The Christmas Library Auction - To Include Harry Potter & An Important Collection of Autograph Letters

Leon Kossoff: Unique Prints from Paintings at the National Gallery, featuring a loosely-inserted autograph letter signed by Leon Kossoff, 7 April ...

Heath Robinson, William. The Gentle Art of Reproducing, London: The Practical Etching Service, [1931]. A very scarce example of Heath Robinson's c...

Buchanan-Dunlop, Canon W. R. An album of original photographs, typewritten & manuscript research notes, loosely inserted correspondence and epheme...

Holy Bible. Old Testament lacking title page, New Testament title with misprinted imprint, London: Christopher Barker, 1495 [i.e. 1595], title of ...

Religion & Theology. A collection of three antiquarian books comprising: A Journal or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christi...

[Drelincourt, Charles]. Les Consolations de l'âme Fidèle Contre les Fraieurs de la Mort [The Christian's Defence against the Fears of Death], Char...

London History & Topography. Riley, Henry Thomas. Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of London, 8vo, full vellum lettered in gilt, marbled en...

De Laune, Thomas. The Present State of London: Or, Memorials Comprehending A Full and Succinct Account Of the Ancient and Modern State thereof, fi...

Medicine & Cookery. Domestic Cookery, by A Lady [Maria Eliza Rundell], London: I. J. Chidley, 1845, and Y Llysieulyfr Teuluaidd yn dangos Rhinwedd...

A miscellaneous group of books comprising: The Great Importance of a Religious Life Consider'd, [by William Melmoth], London: Benjamin Barker, 172...

[Swift, Jonathan]. A Tale of a Tub, Dublin: G. Faulkner, 1771. Octavo, worn contemporary calf, illustrated with eight engraved plates (including f...

Mary, Queen of Scots. [Blackwood, Adam.] Martyre de la Royne d'Escosse, first edition, Edimbourg [i.e. Paris]: Jean Nafeild, 1587. Octavo, early o...

Sweet, Robert. The British Flower Garden (Series the Second), Vol. III, London: James Ridgway, 1835. Octavo, contemporary ribbed cloth, binder's t...

Botany & Horticulture. A collection of Victorian & Edwardian books on orchids, some first editions, to include The Various Contrivances by which O...

An extensive collection of horticultural reference books, predominantly 20th-century & modern hardbacks, mostly relating to orchids and their iden...

Hulme, Frederick Edward (Illust.). Familiar Garden Flowers, by Shirley Hibberd, in five volumes, London: Cassell, [1879-1897]; Familiar Wild Flowe...

Shaw, Stebbing. The History & Antiquities of Staffordshire, first edition, Vol. I & Vol. II Part I [all published], London: J. Nichols & Son, 1798...

Travel & Topography. A collection of five books comprising: The History and Antiquities of Tewkesbury, by W. Dyde, Tewkesbury: Printed by the Edit...

[Guy Fawkes / Gunpowder Plot]. Pamphlet. Whincop, Thomas. A Sermon Preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons at St. Margaret's Westminster, ...

Pamphlets. The Rights and Interests of the Two British Monarchies, by [James Hodges], London: Anonymous, 1703, and Popery Reviving, Or an Account ...

[Peace of Utrecht / War of the Spanish Succession]. The Offers of France Explain'd, London: A. Baldwin, 1712. A very scarce pamphlet criticising o...

Rowland, Samuel. The Famous History of Guy of Warwick, two editions bound in one volume, title page present for the second only, London: Printed f...

Tacitus, Cornelius. Annales [Annals], with commentary by Justus Lipsius, Antwerp: Plantin Press, 1581. Octavo, woodcut printer's device to title, ...

[Anonymous]. Hans Holbein the Artist, translated from the German by L. A. W., Basel: H. Fischer & Co., 1857. Presentation inscription on ffep, 'Pr...

Ralph, Benjamin. The School of Raphael, Or, The Student's Guide to Expression in Historical Painting, illustrated with engravings by Duchange and ...

Marcello, Benedetto. Estro Poetico-Armonico, volume two only [of eight], Venice: Domenico Louisa, 1724. Folio, rebacked half-calf, engraved fronti...

[King Charles I]. Eikon Basilike: The Pourtracture of his Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings, [London]: Reprinted in Regis Memoriam, ...

Steele, Richard. The Romish Ecclesiastical History of Late Years, London: J. Roberts, 1714. Octavo, worn calf, engraved frontispiece, woodcut head...

Staffordshire History & Topography. A collection of books & pamphlets to include Staffordshire [extracted from Magna Britannia Survey, Vol. V, c. ...

Travel & Exploration. Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert, first edition of the first Thomas Cook guide to Egypt, origin...

A collection of angling books to include Fly-Fishing and Worm Fishing for Salmon, Trout and Grayling, by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell, London: Routledg...

The Illustrated London News. Four bound volumes comprising Jul-Dec 1859, Jul-Dec 1874, Jan-Jun 1883, Jan-Jun 1884, illustrated with several foldin...

A miscellaneous collection of books to include The Complete Works of Shakespeare, illustrated by Kenny Meadows, in three volumes, London: London P...

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford, first illustrated edition [designed by George du Maurier], London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1867. Octavo, half-calf with ...

Burne-Jones, Edward (Illust.). The Story of Cupid and Psyche: The forty-four wood-engravings designed by Edward Burne-Jones and mostly engraved by...

Lear, Edward. A collection of books, monographs, bibliographical and biographical works, to include Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica, by ...

Shearman, John. Andrea del Sarto, in two volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965, 4to, publisher's navy cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jack...

Baron, Wendy. Sickert: Paintings & Drawings, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2006. Folio, publisher's orange cloth and dust-jacket

Higton, Hester. Sundials at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Sundials, Nocturnals and Horary Quadrants in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, fi...

Brickhill, Paul. Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader, first edition, signed by Douglas Bader, 13 March 1954, London: Collins, 1954. Octa...

Williams, Eric. The Tunnel, signed & inscribed by the author, first edition, London: Collins, 1951; The Escapers, signed, first edition, Collins, ...

A collection of escape books to include The Tunnellers of Holzminden, by H. G. Durnford, first edition, Cambridge University Press, 1920; An Escap...

Kay, John (Illust.). A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, New Edition, Vol. II, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1877. 4to, wor...

Loutherbourg, Philippe James de. The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England & Wales, facsimile of the 1805 first edition, limited edition num...

A miscellaneous collection of books to include Time and Space, by Rand Le Page, London: Curtis Warren Ltd., [1952]; The Metal Eater, by Roy Sheldo...

Rupert. An extensive collection of annuals dating from 1950s to 2010s, many of the more recent years signed by illustrators John Harrold & Stuart ...