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Nicholson, William 'An Introduction to Natural Philosophy', illustrated with copper plates, 4th ed. Johnson, London 1796, 2 vols. 8vo. full calf r...

Thomson, Sir Wyville 'Voyage of the Challenger - The Atlantic', 2 vols. Macmillan, London 1877, 8vo. numerous plates, maps etc, gilt tooled green ...

Lydekker, Richard 'The Royal Natural History', Frederick Warne, London 1893-4, 6 vols. half calf plus Kirby, W.F. 'Lloyds Natural History', 5 vol...

Bonhote, J Lewis 'Birds of Britain', H.E. Dresser Illus, Black, London 1907, half red calf by Bickers plus Farrer, Reginald 'The English Rock Gard...

White, Rev. Gilbert 'The Natural History of Selbourne', 2 vols. Arch. Longman et al, London 1822, full calf, 8vo. b/p, two further single volume c...

A 19th century photograph album, Henry J Godbold, Hastings, and The London School of Photography containing 30 portrait images, (85 x 52mm) c.1870...

Microscopy - Baker, Henry 'The Microscope Made Easy', 2 pts in one, 15 plates, some folding, 2nd ed. Dodsley et al, London 1743, full calf, reback...

Microscopy - Beck, Richard 'The Acromatic Microscope', Smith Beck & Beck, 1865, green cloth plus 15 related titles. Mixed used condition ...[more]

Adams, George 1709-1772 'Micrographia Illustrata or The Microscope Explained', with folding frontispiece and 71 plates, some folding, bound with '...

Carpenter, William B 'The Microscope and Its Revelations', Churchill, London 1857, small 8vo plus Hogg, Jabez 'The Microscope; Its History Constru...

Drinkwater, John 'A History of the Late Siege of Gibraltar' with a description and account of that Garrison. Third ed. printed by Spilsbury for Jo...

James, Lt. Col. Thomas, Royal Regiment of Artillery 'The History of the Herculean Straits now called The Straits of Gibraltar...', 2 vols. Charles...

Ancell, Samuel 'A Journal of the Late and Important Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar from the Twelfth of September 1779 to the Third Day of Februar...

Carew, Richard 'The Survey of Cornwall', Samuel Chapman et al, London 1723, red and black printed title page with an 'Epistle' at end, engraved co...

Oxford - Ackermann, Rudolph, Publisher 'A History of The University of Oxford', First Edition, London 1814, 2 vols. 4to. with dedication to Willia...

Hipkins, A.J. 'Musical Instruments', Historic, Rare and Unique, William Gibb (Illustrator), Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh 1888, limited editio...

Whitehead, P.J.P 'Trustees of The British Museum: Forty Drawings of Fishes Made By The Artists Who Accompanied Captain James Cook on his Three Voy...

Latin/Greek Lexicons / Dictionaries/ Grammers etc New Testament Commentary x 5 vols. 1887, leather bound school prizes and miscellaneous titles (2...

A collection of Classical Greek and Roman texts including Xenophon, Aristophanes, Titus Livius, Pliny, Cicero, Sophocles, Juvenal and associated t...

A collection of Antiquarian classical texts including Ovid, Tacitus, Homer, Pliny etc, all small format and in mixed used condition (c.30) ...[mo...

Titus Livius, 'Historiarum....' Arnold Drakenborch edition, seven volumes, Clarendon Press Oxford 1800, 7 vo. original full calf with green and re...

Villeius Paterculus (19BC-c.31AD) Cum Notis Gerardi Vossii, ex Officina, Elzeviriana, Ludge Batavorum, Leiden 1639, engraved title page plus Scriv...

Juvenal et Persius - Satyrae ex Officina Hackiana (Leiden and Rotterdam) 1664 with engraved title page plus Plautus (Titus Maccius) 'Comoediae.......

Tacitus (C. Cornelii) Gronovii (Jacobi) Opera Quae Exstant...2 vols with engraved frontispiece, red and black title page. Poolsum et Visch:Traje...

Dryden, John 'The Works of Virgil', 4 vols. Bathurst et al London 1782, engraved frontispiece with plates, full tree calf with tooled back, small ...

Lucanus, M.Annaeus 'De Bello Civili...' Priestley, London 1818, 8vo plus Sophocles 'Tragoediae Superstites...', Oxford 1832, 2 vols, 8vo, plus 6 a...

Camden, William 'Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland', 2nd ed. 4 vols Fo. Stoc...

Clarendon, Edward Earl of 'The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun In the Year 1641', 3 vols Fo. The Theatre Oxford 1704 with...

Stukeley, William 'Stonehenge A Temple Restor'd to British Druids' and Abury 'A Temple of the British Druids', Innys and Manby, London 1740, with ...

Green, Valentine 'The History of Antiquities of the City and Suburbs of Worcester', 2 vols. London 1796, with numerous plates and in test engravin...

Tonson, Jacob for Cowper (c) 'The Tryal of Dr Henry Sacheverell before the House of Peers for High Crimes and Misdemeanors', London 1710, small Fo...

Somner, William 'The Antiquities of Canterbury', 2 pts in one vol. Knaplock London 1703, with plates, small Fo. rebound blue cloth plus Blore, Edw...

Perkins, G.E. 'Clavis Homerica', Andreae Crook, London 1673, 8vo. full calf plus Johnson, Samuel 'Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides; New Edition' ...

Dalrymple, Sir John 'Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland', 3 vols. Strahan and Cadell London 1790 plus 29 further vols, poetry etc, some leather ...

Sotheby & Co 'Catalogue of The Collection of Impressionist and Modern Pictures Formed by W Somerset Maugham Esq. C.H.', 10th April 1962, with anno...

Kerr, Robert 'The Gentleman's House or How to Plan English Residences', second edition, John Murray, London 1865, with wood engravings and plates,...

Alcuin Press Chipping Camden (H.P.R. Finberg) A.E. Houseman 'A Shropshire Lad' and 'Last Poems', 1929, limited edition (325) inscribed 'For B.M. C...

Macmillan & Co (Publishers); Goldsmith, Oliver 'The Vicar of Wakefield', Hugh Thompson (Illus) 1892; Irving, Washington 'Old Christmas'; Randolph ...

Ruskin, John 'The Stones of Venice', 3 vols. Allen London 1902. 8vo. half gilt tooled calf plus Browning, Robert 'The Poetical Works', 6 vols. Smi...

Collins, William 'The Poetical Works Thereof', William Pickering, London 1830, small 8vo. tooled vellum plus a collection of 14 antiquarian bindin...

Thackeray, William Makepeace 'The Works', 22 vols. Smith Elder London 1869, 8vo. blue morocco, gilt tooled, red title, backs faded, some bumps et...

Garnett, David 'Bunny' 1892-1981 Bloomsbury Group 'Pocahontas or the Nonparell of Virginia', Chatto and Windus, London 1933, 8vo. mottled red clot...

Trollope, Anthony 'The Trollope Society London', 55 vols. 8 decorative cloth, remainder brown cloth with black titles (55) ...[more]

Hope, W.H. St John 'Windsor Castle an Architectural History', 2 vols Country Life 1913, trimmed paper, limited edition 474/1050. Fo. used conditio...

17th / 18th Century manuscript documents, indentures etc, 3 on vellum and a copy of 'The Newry Examiner & Louth Advertiser', Dundalk Dec. 18 1861 ...

Richardson, George 'The New Vitruvius Brittanicus; Consisting of Plans and Elevations of Modern Buildings by the Most Celebrated Architects', Lond...

A 19th century manuscript common place book by Agnes Robina McGeorge in a flowing longhand plus an extensive collection of c.50 well filled autogr...

Wollstonecraft, Mary 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects', new edition, T Fisher Unwin London 18...

Evelyn, John 'Silva or a Discourse of Forest Trees', Dodsley et al York 1776, portrait frontispiece after Bartolozzi, with engraved plates, 4to. f...

Walter, Marc and Arque, Sabine 'An American Odyssey', photos from the Detroit Photographic Company 1888-1924, Taschen Koln 2014, Fo. in original c...

Oxford University Press: An electroplate from the original 1933 printing of The Oxford English DictionaryWadset to Wafer (260 x 185mm) with signed...

Marx, Karl 1818-1883 'Das Kapital Kritik Der Politischen Oekonomie', 3 vols in 4, Ed. Friedrich Engels, 2nd / 3rd/ 5th editions, Otto Meissners 19...

Cicero, Marcus Tullius 'Opera Omnia: Ex Editione Dion Lambini Cum Notis D', Gothofredi I.C. Samuel Chouet Geneva 1659/60, engraved frontispiece an...

Loudon, J.C. 'The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton esq.', Longman / Black 1840, portrait frontispiece, nu...

Jardine, Sir William Six coloured ornithological prints extracted from 'The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol II', 1839, in one frame (940 x...

Gibbon, Edward 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', a new edition, Strahan and Cadell London 1782, 6 vols, 4 to. full calf p...

Baedeker, Karl 'Palestine and Syria with the Chief Routes Through Mesopotamia and Babylonia - Handbook for Travellers', Leipzig 1906, with tipped ...

Meistermann, P.Barnabe 'Guide Du Nil Au Jourdain Par Le Sinai Et Petra Sur Les Traces D'Israel', Picard Paris 1909, red cloth, gilt title plus 6 f...

Casanova Society. Mathers, E.Powys Ed. 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night', 16 vols. London 1923, limited edition 81/750. 8vo. vellum ...

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