GENTLEMANS LIBRARY, GRAND TOUR AND AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

A Victorian Mauchline Ware book, The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, the sycamore front cover printed in black with Sir Walter Scott's Tomb ...

Advertising and Typography - Gover (Edward), Alphabets: Plain, Ornamental and Medieval, Ancient & Modern, Brodie & Middleton, London, oblong 4to, ...

An Edwardian collection of topographical postcards and photographs of the south coast of England, including Dover, Rochester, Canterbury, resident...

Anonymous, The History of Pompey the Little: Or, the Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog, second edition, M. Cooper, London 1751, 12mo, viii + 272pp,...

Art History - Rothenstein (John), Augustus John, Phaidon Press Ltd., Oxford and London 1945, small folio, 26pp + 90 plates; Cundall, I.S.O., F.S.A...

Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hiftory, With Notes by the Translator (sic), J.S. Barr, London 1792, ten volumes, engraved plates throughout, peri...

Beeton (Mrs. Isabella), The Book of Household Management, Entirely New Edition, Revised and Corrected, With New Coloured Engravings [12], Ward, Lo...

Billiards - Roberts (John), The Game of Billiards And How To Play It, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., London 1905, 124pp + adverts, 142 diagrams throughou...

Blencowe (Richard), An Easy and Effectual Method of Destroying, Rats, Mice, &c., T. Cheney, Banbury 1812, 19pp + subscription list, original print...

Boccaccio (Giovanni), Ten Tales from the Decameron, Illustrated by Edmondo Lucchesi, Privately Printed [The Riverside Press Limited], London 1930,...

Buffier (Claude), Geografia Universale, Nuova Edizione, Col Trattato della Sfera del medefimo Autore, e Rami nuovi (sic), A Spese di Gregorio, e M...

Buffon (George Louis le Clerc, Comte de), Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects, and Reptiles., Embellished With Upwards of Two Hundred Engravin...

Children's Books - Stevenson (Robert Louis), A Child's Garden of Verses, With Illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith, Charles Scribner's Sons, New ...

Churchill (Randolph) and Gilbert (Martin), Winston S. Churchill: The Companion Volumes, Heinemann 1967-1982, quarto, thirteen volume set, cloth bo...

Cook's Voyages Round the World: Containing The Whole of His Discoveries, J. Smith, London 1840, miniature book, 478pp, period cloth boards

Dickens (Charles), The Works, Authentic Edition, Chapman & Hall, London 1901-1908, with the texts taken from those personally corrected by Dickens...

Dugdale (Thomas), England and Wales Delineated, L. Tallis, London 1875, eight volumes, various chromolithographic maps after drawings by J. Archer...

Fishing - The Compleat Angler (sic), by Walton & Cotton, edited by Richard le Gallienne, John Lane, The Bodley Head, London April 1896-April 1897,...

Gardening - Thompson (Robert), The Gardener's Assistant: Practical and Scientific, Blackie & Son, London, 774pp, twelve coloured plates, vignett...

Glover (Stephen), The History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby: Drawn up from Actual Observation, and from the Best Authorities: Containing th...

Harwood, F.S.A. (The Rev. Thomas), The History and Antiquities of the Church and City of Lichfield, Cadell and Davies, London 1806, 4to, 574pp, en...

Hoppus (E.), Practical Meafuring Made Eafy To the Meaneft Capacity by A New Set of Tables (sic), tenth edition, J.F. and C. Rivington, London 1777...

Horology - Baillie (G.H.), Watchmakers and Clockmakers, second edition N.A.G Press Ltd., London 1947, rebound in full buckram; Baillie (G.H.), Clo...

Howitt (William), The Rural Life of England, third edition, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London 1844, small octavo, 615pp + adverts, full g...

Humphry (Mrs.), Manners for Men, James Bowden, London 1897, 160pp + adverts, period boards

Hunter, F.S.A. (Joseph), Hallamshire: The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York, A New and Enlarged Edition, by ...

James Bond - Fleming (Ian), The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, Jonathan Cape, London 1965, 221pp, hb, dj; Fleming (Ian), From Russia, Wit...

Jekyll (Gertrude) and Weaver (Lawrence), Gardens for Small Country Houses, Country Life, London 1920, 8vo, 260pp, full green morocco by Bumpus Ltd...

Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes 1927, Fity-Third Annual Edition, Kelly's Directories Limited, London 1927, xxxv + 184...

Leybourn (William), Dialing: Plain, Concave, Convex, Projective, Reflective, Refractive., Shewing, How to make all fuch Dials, and to adorn them w...

Literature - Kernaham (Coulson), A Literary Gent: A Study in Vanity and Dipsomania, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London 1897, 61pp; Ruskin (John), U...

Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L. (David), Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, John Murray, London 1857, first edition, ix + 711pp, title-...

Local History - The Cartulary of Darley Abbey, edited by Reginald R. Darlington, Titus Wilson & Son, Ltd, Kendall 1945, large 8vo, two volumes, un...

Local History - Walter Hall (T.), Incunabula of Sheffield History, J.W. Northend Ltd., Sheffield 1937, 228pp + adverts [ii], b/w illustrations, pe...

Local Interest - Stevenson (Robert Louis), Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour In the Year 1751, first edition, Cassell & ...

Masefield (John), Animula, Privately Printed at The Chiswick Press, London 1920, 16pp, limited edition, numbered in the author's hand 94/250 and d...

Mather (William), The Young Man's Companion: Or Arithmetick made eafy (sic), nineteenth edition, R. Ware, London 1752, period owner's inscription ...

Militaria - Burton (Major R.G.), Wellington's Campaigns in India, printed for Division of the Chief of the Staff, Intelligence Branch: For Officia...

Miniature Book - Sobersides (Solomon) [pseud.], Christmas Tales for the amusement and instruction of young ladies and gentlemen in winter evenings...

Miscellaneous - Barrie (J.M.), Quality Street, a Comedy in four acts, Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1901, 198pp, hb, ori...

Modern Athenians, From 1837-1847: A Series of Original Portraits of Memorable Citizens of Edinburgh, Drawn, Etched, and Published by Benjamin W. C...

Morocco, Painted by A.S. Forrest, Described by S.L. Bensusan, Adam and Charles Black, London 1904, limited deluxe edition 232/250, numbered in ink...

Natural History - Cooke (Arthur O.), Our British Trees, Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 96pp, chromolithographic plates; South (Richard), The Moth...

Nazi - Espe (Walter M.), Das Buch der N.S.D.A.P: Werden, Kampf und Ziel der N.S.D.A.P., first edition, Schönfeld s Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 193...

Nazi - Hitler (Adolf), Mein Kampf, Unexpurgated Edition, Two Volumes in One, First Volume: A Retrospect, Second Volume: The National Socialist Mov...

Nazi - Leys (Kriegsarbeit Dr. Robert), Schmiede des Schwertes: Der deustche Arbeiter im Großdeutschen Freiheitskampf, Mit einem Vorwort von Reichs...

Newton (Thomas), Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which have remarkably been fulfilled, and at this time are fulfilling in the world., J. and R. T...

Reilly (Robin), Wedgwood, Stockton Press, London 1989, 4to, two volumes, 727pp, 823pp, slipcased en suite, pale blue silk markers, buckram in two ...

Rhind (William), A History of the Vegetable Kingdom, Illustrated by Several Hundred Figures, Blackie and Son, Glasgow 1855, 8vo, 720pp + plates (X...

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward FitzGerland, With Illustrations by Willy Pogány, George G. Ha...

Russell Flint (Sir William), Models of Propriety: Occasional Caprices For the Edification of Ladies and the Delight of Gentleman, Michael Joseph L...

Sale Catalogue Sammelband - Catalogue, of All the Neat and Valuable Household Furniture, Plate, China, Glass, Books, &co. Which will be Sold by Au...

Shackleford (Mrs. Ann), The Modern Art of Cookery Improved; Or, Elegant, Cheap, and Eafy Methods, of preparing moft of the Dishes now in Vogue...,...

Sporting - Burrard, D.S.O., R.F.A. (Major Gerald), In the Gunroom, first edition, Herbert Jenkins Limited, London 1930, 125pp + adverts; Houghton ...

Strada (Famiano), Histoire de la Guerre de Flandre, Au Palais, Par la Compagnie des Libraires Affociez, Paris 1675, volumes I and IV only, full sp...

The Book of Common Prayer, Printed at the Clarendon Press, By Dawson, Bensley, and Cooke, Printers to the University, Oxford 1801, 8vo, full red m...

The Carpenters' and Joiner's Price Book, Arranged on a New Construction, J. Lang, Liverpool 1811, 4to, x + 59pp + index, with printed tables of va...

The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of The World, Compiled and Engraved from the Most Authentic Sources, Under the Supervision of W.G. Blackie, Ph...

The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer, 500 Maps and Diagrams in Colour, With Commercial Statistics and Gazetteer, Index of 105,000 Names, Carmelite H...

The Holy Bible, With Notes, By the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Wilson, D.D. [,] Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man, R. Cruttwell, Bath 1785, thr...