Books & Periodicals

WWI photograph album of Royal Artillery interest, two books on the history of the Royal Artillery Company, collection of postcards and leaflets.

MacDougall W.B. (ills.) "The Eerie Book" J. Sheills & co.1898, stories by Edgar Allen Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, ...

A Large & Well Annotated Mid 19th Century Album of Pressed Ferns, the anonymous album, 26cm x 35cm half leather with green fabric boards with gilt...

Bindings - Ruskin, John "Selections form the Writings of John Ruskin, First Series 1843-1860 " Second Edition, George Allen 1894, and " ... Seco...

Four various antiquarian ecclesiastical volumes in Latin to include Baxter, Richard "The Saints Everlasting Rest : or Treatise....." Second E...

P rivate Press - The Golden Cockerel Press - Jowett, William ( trans.) "The Phaedo of Plato" 1930, printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at The Go...

Cricketing interest to include:- Warner, Sir Pelham "Lords 1787 to 1945" , Alverstone, Lord and Alcock, C W "Surrey Cricket Its History and A...

Collection of Books on Beetles and Insects, including 'Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Islands' by Edward Saunders, 1896, with 52 coloured pla...

Shaw (Bernard), Morris As I Knew Him , 8vo, original soft covers, published by The William Morris Society, 1966; Arnot (R. Page), Unpublished Let...

Compton-Rickett (Arthur) and Graham (R. B. Cunninghame), William Morris: A Study In Personality , 8vo, gilt cloth, illus., 1908; Henderson (Phili...

RHODES (CECIL J.) - FROM HIS LIBRARY GRAMMONT (ANTOINE) Memoirs of Count Grammont... a New Translation, with Notes and Illustrations, CECIL RHODES...

Whittington Press 3 extra-limited editions and 7 limited editions Cornwall. An Interior Vision. Copper-Engravings and Texts by Brian Hanscomb, 1...

Kelmscott Press Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. First edition, one of 600 copies on paper, 2 volume...

DICKENS (CHARLES) [Christmas Books] A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, FIRST EDITION, second state, half-title in bl...

WAUGH (EVELYN) Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, ONE OF 50 SPECIALLY ISSUED PRE-PUBLICATION COPIES, ...

SMITH (DODIE) The Hundred and One Dalmations, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY inscribed 'To Ambrose Heal, with love from Dodie Smith...

FLEMING (IAN) Live and Let Die, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, second issue, light toning, publisher's black cloth gilt, faint dust-staining, ...

First and Second World War military interest. A collection of reference books. The lot to include four volume Regimental Records of the Royal Welc...

Myths and Legends. A collection of fourteen works by D. A. Mackenzie, T. W. Rolleston, Thomas & Katherine Macquoid, Rappoport and A. R. Hope Moncr...

A collection of vintage 20th century art reference books and artist's biographies. The lot to include Constable, the Painter and his Landscape, Vi...

Bookbinders edition - The Luttrell Psalter. Facsimile Edition. Published by The Folio Society, London. Accompanied book by Prof Michelle P Brown s...

An anti Guerilla Operations in South East Asia book, January 1963, a group of Gurkha related photographs, ephemera, two kukri, and a Gurkha car ba...

SOE and SAS interest: a collection of books (6) autographed and (mainly) authored by veterans of the UK Special Forces and associated military per...

Eliot (T.S. , poet , 1888-1965 ), W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, & others. A Personal Anthology for Er...

Automobillia: BENTLEY (W.O.). Autographed copy of W.O. The Autobiography of W.O. Bentley, published by Hutchinson, London, 1958 - first e...

Two boxes of books on bees and beekeeping including pollen identification, a history of bees, biology, insect communities, propolis, etc. (39)

Hammer Horror, and others related, fifteen mostly first edition 1950s-1960s paperback books, based on, or written for, film and television product...

Dover (Lord), The Life of Frederic The Second, King of Prussia, first edition, 2 vols, full brown calf, 1832; and 8 others. (10)

Barante (M de), Lettres et Instructions de Louis XVIII au comte de Saint-Priest, first edition, Paris 1845, finely bound in full maroon calf; Lama...

Selous (F C), Recent Hunting Trips in British North America, first edition, original green cloth; together with Baillie-Grohman (W A), Fifteen Yea...

Hallam (Henry), Introduction to the Literature of Europe, first edition, 4 vols; together with another set, 3 vols, third edition, 1847; Constitut...

Henry (B C), Ling-Nam Or Interior Views in Southern China, first edition, nice copy, 1896; together with Wilson (E H), China Mother of Gardens, si...

Pickering (William) Publisher, Small Book on Great Subjects, edited by a few well wishers to knowledge, a collection of 13 volumes, numbered 1-13,...

Blunt (J E), A History of the Establishment and Residence of the Jews in England, first edition, full calf, red labels, 1830, Roth pg 25.

Art Reference Books - Silver, Gold & Jewellery Sitwell, Major-General H.D.W The Crown Jewels and Other Regalia in the Tower of London. 1953 St...

Art Reference Books on Asian Art - Japanese Bing, S Artistic Japan: Illustrations and Essays. Volumes V & VI Sampson Low, Marston , London, 18...

Dulac, Edmund (ills) "Sinbad der Seefahrer - Die Geschichte der Prinzessin von Deryabar" Muller & co. Potsdam, col plates tipped, no tissue guard...

Martyn, William Frederick "The Geographical Magazine; or A New, Copious, Compleat, and Universal System of Geography........ " Harrison and Co. 17...

Detmold, E.J. (ills.) Maeterlinck, M. "Hours of Gladness", George Allen & Co. 1912. ills title page, col plates tipped, with lettered guards, dec...

Clarke, Harry (ills.) "Selected Poems of Walter Swinburne" The Bodley Head 1928, plates with lettered tissue guards, ills throughout text, pictor...

Hutchins, John, "The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset....with a copy of The Domesday Book and Inquisitio Gheldi for the Country and...

Engineers Site Book for Peoria & Oquawka Railroad, c.1850, Undated manuscript note book, c.1850's, ahrd cover with marbled boards 15cm x 18cm, tan...

Two antiquarian volumes - lacking all plates and maps - Camden, William "Camden's Britannia Newly Translated into English with Additions and Impr...

Etymology and Ornithology to include, Westell W.P. " The Story of Insect Life" Robert Culley, col.frontis with lettered tissue guard, photograph...

Rackham, Arthur (ills.) "The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith" George G. Harrap & Company Limited 1929, frontis., half title, col plates, i...

Various modern firsts to include:- Bradbury, Ray "Death is a Lonely Business" , Grafton Books 1986, dust wrapper not price clipped "From the...

Bindings - Hallam, Henry "Introduction to the Literature of Europe...." John Murray 1872, four vols, frontis portrait vol I, full leather, prize ...

Books: 'Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands', issued by Lord Lilford 1885-1897, in seven volumes

Books: 'British Birds' written & print illustrated by Archibald Thorburn, in four volumes

Books: 'A History of Fishes of the British Islands' by Jonathan Couch dated 1868, in four volumes

Books: 'Familiar Wild Flowers' by F.Edward Hulme, first series, in five volumes

Books: 'Cassells Illustrated History of India' by James Grant, in two volumes

Books: 'The Arabian Nights Entertainments' by Jonathan Scott of Oxford dated 1811, in six volumes

Blencathra Sanitorium (near Keswick). National Association for the Prevention of Consumption & Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Cumberland Branch, Bl...

Milne, A. A. When We Were Very Young With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. First edition, signed limited issu...

Jacobite history Collection of works Home, John. The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1745. London: by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, Jun. and W...

Milne, A. A. Now We Are Six With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, signed limited issue, one of...

Gregynog Press 5 limited editions Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1925-40. Comprising:Psalmau Dafydd yn ol William Morgan, 1588, 1929. One of 225 copie...

Private press Collection of limited editions by Vale, Nonesuch and other presses [Vale Press]. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini. Translated from th...

[Vale Press] Daphnis and Chloe A most Sweet and Pleasant Pastoral Romance for Young Ladies, done into English by Geo. Thornley, Gent. London: Ba...