Antique Scientific Instruments

Smith (John), A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters in which is included a short biographical N...

ART – ARTHUR HUGHES & THE PRE-RAPHAELITES Archive of material relating to the Pre-Raphaelite artist, Arthur Hughes (1832-1915), assembled by art h...

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPESSIONS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES, inscribed on the front free endpa...

Victoria (Queen), Letters Between the Years 1837 to 1861, edited by A C Benson and Viscount Esher, finely bound in contemporary full brown calf, r...

Freemasonry interest , quantity of books on the history and conduct of freemasons, to include The Freemasons Review 1841, Carwithen, Rev W M "A Le...

ALBUM – SUFFRAGE, POLITICIANS & THE ARTS Album containing over 200 autograph letters and cut signatures, many responding to Mr Thompson's request ...

Carlyle (Thomas), Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, first edition, 3 vols, finely bound in full brown calf, marbled edges, Chapman and Hall,...

Bindings, to include:- "Macaulay's History of England" , Longmans Green & Co 1880, half-leather, marbled boards, red and green pastedowns with ...

ALBUM – LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE & POLITICS An extensive collection of nearly 300 autograph letters, cut signatures & free fronts, held in an albu...

Captain Ralph Kerr CBE RN (1891-1941): His original military metal trunk, containing a large collection of ephemera related to him and his family,...

Signed Modern first edition Books seven hardback books - includes, RUSHDIE (Salman). East, West, Signed on title, dust-jacket unclipped,...

SUFFRAGETTES – PANKHURSTS & THE WSPU Two typed letters and one autograph letter, from Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick Lawre...

A collection of original items belonging to Vivian Stanshall, founding member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, comprising a small group of letters w...

Roberts W. " The Book-Hunter in London " Elliot Stock 1895, ills, decorative endpapers, pictorial cloth with ills pastedown to front board, bindin...

P rivate Press - The Golden Cockerel Press - Jowett, William ( trans.) "The Phaedo of Plato" 1930, printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at The Go...

Shaw (Bernard), Morris As I Knew Him , 8vo, original soft covers, published by The William Morris Society, 1966; Arnot (R. Page), Unpublished Let...

Relating to the Pretender : Remarks on the speech of James, late Earl of Derwentwater; The Remarkable affecting Case and dying Words of Mr Archiba...

Walpole (Horace), The Letters of Horace Walpole, edited by Peter Cunningham, 9 vols, finely bound in full brown calf, labels, marbled edges, littl...

Fraser, George MacDonald Complete set of the Flashman novels, inscribed in every volume London: Herbert Jenkins [Barrie & Jenkins; Collins; Coll...

POTTER (BEATRIX) The Tailor of Gloucester, FIRST EDITION, PRIVATELY PRINTED, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates, oc...

1567 | CELÝ NÁZEV POLOŽKY: Biblisch Name Buch: Darjnn die Hebreische, Caldeische, Syrische, Griechische, vn[d] Lateinische, Namen, Gottes, vn[d] d...

Trithemius (Johannes), (translated into French by Gabriel de Collange), Polygraphie et Universell es Criture Cabalistitue , 4to, gilt calf, illus....

HARRIS (WILLIAM CORNWALLIS) Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa, During the Years 1836, and 1837, from the Cape of Good Hope, through ...

PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE) The Great White South, or with Scott in the Antarctic, tenth impression , AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'To Miss...

DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'Lewis Carroll' Autograph letter signed ('C.L. Dodgson'), to Mr Rossetti, sending him the remaining 8 photographs from ...

FLEMING (IAN) For Your Eyes Only, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, publisher's black cloth with white eye device on upper cover, spine lettered ...

Eliot (T.S. , poet , 1888-1965 ), W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, & others. A Personal Anth...

Wilde (Oscar) and Aubrey Beardsley.- Contract letters, agreed and signed by Wilde and Beardsley with publishers Elkin Mathews and John Lane , ...

Wilson (Harold), The Governnance of Britain, signed presentation copy to Edmund de Rothschild with letter; together with twelve other presentation...

Huxley (Leonard), Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Hooker, 2 vols, first edition, 1918; together with 8 others. (10)

Hallam (Henry), Letters from the North of Italy Addressed to Henry Hallam, 2 vols, half calf marbled boards, marbled edges, 1819; together with fo...

Roth (C), History of the Great Synagogue, London, 1690-1940, limited to 100 copies, signed by the author, signed presentation copy to Eddy de Roth...

A large collection of letters, invitations, photographs comprising a letter from John Everett Millais mentioning Prince Leopold Queen Victoria's y...

A group of books by J.B Priestley signed by the author and two signed letters Comprising 'English Journey', Adam in Moonshine and Benighted', '...

'Snaffles' [Payne, Charles Johnson] (1884–1967) "Being a Selection of his Hunting and Racing Prints", Millwood Press, Wellington, New Zealand, 19...

Lawrence T.E. - various volumes by and relating to , to include Garnett , David "The Letters of T. E. Lawrence" Jonathan Cape, third impression 19...

Ashbee (C. R.), Kingfisher Out of Egypt: A Dialogue in an English Garden , 8vo, rock-printed boards, illus., Oxford University Press, 1934, with a...

Murdoch (Iris), A Fairly Honorable Defeat , first edition, 1970, with d.w.; An Accidental Man , first edition, 1971, with d.w.; The Black Prin...

LIVINGSTONE (DAVID) Autograph letter signed ('David Livingstone'), to Hamidi Mahamad, writing '...in acknowledgement of his good services...', sta...

SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY) South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1911-1917, FIRST EDITION, half-title, colour frontispiece, 87 photogr...

LEAR (EDWARD) Autograph fair copy of 'Some Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly', 'Rittleout for E. Carus Selwyn', comprising all 7 verses of 7 ...

LEAR (EDWARD) Series of 43 letters and a postcard signed ('Edward Lear'), to The Rev. Edward Carus Selwyn (1853-1918), written over a period of se...

ROYALTY - 1937 CORONATION A collection of approximately 100 proof copies, many annotated, of programmes, seating plans, lists of invitees etc. rel...

BRUNEL (ISAMBARD KINGDOM) Autograph letter signed ('IK Brunel'), to Walter Shelley ('Sir'), beginning '...Your suggestion is worth consideration b...

POWELL (ANTHONY) [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, ONE A PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page , with...

A unique and comprehensive collection of archive material, illustrating the creative process of Vivian Stanshall and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, c...

Barges (J J L), and D B Goldberg, R Jehuda ben Koreisch Tiharetensis Africani, Epistola de Studii Targum Utilitate; with autograph letter from D B...

Ward (Herbert), A Voice From The Congo , 8vo., with illustrations and photographs by the author, William Heinemann, first edition, 1910; together ...

Marano (Giovanni Paolo), Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Who Lived Five and Forty Years Undiscovered at Paris , 8vo, 6mo, calf, 1770; and Halhed (...

Scotland Collection of local guides and histories, 18th-20th century All 8vo unless otherwise stated:[Edinburgh]. The Traveller's Companion thro...

WITTGENSTEIN (LUDWIG) Series of correspondence to his pupil, the eminent Cambridge philosopher Casimir Lewy (1919-1991), comprising: i) Five auto...

PHILOSOPHERS - BERTRAND RUSSELL & G.E. MOORE Collection of letters to eminent Cambridge philosopher Casimir Lewy (1919-1991), from fellow philosop...

OXFORD PLAYHOUSE COLLECTION Archive of autograph and typed letters signed, programmes and ephemera relating to a performance of Chekov's 'The Seag...

COMPUTERS, CODING, TURING AND MANCHESTER MARK I - ALICK E. GLENNIE An important archive of printed pamphlets, reports, annotated lecture notes and...

DICKENS (CHARLES) Autograph letter signed ('Charles Dickens'), to C.F. Smith ('Dear Sir'), thanking him for his '...earnest letter...' and '...for...

CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.) An unsmoked 'Winston Churchill La Corona' cigar, wrapped loosely in original cellophane, in a modern plywood cigar box stam...

[WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY)] A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable, Edmund Burke, FIRST EDITION, J. Johnson, 1790...

Golf, humorous – Marshall (Robert), The Haunted Major, Edinburgh, Moray Press, new edition, 1951, 16mo, 192pp, 10 line dwgs., green boards, gilt t...

AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA, PHOTOGRAPHS, NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS, LETTERS, AN ANNOTATED BIOGRAPHY AND A SCRAP BOOK WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF RAF...

late 19th/early 20th century, a collection of Professor Albert William Holden's personal papers to include letters, invoices, Catalogue of origina...