 19th Century Map of County Durham. Outline colour, with inset engraved view of Durham Cathedral. Published and engraved by I. Slater. Measu...

A late 18th Century Map of the City of Bath and Environs. Dated 1787. In 16 folding sections, linen backed, framed and glazed. Measures: approx 45...

A small selection of Westmorland maps, in card mounts. (4)

Two Antiquarian Maps, Norfolk/Suffolk interest. One depicting the Norfolk-Suffolk border around Thetford, circa 1816. The other taken from a chapt...

Antiquarian Map. Valck, G. [Gerald Valck] - La Mer Mediterranee divisee en ses Principales Parties ou Mers. Amsterdam: no date, circa 1700 or afte...