Books, Documents & Manuscripts

Antique Buying and Collecting. [Catalogue] S. Richards' Catalogues No. 1-60/Objects of Art, and Curiosities: On Sale, Nottingham, 15th November, 1...

Art. Moore (Henry), Heads, Figures and Ideas, with a comment by Geoffrey Grigson, first edition, trade edition, London: George Rainkind, 1958, lit...

Art. Newbolt (Frank, ARE), L'Œuvre gravé de Frank Brangwyn ARA, RE, first edition, copy no. 6 from an edition of 50, signed by Brangwyn, Paris: Ga...

Art. Vitali (Lamberto) & Chiara (Piero, editor), Dodici acquarelli e disegni di Alberto Dürer, copy no. 144/450,Milano: Vanni Scheiwiller Editore,...

Bibliography, Illustrated Books & their Illustrators. Robins (W.P., RE), Etching Craft, no. 29/65 large paper copies, London: from the Office of T...

Children's and Juvenile Books. [Lepidoptery] The Emperor's Rout, first edition, London: Charles Tilt, 1831, 4 hand-coloured lithographic plates of...

Cookery. The Family Receipt-Book [...], London: Printed for the Editors, and Published by Oddy and Co., n.d. [c. 1820], double-column, 20th c calf...

Dix (Thomas), A Treatise on Land-Surveying, fourth edition, London: Printed by Weed and Rider, et al., 1819, folding bird's eye engraved map front...

Drama & the Theatre. [Vanbrugh (John)], A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok'd Wife, From immorality and Prophaneness (sic), first ed...

Fore-Edge Paintings; The Sells-Trapnell-Mexborough Copy. Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher), A History of The University of Cambridge, its Colleges, H...

Forster (E.M.), Alexandria: a History and a Guide, second edition, Alexandria: Whitehead Morris Limited, 1938, folding lithograph map, plates and ...

Geology. Kurr (Dr. J.G. Kurr, Professor of Natural History to the Polytechnic Institution of Stuttgart), The Mineral Kingdom, with Coloured Illust...

Hagiography. Rader (Matthäus), Bavaria Sancta, volume I only, first edition, Monachii [Monaco]: Apud Raphaëlem Sadelerum [Raphael Sadler], 1615, l...

History, Politics, & Military. Anon, The Exorbitant Grants of William the III, second edition, London, s.n., 1703, 28pp, tatty but stable, some fo...

Liverpool. Enfield (William), An Essay Towards the History of Liverpool [...], first edition, Warrington: s.n., 1773, vi, [6] (subscribers), 116, ...

Modernism. Bosschère (Jean de), Sitwell (Edith, translator), Rootham (Helen, translator), et al., & Lewis (Wyndham, illustrator), Job le Pauvre, w...

Natural History and Evolution. Darwin (Charles, MA, FRS, &c.), The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. With Illustrations, two-volum...

Natural History, Entomology. Albin (Eleazar) & Derham (William, FRS), A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with A Hundred Copper Plat...

Natural History, Entomology. Plates I-L from Albin's and Derham's A Natural History of English Insects, third edition, one of 150 copies, London: ...

Natural History. Buffon (Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de) & Sonnini de Manoncourt (Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert), Histoire Naturelle, genérale et par...

Textiles. A collection of French textile patterns, mid-19th c, folding lithographs, mixed sizes and condition, Needlework for All, Nos. 49-72, n.d...

Travel, Palestine, the Near and Middle East.  Gordon (Charles George, Pasha Gordon of Khartoum), Reflections in Palestine, 1883, first edition, Lo...

A collection of British and European bookplates/ex-libris labels, early-late 20th c, mostly pictorials, including the Aesthetic Movement bookplate...

A Victorian lady's drawing-room album, mixed dates, approx. [35]ff, illustrated with 11 topographical watercolours, some sepia, including named-vi...

Christmas Greetings Cards. A collection of approx. 915 polychrome cards, late 19th/early 20th c, approx. 150 of which are after designs by Felix D...

Christmas Greetings Cards. A Victorian pop-up action architectural card, n.d. [c. 1870-80], printed in polychrome, 11.5 x 7.5cm (closed), another ...

Christmas Greetings Cards. Approx. ninety with animals, including anthropomorphic and novelty, 19th-early 20th c, including A Joyous Christmas and...

Christmas Greetings Cards. Miscellaneous cards, 19th-20th c, including a mid-Victorian embossed paper, moiré silk and satin card, n.d. [c. 1860-70...

Christmas Greetings Cards. Sentimental cards printed with children and adolescents, 19th-20th c, various designers, including examples by Kate Gre...

Christmas Greetings Cards. Thirty-nine novelty cards depicting food and drink, 19th-early 20th c, including A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington KG, et al.,  (1769-1852). English School, mid-19th c - A Reminiscence of the 18th of Novemb...

Infographics. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) - A Chart of Biography [...], the folding timeline only, London: J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, Ma...

Local Interest. A vellum manuscript assignment of land, dated 3 Sept:r 1664, between Thomas Hankin and the Southwell Manor Court, signed on behalf...

Norman Thelwell (1923-2004) - "Give Fred A Shout As You Go By - He's Doing The Traffic Census"; a cartoon, possibly intended as a book illustratio...

Postcards. An extensive collection of picture postcards, c1900-mid 20th c, the earlier cards including British views, towns and cities, coastal re...

Shropshire. Auctioneers: Messrs. Lane, Saville & Co., London, W.1., & Messrs. Barber & Son, The Buildwas Park Estate, Ironbridge, Shropshire. Part...

Theatre. The London Palladium, early 20th c and later, comprising "O-Kay for Sound" by George Black, the 14th September, the 1936 programme, origi...

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - The Nativity, monogrammed AD and dated ?1504/9 within the plate, but presumably a later impression, engraving, presum...

Astronomy. Henry Robinson (fl. c. 1780) - An accurate Representation of the Meteor which as seen on Aug:t 18th 1783. At first it appeared as one B...

Attributed to Symphorian Reinhart (German printer, first-half 16th c) after Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472-1553) - The Martyrdom of the Twelve A...

Gérard/Girard Audran (1640-1703) after Raphael, Frescoes of the Loggia di Psyche at Agostino Chigi's Villa Farnesina, a set of fourteen, numbered ...

Henry IV of France (1553-1610), an album of approx. 60 Old Master and other prints, 17th c and later, including two copies of Pierre-Etienne Moitt...

Italian Grand Tour. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Veduta della vasta Fontana di Trevi anticamente detta l'Acqua Vergine, later 20th c i...

Old Masters. Studio del Disegno ricavato dall'extremita delle figure del celebre quadro della trasfigurazione di Raffaelle, Roma: nello Studio di ...

Quaker. Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) after Joseph Epenetus Coombs (fl. 1830-1840), The Quiet Hour, London: James Sheldon, n.d. [c. 1830-40],...

Surrey. Frans Hogenberg (1539/40-1590) after Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600) - [Nonesuch Palace] Palatium Regium in Angliæ Regno apellatum Nonciutz; d...

The Cult of Mourning in Early Victorian England. A portfolio of English Gothic Revival designs for grave 'headstones' and funerary architecture, d...

The Holy Land. David Roberts RA, RBA (1796-1864) - Circular Temple at Baalbec, May 5th 1839, London: Pub:d by F.G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle St., Jan:...

Joan Blaeu (1596-1673) - Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Cornwall and Leicestershire; seven double-page county maps, mixed dates,...

Yorkshire. Joan Blaeu (1596-1673) - four double-page county maps, mixed dates, but all 17th c, engravings, contemporary or slightly later hand-col...

Wales. Joan Blaeu (1596-1673) - Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, and Denbighshire and Flintshire; two double-page county maps, mixed dates, but both ...

Late Victorian Oxford. A student's photograph album, Leslie Rimmer Paterson (1866-1935), of Keble College, dated 1887-88, comprising 16 large form...