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Bindings.- Almanacks.- Court and City Register (The): or, Gentleman's Complete Annual Calendar for the year 1788, fore-edges trimmed occasionally touching text, red morocco bo...

Lot 65

08/05/2025

Bindings.- Almanacks.- Court and City Register (The): or, Gentleman's Complete Annual Calendar for the year 1788, for J. Joliffe, [1788]; and another (2)

£300 - £400

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Bindings.- Almanacks.- Court and City Register (The), or Gentleman's Complete Annual Kalendar For the Year 1771, burgundy morocco bookplate lettered in gilt, 'Harry Pomeroy Davison...

Lot 64

08/05/2025

Bindings.- Almanacks.- Court and City Register (The), or Gentleman's Complete Annual Kalendar For the Year 1771, for J. Joliffe, [1771]; and others (4)

£400 - £600

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Royal Binding.- Almanack.- Ladies Diary (The):, or the Woman's Almanack for the Year of our Lord, 1732, for A. Wilde, [1732], bound with, Gadbury (J.) [Graece] or, a Diary Astronom...

Lot 62

08/05/2025

Royal Binding.- Almanack.- Ladies Diary (The):, or the Woman's Almanack for the Year of our Lord, 1732, for A. Wilde, [1732], together 14 almanacks bound as 1, contemporary black morocco with cypher of King George II.

£300 - £400

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Gross (Anthony).- Theocritus. Sixe Idyllia, one of 270 copies, from an edition limited to 417, 8 etchings by Anthony Gross, original cloth-backed marbled boards, spine bumped at he...

Lot 221

08/05/2025

Gross (Anthony).- Theocritus. Sixe Idyllia, one of 270 copies, New York, Chilmark Press, Clover Hill Editions, 1971

£100 - £150

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Annesley (James) Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman; Returned from a Thirteen Years Slavery in America..., first edition, half-title, 7pp. advertisements at end, occasional l...

Lot 185

08/05/2025

Annesley (James) Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, first edition, J. Freeman, 1743 & another, related (2)

£100 - £150

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Broadside.- Hoax.- The Public are respectfully informed that Signor Carlo Gram Villecrop, the Celebrated Swiss Mountain Flyer ... will exhibit with a Tyrolese Pole, 50 feet long, p...

Lot 77

08/05/2025

Broadside.- Hoax.- The Public are respectfully informed that Signor Carlo Gram Villecrop, the Celebrated Swiss Mountain Flyer ... will exhibit with a Tyrolese Pole, 50 feet long, printed broadside, Norwich, C. Berry, [1826]

£300 - £400

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Broadside.- Phrenology.- Butterworth (J.) The Phrenology and Mesmeric Chart, engraved illustrations, manuscript ink numbers to recto and reading of an unnamed man to verso, fo...

Lot 79

08/05/2025

Broadside.- Phrenology.- Butterworth (J.) The Phrenology and Mesmeric Chart, Manchester, for the Author by A. Weston, [c.1853].

£200 - £300

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Broadsides.- 19th century Lotteries.- The very Last Lottery BUT ONE that will ever be Drawn in England..., n.d. [c. 1820] § A Covey of Four. All in ONE DAY!, W. Bett...

Lot 75

08/05/2025

Broadsides.- 19th century Lotteries.- The very Last Lottery BUT ONE that will ever be Drawn in England...,, printed broadsides, [c.1820]; and 2 other broadsides (3)

£80 - £120

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Broadsides.- Nottingham Politics.- Paid Assassins!, [c.1866] § All or None. To the Freemen of Nottingham and the Inhabitants Generally, [1839]; To the Rate Payers of Nottingha...

Lot 81

08/05/2025

Broadsides.- Nottingham Politics.- Paid Assassins!, printed broadside, [c.1866]; and 5 others on nineteenth century politics in Nottingham (6)

£300 - £400

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Broadsides.- Politics.- Natural Political History (A)! Respectfully Dedicated to Everybody, engraved illustrations, foldline, short split to one edge, Tim O'Shanter, [c.1868] ...

Lot 82

08/05/2025

Broadside.- Politics.- Natural Political History (A)! Respectfully Dedicated to Everybody, printed broadside, Tim O'Shanter, [c.1868]; and 2 others on Nottingham politics (3)

£200 - £300

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Italy.- Venice.- Conti (Natale) Delle historie de' suoi tempi, 2 vol., first edition in Italian, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut initials and head-pieces, some light bro...

Lot 121

08/05/2025

Italy.- Venice.- Conti (Natale) Delle historie de' suoi tempi, 2 vol., first edition in Italian, Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1589

£300 - £400

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Swift (Jonathan) The Works, edited by John Hawkesworth, 16 vol., titles in red and black, 26 engraved plates and 4pp. of music, vol. 6 water-stained, occasional water-staining else...

Lot 187

08/05/2025

Swift (Jonathan) The Works, edited by John Hawkesworth, 16 vol., C. Bathurst [& others], 1755; and 3 vol. of Letters (19)

£300 - £400

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Indian burial rites.- Hurst (Gunner John) Autograph Letter signed to his sisters, 3¼pp., bifolium, folio, Dum Dum [Greater Kolkata], 17 March, 1834,

Lot 168

08/05/2025

Indian burial rites.- Hurst (Gunner John) Autograph Letter signed to his sisters, Dum Dum [Greater Kolkata], 17 March, 1834.

£100 - £150

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Binding.- Bible, English.- Macleod (Donald, editor) The New Illustrated Bible: The Holy Bible, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved frontispiece, plates and illustrations, occasional ligh...

Lot 66

08/05/2025

Binding.- Bible, English.- Macleod (Donald, editor) The New Illustrated Bible: The Holy Bible, 2 vol., [c.1880].

£150 - £200

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Freemasonry.- Richard Linnecar.- Lodge of Unanimity, No. 202. [List of resolutions], printed handbill, with a related manuscript statement running alongside, signed by Linnecar as ...

Lot 194

08/05/2025

Freemasonry.- Richard Linnecar.- Lodge of Unanimity, No. 202 [List of resolutions], [Wakefield, Yorkshire], handbill signed by Linnecar, no printer, 2nd April, 1798.

£100 - £150

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Kempis (Thomas à) De imitatione Christi libri quatuor, the John Sparrow copy, engraved pictorial title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, bookplate...

Lot 52

08/05/2025

Kempis (Thomas à) De imitatione Christi libri quatuor, Leiden, Elzevier, [but Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevier], 1658.

£300 - £400

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Irish mathematician & physicist.- Stokes (Sir George Gabriel, Irish mathematician & physicist, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, President o...

Lot 174

08/05/2025

Irish mathematician & physicist.- Stokes (Sir George Gabriel) Autograph Letter signed, 3 March, 1870.

£100 - £150

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Culpeper (Nicholas) Culpeper's English Physician; and Complete Herbal, edited by E.Sibly, 2 vol., engraved portrait and 42 botanical and anatomical plates only (lacking p...

Lot 97

01/01/1970

Culpeper (Nicholas) Culpeper's English Physician; and Complete Herbal, 2 vol., 19th century half calf, for the author, [c.1800] & others, botany & herbals (20)

£200 - £300

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Paper & Papermaking.- Churchill (W.A.) Watermarks in Paper...in the XVII and XVIII Centuries..., facsimile reprint, Nieuwkoop, 1990 § Briquet (C.M.) Les Filigranes: Dictio...

Lot 189

01/01/1970

Paper & Papermaking.- Churchill (W.A.) Watermarks in Paper...in the XVII and XVIII Centuries..., reprint, Nieuwkoop, 1990 & others on paper and papermaking including a box of samples and pamphlets, 4to & 8vo (c.35)

£200 - £300

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Bookbinding.- Hobson (Anthony) Apollo and Pegasus: An Enquiry into the Formation and Dispersal of a Renaissance Library, Amsterdam, 1975; Humanists and Bookbinders, Cambridge,...

Lot 130

01/01/1970

Bookbinding.- Hobson (Anthony) Apollo and Pegasus: An Enquiry into the Formation and Dispersal of a Renaissance Library, Amsterdam, 1975 & others on continental bindings (16)

£200 - £300

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[Colonna (Francesco)] Poliphili Hypnerotomachia..., facsimile reprint, leaves numbered in pencil, modern vellum-backed pictorial boards drawn in pen & ink, 1904 § His...

Lot 133

01/01/1970

[Colonna (Francesco)] Poliphili Hypnerotomachia..., facsimile reprint, 1904 & others on early printers and printing (c.25)

£200 - £300

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Paley (Morton D.) & others, editors. William Blake: The Illuminated Books, 6 vol., 1991-95 § Twyman (M.) A History of Chromolithography, 2013 § Lanes (Selma G.) ...

Lot 190

01/01/1970

Paley (Morton D.) William Blake: The Illuminated Books, 6 vol., 1991-95 & others on children's and illustrated books (c.45)

£200 - £300

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Heaney (Seamus, translator) Beowulf, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, preserved together with another on the Beowulf manuscript in modern cloth drop-back box, 1997 Gord...

Lot 194

01/01/1970

Heaney (Seamus, translator) Beowulf, first edition, 1997 & others on medieval art and culture (14)

£100 - £150

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Landwehr (John) Emblem and Fable Books printed in the Low Countries 1542-1813: A Bibliography, third edition, original cloth, Utrecht, 1988 § Hodnett (Edward) Aesop in England...

Lot 188

01/01/1970

Landwehr (John) Emblem and Fable Books printed in the Low Countries 1542-1813: A Bibliography, third edition, Utrecht, 1988 & others, bibliography on fables & emblems (c.45)

£100 - £150

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Hirst (Damien) I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now, first edition, signed by Hirst on half-title, colour illustrations, ...

Lot 184

05/09/2024

Hirst (Damien) I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now, first edition, signed by Hirst on half-title, 1997.

£300 - £400

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