Antiquarian & Collectable Books & Postage Stamps

DILLON RIPLEY S.  Rails of the World. Col. plates. Folio. Orig. qtr. cloth in d.w. 1977. ...[more]

DICKINSON E. C. & REMSEN J. V. (Ed).  The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 2 vols. Quarto. Orig. pict. brds., c.2013; ...

RUTTLEDGE HUGH.  Everest 1933. Illus. & fldg. & other maps. Orig. blue cloth in chipped & torn d.w. Bookplate of Mary Rose Fitzgibbon, 1934; also ...

ABRAHAM GEORGE D.  A Complete Mountaineer and On Alpine Heights & British Crags. Each illus. in orig. cloth with bookplates of Mary Rose Fitzgibbo...

Scottish Mountaineering Club.  9 various guides. Mixed cond., some in d.w's. ...[more]

Five volumes re. Entomology and Lepidopterology. (5). ...[more]

BAKER SIR SAMUEL.  The Albert N'Yanza. 2 vol. reprint in d.w's & slip case; also The Zambezi Journal & Letters of Dr John Kirk, 2 vols., illus., o...

GLYNNE JONES OWEN.  Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District. Frontis & plates. Orig. dark cloth. Lacking title page but 2nd ed., 1900; also 4 o...

SAMIVEL (Illus).  Sous L'Oeil des Choucas. Good comic plates. Quarto. Orig. card wrappers, browning & def. back strip. Paris, 1948; also 4 other v...

FOSTER JOSEPH.  Some Feudal Coats of Arms. Frontis & many plates & illus. Quarto. Rebound ex lib., 1902; also 9 other vols., various.  (10). ......

FRANCIS GRANT R.  Old English Drinking Glasses. Illus. Quarto. Orig. green cloth, tending to split internally at hinge. 1926. ...[more]

HARRIS JOSEPH.  Hymnal. Welsh language hymnal. Calf. Caerfyrddin, 1848. ...[more]

THOMSON A. L.  Britain's Birds & Their Nests. Col. plates by George Rankin. Small quarto. Orig. red cloth. N.d. but c.1910; also 1 other vol.  (2)...

WAINWRIGHT ALFRED, & OTHERS.  A carton of mainly quarto illus. vols., some in d.w's. ...[more]

DAVIS EDWARD & STELLA B.  Agricultural Drainage Tiles, 1819 to early 1900's in Cumberland & Westmorland with Furness & Cartmel including a Gazette...

CONRAD JOSEPH.  The Medallion Edition of the Works ... in Twenty Volumes. 20 vols. Frontis. Orig. blue cloth gilt. 1925. ...[more]

CONSTABLE JOHN.  English Landscape Scenery, A Series of Forty Mezzotinto Engravings... by David Lucas. 40 plates as called for (nice clean cond.)....

FORSTER JOHN.  The Life of Charles Dickens. 3 vols. Frontis. Orig. dec. cloth, worn, vol. 3 det. internally at spine. 1872, 1873 & 1874; also 1st ...

CROSS J. W.  George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters & Journals. 3 vols. Frontis. Orig. dec. grey cloth, rather worn. 1885; also Stanley's L...

SCOTT SIR WALTER.  The Antiquary. 3 vols. 12mo. Qtr. calf, vol. 1 tending to split at hinge. Half titles. First edition, Edinburgh, 1816. ...[mo...

SCOTT SIR WALTER.  Kenilworth. 3 vols. 12mo. Qtr. calf. Half titles. First edition, Edinburgh, 1821. ...[more]

SCOTT SIR WALTER.  Quentin Durward. 3 vols. 12mo. Qtr. calf. First edition, Edinburgh, 1823; also Scott's, The Pirate, 3 vols. in one, English tex...

WORDSWORTH WILLIAM.  The Poetical Works. 6 vols. Port. frontis. A few extra items pasted in to endpapers. Orig. green cloth. A New Edition, 1836. ...

WORDWORTH WILLIAM.  A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England. Fldg. eng. map. 12mo. Orig. panelled dark morocco. 1823. ...

WORDSWORTH WILLIAM.  The Prelude or Growth of a Poet's Mind. Half title & 7pp publisher's catalogue (dated July 1850). Ad. leaf at end. Rather wor...

(WEST THOMAS).  A Guide to the Lakes. 2 eng. plates. No map. Rebacked calf. 1799; also Jonathan Otley, A Concise Description of the English Lakes,...

GILPIN WILLIAM.  Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty ... Particularly the Mountains & Lakes of Cumberland & Westmorland. 2 vols. O...

SOUTHEY ROBERT.  A Vision of Judgement. 79pp. No half title or adverts. Quarto. Rebound qtr. calf, browning & some damp stng. particularly to late...

CRABBE GEORGE.  The Borough, A Poem in Twenty-Four Letters. 1st ed., 1810; also George Crabbe, Poems, 3rd ed., 1808. Each in calf, uniformly rebac...

HERVEY JAMES.  Meditations & Contemplations. 2 vols. 2 eng. frontis. Calf. 1760. ...[more]

POPE ALEXANDER.  The Works. The set of 9 vols. ... published by Mr Warburton. Rubricated titles, eng. frontis & plates. Old calf. 1751. ...[more]

(KEBLE JOHN).  Lyra Innocentium, Thoughts in Verse on Christian Children. Orig. blue cloth, browning & wear to back. Keble was a leading figure in...

WALTON I. & COTTON C.  The Complete Angler. edited by Ephemera. Eng. frontis, title & illus. Calf, recased. 1853. ...[more]

BURNS ROBERT.  Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. 2 vols. Eng. port. frontis. Calf, rubbed & splitting at hinges. 2nd Edinburgh ed., 1793. ....

CLARE JOHN. The Village Minstrel & Other Poems. 2 vols. 2 eng. frontis. 12mo. Half calf. 2nd ed., 1823. ...[more]

GRAY THOMAS.  The Poems & Letters with Memoirs of His Life & Writings by William Mason. Eng. port. frontis. Half calf. 1820; also Samuel Rogers, I...

COLERIDGE HARTLEY.  Poems with a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. 2 vols. Port. frontis. Orig. green cloth, fading to back but a nice set. Publi...

BYRON LORD.  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Fldg. plate. Qtr. calf, strengthened internally at hinge, much internal foxing & spotting. 2nd ed., 1812;...

BYRON LORD.  The Siege of Corinth, A Poem: Parisina, A Poem. Half titles & advertisement leaf. Calf, neatly rebacked. 1st ed., 1816; also Lord Byr...

SMILES SAMUEL.  The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer. Port. frontis. Rebound half calf. 1857. ...[more]

HARDY THOMAS.  Jude the Obscure. Etched frontis & a map. Orig. blue-green cloth with gilt device. 1st ed. issued as Vol. VIII of The Wessex Novels...

MOORE THOMAS.  Lalla Rookh. Printed dedication to Samuel Rogers & publisher's slip tipped in. Quarto. Stnd. orig. brds., cloth rebacking, internal...

LAWRENCE D. H.  Pansies, Poems. Faded orig. pink card wrappers. Introduction dated Bandol, January, 1929. ...[more]

FORSTER E. M.  Abinger Harvest. Orig. blue cloth. 1st ed., first issue, 1936; also E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel, maroon cloth, 1st ed., 192...

"HUGH MCDIARMID".  Sangschaw. Orig. blue cloth in d.w. 1st ed., 1925; also George Douglas, The House with the Green Shutters, rebound green cloth ...

BYATT A. S.  3 1st eds. in d.w's; also Fowles, 1st ed. of A Maggot, in d.w.  (4). ...[more]

DAVIE DONALD.  Essex Poems. Illus. by Michael Foreman. Small quarto. Orig. brds. in d.w. 1st ed., 1969; also 3 other vols.  (4).Condition report:1...

BROWNING ROBERT.  A collection of 7 1st eds., each in orig. cloth (varying cond.), comprising Fifine at the Fair, 1872; Pacchiarotto & Other Poems...

Burgh of Haddington Against the Earl of Wemyss.  Folio vol. containing the bound in orig. Productions and Evidential Materials in this legal suit....

Various.  Late Victorian country house visitors book with many signatures; two later visitors books; manuscript vol. of lectures & other items.  (...

A List of the Officers of the Army & the Royal Marines on Full & Half Pay.  Red morocco gilt, rubbed. 1820. ...[more]

FLAVIO GIOSEFFO.  Historico delle Antichita, e Guerre Giudaiche. 24 full page plates from old, early 16th cent. wood blocks incl. those by Giovann...

COWPER WILLIAM.  Poems. 2 vols. Calf, rubbed. 1794; also 5 other vols. (NB: the Hans Andersen is lacking a plate).  (7). ...[more]

TOLKIEN J. R. R.  The Lord of the Rings. 3 vols. Illus. Quarto. Orig. red cloth in d.w's & slip case. 2002. ...[more]

Auction Catalogues.  5 various incl. the Collection of Hubert de Givenchy in slip case & from the Collection of the Late Sir Harold Wernher. ......

BANKS JOSEPH, & Others.  Letters on Iceland. Eng. plate of a geyser. No map. Well worn old calf. Dublin, 1780. ...[more]

DARLOW T. H. & MOULE H. F.  Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture. 4 vols. Quarto. Orig. blue cloth. 1963 reprint of the ...

TYMMS W. R. & WYATT M. D.  The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times. Chromolitho half title, title & colophon & 99 p...

BEWICK THOMAS.  A General History of Quadrupeds. Many wood eng. text illus. Large paper. Half calf, tending to split, title soiled, internal brown...

(SEWARD WILLIAM).  Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly of the Present & Two Preceding Centuries. 4 vols. plus Supplement vol. Eng. pl...