Collectables

Lovecraft (H. P.) The Haunter of the Dark and O the r Tales of Horror , light spotting to edges and front free endpaper, water-staining to ...

Dye colour samples.- A group of three dye colour sample books , c.30 pp. samples on cotton or silk, pasted down on verso and recto, with accomp...

Bees.- Chylinski (Dobrogost) The Beekeeper's Manual: founded on the experience, during many centuries of the apiarians in Poland. Dedicated...

Essex, Gestingthorpe.- Charter, Geoffrey Anchel of Great Yeldham has granted and confirmed to William Cook of Gestingthorpe of one piece of lan...

Tibetan Art & Culture.- Tucci (Giuseppe) Tibetan Painted Scrolls , 3 vol., number 159 of 750 copies, comprising 2 text vol. and portfolio w...

Cruikshank (George) and others. Scrap album containing over 40 pages of chromolithographed relief scraps , including Cruikshanks 'Derby-Day sh...

Burton-on-Trent & Stretton.- Charter, Thomas hitcheson of Stretton in the county of Staffordshire and Johanna his wife grant to William Oxnford...

Rackham (Arthur).- Shakespeare (William) A Midsummer Night's Dream , 1908 § Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 1909 § Ingoldsby ...

Darwin (Charles) The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection , 2 vol., sixth edition, with additions and corrections, vol.2 33rd thou...

Fielding (Xan) The Stronghold, first edition , ownership name on front free endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine faded, nicks and te...

London Grocer and Burton-on-Trent.- John Sherwood Grocer of London and Robert Smithfield Grocer to Robert middelton, deed relating to a square ...

Pennant (Thomas) Indian Zoology, second edition, hand-coloured engraved title vignette, 16 engraved plates, one hand-coloured, one or two ...

Bible, English. The Bible, Geneva-Tomson-Junius version with Judas for Jesus in John vi. 67 and without "Epistle to the Reader" text on genera...

Lancashire, Duxbury.- Bond, Edward son of John de Coppull has received a bond "obligator[u]m simplex" from Nicholas de Bolton to deliver to N...

Derbyshire.- Charter, grant by Robert Walker of Repyndon [Repton] to John Walker of Burton of arable land in the fields of Wylygmer [?Willingto...

Lodge (John) The Peerage of Ireland, or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, 4 vol., 61 engraved armorial plates...

Binyon (Laurence, editor ) The Artist Engraver , 20 original prints in various media, each loose as issued in captioned wrapper, title brown...

Eusebius (Pamphilius, of Caesarea ) and others. The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ..., transla...

Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 20 tipped-in colour plates, illustrations and decorations by Willy Pogany , some...

Babbage (Charles, mathematician and computer pioneer, 1791-1871) Autograph Letter signed to "Dear Madam", 1p., 119 x 100mm., Dorset [Stre...

Essex.- Charter, grant by Alice Lenyng of Writtle grants to Thomas Cherchman of one piece of meadow in Writtle in the village of Rokyswelle [Ro...

le Carré (John) [The Karla Trilogy] 3 vol., comprising Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, spine lightly sunned, 1974; The Honourable Schoolboy, 1...

Burton-on-Trent.- Charter, John Blount of Burton grants to his son William Blount a burgage in Aulastofte in the land of the Abbey, witnesses: ...

Newgate Prison.- List of Prisoners and Families dependant on them Confined on the Common side of Newgate for Debt with the dimentions of the War...

Asian Ceramics.- Ayers (John) The Baur Collection [Chinese Ceramics] , vol. 1 only (of 4), jacket with small tear at spine head and a occas...

Cookery.- Beeton ( Mrs. Isabella) Mrs Beeton's Household Management: A Complete Cookery Book , colour plates, illustrations, advertisements ...

Weever (John) Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchs of Great Britaine, Ireland, and of the Islands adjacent , first edition ,...

[Johnstone (Charles)] Chrysal: or, the Adventures of a Guinea, 4 vol., mixed edition, vol. 4 lacking final blank, bookplate of Robert Chambr...

Fruit-trees.- Austen (Ralph) A Treatise of Fruit-Trees, Shewing the manner of Grafting, Setting, Pruning, and Ordering of them in all respec...

Bees.- Milton (John) The Practical Bee-keeper; or, Concise and plain instructions for the management of bees and hives , first edition , h...

Japanese Art & Culture.- Terukazu (Akiyama) Japanese Painting , numerous colour illustrations, some tipped-in, original cloth, dust-jacket, ...

Housman (Laurence) Stories from the Arabian Nights , 20 tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac, ink ownership inscription to front free endp...

Virgilius Maro (Publius) The Georgicks...with an English Translation and Notes. By John Martyn, first edition, 12 plates and maps, most engr...

Cambridgeshire , Kirtling.- Charter, grant by William le Huet of Coulyngg [Cowlinge] to Roger Kadde de Kertlingg [Kirtling] one piece of land m...

Grandville (J.J.) Les Fleurs Animées, 2 vol., 3 additional hand-coloured engraved titles, 50 hand-coloured and 2 plain plates, tissue-guar...

Isle of Wight.- Power of attorney, Alice and Joan Preston daughters and heiresses of John Preston of Stanwell, Middlesex appoint John Taylour, ...

Geology & Mines.- Lake District.- Robinson (Thomas) An Essay towards a natural history of Westmorland and Cumberland. Wherein an account is ...

Curtius Rufus (Quintus) De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni, regis Macedonum, libri superstites, edited by Henrik Snakenburg, engraved additiona...

Lancastrian France.- Robessart ( Sir John, captain of St. Sauveur le Visconte, Normandy, d. 1450).- Percepie (Richard, lieutenant to Robessart...

Burton-on-Trent Constables.- Charter, Thomas Grove of Burton grant to Thomas Coke & Thomas Hurde, Constables of Burton, one burgage in Cat Stre...

Staffordshire , Kingsley.- Indenture by John Hatfield of Kingsley in the county of Staffordshire yeoman grant to John Holyne of Moseley yeoma...

Music.- Parratt ( Sir Walter, organist, 1841-1924 ) “The face of death”. Anthem sung at Queen Victoria’s funeral . Walter Parratt, autograph ...

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition , light toning to page margins, original boards, extremities bumped, du...

Banksy (b.1974) Banksy™ Soft Toys The set of three unique faux taxidermy soft toys with collaged beach debris each mounted onto a wooden plaque...

Chinese Art & Culture.- Sze (Mai-Mai) The Tao of Painting. A Study of the Ritual Disposition of Chinese Painting , 2 vol., folding colour p...

Buddhism.- Snellgrove (David L., editor ) The Image of Buddha , 1978 § Addiss (Stephen) The Art of Zen, 1989 § Pal (Pratapaditya) A Buddhis...

Gardening & Husbandry.- Miller (Philip) The Abridgement of the Gardeners Dictionary, sixth edition, engraved frontispiece and 12 folding p...

DNA.- Crick (Francis Harry C.) Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and James Watson . A series of papers and articles relating to DNA, the N...

Antiquities.- Pownall (Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts Bay ) Descriptions and explanations of some remains of Roman Antiquities dug up in...

Bees.- Golding (Robert) The Shilling Bee Book, containing the leading facts in the natural history of bees, with directions for bee manageme...

Ireland & Scotland.- House of Commons. A list of the members of the Hon. House of Commons of Ireland, who voted on the question previous to the e...

Royal Justiciar to Henry III.- Basset ( Philip , justiciar a nd royalist nobleman, d. 1271) Copy of a charter, granted in 1268 by Sir Hen...

Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire (Kettering & Geddington).- Ellis (G.) Album of watercolours and pen and ink sketches of fields in Cambridgeshir...

Einstein (Albert) " Le principe de relativité et ses conséquences dans la physique moderne ", in Archives des Sciences physiques et naturelle...

Feynman (Richard P.) "Quantum-chromodynamic approach for the large transverse momentum production of particles and jets" , in Physical Revie...

Naval & Military.- Low ( Lt. Charles Rathbone) Her Majesty's Navy, 3 vol., half-titles, chromolithographed portraits, additional pictoria...

Astronomy.- Airy ( Sir George Biddell, astronomer, 1801-92) 10 Autograph Letters, 1 TLs & 2 Autograph Postcards signed to a variety of ...

[Ward (Ned)] The Wand'ring Spy: or the Merry Travellers. Part II. To which is added, The Contending Candidates: or, the broom-staff battles,...

Grand Prix.- Earl (Cameron C.) Investigation into the Development of German Grand Prix Racing Cars between 1934 and 1939, plates and diagr...

Indian Art & Culture.- Singh (Madanjeet) Ajanta. Painting of the Sacred and Secular , numerous colour illustrations, frontispiece tipped-in...