Books and Works on Paper

Letters.- Collection, including: George Augustus Sala, W.E. Gladstone (envelope signed), William Gifford Palgrave, Thomas Milner Gibson, Mary Brad...

Royal Navy.- Letter-book from HMS Royal William, manuscript, 177pp. excluding blanks, extensively damp-stained, some ff. working loose, browned, o...

Waterloo.- C[ooke] (Rev. S.) Autograph Letter signed to the Rev. Dr Cooke at Weston under Edge, sm. 4to, 4pp. & address panel, Antwerp, 18th June ...

Polidori (John) Head and shoulders profile drawing of Edmund Finch, graphite, initialled in ink below and annotated on verso "Edmund Finch by Dr. ...

Chess player.- La Bourdonnais (Louis-Charles Mahé de, French chess master, 1795-1840) Autograph Note signed, 1p., 175 x 232mm., 11th November 1837...

Hampshire, Kent & elsewhere.- Eden (Anna Maria, maiden name Kelham, married firstly Henry Yelverton nineteenth Lord Ruthin, married secondly Rev. ...

NO RESERVE Cluny Abbey.- Saint Odilo of Cluny, fifth Abbot of Cluny, c. 962-1049).- Jotsaldus (Cluniac monk) The Life of St Odilo Abbot of Cluny. ...

Charlotte Brontë & Sedbergh School association.- Wooler (Rev. William Upton, pupil at Sedbergh School, later vicar of West Wycombe, nephew of Marg...

NO RESERVE Register Books.- Smith (John Challenor Covington, Superintendent of the Literary Department of the Probate Registry, Somerset House) Na...

Menus & European Royalty.- 3 German Royal Lunch menus and Regimental music programme, lithographed, slightly browned, 1 with small tear in margin,...

The Thames, the Solent and the South Coast.- [McCLean (William Newsam, Captain, Royal Engineers, hydrologist and engineer, son of the engineer and...

James (Henry, writer, 1843-1916) Autograph Letter signed to Douglas F, 2pp., sm. 4to, 21 Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, n.d. [c. 1914], explaining...

First World War Pigeon Post.- Pigeon Post message, "Gods sake lift Barrage A.I.Z. send reinforcements cut off one officer two... C.O.s. 75 other R...

First & Second World Wars.- Wills (Trenwith Lovering, Essex Yeomanry, architect, formed a partnership with Gerald Wellesley Wellington, 1891-1972)...

NO RESERVE Oxford Estate Agents.- Buckell & Ballard.- 7 account books, manuscripts, numerous pp., slightly browned, a few ff. foxed, original clot...

Music.- Berg (Alban).- Programe for Société Philarmonique de Bruxelles, signed by Alban Berg, Darius Milhaud and Henri Sauguet, bifolium, creases...

Caxton (William).- Higden (Ranulphus) Polychronicon, single f. from Liber Tercius, f. CXLVIII, 40 lines, rubricated in red, ink annotations in an ...

Drunkeness.- Younge (Richard) Sinne stigmatizd: or, The art to know savingly, believe rightly, live religiously, taught both by similitude and con...

Johnston (Robert) Historia rerum Britannicarum, first edition, woodcut vignette to title, initials and tail-pieces, occasional spotting or stainin...

Ray (John) A Collection of English Proverbs, first edition, small loss to title foot (neatly restored), marginal worming to first few leaves, occa...

[Annesley (Samuel)] A Continuation of Morning-Exercise Questions and Cases of Conscience, Practically Resolved by Sundry Ministers, in October, 16...

England.- Collection of Papers (A), relating to the Present Juncture of Affairs in England, 4 parts in 1, comprising 'A Collection of Papers ...';...

English Civil War.- [Sexby (Edward) and Silias Titus] "William Allen", Killing no Murder: Briefly Discoursed in Three Questions, second edition, d...

Caradoc (of Lhancarfan) The History of Wales, second edition, advertisements on verso of last f., slightly browned, modern ink signature on front ...

Broadside.- London.- A list of all the mayors and lord mayors, that governed this honourable city of London, from the year, 1191. to the seventh ...

War of the Spanish Succession.- A Short State of the War and the Peace, The Fourth Edition, with Additions, drophead title, 6pp., edges creased an...

Scottish binding.- , Book of Common Prayer (The), and Administration of the Sacrametns ... Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, title joi...

Jane Austen.- [Austen (James)] The Loiterer, a Periodical Work, first Dublin edition, occasional spotting, small marginal hole (F8), previous owne...

Darwin (Erasmus) The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical Notes, first edition, half-title, stipple-engraved fr...

Theatre playbills.- 7 printed playbills of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and the National Theatre, including performances of The Knight of Sno...

Miller (M.) Letters Written During a Captivity of upwards of Six Years in France, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispiece, dedication si...

Ephemera.- Commonwealth of Massachusetts... John Brooks, Governor... A Proclamation, For a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer, tears, some alon...

NO RESERVE [Raspe (Rudolph Erich)] "Complete Original Edition" of the Surprising Travels and Adventures of Baron Munchausen ... also, An Account o...

Peacock (Thomas Love) Maid Marian, first edition, occasional spotting, later morocco backed boards, a little rubbed, 1822; The Works, 10 vol., lar...

[Cooper (James Fenimore)] The Pilot; a Tale of the Sea, first English edition, 3 vol., occasional faint spotting, contemporary half-calf, rubbed, ...

Cruikshank (Robert).- [Westmacott (Charles Molloy)] The English Spy ..., 2 vol., first edition, 72 aquatint plates, all but one hand-coloured, ill...

NO RESERVE Library sets.- Scott (Sir Walter) Waverley Novels, 48 vol., engraved frontispieces and vignette titles, vol. 1 with engraved dedication...

Egan (Pierce) Finish to the Adventure of Tom, Jerry, and Logic in their Pursuits through Life in and out of London, first edition, hand-coloured e...

NO RESERVE Blank paper.- binding.- An album of c.84 sheets of plain, light blue and buff paper, plus c.15 sheets previously used, several with man...

D'Arblay (Madame) Memoirs of Doctor Burney, 3 vol., first edition, vol. I a few small ink smudges, slightly foxed and browned, contemporary half c...

Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Papers, first edition in book form, first issue, engraved frontispiece, additional engrave...

World.- Marryat (Frederick) A Diary in America, with Remarks on its Institutions. Part Second., 3 vol., 2 folding engraved maps, occasional faint ...

Lovelace.- Review of the Agricultural Statistics of France, 2 vol., 9 ALs to the Earl of Lovelace loosely inserted or tipped-in, 1 folding plate...

Ruskin (John) The Stones of Venice, 3 vol., first edition, 1851-53; The Seven Lamps of Architecture, first edition, 1849; another edition, second ...

Dorset.- Hinton St. Mary, near Sturminster... Estate... Hinton Manor House... 150 Acres of capital Land... Sold by Auction, by Mr. W.H. Hewitt, 7p...

NO RESERVE Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Adventures of Philip, 3 vol., first edition, faint browning to first and last leaves, original brown ...

Ford Madox Brown.- Rossetti (Maria Francesca) A Shadow of Dante, author presentation copy inscribed to Ford Madox Brown and dated 20th October 187...

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Xie Kitchin, standing in nightdress and crown, albumen print photograph, mounted as a cdv, numbered...

Gaskell (Elizabeth C.) Cranford, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, advertisement leaf at end, upper hinge a little weak, original pictorial cloth, gi...

NO RESERVE Library sets.- Scott (Sir Walter) Waverley Novels, 48 vol., "Border Edition", half-titles, engraved frontispieces and plates, contempor...

Crowley (Aleister) Jephthah and other Mysteries Lyrical and Dramatic, first edition, publisher's advertisements at end, original cloth-backed boar...

Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Works, 13 vol., 'Biographical Edition', plates, small abrasion to leather on upper cover of vol.13 otherwise a h...

NO RESERVE Mining Investments etc.- West (George W., Coal Merchant of Windermere) Collection of printed correspondence, reports and circulars rela...

NO RESERVE Bookbinding.- Marbling.- Wolfe (Richard J.) Marbled Paper: Its History, Techniques, and Patterns..., first edition, colour plates, illu...

NO RESERVE Humphries (Barry).- Soames (Enoch) Fungoids, n.d.; Negations, n.d., blank leaves, bookplate of Barry Humphries, original cloth § Humphr...

Müller (Wilhelm) Schubert's Winter Journey, limited edition translated by Ian Bostridge, unnumbered copy, frontispiece, original calf-backed board...

Europe.- Breval (John Durant) Remarks on Several Parts of Europe: Relating chiefly to the History, Antiquities and Geography of those Countries, 2...

NO RESERVE France.- Paris.- Brice (Germain) Description nouvelle de ce qu'il ya de plus remarquable dans la ville de Paris, 2 parts in 1, title wi...

NO RESERVE Gibraltar.- 15 photographs of Gibraltar, mounted on card, some back-to-back, some light fading or soiling, each c.165-215mm., c.1890s. ...

Greece.- Athens.- Stuart (James) and Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens, Measured and Delineated, 4 vol., new edition, half-titles, engrav...