Collectables Auctions

An 18th century manuscript in Hebrew on vellum (The laws of a men) and what is said before the taking of hands and the blessing of the one who bri...

(An Encyclopaedic Compendium). Ottoman manuscript on paper, 19th cent. 627 lvs, 25 lines per page. Beautiful manuscript w. opening floral headpiec...

Qur'an Illuminated manuscript Qur'an copied by 'Abd al-Rahman Tawfiq, Ottoman Empire, c.1825-50 Arabic manuscript in black ink on polished laid ...

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

Fitzgerald, Edward (trans.) "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" Introduction by A.C. Benson, Fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge, Siegle, Hill & Co. (19...

On Meteorites. Notebook, part filled with cuttings, manuscript notes & a few watercolour sketches re. meteorites & where found, etc. Mid to late ...

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - NINETEENTH CENTURY The Ballad of Chevy Chase, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT, on vellum, 20 pages, comprising pictorial title-p...

Engineers Site Book for Peoria & Oquawka Railroad, c.1850, Undated manuscript note book, c.1850's, ahrd cover with marbled boards 15cm x 18cm, tan...

Blencathra Sanitorium (near Keswick). National Association for the Prevention of Consumption & Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Cumberland Branch, Bl...

Daniell, William - and Richard Ayton A Voyage Round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813 and Commencing from the Land's-End,...

Jacobite history Collection of works Home, John. The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1745. London: by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, Jun. and W...

BOOKBINDERS COPY - Folio Society, 2002 Book. As New. Hardcover. hardback, folio, bound in full green goatskin leather lettered gilt, red leather f...

BOOKBINDERS COPY - The Holkam Bible, Folio Society, 2007, limited to 1750 editions, with companion commentary, 2 vols., 4to., First Edition thus,...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** China.- Naide (Gu, compiler ) Fawei lizheng tongshu [The Datong Almanac], ...

Manuscript Book on The Use of the Globes & Astronomy, manuscript text book, dated 1840, inscribed to the inside of the cover Adine Josephine Edlma...

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

GIBBS ARTHUR. Incidents of a Voyage to Bombay & China ... by Arthur Gibbs, Butcher's Mate on Board P&O S.S. Brindisi. Manuscript notebook of 148p...

NATIVE CHIEFS AND ROYAL VISITS The Native Chiefs and their States in 1877, FIRST EDITION, half-title, toning, bookplate of the Sitaram Narayan P...

Heinrich Vogtherr (1490-1556), Sebald Beham (1500-1550), and Jost Amman (1539-1591) Sammelband of artist's pattern books, Germany, 16th century ...

Cleland, Elizabeth A New and Easy Method of Cookery Treating I. Of Gravies, Soups, Broths, etc. II. Of Fish, and their Sauces. III. To Pot and M...

Medicine Manuscript notebook of Robert Wiltshire Evans, Royal Navy surgeon, c.1795-1805 4to (20 x 15.5cm), contemporary tan sheep-backed marbled...

HARLEQUINADE - MANUSCRIPT FLAP-BOOK A seventeenth century manuscript pictorial flap-book 'Painted By Sal. Court, Price 2s.', on paper, ink and w...

BOOKBINDERS COPY - The Buried Giant (Signed Limited Edition of 205) by Ishiguro, Kazuo published by Faber & Faber 2015, Fine 1st print 2015 Faber...

Ayrton (Michael) Collection of original illustrations, proof prints, and related ephemera for 'Tittivulus, or The Verbiage Eater ', including...

Sowerby, James, The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, Sowerby, James, The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain or Coloured Figures and Descripti...

GOSCHEN SIR EDWARD, British Ambassador to Berlin at the commencement of WWI. A substantial collection of Sir Edward Goschen`s personal papers, do...

DIAMOND MINING 'An Account of a journey to the Diamond Fields in South Africa in 1872', manuscript notebook written by American Frederick W. Smith...

Adam, William Vitruvius Scoticus Being a collection of plans, elevations, and sections of public buildings, noblemen's and gentlemen's houses in...

Sun Yat-sen Kidnapped in London Being the Story of my Capture By, Detention at, and Release from the Chinese Legation, London. Bristol: J. Arrow...

COMPUTING – DEUCE Manuscript programming guide for the DEUCE computer, titled 'DEUCE/ (Basic)' and dated '28.8.1961 to 28.11.1961' on upper cover,...

Twenty six C18th & C19th vellum and other documents relating to Middleton, Suffolk, dated variously 1734-1886, including vellum indenture assignme...

Macaulay (Rose), Orphan Island , first edition, 1924; Macaulay (Rose), The World My Wilderness , first edition, 1950, with d.w.; Spark (Muriel),...

Novum Testamentum, A New Testament in Latin , 32mo, full calf, published by Charlotte Guillard, Paris 1554, with manuscript inscriptions and footn...

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

The Garden of the Soul , 16mo., calf, 1755; The Oeconomy of Human Life, translated from Indian manuscript, 12mo., calf, 1751; The Office for th...

Manuscript Diaries. Hannay & Dietrichsen's Diary ... With Their Almanack (concludes with Medicinal Catalogue & Adverts). Vols. for 1842, 1843 & 1...

Manuscript Accounts Books. Mid 18th century limp vellum notebook of agricultural accounts; another with Garden accounts, early 19th cent., & 2 mo...

FAWCETT DR. RICHARD. The Birth of the Christ. Beautiful manuscript throughout with gilt ground illus., coloured text & rulings, etc. Dark leather...

Glosop & Staley Bridge Rent Book (from) Sepr. 5th 1854. Completed in manuscript with various slipped in correspondence & other papers. Limp maroo...

"Church Notes, Epitaphs &c." - Manuscript. Calf bound 8vo vol. containing a mass of closely written manuscript on various size leaves, author unk...

Philosophy manuscript 'Theses Logicae ... Ontologicae ... Pneumatologicae', Scotland, early 18th century 4to (20 x 15cm), contemporary calf, [50...

Shepard, E. H. (illustrator) Playtime and Company A Book for Children. Verses by E. V. Lucas. Pictures by E. H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. L...

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAVES A group of 8 illuminated leaves from a Book of Hours, ink on vellum, 15 lines of text (recto and verso), Gothic te...

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

An Interesting set of French illuminated pages, 19th century, some inscribed "Bibliotheque Royale de Paris" and "Bibliotheque de la Manastere de l...

Godwin (Edward and Stephani), Warrior Bard: The Life of William Morris , 8vo, illus., 1947 with dw; Morris (William), A Book of Verse: Facsimile ...

Kipling (Rudyard), Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine: The Light That Failed , 8vo, boards, illus with portrait frontispiece of the author; Woods (T...

Weekley (Montague), Thomas Bewick , 8vo, cloth, illus., Oxford University Press, 1953; An Auction Catalogue of Books and Engravings formerly belo...

SAMGRAHANI SUTRA, MEWAR OR MARWAR, LATE 18TH CENTURY ink with gouache and gold on paper, fifty four double sided folios of from a dispersed manu...

Manuscript Accounts - Rev. John Romney of Whitestock Hall, Ulverston. Kearsley's Gentleman's & Tradesman's Pocket Ledger for 1829, 1830 & 1832. E...

HOWARD HENRY, of Corby Castle. Letts's Diary or Bills Due Book & Almanack for 1832, 1839, 1841 & 1842. Vols. for 1832 & 1841 with ownership inscr...

A.M.D.E. Course of Heraldry. Manuscript & original watercolour, gouache & pencil throughout. Fine arms, crests, regalia & orders. Demonstrates th...

(DEACONS THOMAS). A Journey from Paris to Strasburg Through Switzerland Mainly on Foot; by the Simplon Through Italy to Rome, Then Florence, Veni...

JOHN LEECH, British caricaturist & artist, 1817-1864. Three manuscript letters in the artist`s hand, 1844, 1852 & 1866, together with 3 leaves of...

Diary & Account Book - Alnwick Area. Dunn & Duncan's Law & Commercial Daily Remembrancer for 1834. Crude manuscript diary & accounts throughout (...

MARGARET POPPER, World War I nurse, mentioned in despatches. A small bundle of documents & ephemera incl. Mentioned in Despatches by Sir Douglas ...

Baskerville, John (printer) The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, with the Apocrypha. Translated out of the Original Tongues,...

CHATTERTON (THOMAS) Autograph fragment, the lower right portion from a lost letter to his sister Mary, comprising nine lines on recto and eight o...

CAMPBELL (ROY) Archive of autograph and printed material relating to South African poet, Roy Campbell (1901-1957), much relating to the 1950 editi...

BUTLER (CHARLES) The Feminine Monarchie: or The Historie of Bees, second edition, variant with 6 leaves in signature A and no blanks, woodcut f...