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Ravilious (Eric).- Richards (J.M.) High Street, first edition, wood-engraved title vignette and 24 colour lithograph plates by Eric Ravilious, faint spotting to endp...

Lot 121

25/09/2025

Ravilious (Eric).- Richards (J.M.) High Street, first edition, colour lithographs by Ravilious, Curwen Press for Country Life Ltd., 1938

£1,000 - £1,500

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Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first edition, first issue with the six line colophon, fifth line reading

Lot 94

25/09/2025

Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first edition, first issue, signed bookplate by the author laid down on title, New York, 1964.

£800 - £1,200

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Kerr (Judith) The Tiger Who Came to Tea, first edition, colour illustrations by the author, small tear to front paste down and last page, the odd small spot (mostly marginal), occa...

Lot 103

25/09/2025

Kerr (Judith) The Tiger Who Came to Tea, first edition, 1968.

£1,000 - £1,500

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Robinson (William Heath) Inculcating the habit of giving up your seat to a lady, pen and ink over pencil under-drawing, signed in the lower left corner, title inscribed in the...

Lot 117

25/09/2025

Robinson (William Heath) Inculcating the habit of giving up your seat to a lady, pen and ink, [early 20th century]

£2,000 - £3,000

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Hugo (Victor).- Claretie (Jules) La Maison de Victor Hugo Place Royale, number 8 of 75 copies, this specially printed for Mme. Arman de Caillavet, illustrations by Auguste Leroux, ...

Lot 197

11/09/2025

Hugo (Victor).- Claretie (Jules) La Maison de Victor Hugo Place Royale, Number 8 of 75 copies, with autograph letters from the author loosely inserted, Paris, Édouard Pelletan, 1904.

£100 - £150

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Satire.- Clowning.- Heath (William) and others. Grimaldi's Leap Frog in the Comic Pantomime of the Golden Fish, uncoloured etching on blue-coloured wove paper, tipped onto mou...

Lot 109

11/09/2025

Satire.- Clowning.- Heath (William) and others. Grimaldi's Leap Frog in the Comic Pantomime of the Golden Fish, etching on blue paper, Thomas Palser, 1812; together with five others, 18th and 19th century (6)

£150 - £200

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India.- [Wilson (Capt. Thomas Fourness)],

Lot 286

11/09/2025

India.- [Wilson (Capt. Thomas Fourness)], "A Staff Officer". The Defence of Lucknow. A diary recording the daily events during the siege of the European Residency, from 31st May to 25th September, 1857, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1858.

£100 - £150

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Portugal & Brazil.- Homann (Johann Baptist) Portugalliae et Algarbiae, with inset map of Brazil, engraving with hand-colouring, sheet 500 x 595 mm (20 3/4 x...

Lot 291

11/09/2025

Portugal & Brazil.- Homann (Johann Baptist) Portugalliae et Algarbiae, engraved map with inset map of Brazil, [1716]

£200 - £300

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India.- Maltby (T.J.) The Ganjam District Manual, edited by G.D. Leman, folding hand-coloured lithographed map loose in pocket to front pastedown, light soiling to title, upper joi...

Lot 181

25/09/2025

India.- Maltby (T.J.) The Ganjam District Manual, Madras, W.H. Moore at the Lawrence Asylum Press, 1882; and 2 others (3)

£400 - £600

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Steiner (Rudolf) The Way of Initiation, first edition, portrait frontispiece, tissue-guard, publisher's advertisement at end, very occasional light surface staining, light sca...

Lot 261

11/09/2025

Steiner (Rudolf) The Way of Initiation, first edition, Theosophical Publishing Society, 1908.

£150 - £200

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Guildhall.- Banquet Invitations.- [c.55 Invitations to a Banquet at Guildhall], engraved or chromolithographed, some heightened with gilt, a few with ink inscriptions of ...

Lot 254

11/09/2025

Guildhall.- Banquet Invitations.- [c.55 Invitations to a Banquet at Guildhall], 1851-1930.

£500 - £700

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Japan.- Audsley (George Ashdown) The Ornamental Arts of Japan, 9 parts in 3 vol., 2 half-titles, lithographed frontispieces and 2 titles in red and black, 105 plates, of which 70 c...

Lot 187

25/09/2025

Japan.- Audsley (George Ashdown) The Ornamental Arts of Japan, 9 parts in 3 vol., 1882-84.

£400 - £600

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Italy.- Grand Tour.- Neapolitan School (19th century) Two men remarking on the eruption of Vesuvius, gouache on paper, with double ruled border with dark grey surround inscribed in...

Lot 184

25/09/2025

Italy.- Grand Tour.- Neapolitan School (19th century) Two men remarking on the eruption of Vesuvius, gouache, 1822

£1,000 - £1,500

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Japan & China.- Jesuits.- Valignani (Alessandro) Lettera del p. Alessandro Valignano. Visitatore della Compagnia di Giesù nel Giappone e nella Cina de' 10. d'Ottobr...

Lot 188

25/09/2025

Japan & China.- Jesuits.- Valignani (Alessandro) Lettera del p. Alessandro Valignano. Visitatore della Compagnia di Giesù nel Giappone e nella Cina [& Sopplimento dell'Annua 1600], first edition, Rome, Luigi Zannetti, 1603.

£1,000 - £1,500

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Birds.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud) A Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise, one of 250 copies from an edition limited to 500, 37 plates, very light fading to spine in plac...

Lot 263

11/09/2025

Birds.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud) A Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise, one of 250 copies, New York and Amsterdam, 1977; and 2 others, facsimile editions (3)

£200 - £300

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English Reformation.- Torture & executions in the Tower.- Sanders (Nicholas) Les trois livres contenants l'origine et progrez du scisme d'Angleterre, edited by Edward Rishton, ...

Lot 180

11/09/2025

English Reformation.- Torture & executions in the Tower.- Sanders (Nicholas) Les trois livres contenants l'origine et progrez du scisme d'Angleterre, scarce first edition in French, [?Louvain], no printer, 1587.

£300 - £400

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Nash (John and Paul).- Boulton (Janet, editor) Dear Mercia: Paul Nash letters to Mercia Oakley, 1909-18, one of 300 copies, tipped-in colour frontispiece with folding larger versio...

Lot 95

11/09/2025

Nash (John and Paul).- Boulton (Janet, editor) Dear Mercia: Paul Nash letters to Mercia Oakley, 1909-18, one of 300 copies, The Fleece Press, 1991; and 7 others on Paul and John Nash (8)

£200 - £300

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Suffolk bathing.- Woodbridge public salt water swimming bath. Subscriptions invited. Prospectus, bifolium, folds, a few very short marginal tears or splits at folds, stained, light...

Lot 258

11/09/2025

Suffolk bathing.- Woodbridge public salt water swimming bath. Subscriptions invited. Prospectus, bifolium, unrecorded, Woodbridge, no printer, May, 1887.

£100 - £150

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Rowling (J.K.) [The Harry Potter Novels], 7 vol., first deluxe editions, first printings, original cloth with mounted colour illustrations and gilt signature, g.e., faint scuff mar...

Lot 110

25/09/2025

Rowling (J.K.) [The Harry Potter Novels], 7 vol., first deluxe editions, first printings, 1999-2007.

£1,000 - £1,500

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Rampant Lions Press.- Psalms of David (The), translated by Miles Coverdale, one of 315 copies, title in green & grey, original vellum-backed patterned-paper boards, t.e.g., oth...

Lot 101

11/09/2025

Rampant Lions Press.- Psalms of David (The), translated by Miles Coverdale, number 8 of 315 copies, Cambridge, 1977.

£100 - £150

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White (Rev. Gilbert) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, first edition, folding engraved frontispiece and 6 plates, one folding, 2 half-titles with engraved vignette, ...

Lot 141

25/09/2025

White (Rev. Gilbert) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, first edition, T. Bensley for B. White and Son, 1789.

£600 - £800

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Spain.- W.W. Greg's copy.- Sketches in the Southern Appennines. La bella Ninfa; Agrigentum; The bandit of Avellino, upper margins water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browne...

Lot 293

11/09/2025

Spain.- W.W. Greg's copy.- Sketches in the Southern Appennines. La bella Ninfa; Agrigentum; The bandit of Avellino, rare, no place, no printer, [c.1840].

£100 - £150

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World.- Quin (Edward) An Historical Atlas; in a Series of Maps of the World as known at different periods, 21 hand-coloured aquatint engraved folding maps mounted on paper stubs, o...

Lot 295

11/09/2025

World.- Quin (Edward) An Historical Atlas; in a Series of Maps of the World as known at different periods, R.B & G. Seeley, 1850.

£400 - £600

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Heraldry.- The first Booke... of the manuscript whence I transcribed these names with their beareings depickd... 1601, manuscript in Secretary hand, 35pp. excluding blanks, 21pp. i...

Lot 24

25/09/2025

Heraldry.- The first Booke... of the manuscript whence I transcribed these names with their beareings depickd... 1601, manuscript in Secretary hand, 1601.

£2,000 - £3,000

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