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Ecole spéciale militaire de St-Cyr Portfolio of sketches and manuscript exercises by officer cadet Camille de Caix, Baron de Chaulieu, 1876-1877 ...

Lot 322

Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair Volume of caricatures, 1885-87 Folio, contemporary red cloth album containing 100 chromolithographic caricatures of politicians, ari...

[First Australian novelist] Grimstone, Mary Leman The Beauty of the British Alps Or, Love at First Sight. London: G. Virtue, 1825. 8vo in half-s...

Lot 284

Bunting, Basil

Bunting, Basil Briggflatts London: Fulcrum Press, 1966. First edition, one of 100 copies in cloth (from the total edition of 500, of which 26 we...

[Wynne, John Huddlestone (1742-1788)] The Man of Honour: or, the History of Harry Waters, Esq. London: printed for F. and J. Noble, at their res...

Peacock, Francis Sketches relative to the History and Theory, but more especially to the Practice of Dancing … intended as Young Teachers of the...

[Bonhôte, Elizabeth] Olivia; or, Deserted Bride By the Author of Hortensia, the Rambles of Frankly, and the Fashionable Friend. Dublin: for W. W...

East and West Lothian Fencible Cavalry Regimental victualling book, 1798-99 Manuscript, in ink on laid paper 46 ff. + blanks, 19.9 x 15.6cm, con...

[Woman traveller - French Revolution] A Sketch of Modern France in a Series of Letters to a Lady of Fashion Written in the Years 1796 and 1797, ...

Whittington Press The Mirror and the Eye Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Iftikhar Azmi and illustrated by Richard Kennedy. Andoversford:...

Lot 4

Clare, John

Clare, John The Village Minstrel and Other Poems London: for Taylor and Hessey; and E. Drury, Stamford, 1821. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, [i...

Gittins, Daniel Remarks on the Tenets and Principles of the Quakers As contained in the Theses Theologicae of Robert Barclay. London: printed by...

Baskerville, John (printer) The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, with the Apocrypha. Translated out of the Original Tongues,...

[Mitchell, J. Leslie] Lewis Grassic Gibbon [A Scots Quair] Sunset Song; Cloud Howe; Grey Granite. London: Jarrolds, 1932-3-4. 3 works, first edi...

Lot 288

Wilde, Oscar

Wilde, Oscar Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories First edition, one of 1,500 copies (in addition to 500 for America), 8vo, [7] 4-168 pp...

BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) [Symphonies 2-6 in 5 vol.], FIRST EDITIONS, engraved throughout, comprising: IIme. Grande simphonie en Rè majeur (D dur...

CLEMENS (SAMUEL LANGHORNE) 'Mark Twain' Autograph postcard signed ('S.L. Clemens'), to his publishers Messrs Chatto & Windus, informing them he is...

ROWLING (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication leaf , publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket [Er...

IRELAND - FLORA THRELKELD (CALEB) Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum... Being a Short Treatise of Native Plants, especially such as grow spontaneously...

CHATTERTON (THOMAS) Autograph fragment, the lower right portion from a lost letter to his sister Mary, comprising nine lines on recto and eight o...

IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE The Book of Common Prayer [-Leabhar na Nornaightheadh Ccombchoitchionn... ... Tsaltair no Psalmuibh Dhaibhidh. Ar na bpun...

LAWRENCE (D.H.) The Rainbow, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 4pp. of advertisements, publisher's dark blue-green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration...

EGAN (PIERCE) Life in London, or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic...

GODWIN (WILLIAM) Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, FIRST EDITION, half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait of Mar...

BUTLER (CHARLES) The Feminine Monarchie: or The Historie of Bees, second edition, variant with 6 leaves in signature A and no blanks, woodcut f...

IRELAND - IRISH BIBLE Leabhuir ná seintiomna... The Books of the Old Testament translated into Irish by... William Bedel, FIRST EDITION OF THE OLD...

IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE O'HUSSEY (BONAVENTURA) [GIOLLA BRIGHDE Ó HEODHASA] An teagasg críosdaidheis an so, arna cuma do Bonabentura ohodasa brata...

[SURTEES (ROBERT SMITH)] Collection of 5 sporting novels, FIRST EDITIONS IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS, comprising: Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, first i...

IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE MOLLOY (FRANCIS) [FROINSIAS Ó MAOLMUAIDH] Lucerna fidelium, seu fasciculus decerptus... de doctrina christiana: divisus i...

MALTHUS (THOMAS ROBERT) An Essay on the Principle of Population; or a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness, 2 vol., third edi...

CHAPBOOK The Paths of Learning Strewed with Flowers or English Grammar Illustrated, FIRST EDITION, 16pp., engraved and hand-coloured throughout,...

Art Reference Books - Silver & Gold Coins Snelling, Thomas, A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of England From the Norman Conquest to the Pr...

H.Newbolt, 'Drake's Drum and other Songs of the Sea', illustrated by A.D McCormick, R.I, Hodder and Stoughton, R.Fyleman, 'The Rose Fyleman Fairy ...

Art reference books on Painters & Paintings: Exhibition Catalogues Hayez - Mostra e catalogo a cura di Maria Cristina Gozzoli e Fernando Mazzocc...

A set of six 19th Century black and white engraved and later coloured book plates of various ornithology including one depicting various pheasant ...

Five boxes of assorted coffee table and other books on the subjects of photography, cookery, various novels, etc together with eight boxes of asso...

Noel Coward, two copies Not Yet the Dodo and other verses, published by William Heinemann Ltd, 1967; together with Noel Coward, Quadrille, publish...

GLEN ORBIK (AMERICA 1963-2015) 'FIFTY TO ONE', a limited edition print on paper depicting male and female figures looking at pulp fiction books, 6...

SEVEN BOXES OF BOOKS to include a large quantity of 'Sharpe' novels, a selection of historical fiction from authors such as Bernard Cornwell and P...

Collectors Books, Modern First Edition of John le Carre, 'The Naïve & Sentimental Lover', 1971, Hodder and Stoughton, complete with dust jacket

Imperial binding. KEMPIS, Tomás de - L'imitation de Jésus-Christ: latin text / suivi de la traduction de P. Corneille. - Paris: Impremerie Impéria...

Four 19th century prizes from the Royal College of Mauritius leather bound books with various titles. H.25 W.19cm. (largest).

Pevsner Architectural Guides of England: 36 Hardbacks, with Dust Jackets; Plus: 17 paperbacks . Including many first editions. Condition most...

CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED. A collection of children's annuals, predominantly 1940s-1950s, to include Eagle Annual Number One, London: Hulton Press ...

Fry & Jefferson, Map of Virginia And Maryland. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1950, facsimile of the first edition, Limited edition of 3...

Lot 395

Cecil ALDIN:

Cecil ALDIN: Time I was dead, pages from my autobiography. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1934, SIGNED LIMITED EDN. number 12 of only 100 copies. Leath...

A miscellaneous collection of seven books to include Observations in Husbandry, by Edward Lisle, second edition, Vol. I only [of two], London: J. ...

The Folio Society fiction to include a six volume set of E.M Forster novels: A Room With A View, Where Angels Fear To Tread, Maurice, The Longest ...

FERNYHOUGH, W. H. A Series of Twelve Profile Portraits of Aborigines of New South Wales, a facsimile of the first edition [Sydney: J. G. Austin & ...

HALL, Joseph. Characters of Vertues and Vices, first edition, two parts in one volume, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, pp. [14], 173, woodcut cap...

Crime & Detective Fiction. A collection of four very scarce novels comprising: RHODE, John. The Fatal Pool, first edition, 8vo, publisher's turquo...

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Scientific Instruments Auctions

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