Collectables

MARCO POLO. The Most Noble & Famous Travels. Ltd. ed. 647/1050. Col. frontis, fldg. map, other maps & dec. capitals. Quarto. Vellum backed yellow...

BEAUMONT W. W. Motor Vehicles & Motors, Their Design, Construction & Working by Steam, Oil & Electricity. Vol. 2 only. Plates & fldg. & other dia...

(JOYCE J.). Scientific Dialogues Intended for the Instruction & Entertainment of Young People. 6 vols. Small 12mo. Old calf, top brd. of vol. 1 d...

DOLLAR ROBERT. Memoirs of Robert Dollar (shipping, China & Far Eastern interest). 4 vols. in three. Photographic illus. Orig. green bdg., varying...

MACKAY J. G., of Portree. The Romantic Story of the Highland Garb & the Tartan ... With an Appendix Dealing with the Kilt in the Great War. Col. ...

Southern Africa. Mining. Album of 30 photographs of mining/quarrying activities, ore & rock breaking etc., including captioned photos. of acciden...

GOULD JOHN. Birds of Asia, Birds of New Guinea & Birds of South America. 3 vols. Col. plates. Orig. cloth in d.w's. Methuen, 1969, 1970 & 1972; a...

SMITH HENRY ECROYD. Reliquiae Isurianae, The Remains of Roman Isurium (now Aldborough, near Boroughbridge, Yorkshire). Large folding litho fronti...

KIRBY W. F. Lloyd's Natural History - Butterflies, vols. 1, 2 & 3 & Butterflies & Moths, vols. 4 & 5. Many hand col. plates. Orig. cloth, c.1890'...

BULMER T. & CO. History, Topography & Directory of Cumberland. No map. Half red leather. 1901; also Fisher's Picturesque Illustrations of Cumberl...

Manuscript Accounts Books. Mid 18th century limp vellum notebook of agricultural accounts; another with Garden accounts, early 19th cent., & 2 mo...

ROWE GEORGE S. The Life of John Hunt, Missionary to the Cannibals of Fiji. Orig. brown cloth, some internal spotting. Sixth thousand, 1866; also ...

Local History & Memoirs, etc. A carton of various vols. incl. Scottish & Manchester interest.

MILL JOHN STUART. Autobiography. Orig. green cloth. 2nd ed., 1873; also a carton of unrelated vols.

Children's & Illustrated. A carton of various vols.

Acts of Parliament. A small bundle of acts incl. An Act for the Quiet Enjoying of Sequstred Parsonages & Vicaridges, black letter (stng.), 1656 &...

NICOLSON J. & BURN R. The History & Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland & Cumberland. 2 vols. One map only. Quarto. Rubbed calf, 1777.

CARMICHAEL J. W. Pictures of Tyneside or Life & Scenery on the River Tyne Sixty Years Ago. Eng. title vignette & 33 mounted eng. plates, as calle...

PERROT N. (Trans). Les Comentaires de Cesar. Half title with eng. roundel port. frontis. 518pp followed by table. 12mo. Old calf, gilt back. Lyon...

LOCKE JOHN. The Works. The set of 9 vols. Orig. brds., well worn backstrips. Ex lib. St. John's College, Durham, 1824; also various antiquarian v...

BERRY WILLIAM. Encyclopedia Heraldica or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry. 3 vols. incl. plate vol., the latter with many eng. plates. Quarto. Pur...

On Meteorites. Notebook, part filled with cuttings, manuscript notes & a few watercolour sketches re. meteorites & where found, etc. Mid to late ...

HENRY VIII. Miscellaneous Writings of Henry the Eighth. Ltd. ed. 96/365. Wood eng. frontis by Robert Gibbings. Small quarto. Vellum backed marble...

CHALKLEY THOMAS. A Journal or Historical Account of the Life, Travels & Christian Experiences ... Who Departed This Life in the Island of Tortola...

KEITH ROBERT. An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops ... also An Account of All the Religious Houses ... With a Life of the Author. Eng....

DAMM C. T. Novum Lexicon Graecum ... Concordantiae et Elucidationes Homerica. 2 vols. Orig. cloth backed brds., vol. 1 worn & splitting. Glasgow,...

POTTER BEATRIX. The Roly-Poly Pudding. Col. Plates & other illus. Larger format in in orig. pict. red cloth, very nice cond. Ownership inscriptio...

JOHNSTON ROBERT. Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire & the Country of Poland. 23 hand col. eng. plates & eng. maps (as called for except l...

GRAHAM MARIA. Hand coloured engraved frontis & 14 fldg. & other etched or eng. plates, as called for. Advert leaves bound in. Appendix at end. Qu...

RICHARDSON M. A. The Local Historian's Table Book ... Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland & Durham. Historical Division, 5 vols. Large 8vo. Eng. ...

HENRY VIII. Miscellaneous Writings of Henry the Eighth. Ltd. ed. 144/365. Wood eng. frontis by Robert Gibbings. Small quarto. Vellum backed marbl...

FAWCETT DR. RICHARD. The Birth of the Christ. Beautiful manuscript throughout with gilt ground illus., coloured text & rulings, etc. Dark leather...

RYLANDS J. PAUL. Notes on the Family of Holcroft With an Account of Their Arms. Eng. frontis & vignettes. 50pp. Half calf with orig. prntd. upper...

Manuscript Accounts - Rev. John Romney of Whitestock Hall, Ulverston. Kearsley's Gentleman's & Tradesman's Pocket Ledger for 1829, 1830 & 1832. E...

FESSENDEN THOMAS G. The New England Farmer's Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1834. Eng. title vignette. Eng. vignette of an eclipse & concludes ...

MURRAY JOHN (Pubs). The Quarterly Review. A useful run of this important publication from vol. 2 to vol. 30, lacking vol. 5. Half calf, marbled b...

PITT WILLIAM. A Topographical History of Staffordshire Including Its Agriculture, Mines & Manufactures. Diced calf, gilt backstrip lifting. Newca...

DEVLIN IAN. Albanich, A History of the Galloway Rifle Volunteers. 2 copies. Signed ltd. ed. of 500. Illus. Quarto. Orig. green cloth in d.w's. 19...

PARK MUNGO. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa Performed in the Years 1795, 1796 & 1787. 2 vols. in one. Eng. port. frontis & 2 eng. tit...

SCOTT SIR WALTER. The Vision of Don Roderick. Half title. Calf. 2nd ed., Edinburgh, 1811; also 3 other Scott editions in uniform calf, & 6 others...

KELTIE J. S. (Ed). History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans & Regiments. 5 vols. Col. plates incl. mounted col. plates of tartans, other...

ROSS SIR JOHN. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage & of a Residence in the Arctic Regions. Eng. frontis & large fldg. ...

Keswick School Magazine. 9 bound vols. Various dates, December 1899 - Summer 1936; also Keswick School Book of Remembrance, lacking title but wit...

KEYS JOHN. Sketches of Old Derby & Neighbourhood. Port. frontis, eng. plates & text vignette. Large paper quarto, partly unopened, uncut. Orig. g...

PARRY WILLIAM EDWARD. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific ... in His Majesty's Ships H...

GOETHE J. W. von. Reineke Fuchs (Reynard the Fox). Eng. frontis, title & 35 plates (incl. the suppressed plate after p.42). Quarto. Handsome dec....

VASARI GIORGIO. Delle Vite de Piu Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori et Architetti. 1st & 2nd parts in one, 432pp. Rubricated title & wood eng. ports. ...

HERBERT A. S. (Ed). Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible. Quarto. Orig. blue cloth. 1968; also S. T. C., 2nd ed. in 3 vo...

BROWNE JAMES. A History of the Highlands & of the Highland Clans With an Extensive Selection from the Hitherto Inedited Stuart Papers. 4 vols. En...

GILLY WILLIAM STEPHEN. Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont ... & Researches Among the Vaudois or Waldenses. 2 fldg. maps & 3 fl...

FAWCETT DR. RICHARD. Later Gothic Architecture in Norfolk, An Examination of the Work of Some Individual Architects in the 14th & 15th Centuries....

THOMSON JAMES. A Great Free City, The Book of Silchester. 2 vols. Signed ltd. ed. no. 22 of only 175. Quarto. Many full page & other illus. Orig....

HOME JOHN. The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1745. 5 fldg. & other eng. plates & battle plans, as called for. Quarto. Rebound half calf, m...

COLLINS ARTHUR. The English Baronage or An Historical Account of the Lives & Most Memorable Actions of Our Nobility. Vol. 1, all published. 683pp...

AINSWORTH HARRISON. The Original Illustrated Edition of the Works. 16 vols. in red cloth.

CHAUCER GEOFFREY. Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer, ed. by J. T. Winterich. Folio. Vellum style cloth. 1958.

GODKIN EDWIN LAWRENCE. The History of Hungary & the Magyars. Frontis map & eng. text illus. Large 8vo. Orig. embossed blue cloth gilt. 1856.

DISRAELI BENJAMIN. Works. 6 vols. from the Bradenham Edition. Attractive dark cloth, gilt backs. 1927; also 1 other, Disraeli. (7).

SCOTT CAPTAIN R. F. Scott's Last Expedition. 2 vols. Many plates, illus. & maps. Orig. dark blue cloth, some wear & internal foxing. 1913.

GRESHAM (Pubs). The Natural History of Animals. 8 vol. set in orig. red cloth with col. plates.