The Collector's Grand Tour: Curated Objects, Interior Design, Curiosities and Works from the Library

A 19th century brass mounted tooled and gilt morocco leather family Bible, 33cm high

A 19th century German pressed birch bark rectangular snuff box, hinged cover with narrative scene, Zu Spat [Too Late], 9cm wide, c.1850

A 19th century mahogany bibliophiles secret box originally to hold specimens, the interior now vacant, the ribbed spines embossed and gilt, Britis...

A late 19th/early 20th century novelty oak cigar box, as a folding book rack with seven leather bound novels, each with a title alluding to tobac...

An arrangement of plaster intaglio impressions, various Grand Tour and historical subjects, 36cm x 31cm

An Italian Grand Tour correspondence rack, carved with the Lion of St Mark, St Mark’s Square, Venice, and a Venetian gondola, 56cm long, c.1900

Caricatures - Vanity Fair - Leslie Ward (1851 - 1922), a Spy print, Slim, 37cm x 26cm; others, Westminster; Arthur (3)

Ecclesiastica - a 19th/early 20th century travelling private meditation set, comprising a collection of rolled printed Bible texts and verses, tw...

English Literature - a 19th century brass library pillar, surmounted by a portrait bust of William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), square base, 42cm hi...

Maritime History - Iconic Ship - a dinner menu, HMT Empire Windrush, Christmas Day 1950, signed to verso; another, Monday 6th November 1950, signe...

Ornithology- an early 20th century brass ACME warbling bird whistle, 9cm high

Slavery and The Abolitionist Movement - a 19th century printed leaflet, The Slave's Parody, printed for the Peckham Ladies' African and Anti-Slave...

Derbyshire interest: sale catalogue for the Stainsby House (Smalley) estate, 1939; a card bound catalogue 8 x 11in (23 x 28cm) 44 pp., R. C Knight...

Photography - Travel - an interesting 19th century photograph album, folio, HMS Prince Consort Mediterranean, containing black and white photograp...

Cookery - an 18th and 19th century manuscript recipe book, inscribed to inside front board ** Baker ** 1737, above C* Martin, Lincolnshire, subseq...

Cooking - Food History - a 19th century ink MS cookery book, begun by Mrs Barry Coddington, 1895, various recipes and receipts, including Kaiser W...

Mining Interest - an early 18th century Swannington Colliery [Leicestershire] accounts ledger, leather binding with paper label to cover inscribed...

The Industrial Revolution - Legal History and Intellectual Property - a Victorian grant of letters patent, with great seal, No.2398, granted 19th...

A quantity of marbelised book binding paper

Aboriculture - Forsyth, William, A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees; in which a New Method of Pruning and Training is Fully D...

Antiquarian - Dickens, Charles, Bleak House, Bradbury & Evans, London 1853, half-bound green morocco, marbled boards, tooled and gilt spine; David...

Antiquarian Books - Twenty five Sonnets of Shakespeare, limited numbered edition, hand printed at the Shakespeare head press, Stratford Upon Avon,...

Bates, H. E. - hardback first editions, including Spella Ho, 1938; Fair Stood The Wind For France, 1944; The Purple Plain, 1947; The Jacaranda Tr...

Bible, Provincial Imprint, Baskerville, John, The Holy Bible, Containing The Old and the New Testament; with the Apocrypha: Translated Out of the ...

Bicknell, W I, The Natural History of the Sacred Scriptures, and Guide to Zoology....The London Printing and Publishing Company (Limited), half-bo...

Books - Camden's Britannia, Londini , 1607, latin; another copy newly translated in to English, with large additions and improvements, F Colli...

Books - Gates, Doris, Blue Willow, Frederick Muller, London 1942, illustrated by Paul Lantz; O'Connor, Captain W F, Folk Tales From Tibet, Hurst A...

Carroll, Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Charles Robinson, Cassell and Company Ltd, London, New York, Toronto c.1900, pict...

Dampier, William, A Voyage to New Holland, &c. in the year 1699, where in are described The Canary Islands, Isles of Mayo, and St Jago, The Bay of...

Derbyshire, Architecture and Exploration - Charles Cox, J, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, vols I & II, Bemrose & Sons, Derby, 1877; Seaver, ...

Divers Ancient Monument in the Saxon Tongue, Written feven hundred yeares agoe, Shewing That both in th old and new testament, the Lords Prayer, a...

Folio Society - Anthony Trollope - The Duke's Children, The Complete Edition - limited edition 273/1980, with commentary volume, published 2015, c...

Folio Society - Charlotte Emily and Anne Bronte, The Complete Works - seven volumes in slipcase, 2004; The Brontes, A Life in Letters, Juliet Bark...

Folio Society - Doomsday Book, three volumes in slipcase, published 2003; Queen Victoria, Leaves From The Journal Of Our Life In The Highlands, pu...

Folio Society - Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time, six volumes in two slipcases, published 2000 (2)

Folio Society - Robert Thornton - The Temple Of Flora - elephant folio with fine binding, companion volume commentary by Stephen Harris, published...

Folio Society - various titles, fiction and non-fiction, including Grimm's Fairy Tales; Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio; The Arabian Nights; Han's Anders...

Folio Society - William Shakespeare - Sonnets and Poems - letterpress limited edition 1061/1980, companion volume edited by Colin Burrow, publishe...

Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles, editor, Their Majesties' Court 1906, First Year of Issue, limited to two hundred and fifty copies, number 94, The Cax...

Glamour and Pin Ups - a large and comprehensive collection of Playboy Magazines, mostly c.1970's/80's (qty)

Henry Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, Cassell & Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne 1893, 8vo, fold-outs, blue cloth boards; others, ...

Henry Rider Haggard, The Ivory Child, first edition, Cassell & Company Ltd, London 1916, 8vo, pictorial dust jacket; others, The Wanderer's Neckla...

Houghton (Rev. W. M.A, F L S) British Fresh-Water Fishes, one vol folio 1879 complete with A F Lydon coloured plates, half calf spine, tooled boar...

Incunabula - Hartmann Schedel, a page from the Nuremberg Chronicle, Latin version, woodblock print, Anton Koberger, 1493

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Simarillion, first edition, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1977, black cloth boards, 8vo ...[more]

John Lord Campbell, The Lives of The Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King Geo...

Local Interest - Derby, Keys (John), Sketches of Old Derby and Neighbourhood, edited by George Frederick Gadd, Bemrose and Sons, Limited, London 1...

Masonic and Friendly Society Interest - Gould, Robert Freke, The History of Freemasonry, Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, Etc. De...

Milne (A.A.) The House At Pooh Corner, first edition 1928; Now We Are Six, 1927, second edition; Winnie The Pooh, 1927, third edition (3)

Modern Firsts and Editions - Dominic, R B, Murder Out of Commission, Published for Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, New York, 1976, first editio...

Paterson, Capt Daniel, Paterson's British Itinerary, Being a New and Accurate Delineation of the Direct and Principal Cross Roads of Great Britain...

Signed Copy - Blyton, Enid, Hollow Tree House, illustrated by Elizabeth Wall, second impression, Lutterworth Press, London 1949, inscribed to fly-...

The Folio Society - various titles, fiction and non-fiction, including James Joyce, Ulysses; Wilkie Collins, The Woman In White; Virginia Woolf, O...

The Works of Aristotle, a new edition, in four parts, his complete Master Surgeon, Midwives, Nurses piece, Printed for J Urquihart. London 1817; ...

First Edition 1677, The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, Extracted Out of Records, Original Evidences, Leiger Books, other Manuscripts, and Authent...

Topography - Select Views in Great Britain. Engraved by S. Middiman, from Pictures and Drawings by the most Eminent Artists, with Descriptions, pu...

William Heath Robinson, Absurdities, A Book of Collected Drawings by Heath Robinson, Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd, London, pictorial boards ...