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LORD JOHN SOMERS: A COLLECTION OF SCARCE AND VALUABLE TRACTS ON THE MOST INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING SUBJECTS ..., A SECOND COLLECTION..., THIRD ...

CHRISTOPHER LOWE AND WALLACE SOUTHAM: GONE LADIES, London, Turrett Books, 1978, limited edition (100), numbered and signed by Lowe & Southam, quar...

TOM HARPER: THE MOSAIC OF SHADOWS, London, Century, 2004, 1st edition, signed and inscribed, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper + CASSANDRA CLARK: ...

PAUL MULDOON: GENERAL ADMISSION, 2006, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper plus PATRICK GALVIN: MAN ON THE PORCH SELECTED POEMS, London...

ABEL CHAPMAN: BIRD-LIFE OF THE BORDERS RECORDS OF WILD SPORT AND NATURAL HISTORY ON MOORLAND AND SEA, London, Gurney & Jackson 1889, 1st edition, ...

REES HOWELL GRONOW: REMINISCENCES AND ANECDOTES, London, Smith, Elder, 1862, 1863, 1865, 1866, 1st edition, four volumes, extra illustrated, 118 a...

ANON: THE NORFOLK STING OR THE HISTORY AND FALL OF EVIL MINISTERS, London, T Dormer, 1732, 1st edition, errata leaf, modern calf, spine gilt title...

ADA L HARRIS: ROUND AND ROUND PICTURES, London, Ernest Nister, circa 1914, moveable children's book number 4333, 4 chromolitho mechanical scenes o...

CHARLES F TUNNICLIFFE (ILLUSTRATED): 4 Ladybird Book titles: THE FARM, A LADYBIRD LEARNING TO READ BOOK, 1958, 1st edition: WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN WI...

JOHN BUCHAN: 6 titles: GREENMANTLE, London, 1916, 1st edition, original blind stamped cloth, spine gilt lettered: MR STANDFAST, London, 1919, 1st ...

CAPT A T MAHAN: 2 titles: THE LIFE OF NELSON, THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SEA POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN, London, Sampson Low, 1899, 2nd edition, revised, 1...

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE: FAUST, trans Abraham Hayward, London, Edward Moxon, 1833, old diced calf gilt + SALOMON GESSNER: THE DEATH OF ABEL, Lo...

PAUL THEROUX: SAILING THROUGH CHINA, 1983, 1st trade edition, John Fowles' blind stamp, original cloth, dust-wrapper plus LENNOX KERR: ICE A TALE ...

PAUL THEROUX, 2 titles: THE CONSUL'S FILE, London, 1977, 1st edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper; A CHRISTMAS CARD, illustrated John Lawrence, L...

"The Turf Expositor" by C F Brown, containing an account of the origin of horseracing... Erwoode Gilbert & Piper, 1829, 1st edition, contemporary ...

THE NIGERIAN TEACHER (LATER NIGERIA), volume 1, No 1, 1933 - No 17, 1939, bound in 4 volumes, numerous illustrations from photographs throughout, ...

EDWARD, EARL OF CLARENDON: THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION AND CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND …, Ed W Dunn Macray, 1958, 6 vols, orig cl, d/ws, spines slightl...

EDEN PHILPOTTS: MY SHRUBS, London, 1915, 1st edition, 50 black and white plates as called for, original cloth gilt + H JACOBSEN: SUCCULENT PLANTS,...

CLAUD B TICEHURST: HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK, London, 1932, 1st edition, 21 plates plus large folding map as called, original cloth gilt .....

T E LAWRENCE: SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, London, Jonathan Cape, 1935 1st trade edition, 4to original buckram, gilt, d/w ...[more]

MODERN COMICS - BLACKHAWK (SPINE TITLE), bound volume of US 1950s quality comics titled MODERN COMICS, (featuring Blackhawk) and BLACKHAWK comics,...

GENERAL STAFF WAR OFFICE - THE GERMAN FORCES IN THE FIELD, October 1917, 5th Revision, "Confidential", large folding map at end, original cloth wo...

REVEREND T D FOSBROKE: THE WYE TOUR, OR GILPIN ON THE WYE ..., Ross 1826 3rd edition, engraved frontis, old boards worn, printed paper label to sp...

THE COVERDALE BIBLE, intro S L Greenslade, Folkestone, W Dawson 1975, 1st facsimile edition from The Holkham copy in the British Library, folio, o...

[SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD]: SOME CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE PUBLICK FUNDS, THE PUBLICK REVENUES, AND THE ANNUAL SUPPLIES, GRANTED BY ...

GILBERT WHITE: THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE IN THE COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, illustrated Thomas Bewick, London, Bickers & Son 1875...

EDMUND HILLARY: HIGH ADVENTURE, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1955, 1st edition, signed on half title, original cloth, dust-wrapper ...[more]

GEORGE C SHERRIN: THE MONTAGU MOTOR BOOK, ed Lord Montagu, London, The Car Illustrated [1913], adverts at front and end, original cloth gilt ...[...

EDWARD STANFORD: NORFOLK, large scale map from Ordnance Survey circa 1900, folding backed onto linen, approx 1010mm ...[more]

STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, Ill E Dulac, [1907], 1st trade edn, 50 tipped-in col?d plts, letterpress lls, browned and brittle, 4to, orig cl, ...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE SONGS AND SONNETS, Ill Charles Robinson, London, Duckworth [1950], 1st edition, 12 coloured plates as list, 4to, original...

COLIN DEXTER, 10 titles: SERVICE OF ALL THE DEAD, New York, 1979, 1st US edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper; LAST SEEN WEARING, New York, 1976,...

G A HENTY: AT AGINCOURT, London 1897 [1896], 1st edition, 32pp adverts at end, original pictorial bevelled cloth gilt ...[more]

HENRY SEEBOHM: COLOURED FIGURES OF THE EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS, Edited Richard Bowdler-Sharpe, Sheffield 1896, 1st edition, photogravure portrait fr...

SIR GEORGE WATT: INDIAN ART AT DELHI, 1903 - BEING THE OFFICIAL CATALOGUE OF THE DELHI EXHIBITION, 1902-1903, illustrated Percy Brown, Calcutta, 1...

DAVID HAMILTON: A SUMMER IN ST TROPEZ, 1982 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper plus COVER TITLE, THE BEST OF DAVID HAMILTON, 1976, original...

DR OTTO LEGRADY (ED): EUROPE AT THE PARTING OF THE WAYS, WAR OR PEACE, Budapest "Pesti Hirlap", [1933] "this book has been printed for Lord Suffie...

MARGOT FONTEYN: A DANCER'S WORLD, 1978 1st edition, signed to half title plus signed and inscribed to piece of paper loosely inserted, original cl...

CHARLES HEATH: BEAUTIES OF THE OPERA AND BALLET ILLUSTRATED WITH TEN HIGHLY FINISHED PORTRAITS ENGRAVED ON STEEL AND NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD ....

BERNARD CORNWELL: 4 titles: SHARPE'S HONOUR, London, Collins, 1985, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper: SHARPE'S SIEGE, London, Collin...

LEE CHILD: KILLING FLOOR, New York, 1997, 1st edition, signed and dated, original cloth backed boards, dust-wrapper + MARY PITT: DEATH AND THE PLE...

BERNARD CORNWELL: SHARPE'S GOLD, London, 1981, 1st edition, signed on a slip pasted onto front free end paper, original cloth, dust-wrapper ...[m...

DAPHNE DU MAURIER: JAMAICA INN, London, Victor Gollancz, 1936, 1st edition, some foxing, original blue cloth ...[more]

(COLLECTION BATSFORD TITLES): J H INGRAM: NORTH MIDLAND COUNTRY, A SURVEY OF CHESHIRE, DERBYSHIRE, LEICESTERSHIRE, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHI...

LAWRENCE DURRELL, 8 titles: CEFALU, London, editions poetry, 1947, 1st edition, original cloth worn; THE DARK LABYRINTH, London, 1961, 1st Faber e...

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January ? June 1878, January ? June 1874, 2 vols, the former old hf cf v worn, lacks bkstrip, bds detchd; the latter ...

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK: THE BOTTLE IN 8 PLATES, (cover title), London, David Bogue, [1847], 1st edition, published for the author, 8 plates, folio, ori...

JOURNAL DES VOYAGESET DES AVENTURES DE TERRE ET DE MER, July 1877-June 1885 in 8 bound volumes, each folio, 1st volume rebound quarter calf, volum...

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January - June 1887, orig decor cl gt worn, inner jnts split (A/F) ...[more]

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January ? June 1851, old hf cf gt, worn and edges + THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January ? June 1849, old hf cf, edge...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE WORKS OF SHAKSPERE, edited Charles Knight, London, Virtue, circa 1880, "Imperial edition", 2 volumes, 2 added steel engra...

THE GRAPHIC, January ? June and July ? December 1904, vols 69 and 70, orig cl gt, vol 70 top bd and bkstrip detchd with some damage to bkstrip (2)...

THOMAS WRIGHT (ED): THE ROYAL DICTIONARY - CYCLOPAEDIA, London, The London Printing and Publishing Company [1867], five vols, plates including var...

THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: London, HMSO 1964-66, 8 vols, new series, original cloth, d/w (8) ...[more]

J R R TOLKIEN: THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH - THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, PARTS 1 AND 2 - THE LAYS OF BELERIND - THE SHAPING OF MIDDLE-EARTH - THE LOST...

J R R TOLKIEN, 4 titles: SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR, illustrated Pauline Baynes, 1967, 1st edition, 1st issue (white lettering on spine), original pic...

MAURICE CLARE: A DAY WITH ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, London, Hodder & Stoughton [1910], 5 coloured plates, original pictorial boards, laminated ...[...

J A L WADDEL: DE PONTIBUS: A POCKET BOOK FOR BRIDGE ENGINEERS, NY and L, 1898, 1st edn, 2nd thousand, presentation copy to "J Elston Esq with the ...

CHARLES MCC WEIS (Ed): BOSWELL IN EXTREMES 1776 TO 1778, 1971, 1st edn, orig cl, d/w + JOSEPH W REED AND FREDERICK A POTTLE: BOSWELL: LAIRD OF AUC...

SIR GEORGE STAUNTON: AN AUTHORENTIC ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY FROM THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN TO THE EMPEROR OF CHINA...: London, 4 G Nicol, 1798, sec...