Collectables

India.- Iqbal ( Sir Mohammed) Poet of the East and Chughtai , text in English, Urdu and Persian, tipped-in colour plates, illustrations, pre...

India.- Beaton (Cecil) India , first edition , half-title, full-page illustrations, small hole in text to 'Introduction', previous owner's...

Stonehenge.- Jones (Inigo) The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britian, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, Restored , 3 parts b...

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...

Middle East.- Photograph Album of the Middle East , c.290 vintage photographic prints, most captioned by hand, blank spaces where one or two re...

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...

Crests and Monograms.- Album of Crests and Monograms , c.85pp. of numerous crests and monograms, some with manuscript captions, many surrounded...

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

Britain.- Camden (William) Viri Clarissimi Britannia, sive florentiss Regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ ... , title with woodcut device, 18...

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

Britain.- Booth (Charles) Life and Labour of the People in London , 7 vol., linen-backed folding maps, spotting and staining, original boar...

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...

Darwin (Charles) The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals , first edition, second impression, 7 plates (2 folding), one trimmed, lai...

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...

River Thames.- Pine (John) Thamesis Descriptio Anno 1588, after Robert Adams (c.1530-1595) , engraving, from a copy drawn by Mr. Joseph Ames, 8...

Chess.- Stratagems of Chess , second edition, frontispiece, illustrations, scattered spotting, abrasion mark to front free endpaper where signa...

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...

Bees.- Charlton (George) The Bee-keeper's guide , first edition , wood-engraved illustration of a hive to title (the upper wrapper), stitc...

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 ...

Kent.- Lambarde (William) A Perambulation of Kent , first edition , black letter, title within wide woodcut border, woodcut initials, on...

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

Africa.- Roberts (David) Sketches in Egypt & Nubia , plates and illustrations, original half morocco, housed in original slipcase, short te...

[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...

Britain.- Lysons ( Rev. Daniel) The Environs of London, 5 vol., engraved vignette titles, 3 engraved maps, engraved dedication, 75 engraved...

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, ...

Kent.- Kilburne (Richard) A Topographie, or Survey of the County of Kent , first edition , engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initial...

Birds.- Allouse (Bashir E.) Birds of Iraq , 3 vol., text in Arabic and English, plates and illustrations, short tear into text of one f...

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...

Kent.- Symonson (Philip) A New Description of Kent...., the tractes of Ryuers, Rylles and creeks with the trendinge of the Sea-Shore be more...

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

Greece.- Pouqueville (F. C. H. L.) Voyage de la Grèce , 6 vol., second edition, half-titles, 33 lithographed and engraved plates, plans and...

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...

Birds.- Timur Mirza (Husam al-Daulah) The Baz-Nama-Yi Nasiri: A Persian Treatise on Falconry , one of 500 copies, translated by Lieut.-Co...