The May Auctions 2024 - Country House Attics including Ombersley Court Attics

Museo Borbonico Raccolta delle pui interessante Dipinture e de pui belli Musaici rinvenuti negli Scavidi Ercolano, di Pompei e di Stabia che amira...

Lyndon (B) Combat, a Motor Racing History and a quantity of boys' albums, all relating to motor sport

A Victorian passport, No9413 in a leather case by Edward Stanford, 5, Charing Cross and a quantity of leather bound and other miniature books

Dickens (Charles) The Works, Chapman & Hall, London 1880, 8vo, 30 volumes, half calf and cloth boards

Shakespeare (W) The Plays of William Shakespear, 1811, London: J. Nichols, 8vo, 9 of 10 volumes, full calf with gilt tooled spines

O'Meara (B) Napoleon in Exile; or, a Voice from St. Helena, 1st edition, 2 volumes, London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822, 8vo., half calf

Penning (D) The Ready Reckoner or Trader’s most useful Assistant, London: S. Crowder, 1728, 12mo, publisher’s boards

Robinson (W. H., illustrator) A Song of the English, by Rudyard Kipling, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909], 30 tipped-in colour plates, 4to., pub...

Mills (C) Where The Rainbow Ends, illustrated by Leo Bates, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1920 First Edition, 4to., publisher’s gilt stamped red clo...

Rackham (A, illustrator) The Ring of Nibelung: A Trilogy, London: Heinemann, 1939, 4to. 1st ed., publisher’s original cloth

Brangwyn (F) Belgium, London: Kegan Paul, 1916, 4to., cloth spine and blue boards

Lee (L) Cider with Rosie, London: Hogarth Press, 1959, 1st edition with original dustcover, signed and dedicated

Leaf (M) The Story of Ferdinand Illustrated by Robert Lawson, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1937, first edition, publisher's cloth backed boards, dust ...

Austen (Jane) Works, London: Collins 1952-53, pocket edition in original slipcase; Farnol (Jeffrey) Works, London: Sampson Low, Pocket Edition, ci...

Austen (Jane), Sense and Sensibility, London, George Allen, 1899, 8vo, publisher's gilt stamped green cloth, illustrations by Chris Hammond; toge...

Walker (J. & C.) Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas; containing separate Maps of every County in England and the three Ridings of Yorkshire, London: J. an...

Rickman (Thomas) An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, Oxford: John Henry, 1862, Sixth Edition, 8vo, half leatherOmber...

The Berkeley Music ManuscriptsA country house music collection of particularly large extent, Victorian and earlier, comprising both printed and ma...

Natural History Interest to include Fabre (Jean Henri) Insect Adventures, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1967; Free (John) Bumblebees, London: Co...

Housman (Laurence) and Edmund Dulac (illus) Stories from The Arabian Nights, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907, from a limited edition of 350 cop...

Grose (Francis) The Antiquities of Scotland, London: S. Hooper, 2 volumes 1789 & 1791, 4to, half calf and marbled boards, marbled endpapers with b...

Sowerby (George Brettingham) Popular British Conchology. A familiar history ... of the British Isles, London: Lovell Reeve, 1854, half-title, 1 ha...

A Collection of Pictorial Bindings to include Folkard (Charles) Grimm's Fairy Tales, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1911; Anon, Dick Delver, London...

Cook (Captain James) A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, undertaken by command of His Majesty for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere perform...

Hawkesworth (John) New Discoveries Concerning the World, and Its Inhabitants In Two Parts, London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1778, 8vo, full calf,Co...

Goldsmith (Oliver) The Vicar of Wakefield, London: F Newbery, 1766, 2 vols, 16mo, full calf gilt with raised bands to spines, marbled endpapers, b...

Voltaire A Treatise on Toleration; the Ignorant Philosopher; and a Commentary on the Marquis of Becaria's Treatise on Crimes and Punishments, Lond...

Sterne (Laurence) works, London: J Johnson et al, 1798, 10 vols, 12mo, full tree calf gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispieces (10)Not coll...

Hazlitt (William) Lectures on the English Poets, Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1818, 8vo, half calf and marbled boards, gilt lettering on raised ba...

Fine Bindings, to include: Digby (Kenneth) Religio Medici, London: R.Scot et al, 1678, the seventh edition, 16mo, full marbled calf and endpapers,...

Fine Bindings, to include: Addison (Joseph) Works, London: J and R Tonson and S Draper, 1746, 4 vols, 16mo, full calf gilt; Waller (Edmund) Works,...

Literature, to include: Rabelais (Francois) works, London: Gibbings and Company, 1897, 4 vols, 12mo, part calf and marbled boards; Browning (Rober...

Reprint Society, various volumes, to include: Greene (Graham), The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, Waugh (Evelyn), Whe...

20th Century Literature, to include: Lewis (Wyndham) The Human Age, London: Methuen & Co, 1956, 2 vols, 8vo, original dust jacket; One-Way Song, L...

Literature, to include: Rossetti (Dante Gabriel) and Dante La Vita Nuova, London: George Routledge & Sons, 8vo, part vellum and cloth gilt; Keats ...

A collection of books on Seamanship and Engineering to include Sothern (J. W. M) Marine Diesel Oil Engines, Glasgow: James Munro, 8vo, 9th edition...

Waugh (Evelyn) Works to include:- Scoop, London: Chapman & Hall, 1933; Scott-Kings Modern Europe; The Loved One, 1st edition; Love Among the Ruins...

Fraser (George MacDonald) Works, to include: The General danced at Dawn 1st ed.; Flashman and the Great Game 1st ed; The American 1st ed; Quartere...

Dickens (Charles) Works, London: Chapman & Hall, n.d., 4to, bound by W. Drewett, Kingston on Thames, 15 volumes

Wodehouse (P. G.) Several volumes to include: Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1963, 1st edition with dustcover; The Inimitable Je...

Lonsdale (The Earl of) The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes, Volumes 1-9, 11-32, predominantly 1930s editions, some with dustcovers, 8...

Forester (C.S.) Collection of Works including Hornblower with multiple first editions (qty)

Sharpe (Tom) to include: Ancestral Vices, 1st edition; Wilt, 1st edition; The Midden, 1st edition; Blott on the Landscape, 1st edition; The Throwb...

Fleming (Ian) Various Volumes to include: From Russia with Love, London: Jonathan Cape, 1917, 1st edition lacking dustcover; Live & Let Die, Londo...

Sassoon (Siegfried) Various Volumes to include: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber & Faber, 1930, 8vo, 1st edition with dustcover; Sher...

Badminton Library, two uniform part sets of the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, London: Longmans, Green & Co, various dates, 12mo, numer...

Fine Bindings, to include: Keary (A) The Nations Abroad, London: Macmillan & Co, 1875, 12mo, full embossed calf gilt, marbled endpapers and page e...

Churchill (Winston) volumes by and about Winston Churchill, to include: Churchill (Winston) The Second World War, London: Cassell & Co, 5 vols, or...

Fiction to include: Gordon (Richard) Doctor at Large, London: The Book Club, original dust jacket, The Captain's Table, Doctor on Toast, Doctor in...

Graves (Robert) volumes to include: Goodbye to All That, London: Cassell & Company, 1957, 8vo, original dust jacket; Proceed, Sergeant Lamb, Londo...

General Military History, to include: Miller (David) Lady de Lancey at Waterloo: A Story of Duty and Devotion, Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2000, orig...

Military History, volumes relating to the First and Second World Wars and the Spanish Civil War, to include: Beevor (Anthony) The Spanish Civil Wa...

Second World War and Military Interest, to include: Rosse (Captain the Earl of) and Colonel E R Hill The Story of the Guards Armoured Division 194...

Jerome (Jerome K.) Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the Dog), A. Frederics illus., Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, first edition first issu...