Antique & Fine Art Auction 8th September

BINDINGS, including Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in green grained calf by Worsfold, Pierre Charron-De la Sagesse, in elaborate blind stamped dark gree...

THE ART OF SOUND BUILDING, William Halfpenny, 2nd edition, 1725, Sam Birt, contemporary calf, both boards detached. Illustrated throughout with p...

THE HISTORY OF THE CORPS OF ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS, T W J Connolly, 1855, Longman, Brown, Presentation copy inscribed on title page: 'G.B. Campi...

MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL GUIDE TO FRANCE & BASQUE SPAIN, c. 1860, small octavo, worn tan calf, all edges gilt; illustrated with small albumen photographs...

DUCATUS LEODIENSIS, Ralph Thoresby, 1816, B Dewhirst, Leeds, folio, bound in twentieth century library half buckram; cancelled library bookplate, ...

P D JAMES, The Black Tower, signed in blue ink 'P.D. James 29 May 1975' to first blank. Spine lean, very good in near very good dustjacket (Est. p...

'PRESENTED TO J BROCK ALLEN, ESQ? ON HIS RETIREMENT', Illuminated manuscript, 1953 in presentation binding, Borough of Wolverhampton, by Erle & G....

S. PATRIS NOSTRI GREGORII EPISCOPI NYSSENI Fratris Basilii Magni Opera, 1617, Antonii Hierat, folio, bound in stamped pigskin with some repairs, '...

LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, Thomas Shepherd, 1829, Jones and Co, 2 Vols, brown library buckram (2) (Est. plus 17.5% premium)

THE SPIRIT WORLD UNMASKED, Henry Ridgely Evans, Laird and Lee, Chicago, paperback with two others similar (3) (Est. plus 17.5% premium)

ISRAELS PRAYER IN TIME OF TROUBLE, Edward Reynolds, 1645, Francis Neil for Robert Bostock, full red diced rexine binding. Browning and early owner...

'THOMAS COCKSHUTT'S BOOK, 1753' - Elisha Coles, A Dictionary, English-Latin and Latin-English, 4th edition, 1699, R.E. for R. Chiswell etc. Full p...

JOHN CRAXTON, Geoffrey Grigson, The Poet's Eye, 1953, Muller, near fine in a good jacket lacking most of the backstrip (Est. plus 17.5% premium)

A HISTORY OF WHITBY, George Young, 1817, Whitby, Clark and Medd, half green rexine over original boards. (2) (Est. plus 17.5% premium)

CLIMBING ON THE HIMALAYA AND OTHER MOUNTAIN RANGES, J Norman Collie, 1902, David Douglas, lightly rubbed green cloth, top edge gilt, internally ve...

J NORMAN COLLIE, Glenbrittle Skye, watercolour signed 'J Norman Collie', 24x17cm. Collie visited Skye every summer, often renting Glen Brittle Hou...

THE CYCLOPAEDIA OF BOTANY, 2 Vols, W M Clark, worn half calf over marbled boards WITH The Museum of Natural History, John Richardson etc, William ...

THE SENTIMENT OF FLOWERS, Robert Tyas, 1842, green pebbled morocco, stamped in gilt, amateur repairs; all edges gilt. Beautifully illustrated (Est...

FORMULARY FOR THE PREPARATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF NEW REMEDIES, Joseph Houlton, 1828, T. & G. Underwood, green cloth, a little foxing. Uncommon (Est...

MINIATURE SHAKESPEARE, The Works, Glasgow, David Bryce and Son, 1904, each volume 5cm high, bound in straight grain blue morocco, 38 volumes inclu...

OF THE LAWES OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITIE, Richard Hooker, 1617, Will Stansby, worn paper covered boards, engraved title page, repairs to tail of 'To...

COCK -FIGHTING AND GAME FOWL, 1938, GEORGE BAYNTUN, RED CLOTH IN BROWNED JACKET (Est. plus 17.5% premium)

CARYL BRAHMS, NINE NOVELS, all reprints in jacket, c.1960s, near fine condition (9) (Est. plus 17.5% premium)

JULES VERNE, Cesar Cascabel, 1891, Sampson Low, publisher's cloth, some plates loose. Sold with all faults (Est. plus 17.5% premium)plates 278 and...

THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING, T H White, 1958, Collins, 1st, very good in good jacket (Est. plus 17.5% premium)

ANNIE BROADBENT 1885, small octavo manuscript, worn red roan binding, mixture of verses, seaweed, drawings and music. Probably with provenance fro...

ARTHUR RACKHAM. The Vicar of Wakefield, No 391 of 575 copies, vellum binding, signed to limitation page. Frontispiece slightly damaged (Est. plus ...

ATLAS GEOGRAPHUS, or, a Compleat System of Geography, Vol II only, pp925-1772, attractive panelled calf, small quarto, old annotation to front pas...

WILLIAM MORRIS, Art and the Beauty of the Earth AND two others, William Morris, Chiswick Press and Longmans and Co, c1898, some fraying to spines ...

AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, semi-disbound green roan binding over marbled boards, small quarto, mid-Victorian album with around 100 mounted letter clippings ...

THE WORKS OF DAMIANO, RUY-LOPEZ? ON THE GAME OF CHESS, J H Sarratt, 1813, T Boosey, old calf binding, rebacked, bookplate of Adam Smith Annand, fo...

STUDIES OF CHESS, A D Philidor, 5th edition 1817, Samuel Bagster, modern quarter black morocco; preliminaries browned. A very good copy WITH one o...

BRONTE MOORS & VILLAGES, From Thornton to Haworth, Elizabeth Southwart, 1923, John Lane, inscribed by the author on the first flyleaf. Very good W...

LOUIS WAIN NURSERY BOOK, c.1902, James Clarke WITH 3 others illustrated including Dulac and Willebeek le Mair (4) (Est. plus 17.5% premium)

LIFE AND WORKS OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE AND HER SISTERS, The Haworth Edition, 1920, John Murray, half pink morocco, faded and scuffed to spine, bound b...

ANDREW LANE - 7 FAIRY BOOKS, Longmans, mostly 1930s-1940s imprints; Olive Fairy Book, 1907 but in good condition only, the rest very good: Red, Ye...

LOIDIS AND ELMETE, Thomas Dunham Whitaker, T Davison, 1816, half sheepskin binding, spine renewed, second edition, 2 huge volumes with ephemera an...

THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK, Andrew Lang, 1894, Longmans, Green and Co and 11 other Victorian novels and Boswell's Life of Johnson (13) (Est. plus 17.5%...

LIFE AND LAUGHTER 'MIDST THE CANNIBALS, Clifford W Collinson, c1920s, Hurst and Blackett with a portrait photographs and two postcards from 'Cliff...

JOHN RUSKIN, Letters to M.G. & H.G. 1903, Privately Printed, attractive green buckram with a letter from Mary Drew, formerly Gladstone, one of the...

A TREATISE OF THE LAWES OF THE FOREST, 1615, Printed for the Societie of Stationers, remnants of a full calf binding, nothing before the title pag...

ARTHUR H J KING, Awheel to the Arctic Circle, 1940, W J Fowler, signed on title page. Near fine in a good jacket (Est. plus 17.5% premium)

THE NEW STYLE, Maurice Casteels, 1931, B T Batsford, very good in a good jacket WITH Ellis and Co. Electro Plate catalogue, Birmingham (2) (Est. p...

PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES, Edmund Lodge, 1825, Harding, Triphook and Lepard, large quarto, 9 volumes attractively bound in decorative di...

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, 1802, Oxford, Dawson, Bensley and Cooke, quarto, reversed calf, speckled edges to the text block. An attractive copy (E...

COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF YORK, Thomas Allen, 1828, Hunton, 6 Vols, worn half calf over marbled boards (6) (Est. plus 17.5% premium)

THE FLEET PAPERS, Letters to Thomas Thornhill from Richard Oastler, Vol I no 1, 1841-Vol II no 18, Vincent Terras, library buckram, withdrawn libr...

HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE DEANERY OF CRAVEN, Thomas Dunham Whitaker, 1805, Nichols and Son. Handsomely bound in twentieth century half sheep ...

THE BUTTERFLY FAUNA OF CEYLON, L G O Woodhouse, G Henry, 1942, Ceylon Government Press, Colombo, illustrated, and with printed tissue guards. And...

THE HOLY BIBLE, Oxford Printed by the University Printers, 1701, large folio, nineteenth century bevel-edged blind-stamped sheepskin binding, crac...

RESEARCHES ON LIGHT IN ITS CHEMICAL RELATIONS, Robert Hunt, 1854, 2nd Edition, Longman, Brown, Green. Publisher's brown cloth, a very good copy (E...

A PICTURE OF PETERSBURGH, Published and sold by Edward Orme, 1815, folio (476 x 330mm.). Contemporary straight grain brown morocco gilt, rubbed an...

THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF NORTH DURHAM, James Raine, 1852, John Bowyer Nichols, outsize folio half black morocco binding, marbled endpapers. ...

FREDERICK CARTER (ILLUSTRATOR) Manfred, 1929, Fanfrolico Press, full vellum binding coming unstuck, signed by Carter on limitation page, 'not in s...

BINDINGS, The Story of Old Halifax, T W Hanson. 1920 and 5 other Halifax and Calder Valley titles including an eighteenth century imprint of the H...

HALIFAX, AND ITS GIBBET LAW, 1761, 3rd edition, nineteenth century calf WITH 2 others, Halifax interest (3) (Illustrated) (Est. plus 17.5% premium)

SIGNED BY W E JOHNS, Flying Stories, no date, John Hamilton, thick small quarto, paper covered boards rubbed. Signed by Johns obliquely to title p...

COFFINS BOTANICAL JOURNAL, Published at the British Medico-Botanic Establishment, 2 Volumes, 1850-2; 1852-5, brown pebbled cloth (2) (Est. plus 1...

WOOLLEN WEAVERS BOOK, June 1854, William Simpson, Brow Bridge, Greetland, small octavo, handwritten business records. WITH Minute Book for Halifax...

WILLIAM AND THE WITCH, 1st ed, 1964 First Edition in jacket with 8 other Richmal Crompton titles (9) (Est. plus 17.5% premium)Tramp- 1st, 1952, pr...