Sale of Antiquarian and Collectors' Books

BINDINGS. – William Makepeace THACKERAY. The Works. London: 1879. 24 vols., 8vo (191 x 125mm.) Illustrations. (Some spotting.) Contemporary blue h...

BARRIE, J.M. [The Works and Plays, Uniform Edition.] London: 1923-1928. 20 vols., 8vo (178 x 117mm.) (Occasional spotting or browning.) Original l...

BINDINGS. – André MAUROIS. Disraeli… translated by Hamish Miles. London: 1927. 8vo (211 x 137mm.) Portrait frontispiece. (Minor spotting to fore-e...

BINDINGS. – Theodor MOMMSEN. The History of Rome... the popular edition. London: 1881. 4 vols., 8vo (186 x 117mm.) (Some browning.) Contemporary v...

LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Contes et Nouvelles en Vers. Amsterdam [?but Paris:] 1767. 2 vols., 8vo (190 x 117mm.) 83 engraved plates. (Some spotting or...

SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays… from the correct edition of Isaac Reed. London: 1809. 12 vols., 8vo (208 x 127mm.) Occasional plates. (Some spott...

ROGERS, Samuel. The Pleasures of Memory, with Other Poems… a new edition. London: 1806. 8vo (164 x 98mm.) Occasional illustrations. (Some soiling ...

CHILDREN’S ANNUALS. – J. Erskine CLARKE (editor). Chatterbox 1881. London: Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co., [n.d. but 1880] 4to (242 x 184mm.) Chromo...

CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Charles CROMBIE. Simple Simon and his Friends. London: Greening & Co. Ltd., [n.d. but circa 1910.] Oblong folio (285 x 437mm.)...

SOWERBY, J.G., & H.H. EMMERSON. Afternoon Tea, Rhymes for Children. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [n.d. but circa 1880.] Printed in colour thro...

JOHNS, C.A., and others. British Birds in their Haunts. London & New York: 1910. 8vo (214 x 135mm.) 64 colour plates. (Light browning, 1 text leaf...

MASEFIELD, John (editor). - William DAMPIER. Dampier`s Voyages. London: E. Grant Richards, 1906. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this out of serie...

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man & the Sea. London: 1952. First U.K. edition, 8vo (190 x 123mm.) Original cloth, dust-jacket (slightly tattered, som...

ANDERSON, Anne (illustrator). The Gillyflower Garden Book. [N.p. but London:] Thomas Nelson & Sons, [n.d. but circa 1915.] 4to (229 x 168mm.) 12 c...

WALLACE, Edgar. The People of the River. London, Melbourne, etc: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1912. 8vo (189 x 122mm.) Colour frontispiece. (Some spo...

‘CARROLL, Lewis’ [Charles Lutwidge DODGSON.] Adventures D’Alice... traduit de L’Anglais par Henri Bué. London: Macmillan and Co., 1869. First edit...

THE FOLIO SOCIETY (publishers). – Geoffrey CHAUCER. The Works [Facsimile of William Morris’ Kelmscott Chaucer]. London: [n.d. but circa 2008.] Fol...

MACPHERSON, John (illustrator). The Land of Shakespeare. London: J.S. Virtue & Co., [n.d. but 1889.] Limited ‘India proof edition’ of 100 copies, ...

[CLARKE, J.] A Series of Twenty-four Views illustrative of the Holy Scriptures. London: 1833. Folio (408 x 293mm.) 24 aquatint plates. (Somewhat s...

BINDINGS. – Charles DICKENS. The Works. London: [n.d. but circa 1910.] 17 vols., 8vo (188 x 124mm.) Plates. (Some spotting, mostly to edges.) Cont...

BINDINGS. – Francois-Marie Arouet de VOLTAIRE. [The Works]. Paris: Garnier Frères, [n.d.-]1888. 11 vols. ?only, 8vo (182 x 112mm.) (Some spotting ...

BINDINGS. – [Mary Anne EVANS] ‘George ELIOT’. [The Works.] London & Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, [n.d. but circa 1910.] 10 vols., 8vo (2...

BINDINGS. – William SHAKESPEARE. The Works. London: Archibald Constable and Co. Ltd., [n.d. but circa 1910.] 12 vols., 8vo (185 x 133mm.) (Some sp...

BINDINGS. – Walter SCOTT. [The Waverley Novels, large type border edition.] London: 1910-1912. 24 vols., 8vo (188 x 123mm.) Plates and illustratio...

CORNEILLE, Pierre. Théatre. [N.p. but Geneva:] 1764. 12 vols., 8vo (202 x 118mm.) Engraved frontispiece to vol. I and occasional engraved plates. ...

CAREY, H.C., and Isaac LEA. The Geography, History, and Statistics, of America, and the West Indies... to the Year 1822. 8vo (213 x 130mm.) 6 engr...

BAUDIER, Michael. An History of the Memorable and Extraordinary Calamities of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England. London: 1737. 8vo (194 x 109mm....

CRAIG, Edward Gordon. A Production, being Thirty-two Collotype Plates of Designs... for The Pretenders of Henrik Ibsen. London: 1930. Limited edit...

HALE, Kathleen. Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) Buys a Cottage. London: Country Life Ltd., 1963. First edition, 8vo (247 x 181mm.) Colour lithographic...

STEBBING, Hilary. Freddy and Ernest, the Dragons of Wellbottom Poggs. London & New York: 1946. 4to (243 x 181mm.) Lithographic illustrations, some...

FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, 8vo (187 x 125mm.) (Some stains to first and last few leave...

BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew. London: John Murray, 1937. First edition, 8vo (207 x 148mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Light spotting.) Original clo...

THE YELLOW BOOK. The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly. London, Boston and New York: 1894-1897. Vols. I-XIII (all published), 4to (202 x 158mm...

COUNTRY DANCING. Thompson’s Twenty-four Country Dances. (For the Year 1807). London: [n.d. but 1806.] Oblong folio (118 x 250mm.) Engraved music t...

BINDINGS. Arabian Nights Entertainments. London: 1792. 4 vols., 8vo (176 x 97mm.) (Occasional minor spotting or browning.) Contemporary tree calf,...

BRADLEY, Richard. New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical… the fourth edition, to which is added... Herefords...

FORSYTH, Robert. The Principles and Practice of Agriculture. Edinburgh: 1804. 2 vols., 8vo (215 x 125mm.) Frontispieces and 21 plates (1 folding)....

GRIFFITHS, William. A Practical Treatise, on Farriery… the second edition. Wrexham: 1795. 4to (250 x 190mm.) Frontispiece. (Minor offsetting, some...

[YONGE, Charlotte Mary.] The Instructive Picture Book, or Lessons from the Vegetable World. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1858. Folio (325 x 210...

CURTIS, William. The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed. London: 1796-1798. Vols. X-XII only in 1 vol., 8vo (252 x 150mm.) 108 hand-c...

HULME, F.E. Familiar Wild Flowers. London, Paris, etc.: Cassell & Company Limited, [n.d. but circa 1886.] Parts 1-4, 7-85 and 87 only, 8vo (201 x ...

[GERARD, John. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. N.p.: n.d. but circa 1633.] Numerous hand-coloured woodcut illustrations. (Lacking fir...

ALMANACK. The Ladies’ Diary: or Woman’s Almanack, for… 1771. [N.p. but London:] 1771. 8vo (163 x 97mm.) Printed in red and black. [Bound with: 11 ...

SHOBERL, Frederic (editor). Forget Me Not, a Christmas and New Year’s Present for MDCCCXXIX. London: R. Ackermann, [n.d. but 1828.] 12mo (139 x 91...

MINIATURE BOOKS. The ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide. London: January 1883 [?but later]. 16mo (18 x 12mm.) Original wrapper (slightly soiled). –...

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible. New York: [n.d. but circa 1911.] 32mo (45 x 30mm.) Illustrations, magnifying glass in pocket at front. Contempo...

SMITH, Alfred Charles. Map of One Hundred Square Miles Round Abury [Avebury]; shewing the British and Roman Stone and Earthworks of the Downs in N...

BRAYLEY, Edward Wedlake. A Topographical History of Surrey… revised and edited by Edward Walford. London: Virtue and Co., [n.d. but circa 1880.] 4...

HINDERWELL, Thomas. The History and Antiquities of Scarborough and the Vicinity. York: 1798. 4to (280 x 209mm.) 2 engraved maps (1 folding), 12 pl...

BORLASE, William. Observations on the Antiquities Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Oxford: W. Jackson, 1754. First edition, f...

COOPER, Thomas Sidney. Thirty Four Subjects of Cattle &c. Designs for Pictures. London: Thos. McLean, 1837. Folio (528 x 348mm.) Tinted lithograph...

KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936. First edition, 8vo (215 x 132...

DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist; or the Parish Boy’s Progress… the third edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841. 3 vols., 8vo (201 x 115mm.) 24 en...

DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form, early issue with the maj...

THOMSON, John. Through China with a Camera. London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 8vo (208 x 140mm.) Plates and illustrations. (Some brownin...

WINSTON, Charles. Memoirs Illustrative of the Art of Glass-painting. London: John Murray, 1865. 8vo (227 x 145mm.) 15 plates (13 hand-coloured). N...

THE NONESUCH PRESS (publishers). – Izaak WALTON and Charles COTTON. The Compleat Angler. London: 1929. 8vo (209 x 126mm.) Plates illustrations han...

HYDE, Edward, 1st Earl of Clarendon. The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon. Oxford: 1760. 2 vols., 8vo (245 x 145mm.) (Light spotting, occasional b...

PAINE, Thomas. The Poetical and Miscellaneous Works. London: 1819. 2 vols., 8vo (217 x 133mm.) Portrait frontispiece to vol. I. (Some browning, pr...

BALDERWOOD (?compiler). A manuscript book titled on the spine ‘Medical Receipt Book’ [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1800?] 419pp. of recipes (6pp. pasted-i...