Historical Documents and Ephemera

WALES –THE BARMOUTH FERRY document written on 22pp large legal folio dated 1830 being a contemporary copy of an Abstract of Title of William Willi...

Worcestershire - Rockingham Hall ms document on four pp large legal folio being an extensive inventory of fixtures and fittings for Rockingham H...

SCOTLAND – 1630 – CHARLES I Royal Charter issued in the name of Charles I and his Scottish Commissioners, written in Latin on one large page of v...

Cheshire indenture for a partnership agreement in Macclesfield dated 1811, and group of approximate 10 printed & mss documents concerning the valu...

WWII- GERMAN ARMY large photo album containing approximate 200 photos showing scenes of destruction (probably from WWI), scenes shot in Athens, gr...

WWII – Hitler Youth an important typescript with ms insertions and corrections prepared by Karl Bierwirth, a member of the Hitler Youth who lived ...

WWII – HITLER YOUTH Heimbau de Hitlerjugend , (houses for the Hitler youth) 2 vols, large oblong folio, with considerable illustrations of archite...

WILLIAM AND MARY - Dorset document from their joint reign being a large vellum indenture between Bernard Fisher and Abraham Turner, dated March 17...

WILLIAM AND MARY An Act for Granting to their Majesties an aid of four shillings in the pound for one years for carrying on a vigorous war agains...

WWII- PROPAGANDA three German/Italian leaflets including ‘One More River !’ with text warning allied soldiers that the River Po will be impossible...

CINEMA – AUTOGRAPH MARY PICKFORD original typewritten contract dated August 30th 1946 whereby she agrees to allow her name to be used in a song c...

CINEMA – AUTOGRAPH BOB HOPE original typewritten contract dated December 13th 1941 on the letter head of Republic Productions Inc in which Hope ag...

CINEMA/ENTERTAINMENT- AUTOGRAPHS group of approximate 19 signed photographs etc with signatures including : Shirley Maclaine, Deborah Kerr, May Ty...

WWII Kampf und Kunst [The Art of Fighting] portfolio of finely produced art prints showing the German army at war.

GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE collection of approximate 30 editions of the Gentleman’s Magazine covering various months in the years 1740, 1753, 1757, 177...

THEATRE – SILK PROGRAMME fine example of a silk programme for a gala performance of A Midsummer Nights Dream to celebrate the re-opening of the Th...

OPERA – SILK PROGRAMME unusually large silk programme for the gala performance of excerpts from various operas including Verdi’s Macbeth, Britten...

OPERA/MUSIC – SILK PROGRAMME 1886 – THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - fine silk programme for the Covent Garden Promenade Concerts on October 25th...

OPERA – SILK PROGRAMME 1897 – QUEEN VICTORIA’S DIAMOND JUBILEE fine silk programme for the State Performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Gar...

THEATRE – SILK PROGRAMME 1872 fine silk programme for a gala performance at the Theatre Royal Glasgow in front of the Burmese Ambassador on Septem...

PLANS MANUSCRIPT ESTATE 18th c A Map of the Estate of Mr William Bent in the Lordship of Gillmorton (modern Gilmorton, Leicestershire), executed ...

WWII – THE HOLOCAUST fine photo album showing the funeral of Frans Neyskens, Commissioner of Police for Diest, Belgium who died in a German Conce...

OLIVER CROMWELL – Yorkshire document from the Commonwealth Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, very fine two page document pertaining to Robert Newt...

ELIZABETH I – County Durham document from her reign being a copy of the Court Roll for Lynesacke, County Durham dated April 17th 1575. An admissi...

A FINE RECORD OF INDIAN VICTORIA CROSS WINNERS - INDIA – VICTORIA CROSS an original programme for the awarding of the Victoria Cross to |Kamal Ram...

IRELAND edition of the Edinburgh Advertiser for April 25th-29th 1800 with an extensive report on the House of Commons debate on the Act of Union ...

Cheshire 1691 fine indenture on a single leaf of vellum dated 1691 being a bargain and sale for property in Mottram Andrewe, Cheshire. Fine calli...

ENGLISH CIVIL WAR – BATTLE OF NASEBY Historical Gleanings on the memorable field of Naseby, by Henry Lockinge, first edition 1830. Original grey b...

SLAVERY - JAMAICA small group of legal papers on paper including two official returns of slaves for a plantation in Jamaica dated 1820 and 1826, t...

WWI –AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE a series of approximate 14 letters, 13 of which are from France, sent by Corporal later Sergeant Herbert C Lohrm...

ECCLESIASTICAL - The Book of Common Prayer , Oxford, printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty and to the University ...

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - THE TRIAL OF RICHARD PATCH Edition of the London Chronicle for April 5-8 1806 carrying an extensive report on the trial – a...

CHARLIE CHAPLIN small group of Chaplin ephemera including a good example of the Dancing Charlie Illusion, in original printed paper wrapper and w...

THEATRE – SILK PROGRAMME 1872 fine silk programme for a gala performance at the Theatre Royal Glasgow in front of the Burmese Ambassador on Septem...

[WATERLOO] interesting autograph letter signed (a retained copy)by Bridges Taylor, HM Consul to Elsinore dated 1852, addressed to the Editor of t...

[SUFFRAGETTES – EMILY DAVISON] Cartoons by Will Dyson, published by the Daily Herald , c1913. A compilation of satirical , mainly political cartoo...

RAILWAYS – ACTS OF PARLIAMENT group of approximate 24 Victorian Acts of Parliament all for the establishment of railways, including: Rhondda and...

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT –PRISONS – ACTS OF PARLIAMENT group of approximately 33 19th century printed Acts of Parliament relating to Gaols throughout...

SMUGGLERS an important manuscript book of instructions for the Excise men running from 1741 to 1760 providing considerable information on the runn...

LONGITUDE an edition of the Edinburgh Evening Courant for October 14th 1761 with a report on the activities of Neville Maskelyne, in sailing to St...

SOUTH AFRICA – THE SIXTH KAFFIR WAR 1834-36 Official House of Commons volume providing copies of correspondence relating to the War – also known ...

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT – WILLIAM PALMER – THE RUGELEYPOISONER Allen’s Verbatim Report of the Trial of William Palmer, London, J Allen 1856. 8vo,328p...

WWII – NAZI PARTY Das Programm der NSDAP WirdErfullt by Alfred Himstedt, together with Reden des Fuhrers am Parteitage der Ehre 1936. [The Fuhrer’...

WWII –ALLIED AERIAL PROPAGANDA group of five allied aerial propaganda leaflets dropped over France for French consumption together with a small g...

LEGAL ms volume dated 1846 being a reference work prepared by a solicitor or legal clerk providing standard texts for a number of legal documents ...

EPHEMERA – COMMONPLACE BOOK of Major General ECA Gordon, Royal Engineers, containing his diary covering a period of late 1846 and into 1847, and a...

ECCLESIASTICAL – COMMONPLACE BOOK of Timothy Mauleverer, signed and dated by him to inside cover 1743, folio, in good condition , closely written...

WEST INDIES – THE HURRICANE OF 1928 fine archive of documents and newspaper cuttings concerning the devastating Hurricane which hit the West Indie...

A FINE WWII POW ARCHIVE - WWII – A BRITISH PRISONER OF WAR fine archive relating to 2nd Lieutenant Victor Howe, 97th Kent Yeomanry, Field Regiment...

RAILWAYS – THE SEVERN VALLEY LINE GWR Severn Valley Railway sheet 4, litho map dated 1880 by Thomas Kell & Son, Covent Garden, showing a large sec...

GLOUCESTERSHIRE group of approximately 22 indentures on vellum(mostly) and paper 1757-early 20th c relating to properties mainly in Nailsworth, Gl...

MS RECIPE BOOK c19thc recipe book containing a large qty of culinary recipes on indexed pages, many loosely inserted recipes on slips of paper, ma...

COMMONPLACE BOOK 1843 of Phillis Hawksley , signed and dated by her to inside cover, with 46pp of ms entries mainly quotations from various litera...

VICTORIAN MEMORIAL ALBUM remarkable ms memorial album kept presumably by a mother in memory of her dead infant son ‘Eddy’ (Edward Gloucester Murr...

A COMPLETE RUN OF TIGER TIM’S WEEKLY’ FOR 1931 COMIC a complete run of Tiger Tim’s Weekly for 1931, some contemporary pencil markings (to crosswor...

VICTORIAN PHOTO ALBUM – ITALY large folio Victorian photo album with a number of commercially produced photographs of Italy dated 1880 including V...

BOER WAR – AUTOGRAPH - GIDEON SCHLEEPERS, BOER COMMANDER EXECUTED BY THE BRITISH autograph orders signed, dated 1902, written in indelible pencil...

ART AND ARTISTS – AUTOGRAPH – SIR GEORGE SCHARF, ARTIST AND DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY archive of c45 autograph letters to Scharf d...

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW autograph letter signed dated July 8th 1924 at the foot of a typewritten letter to him from Arthur Upton expressing his horror...

C S LEWIS – AUTHOR OF THE NARNIA TRILOGY characteristic typewritten letter signed on a small slip of paper dated September 26th 1945 declining an ...